On view starting October 19th 472gallery photography work of Denis Krylov. The show, “LAND ESCAPES” features 12 photographs shot during past two years in and around the city. Denis is captivated by a nonconformist and non-stereotypical. The Golden Gate Bridge barely seen through the fog is exactly how Denis envisions the bridge in contrast to how this American icon is usually represented to the world media. He is fascinated with SF cold summer nights and lonely streets of working-class Sunset. The real heroes of his photographs are the streets, landscape, and other details of urban environment. His goal is to capture a strange and intriguing mood.

I am showing in SOMA with photographer, Gwen Fuller and abstract painter, Rick Fisher:

My photography shows what I see in my daily life. I try my best to look for offbeat, Americana, or anything that strikes me as odd or different. 

I am showing in SOMA with photographer, Mark Toal and abstract painter, Rick Fisher:

My limited-edition, signed, photographic and mixed-media images, are printed on paper or aluminum, and fall into two categories:

First, my botanical series, combines my love of nature with my passion for music. 

Second, my painterly series, presents fine-art prints of my original acrylic and mixed-media abstracts.

Colleen Mullins' work, for the last several years, has focused on an area of Sonoma County in which her family camped in their VW van in the 1970's, based both on personal exploration and an archive of her father’s work dating back to the 1940’s. In addition, she has work of great breadth, from flamboyant high-end luxury cruise ship revelers to the urban forest of New Orleans, as well as work in the book arts.

A 3rd generation San Franciscan, Mullins recently relocated to her hometown from a 22 year stint in Minnesota, where she taught college level photography and book arts until last year. She was the 2013 recipient of an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board (her fourth), a two-time recipient of the McKnight Artist Fellowship (1998 and 2011), and a recipient of the Women's Studio Workshop Production Grant, with which she produced a limited edition artist book, Opening Day. Opening Day recounts her father's crossing of the Golden Gate Bridge on Opening Day, crossing together on the 50th Anniversary, and the crossed wires that occurred when her father succumbed to senile dementia.  Her work is in several national museum collections including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Southeast Museum of Photography.

My passion for photography has recently been inspired by the love I feel for my home, the Outer Sunset District in San Francisco. It is said by many and believed by most that the sun never shines here and is always hiding behind @KarlTheFog. And while at times it is windy, cold, humid and even downright muggy, for me there is no other place I'd rather live. There is a calm and simple beauty that overcomes me when wandering these grid like streets. From the abundance of native plants, the many styles of architecture, the unique small businesses that thrive here, to the diverse population who inhabit and visit this beautiful beach community, West San Francisco and its personality has captured my heart. I photograph what I witness here so outsiders can see what they are missing and locals can appreciate what they already have.

My work explores creating visual and psychological tension by imposing an abstract motif on to the implied objectivity of a photograph. Or vice versa, depending on how one approaches it. One of my goals is to engage the viewer as a participant in the board game I create in the process, to linger more before proceeding to the next image. 

The photographic subject matter (thus far) consists of the face and body, since these are stimuli that appeal to us on a primal level, to that somewhat scary 'lizard brain'. We seem to have an insatiable appetite for these subjects, given their prevalence in the media. To alter their integrity in the manner I do can elicit a negative reaction for withholding what both nature and nurture make us desire, or else a reflective one by interrupting one's quotidian sensory experience. 

I'm a self-taught photographer armed with a Nikon and case of curiosity. Through my photos, I try to capture life's "tiny treasures" by infusing everyday objects and street scenes with a sense of magic and beauty. Using color and composition, I create endless possibilities out of things often overlooked in our daily lives.

Life’s ambiguities, human behavior, love, loss and longing have become the subject matter for my artwork. The images that result mimic tableau photography. They are realized through my personal successes and failures as an artist, teacher, traveler, twin and lover. Found objects speak to me like the words of a poem. The narratives/stories evolve through an intense engagement with materials, art history, attention to detail and the search for meaningful content. These images are intended to amuse the viewer through open-ended interpretations. Ideas come to me not as tangible thoughts but as ideas and events that happened as the result of unconscious and intuitive reactions.

Working in limited space I position objects like the actors on a stage, with a momentary pause in the action. The camera records this action which seems closer to sculpture and painting than photography. Using only natural sun light, my 35mm camera and found objects, I insert myself into the dialogue created by the objects. The collage techniques coupled with bright contrasting colors make the photographs appear other worldly, yet with elements of realism. The process to create a single image can take up to 3 months from start to finish. The resulting images reveal and conceal ideas that rely on the viewer’s personal experiences for interpretation. Often, the staged objects create a mood, a feeling of expectation that something has just happened—or is about to.

Mark Pinto is a retired Marine helicopter pilot, retired Buddhist priest, and a social artist. He creates political, anti-war work, as well as abstract, landscape and wildlife photography. He is teaching digital photography at San Jose State University.