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Rainbow Armadillo, 2017

Collaged woodcut on museum board

20 x 14.25 in.

FMV: $3400

I have been working with biomorphic images in both painting and print over the course of the last several years. To me biomorphic images seem to manifest the fundamental essence of living things, evoking the constant movement of organisms within themselves.

My paintings create complex, intertwining networks that sometimes look partly human, partly vegetable. I hope I have succeeded in shaping some kind of crossbreed of the two. There is also an ambiguity to the images that hopefully allows for broader interpretation.

Courtesy of Takuji Hamanaka

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Iris Writing a Letter, 2016

Woodcut, drypoint, hand painting

15 x 11 in.

FMV: $1000

Ellen Heck explores the ideas of societal fashioning and self-fashioning of female identity during childhood and early adolescence through play and costume. Drawing on predecessors as varied as Mary Cassatt and Frida Kahlo, Heck captures moments of unselfconscious action as well as reflection and introspection using her distinctive technique that mixes color woodblock and intaglio.

Frame courtesy of Sterling Art Services

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Butterfly Dreams: Working 7/20, 2011

Six-color lithograph with gold leaf

44.25 x 30.5 in.

FMV: $9000

Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu (Born in Changchun, China, 1948 - 2021) portrayed individuals who risked being forgotten in death as in life. As a child, Liu lived under the regime of Mao Zedong, who led the Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), a turbulent period of political and social upheaval in the People's Republic of China. It was during this time that Liu realized photography's significance when she witnessed her mother burn cherished family photographs, or otherwise risk persecution for being "bourgeois," or not working class.

As an adult, Liu immigrated to the United States, where she focused on the photographs of the Chinese people who came before her. By manipulating and recontextualizing found images by dripping, splattering, and layering materials, Liu blurred the lines between representation and abstraction and probed photography's role in shaping collective memory.

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Untitled, 2024

Color pencil and spray paint on paper

15.5 x 18.25 in. (framed dimensions)

FMV: $5000

Alicia McCarthy was born in Oakland, California in 1969. She is known by her signature style of vibrantly colored, often woven patterns on mixed media panels. Found wood and spray paint are two commonly used materials by the artist. McCarthy is a member of the Mission School, a movement that emerged in the 1990s in the Mission District of San Francisco. The movement encompasses a group of artists who take their inspiration from urban culture of the Mission District, graffiti and street art. The movement is according associated with the use of non-traditional artistic materials and found objects. McCarthy received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994 and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. She has exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards, including the Artadia Award for San Francisco in 2013. Her work is included in a number of important public and private collections, such as the Oakland Museum of California, Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California, MIMA the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels, and the American Academy of Arts & Letters in New York City. The artist continues to live and work in Oakland, today.

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Seeing it Said #5, 2021

Ceramic tile

12 x 12 x 1 in.

FMV: $4500

Beginning in the late 1980's, Jim became widely known for his extraordinary work with broken ceramic tiles. Melchert would intentionally shatter his ceramic tile exposing weak bonding in the interior structure. He would then reassemble them according to a set of self-employed instructions. Embedded in his artwork, we see a continued interest in interiority, but also a philosophical concept that something broken can be repaired and made stronger and more beautiful. Jim once said, "I'd like to think that what I make by way of artwork contributed to our communal effort to expose something we have yet to know."

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We shall not be moved., 2025

Altered tambourine, leather, pyrographic calligraphy in leather box

11.75 x 12.833 x 3 in.

FMV: $3500

We shall not be moved., 2025, is part of a series of tambourine works titled, Freedom Songs, 2018 - present, that honor the sacrifice, dedication and labor of Civil Rights activists whose struggle for equality and justice remains relevant and urgent today. The series recalls Civil Rights era protest songs in the African American music tradition - spirituals, gospel, jazz, and R&B. Freedom songs were sung to inspire courage during meetings, marches and when activists were arrested during acts of protest against Jim Crow segregation, subjugation, and terrorism.

Courtesy of the Artist and Rena Bransten Gallery

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High Desert on a Hot Day, 2023

Watercolor and gouache on paper

13 x 10 x 1.5 in. (framed dimensions)

12 x 9 in. (paper dimensions)

FMV: $8500

Chelsea Ryoko Wong is an artist whose vibrant figure compositions reflect the diversity and style of her home in San Francisco. Through the use of watercolor, gouache and acrylic techniques, Wong creates busy scenes of co-mingling people drawing from real-life events and her imagination. Her work is known for celebrating racial and cultural diversity, promoting working class communities and evoking a sense of curiosity and wonder. Through heavily stylized and idyllic imagery, Wong creates an encouraging visual statement promoting joy, acceptance and openness to one another.

Courtesy of the Artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco