Doyle Johnson's work explores the relationship between sexuality and ethics within a sphere of politics and spirituality-with influences as diverse as Jung and Warhol, new combinations are created from both explicit and implicit layers. As spatial terms become transformed through emergent and critical practice the viewer is left with an impression of the ideas of our future.

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Bradley Platz’ intricate oil paintings deal with the alternating nature of worship in the modern age. Using classical symbolic imagery from old world traditions and transposing subtle hints of modernity, his work might best be described as tarnished elegance. Ever present also are certain whimsical and subtle symbols that carry the viewer through his body of work as a reader through a story, or a craft on the sea.

Bradley is a San Francisco based artist and Co-owner of Modern Eden Gallery in North Beach.

June Li was traditionally trained in art and design in Guangzhou, China. She moved to Sonoma County, California in 1999 and, in 2006, earned her BFA from Sonoma State University where she began to explore more energetic and abstract work. While June is an established graphic designer, her true love is painting and she explores life passionately along canvas roadways. Brilliant colors and organic shapes, expressing beauty and spirit, are frequently found dancing together poetically within her work. Elements that are at once elegant and erotic take on many forms, often in silhouette or more aggressively and abstractly, as June

Painter:  conceptual figurative...abstract humanist...humanesque...an inclusive and expansive psychological pictorialist.

 Tronies traveling the uncanny valley into istoria....

 To the Situations  comes the spectator.  The spectator, like the artist,

must make choices.  The painter’s challenges are now the spectator’s.

Virginia Barrett is an artist drawn to capturing form and color in nature, landscapes, and sculptural work from diverse cultures. Her series of mixed media painted poems celebrate a unique, spiritual relationship between the word and image. In addition to her visual work, Barrett is a published poet, author, and editor; her most recent books are: I Just Wear My Wings—collected poems of an aspiring mystic; OCCUPY SF—poems from the movement (co-editor); Mbira Maker Blues—a healing journey to Zimbabwe (travel memoir); and Radiance—poems from Mendocino.  Barrett is the founder and director of Sweet Sanctum, a salon-style art, literary, and performance space in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.

I believe one of the first places we learn to define our selves and our worlds is in stories, those from books and those we are told by our families and our society. In my paintings I create characters in symbolic environments to explore our relationship with those narrative worlds. In my print series, Primer, I deal with narrative more literally, layering text from nursery rhymes and contemporary news articles to reveal common themes and questions running through these two very disparate forms of storytelling. And in my conceptual and public art project, Fear Not, I explore the impact stories have on our perception of risk.

My Syracuse University BFA during the mash-up of the 1960s-70s reflects the confluence of all we learned from the old masters, merging with the fast flowing stream of modern movements and sub-movements. An additional 30 years of broad interests and experience find me now with a free-ranging style- representational, abstract, impressionist. I paint and photograph what pleases me. I hope it pleases you too.