Alexandra Underwood is an illustrator, muralist, and CMFG (Color, Materials, Finishes, Graphics) designer, born & raised in Maui, Hawai’i. Alexandra earned her BFA in Illustration with high distinction from the California College of the Arts in 2017. Her murals can be found in both Hawai’i and California, which reflect her deep connection to nature and…
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…
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.…
Bushra Gill
Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and emigrated to Houston, Texas, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many…
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…
Jeffrey Kessel
I am a self-taught woodworker making Bowls, Boxes, Lamps, Sculptures, Music Stands and other items primarily from recycled wood. Most items displayed along sidewalk and are accessible. Some items are in an adjacent garage separated from sidewalk by 2″ high x 4″ wide threshold.
Angela Jernigan
Angela Jernigan is a painter and mixed media artist who creates visual medicine that supports the integration and clarification of her work as a community-based minister and soul care counselor with care providers of underserved young people. Her creative work grapples with questions of personal and collective power, individual and community healing, female bodies and…
JS Webster
My work is inspired by math genius Alan Turing’s algorithms that simulate organic graphic patterns in nature. These Turing Patterns I create on my own computer, using photos or digitally generated pictures as seed images. Finally, I combine them with hand painting or drawing on paper, and use them to create cutout paper and wood…
Carolynn Haydu
Carolynn was born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her BFA in fine art from UC Berkekey and her Masters in Art from NYU. Her process involves hand painting paper, cutting and reforming the paintings onto wood panel. The method involves multiple layers and allows her to build texture, rhythm and sculptural elements. She…
Gustave Carlson
Artist Statement The ideas that I paint come from the agricultural landscape, particularly barns and farm like cabin architecture. I am drawn to the flat planes of landscape, exploring color and the study of my paintings over time. Richard Diebenkorn, Wayne Theibold, Hilary Pecis and Andrew Wyeth are among my strongest influences for my work.…
Lightbox Collective
The lightbox collective is a small community of artists who have turned their cramped garage into a studio space for printmaking, ceramics, stained glass art, and music. Come see how we make it work in such a small space, and our wide variety of crafts. @Orbit.Press draws inspiration from collective living and hopeful futures to…
Francesca Borgatta
Francesca Borgatta Bio and Artist’s Statement for EBOS My parents were artists and teachers. My mother taught me papier mache’ and ceramics, and my father taught me to draw. My favorite medium as a child was puppetry. I liked to used the figures I made to tell stories. When I was 19, I apprenticed with…
Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore
Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore is a photorealistic painter based in the Bay Area. She grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and graduated with a BA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2015. Fillmore’s paintings are autobiographical metaphors. Having grown up with a family member that wrestled with mental illness, her work…
Toru Sugita
Toru Sugita, a printmaker and painter originally from Japan, is actively showing his artwork throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Latin America. Toru is known for his black and white intaglio and wood engraving prints with strong architectural elements. His prints can be found in various public collections including the Achenbach Foundation of Graphic…
Damon Manni
My true passion lies within my hands. I have my fathers hands. It is a part of my lineage… my spirit. I spread this passion across the two crafts of Pottery and Woodworking focusing on functional wares that are eye-catching, playful and ready for everyday use. Wood I’ve nurtured a relationship with wood and what…
Ryan LaLonde
Ryan is an illustrator, artist and designer. Having worked as a commercial creative design director for two decades, Ryan has refocused his unique vision in fine art creations that revolve around color, whimsy, juxtaposition and storytelling. Ryan’s work used to only reflect found paper and objects to create beautiful pieces that range from natural landscapes,…
Fernando Reyes
Will NOT be open Saturday June 8th Bio Fernando’s early career was defined by an academic style of painting, heavily dedicated to figuration and landscapes. In 2014, Reyes’ work shifted profoundly after seeing a Matisse exhibition called “The Cut-Outs” at MoMA. Reconsidering the painted compositions he had spent his career refining, he began to explore…