Gather
Andreessen Horowitz
San Francisco, CA
Val Britton, Matthew Chen, Windy Chien, Matt Gonzalez, Julia Goodman, Casey Gray, Tatiana Gulenkina, Andy Diaz Hope, Laurel Roth Hope, Pablo Manga, Jet Martinez, Serena Mitnik-Miller, Brendan Monroe, Mansur Nurullah, Kelly Ording, Jacob Ouillette, Joshua Rampage, Rachelle Reichert, Sarah A Smith, Ben Venom, Andy Vogt
The exhibition's title and theme underscore the richness and diversity of the vibrant creative community. A variety of works including painting, photography and sculpture from 21 artists who once lived or still reside in the San Francisco Bay Area come together to highlight the vibrant creative community while inviting viewers to explore a wide range of ideas and emotions.
Recurrent motifs, such as organic shapes and geometric forms, are not merely repeated but are dynamically reinterpreted across different works. These elements are recontextualized in myriad ways—sometimes subtle, sometimes bold—revealing unexpected connections and imaginative new possibilities. The interplay of these varied forms challenges conventional boundaries, encouraging an exploration of the tension between the natural and the abstract, the familiar and the unknown. Together, the works create a dialogue that is both cohesive and diverse, illustrating the boundless potential of creative expression.
On View: October 18, 2024 - February 7, 2025
Location: Andreessen Horowitz, 180 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA
VAL BRITTON
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Val Britton was born in New Jersey and lives in Portland, Oregon. She received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts. Britton creates immersive, collaged works on paper, site-specific installations, and public art that explores physical and psychological spaces. Using maps as metaphors, her fragmented, exploded landscapes investigate memory, history, and the possibilities of abstraction. Much of her work was initially influenced by her father, a cross-country truck driver and mechanic, and his loss when she was young.
A recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, she has participated in over a dozen residencies and fellowships including Headlands Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Recology AIR Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, and the Golden Foundation. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in museums, galleries, art fairs, alternative spaces, and non-profit institutions nationally and internationally.
An award-winning public artist, Britton has created permanent commissions for San Francisco International Airport, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, and NYC Percent for Art Public Art for Public Schools among others. Her work is part of numerous collections including the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Clinic, de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Facebook Headquarters, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Print Collection of the Library of Congress, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New-York Historical Society, New York Public Library, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program in Brussels, Belgium.
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Reverberation (69), 2021
acrylic, ink, and collage on paper
41 x 41 x 2 in.
$7,500.
Celestial Wanderings, 2013
watercolor, ink, graphite, and collage on paper
57 1/2 x 57 1/2 x 2 in.
$12,000.
Reverberation (49), 2017
acrylic, ink, collage, and cut out paper
41 x 41 x 2 in.
$7,500.
MATTHEW CHEN
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Born and raised in San Francisco, Matthew Chen is now based in S.F. and the Central Coast. Chen has a BFA in Printmaking from Long Beach State University. A finish carpenter by trade, his work in residential remodel, casework, art handling and sculpture fabrication all inform his art practices.
Matthew’s paintings, drawings and prints have been shown at Great Highway Gallery, Incline Gallery, Lake and RVCA SF.
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Brother XII, 2023
acrylic, colored pencil and pastel on panel
20 x 24 in.
$1,680.
Hypnos, 2022
mixed media on panel
22 x 29 in.
$2,156.
Break Lines, 2024
mixed media on panel
72 x 48 in.
$12,096.
WINDY CHIEN
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Windy Chien is best known for her 2016 work, The Year of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child's hand to room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Following long careers at Apple and as the owner of legendary music shop Aquarius Records, she launched her studio in 2015. Select clients include the National Geographic Society, the De Young Museum, the San Francisco MOMA, Nobu Hotels, Google, and the Kering Group, and her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times, and Martha Stewart. Windy’s book about her work was published by Abrams in 2019.
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Circuit Board, 2024
Sunbrella cordage, walnut, 24k gold thread
3 x 8 ft. x 2.25 in.
$15,000.
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In the late 1960s, companies such as Fairchild Semiconductor and even the NASA Apollo missions relied on craftswomen—including Navajo weavers on Shiprock reservation in New Mexico—to assemble and construct circuit boards and computer memory modules. In other words, the most advanced tech in the world was being made by craftswomen, yet the largely-accepted hierarchy valuing tech far above craft persists to this day. The Circuit Board series (2016–present) explores the tension between these assumptions by contrasting male-dominated tech world motifs via the gendered skills of so-called “women’s work.” That electronic circuit boards connect and conduct power only heightens the metaphor.
MATT GONZALEZ
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Matt Gonzalez’s collages are meditations on the nature of equilibrium, specifically between our sensuous, emotive experience of the world and our rational interpretation of it. Geometric lines and figures form compositions that are so complex and self-contained that they look like living systems. Featuring striking tonal palettes, they are assembled using discarded pieces of paper and packaging he finds on walks through San Francisco.
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Color-Forms, Mirror Them, 2019
found paper collage
11 x 14 in.
$2,200.
To Wind the Doldrums Round, 2023
found paper collage on wood
13.75 x 15.75 in.
$3,200.
JULIA GOODMAN
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Julia Goodman works at the intersection of papermaking, textiles, sculpture, and painting. Her work is included in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, DePaul Art Museum and Google. Recent exhibitions include: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, DePaul Art Museum, Poetry Foundation, Saint Mary’s College, CCA Hubbell Street Gallery, and Berkeley Art Center. Her residencies include JB Blunk Residency, Recology SF, Creativity Explored, Salina Art Center, and The Space Program. Goodman lead papermaking workshops throughout the Bay Area including Creative Growth, the Exploratorium, San Jose Children’s Museum and more. In 2020 she was selected for the 2020 Women to Watch Award by the San Francisco Advocacy for the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Goodman earned an MFA from California College of the Arts and a BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University. In between she studied art at Santa Monica College. In 2015-2016, she was a Full Time Visiting Lecturer, Interdisciplinary MFA Program in Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago. Goodman is currently teaching Introduction to Papermaking: From Fiber to Paper at CCA. She lives in Berkeley with artist Michael Hall and their family.
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Wolf Moon, 2019
pulp made from repurposed bedsheets and t-shirts
41.5 x 34.25 in.
$8,200.
*price includes: frame and glazing*
Study for Intervals (i), 2022
watercolor on arches paper
14 x 11 in.
$1,800.
CASEY GRAY
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Casey Gray is a contemporary artist working primarily as a painter, but occasionally in other media such as sculpture, graphic design and site-specific murals. His work examines our collective entanglement with the dignity and reality of the everyday, and engages the symbolic potential of objects to tell stories and inform identity. In other words, he uses symbolism to shed light on complex ideas and to make sense of events in and around his life. Themes of leisure, celebration and the search for balance, related to his suburban youth, rebellious spirit and love of nature, are common in his work. Gray often works in serial format, referencing historical painting tropes as a point of departure. His work is characterized by his commitment to aerosol paints and laborious hand cut masking techniques, resulting in a type of skewed realism.
Gray received his MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010, and his BA in painting and printmaking from San Diego State University in 2006. He has exhibited extensively across the United States and abroad, and has been published widely both in print and online media. His work hangs proudly in many permanent collections including the deYoung Museum, Stanford University and others. He has lived and worked in San Francisco, California since 2008.
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Trompe l’oeil with Nothing Rhymes with Orange, 2016
aerosol acrylic, aerosol glitter, aerosol enamel on paper
30 x 22 in.
$2,500.
Still Life with Flowers (45), 2023
acrylic on panel
48 x 36 in.
$6,500.
Trompe l’oeil with Modernist Tendencies, 2016
aerosol acrylic, aerosol glitter, aerosol enamel on paper
30 x 22 in.
$2,500.
TATIANA GULENKINA
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Tatiana is a photographer, visual artist and designer based in the Bay
Area. She employs both digital technology and traditional darkroom equipment, as well as video and mixed media. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore in 2011, and since then her work has been featured in the British Journal of Photography, Harper's, Wired, Juxtapoz Magazine, and other publications, as well as exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2015-2017, she was awarded individual artist grants from the Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her last solo show was on view at Google San Francisco through January of 2020. During the pandemic, she delved into digital art and mixed media due to the darkroom closures, and is excited to share her first series of works on canvas in 2024.
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Six Hours (11), 2019
digital C print
20 x 30 in.
Edition 5
$1,000.
Six Hours (10), 2019
digital C print
20 x 30 in.
Edition 5
$1,000.
Photo/Synthesis (14), 2019
Photogram on type C Fujifilm Crystal Archive paper
20 x 24 in.
Edition of 1
$1,600.
ANDY DIAZ HOPE
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Andy Diaz Hope earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Engineering from Stanford University’s joint program in Design—a collaborative program between the Engineering and Art departments. Diaz Hope creates work that seeks to offer alternative viewpoints to the mainstream media out of a desire to foster dialogue, encourage pluralism, and critical thought.
In 2017, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco commissioned Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth Hope to create The Woulds, a multi-media installation for the exhibition Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid. Diaz Hope has exhibited internationally in venues including the Museum of Art and Design (New York), the Crocker Art Museum (California), the International Museum of Surgical Science (Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Colorado), the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), and the London Crafts Council (England). His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Art and Design (New York), the Palm Springs Art Museum (California), the Nevada Museum of Art (Nevada), and 21c Museum Hotels (Kentucky).In 2022, he had several exhibitions featuring his sculptural pieces, including Beautification Machine at Saint Joseph’s Art Society, and Overdose at the Design Museum Holon in Israel. In August of 2023, he completed a residency at the Space Program in San Francisco where he created two-dimensional print-based work for Catharine Clark Gallery.
He lives in San Francisco, where he collaborates with his partner Laurel Roth Hope.
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Portal (3), 2013
mirror, copper, solder, redwood
12 x 7 x 30 in.
$1,800.
Portal (10), 2024
brass, dichroic glass, mirror, solder
16 x 16 x 16 in.
$2,700.
Portal (10), 2024
brass, dichroic glass, mirror, solder
16 x 16 x 16 in.
$2,700.
Portal (13), 2024
brass, dichroic glass, mirror, solder
16 x 16 x 16 in.
$2,700.
Portal (9), 2017
brass, dichroic glass, mirror, solder
8 x 12 x 12.5 in.
$3,200.
LAUREL ROTH HOPE
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Laurel Roth Hope lives and works in Northern California. Prior to becoming a full-time, self-taught artist she worked as a park ranger and in natural resource conservation. These professional experiences influenced her current work, which centers on the human manipulation of and intervention into the natural world and the choices we must make everyday between our individual desires and the well being of the world at large. Hope was a 2020 Space Program SF Resident Artist, a 2017 Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow, and a 2016 Resident Artist with the Kohler Arts and Industry program in Wisconsin. In 2013 she and her sometime collaborator, Andy Diaz Hope, completed a year-long Fellowship at the de Young Museum of San Francisco examining the history of human cooperation through architecture. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Mint Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 21C Museum, the Zabludowics Collection, the Progressive Collection, and the Ripley’s Museum of Hollywood, among others.
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Data Point (5), 2022
terra cotta, bronze, and walnut
15 x 6 x 6 in.
$6,000.
Flock (1), 2020
porcelain
12 x 12 x 4 in.
$2,400.
Flock (11), 2020
porcelain
12 x 12 x 4 in.
$3,200.
PABLO MANGA
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Pablo Manga makes perceptually-charged geometric abstractions — primarily using semi-transparent colored packing tape from Mexico as a painting medium, and branching into acrylics, printmaking and murals. His work engages ideas of aliveness, multiplicity and relationality. He is inspired by the shimmering radiance of nature, resting in present-moment awareness meditation, and the pleasures of a body in motion.
Manga is represented by Farm Projects and has had four solo shows with the gallery. His work has also been shown locally at the de Young Museum, Galería de la Raza, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Root Division, Southern Exposure, and Your Mood Gallery, as well as at SCOPE Miami Beach, Art Miami, Soho20 Gallery and Diane Birdsall Gallery. His work is in the collections of Google, the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC), Jonesday, and the California Tennis Club.
Manga lives and works in Oakland, California.
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Chorus, 2022
acrylic on panel
40 x 40 in.
$3,800.
This is When, 2023
semi-transparent colored packing tape on panel
12 x 12 in.
$900.
Smile at the Abyss, 2021
semi-transparent colored packing tape on panel
24 x 24 in.
$1,800.
JET MARTINEZ
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An influential figure in Bay Area public art, Oakland-based artist Jet Martinez is known for creating vibrant works of art that engage the traditions of Mexican folk art with contemporary aesthetics. Originally from the small beach town of Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico, and raised in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Martinez takes inspiration from his native culture’s rich traditions of pottery, weaving and embroidery, enlivening the rigid architecture of urban environments with ornate patterns and abstract forms.
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Arder, 2021
acrylic and ink on panel
36 x 48 in.
$6,500.
SERENA MITNIK-MILLER
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Serena Mitnik-Miller is an artist and designer working in California. She splits her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles, combining her days painting, designing, collecting, and collaborating with her local artisan community. Serena's paintings are created by hand using watercolor pigment on paper. The compositions are fashioned by interconnecting patterns of color and concentric shapes where structures break apart, bubbles stack, and pyramids multiply. Each painting must strike a balance between layers of color, repetitive contour lines, and the inherent qualities of all the materials she employs. Her artwork usually begins with an impression from the natural environment, where proximity to the ocean and coastal habitats, often become symbolic permanent points of reference.
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Untitled, 2021
watercolor on paper
22 x 30 in.
$5,900.
BRENDAN MONROE
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Brendan Monroe is an artist based in Los Angeles and a graduate from Art Center College of Design. His work is rooted in drawings of abstracted wavy forms and branches into paintings, murals, sculptures. He weaves visual and tactile relationships of characters and environments. In his pieces there’s an appreciation of motion, natural curves and biology all the while with a goal bringing a thing to life. His murals can be seen in the offices of clients such as Facebook, Google, airBnB, and publicly for the San Francisco Arts Commission at the new Moscone Center expansion.
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Splits, 2024
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in.
$4,800.
Days, Nights, Minutes, 2024
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 in.
$4,800.
MANSUR NURULLAH
Boundary Maintenance, 2024
found, gifted, and scavenged textiles, nylon thread, polyester batting, grommets
20 x 28 in.
$2,000.
KELLY ORDING
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Based in Oakland, California, Kelly Ording has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and Internationally since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. In addition to her works on paper, canvas and collages, Ording has created several large scale public works and murals. Her public works and murals can be seen at the Palega Park Recreation Center and Unity Plaza in San Francisco, Oakland, Emeryville, Facebook Headquarters, Genentech, as well as other locations throughout the Bay Area and Internationally. She has completed residencies at the Facebook Analog Research Laboratory, Menlo Park and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley. She has been awarded the Master Artists’ Award at Kala Institute and was the recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. Her work is included in several collections; such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art collection, the San Francisco Arts Commission Public and Civic Art Collection, the Alameda County Collection, JP Morgan Chase Collection and the Ellie Mae Collection, to name a few. She currently devotes all her time to her artwork and her family with fellow artist, Jet Martinez.
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Martian, 2024
acrylic on dyed paper
26 x 33 in.
$9,000.
JACOB OUILLETTE
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Jacob Ouillette was born in 1974 and grew up in Coastal Maine. After studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, he moved to New York City in 1998 and worked as a studio assistant to the painter Sean Scully.
Jacob Ouillette conceives his paintings like musical compositions. Entranced by the possibilities of color, Ouillette, who hand mixes his own pigments, explores its simultaneously scientific and subjective nature. Channeling the act of live performance, he applies each colorful stroke in one motion, working from left to right and making no revisions. He does not draw his compositions beforehand, cautious of distracting the viewer from his gridded hues. The multicolored results are like visualizations of combinable, permutable sounds: just as some notes are loud and others are soft, some colors are bright and others dark. "When the brushstroke bends, swoops, dips, swings, sings, and vibrates, to me it could be blasting out of a harmonica, saxophone, or an electric guitar," says the artist.
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Green Economy, 2024
oil on wood
24 x 24 in.
$5,000.
As Above, 2024
oil on wood
24 x 24 in.
$5,000.
Earth Time, 2024
oil on aluminum
45 x 45 in.
$15,000.
JOSHUA RAMPAGE
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“One precise responsibility of being an artist is to communicate with as many people on this planet as I possibly can. To communicate visually what I cannot with only words. Humor is important to me. Same goes for responsibility.
I think there is a responsibility in creating an object that will catch a viewer's eye and in a way, ask them to pause, or ask them to dance. This is a challenge and lovely pursuit that I will spend forever doing.”
Joshua Rampage was born in Chicago, IL and raised in and around the foot of Lake Michigan. He has lived and worked in Chicago, Bloomington, IN, San Francisco, Sydney and Melbourne Australia, Iron River, MI, Portland, OR, and New York City. He currently lives and works in San Francisco and New York City.creating an object that will catch a viewer's eye and in a way, ask them to pause, or ask them to dance. This is a challenge and lovely pursuit that I will spend forever doing."Joshua Rampage was born in Chicago, IL and raised in and around the foot of Lake Michigan. He has lived and worked in Chicago, Bloomington, IN, San Francisco, Sydney and Melbourne Australia, Iron River, MI, Portland, OR, and New York City. He currently lives and works in San Francisco and New York City.
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A Lover's Anxiety (Nocturnes, Season 4). 2024
graphite on primed linen over panel, artist framed
12 3/4 x 12 3/4 in.
$1,800.
I Fall in Love Too Easily (Nocturnes, Season 4), 2024
graphite on primed linen over panel, artist framed
12 1/2 x 9 in.
$,1500.
Too Wild To Be Certain, 2024
oil and oil stick on canvas
50 x 44 in.
$6,500.
Nothing’s Real - All Disguise, Said the Birds of Paradise, 2024
oil and oil stick on canvas
34 x 27 1/4 in.
$3,500.
RACHELLE REICHERT
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Rachelle Reichert lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Artwork and research are included in many public and private collections, including the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archive, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Library, Meta, Google and Adobe, Inc. Her work has been reviewed and published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Make: Magazine, California Home and Design, and New American Paintings. Select exhibitions include the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Center for Contemporary Art at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Getty PST: Art and Science Collide at The Autry Museum, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, German Consulate in New York City, and Mills College Art Museum. Her artwork has been presented at the California Climate Change Symposium, San Francisco State of the Estuary Conference, and the American Geophysical Union Meeting. Rachelle earned her MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA and a BFA from Boston University.
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Spring Moon, 2022
cast San Francisco Bay salt, copper oxide and cinnabar pigment on panel
24 x 24 x 1.75 in.
$5,000.
Calypso Moon, 2023
cast Anguillan salt, steel, mixed media on panel
30 3/8 x 24 x 2 in.
SOLD
SARAH A SMITH
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Sarah A. Smith: born in Boston, MA, 1969. Studied art at Carnegie-Mellon University (’91, painting)
Worked in the scenic painting world of Pittsburgh, PA as a scenic painter for theater, television and movies during the 1990’s. She now lives and works in San Francisco and has pursued two separate careers here for the past 25 years — one in the decorative arts doing custom paint finishes and murals in private homes and a simultaneous side career painting and sculpting her own ideas in her own studio. After so many years of trying to keep her work life separate from her art life she realized the two pursuits intermingle and influence each other — faux finishes, decorative arts techniques and scenic art tricks of the trade are all a part of her studio practice. Notable showings of her work happened at Southern Exposure, The SFAC, The de Saisset Museum, Beth Urdang Gallery in Boston, the Palo Alto Art Center, Round Weather in Oakland and a residency at The Headlands Center For The Arts (2006). Her art is in the collection of The Battery in San Francisco, CA and 21C in Louisville, KY
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Tapestry Flowers (1), 2024
plaster on burlap
28 x 32 in.
$2,800.
Tapestry Flowers (2), 2024
plaster on burlap
28 x 32 in.
$2,800.
BEN VENOM
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Ben Venom graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 with a Master of Fine Arts degree. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally including the Levi Strauss Museum (Germany), National Folk Museum of Korea, HPGRP Gallery (Tokyo), Fort Wayne Museum, Charlotte Fogh Gallery (Denmark), Taubman Museum of Art, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed by NPR: All Things Considered, Playboy, Juxtapoz Magazine, KQED, Maxim, and CBS Sunday Morning. Venom has lectured at the California College of Arts, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Midlands Art Centre, Humboldt State University, Oregon College of Art and Craft, and Adidas. Recently, he was the artist in residence at MASS MoCA and the de Young Museum. Ben Venom is currently Visiting Faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Bloody Electricity, 2023
hand-made quilt with recycled fabric
35 x 47 in.
$5,000.
ANDY VOGT
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Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC and attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a BFA in Intermedia, a program focused on time based media, performance and installation. He lived in Pittsburgh PA until 2000.
His current work using reclaimed wood from demolished buildings, started around 2004, a few years after moving to San Francisco. Since then, his work has been exhibited in the US and Europe including solo shows at Eli Ridgway Gallery, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Southern Exposure, The Museum of Craft and Design and Ampersand International Arts. Group exhibitions include Saarländisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrücken Germany. Bay area group shows include, Johansson Projects, Round Weather, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, Swarm Gallery and Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. He also was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.
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Green Red Wood Sun, 2024
bleached cyanotype on sanded paper
20 x 16 in.
$650.
Shadeshape (6), 2015
salvaged wood lath
40 x 30 x 1.5 in.
$3,600.
Cove Corner Break, 2024
concrete
19 x 11 x .75 in.
$1,500.
Over Hanger, 2024
toned concrete with atomized steel
18.75 x 9.5 x .75 in.
SOLD
Eyedoor (9), 2023
salvaged wood lath
31.5 x 24.5 in.
$6,500.