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. 

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.

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.

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. 

I am lucky to be an artist.

 Let me tell you why I'm not an axe murderer.

 I have traveled to every corner of this dark earth and it really is a terrible place:  death, disease, irritable bowel syndrome.

 Then there's the rent, the bills, the unhappy spirits floating everywhere around us.
  I chose to just run away from my problems and paint naked ladies all day. 

My art isn't about trying to heal the violence in my soul, instead it's about the cultivation and nourishment of it--because that is how I genuinely feel, or maybe this is how the universe genuinely feels, through me.  

 Either way, I am putting all of that violence out for your viewing pleasure:
 destruction and chaos, colors and shapes, form and imagination.

Plus philosophy, science, mysticism, our ordinary experience of daily life.

 It's all on the table, and because I have no allegiances to any of those things, I can fuck around all I want.

 Healing is for hippies.  Self-cultivation is for deluded artists.  
 Stop by my studio and share in my delusions.

 Namaste,

 Locust
 SF 2013

For three decades now, I have been setting up camp around the world. From my Princeton sandbox to the Plaza 
of Sonoma, I have worked from what is revealed by site and the fingerprints I impart always with the help of 
strangers. From Houston to San Francisco, from Rome to Rio, from Bangkok to Barcelona, I have immersed myself in extreme urban environments. My most current work of the past 2+ years finds inspiration from a 2010 trip to my maternal homeland Arequipa, Peru and a 2013 trip to "The Motherland" Greece. The building blocks from both cultures serve as the cells for my two dimensional constructions.  My art considers site, community, material and experience using architectural language and materials from or inspired by imaginary & actual sites. From the visual language of selected landscapes and the stories of those residing in those spaces, the framework for my artwork is constructed.