Art projects

Holly Wong | Body of Light

Artist Project #8 Body of Light is a suspended installation of fabric and light. Holly Wong became attracted to working with reflective, transparent fabrics because it reminded her of the permeable separation between the living and the dead.  In this public project for San Francisco Art Market, Wong created a quilt suspension, using a flat …

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Miguel Calderón | Motel 6

Artist Project #6 A ubiquitous presence on highways in the United States and a go-to option for affordable accommodations for frequent drivers—Motel 6 advertises itself with massive billboards. Paradoxically, the size of the billboards seem much bigger than the actual size of the rooms themselves. With this sculpture, Miguel Calderón establishes a game of correspondence …

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Jeffrey Gibson | The Many Worlds

Presented by ICA San Francisco Artist Project #4 The Many Worlds mobile takes the form of a suspended model of our solar system. The surfaces of the planets are printed with stills taken from the immersive installation titled THIS BURNING WORLD, 2022, (at the ICA San Francisco) and they reflect images of the landscape in …

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Mercy Hawkins | In the Garden

Presented by Marrow Gallery, Booth D09 Artist Project #7 Like a field of grass in silent sway, In the Garden, by Mercy Hawkins, invites the viewer to relax the eye so that the inner ear might open to hear what we see. This work breathes quiet rhythmic patterns unfolding in multi-colored watercolors and layered stitching …

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MCXT | ReflectioNNN

Artist Project #1 ReflectioNNN is a visual recounting of our collective histories on the water. MCXT (Monica Canilao and Xara Thustra), delved into the MAH archives and connected with local artists and historians to illuminate the stories behind the early Venetian Water Carnivals of Santa Cruz. MCXT’s kaleidoscopic visuals and performances recall the grandeur of our …

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Jill Miller | ARIEL STINKS (50 Alternative Album Covers to Thrash and Burn)

Artist Project #10 When musician Ariel Pink used an unauthorized image of her face on his album cover “Thrash and Burn,” artist Jill Miller responded by making a series of fifty “alternative” album covers. Working in collaboration with artificial intelligence software, Miller created a series of images that use humor and parody to address the …

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Sasha Stiles | IN/VERSE

Presented by Catharine Clark Gallery Artist Project #2 Visitors are invited to enter into immersive poem, IN/VERSE. On the cube’s exterior is the printed text of a poem co-authored by Stiles and her AI alter ego, a custom text generator fine-tuned on her poetry and reference materials. Inside the cube is a media-rich, audio-visual performance …

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Susie Taylor | Tetris Texture: Big Red

Artist Project #3 Susie Taylor’s work explores geometric abstraction through the tradition of weaving, a process that requires a creative and technical mindset to solve visual and structural puzzles. Imagery, rendered by the interlacing of warp and weft, is embedded in the very structure of the cloth. The interplay of yarns produces discernible color tones …

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