Mike Kimball is an artist in love with the city. His works depict urban and industrial landscapes that inhabit the worlds of both representation and geometric abstraction simultaneously.

My paintings are acrylic on canvas--sizes up to 60" x 36". Commissions are encouraged. Signed archival-quality prints on heavy rag paper, or on canvas, can be individually produced to your preferred size.

Sometimes it is the texture,
Sometimes it is the contrast,
Sometimes it is the beauty,
And sometimes, it is all.
But sometimes, it is "E," none of the above.

Photography is a dynamic art, dynamic in vision: an illusive mistress.

I mostly make photography the 'old fashion way' capturing the images on film and printing them in a darkroom. I found that by using a film camera I can more fully engaged with the subject of my pictures, the mood of the scene, the feelings I resent. I take my time driven by the intent to capture an emotional dimension if at all possible. I found freedom in this process becoming more part of the image than being an observer.

Rather than looking for achieving perfection thus, I choose to embrace the imperfections of our world - an exercise in accepting what is. A week later, a month later, when ever I get to develop the films, the angst I know fed by the thought that all might be fogged due to the airport x-ray machines is always eclipsed by the anticipated excitation of what I will (re)discover.

Paul Madonna writes and draws the weekly series All Over Coffee for the San Francisco Chronicle, and is the author of two books, All Over Coffee (City Lights 2007) and Everything is its own reward (City Lights 2011), which won the NCBR Recognition Award for Best Book in 2011. Paul's work has been published internationally in numerous books and magazines, exhibited in galleries and museums, and printed as large scale murals for Tacolicious restaurants and Starbucks. Paul is the Comics Editor for TheRumpus.net, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco, and frequently lectures at schools. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD Magazine, for which he proudly received no money. Paul travels internationally to draw and write, and currently lives in San Francisco.

Through the lens, everyday life is captured and heightened to convey a myriad of moods and impressions. Using varying combination of light, form, motion, and grain, these fleeting moments are edited to offer a view of the mundane, the romantic, the brooding, and the surreal.

These images are captured primarily on film, then printed through traditional process on sepia-or selenium-toned black and white silver gelatin paper, or through converting to digital files and printed with archival pigment ink.

A 2009 review by Michael Yokum for Open Studios can be accessed in the archives of SF Art News http://sfartnews.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/burnt-kettle-the-art-of-rebecc...

I've continued to expand my Islamic tile series this year in a different shape/format. I've also returned to one of my first loves (sumi ink + watercolor) created both on paper and on canvas.

My show will be part of Hunter's Point on 10/29 and 10/30; hope to see you there!