Amei Papitto

El Cerrito, California

I started my rigorous art training at the Art Students’ League of New York, an art academy with a long tradition, and continued at the Lyme Academy of Fine Art. My first interest were portraits. After several years of portrait practice two fellow artists and I ventured on a plein air landscape painting trip to Nova Scotia, where I fell in love with plein air landscape painting.

I paint outdoors in nature - capturing the moment while everything keeps changing - the clouds moving, waves crashing against rocks, shadows lengthening. When the tide comes in, I move my easel to a...

Cee Cee

Oakland, California

My nickname is CeeCee and I’ve been painting for about 10 years. However, during the start of the pandemic in 2020, I have been able to hone in on my colorful style and purpose for my art. My art strives to promote sexuality acceptance and body positivity, but most importantly to bring awareness to safety standards for ALL sex workers. The majority of my paintings are colorful renditions of sex worker photos found on social media platforms, and with their consent, I am able to depict the light and sexual energy of the human form with...

Elina Frumerman

San Francisco, California

Elina's work is rooted in classic design principles with a modern sensibility. Inspired by tactile elements—paper, printing processes, typography, and photography, she translates these into the appropriate landscape.

Tom Schultz

Oakland, California

Tom Schultz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1939. Basically a self-taught artist, he studied privately with Charles Bunnell in Colorado in the 1950s. He arrived in New York in 1959, at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement, and met artists connected with the New York School of painting. That experience inspired him and expanded his outlook on painting. After a solo show at the Studio Gallery, Schultz exhibited in the 10th Street Co-op Galleries and other group shows in New York. He made his living by construction jobs and working for other artists. Schultz moved to...

Alejandra Acevedo

Belmont, California

Alechandra's is a digital artist. Her arwork remids of japanese comic, cartoons characters, fantasy worlds. Currently she's working with her writing partner on a comic book Heavy Lies the Crown.

Alechandra finds her inspiration in friends around her, in songs of greek death metal band Sepicflesh or goats running around on her parent’s property. She likes to work on her art in loops, often coming back to redraw her previous artworks.

Stephanie Thwaites

Novato, California

Stephanie is a graduate of the Yale University Fine Arts program, studying painting, graphic design, and photography. Here she developed a strong understanding of composition and an eye for color and harmony. Upon graduating, she continued her design studies with graduate courses in Switzerland. After a 20-year career as a creative director and brand manager in Connecticut, she returned to her fine arts background in 2009. She moved to the Bay Area in 2014. While Stephanie most often paints with oil and wax, she enjoys exploring different techniques and materials, using the medium to...

Jordan Harmon

Santa Clara, California

"I am a California native, I was born and raised in Santa Clara, California. I am the first middle child of four. Most of my memories as a kid include daydreaming, drawing, and doing arts and crafts. I was very much the 90s kid, making little animals out of pony beads, making up stories on my grandma’s old windows computer with the fancy digital clip art, and constantly creating those little lanyard keychains with the plastic cord. I was that kid that made friendship bracelets for everyone in day care and I learned how to sew...

Valentin Gatica

san francisco, California

Valentin is an Argentine Contemporary Painter and Art Director, was born in 1991 to an art teacher and workshop owner. Involved with art since childhood, he turns to those memories to create his world of elements, palettes and shapes that consituate his artwork. He began his artistic career in 2010 at the age of 19, merging his passion for painting with his studies on Advertising and ArtDirection. Even though his main strength is muralism, he's constantly seeking new ways in which he can apply his art such as illustration, products, cinema and advertising. About four years ago he embarked...

J.L. King

San Francisco, California

Jennifer L. King, is a second generation San Francisco native, Chinese-African American, born from artist parents and raised with a strong reverence for the arts. Her childhood memories of her large multiracial family, permeating scents of oil paint and turpentine, and the black theater walls in San Francisco’s City College Campus have left long lasting impressions. Jennifer pursued a career in health and science while maintaining her creative practice in different mediums before committing her focus to oil painting. Sharp-focus detail is a lifelong endeavor that she pursues to this...

Jamie Madison

Sausalito, California

Inspired by color, line, shape, texture, mood, music, local artists, animals, plants and by our dramatically changing world, I react as I go, sensing what the painting wants to be and when it has arrived there. There are few words in this visceral world. I am an abstract artist working in the ICB Studios in Sausaltio. I studied painting and printmaking at UCDavis in the 1970s with Wayne Thibeaud and Roland Peterson and returned to my work in 2017. I work in oils on paper and wood panels, in acrylics, collage and most often in mixed media.

Lisa Rigby

Oakland, California

My paintings are a reflection on the special connection between humans and nature. They depict preserved and open space in Northern California. Reverence for nature is aroused, and we are asked to recall our emotional experiences of these places. Standing in a cathedral of trees and taking a deep breath can remind us of our essence. Alongside these affirmative memories, there may also be distress, knowing these forest ecosystems may be dramatically altered in our lifetime.

I once examined tree groves through the lens of an artist studying her subject. Today I see...

San Francisco, California

Britta Kathmeyer

Sonoma County, California

Britta Kathmeyer, born in Germany, 1963, is a visual artist residing in Sonoma County. She received a Diploma in Textile Design from the College of Art and Design, Hannover, Germany, in 1988, and continued her studies on a Fulbright scholarship in the US graduating with an MFA with High Distinction from the California College of the Arts, Oakland, in 1991. She later immersed herself in studies of Eastern and Western bodywork and yoga, both of which had a profound influence on her art making process.

Britta has exhibited her work in galleries in both Germany and the...

Sharon Paster

Sausalito, California

Sharon Paster is a Northern California painter creating semi-abstract images inspired by the Marin County landscapes, beaches and people. Award-winning artist Sharon Paster has participated in numerous group and solo shows in Northern California since 2002 and won several awards for her artwork. She has exhibited in the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. Publications, including American Art Collector and Art of Northern California, have published her work.

Katerina Capetanos

Sonoma, California

William Valle

San Francisco, California

Trying to capture a certain restlessness and impatience on the recent canvases - the difficulty I have focusing, the fact I can't sit still, the heaping pile of laundry I refuse to fold. I noticed Damien Hirst will post close-ups of mediocre paintings and his audience will go bananas. Someone told me to think less and do more. I really like that, but I'm still trying to figure out exactly what's going through my head when I make something like this.

Tanya Herrera

San Francisco , CA

Tanya Herrera began her fascination with art as a young child growing up in the Bay Area she was heavily influenced by arts and crafts at home and the museums, theaters and symphonies in San Francisco. Herrera experimented with traditional mediums from middle school into college, always asking "what else is there?". Herrera's work as pyrographer and heat artist began in 2009 by trying to make an impression of a stencil on wood. Now after exploring many forms of pyrography and heat art over the course of nearly 14 years, mediums include burning on wood, leather and bone as well as heat...

Jeremy Coon

Sausalito, California

Jeremy has lived more than one life. He has been a farmer, a Navy Man, ship’s engineer and of course an artist.  He lives on the Sausalito waterfront, where he paints what he sees, “anything I can find lying around the waterfront.” His paintings show images from Jeremy’s travels as well as his imagination: idyllic beaches, verdant forests, plains traversed by roaring steam engines. What each piece has in common, however, is a sense of tranquility, a feeling that, as Jeremy observes, “everything is well in the world.”

Carla Roth

Marin County, California

Carla lives and paints in Marin County, California. After growing up in a small Northern California college town, she attended University of California, Berkeley, earning a degree in Design. A thirty year career in interior design followed. In 2000, she signed up for a watercolor workshop and was instantly hooked.

Lena Gustafson

Oakland, California

Lena Gustafson (b. San Francisco 1989) is a painter and multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Oakland, CA. Gustafson graduated from the Art Institute of Boston with a BA in Illustration and Art Therapy in 2011. She founded Night Diver Press together with her partner Peter Calderwood, utilizing silkscreen and other alternative printing techniques to create prints, books, zines, and monotypes. Informed by her experience preparing images for screen-prints, Gustafson’s paintings depict scenes of transformation often with figures or plants merging with their environment....

Russ R. Robinson

San Bruno , CA

I'm Russ R. Robinson, or R3. I am a contemporary fine artist and pointillism specialist based in the Bay Area. I "color" the way I think. Abstract. I paint the way I feel. Colorful.  

I rekindled my passion for art (and discovered my style) through coloring books for mindfulness. In 2019, I launched my online gallery and POD shop to showcase and sell my "colorings." (R3Colorings.com)

Inks are still my favorite medium because at the 3rd and 4th layers, bleeding becomes your friend as the inks take on paint-like qualities. But I love that it remains translucent on...

Greg Borman

San Francisco, California

I am interested in creating evidence of human presence in each image that I make. Humans are represented in a bare-bones way, sometimes just a face and nothing more. I intend to get to the essence of representations of people, whether through portraits of lone figures or an array of many. In these prints, the people remain enigmatic yet still show a range of emotions. As my approach to making prints is largely instinctive, each one is filled with imagery and associations directly from my subconscious. I also leave space for the viewer to make their own interpretations.

Shane Kennedy

Mill Valley, California

Garden designer, furniture designer and artist Shane Kennedy moved from New York to San Francisco in 1988. His work under the name Furniture Club was a major part of the Art Furniture movement in 1980s New York. Furniture Club's work blended simple shapes with dyed concrete and steel.

The move to San Francisco allowed for a new direction. Junk yards, dumpsters, and flea markets were sources for materials to use and allow a second life. Welded masks and totems, constructions and collages were all generated from these searches. Working quickly and without a...

Anne Garvey

Oakland, California

Anne Garvey is a contemporary visual artist based in Oakland, California. Though her artwork spans a variety of media, she is primarily known for her realistic paintings of people and tangled objects. Garvey’s work represents both the inner and outer realities of human existence. With a strong sense of connection between body and mind, Garvey incorporates her interest in mental states such as anxiety, hope, anticipation, and despair. Her continued work with youth and victims of trauma further influence these themes, with cords, yarn, branches, and other objects serving as metaphors...

Orin Carpenter

Kentfield, California

Being an artist of color (AOC), I have the power to bring others into the world I experience through the lens of my creations. I have the power to educate, elevate, and challenge anyone who encounters my works of art. Allowing everyone to see the world through my eyes and hopefully change their perception with a new vision and offer them the opportunity to share in the journey... my journey. As a child growing up, I loved comic books and discovered that art could be my voice and superpower to cope with the stress that came with the color of my skin. Understanding I couldn't hide in my...

Christopher Chaffin

Sausalito, CA

I began drawing and painting at a young age. Inspired by sixties concert posters, album covers and Pop Art, I studied Advertising Design and Illustration at Northern Arizona University and Art Center. After college I pursued a 30+ year career in San Francisco as an art director/creative director. In 2011, a weeklong art workshop at Esalen reignited my first love of making art. My studio is located in the ICB in Sausalito, CA.

The two primary components of my art are autobiographical and observational. On the one hand, I source...

Clare Metague

San Francisco, California

I'm a San Francisco native raised in the Mission District by my beautiful mother who immigrated from Central America. Both of my parents had successful careers  in creative fields. I grew up surrounded by art, fashion and numerous art projects. After graduating from CCA (California College of the Arts) in Oakland, I enjoyed many years working as a graphic artist before turning my attention to the fine arts.

My mono prints (mono = each print is unique) are often inspired by various concepts and observations ranging from the field of energy healing to the precious beauty in...

Tom Hill

San Francisco, California

Tom Hill is a sculptor, musician, draftsman, and jeweler whose work is an exploration of the natural world, most notably in sculptural objects depicting animals in motion. Trained originally as a jeweller in London, he has since moved to San Francisco, USA.

“I use wire as it enables me to create a 3 dimensional drawing and to capture the feeling of animals in motion with the energy of a quick sketch.” 

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Judith Rohrer

East Bay, California

Judith Rohrer creates engaging works of art that offer viewers endless opportunities for exploration and discovery. Her unique juxtaposition of abstract and figurative forms, organic and geometric shapes, healing colors, and versatile textures awaken our imagination. Judith’s inspiration comes from her emotions, personal experiences, responses to world events, and her fascination with the natural world.​ She brings her visions to life with skill, creativity, and a treasure trove of mediums and materials. She explains, “I love color and mark-making and use acrylics,...

Amanda Perry

San Francisco, California

Amanda Perry was born in San Francisco and raised in Marin County. She earned a BA from NYU's The Gallatin School in 2007. In 2022, Amanda co-founded Art Visit.

"I like writing haikus, sonnets and other poems. I'm inspired by small moments that hold great meaning, friendships and other relationships. I like writing poems based my own photographs, views, and moods."

Haleh Mahbod

Saratoga, CA

Haleh's art is uplifting, playful and expressive. She creates art to remind people of simple joys of life. Her style is contemporary, a bridge between abstract and impressionism. 

Haleh has lived in different parts of the world and moved to US at the age of fourteen in pursuit of higher education. Since she  became independent in an early age, art became a means for self expression and communication. Her exploration of art started at the age of thirteen when she painted her first oil painting with her Mom. She never stopped after that day! She is an intuitive...

Jun Yang

San Francisco, California

My name is Jun Yang. I was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, but San Francisco has been my home for the past 10 years. The city inspires me and my art with its amazing cultural diversity, its celebrated urban landscape and natural beauty, and the support and protection it provides me as a gay artist. I am a self-taught, versatile artist with a broad range of skill sets. I use a wide variety of tools and materials to create art pieces in a variety of sizes and locations, including large and small scale murals. I have shown work in numerous national and international exhibitions. Recent...

Nora Reza

San Francisco, California

I layer oil paint in a process of intuitive exploration, eschewing description in search of a resonating vibration. I am influenced by French modernism, and my time studying at Stanford in the 1970s with the Bay Area painters Frank Lobdell and Nathan Oliviera. Decades of living between the Bay Area and south of France are apparent in my sense of light and radiating color.

I draw inspiration from my Persian ancestry and certain childhood artifacts such as a Persian paisley tablecloth, which has reappeared for decades in my work, eventually becoming the...

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Anthony Bianconi

Redwood City, California

Born 1983, Anthony lives and works as a professional artist in Redwood City, California. Anthony explores figurative shapes, human body, balance and design by woven tensegrity patterns, expressive figurative sculptures and installations.

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Hugo Kobayashi

San Francisco, California

Born in Los Angeles and based in San Francisco, Hugo enjoys making all sorts of paintings and movies. He earned a MFA from Hunter College in 1986. His undergraduate degree is from U.C. Berkeley. In 2020, he was one of a handful of artists chosen to be included in The de Young museum’s 125th anniversary edition of The de Young Open, an annual showcase of local San Francisco Bay Area artists. 

Nancie Crowley

Los Altos Hills, California

Nancie Crowley is a highly accomplished artist whose work has been shown in many galleries, museums, and office buildings including the Palace of the Legion of Honor, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Thomas Reynolds Gallery (Santa Barbara), LaFond Galleries (Pittsburg), Works Gallery (NYC), Village Theatre Gallery (Danville), Koret Gallery (SF), Frisco 100 Alligator Gallery (SF),  Matrix Gallery (Albuquerque), Berkeley Art Center Gallery, Stanford University Center for Integrated Systems, Bechtel International Center at Stanford University School of Education, San Jose State University Art...

Michal Sloboda

San Francisco, California

Michal Sloboda is UX and branding designer based in San Francisco, California. Michal worked for international clients including Nike, BBC or Rolling Stones. Michal founded Art Visit with Amanda Perry.

Diane Komater

Berkeley, California

I call myself a Wireist. I make 3 dimensional sculptures, mostly figurative, using various gauges of annealed steel wire. I literally 'draw in the air'. I started using this wire when I lived in Los Angeles and was making jewelry that was featured in a few galleries around LA, San Francisco and Japan. I was invited to participate in a figurative show at one of the galleries representing me. I made a couple of 7 foot long figures using my wire and detailing them with primary color glass marbles. This intrigued me very much and soon I was making wire people anywhere from 3 feet to 10 feet...

Swann Freslon

San Rafael, CA

"I’m an abstract mixed media artist. I’m influenced by the colors and energy of my life and the life around me; nature, my family, my life of travels and the humans I meet, the countries I lived in and the ones I’ve visited… whether the source of laughs or tears, I try to absorb and depict them whole. I seek to create abstract art pieces as an exercise of letting go; letting go of the flow of my emotions and the viewer’s emotions; to the point where you don’t exactly know how to express what you’re looking at, but you deeply feel it in your soul....

Jeremy Novy

San Francisco, California

Jeremy Novy’s unique brand of street art is ripe with thoughtful social examinations. Novy has combated a homophobic lack of representation with a celebration of gay iconography, bringing joviality and warmth to disused urban spaces. His stencil work is cogent in its messaging and remarkably complex for its compositional simplicity—like the koi fish of his most-established series which, floating beneath the surface of concrete, refer to anti-authoritarian coded symbols in Chinese art under communism. His pioneering images of drag queens, physique pictorials, and...

Mary Southall

San Francisco, California

Mary Southall is a San Francisco based artist working in acrylic and mixed media. Born in Amarillo, Texas, Mary’s earliest memories are of the vast Texas landscape and sky that she experienced by her father’s side, a 5th generation farmer and rancher. Always drawing, painting, making dollhouses and mud pies, her creativity was nurtured by her artistic mother, a technical draftsman by trade. Mary earned a BFA degree from Texas State University. After graduating college she began her career by joining Cibola Studio/Gallery cooperative and later went on to co-found Acme Art...

Paula Valenzuela

Sausalito, California

Born in Chile, I became interested in art and began learning from a few notable Chilean artists at the age of 15, participating in group exhibitions and private collections in Chile. As the years passed, I became interested in psychology. I pursued a professional career in Clinical Psychology and Public Health at UC Berkeley, while keeping my art practice private.

I moved to the Bay Area in 2001 and became involved with the effervescent art Mission District community–learning printmaking and creating public commissions for the University of California, San Francisco’s...

Janey Fritsche

San Rafael, California

Janey was born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, where she spent considerable time with her mom’s extended family on the beaches of the Gulf coast  -  a source of inspiration to this day. Upon graduation from high school, Janey was offered an art scholarship.  Given her fear of being a starving artist, she turned to earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with minors in Art and Sociology from Lamar University.  She combined these seemingly disparate subjects into a career of interactive design work for clients like Apple, George Lucas Educational...

Gina Werfel

Davis, California

Gina Werfel is an American abstract painter who uses vivid color, gesture, and complex compositional structures to create dynamic and rhythmic visual expressions.

Werfel works with a mixture of oils, acrylics, and mixed media on canvas. Her background is in landscape painting, which helped her to develop a keen eye for light, color relationships, and compositional harmony. As she transitioned into abstraction, she developed her ability to use those sensibilities to convey complex and nuanced emotional states.

In her abstract paintings, she employs expressionist, open...

Janis Anton

Oakland, California

Janis Anton studied in Oakland at CCA. " I breathed deeply and learned to paint, to make prints, to understand art history, to see and to draw. Amid this wellspring of imagery and critique, I found the conversation; the connection to the viewer. I stretch to make visual art that invites investigation. The investigation is how the work connects. I have joyfully spent the last 20 years deepening my art practice, always mindful of why I am making the work and what it says."

Laura Hapka

Oakland, California

Unique in intention and complexity, the work of abstract artist Laura Hapka is a byproduct of her life experiences and creative experimentation. The sum of the two portray her genuine appreciation for artistic process. Post graduate school, Hapka traveled the world and continued to take classes in various aesthetic styles and mediums. Through several years of exploration with acrylic, and numerous iterations later, she developed and cultivated her unique technique. Her practice and style has generated industry recognition and a fast-growing reputation.

Laura established a deep...

Rachel Tirosh

Sunnyvale, CA

I create non-representational abstract paintings. I express balance and movement using layers of texture, color and marks. Abstraction allows me the freedom to create without comparing to an existing object, it is all my imagination, my memory or my dream and later it is the interpretation of the viewer. When I begin a painting, I never know what the end results will be. I start by laying in the larger shapes which define the structure and set the movement of the piece. I further enhance the design to establish a strong composition. I add texture and color to generate tension within the...

Susan Tonkin Riegel

San Francisco, California

Susan Tonkin Riegel is a practicing artist and graduate of UC Berkeley where she studied with notable Bay Area figurative painters Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown. She received her MA at Sac State and has been involved in multiple solo and group shows nationally and internationally. Susan is a mixed-media artist who explores symbols, archetypes, numbers, and letters in her work. Inspired by diverse influences such as vivid dreams, international travel, and children’s art, Tonkin Riegel uses acrylic paint, pastels, graphite, thread, and paper to create her ethereal work.  She...

Stella Zhang

San Francisco, California

Stella Zhang’s art expresses hidden conflicts that challenge our ability to connect to our shared struggles with power; inequality and identity. Her starting point is the human body and all aspects of human nature—the most basic truths. She chooses familiar and ordinary materials, that activate our memories and connect us with universal fears and desires. Stella’s work subtly engages viewers, stimulates conversation; and challenges us to question the boundaries and rules we accept.

Stella Zhang was born in Beijing, China. She received her BFA at the Central...

Victoria Veedell

San Francisco, California

As an artist, I want to capture the essence of nature, the play of light and color as it shifts over time in a particular place revealing layers of history and emotion. My paintings are like memories relaying not what is seen, but felt. They are an emotional response to the environment. Layers of color build to reveal ethereal landscapes with a centering luminescence. These moments of connecting with nature are becoming more precious due to increased urbanization and climate change. That is why I am committed to capturing and sharing these fleeting moments in time....

Natasha Kramskaya

San Jose, California

In most of her works, Natasha studies human nature and emotions. She's developed a painting approach that lets the materials she uses — from paint to recycled and found objects — come together on canvas and speak for themselves through their fluidity, depth, and texture. She lets the force of gravity, the refraction of light, and the swing of her arm help tell her stories in her own way, conveying movement of nature, depth of our spirit, and fragility of life.

Learn more about Natasha, her art, upcoming exhibitions and sign up for the artist's newsletter on...

Leslie Lowinger

San Francisco, California

Leslie Lowinger was born in New Orleans grew up in Detroit.  She lived in New York for 15 years and San Francisco for the last twelve. Her work has been shown various places including: Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, Foundation 3.14 in Norway and Fashion Moda, New York. She has received a NYSCA Independent Artist's Grant and is the collection of the DIA Foundation. She is also a member of Graphic Arts Workshop a printmaking cooperative in San Francisco.

"My etchings often examine cities and people in cities. These are generally places I have lived  including New...

Kimberlee Koym-Murteira

Oakland, California

Kimberlee Koym-Murteira makes video sculptures, hybrid forms of video, light, water, and installation. Moving from the material to immaterial, creating dialogues guided by the forces of Trauma, Healing, Spirituality, and Ecology. Kimberlee engages somatic connection - a relationship to the body in creation and exhibition - to respond to the complexity of power in relation to ecology and feminism. Employing tenants of embodiment to conjoin environmental concerns and social justice. She sees technology as both a tool and interruptor. 

Valerie Corvin

Piedmont, California

Valerie Corvin is an American contemporary abstract painter working in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Her works are distinct and elegant and are inspired by natural forms and shapes.  She believes that nature provides the greatest inspiration and works to recreate the feelings of joy, awe, and beauty one finds in nature. 

Corvin has found that the creative process is a combination of observation and intuition.  Her artworks use the unique organic shapes and marks she discovers from a walk-in nature - rock formations in the mountains, the shape of a melting snow...

Carrie Ann Plank

San Francisco, California

Carrie Ann Plank is an San Francisco based artist working in the mediums of installation, printmaking, painting, and glass.

The major focus of my work deals with visual portrayals of information systems. The work considers reinterpreting and reorganizing visual information systems and how context shifts meaning. I've always been fascinated by how principal and equation can be visually rendered and how this translation impacts the comprehension of data - be it obfuscation or clarification. I work with many layers of data visualization, from charting to mathematical equations to...

Harvey Abernathey

Novato, California

My passion for photography began as a young child, capturing images with a Brownie pinhole camera. I was captivated by the fact that you could create an image of a moment in time and share it for a lifetime. My parents had family photographs from long before I was born, sharing photos at frequent gatherings. I wanted to record my history as I saw & experienced it.

Sawyer Rose

Fairfax, California

Sawyer Rose, FRSA, MRSS is a sculptor, installation and social practice artist. Throughout her career, Rose has used her artwork to shine a spotlight on contemporary social and ecological issues. Her work on The Carrying Stones Project addresses women’s work inequity and has been featured by The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and Bust Magazine. Rose’s work has been exhibited widely across the US.

Rose has been a resident artist at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Vermont...

Kayvon Haraz

Oakland, California

I am a graduate student at the University of San Francisco studying Information Systems with an emphasis on IT infrastructure, Data architecture and Blockchain technology. My formal education includes a BS in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior with a Minor in Community Nutrition.

In conjunction to my education, I have over 10 years of experience working in software development, graphic design, animation and 3D modeling. Throughout that time I have built a strong understanding of content conception and development. 

Within the last few years, I have intersected...

John Bucklin

San Rafael, California

A fourth generation San Franciscan, John Bucklin trained at the Florence Academy of Art and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His studio is in San Rafael. John is inspired by the color, energy, and great space found in Western landscapes. Painting is the language he is most comfortable using to convey the beauty he sees around us.

Rachel Kline

Woodland, California

Kline's paintings are part of a photorealist painting tradition, in which slices of life are captured with great technical attention to details. Paintings in this series resonate with Kline's ability to capture the humor and beauty of a whole slew of mid-century roadside signs, from motels, bus stations, and restaurants, evidence of an older history of travel in America. Rachel Kline’s recent oil paintings depict vacationers she encountered in the Western states and are part of an ongoing series where she records people in “unselfconscious moments.”

Rinat Goren

Woodside, California

Rinat was born and raised in Israel where she was always observing and creating art. But only after graduating college, moving to California and raising a family, Rinat answered the urge to further explore art. She then decided to dedicate her time to a new path as an artist. The inspiration for her work comes from people who use their mind and think. The ability to form clear thoughts, make decisions, make choices and act accordingly is a unique attribute to human beings. Rinat’s work encourages us all to use and practice this quality.

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Bill Prochnow

Oakland, California

My paintings and drawings currently revolve around human relationships and connections, between themselves and their environments. Beginning with very basic information, I allow the process to offer new alternatives and directions as I work. This spontaneity creates a tension that requires resolution to complete the image. Like jazz, the image evolves from chance encounters; sometimes with the frenetic energy of free jazz, sometimes as smooth as a swing ballad. The outcome of this process is never certain—surprise, frustration, and discovery are my trusted guides.

Dannielle Sergent

San Francisco, California

Dannielle Sergent is an artist working in various media, from built form (architecture and interiors) to the olfactory (perfume) and visual arts (oil paint and mixed media). In each of these disciplines she explores the tension and harmony between the natural and the man made, the simple and complex, and the old and new. In her design work Dannielle combines new technologies and natural materials in modern and innovative applications.

Tom Maroni

San Francisco, California

Tom Marioni was born in 1937 in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended the Cincinnati Art Academy, and in 1959 moved to San Francisco, where he still lives. His first sound work, One Second Sculpture, 1969, was celebrated in the 2005 Lyon Biennial as presaging the work of many artists today who use sound and duration as subjects. His first museum show was in 1970 at the Oakland Museum of California. Titled “The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art,” it was an early example of social art as a sculpture action. Over the years, Marioni was invited to repeat the work in...

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Sherri Silverman

Lagunitas, California

My painting conveys my response to the essence of nature and consciousness. This shows up in how my brush moves in both my abstract  and representational artwork. Energy, essence, emotion translate my inner experience, an approach to art-making with a long tradition throughout Asia. I work with gouache, pastels, and mineral pigment; mixed media; collage; and photography— whatever artforms emerge, frequently as a surprise. I explore my inner images and the world around me in nature, books, and art. My inspiration comes from quiet interior states and over 45 years of meditation...

Ingrid V. Wells

San Francisco, California

Ingrid V. Wells earned her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and her BFA from Arizona State University. Wells's recent paintings investigate how the elements of art can affect and improve mood. She enjoys using playful subject matter to address difficult topics including women's issues and mental health. Her work has been shown in the Bay Area at Voss Gallery, New York at the Untitled Space, PULSE Miami with Treat Gallery, internationally in South Korea at the CICA Museum and online with PxP Contemporary. Her work has been featured by The Jealous Curator, The Huffington Post, Daily...

Marina Berlin

San Francisco, California

I create unique hand-crafted sculptures and installations using wire mesh, a utilitarian material usually hidden under the structure— but I am bringing it to the surface so that my work can have transparency about it, literally and figuratively. I use light, wire, and shadow to express ideas of the world around me. My work explores a wide range of subjects ranging from technology to wildlife conservation and women’s rights.

Malti B Lee

Santa Clara, California

Malti B Lee is a contemporary British Indian artist from London, England. Now based out of the Bay Area, she specialises in acrylic painting. Drawing inspiration from her experiences living and working across continents, Malti explore the fusion between the natural and manmade worlds. 

With a degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from University College London, Malti has always sought to understand the wonder of the complex world around her. She has pushed the limits of this through both her academic and creative pursuits. Following her academic career,...

Wo Schiffman

Sausalito, California

As the daughter of NASA Scientists, Wo's education explored not only art but questions in Physics and Philosophy. She holds a  BA in Philosophy (summa cum laude) JCU, with concentrated atelier art study in Scandinavia and the US including the Art Students League of NY, Cleveland Institute of Art, and SF State University.  Wo's inspiration is drawn from sailing and land travel in natural environments across six continents. She is a third generation female painter living in Northern California.

"My art practice is inspired by land and sea explorations  from the Arctic...

Barry Beach

San Rafael, California

Barry is an artist, art educator, and college portfolio preparation advisor living in Marin County, California. Materials and how they are used to construct the world fascinates him and inform his art practice The process of making is as important for him as the product; his studio is a place of continual experiments and explorations. Many materials he incorporates into his work are used and reclaimed from the waste stream, particularly wood.

He uses transformational processes creating my work, including deconstruction, reconstruction, carving, accumulating, covering and...

Nick Di Tomasso

Bay Area, California

Born to a Korean mother and Italian father, Nicholas resides in the Bay Area, California. His interest in art began as a form of therapy and a way to express his emotions and thoughts. When journaling, it would turn into pages of words and doodles, the doodles then grew into pages of drawings. Excited about his progression and passion to create, Nicholas eventually found himself in front of a canvas, and he’s never left it since.Over the past five years, Nicholas has had the opportunity to share his work in homes and offices. There have been many successful art shows at galleries,...

Marcia Clay

North Beath, California

A long–time resident of North Beach, Marcia Clay has captured impressions of its haunts and inhabitants for over twenty five years. The works featured on this website are etchings, watercolors, oil-on canvas paintings, images of the Chinese American community, and the artist herself passing through. “I paint and draw from memory-not exactly memory but a synthesis of what I’ve encountered and chosen to celebrate-as a still, lasting remnant of lived moments, internal life transferred to images”

Rodney Ewing

San Francisco, California

Rodney Ewing (b. 1964, Baton Rouge, La.) is a visual artist, whose drawings, installations, and mixed media works focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact, and to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and trauma. His work has been exhibited at The Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, The Drawing Center in NY, and most recently at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Jack Shainman Gallery - The School, NY, and Rena Bransten Gallery, SF.  Ewing is a grantee of the San Francisco Art Commission Individual Artist Grant (2016-2020) and his...

Elvira Dayel

San Francisco, California

I am a multidisciplinary artist working in both traditional and new media including series of large scale - paper-cut abstractions, series of large drawings in soft pastel, digital rendering, 3D printed & assembled light-sculpture.  When I was about 10 years old, I attended an art school for youth.  It truly was the most wonderful experience culturally, technically, art-historically.  I fell in love with every aspect of art-making.  I quickly discovered that this was the space which allowed assumptions and imagination to reign free, this was uncontested space for...

Howard Hersh

San Francisco, California

Howard Hersh’s elegant abstractions defy categorization. Demanding to be experienced simultaneously as painting and sculpture, these pieces draw the observer close to examine the dynamic interplay of painted shapes and exquisitely crafted scaffolding, unsure of which parts are fully three dimensional and which are painted illusions. The radical transparency and titled planes in Hersh’s work invoke ideas central to the conceptual architecture of Deconstructionism.

Howard is a third generation artist who has exhibited his work widely around the country. With 60 solo shows...

Yarrow Slaps

San Francisco, California

Yarrow Slaps is a San Francisco-based artist and musician, whose art is grounded on portraying icons of popular culture – rappers, basketball players and painters. Born and raised within a family of artists, Slaps studied City College of San Francisco, and began expressing himself first by music, and later through paintings and drawings.

His name suits him well – yarrow root is an herb which grows in all conditions, known for healing wounds. Just like this plant, Yarrow tries to spread positive energy among people and show the best in them, through his dynamic music and...

San Francisco, CA

Pamela Kogen

Sausalito, CA

I have moved between careers in fine art to fashion—as a wardrobe and prop stylist for the advertising and editorial media, to illustration—drawing for books editorials advertising and products, and back to fine art. The contrast between these visually informed and philosophically different fields both challenged and educate my eye.

Davey Whitcraft

Sausalito, California

Davey Whitcraft’s works of photography are color fields of pure prismatic color and light that are abstractions of the built environment and beyond. Inspired by what he describes as “The American West’s vast visuality, of light and space,” Whitcraft works with the visual artifacts created by being in and observing the built environment. Whitcraft presents to the viewer minimal cues which trigger an engagement of spatial memory. The series prompts viewers to search their own internal “visual database” of shapes, lines, and colors observed previously,...

Anne Wolfe

San Rafael, California

Still in your blue period? is often heard from people entering my studio. After some laughter and a longer look, they begin to relate to the artwork from the standpoint of their culture. An affinity for a particular shade of blue or symbol within a painting intrigues the viewer enough to ask about my process. Where, why, and how do I get my ideas?

Seyed Alavi

Oakland , CA

Seyed brings a refined conceptual interest to all his work, which drives him to explore new visual territories and experiment with a variety of mediums. His recent paintings are organic geometric abstractions that fully acknowledge his Western art training, as well as being informed by references to the folk art of his Persian cultural heritage. These works draw on a bold color palette, and make use of strong color contrasts to set the stage for the interplay between seemingly diverse, but related characters, to take shape. Seyed’s paintings also reflect his interest in the...

Dennis Parlante

San Francisco, California

Dennis Parlante was born in Brooklyn, New York and early in his life he knew he would be involved in Art in one form or the other. After attending the High School of Art and Design in New York City, he graduated from New York State University College, New Paltz, New York. He continued his education in a number of graduate schools including Ohio University, Pratt Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, and University of Florence in Florence, Italy. Employment experiences include teaching art in New York, Japan, and San Francisco. Dennis is known for collage and mixed-media abstraction. His...

Nathalie Lendermann

San Francisco, California

I draw my inspiration for most of my abstract landscapes from the always changing appearance of sea, waves, tides, light and sky. Painting semi-abstract fluid oceanscapes helps me to connect with nature and people in the Bay Area after having moved here from Berlin in the middle of a pandemic. Going out to the ocean to surf and play with my husband and two young boys almost every weekend has helped us to accept and enjoy our new home in this socially distant time. 

Letting myself be guided by the flow of the paints without strict rules and some but limited control over the...

Fuzz E. Grant

San Francisco, California

Originally from Australia I now live and work in San Francisco in a mess of paper, found objects and paint. My art is a vehicle to connect humans to the non-human world, while providing joy and humor. Discarding saccharine or cliched imagery of animals, I portray them as characters, watching over humanity, in silent judgement. While they may appear to be cute, take a closer look and see the truth in their eyes. Working with characters allows me to bring a connection with you and the art, at a personal level, and provides comfort and support. I’m often told from someone that they...

Javier Chalini

San Francisco, California

Most of my printmaking work is done as metal etching prints. This is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface, creating an effect of “hills and valleys” in the metal. This effect is known as Intaglio and it is where the ink goes beneath the original surface of the metal plate.

Creating images is an exploration of profound understanding of what I have lived or learned but haven’t made fully conscious. Through the creative process I build my visual narrative walking between past and present, gathering memories,...

Caroline Stoll

Santa Barbara, CA

My name is Caroline. I am based in Los Angeles, CA and am 1/2 of Art Visit. I support Amanda with social media efforts, but truly specialize in marketing - both for Art Visit and for individual artists. I've been a marketing consultant for 5 years now and I am incredibly passionate about guiding entrepreneurs build lasting brands for themselves. Working for Art Visit has opened a whole new chapter up in my life and I couldn't be more excited. I hope to meet or chat with you soon!

Luis Garcia

Oakland, California

Luis Garcia is a Mayan-Pipil, Oakland-based artist.  Luis graduated from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 2002 with Honors, earning an individualized B.F.A. combining Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited at various esteemed venues: Chico Museum of Northern California, Marin MOCA, Mission Cultural Center, Galleria de la Raza, SOMARTs, Berkeley Art Center, and he was the inaugural Artist in Residence at Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.  Luis is a current member, award winner, and exhibiting artist of Marin MOCA, and most recently Curated his first Museum...

Jenna Marie Hansen

San Francisco, California

Laura Smith Blair

San Francisco, California

Born in Marin County and raised on the beaches of California's central coast, Laura Smith Blair was heavily inspired by her environment. Starting in 1987, she began her arts education from University of California at San Diego where she earned her BFA in Visual Arts with a concentration in painting. Having worked with many professors including Faith Ringgold, Laura's own work embraced the current conceptual movements of the time, like identity performance art. She pursued painting for two summers at the Rhode Island School of Design. Upon graduating, she painted alongside master muralist,...

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Zoe Fry

Marin County, California

Zoe is an Installation and Social Practice artist and founder of The Introverts Collective. She is passionate about art that engages community around social issues in a way that is beneficial, healing and generates ownership through hands on participation. The most recent project for the Collective, FIRE, is a grove of fire ravaged Manzanita trees from the Glass Fire. Using a hardening process the surface of the charcoal is stabalized. The whole installation is illuminated by paper lanterns in the form of cocoons. Accompanying the grove is an altar with book of 2d art and writing about...

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Tahiti Pehrson

Nevada City, California

Tahiti Pehrson is a Northern Californian artist with long ties to the Bay Area. Recent works explores the fragility and interconnectedness expressed by physical structures. Large scale installations of geometrical hand cut paper are layered into three-dimensional structures. Pehrson has been working in paper for nearly fifteen years.

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Felix Macnee

San Francisco, California

Felix Macnee is a painter and musician living in San Francisco. He was born in Chicago and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. He has shown in numerous San Francisco galleries. In addition to painting, Macnee enjoys chess, cryptic crossword puzzles, and cats.

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Emily LaRoche

Lafayette, California

In an world where we feel increasingly isolated from each other, I am only able to capture how people portray themselves on a surface, first glance level. There is always tension between our private and public presence and I explore where these intersect in everyday life. From the view of an outsider, I am drawn to human flaws and idiosyncrasies and the humor that comes from the interconnection between us. I appreciate the serendipitous moments of humor and endearment as people move throughout their lives.

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Kimberley Harmon

Marin County, California

Kimberley Carr Harmon Photography is all original work by Kimberley, a resident of Marin County. She draws inspiration from nature, composition, and an emotional connection to the earth. Her photographs are realized visions of her spiritual relationship with nature. Some abstract, some traditionally composed, her pieces are versatile in their ability to adapt to the environment they are placed in, as well as keeping a strong force of nature in the rooms they occupy.

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Eddie Lee

San Francisco, California

I always enjoy the blend of craft and art of printing. I am interested in exploring different printing techniques and excited in the discovery of images that connect with my feelings at the moment. I believe the eyes are more important than the hands. Connections are more important than messages. I love color and shapes. Employ my own technique of using sheet magnet has been most rewarding. It lets me explore all kinds of possibilities. I hope you enjoy my work.

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Shara Mays

Oakland, California

Shara Mays (she/her) is a painter whose work explores the fluidity of memory and the transcendence of self through the language of abstraction and landscape. Born in Tarboro, North Carolina and currently living in Oakland, California, Mays earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University. She has, in the past, been awarded a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont, and is a current Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.

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Flo de Bretagne

Palo Alto, California

I was born and raised in Paris, France. I moved to California in 2005 and absolutely love it! In the past 26 years of being a full-time artist I have taken many surprising paths: from exhibiting in art galleries and museums. to painting 150 murals at local schools (in fact, many low income schools) and hosting team building activities for Fortune 500 companies or Silicon Valley start-ups, I never knew that I would do all these things and touch so many lives! I am truly passionate about working as a full-time artist and bringing joy to people through my artwork.

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Erik Otto

San Francisco, California

Erik Otto is a visual artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, currently based in New York City, with studios in Brooklyn, NY and San Francisco, CA.

Erik was born in San Jose in 1980. His work unites soft with raw, light with dark, and textured with smooth, in abstract paintings, sculptures, and installations that stimulate mind, body, and soul. Splashes of bold color and reflective materials often accented by the warm glow of neon, Otto has developed an improvisational materially-oriented practice that often pairs conventional and unconventional...

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Anki Gelb

Sausalito , CA

"My paintings reflect the light and colors of my native country, Sweden. The range varies from the spare light of winter when colors are very subtle to the intense, long daylight of summer when colors are saturated. Color, shapes and lines are very important in the expression of my art that’s frequently minimalistic, which is another Scandinavian influence.  Although my art has moved from representational towards abstraction, my inspiration is still influenced by nature and my love for the natural world. I find the painting process absorbing; it’s constantly changing...

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Cameron Bunting

San Francisco, California

Cameron Bunting is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in San Fracisco, CA. Growing up in the Bay Area, his work takes inspiration from the natural landscape around him. Cameron’s work involves repetition, time, and process which emulates a meditative state that is then translated to the viewer. Having strict parameters, his work shows slow evolutions from an origin that helps guide the creation of each piece to its end.

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Bernie Lubell

San Francisco, California

Bernie Lubell's work includes a stone age digital computer, a rainstorm of chaos and nostalgia, a phone booth-confessional network, a mechanism to measure Intimacy, room sized simulations of the human heart, the brain and breathing, a giant cooperative knitting machine, and a mechanical computer that allows people to work together furiously to accomplish nothing. Since the early 1980's, Lubell's installations have been shown in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Florida, China and Europe. "Etiology of Innocence", "A Theory of Entanglement" and other large scale installations were...

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Kate Owen

San Francisco, California

Kate Owen seeks out moments of unexpected joy in the pictures she makes. Nothing beats a great pop of color, a sharp line, and if it’s a two-for-one, then even better. Her work often reveals a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, and she hopes you can join her in the fun with a sly smile.

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Sarah Grimm

San Francisco, California

Beginning from her first drawing lesson from her grandmother at the age of six, Sarah has viscerally felt the need for art. During a semester at SACI in Florence, Italy at the age of 18, she discovered film photography and a passion for storytelling through portraiture and urban landscapes. She received her BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2013 and there deepened her practices in painting, photography, and multimedia research. After graduation, she worked for two mentors at Brown for a year: as Darkroom Manager and Teaching Assistant for Photography...

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