Artist: Ashley Longshore

Title: Please Leave by Nine

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 36 X 36 in

Ashley is known for her colorful and playful works. She creates eclectic pieces-including paintings, textiles, handbags, and more-that both celebrate and satirize contemporary pop culture, feminism, fashion, and American consumerism.

Longshore's art has been exhibited across America and Europe and has been featured in publications such as Vogue, Elle, and Forbes. Her most popular works include her larger-than-life portraits of fashion icons such as Kate Moss, Anna Wintour, and Audrey Hepburn, as well as her Trophy series, a collection of pieces exploring the theme of money and power, and Labeled series, an assortment of vibrant poster-style works featuring fun and irreverent messaging.

Artist: Takeshi Nakayoshi

Title: As It Is

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 33 x 33 in

Takeshi Nakayoshi is a is a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary painter.

From the artist's statement:

"These paintings are the result of my life searching process for getting to something neither I, nor other people, have ever seen before as a potentiality of color phenomena.

Artists need an original voice, When as a young man, I realized I did not yet have a such thing. So, from this point on I started from zero to find my own original voice. That was decades ago. I was under Diebenkorn's influence, attracted to his thin layering upon transparent gestural strokes, which I found myself fascinated by, and thought it was important for the destiny of my future painting. I first combined my investigation with Latin flavored color, since I very much preferred Latin subtle color. My formula was LATIN x ABSTRACT = Takeshi Nakayoshi."

Artist: Joe Enright

Title: Ouroboros

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 20 X 60 in

Joe Enright is a local artist who creates art inspired by the city around him. Each of his pieces are meant to be not only viewed, but also experienced.

Joe is participating in Spectrum because: "I am the husband of a therapist, so I understand the importance of having healthcare that is available to all. It means a lot to me that people are able to get the help that they need, no matter what their circumstances are. It is an honor to participate in this art gala for such a great cause."

Artist: Mark M Garrett

Title: Orchid Nebulae F

Medium: Cut map collage and gouache on paper

Dimensions: 12 X 12 in

Mark M. Garrett employs abstraction and an explorative eye across various media. He often combines collage and painted media, such as in his map paintings where cut-out sections are filled in with paint. This paint-and-papercut combination informs both the media and the aesthetics of much of Mark's work.

From the artist's statement: "I draw inspiration from a variety of sources that seem to find me more than I seek them out?I find comfort in the creative and obsessive nature of these collages as each reveals a unique process and persona over time. New worlds emerge in oddly emotional interpretations of once familiar places. There's an anticipation as they shift and evolve from factually printed documents to new and potentially uncertain places of possibility. The technique of hand-cutting maps and painting in the gaps emerged for me as a metaphor of holding the world even as its outlines shift radically and unpredictably."

Artist: Nina Katchadourian

Title: Wigeon

Medium: C-print. Edition of 5 + 2AP. This edition: 1/5

Dimensions: 15.25 X 19 in

Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. This amazing piece is part of her "Seat Assignment" collection.

"Seat Assignment" consists of photographs, video, and sound works, all made in flight using only a camera phone and improvising with materials close at hand. The project began spontaneously on a flight in March 2010; the material generated on the nearly 200 flights since then constitute the raw material of the project.

"Seat Assignment" is born from an investment in thinking on your feet, from optimism about the artistic potential that lurks within the mundane, and from curiosity about the productive tension between freedom and constraint.

Artist: Phillip Hua

Title: Growing Gains

Medium: UV cured acrylic print and gold metal leaf on acrylic

Dimensions: 40 X 32 in

Phillip Hua creates photocomposites that interweave images of nature celebrated against a backdrop of stock indexes from financial newspapers. The juxtaposition of nature and finance places these values vying for attention in the same space.Navigating between the financial information and images of nature, attention fluctuates between the two. His work examines the choices we make between nature and money. What do we value? What do we prioritize? What are we willing to sacrifice for one or the other?

Using gold to symbolize wealth and opulence, nature becomes seen as a commodity. But by using gold metal leaf rather than actual gold, he suggests a false sense of wealth and abundance. All that glitters is not gold. What we assume to be an endless supply is, in fact, an illusion.

Hua wants viewers to be lured by the beauty of nature and ensnared by the conscience of conservation.

Artist: Victoria Wagner

Title: Space Time Vortex

Medium: Oil on redwood

Dimensions: 12 X 11 X 10 in

In a physical sense, Victoria Wagner's abstract compositions inhabit perceptual space, vibrational color relationships and craft. Of this, she blames her formative years spent in the high Nevada desert in a reservation town where light was sharp and dramatic, the mountains governed the atmosphere and the sky commanded more peripheral vision than one is capable of perceiving. She continuously looks toward the land for inspiration and practical materials to speak through as a demonstration of our oneness with the materiality and spirit of the land and cosmos.

Making the connection between the infinite nature of the cosmos, our physical fragility and boundless emotional landscape, Wagner's work and practical research marry the esoteric, mystic, natural, mysterious and future possible. The latent and coded narrative that each material brings to mind, activates our relationship to natural resources, industrialization and cosmology. Her minimal yet unrestrained compositions (whether canvas, panel, found wood, ceramic or aluminum) combine recognizable geometries and color dynamic through natural, synthetic and industrial materials, layering the surface like a bold and complicated narrative in which one is often implicated by their own reflection in the pieces.

Artist: Suhas Bhujbal

Title: A Quiet town # 194

Medium: Watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 11 X 14 in

Suhas Bhujbal captures abundant ambiance, mood and movement in his figurative paintings. From the artist's statement: "I create compositions of colorful, overlapping forms and marks to describe various architectural facades. For me, architecture provides a tangible scaffolding around which to construct a specific mood or narrative. Many paintings depict the effects of modernization and population growth in Indian cities. These congested horizons are much different from those of US cities, where urban planning codes have regulated construction and preserved open spaces. The juxtaposition of old buildings and flashy new architecture and the whirlwind of commercial signboards, banners, and colorful stalls where merchants sell saris and spices provide the inspirational springboard for my compositions, which create harmony out of chaos and conflict.

I capture the characters of people I see everyday. Whether it is in San Francisco or where I am traveling, I find people from various cultures, ethnicities, nationalities and ages. I create expressive, rapid sketches of people that I have encountered, developing these drawings into the final works of art."

Artist: Kara Maria

Title: Static #9

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions: 6 X 6 in

Kara Maria is a visual artist working in painting and works on paper. Her recent work reflects on Earth's biodiversity crisis and the place of animals in our increasingly unstable environment. She borrows from the broad vocabulary of contemporary painting, blending geometric shapes, vivid hues, and abstract marks, with representational elements.

"I have been donating artwork to support Access Institute for many years. Painting a large outdoor mural in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco in 2020 (just before COVID lockdown) reminded me of the urgent need for mental healthcare for all."

Artist: Andrzej Michael Karwacki

Title: EQ Expressions-Summer01

Medium: Acrylic and resin on panel

Dimensions: 12 X 48 X 3 in

Andrzej Karwacki's painting technique started by looking at the processes of weathering, where wood, paint, and water, meet and dissolve into each other, imitating nature and its material evolution. Karwacki also has a private practice as an MFT, so he "understands the value of therapay for those in need."

From the artist's statement: "My artwork is an exploration, a gesture which reflects a moment in life, a composition which tells a personal story and as "Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day." -C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections; so do my paintings, narrative events experiences, learned and forgotten and learned again by the human mind."

Artist: Andy Diaz Hope

Title: Mr. Pharmacist

Medium: Glass vials, duratrans photographs, wood, acrylic, light

Dimensions: 32 X 40 X 8 in

Andy Diaz Hope is known for mixed-media installations and fantastical sculptures where intricate patterns and light systems draw on Diaz Hope's engineering background. His art seeks to offer alternative viewpoints to the mainstream media out of a desire to foster dialogue, encourage pluralism, and critical thought.

From the artist's statement: "Mr. Pharmacist is a portrait of my home town pharmacist. A familiar figure of my childhood whenever anyone was sick or needed care. The piece is part of the "Illuminated Beings" series that is a sub-series from a larger body of work titled "Better Living" that explores Americans' complex relationship to recreational and pharmaceutical drugs. "Better Living" references the promise offered by pharmaceutical companies, specifically science megacorp DuPont's ad slogan from 1935 through the mid 1980s "Better Things for Better Living?Through Chemistry." The "Illuminated Beings" series consists primarily of backlit portraits of pharmacists, drug dealers and young children-- who represent untouched humanity --as the Pantheon of American Drug Culture."

Artist: Tomas Nakada

Title: Unfolding

Medium: Oil on wood

Dimensions: 36 X 32 in

From the artist's statement: "This is part of a series of work titled " Cell Migration." Many seemingly random events progress in distinct patterns. This happens on both a microscopic and a human level. My work investigates these sequences created over time by humans and bacteria.

While I am referencing pattern of microscopic cells, my new work has added an element of time, showing the way colonies of bacteria migrate. The colonies start in one area. From there, bacteria flow radially outward toward more abundant resources. Following the wave of migration and consolidation, it repeats itself over and over again. These cycles of expansion and stationary growth form the design."

Artist: Terrance McLarnan

Title: Eucalyptus #9

Medium: Photographic process

Dimensions: 24 X 30

Terrance McLarnan is an artist, poet and psychoanalyst. His images are informed by the works of the medium's earliest photographers and are influenced by the concept of waking dreams.

"My images reflect the melding of my artistic and psychoanalytic sensitivities. The blending of these curiosities allows me to see more than my mind can register. There is a mystery to be teased out in common objects encountered during ordinary life. There are images just beyond the periphery of our visual grasp; their translucent structure reveals ephemeral shapes and shadows that at first glance go unnoticed and require a second look."

Artist: Peter Samuels

Title: Stanley the Donkey

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 14 X 14 in

Based out of San Francisco with his current pup, Ilford, (a Beagle, Weiner, splash of Chihuahua mix) Peter Samuels thrives on the hi-tech creative renaissance and continually seeks new ways of applying those new tools to his strengthen his vision, broaden his audience, and sharing with the world how special the bond between human and animal can be

"Stanley the Donkey was photographed at my studio in the mission district of SF in 2012 (he entered via freight elevator). His charming demeanor and that twinkle in his eye onset endlessly captivated me, thus Stanley became the first in a series of animal portraits called Storybook Animals."

Artist: Peter Samuels

Title: Clyde the Squirrel

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 14 X 14 in

Based out of San Francisco with his current pup, Ilford, (a Beagle, Weiner, splash of Chihuahua mix) Peter Samuels thrives on the hi-tech creative renaissance and continually seeks new ways of applying those new tools to his strengthen his vision, broaden his audience, and sharing with the world how special the bond between human and animal can be.

Photographed in 2019 in Los Angeles, Clyde the Squirrel is one in a series of animal portraits called Storybook Animals.

Artist: Peter Samuels

Title: Screech the Western Screech Owl

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 14 X 14 in

Based out of San Francisco with his current pup, Ilford, (a Beagle, Weiner, splash of Chihuahua mix) Peter Samuels thrives on the hi-tech creative renaissance and continually seeks new ways of applying those new tools to his strengthen his vision, broaden his audience, and sharing with the world how special the bond between human and animal can be.

"One in a series of animal portraits called Storybook Animals, Screech was photographed at the Bird Rescue Center in Santa Rosa, Ca. in 2015. His long deep stare felt like being pulled into a blackhole, until I realized he's only determining if I'm his next meal! "

Artist: Peter Samuels

Title: Kristof the Cashmere Goat

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 14 X 14 in

Based out of San Francisco with his current pup, Ilford, (a Beagle, Weiner, splash of Chihuahua mix) Peter Samuels thrives on the hi-tech creative renaissance and continually seeks new ways of applying those new tools to his strengthen his vision, broaden his audience, and sharing with the world how special the bond between human and animal can be.

"Kristof the Cashmere Goat stands tall among my series called Storybook Animals, photographed in 2015 at a ranch in El Dorado Ca., Kristof was not pleased about the long bath needed to get him ready for this photo shoot. However, once settled with treats flowing and with a hair dryer against his dramatic goatee, this proud buck stood like he was at the helm of Yacht."

Artist: Peter Samuels

Title: BB the Wyandotte Chicken with Chicks

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 16 X 20 in

Based out of San Francisco with his current pup, Ilford, (a Beagle, Weiner, splash of Chihuahua mix) Peter Samuels thrives on the hi-tech creative renaissance and continually seeks new ways of applying those new tools to his strengthen his vision, broaden his audience, and sharing with the world how special the bond between human and animal can be.

"BB, a chicken living in Hunters Point, Ca., was on baby sitting duty the day I was there, while apparently, her buddy Hens had a party to attend. Anyway, someone had to step up and watch the kids and that's something this mama knows all too well--with blood stains on her face from protecting her young during a prior rogue intruder run in. Such a good mama!"

Artist: Denise Laws

Title: Mylar Reveries, Dilemma

Medium: Foil-lined teabag pouches, on 100% rag illustration board in shadowbox frame, under UV plexiglass

Dimensions: 12 X 12 X 1 in

Denise Laws strives to elevate what has been discarded through arrangement and revealing hidden beauty. Everyday cast-offs are re-cast and combined into shimmering baroque futuristic topographies mirroring the agile exquisiteness of nature.

From the artist's statement: "Mylar Reveries is an ongoing body of work I have been creating for the last seven years, despite the limitations of the re-use, as an artistic medium. I am inspired, rescuing the predestined discard of mass-produced foil and mylar-lined packagings, such as Tetra-Pak, candy wrappers, and air-tight sealed product pouches. While some artists who work in precious metals and gold leaf, the remnants of our current disposable consumer culture has become my silver leaf.

My art-making process involves a quiet yet lengthy accumulation, which never ends. The surface is essential; fusing texture with emotional dialog navigates my decisions. I indulge in a journey allowing and realizing an image, motif, or landscape, often starting with organic shapes, form, and patterns."

Artist: Leigh Wells

Title: Untitled (LW110216)

Medium: Collage and mixed media on vintage paper

Dimensions: 12.75 X 9.5 in

Leigh Wells constructs collage, drawings and sculpture of found materials, paper, and fabric as well as paintings on pieced textiles that consist of simple, restrained abstract forms.

Leigh is participating in Spectrum because "I have recently learned about Access Institute and value what they are contributing to the community. In my artwork and my life, I have a strong ongoing interest in psychology and the nature of consciousness. And as an independent artist, I wish that mental healthcare was available more affordably to all and treated as a basic human right."

Artist: Carissa Potter

Title: Holding a Plant in the Air

Medium: Sumi ink on Arches cold press paper

Dimensions: 18 X 24 in

Carissa Potter's prints and small-scale objects reflect her hopeless romanticism through their investigations into public and private intimacy. Speaking both humorously and poignantly to the human condition, her work touches on topics we all can relate to - exploring situations we've all experienced at some point in our lives and conveying messages we simply long to hear.

Artist: Mikey Kelly

Title: Anti Social

Medium: Acrylic on raw canvas

Dimensions: 12 X 12 in

Mikey Kelly is best known for his abstract paintings, drawings, metal sculptures and murals. His work explores the use of cryptography, language and mathematics to design challenging geometric abstractions.

"Anti-Social came from not only the isolation during the pandemic but also something I have dealt with my entire life. While I can warm up to people and become talkative and enjoy their company, my social anxiety, long durations of isolation and hurt from previous relationships leads me to be Anti-Social. It's something I definitely work on but maintaining close relationships is something that I struggle with."

Artist: Mikey Kelly

Title: Cope with Hope

Medium: Acrylic on raw linen canvas

Dimensions: 12 X 12 in

Mikey Kelly is best known for his abstract paintings, drawings, metal sculptures and murals. His work explores the use of cryptography, language and mathematics to design challenging geometric abstractions.

"Cope With Hope was made because my niece in her senior year of high school was promoting using art therapy as part of her campaign. Her interest in art and neuropsychology is what led to this piece."

Artist: Amy Ahlstrom

Title: I Can('t)

Medium: Silk and cotton quilt stretched over canvas

Dimensions: 8 X 24 in

Amy Ahlstrom's modern, conceptual quilts use colorful pop-art imagery as a means to entice the viewer to explore the deeper meaning she is conveying through cotton and silk. The bright color palette and graphic style of her quilts often serves as a contrast to their subject matter. Her work employs the traditional techniques of quilting in a non-traditional way to visualize her personal experience with anxiety and depression in order to destigmatize how we view mental health.

Amy is supporting Spectrum because "I believe that mental health services should be fully available and accessible to all. Access Institute provides equitable access to therapy, and as a person who lives with anxiety and depression, their mission is especially important to me. I am proud to address mental health themes in my artwork, and I'm honored to be a part of the Access Institute Spectrum Gala and Art Auction 2022."

Artist: Tahiti Pehrson

Title: Woodblock 1of6

Medium: Framed woodblock print on 100% cotton rag

Dimensions: 26.5 X 26.5 in

Building sculptures by the cutting away of material, Tahiti Pehrson creates geometrical patterns of volume that speak to universal traditions of pattern making throughout the history mathematics, arts, and crafts. Within Pehrson's sculptures, each shape receives light and serves the structure of the whole system, concentrically leading to the next variation to make a singular structure.

These intricate sculptures explore interplays of light and shadow, building dynamic monochromatic constructions that give material form to the space-changing qualities of light. Elevating the spatial qualities particular to each commission, Pehrson's works speak to site: shifting perceptions of volume and structure as the viewer moves around the work - and as the light evolves throughout the day. This print is the first in a series of woodblock prints carved by hand and double printed to create figuration and depth.

Artist: Matt Gonzalez

Title: Leaves on a Meaning-Chase

Medium: Found paper collage

Dimensions: 13 X 16 in

Matt Gonzalez composes his collages from discarded pieces of paper and packaging, which he finds on his walks through the city. "Every one of the scraps," he says, "has its own unique character, not just through its original function and use, but also through the distress of time and erosion." And it's not just the physical properties that interest Gonzalez. Each of these castaway scraps, he explains, is part of a story that gets woven into the unknown subtext of the collage. "I like the notion of repurposing or transplanting a carton that used to carry cigarettes or soda into a work of art. It's a reminder of what is possible: second chances, a degree of redemption."

The different lines and shapes that emerge from collaging the trimmed materials fall into structured landscapes that the viewer may spontaneously try to translate into familiar figures, say the outline of a cityscape, circuit board, or labyrinth. But as soon as we think we have identified a recognizable pattern, it vanishes, morphs into some other idea of order, which in turn will dissolve and change anew. Gonzalez's collages are kaleidoscopes of the mind.

Artist: Camila Magrane

Title: Compassion

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 11 X 7 in

Camila Magrane is a multimedia artist from Caracas, Venezuela.

Most recently, she has been exploring the involvement of technology and interactivity in art. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Game Development and continues to hone her skills as a creative coder through the creation of interactive videos, installations and games.

Camila has been most noted for her augmented reality collages where she combines traditional darkroom techniques with digital tools to create surrealist imagery and narratives.

Artist: Cliff Benjamin

Title: Jealous Moon #3

Medium: Cel vinyl ink on canvas

Dimensions: 20 X 16 in

Cliff Benjamin's conceptually based work examines the interface of nature and culture. It explores the paradox of science and the unknown, reproduction, the simultaneity of order and chaos, fear, and the transient nature of the body. His use of text, images, and light point to the breadth of unease and/or ecstatic states inherent to the physical plane.

"He intends that the work evidence the burning force inherent in growth and extension, even that of disease and decay, as though it were possible to simply look in some unfocused way at another and see the bright molecules of which we are constituted flashing and dancing before us. He sees a nature that regenerates by exploding, over and over, and a desire that makes reproduction of any kind possible?..These are celebrations of need, replication and inevitable loss." From the exhibition catalogue, Coincidence by Edward Leffingwell, 1996.

Artist: Alissa Attman

Title: Loose Ends

Medium: Charcoal

Dimensions: 9 X 12 in

Alissa Attman is a self-taught artist with an affinity for abstract design. Impressively, she first picked up a paint brush during the pandemic to create a meaningful birthday present.

Alissa's abstract designs reflect her playful and imaginative persona. Using a variety of mixed media, Alissa's designs have emerged as both works of her individualism and her venue for connection to others.

"My art is the freedom that allows you to see beyond what is in front of you and dream."

Artist: Alissa Attman

Title: Dark Matter

Medium: Mixed Media

Dimensions: 34 X 24 X 1.5 in

Alissa Attman is a self-taught artist with an affinity for abstract design. Impressively, she first picked up a paint brush during the pandemic to create a meaningful birthday present.

Alissa's abstract designs reflect her playful and imaginative persona. Using a variety of mixed media, Alissa's designs have emerged as both works of her individualism and her venue for connection to others.

"My art is the freedom that allows you to see beyond what is in front of you and dream."

Artist: Michelle Thomas

Title: The Sun Babes: Thea

Medium: Watercolor

Dimensions: 22 X 30 in

Michelle Thomas's watercolor collections represent a sense of place, addressing themes of an identity between cultures in which imagery from childhood, portraits of the melancholic and the joyous and the fearless, cityscapes and earthy vignettes fuse to express my existence and craving for home. Art creates meaning where none previously existed

From the artist's statement: "The Sun Babes are ethnographic objects at rest. They are alone, deliciously alone, as I am when I close the door, take off my shoes, find a sunny spot, and sit in perfect silence...I do often feel alone in my worldview - I've made a gang to keep me company. The Sun Babes are lighthearted, they are gentle, they do not argue."

Artist: Wanxin Zhang

Title: Untitled Brick

Medium: Ceramic, glaze and decal

Dimensions: 8 X 5 X 5 in

Wanxin Zhang's sculptures represent a marriage between historical references and a contemporary cultural context; they carry messages of social and political commentary. His work is deeply influenced by the Bay Area figurative movement and artists such at Peter Voulkos and Stephen De Staebler.

From the artist's statement: "Each of my brick has a life of its own, informed by my cultural history and personal memories, and carries a story or metaphor from past, today and even the future."

Artist: Jason Hanasik

Title: Steven in a Bed of Flowers

Medium: Photography

Dimensions: 35 X 40 in

From the artist's statement: "Jason Hanasik is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and journalist. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, screened at various international film festivals, presented on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Ace Theater in LA and featured on the BBC, The Guardian and in The Los Angeles Times. His scholarship has been published in the academic journal Critical Military Studies and his photography monograph, I slowly watched him disappear, is in the research collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Stanford University and the Rhode Island School of Design..."

Artist: Mark Perlman

Title: Yol/Raz

Medium: Encaustic on panel

Dimensions: 13 X 13 in

Mark is an artist in residence at Nancy Toomey Gallery. He has exhibited his incredible work in countless public and private collections both nationally and internationally over the last 40 years.

From Nancy Toomey's website:

"Panel, rather than canvas, has long been Perlman's medium of choice. Thickened by encaustic, the surfaces are distressed and layered, records of covering and uncovering, image and field, dark and light, rough and smooth. Working on many paintings at once, he develops a surface with the wax while inscribing a general form based on informed instinct that develops over the time of the painting. He spends hours with a small razor and eliminates all the unnecessary marks and noise that might appear to compete with the gestalt of each painting. This editing is paramount in making a final decision as to when a work is complete. The viewer is then invited to make their own discoveries hidden in the deep views of color and line, scrapes and scratches, that energize the surface of each painting."

Artist: Mark Perlman

Title: dyptych

Medium: Encaustic on panel

Dimensions: 13 X 13 in

Mark is an artist in residence at Nancy Toomey Gallery. He has exhibited his incredible work in countless public and private collections both nationally and internationally over the last 40 years.

From Nancy Toomey's website:

"Panel, rather than canvas, has long been Perlman's medium of choice. Thickened by encaustic, the surfaces are distressed and layered, records of covering and uncovering, image and field, dark and light, rough and smooth. Working on many paintings at once, he develops a surface with the wax while inscribing a general form based on informed instinct that develops over the time of the painting. He spends hours with a small razor and eliminates all the unnecessary marks and noise that might appear to compete with the gestalt of each painting. This editing is paramount in making a final decision as to when a work is complete. The viewer is then invited to make their own discoveries hidden in the deep views of color and line, scrapes and scratches, that energize the surface of each painting."

Artist: Solange Roberdeau

Title: Interjections W, V, B (2)

Medium: Sumi ink, walnut ink and graphite on Okawara washi

Dimensions: 7 X 5 in

From the artist's statement:

"My aim is for the drawings I am making to communicate perceptual spaciousness, movement and a visual fluidness through nuanced material tensions, form and contrasting mark-making.

In many cultural mythologies, the concept of a "creation space" is expressed as an ambiguous event out of which perception expands and cultures are born, the outcome often unpredictable yet inherently full of hope. I feel deeply the importance of pointing to that space-which is at once ordered and chaotic, controlled and serendipitous-as a positive place of creative potential and possibility.

I am attracted to the distinctive characteristics of the materials I use, and to pairing these qualities with both organic and ordered mark-making. Forms oftentimes reference the environments where I am working, and drawings emerge in a generative way, one element informing the next.

I gather information with my eyes and do further thinking with my hands. My approach to drawing and to making in general is exploratory, existential and holistic."

Artist: Laura Smith Blair

Title: Into the Light

Medium: Oil on wood panel

Dimensions: 6 X 6 in

From Marrow Gallery's website:

"Marrow Gallery presents new work from Bay Area artist Laura Smith Blair. In Smith Blair's new body of work, she abstracts the California landscape to extoll where past and future spaces meet. Calling on concerns for climate change, she constructs and deconstructs, using paint to symbolize the conflict between humans and nature. Each line interrupts and defines borders; a representation of human-made static in the age of technology, population growth, and global warming. For the viewer, the representation of dramatically obvious warnings and subtle shifts are intended to make us reconsider what climate change means and how we can reassess how to interact with the planet.

Laura Smith Blair has a BFA in visual art from UCSD. Her work is in many public collections including Stanford, Oakland Children's Hospital and St. Mary's in San Francisco."

Artist: Tom Marioni

Title: New Growth

Medium: Etching

Dimensions: 22 X 24 in

Tom Marioni is a Bay Area conceptual artist who is known for his performance and social artworks. He works in all media including sculpture, printmaking, photography and installation. The "New Growth" etching was created in the Crown Point Press studio in 2006.

Tom 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 various contexts around the world.

Artist: Vanessa Marsh

Title: Three Fingers 5, from Mountain Loop Highway

Medium: Unique silver gelatin lumen photogram

Dimensions: 20 X 24 in

From Dolby Chadwick Gallery's website: "Marsh's minimal, graphic images feature empyrean, enigmatic, and often surreal landscapes that speak to forms of power-natural, cosmological, and man-made-as well to the sublime and its attendant enchantments and contradictions. While her mixed-media process is based in photographic techniques, Marsh does not work with a camera. She instead layers cut-paper silhouettes on top of photosensitive paper, making multiple exposures that she further manipulates through dodging and burning techniques."