I experiment with characters and screens to explore and create alternative experiences in video sculpture. My characters are pigments, fluids, and electronics on the micro scale and despite the unorthodox cast, my films follow narrative structure and are shot using established film lighting and editing techniques. The result is a collection of images and sounds which appear very similar to natural phenomena but have no scale, and therefore transcend the boundaries of their literal setting.

Painting is a passion of mine. In my painting, I use color and geometric, organic forms to optically delineate two and three dimensional space.

I'm currently laboring over heaps of textiles and artifacts, some from my personal collection, some rescued from the urban environment —all on the verge of reinvention.

My work, like my mind, floats between the abstract and the surreal. The struggle is often to make sense of the initial chaos created by abstraction, and thrust elements into the surreal. Within this dynamic, each art piece essentially designs itself. Shapes form, light dances, and a story begins to unfold.

I want my work to create an emotional and spiritual link between my audience and myself—a union that "arouses" the viewer, resulting in feelings of happiness and joy.

I believe the concept of art embraces any human activity in which an individual, by means of external signs or cues, intra-personally communicates previous emotional experiences. For example, after a person has experienced color, movement, shape, and texture while snorkeling, diving, or even seeing a children's film like "The Little Mermaid" they can relate that experience to my art.  Hopefully, by reliving experiences of freedom, bliss, and elation, the viewer can be mindful of release and pure joy, and I've accomplished what I was meant to do. I've established a relationship between my art, my audience, and myself.

Currently, the majority of my work is in private collections around the United States. Private showings can be arranged by contacting me by phone or via my website.

--Perry David Tennyson--

Barbara is a painter, illustrator, animator and freelance art director who has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1989. She finds inspiration from retro cooking magazines, books, catalogs and photographs from the 1950s-1970s.

It is only a matter of time.  San Francisco will be hit by “the next big one” and a major earthquake will return our city to dust.

I was living in New England where natural disasters melt in the morning when I heard about Hurricane Katrina. I could not understand.  New Orleans is in a precarious position. It is likely that it will be hit again. Why rebuild?
Then I moved to San Francisco, equally precariously perched on the San Andreas fault. I fell in love with the city.  And now I get it. When the next earthquake comes I’ll be here rebuilding. When the next big earthquake takes our buildings down I will be here to rebuild.  Here’s the plan:

Anyone can go onto underscoreg.com/quake and submit a location-based memory.  What places in San Francisco are important to you? Where do you walk your dog? Where did you get proposed to? Where do you get the best avocados? Put these memories on the map. I’m pulling together a group of artists working in all mediums who will make original commissions from these memories.  I am compiling these works in neighborhood based shows, online, and in a book.  This book will be our guide. The morning after the next big earthquake we will get up, dust off this book and look to it as our guide for rebuilding the city.  We will rebuild San Francisco from art.

In accordance with this project my work is almost entirely inspired by San Francisco and the stories I hear here.  I work primarily in paint. I have found it an effective language for translating stories into art.  I do not restrict myself to a style or school as different memories and places hold different demands. By allowing anyone to submit a location-based memory I have opened up the commission process to a new audience allowing those who can not purchase art a deeply personal art experience.   I am always looking for other artists who want to adopt the mission of artistically capturing San Francisco. If you want to get involved as an artist or submit a location-based memory check out underscoreg.com/quake

We will rebuild San Francisco from art.

Ronald Chase is a self-taught artist that has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1964. He is the Director of the SF Art & Film Program for teenagers, now celebrating its 20^th year. He is recepient of 2 SECA Awards in film.  His work in photography, artist books, early sculptures and his abstract work all inform the ideas in the current series of grid paintings and work on paper from 2010-12. Paintings take the longest period of development, sometimes 10-15 years. He will be showing new work in Open Studios. Further info can be had on Wikipedia.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Bibliotecque Nationale, Paris
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Norrtalje Konshalle, Norrtalje, Sweden
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California