I'm a Panamanian-American fine artist based in San Francisco, California. My work portrays the hidden worlds in the universe and in our minds.

Most of my sculptures spring from a reverence for the natural world. The tree icons honor nature and encourage reflection. Other sculptures explore points of contact where humans appropriate ever more of nature into our service.

Welded steel is my favorite medium - through manipulation, the molten metal flows like lava and reveals its organic character. Sometimes I cast concrete in combination with the steel. Both of these materials possess a physical duality: they may appear quite rigid or very fluid, depending on how they are manipulated.

Bradley Platz’ intricate oil paintings deal with the alternating nature of worship in the modern age. Using classical symbolic imagery from old world traditions and transposing subtle hints of modernity, his work might best be described as tarnished elegance. Ever present also are certain whimsical and subtle symbols that carry the viewer through his body of work as a reader through a story, or a craft on the sea.

Bradley is a San Francisco based artist and Co-owner of Modern Eden Gallery in North Beach.

June Li was traditionally trained in art and design in Guangzhou, China. She moved to Sonoma County, California in 1999 and, in 2006, earned her BFA from Sonoma State University where she began to explore more energetic and abstract work. While June is an established graphic designer, her true love is painting and she explores life passionately along canvas roadways. Brilliant colors and organic shapes, expressing beauty and spirit, are frequently found dancing together poetically within her work. Elements that are at once elegant and erotic take on many forms, often in silhouette or more aggressively and abstractly, as June

My concern as a conceptual artist is making the viewer think about something in a new way. I like to blur the line between the medium and the image, and often make pieces that are self referential or involve the viewer as a coconspirator. Aesthetically, I like to use unusual textures and optical effects. My pieces are playful, at least on the surface, but have a deeper, often disturbing meaning. As I've evolved as an artist, my work has become political and philosophical. 

I find found objects fascinating, and whereas many artists use them as elements in an assemblage, I like to feature them as they are, and by embellishing them, they are seen fresh, active perspective. For example, a gas mask is at first frightening, but upon reflection, one is never as vulnerable as when one is wearing one. 

As for involving the viewer, in The Judgement, one is forced to pace back and forth to read the curved text on the heads, just as a prisoner does in a cell. I also have a body of work using objects with lenses. For example, a microscope head mounted on the wall. When you look though it, you see the message “This is how they’ll find out that you’re dying.” A similarly mounted WWII bombsight focuses on text which says “This is how your grandparents’ house was last seen”.

I believe art should move us, either through beauty, emotion, or ideas. 

Painter:  conceptual figurative...abstract humanist...humanesque...an inclusive and expansive psychological pictorialist.

 Tronies traveling the uncanny valley into istoria....

 To the Situations  comes the spectator.  The spectator, like the artist,

must make choices.  The painter’s challenges are now the spectator’s.

Virginia Barrett is an artist drawn to capturing form and color in nature, landscapes, and sculptural work from diverse cultures. Her series of mixed media painted poems celebrate a unique, spiritual relationship between the word and image. In addition to her visual work, Barrett is a published poet, author, and editor; her most recent books are: I Just Wear My Wings—collected poems of an aspiring mystic; OCCUPY SF—poems from the movement (co-editor); Mbira Maker Blues—a healing journey to Zimbabwe (travel memoir); and Radiance—poems from Mendocino.  Barrett is the founder and director of Sweet Sanctum, a salon-style art, literary, and performance space in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.