Opening night was a blast!!! Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate! A big thank you to my awesome family & friends for all your support 💖, and to Suzie of CIQ Gallery for this wonderful opportunity!! If you missed the opening, my paintings will be up until Nov 12th!
My solo show "Chasing Rainbows" is up and the opening party is tomorrow!
Come by to see 20 of my latest original paintings out in the wild at CIQ Gallery / 3423 Balboa Street, San Francisco, CA!
Excited to announce I‘ll be exhibiting a colorful collection of around 20 original paintings at CIQ Gallery in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond district!
The show runs from October 5-November 12, 2023, and if you’re in the Bay Area, join me for the opening party on Friday October 13th, 6-8pm!
CreativeIQ Gallery / 3423 Balboa Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121
San Francisco artists at Four Chicken Gallery
The opening reception was absolutely bustling! Quite the turn out for this show, complete with eccentric outfits, a wacky car with animatronic bowling pins embedded in the door, and so much artwork to peruse!
The premise of the show, ‘Salon des Refusés’ is a rebellious but playful response to the de Young Museum’s rejection of over 6,000 artworks from its open-call exhibition.
Art is up for another week @fourchickengallery, with a closing reception happening on 9/2 from 4-6pm. Pop in to say hi if you are in San Francisco!
🗓Art on display through Sept. 2
🕐Closing Reception: Sept. 2, 4-6 p.m.
📍Four Chicken Gallery | 432 Cortland Ave., SF
Opening Night at Four Chicken Gallery
“For more than 200 years, the Paris Salon was the only exhibition that mattered in the Western world.
Then in 1863, a group of Salon rejects—including future masters such as Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro—revolted. The result was a show that challenged the standards of the day and changed the course of contemporary art.
Even now, a “Salon des Refusés,” or “exhibition of rejects,” remains a term of pride, signifying independence and boundary-pushing among artists whose work hasn’t been accepted by the establishment.
San Francisco artists and galleries are embracing this rebellious tradition by mounting their own Salons des Refusés in response to the de Young Museum’s rejection of some 6,000 artworks from its 2023 open-call exhibition, the “de Young Open.””
Pop up art show opening tonight at Four Chicken Gallery in Bernal Heights, San Francisco! Come by and see my new painting!
The artist reception is tonight from 6-9pm, and the art will be up all week, ending with a closing reception on 9/2 from 4-6pm.
Four Chicken Gallery: 432 Cortland Ave, San Francisco, CA
Live painting at Lululemon this weekend was so much fun! A BIG thank you to everyone at Lululemon for this wonderful opportunity to do such a cool art collaboration!
And a warm thank you to all those who stopped by, as well as those who couldn’t make it in person, but are always super supportive of my art journey! Especially @tyson.midnight, who worked so hard picking up all the slack when I got super busy with all the art shows this year! 😘
This was my first time doing a live painting session, so I really wasn’t sure what to expect—but it was a blast and I even managed to complete 4 paintings from scratch!
Live Painting
I wasn’t sure how distracting it would be to paint in public...but I didn’t find it hard to concentrate at all. It was just like being in a shared studio space, or sketching at a crowded museum—even though people come up and talk to you, the art takes over and you get into the flow and do your thing.
In a few ways, I actually found it to be less distracting than it can get sometimes in my home studio when one of my kids needs something urgently and I’m trying to manipulate fluid inks and high-flow acrylics that I know just aren’t going to be in the same state by the time I get back!
For those of you in San Francisco, or visiting soon, I still have a bunch of pieces up at Lululemon (on Fillmore Street) until November 10th, so pop in and check it out if you are in the area!
“Just like being in a shared studio space, or sketching at a crowded museum—even though people come up and talk to you, the art takes over and you get into the flow and do your thing.”
This Saturday 10/8 I’ll be at Lululemon Fillmore Street in San Francisco from 12-3 doing a live painting session and art pop up!
What an amazing day of meeting people, talking about art, and enjoying all the creative vibes! Thank you so much to all those who came out to say hi at Art Walk San Francisco yesterday! Check out the photos to see my art space, Mayor Breed dropping by + the talented musicians and artists I got to show with! ❤️
