Familiar Places features Tan’s latest body of work, including fine art canvases depicting in San Francisco’s Mission District. Coming from a background in graffiti art and lettering, Tan’s style has grown to include series of cityscapes that document the changes in the city through a native’s perspective. In particular, the postcard image of Thrift Town laments the loss of a long-time retail instititution.

Luna Rienne Gallery is pleased to present Mission Lake, a solo exhibition featuring San Francisco artist Anthony Holdsworth.

Mission Lake showcases Holdsworth’s recent series of small-scale plein air paintings depicting San Francisco’s Mission District. The show title is taken from his image of the vacant lot at the corner of 22nd and Mission Streets where, until last year, there was a massive mixed-use building that housed 62 long-term tenants and nearly a dozen small local retail businesses.

A fixture on the San Francisco and Oakland streets since the 1980s, Holdsworth strives to paint things that represent the reality in which we live. In the past five years, he has focused on the Mission because he truly appreciates and wishes to celebrate the neighborhood’s strong sense of community as well as its roots in Latino culture, having painted in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Cuba.

Sacred Alchemy is a series of paintings and murals inspired by the delicacy of Sacred Geometry and its intricate weaving into the Alchemy of Life. June 2017 marks the one year anniversary of Lynn beginning a very powerful and life changing process. Having undergone a personal transformation of body and mind, she would like to share the positive energy that has been awakened inside of her through illustrative depictions of feminine strength, beauty, and symbols of the natural and surreal world.

A benefit group show for The Homeless Prenatal Program, inspired by Amandalynn's personal transformation as well as the amazing art community of San Francisco, the current state of our country has highlighted problems that still run deep in our society. She has thus put together a roster of local artists who create beautiful and inspiring works that engage in supporting the important feminine energy of this city. Proceeds from this exhibition will support women and children, and help them grow to create healthy positive futures.

War Paint is a collection of portraits and figurative paintings that reinterprets historic Native American imagery through stylized freehand manipulation. LeBrun illustrates the unique aesthetic details of the handcrafted garments of various indigenous tribes through the heavy use of line, deliberate brush strokes, and a bold primary color palette. The subject matter is associated with life and death, as well as artifact studies and animated still life.

War Paint is a tribute to American Indians, Native American culture, and indigenous American ideology. LeBrun, who is part Iroquois, salutes their historic example and continued respect for the Earth and all things natural. Growing up in the United States, he had little education about the severe atrocities suffered by the original occupants of the land he calls home. Thus the pride that accompanies his citizenship is offset by a sense of shame in the knowledge that his country was stolen and claimed by foreigners. Even today, the heritage and rights of American Indians are exploited, as exampled by Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their peaceful protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Featuring different manifestations of his working style, Parallel Projections explores Huxley’s interests in humankind’s place in the cosmos, the effects of technology on society, and the pursuit of rendering them artistically. Continuing his motif of the space traveller, several paintings feature isolated figures, void of context, afloat in a "neon afterlife" with pops of color and geometry.

Huxley also revisits a cinematic series featuring mutant toys set against picturesque cityscapes. Goliath monsters, made from hacked-together toy parts and animal bones, burst from covert experimentation chambers into the streets while their caretakers flee for their lives. The inspiration behind this series is the ludicrous projects that the military industrial complex embark upon with little thought about the potential effects on society and the environment.