Candace Loheed's orangeland is a small jewel of a gallery on Mason Street at Jackson, in what she refers to as "Nob Valley". The gallery is currently hosting the orangeland Botanical exhibition showcasing a wonderful collection of Bay Area Artists in many mediums. Drawing on nature produced a great variety of interpretations and the show is varied and exciting.

Michaela Hanemann (born in Elmshorn, Germany, 1979) studied arts with professors Peter Redecker, Verena Vernunft and Peter Krahé at Faculty of Fine Arts in Hanover (Germany), since 2008 she has been working as a free artist in regional and international art scene and has been doing regularly exhibitions.

Her main emphasis` are painting and drawing and both are combined in her new works: “My works are showing inner pictures, they tell about searching a way between self-assertion and dissolving.”

Michaela Hanemann won several awards, 2. price at “Kunstpreis Laatzen” in 2010 and 1. price of „Grüne Liga“, Berlin in 2006.

Since 2011 she has been a member of the managing committee of the regional chapter of “Bundesverband Bildender Künstler” (National Association of Artists) in Hanover, Germany and furthermore she is a founding member of society „Kunst Und Warum e.V.“, which is committed to culture and promotes arts especially in Hanover ( member of the managing committee since 2011).

I love working on puzzles: crosswords, acrostics, cryptograms, anything that challenges the mind.  This sense of solving problems also extends to family, community, and the world at large.  In my community, I help to make sure that those in need of quilts get them: flood victims, veterans, children, women's shelters, etc.  I also donate quilts for fund-raising groups: my guilds, schools, San Francisco's Gay Men's Chorus, to name a few.

Quilt-making gives me that outlet to make poetic statements.  Sometimes it's simply a way to provoke a question, such as: "Why is that pig in that quilt?" and the response is: "I date my quilts by the year of the Asian animal - i.e., made in the Year of the Pig."  I may include other literary elements: puns, metaphors, riddles, personal history, rebuses, and plain ole jokes.

I feel as though I've made a successful quilt if it makes people laugh, or if it makes people say, "Hey, that looks like kids made that quilt."  I love kids' art.

My work begins with a captured image – a photograph - of something external in the perceived world which is then modified through techniques and media to provide an altered perception, an internal reaction, to that reality my methods produce images of surreal luminosity where the blurring and graying and softening of lines creates an ethereal emanation of internal light.

They are glowing from within.
 

Movement- water mist -flow
The fog rolling in from the ocean along the coast
gently softening everything and the world quiets down.

We humans are always drawn to bodies of water.
It doesn't seem to matter whether it’s the vastness of our oceans,

the stillness of a small pond, with the wind dancing on it.
It’s ever changing like life is.
We love to spend hours pondering before it.
It’s a great place to think and clear out our head and explore with our heart and soul.

We owe everything to water and light, the power of life.   

My fascination with string began several years ago while using it on a series of figure paintings. I became fixated on the 'accidental', provocative shapes it created, so I began to investigate its use on abstracts. Utilizing thread, yarn and deconstructed canvas much like I would a drawing implement, I begin a piece by weaving an intriguing cacophony of forms over an acrylic ground. Multiple layers of glazes and oil cover the underpainting in a subtractive method, allowing an image to slowly emerge from the chaos. The discovery of this process has recently led me to mixed media works on which I fragment the pure abstract form as well as abstract the biological and natural world. Fabric, wallpaper and silver leaf often add to the works’ dynamism, creating an interesting dichotomy between these mass-produced elements and the organic assemblage. While I remain rooted in a rather classical painting technique in the end, introducing the string medium has offered endless directions that I have only just begun to explore. 

Yoni and I work in a variety of mediums. We have prints, paintings, collage and pastels. We find inspiration in the randomness of life. Seeing something new transform before your eyes.

The Friends of Sharon Art Studio (FOSAS) is devoted to sustaining and enhancing the Sharon Art Studio’s (SAS) goal to promote artistic development, craftsmanship, and creative expression. FOSAS is proud to be a partner of the SF Recreation & Parks Department (SFRPD) to bring Sharon Art Studio’s outstanding art programs to you. FOSAS believes that art education is an essential component of a healthy community and strives to ensure that quality, noncompetitive art programs are affordable and accessible to all.  Sharon Art Studio offers classes for youth and adults at two facilities: the beautiful historic Sharon Building in the Eastern end of Golden Gate Park, and now at Mission Arts Center. To register for classes and workshops, visit www.sfreconline.org.

I am interested in all aspects of social information and interaction, specifically the ways in which it is created, shared and transformed. For example, the way a group of women affect one another's style of dress and the way young people develop slang and own language. I am exploring the processes by which members of these groups are realized as individuals by their interactions as family members, as friends and as co-workers.

Through my process in the studio, I am looking to replicate this social richness. Relationships between the pieces change with time. I work on many pieces simultaneously; I put some away, rework others, rearrange groups and pull pieces out again. This is happening continuously throughout the development of a body of work. I see this process as participating in the social structure of the work. Similar to the way in which groups of people may interact socially—getting together, breaking up and reforming in different groups—creating complex interactions.

What I hope to achieve is to describe the complexity of social dynamics through figurative abstractions in a way that shows the differences and connections that make up our social structures.

Walt works with dyes on silk, water color, pen and ink, and tempura.  He applies the bright colors that echo the freshness of nature.  Walt is known for his spontaneous expressionistic style with its happy, colorful forms and emotions.  He also dabbles in fabric jewelry art and photography.