Inspired by years of shopping for second-hand fashion, Kristie transforms vintage clothing into assemblage objects. Using only a seam-ripper, she deconstructs leather jackets, cotton sweaters, fur coats, and other natural fabrics, wrapping and layering them around a wide array of discarded chairs. Personalities are born out of the process, revealing unexpected silhouettes and layers of meaning. The paradoxical qualities of the objects resonate: at one level they are an abject collection of vintage items, and at another level they are loaded with architectural, dramatic, emotional content.

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 try to keep my life as creatively balanced and chaotic as much as I can--hoping they may cancel each other out. I am an evolving creature and need the room to evolve in life. 

I have attempted and dabbled in many forms of the art realm from sketching, painting, sculpting, spoken word, and performance art in an audio-digital format but photography has always nudged me along the way. Asking me to dance and refused each time.

It was intimidation that kept me at bay. I found a box of old photographs from the earlier years in the Navy/ San Francisco days and saw another world unfold. I have been on a constant experimentation of being a viewer through the lens. My connection to the freeze frame became solidified and captured my soul.

Michelle Peckham is an artist who explores perception through painting, photography and mixed media installations. Inspired by weathering, decomposition and discovery, her work is often fueled by found objects revealing worn life and layers of use.  As a designer, she investigates the existing conditions of buildings and place, focusing on details that connect and separate.  

Michelle Peckham earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Scripps College in 1998 and a Masters degree in Interior Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2010.  She grew up in New Mexico and currently lives in San Francisco, California.

I'm a local Bay Area photographer, designer and instructor. With my photography, my intent is to create high impact impressions that tempt the viewer to pause and contemplate the subject in question. This creates an opportunity for the patterns, textures and structures to slowly unfold, allowing the larger subject to reveal itself.

About the Artist

Jeremy Burmeister is a Bay-area artist with a flair for found objects of vintage and organic varieties. His creativity finds expression in the media of jewelry, sculpture, mirrors, and performance. 

The organic sensibility of Jeremy’s work owes to his childhood near the southern New Jersey shore where he was fascinated by oceanic creatures, insects, fossils, and other treasures. The result is a harmonious combination of discovery and invention that distinguishes his art.

The unisex jewelry collection features bronze, sterling silver, and some carved hardwood pieces. The mirrors are assemblages of disused antiques, repurposed and salvaged woods, found bone, and rusted and weathered materials. 

Occasionally, Jeremy can be found performing with the antique fortune telling booth of Malvoye the Mentalist, a rare revival of America's side show and carnival history. 

Jeremy holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University and often shows under the title of Malvoye Enterprises. 

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