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Hung Liu (劉虹) was a Chinese-born American contemporary artist. One of the first Chinese artists to establish a career in the West, her paintings and prints typically featured layered brushstrokes combined with washes of linseed oil which give the imagery an indistinct and drippy appearance. They were often inspired by anonymous Chinese historical photographs, particularly those of women, children, refugees, and soldiers. Although thought of predominantly as a painter, her body of work moves fluidly between painting, mixed-media and site-specific installation.
Scott Reeder is a multi-disciplinary artist in Chicago, IL. He is currently represented by Canada in New York, NY and Kavi Gupta in Chicago, IL.
Peter Max Lawrence is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, as well as performance artist, curator, filmmaker, and film director. He is known to work in painting, video installation, sculpture, photography and drawing. Lawrence has had art exhibitions in galleries throughout the United States and Europe. He has lived in San Francisco and Kansas City, Missouri.
Binh Danh is a Vietnamese-born photographer and artist. He immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1979.
Squeak Carnwath is a contemporary American painter and arts educator. She is a Professor Emerita of Art at University of California, Berkeley.
JB Blunk (1926–2002) was a sculptor who worked primarily in wood and clay. In addition to the pieces he produced in wood and ceramics, Blunk worked in other media including jewelry, furniture, painting, bronze, and stone.
Silvia Poloto is an artist born in São Paulo, Brazil who immigrated to San Francisco, California, in 1992. She earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from University of São Paulo. She earned her M.B.A. at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo. From 1996 to 1999, she worked as an instructor's assistant in the Sculpture Department, City College of San Francisco. During that period, she also worked as a welder at 3D Studios in Oakland and art instructor in mixed media at the Associated Students of the University of California Art Studio at the University of California, Berkeley.
She works in a variety of media, including photography, sculpture, and painting, and she also creates video art. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including the United Arab Emirates, France, Spain, Italy, Singapore, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and China, among others. In the San Francisco Bay Area, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, the Italian American Museum, and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, where she was an artist-in-residence in 2001. Poloto's work has been acquired by more than 50 institutional and corporate collections around the US and by more than 800 private collectors around the world.
Bronwyn Keenan Gallery (1994–2004) was an art gallery located initially at 494 Broadway and finally at #3 Crosby Street, in the SoHo district of New York City. Run by Bronx-born Bronwyn Keenan, the gallery showed emerging artists from the mid to late 1990s and into the early 2000s. Many now notable artists had early shows there including Carol Bove, Ion Birch, Jeremy Blake, Mari Eastman, Eve Sussman, Liz Deschenes, Michael Ashkin, Brad Kahlhamer, Mark Bennett, Enoc Perez, Michael Seymour, Katherine Bernhardt, Guy Overfelt and others. Bronwyn Keenan began her career in art at Christie's East. After the Bronwyn Keenan Gallery closed, she went on to direct special events at the Guggenheim Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Keenan is currently leading a startup--the Arts Collaboratory--at the University at Buffalo.
Robert Boardman Howard (1896–1983), was a prominent American artist active in Northern California in the first half of the twentieth century. He is also known as Robert Howard, Robert B. Howard and Bob Howard. Howard was celebrated for his graphic art, watercolors, oils, and murals, as well as his Art Deco bas-reliefs and his "Modernist" sculptures and mobiles.
Jenifer K Wofford is an American contemporary artist and art educator based in San Francisco, California, United States. Known for her contributions to Filipino-American visual art, Wofford's work often addresses hybridity, authenticity and global culture, frequently from an ironic, humorous perspective. Wofford collaborates with artists Reanne Estrada and Eliza Barrios as the artist group Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. She is also the curator of Galleon Trade, an international art exchange among California, Mexico and the Philippines.
John Zurier is an abstract painter born in Santa Monica, CA, known for his minimal, near-monochrome paintings. His work has shown across the American West as well as in Europe and Japan. He has worked in Reykjavik, Iceland and Berkeley, Ca.
Tony Labat is a Cuban-American multimedia and installation artist. He has exhibited internationally over the last 40 years, developing a body of work in performance, Video, sculpture and Installation. Labat's work has dealt with investigations of the body, popular culture, identity, urban relations, politics, and the media. His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Keyvan Heydari-Shovir, also known as CK1, is an Iranian contemporary artist and street artist based in San Francisco. His work combines Iranian traditional culture with contemporary pop culture. Shovir is a pioneer of Iranian graffiti art.
Cindy Shih is a visual artist living and working in San Francisco. Her work is strongly rooted in traditional techniques and principles, including Chinese literati painting, Venetian plasterwork, landscape painting, and realism, although producing thoroughly modern pieces. One of her prominent themes is exploring her personal narrative in a broad context.
Léonie Guyer is a contemporary artist known for abstract paintings, drawings and installations utilizing materials such as antique, vintage and handmade paper, marble remnants, wood panels, and in site-based projects, walls and windows.
Libby Black is an American contemporary artist working primarily in drawing, painting, and sculpture. Black lives and works in Berkeley California.
Known as 'America's Favorite Lady,' Katie Bush is a San Francisco-based digital, net, and installation artist. Her work aims to re-evaluate the American Dream in a humorous and satirical way through her use of ready-made clip art. Her work has been exhibited in venues internationally as well as in print and online at Eleven Bulls, Rhizome.org and Scissorkick.com. It has also been featured in BoingBoing, The British Medical Journal, Dazed & Confused, and Art XX.
Chanell Stone is an American photographer. She is Black and known for her "Natura Negra" series. Stone lives and works in Oakland, California.
Robert Brokl is an American visual artist and activist based in the Bay Area, known for expressive woodblock printmaking and painting that has focused on the figure, landscape and travel for subject matter. His visual language combines the influences of German Expressionism, Japanese woodblock printing and the Bay Area Figurative Movement with a loosely autobiographical, Romantic interest in representing authentic personal experience, inner states and nature. Critics and curators characterize his style by its graphic line, expressive gestural brushwork, tactile surfaces and sensitivity to color, mood and light.
Nancy Genn is an American artist living and working in Berkeley, California known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, printmaking, and handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition. Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions.