I am a loud person who makes quiet art. I savor the craft-like method of encaustic painting in a meditative exploration of landscape and emotion. Relating to my formal training as a metalsmith and working with my hands as a midwife, I love the physicality of wax, pigments, hand tools, and fire. I know my…
Featured Artist
TIFFANY CONWAY Tiffany Conway is a Bay Area painter who creates vibrant, imaginative works that celebrate the African Diaspora. Born in 1984, Tiffany brings a bold, expressive style to paintings that explore the intersections of past and present. While largely self-taught, Tiffany is an award-winning artist and participated in exhibitions across California. Her paintings seek…
Alicia Dunn
licia Dunn, b. 1960, Havana, Cuba. A visual artist, Alicia creates spirited paintings which capture the energy of the natural world. The work achieves a luminosity that is both invigorating and serene. Raised in Brooklyn, she currently lives and paints in Oakland. Alicia’s first career was in advertising. Once she picked up a paint brush…
Pat Wipf
Pat’s large scale DRY PASTEL PAINTINGS show her fascination with colors, textures and details of the wonderful objects in her world. Please note that Pat Wipf will be having a “moving her studio” sale during open studios including art books, and discount on artwork.
Bernadette Robertson
Bernadette is a self-taught painter, intrigued by exploring the properties of light and texture primarily with oil on canvas. A published writer, Bernadette strives to communicate feelings and emotions through visual and language media. Bernadette has been painting as a professional visual artist for more than twenty years. Bernadette says, “Two-dimensional work is an exciting…
Annie Tull
Annie Tull (b. 1990, Wilmington, Delaware) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Oakland, California. Best known for her serene oil-and-string paintings on canvas as well as impossibly ethereal rope installations, Tull’s work is distinguished by a unique aesthetic sensibility that transcends any one medium and speaks to a diverse range of subject matters. Often…
Lucy Ames
For Lucy Ames, creating a painting is a little bit like a walk in the woods. She approaches her art with a sense of adventure, using experimental techniques along with her tried and true methods, but always hoping for a delightful discovery. A key component of her art is the use of tree silhouettes. These…
Christine Rossi
2024 Artist statement: Christine approaches the blank paper or canvas with an openness that allows images and stories of the natural world, both seen and unseen, to emerge. Images reflecting the nature of reality and inner landscape are balanced with touches of humor and fantasy in gouache on paper, charcoal or mixed media on paper…
Jenn Doyle Crane
Jenn Doyle Crane is an artist, curator, creative connector and maker, living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has spent her life working in the visual arts. Her paintings and mixed-media installations are imaginary entanglements of the natural and made world. Always based in wonder and awe. Sometimes mixed with wax. She curates and…
Mojgan Saberi
I create my art with metaphors and images that form in my mind from different fragments in life. Lucid poetry, nature’s intricacy, and its complex relations to human interactions are integral part of my inspirations. I like to conceive and explore my ideas from dreamlike context and transform them to a tangible form of art,…
Bron Wynn Kalis
Painting and assemblage are my personal forms of meditation. I aspire for my art to genuinely resonate with viewers.
Ned Axthelm
Ned Axthelm’s current paintings explore how images are read by an audience, our shared visual vocabulary, our biological systems, and how perception is shaped by individual experience. Relationships between elements within a painting draw the viewer’s attention to unacknowledged connections. In exploring my own empathetic responses to art, I seek to create an immersive experience…
KJ Wilhelm
It gives me untold pleasure trolling out-of-the-way towns, backstreets and boulevards gathering ideas upon which to build a painting. It could be the geometry of a factory building, the shadow pattern on a disused old sign or the booth construction in a historic diner that draw my eye. Inspiration can be hiding in plain sight…
Marlene Walters
Marlene Walters is both an oil painter working primarily in realism and a maker of large scale collage based on her paintings. She has shown her work in many galleries throughout the Bay Area, in Southern California and in New York City and environs. The work has been juried into many national and international exhibitions…
Kim Thoman
Artist Bio Kim Thoman has been exhibiting nationally and receiving grants for more than 35 years. She has art degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University and was an art professor in the Peralta Community College District for over 30 years. Selected grants include the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of…
Kathleen Gadway
I’m creating a sense of place with these paintings, made in my Berkeley studio, outdoors in the foothills of Amador County and in my travels around my adopted Sate of California. I started painting outdoors as a child in summer classes and continue to love the magic of pushing paint around to form an image.…
Kathleen Marsh
Oil paintings
Rachel Ungerer
Rachel Ungerer is a Bay Area local disabled queer painter and activist. After developing a chronic pain condition limiting the use of both hands, Ungerer re-trained themself to paint by working with their disabled body. Rachel Ungerer’s art celebrates disabled queer love. A core theme of Ungerer’s work is mutual care. Ungerer’s paintings depict people…