Andrew Benson
Andrew Benson is an artist who lives and works in San Francisco. His artistic methodology draws on practices as
diverse as landscape painting, computer science, electronic engineering, cartography, systems theory, signal processing and architectural design. Working in a variety of media, including
painting, sculpture and video, his landscapes have an active, primordial feel with a fluid energy of movement and bright, saturated colors. Benson received a BFA in painting from the
San Francisco Art Institute in 2005.
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A Gentle Struggle 1 & 2
2008
Acrylic on paper
11 x 30 inches
Heather Brubaker
Work by Heather Brubaker draws parallels between macro and microcosms, taking inspiration
from particle physics, molecular biology, music, abstract expressionism and psychology. She visually diagrams thought processes, connections and energy, creating illusory spaces that investigate
physical and symbolic relationships with acrylic and oil on canvas, as well as in sculptures of welded steel. Brubaker received an MFA from University of California, Davis and
has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1998.
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Connections No. 3
2007
Acrylic on canvas
26 x 26 inches
Dave Hamill
Dave Hamill culls from geo-political situations layering and manipulating related texts, maps, objects and
architecture in a 3D CAD program, to create a model from which to make drawings. The resulting compositions of watercolor and graphite on paper are subtle yet dynamic images of suspended
architectural structures that seemingly burst outward from a central gravititational force in an imaginary futuristic construction, simultaneously logical and chaotic.
He received his BFA from Purchase College (SUNY) in 1995 and his MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004.
He has received awards from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He is currently represented by Bank
in Los Angeles and lives and works in New York City.
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Series 4 ,V6.13
2007
Watercolor and ink on paper
55 x 65 inches
Vera Iliatova
Vera Iliatova creates autobiographical and fanciful landscape narratives constructed from real life observation.
As though a film director creating a set from French literature, she paints figures derived from self-portraits and places them in reconfigured spaces influenced by her travels in the
United States and the former Soviet Union. Vera Iliatova earned a BA in painting from Brandeis University in 1997 and a MFA from Yale in 2001. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn and has
recently joined the faculty at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery in New York.
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Mountain View
2007
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery
Gisela Insuaste
Gisela Insuaste makes work based on memories of real and imagined landscapes. She plays with imagery, scale,
line and a variety of materials to create drawings, paintings and large-scale installations emphasizing topologies of urban spaces, with a desire to reflect the physical, emotional and
socio-political environments in which we live. Insuaste earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While she recently relocated to New York City, Insuaste has long
been involved in the Chicago art community, exhibiting at the Bucket Rider Gallery, the Chicago Cultural Center and Gallery 400-UIC.
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Nuestra Aventura Encantada
2007
Chalk pastel, gouache and ink on paper
43 x 53 inches
Charlene Liu
Charlene Liu creates landscapes influenced by a range of sources including Venetian painters of the Renaissance,
Japanese prints and Chinese landscape painting. Her images are layered and collaged utilizing multiple media and techniques. She works with watercolor, oil and ink, which are then manipulated
through painting, drawing, dyeing and printmaking. Charlene Liu graduated with a MFA from Columbia University in 2003. Her work has been exhibited in Virgil de Voldere Gallery in New York,
Galleria Il Capricorno in Italy and Andrea Rosen Gallery 2 in New York. She resides and works in New York City and Eugene, Oregon.
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Untitled
2008
Mixed media on paper
30 x 40 inches
Nellie King Solomon
San Francisco artist, Nellie King Solomon, creates vibrant, energetic compositions. Her spontaneous, gestural
abstractions explore improvisation and the dynamic interplay of color. In recent work on layered Mylar, Solomon pours acrylic paint, mixing mediums and inks to create variations of opaque
and translucent color fields in striking iridescent blues, violets and greens. Nellie King Solomon was born in San Francisco, California in 1971, and received her MFA from the California
College of the Arts and her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She currently teaches painting and drawing at Stanford University and CCA and is represented by
Brian Gross Fine Art in San Francisco.
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Fold 1
2007
Acrylic, ink and soda ash on mylar
48 x 48 inches
Courtesy of Brian Gross Fine Art
Marc Williams
Bay Area artist, Marc Williams, explores ideas of duality and the nature of opposing and complimentary forces
through painted landscapes of metaphoric figuration and abstraction in bold colors. He graduated with a MFA from the University of California, Davis in 2004 and a BA in painting and photography
from San Diego State University in 1998. Williams currently lives in Hayward, California and works in a variety of media including painting, photography and video.
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A Sudden Change in Direction
2006
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 20 inches
Susan Ziegler
Susan Ziegler, continues investigations of energy and the essence of natural phenomena, translating perception
into a personal painting language that combines abstract and recognizable imagery, painting in oil on canvas. She studied fine arts at Amherst College in Massachusetts and received a MFA in 2003
from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Ziegler lives in Brooklyn, New York and is represented by the Gross McLeaf Gallery in Philadelphia.
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Circling Shadows
2008
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 44 inches