Art projects

Miguel Calderón

Miguel Calderón Motel 6 Dimensions Variable Location: Public Project #03 Presented by Miguel Calderón and Kurimanzutto Gallery 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 …

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Peter Gronquist

Peter Gronquist communion, 2022 Rocks, steel, water, driftwood, silicone, led 12’ diameter Location: Public Project #02 Presented by Winston Wächter Fine Art Peter Gronquist works in diverse mediums and materials ranging from video and painting to sculpture and site-specific installations in our natural and built environments. Whether harnessing the wind itself with a massive, silver monochrome …

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Brett Flanigan | Maintain

Presented by pt.2 Gallery Location: Front Entrance Brett Flanigan is an artist who lives and works in Oakland, CA. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Biology. He works primarily in painting and sculpture, and has exhibited artwork extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has also executed numerous …

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Creativity Explored | Mode Brut

Location: Mezzanine Lounge The fashion installation by Creativity Explored at Art Market San Francisco, features garments created for and during the recent Mode Brut exhibition at the Museum of Craft and Design, which closed in January 2022. The fashion-focused exhibition showcased outfits and fiber art by disabled Creativity Explored (CE) artists working in partnership with …

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Elaine Buckholtz | Seldom Scene

Presented by Electric Works Location: Front Entrance Elaine Buckholtz is a light installation artist and lighting designer. She is an art professor of Interrelated Media Art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. Her recent work utilizes video and light in relation to sculptural forms, digital prints, and preexisting sites in architecture …

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Avila Rose | Give Me Life

Presented by Part 2 Gallery Location: Front Entrance Isaac Vazquez and Lauren D’Amato live and work in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. In addition to their individual art practices they run their own business called Avila Rose Signs, where they apply their art education towards designing murals, branding, and creating hand painted signs …

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Lena Gustafson | Bloom Sequence

Presented by Part 2 Gallery Location: Front Entrance Lena Gustafson (b. San Francisco 1989) is a painter and multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Oakland, CA. Her paintings depict scenes of transformation often with figures or plants merging with their environment. Primary themes in Gustafson’s work include body memory, repression, sequential evolution, and reciprocity. She …

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Jack Wolfe | Peasant Red

Presented by CK Contemporary Location: Main Floor From the establishment perspective, Jack Wolfe was one of the most promising young artists of the 1950’s. He was recognized as such by, among other organizations, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Carnegie Institute, The American Federation of Arts, and The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. …

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Mads Christensen | Campfire

Presented by Timothy Yarger Fine Art Location: Mezzanine Entrance Mads Christensen has cultivated his creative prowess to imagine visual and emotional experiences using Light as Medium. Trained as an electrical engineer, his sculptures are a fusion of his uniquely written software and the intangible qualities of his artistic practice. Christensen remarks, “ … the transitions …

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Marie Watt | Skywalker/Skyscraper

Presented by Catharine Clark Gallery Location: Central Lounge Marie Watt notes that blankets “are everyday objects that can carry extraordinary histories of use,” and that “in Indigenous communities” such as the Seneca Nation (of which Watt is a member), “blankets are given away to honor those who are witness to important life events.” Skywalker/Skyscraper, by …

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