Adam Hunter Caldwell was born in Framingham Massachusetts. He received a BFA with honors from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1998 and has been a full-time fine arts instructor there since 2001. His paintings mix elements of abstract expressionism and classical figuration. Caldwell starts with an abstract background
Adia Millett takes things apart, removes, replaces, cuts, pastes, sews, and builds in order to discover the space where transitions occur and where stories of impermance are told. Through the placement of solitary objects, she inserts her own inflection into a language of craft, empowered by symbolism and technique. Originally from Los
Alec Huxley is a painter based in San Francisco. His work, primarily representational, is filled with contrast. Simultaneously stark and colorful, it focuses on landscapes of the American West Coast. Cinematic scenes serve as imperfect records of place, time and architecture for space travellers and wild animals. A self taught artist, his
Alice Wiese is an emerging textile artists based in Berkeley. She draws inspiration from patterns found in architecture as well as themes of grief, loss, change, and the process of rebuilding oneself. Her highly repetitive and detailed work is simultaneously chaotic and calming. Wiese received her BFA in textiles from the California
Amandalynn is a Bay Area-based muralist, fine artist, conservator, and art director. Inspired by the female form and spirit, she depicts strong, seductive women and illustrates their strength through line work and decorative patterning. Her work can be found in galleries and streets all over the world. She began developing her distinct
Andy Diaz Hope earned his BS and MS from Stanford University’s Joint Program in Design—a collaborative program between the engineering and art departments. Diaz Hope’s work began to find its voice while working as an engineer and designer for companies such as Apple and Microsoft. Realizing the notion of progress had lost its luster for
Anthony Holdsworth was born in England and embarked on a painting career while working as Head of Outdoor Restoration for the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. He continued his studies at the Bournemouth College of Art in England, and then the San Francisco Art Institute. Originally a landscape artist influenced by the Bay Area
Apexer AKA Ricardo Richey is a San Francisco-born and -bred artist who creates colorful abstract patterns with spray paint for a style that is both typographic and architectural. Having begun his career as a kid tagging MUNI buses, Apexer moved to the wall, then the canvas, in careful exploration of abstract letter forms. His pieces are crafted
Ariel Gold's work revolves around color and how we associate, interact and interpret it. Her art is about relationships between people and their environment, whether it is a physical place or a feeling created by an experience in that space. Raised in Metro Detroit by an editorial cartoonist and a writer, Ariel Gold was exposed to many mediums and captivated by colors and textures from an early age. She passed away in 2020 at the age of 35.
Berisford creates large-format realism and abstract paintings that highlight his impasto brushwork and bold design. He studied graphic design in his native London before embarking on a 25-year career in advertising. Soon after moving the the San Francisco Bay Area, he quit to become a fine artist. Drawing on his heritage as an art director, his composition is strong and graphic, using negative space to offset his subject matter.
Beryl Landau is a San Francisco-based artist who describes her work as “symbolic landscape”. Her acrylic paintings depict geographical locations rendered in a manner that evokes feelings about them. Born in New York City, Landau moved to Santa Monica CA at the age of 15, then arrived in San Francisco in the 1960s to attain BFA and MFA
Bill Zindel is an independent artist, illustrator, and designer who creates collages that are structured yet unrestrained, employing bold colors and patterns with geometric leanings and retro-futuristic tendencies. He draws inspiration from typography, signage, old records, and sacred geometry. His work as a designer informs his art
Brett Amory is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is based on the intersection of quotidian and habitual engagements with the everyday world. His pieces consider moments of visual perception that precede interpretation. Working primarily in painting and installation, he uses the ordinary as a vehicle for extending the familiar into
Brian Barneclo was born and raised in Indianapolis, then studied painting and art history at Indiana University. He moved to San Francisco in 1996 and began working as a commercial artist and sign painter. He also started to show his paintings in local galleries. His professional and artistic careers merged when he began to receive
Bunnie Reiss is a muralist and fine artist whose work is heavily influenced by her Easter European background, with its tradition of folk art, saturated colors, animals, nature, and community engagement. Her extensive travels add an extra layer of conversation, which make her creations extremely unique. Her murals and larger installation
Caia Koopman is a pop surrealist artist whose appealing symbols evoke fundamental human emotion in exquisite surreal detail. A second-generation conservationist, loving the environment and being acutely aware of human pollution, nature is often woven into the haunting fabric of her images. Often depicting feminine energy, her dazzling
Calixto Robles is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor from Oaxaca, Mexico. Inspired by the myths, symbols, colors, and ancient traditions of Meso-America, he mixes the silkscreen techniques, which enhance texture and brilliant color, with drawn and found images. Robles’ paintings explore magical realms while his ceramics allow him to reconnect with earthly materials.
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Chad Hasegawa became enthralled with graffiti and the art of the Mission School. He moved to San Francisco in 2000, received a BFA in advertising from the Academy of Art University, and worked for top agencies before deciding to concentrate on creating art. He paints murals on the streets and canvases for both commercial and non-profit gallery exhibitions.
Chor Boogie is an artist, a street romantic, and a master of illusion and technique. His works have been said to have healing effects, displaying unique and unmatched use of color, form and movement. Chor Boogie's intention is to create timeless dynamic moments of imagination, creativity, meaning, style, self-expression, and taste. Originally from San Diego, he travels extensively to create and exhibit his work around the world.
Chris Stokes uses mixed media to interlace and layer unassuming combinations of color, lines and found materials. Elements from literature, cultural symbols, and architecture meld together to become art that equals more than the sum of its parts. Born in Philadelphia, the long-time San Francisco resident’s recent work is a reflection of
Christian Rothenhagen, AKA deerBLN, is a fine artist and muralist who is known for conceptual, architecture-based drawings and installations of his two favorite cities – his hometown and base of Berlin and San Francisco, which he has frequently visited since the mid-1990s. He documents his personal view of these cities and their
Damon Soule was born in Atlanta, GA but spent the majority of his childhood in New Orleans LA. In 1993, Soule moved to San Francisco with a packed bag of clothes, a small box of art supplies, and $300. Inspired by physics, chemistry, music, and universal knowledge, his work incorporates a bold use of saturation and composition, and is a
Daniel Fleres experiments with paint and mixed media on a variety of surfaces to create streamlined portraits of mournful, colorful, and often imaginary creatures against skillfully rendered backgrounds. His creativity is fueled by his childhood fascination with Saturday morning cartoons, video games, and comic book super heroes. Born in
Daniel James Burt is a San Francisco-based sculptor whose intuitive style integrates mixed media to create installations and stand-alone sculptures. His use of body parts to create a series of landscapes as a means of portraiture garnered a commission that rests alongside a Ruth Asawa sculpture. He has a BFA from the University of
David Ball is a San Francisco-based artist interested in discovery and happenstance, making mythical, otherworldly pareidolia in collage and mixed media works at once outlandish and familiar. Ball has been exhibiting his artwork throughout the US, selling to collectors here and abroad for over 20 years.
David Choong Lee combines elements of graffiti, collage, graphic design, portraiture, and classical realism. He was born in Seoul, Korea and moved to the US in 1993 to pursue traditional fine art at the Academy of Art. His first major body of work depicted San Francisco's homeless in the Tenderloin, then evolved to depict the
David Garvey was born in New York City and attended Pratt Institute, from where he graduated with a BFA. He has had an eclectic career in the arts, having done illustration work for websites, publications, pharmaceutical giants, and entertainment conglomerates. His paintings and drawings are on display in restaurants, hotels, and casinos throughout the country.
Dean Fleming draws inspiration from the ancient art of the Americas, particularly how it fuses different forms into a single entity. Originally a shipping clerk at a printing company in Portland, he discovered his talent as an artist when asked to complete a simple drawing at work. He soon found steady freelance work as an illustrator and
Dogpaw Carrillo, born in San Francisco's Mission District, has been part of the neighborhood's ever-changing pantheon of cultural caretakers for almost sixty years. Surrounded by artists, poets, musicians, and creative people of all kinds, his work explores the connection between art and music. Dogpaw grew up next door to Fantasy
Duser is a San Francisco artist and DJ. Visual art has been a long-standing passion of his, heavily influenced and rooted in graffiti, illustration, and graphic design. While active in the world of street art, he also studied fine art at Whittier College, New York University, and the San Francisco Art Institute. From outdoor murals to cafes,
D Young V has been a working artist in San Francisco since 2003. After earning an MFA from the Academy of Art University in 2006, he has been engaged in gallery shows, installations, muraling, and global street art projects. Known mainly for his meticulous pen drawing and post-apocalyptic themed projects, he has transitioned into creating an
Emily Fromm is a visual artist and muralist in San Francisco, California. Her style draws inspiration from traditional sign painting techniques, cartoons, and comic books to create a nostalgic yet contemporary lens with which to view iconic city locales. The scenes in her paintings highlight treasured city businesses along with public
Eric Johnston uses academic realism, traditional surrealism, and abstract approaches to contemporary topics to create paintings that are direct manifestations of the way humans perceive nature and the environment in which they exist. The driving force behind his creativity is his search for meaning in our existence by connecting with the
Erik Otto has a passion for creative exploration. He balances his time between painting and design, blending multiple influences into one distinct style that has been presented in distinguished galleries, film/theater sets, street corners, and even a parklet . Often improvising with a growing list of mediums and reclaimed materials, he
Erin Yoshi is a community instigator, harnessing her creative power to tell compelling stories and spread messages of hope. With a practice deeply rooted in historic cultural memories and current global conditions, her visual art utilizes abstract and figurative color vibrations to uplift culture and ecology. She has over 20+ years
Evan Venegas uses imagery that is loosely based on the urban, industrial landscape that surrounds him. His creative process is rooted in the recognizable world but expressed by abstract shapes and vibrant colors. He seeks to create an experience that inspires a change in perception for the viewer. Venegas began painting with oils at a
Ezra Li Eismont was born in 1974 in the black mountains of North Carolina and spent his formative years growing up in the dense asphalt maze known as Brooklyn, New York. The spawn of an artistic environment, his mother was a painter and poet, his stepfather a painter, his father a potter and designer, his stepmother a designer and
Felicia Ann is an artist and designer based in Oakland CA. She blends her Southeast-Asian heritage, love of lore and mythology, together with her enthusiasm for astronomy, science and technology. Her art is expressed in ethereal portraits, celestial objects and graphic shapes that represent an exploration of human identity and our place and time in the universe.
Ferris Plock is a San Francisco-based artist whose work portrays both dedicated focus and wild originality. Through a variety of mediums including acrylic, watercolor, spray paint, India ink, gold or silver leaf, and collage, he creates highly-detailed works, often character-based paintings that combine contemporary pop culture with the
Gage Opdenbrouw is a painter whose works bridge representation and abstraction. He aims to distill his imagery to a point of powerful emotional resonance while maintaining a deep sense of mystery, allowing the viewer's experience to be an important part of completing the picture. While his works span many outward subjects, the
Gianluca Franzese was born in Italy and raised in New York, where he studied painting at Pratt Institute before transferring to the Florence Academy of Art to learn the skill and technique of the Old Masters. After a few moves back and forth between the United States and Italy, he has settled in San Francisco to pursue art.
Gloria Muriel is a San Diego-based artist and muralist whose work celebrates the inspiration of divine feminism with a surreal, whimsical, and psychedelic connection to Mother Earth and the four elements. She is influenced by her inner child and guided by the beauty of innocence and wonder. Raised in Baja, California, she has a degree in Graphic Design from Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana.
Heather Robinson has an indiscriminate love of pattern and color, adores the handmade and the accidental, and possesses a great fondness for the imperfect. Beginning her art practice in collage and mixed media, she transitioned to painting to have more control over materials. Robinson studied environmental design and architecture at
Ingrid V. Wells fancies the fantastic and humorous in theme, and the charming, kitschy, and celebrity in subject. Her paintings investigate the world of gendered consumerism and the ethics of fascination. She has exhibited in San Francisco, New York, Miami and South Korea and been featured in publications such as The Huffington Post,
Ivy Jacobsen, a California native, settled into the San Francisco Bay Area while studying art at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute. She began her career as a full-time artist in 2005 and quickly emerged as a prolific fine artist with a unique process of incorporating magical realism into her whimsical
Jaclyn Rose is a self taught textile artist, using a basic sewing machine and recycled household linens to create her fine line illustrations using a technique called free-motion. Her ongoing commentaries and criticisms about herself and modern society are presented with a sense of humor and delicateness, underlined by eroticism and female
Jamie Pavlich Walker is a collage artist living and working in Sonoma County. Coming from a background in drawing and painting, experimentation with new mediums, styles, and techniques led to the discovery of torn paper collage, and her unique creation of paintings using found paper from recycled magazines, maps, labels, and newspapers.
Jenn Porreca is a modern contemporary artist with studios in Los Angeles and London. Claiming marked influences from surrealist art and film, vintage fabric patterns, comics, religious iconography, and silhouette animation, she paints a delicate world of intricately layered styling. A creative alchemist of sorts, she spends days in the
Jet Martinez reinterprets Mexican folk art into a distinctive urban contemporary style that is manifested in both large-scale murals and fine art. Flat and graphic in manner, his use and application of color create vibrant, static imagery that celebrates life at its most ecstatic. Originally from Veracruz, Mexico, he is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and currently lives and works in Oakland CA.
J.L. King portrays anonymous figures and everyday objects in curiously extraordinary perspectives. Her paintings reveal vivid scenes through layers, windows, and portals into domains that inspire wonderment and nostalgia. She is heavily inspired by urban nature, her biracial heritage, and the pleasures and experiences of youth. King is a San Francisco native and practices art from her studio in the SOMA district.
John Breiner is a New York native with a love for the ephemeral surface of the state. Rooted deeply in both nature and the city's environment, he chooses found surfaces for his artwork, such as discarded paper and books, as they provide him with a starting point of inspiration. By employing a variety of techniques including illustration
John Casey started inventing creatures as soon as he could hold a crayon. Figures from his early works demonstrate a fascination with skulls, teeth, spirographic eyes, and invented body parts—an interest reflected in his current painting and sculpture practice. Casey lives in Oakland with his wife, artist Mary Kalin-Casey.
New York-based artist Jose Arenas creates works that explore dual identities, personal ritual, migration, and the displaced feeling that occurs from growing up in both California and Guadalajara. He combines decorative patterns, culturally-assigned symbols, and familiar abstract forms to create an emotionally resonant narrative that
Joshua Lawyer is a self-taught artist with a background in painting on walls that didn’t belong to him yet offered him a place to escape to when his world was too chaotic. Determined to become a good artist, he realized he needed to hone his skills in sketchbooks, a habit he still practices daily. Lawyer shifted from graffiti to fine art
Joshua Mays is an Oakland-based painter, muralist and illustrator. Born in Denver CO, he studied illustration at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design and graphic design at Community College of Denver before moving to Philadelphia, where he lived and worked for eight years before exhibiting and traveling nationwide. He has created
JS Weis is fascinated by nature, natural history, and human beings’ relationship with it. His work combines realistic rendering of flora and fauna with organic yet meticulous colorscapes built up from ink and cut paper. Currently based in Oakland CA, he holds a BFA in printmaking from James Madison University.
Jud Bergeron was born in 1972 on a Navajo reservation in Winslow, AZ and raised in Guilford, Connecticut. A seventh generation artist, he became the first sculptor in his family, studying at Lyme Academy in Connecticut under a student of French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who was a student of Rodin. Thereafter he worked at foundries
Julia Lucey earned a BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has focused on traditional etching techniques and aquatint to create images dealing with the evolving issues of wildlife, its dissolution and the attempt by many to direct its path. Lucey is based in Fairfax, CA and has exhibited her work throughout the United States.
Justin Lovato is a California-based artist whose abstract, op-art landscapes reflect his perception of beauty in nature. Working under the influence of the purest art forms found in nature, and the realization that micro and macro exist simultaneously, he strives towards a theory of chromatic vibration. Contrasting multi-dimensional
Kelly Ording creates artwork that blends organic and geometric shapes with exact lines, pairing intuitive and mathematical mark-making. In doing so, she attempts to create and find beauty in simple things. Her pieces are as much about their creation process as the resulting imagery. Ording is a graduate of San Francisco Art Institute. In
Kelly Tunstall's portraits are stylized female figures in adapted environments: nests built of painted boards held together by drawn nails or far off planets. The physical form and its accompanying exterior become a mirror for internal thought processes and turmoil. Working in acrylic, collage, spray paint, pencil, pen and ink, gold
Lady Henze is a San Francisco artist whose only art requirement is: color. She works in two distinct styles — abstract and geometric — as these processes allow her to be the dichotomous person she is. Henze is inspired by street artists, neon signs, tile work, pop culture, movies, music, the candy aisle, and the bizarre reality show that is
Lady Mags began her art career as a graffiti writer in 2006, when she started painting tracksides in Chicago while pursuing a degree in education. She has travelled throughout the world, painting street art and large scale murals in many of her destinations. She began exhibiting her fine art in galleries while also practicing her PhD in International Comparative Education at Stanford University. She currently resides in Petaluma CA.
Lee Harvey Roswell is a self-taught artist from Freefall, New York, whose work is noted for its blend of angst and humor. Themes of death and entropy, tribulation and futility run amok in his distinctly surreal, often-slapstick/ often-nightmarish world. The result is at once mocking and melancholic. Lee now lives in San Francisco, and his work is shown, collected and published internationally.
Lela Shields, who was born and raised in London, attended several fine art institutions before graduating from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. She crafts subtle narratives exploring the ultra-fine balance between human, animal and spiritual realms while simultaneously playing with chance, technique and pure
Leon Loucheur is a San Francisco-based artist who specializes in acrylic painting. His compositions are visual allegories of the relationships between the natural and human-made worlds, populated by creatures of the wild in various phases of remix. Without formal training, Leon has nurtured a singular voice from years of exploration and
Linda Larson layers glazes of oil paint to create another frame of consciousness, an in-between place just beneath the surface of another world hiding in plain sight. Her process is ultimately one of exploration: a search for depth, mystery, and a heightened reality for both the painter and viewer. Linda Larson hails from Edinburgh
Lucien Shapiro creates art that dances between life and death. His work is rife with found objects, textures, cast forms, manipulations, raw substances, oddities and multiple personalities. Treating forgotten objects and memories as treasure, he creates a kingdom under which new life is born through sculpture.
Madeleine Tonzi explores underlying themes of memory and place, and our relationship to the environment while living through the Anthropocene. Her work takes into consideration the concept of solastalgia, which describes a person's emotional state when experiencing the feeling of loss and longing for one's environment that has been
Margaretta Grazier enjoys the texture, color and unique physical properties that materials have to offer. With nature as her subject matter, she seeks to evoke movement, light and atmosphere through representational shapes that encourage the viewer to bring one’s memories and feelings into each piece.
Mark Farina is a modern day minstrel and one of the most ubiquitous DJs in dance music, best known for his blend of house, jazz, and downtempo, called “Mushroom Jazz”. He began his DJ career at the age of 16 in Chicago, and soon joined forces with Derrick Carter to create an underground house music scene that has influenced parties and
Martin Hsu is a Taiwan-born artist based in San Francisco. He strives to create New Traditional Art by fusing Western narrative with Eastern sensibility. He hopes his art brings you a sense of ease and some peace of mind. His work has been shown all around the world, including the Japanese American National Museum, Art Basel Miami, and Art Kaohsiung in Taiwan.
Maureen Shields creates mixed media works on wood that combine paint, collage, handmade stickers, gold leaf, and glitter. Her printed matter and source material range from vintage LIFE magazines from the 1950s to vintage Playboy magazines from the 1970s and 80s. Born and raised in Southern California, she earned a BFA in Drawing and
Melanie Alves focuses on current social and cultural issues, such as gun violence, refugee crisis and the "Culture of Fear". She addresses how society is losing its core human values by focusing on power, greed, the individual, and deception. Alves was born in California, but raised in Portugal. After stints in London and San Francisco, Alves has returned to Portugal to live and work.
Micah LeBrun is a self-taught San Francisco artist who considers his understanding of art to be derived from what he visually identifies in everyday life. His influences range from the line-oriented work of Picasso, the bold graphic nature of Warhol, and the dominant colorful brushstrokes of Peter Max to modern-day movements such as car
Michael Gillette is a multimedia artist who translates the excitement of popular culture into engaging art. Born and raised in Swansea, Wales, he spent his teens infatuated with art and music. After attending Kingston College, he began creating images for the emerging Britpop scene, including video and graphic work for Elastica and
Michael Moncibaiz meanders through the purely gestural and technical applications of abstraction, utilizing his training in street and studio art to create compositions that address perception and matter. He explores the most fundamental elements of art and design, in color and form, and how they relate to each other and the viewer.
Michael Rios is a native of Oakland CA. He attended the San Francisco Academy Of Art on scholarship in the 60s, then worked as an illustrator for mens clothier Roos Atkins before opening his own design studio in North Beach. Rios turned to fine art in the 70s as well as moved to the Mission, where he became involved in the burgeoning
Millie Benson is a New York-based artist from Cleveland Ohio with a BA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MA from Hunter College. Her work combines fantastical geometry and a surprising color palette in order to mirror her own processing of information. She seeks to satisfy her own curiosity through repetition and deviation, producing paintings whose structures achieve nearly organic patterns of growth.
MJ Lindo-Lawyer paints her dreams, fantasies, and nightmares in the expressions of the women in her pieces. They attempt to evoke emotion, celebration wonder, yet also provide insight into the contemporary feminine story. Lindo-Lawyer is a self-taught, self-motivated, self-inspired creator of whimsical alternate universes, endlessly
Monty Guy is a painter and illustrator whose earliest memories are drawing in the entryway of his parents' home in Southern California. A true artist, he is constantly compelled to create and hone his craft, seeing beauty and inspiration in everything around him. He appreciates timelessness in his subject matter as well as in his often-used black and white color palette.
Nathalie Fabri is a San Francisco artist that specializes in surreal urban landscapes. Using a variety of bright contrasting colors, she makes city streets come alive with her paintbrush, surrounding cityscapes with giant flora. She is influenced by books and paintings from Africa, the Middle East and Haiti.
Nathan "Nate1" Tan was born in England and then immigrated to San Francisco as a child. A self-taught artist, he became a local graffiti legend in San Francisco and Daly City while a teenager. After earning a degree in graphic design at San Francisco State University, he worked professionally before starting a kids' hip hop clothing line
Nicole Hayden was born in Skokie IL, and brought up in Chicago. She attended art programs during her youth -- including Marwen Foundation, Gallery 37, and The Art Institute of Chicago — that influenced her education at the University of Kansas, where she focused on painting and printmaking. She continued her fine art education at The
Ninjagrl started painting her eponymous character in Chicago back in 2005. Her cat, Turtle, has proved to be loyal companion and unending source of inspiration, while her time spent as a volunteer at the Seattle Aquarium opened her eyes to the wonders of the ocean world. She hopes to inspire conservation of our marine environment by providing glimpses of the amazing creatures that live there in her unique ninja style.
NoMe Edonna is a self-taught artist born in California. Known for his smooth-sided biomorphs that combine the organic and the mechanical, his work is an obscure interpretation of contemporary urban life. In recent years, it has become increasingly focused on social, political, and environmental concerns as well as inquiries of science, technology, and study of ancient civilizations.
Norm “Nomzee” Maxwell was a visual artist whose education came via the streets and the Hussian School Of Art. His combination of urban upbringing and fine art training resulted stylistically in an esoteric combination of color, light, and subject matter. Politics, mythology, popular culture, street life and his own biography were
Oliver Vernon was born in New York City in 1972. The son of artists, he grew up in Albany, NY surrounded by art historical work and earned a BFA in Fine Art at Parsons School Of Design . His paintings draw upon an incredibly varied pool of influences, from abstract expressionism to post-pop surrealism to the polished finish of figurative
Paul Lewin has found joy in the process of creating art since he was a child in Kingston, Jamaica. His paintings, which he likens to the ancient art of storytelling, are inspired by nature, science, ancestors, and dreams. The resulting visions include trees, animals, insects and foliage intertwining with human figures to represent the
Paul Madonna writes and draws the weekly series All Over Coffee, which is published in the San Francisco Chronicle and The Rumpus. He has authored two books, been published internationally, exhibited in galleries and museums , and printed large-scale murals for Tacolicious restaurants and Starbucks. Madonna has taught drawing at the
Peter Daverington completed an MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts, Australia in 2006. He has showed in galleries extensively, including twelve solo exhibitions, and has been commissioned to paint public murals in Argentina, Australia, China, Egypt, Germany, Guatemala and Turkey. The recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, he has lived New York since 2011.
René Yañez was a Mexican-born painter, assemblage artist, performer, curator, and community activist. Having moved to the Bay Area in 1966, he help to found the Mission Cultural Arts Center and Galeria de la Raza, where he served as the director for 15 years. He was also one of the first people to introduce the Day of the Dead celebrations in the United States. He passed away in 2018 at the age of 75.
Reuben Rude is the child of hippies who met in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. He grew up in the woods of Northern California and came back to San Francisco to study at the Academy of Art. He utilizes his expertise in drawing, painting, and illustration in both the creative and commercial realms, having shown in galleries, comic
Reza Alhosseini is a San Francisco-based artist who was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. Painting is his perennial exploration of everyday life. He begins with a concept and a mood, then aims for dynamic composition through a series of studies as he builds up to a final piece that is a harmonious balance between vision and technique.
Rich Fonseca is a self-taught painter and illustrator who uses geometry and color to convey how memories change, distort, and fracture with the passage of time. The placement of color arranges pattern over rhythm, utilizing op-art techniques to convey different layers of perception and interpretation. He lives and works in San Francisco.
Ricky Watts is a Sebastopol-based illustrator, painter, and muralist whose love for art was prevalent at an early age, from coloring in his mother’s bubble letters, to creating comic strips depicting epic battles between nuclear dinosaurs and the US Army, to discovering his first graffiti magazine in the 8th grade. Fascinated with aerosol
Robert Bowen is a San Francisco-based visual artist fascinated with the conflict of man versus nature, rendered via his animal and machinery hybrids. Bowen got his start through graffiti and street art, briefly attended art school and continues self-schooling to obtain a classical education as a painter. Bowen has been exhibiting his
Romanowski is a Swiss-born, self-taught artist, musician, and DJ who has made San Francisco his home since 1988. His keen sense of style and extraordinary talent for vintage shopping has made him one of the most sought-after collectibles hustlers this side of Zurich. His artwork includes top-notch spray stencil pieces and found object assemblages that are coveted by music and design aficionados around the world.
Ryan Bubnis has clean yet chaotic paintings, installations, and design work that have been described as "urban folk." Working intuitively, he incorporates a range of mediums and draws inspiration from life, graffiti, Saturday morning cartoons, and outsider art from diverse cultures. He received a BFA in Illustration from Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Sarah Coleman was raised in towns in Texas, Minnesota, and California, and noticed that each landscape possessed a unique effect, mood, and sky. These environments and their cultures shaped Sarah's early life experience and began her interest in the emotional and intellectual impacts of atmosphere, weather, and illusion. She studied art at UC Santa Cruz.
Sebastian Wahl, a Swedish artist residing in New York, combines traditional, labor-intensive collage with digital processes to create multi-layered, concentric resin compositions. His source material has been collected and cataloged for over 20 years, including images from all walks of life, pop culture, and religious iconography.
Seibot is a queer, trans-masc muralist and painter based in San Francisco. They are the co-owner/founder of Mothbelly Gallery , a community art gallery located in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. Seibot's work relies heavily on acrylic and latex house paint but also includes meticulously detailed pen and ink drawing, digital drawing, and
Simone Star is an artist and psychotherapist who seeks to communicate diverse human experience, themes of social justice, and traces of the ineffable through the language of visual art. Her work includes painting, sculpture, and beadwork among other media. With no formal art training, she has developed her artistic voice through a process
Sirron Norris is a San Francisco-based artist, muralist, designer and educator. He graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, then moved to San Francisco to begin his career. Best known for his public art projects, his murals can be seen in Balmy Alley, Clarion Alley, at the corner of 18th & Bryant in the Mission. He has been an
Sparkles Positron creates art, sparked by love, humor, and gratitude, that celebrates the interconnected complexity of life and material impermanence. She is an alchemist, a hunter and gatherer practicing reverence for all life, knowledge, love, experience, materials, and wisdom. She is a self-taught artist currently based in Grass Valley CA.
Sunshine Jones, a San Francisco native, has been producing electronic music since 1985. One half of Dubtribe Sound System, their brand of house music toured worldwide throughout the 1990s, epitomizing a west coast sound for a generation of underground music lovers. He continues to produce music in solo projects, tour internationally as a DJ, and perform a few times a year with Dubtribe.
Tatiana Suarez is a mainstay in the world of pop surrealism and muralism, showing in galleries throughout the United States. Her murals are in locations as extensive as Hawaii, Detroit, Los Angeles, Okinawa, Mexico and Sweden. Suarez received a BFA in Illustration from the University of Miami. She currently lives and works in Miami.
Tina Basich Haller is a Renaissance woman, known both as a visual art and a groundbreaking pro snowboarder. After nearly two decades as one of the prominent women in the sport, an injury shifted her focus to her other passion. Since childhood, Haller has created work daily, using layers of acrylic paint and paper in mixed media
t.w.five works with just one material — vinyl — and focuses largely on process. All shapes are hand-cut to size from large rolls of solid color vinyl, and then carefully applied to a surface of the work. Each work is made of intricately repeating patterns, which require hours of rigorous work. The finished product is a labor of love, weaved
Ursula Xanthe Young is a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer whose urban fairy tale images have become a trademark of street culture in San Francisco and beyond. Her fine-lined illustrations and colorful modern paintings exude a style that is unique and appealing to art lovers of all kinds. Young grew up in the green rural