I think photography is an incredible way of telling stories.
The reward of finding moments and distilling feelings, to me, is like making magic. I don’t know about you, but I see pictures wherever I am.

Please Stay on Paths is a collection of images that detail the nature, the unexpected, inside the city. Golden Gate Park has always provided a wealth of secret, quiet intense images for me and has been an oasis and a refuge from city life.

My photography has been seen in the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, San Francisco magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the San Francisco Examiner, SHOTS magazine, The Urbanist, SFist.com, The Huffington Post, The Bold Italic and 7×7.com. My work has appeared in juried shows and galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vermont, Minneapolis, Virginia, and New Orleans.

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).

My paintings are done on reclaimed wood, canvas, metals or any other surface that can deliver my images with strenght. I paint mixing traditional and contemporary media such as, oil paint and gesso, along side spray paint, paper, plastics and printing papers, ink and tape. By layering these media, I'm best able to convey my art's subject matter which draws heavily from my opinions on current affairs.  I enjoy works from Titan to the heroic and graphic power of the Comic Book form.

I have been a book seller in San Francisco for the last 28 years. During this time I have been painting portraits of people and the animals in my life--and exploring the relationships between the two. My greatest inspiration has been these observations in my daily life. Thank you for taking a look at my work.

I have recently set up my studio as a painting-only studio (had been working in other media) after having abandoned oils for more than a decade.  I gave acrylics a shot a few years ago, but I found that acrylics didn't quite satifsfy me as the oils did.  I am happy to have returned to the medium, and will have on display a handful of pieces that I've been working on for the past few weeks.  Historically, I've mostly painted portraits of fictitious characters, but am giving landscapes a shot for the first time--very minimal, with clouds as the focus.  It was my intention that these landscape "exercises" would serve to add dimension to future portrait painting, but I'm finding that I like them as they are--stark and simple.  I'm seeing some character development where no character is present, and I am excited about exploring that.

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.