Holiday
November - December, 2009
"Handle With Care" by Audrey Heller
Art and gifts from $8, plus cuddly things for you to take home and love including, handmade cards and other delicious oddities collected and selected for your enjoyment.
Three Histories
October 8 - November 19, 2009
Michael Woolsey
Harrison & 16th is a series of photographs capturing a moment in time where there is something about the subject that is slightly transparent. The ghost-like images are less about who the individuals are and more about where they are, spatially and emotionally, as they walk toward somewhere.
Sonya Lee Barrington
My small, framed Wool Work came out of a desire to create intimate artwork that would aesthetically complement my large wool quilts. Each piece has a personal quality that a collector can relate to, just like with a full-sized quilt, only without the need for a major spatial investment. dditionally, I feel very virtuous recycling the "throw away" garments that offer me my materials while they simultaneously add a back story from their first lives, thus enriching each piece I make.
Mary Livingston
Traveling across the country two summers go, I was particularly struck with crows and ravens. They spoke to me of proud joyous freedom, sleek quick movement, raucous pranksterism and strong engaged community. I thought about making A Murder of Crows. I talked about making them. The first topped my holiday tree last year. Each bird is different. Together they have a presence and energy, and often when I walk into the room I feel they have been up to some delightful folly.
Tricia Rissmann
Within the Layers
September 5-30, 2009
Reception for the artist:
Sunday, September 6, 4-7pm
Tricia Rissmann
Artist Statement
My passion for painting began through my work as a make-up artist for television and magazine photo shoots when I was 20 years old. At 25, I became an entrepreneur, opening the spa, Surfaces in 1984 and investing in real estate around Berkeley and Seattle. Both endeavors gave me the opportunity to express myself through the creation and redesign of interiors and exteriors.
I opened a second spa, ReVive in 1999 followed by Gravity Spot, a restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District. Legendary San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Herb Cain wrote about the interior of my restaurant... and soon after I began receiving inquiries about design projects for various homes and businesses. I took on only a few projects -- those that I felt passionate about -- and an interior designer was born! I attended design school for 6 months, but dropped out. I was ready to just go for it. Fueled by my longtime passion for art and design, I started acquiring art for my clients, and ended up representing a handful of up and coming artists.
Being so immersed in art, I was inspired to start painting, producing my first work on canvas 11 years ago. As a self-taught artist, I paint from sheer emotion and a sense of balance and color, drawing inspiration from both my dream and waking environments. I have obviously always been drawn to color, form, texture and design, and am especially interested in the emotive properties of color and art.
Kristin Farr
Plane View
July 4 - September 4, 2009
Kristin Farr, in her gravity-defying work, presents the mixed media installation, Plane View at Factory Outlet Gallery in Mokelumne Hill, CA. Plane View touches upon the fragility of flight and the magic of the friendly skies.
"Nothing compares to the experience of flying in an airplane," comments Kristin. "Being above the world, with a 'plane view' of the landscape below is a sight frequent fliers take for granted." She remembers, at age 4, her maiden air voyage when she wanted to leap from the window and land in the "fluffy trampoline of clouds" only to be disappointed when learning of their intangibility.
Kristin hopes, with this installation, to inspire viewers to imagine themselves high in the sky with a Plane View of the world below.
Kristin Farr was born in Indiana and now lives in San Francisco. Her background is in sculpture and fiber arts, but she has spent the past few years painting pictures of enjoyable icons such as polar bears, ice cream cones, unicorns, owls, and even airplanes. Her artwork has been shown in benefit auctions at San Francisco's de Young Museum and The Lab gallery, and she exhibits regularly at her neighborhood bookstore, Bibliohead. Kristin graduated from San Francisco State University in 2006 with a B.A. in Art and her favorite color is all of them.
Mark Taylor & Clancy Cavnar
The Story Behind the Pig Boy Story
May 16 - July 3, 2009
The Story Behind the Pig Boy Story is a set of drawings produced as a storyboard for a film that was never made. The inspiration for the project, a collaboration between filmmaker Mark Taylor and painter Clancy Cavnar, was a period in 1988 when Mark lost his job making rubber jewelry and was subsequently unemployed for six months, the longest period of unemployment he had experienced since the age of 14. The film was conceived as a live-action cartoon.
Mark Taylor is Senior Interactive Producer for Arts & Culture at KQED, the Northern California public broadcaster. He created and produces the programs, Gallery Crawl, Mix Tape and The Writers' Block. Mark has been making art in the San Francsico Bay Area since 1985. His experimental films have screened in festivals, galleries and museums around the globe. His film, Lesson 9 was purchased for broadcast by the BBC, England. His project Sensing the World by Echo is both a short film and a handmade book, which has been collected by New York's Museum of Modern Art and the University of Southern California, among others. Taylor is currently pursuing dual Master's Degrees in Media Arts and Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts.
Clancy Cavnar received her MFA in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. She has worked as a painting instructor, a counselor and artist for over 20 years. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology.