San Francisco - Art
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Artist Comments
Liquid gold metal drawn over diagonal black and white stripes. Thick, painterly texture provides numerous angles to reflect light. The edges of the piece are finished in gold. Created by carefully manipulating metallic foil with heat and varying pressure over the course of many weeks. This is a highly specialized and unique technique developed by M. to achieve her goals of bending light and drawing out distinctive elements in the foil. The work is very luminous and will display individual characteristics in different lighting situations.
About the Artist
M. Clark sculpts metallic foil with heat and pressure to create rich surfaces that are highly reactive to shifts in light. She strives to continually push the bounds of her gold foil medium, including working directly with a manufacturer to develop foil in specific sizes and colors that were not previously available. As a person with dyslexia, her artwork has roots in the way she processes symbols. "The multidimensional shape and arc of letters are more powerful than stringed characters forming words," she explains. M. lives in New York and works in a studio on the 35th floor with big windows overlooking the East River. She describes it as an inspiring and calming space, and is fastidious about keeping the place organized. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including a large scale installation in the Smithsonian, and is collected internationally.
Words that describe this painting: gold, metallic, luminous, pattern, geometric, modern, Jackson Pollock, abstract, non-representational, modern , mixed media artwork, yellow
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Art
Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Woodcut
Artist Comments
Enjoying live music at the MakeOut Room in San Francisco, I found this view of the dancers' legs, mirror ball beams on the floor, and candles on the tables cl...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
1950s Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Paper, Watercolor
1990s San Francisco - Art
Silver Gelatin
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Art
Etching
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Artist Comments
A young maiko - a geisha in training - strolls in an abstract landscape, her delicate face decorated in traditional makeup. The organic patterning surrounding...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Art
Paper, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Pop Art San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Artist Comments
Canvas is like a "Musical Instrument" to write lyrics with imagination, thoughts and emotions using paints and brushes.
About the Artist
Vibrant co...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Art
Acrylic
1950s Art Nouveau San Francisco - Art
Gouache
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Oil, Board
Artist Comments
Crystal says this painting was inspired by the beautiful light and shadows after a rare desert snowstorm. She used a limited palette of blues and white and an...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Art
Mixed Media
20th Century San Francisco - Art
Canvas, Oil
1980s Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Monoprint
Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Artist Comments
Inspired by a summer trip, Melissa has been looking forward to combining one of her favorite birds, the meadowlark, with purple asters. She enjoyed creating the contrast between the loosely rendered flowers and the more detailed bird. Adding to the piece are lovely orange accents and a little iridescent blue.
About the Artist
Melissa is passionate about color. She finds it to be the most significant form of inspiration to paint. Speaking on influences in her work, Melissa says, “Sometimes it’s an idea that I can’t get out of my head, or a color that I just MUST paint!” She particularly enjoys painting leaves, and the changing colors of Oregon foliage are visible in her work. In 2001, Melissa began teaching art classes, which has allowed her to view her own artwork in a new way. “The information that flows in a class is awesome,” she says. Melissa is constantly learning from the students in her classes, and is more conscious of what it means to be an artistic role model.
Words that describe this painting: meadowlark, purple asters, flowers, bird, nature, animals, flora, representational, mixed media artwork, purple, yellow
Meadowlark & Purples
Melissa Gannon...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Mixed Media
Artist Comments
City and country, and east and west meet in this surreal scene. A group of figures perform agricultural activities outside a city. Man pulls a tractor, woman ...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Etching
Artist Comments
Naoko says that when she came upon this scene, the willow tree - with its leaves turned yellow - looked like a huge sweet candied ginger. "Warm and transparen...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
1970s San Francisco - Art
Silver Gelatin
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Art
Mixed Media
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
1970s Modern San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Artist Comments
Dwight Smith's realist watercolors revolve around uncommon relationships and the balancing of opposites. He pairs subjects that typically don't appear together to tell humorous, and often personal, stories. Dwight says of this painting, There is a thrill in growing a garden. My parents had a rather large garden when I was growing up. My brother and I reluctantly had to take care of it. Garden Popup #3 pays homage to that time but with humor. I imagined a radish popping...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
Artist Comments
Candice was deeply inspired after a visit to Yellowstone National Park. The central landscape image was created using a photographic transfer method while the landscapes on either side were created with paint applications. "The abstracted compositional areas serve as windows or doors to memories, to secrets, to hidden worlds," Candice says.
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: forest, pine trees, hudson river school, lock and key...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Acrylic
Artist Comments
This painting is of a black swallowtail butterfly. The butterfly is painted larger than life to show all of the detail. It has a mystical quality as the butterfly seems to float above the garden with a few stars beginning to appear on a lavender sky.
About the Artist
Kira Yustak paints fantastical scenes that come from her childhood memories, dreams, and the natural world. Each piece feels like part of a larger narrative of an alternative reality, rendered in a style she describes as comic realism. She feels art must trigger something inside the viewer’s soul.Kira currently lives in New Jersey and finds inspiration in the work of Lowbrow, Folk, and Surrealist artists.
Words that describe this painting: butterfly, insect, garden, stars, wings, animals, representational, acrylic painting, purple
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Acrylic
Artist Comments
I call this technique 'canvas mosaic' which I developed over the last nine years. The square shapes are cut and painted pieces of canvas fabric that I adhered to the stretched canvas. Initially inspired by digital pixels, but harkens back to traditional mosaic making. Cranes are one of symbolic creatures in Asia. Mysterious and always a little lonely in a beautiful way. I painted a dreamy crane with traditional Japanese Kimono patterns...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract San Francisco - Art
Mixed Media
Artist Comments
Impasto bouquet of roses, peonies and lilies. "I wanted to paint a vase of dreamy flowers with lots of whites," explains Judy Mackey. "The title stems from ha...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Oil
Artist Comments
In a quiet forest, a woman catches a taxi cab while another hails the next one. This painting brings together the city and nature ...
21st Century and Contemporary San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century San Francisco - Art
Oil, Board
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Pastel
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Art
Screen
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Art
Etching
1970s Romantic San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Lithograph
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Etching
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Art
Etching
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Etching
Artist Comments
Black turnstones are small hyperactive solitary shorebirds that, on Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara where they can be found in abundance in early winter, ra...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist San Francisco - Art
Pastel
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Art
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Etching
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Minimalist San Francisco - Art
Screen
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Pastel
Artist Comments
This piece is made by layering Korean mulberry paper on a wooden panel with homemade flour glue. Then I apply a glue base. Next, I draw my sketch, and trace ...
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist San Francisco - Art
Mixed Media
Artist Comments
Inspired by spring gardens in Southern California.
About the Artist
Inspired by the great Impressionist painters, Claudia uses paint emotionally to...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist San Francisco - Art
Oil


