SARAH MEROLA
JILL MCLENNAN
JILL MCLENNAN
Sarah focuses ugly or distressed beauty, an aesthetic that can be find harder to look at but more honest and challenging to pursue.
JILL MCLENNAN
JILL MCLENNAN
JILL MCLENNAN
Jill McLennan explores and observes the city of Oakland, a city she has chosen to call home. She delves into the industrial history, researching historical photographs and learning the stories of this vibrant city, built on wetlands of the bay. She documents the rapidly changing present while assessing her own place in this chaos.
Karol Hilker
JILL MCLENNAN
Karol Hilker
Karol Hilker’s mixed media paintings are created as she weaves wires, threads and objects into the surface and frames. Her paint is built up in layers of color to create an environment for the figures. She likes to show the despair, hope, tension, love, and passion that we all experience through her images. Her paintings show the chaos and balance we can create in our lives.
Karen Balos
Fernando Reyes
Karol Hilker
Karen makes quilts out of a variety of fabrics and recycled materials. Her imagery is abstract, based on her experience of the earth, landscape and environment. Her quilting has a painterly quality to it.
Fernando Reyes
Fernando Reyes
Fernando Reyes
Fernando Reyes’s extensive resume of national and regional exhibitions was built from his Jingletown studio in Oakland, California, where he has worked since 1999. Like many artists, he was a creator from an early age. After almost two decades working in San Francisco as a banker, Reyes left the Bay Area to study at the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating with a BFA degree in 1997.
vida pavesich
Fernando Reyes
Fernando Reyes
Vida Pavesich teaches philosophy and makes digital collages. She has been profoundly affected by teaching philosophy–and more recently by teaching environmental ethics for a few years at California State University East Bay and now at the University of San Francisco. She has gone back and forth between being absorbed by ideas, making art, and taking photographs—always knowing that these two preoccupations could somehow inform each other.
Alison Limoges
Alison Limoges
Alison Limoges
I have always been an observer and collector of natural objects. Wherever I walk -- beaches, parks, sidewalks, woods I look to see what's on the ground and in the trees. Then I use, and alter, my weathered findings to reveal nature's bounty and beauty in new ways.
Susan Matthews
Alison Limoges
Alison Limoges
I am a painter and percussionist living in Oakland, California. I hold an MFA in Painting from San Francisco State University and a BFA in Drawing and Painting from UC Berkeley. I teach Drawing and Painting at The College of San Mateo. My work has been exhibited throughout the greater Bay Area, in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Alaska, Cuba, Ghana, and Senega