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Danièle Archambault
Danièle Archambault, Ph.D. (Linguistics). I am an artist, author and researcher interested in visual storytelling as a way to document a society’s cultural, history and linguistic landscape. I am the author of three main graphic memoir series: Stairway stories, Québec-California, and Une année sans alcool (A Year Without a Drink). My illustration series, Procrastination Art has been published in books and calendars and exhibited at the French Alliance of San Francisco, in the exhibition En cases et en bulles (2019). In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, I started a series of humoristic illustrations on the new and challenging aspects of life in confinement. This collection of work will be published in a book, paper and electronic versions, in the spring of 2021.
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10/27/2021
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Elizabeth Bennett
The through line in all my work is the human search for meaning through order, and the arbitrary nature of the order we create. My work spans and interweaves mediums and processes as I roam freely between being an introverted analytic formalist and a socially engaged trickster. Mostly, I play. I play with rules in the form of interventions that are often subversive, humorous, and absurd. I play with text, rearranging what is familiar, or placing text where it is unexpected. And I play with the mundane until it becomes surprising.
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10/06/2023
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10/06/2023
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10/28/2021
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Cynthia Brannvall
My art practice is an exploration of identity, belonging, history, and meaning in materials. The movement of people, resources, and ideas through voluntary and forced migrations are themes that find expression in my work. I use abstraction to create openness for a larger shared history with all of its contradictions and multiple perspectives. I explore the capacity of materials and aesthetics to create interstitial spaces that bind and form common grounds for humanity. I am interested in creating visual language that is engaged individual and collective identities and the history, culture, economies and geographies that they are tethered to.
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10/06/2023
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Servane Briand
“Living in Silicon Valley and making artists’ books is exhilarating. When some may blame the digital revolution for the demise of the book, one could also argue that it allows the extraordinary vitality of book arts. I am an enthusiastic reader and have always loved books. This naturally led me to want to make my own.”
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10/7/2021
Early release during Code:ART Palo Alto
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10/25/2021
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Sang-ah Choi
Sang-ah Choi is a visual artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work visually explores the vulnerability of seeing, and examines the possibilities that ambiguity brings. Growing up in Korea and moving to the United States, she explores ‘betweenness’ and ‘transiency’ of boundaries of drawing, painting, book format, cultural heritages, materiality, imagery, and abstraction. Choi’s painting process involves drawing, painting, cutting, gluing and layering on paper from small book scale to site specific installation with moving images.
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10/06/2023
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Mel Day in collaboration with Dr. Akilah Carter-Francique
Mel Day is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and co-founder of The Wall of Song Project, a collaborative art and civic singing platform.
Wall of Song's current, ongoing participatory FEELING GOOD (2019-) project is co-organized with Dr. Akilah Carter-Francique, Executive Director of the The Institute for the Study of Sport, Society & Social Change. Together they are inviting fans, students, athletes, and community allies to sing FEELING GOOD—the song made famous by Nina Simone—as an anthem of solidarity and a call-to-action for women's sports and positive social change.
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11/2/2021
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11/2/2021
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Adrienne Defendi
Adrienne Defendi's work explores the cyclical, the ephemeral, and the fragility of life. Her lifelong interests in memory and myth, narrative and nostalgia, inform her photographic expression and artistic process. Employing different mediums, from analog to alternative processes and various printmaking techniques, her practice charts elements of loss and ritual, and the boundless possibilities within reiteration and experimentation.
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10/06/2023
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Darryl Dieckman
Furniture maker Darryl Dieckman reinterprets iconic designs from the past in beautiful woods, and adapts their function for everyday use. He is a graduate of the Fine Woodworking program at The Krenov School (2018) and The College of The Redwoods (2017). His recent work exhibits an attention to detail and exacting hand work that are hallmarks of the program.
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10/06/2023
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11/4/2021
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Rachelle Doorley
Rachelle Doorley is a mixed media artist, arts educator, best-selling author, and founder of TinkerLab, an online space that helps families bring the joy of making into their lives. Rachelle’s work celebrates childhood, nostalgia, and the environment, and has been described as playful, whimsical, and experimental. An avid maker, keeper of sketchbooks, and Resident Fellow in the Lantana Design House at Stanford, she holds an M.Ed. in Arts in Education from Harvard University and a B.A. in theater design from UCLA.
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NINA K EKMAN
Nina K. Ekman is originally from the north of Norway but has lived in seven different countries in Europe. She is currently residing in Palo Alto with her husband and two children. Ekman is partly autodidact and has studied art at Parsons School of Art and Design in Paris, product design at The Design Academy in the Netherlands, and was trained in copper etching and printing at Atelier Velasco & Meller in Paris. She furthermore has a Cand. Psych. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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Patrick Fenton
Patrick is the organizer and printer behind ArtUp. As an artist in Palo Alto’s Cubberley Artist Studio Program, Patrick explores the documentation of time and place, identity, transition, patterns, labels, certificates, and education. He is exploring the potential of visual maker spaces to strengthen creative communities, ignite creative expression, and to build better products, communications, and experiences.
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Tara de la Garza
Tara de la Garza is an Irish/Australian artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally with the The Lodge Gallery NYC, San Diego Art Institute, No Longer Empty, Chashama, David & Schweitzer NYC, Figment, MassMOCA and Aggregate Space Gallery SF. Her work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library.
Recently, Tara de la Garza opened a book on natural history and was confronted by a photo of a decomposing albatross with a stomach full of plastic. It set something off in her: a realization of humankind’s pervasive impact on the planet, even in the earth’s most remote and supposedly pristine corners. At that moment, she decided to align her artmaking with a longstanding interest in conservation and waste management. As archaeologists dig through the particular era called the Anthropocene, de la Garza thinks we will see the impact of what she has termed ‘the Plastocene’.
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Jennifer Gonsalves
Jennifer Gonsalves was born in Palo Alto and has since lived in San Francisco, Berlin, Heidelberg and London. She started sewing at the age of 13, and worked throughout the 1980’s for F.M. Productions in San Francisco as a seamstress for the music industry. She then studied German and Secondary Education at SFSU and taught German at George Washington High School in San Francisco before moving to London to start a family. After raising two sons and moving back to the Bay Area, she obtained three Fashion Design Certificates at Cañada College in Redwood City. Soon thereafter, she began a career in Costume Design. To date, she has designed and produced over 40 Productions, comprising over 1000 costumes. She works regularly with the Palo Alto Children's Theatre and the Joe Goode Performance Group in San Francisco, and freelances with various Theater and Dance Companies.
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Charlotta María Hauksdóttir
Charlotta María Hauksdóttir is an Icelandic visual artist based in California, who uses photography, collage and mixed media in her work. Residing in the USA for over 20 years her work centers around the unique connection one has to places and moments in time, and how memories embody and elevate those connections. In her current series "Imprints" Charlotta is working with photographs taken both in Iceland and California that she hand cuts and assembles, creating sculptural work about people's connection to and influence on nature.
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10/06/2023
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Kiana Honarmand
Through my life in Iran and now my identity as a South West Asia North Africa (SWANA) woman living in the United States, my work offers a commentary on sociopolitical issues. I create images, sculptures, and installations that illustrate my struggles related to my cultural identity and how it is perceived in my new home. Creating from a personal place, I am able to craft a space to share my experience with the viewer.
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10/06/2023
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Pantea Karimi
Pantea Karimi is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and educator based in San Jose, California. Her work investigates the intersection of art, science and history. This through the study and interpretation of medieval Persian, Arab and early modern European scientific manuscripts. She creates two-dimensional works and interactive installations using silkscreen and digital illustration techniques and prints. Her perspective and art practice have been deeply influenced by her upbringing in post-revolutionary Iran, and by moves to two countries, firstly the UK and then later, the US. In her work, she combines threads from her life experience with conceptual and visual interpretations from her research.
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3/11/2021
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Perry Meigs
My artwork stems from a fascination with observing details in my everyday life; I look closely at the world around me, slowing down and stopping to record what I see.
During the pandemic, I intently observed the yard around my home. I recorded all the blooms as they appeared and disappeared. I watched Hydrangeas turn from green to blue to purple. I worked to document buds and flowers at their peak when they caught my eye. Recording the dates and locations with a scientific method I organized the paintings and determine their display.
My process includes photographing, sketching, and painting. from both photograph and from life. Each stage refines my vision and helps me to communicate what I see clearly.
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Robin Mullery
Robin Mullery infuses tenderness into the images, objects, and installations she creates. From her background as a therapist she uses her experience of vulnerability and healing to ask questions of and give shape to what it is to see and be seen. She draws a parallell between the urban/industrial landscape and the psychic/emotional state of its inhabitants. This surfaces, geomorphic or social, hidden depths and interconnected in ways not easily visible.
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10/7/21
Early release at Code:ART Palo Alto
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Malte Renz
I work with colors and surfaces.
In mixed media of egg tempera and oil on chalk or acrylic grounded canvas and wood, I use colors in points, lines and planes. For me, trying and probing different media is essential for the process of painting and essential for painting itself. Alternating between painting and different print techniques such as monotype, lithograph, aquatint and etching, I develop series of figures, heads, animals, and landscapes. The motives are derived from daily life experiences, i.e., waiting people at the bus stop, animals from the farm I worked on, landscapes of the area I grew up in.
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Martha Sakellariou
Martha Sakellariou uses interdisciplinary, collaborative and public engagement practices to create site-specific multimedia installations. This also includes performances and interventions. As a visual artist Martha works with a variety of media such as video, audio, edibles, textiles, sculpture, paintings and prints.
Martha's practice includes inhabited spaces, structures of living, objects and visual storytelling. Making use of her personal life and circumstances she explores themes on home, life rituals, domesticity and identity. Martha puts an interest in the way individuals and communities respond to urban and suburban spaces. She engages concepts that embrace both politics and aesthetics.
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Harumo Sato
Harumo Sato is a California based Japanese visual artist who graduated from University at Buffalo in 2015. In questioning our busy and highly industrialized daily lives, she translates old mythological analogy and allegory imagery into the modern, colorful, and unique visual images. In her art practice, she uses various patterns and colors to create visual pleasure and vivacious energy with the combination of screen prints, Japanese watercolor, sumi ink, oil pastel, and acrylic. Sato has exhibited her work in two recent solo shows. Puku Puku Bubbles (Art Attack SF, 2018) and Wild Patterns (Phantom Galleries, 2018).
She also creates whimsical and colorful illustrations not only for her own illustration shop “Harumo Bakery” but also for organizations and companies including SJMADE, San Jose TAIKO, and San Jose Japantown etc.
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10/20/2021
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Sahba Shere
The dream-like paintings reflects Sahba’s meditations with the natural world, imbuing abstract-representational landscapes, “oceanscapes”, skyscapes with translucence and tranquility. Her work is quietly beautiful layered works with subtlety and lightness, and yet also depth, color and texture.
Sahba gets inspiration by the natural rhythms and delicate, and fierceful beauty of what’s on earth.
Through traveling, exploring remote places, sounds, and nature, it is the process of uncovering and discovering these delicate moments which are collected and then represented in her paintings. The paintings possess a genuine purity and honesty eliciting an intrinsic sense of life.
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10/20/2021
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t.w.five
t.w.five begins their creative process with a deep dive into the Google image search abyss. Using atypical search terms, they source imagery from politically charged historical moments. They re-contextualize the event into a semi-abstracted, technicolor environment, adding modern inclusion and relatability. Working with two minds and four hands, the duo makes use of three items only: scissors, x-acto knives and a wide selection of colorful self-adhesive, vinyl. The hand-cut shapes start as nonobjective elements building up into recognizable subjects. The form is molded from many layers of material, much like a sculptor or painter might do. The result is a delicate balance of bold open space with intricate and complex shapes and cuts.
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Shannon Wright
Shannon Wright is a sculptor and installation artist based in San José, California. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Wright grew up chiefly in Sydney, Australia, and then spent her artistically-formative years among the iron trestle bridges and turn-of-the-last-century hydroelectric power plants and foundries of Richmond, Virginia. Wright earned her BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MFA in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a professor and the coordinator of the Spatial Art program at San Jose State University. Wright is represented by ADA Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.
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10/06/2023
Seven-Hour Mile: a record of my footsteps in the space of seven hours in my apartment during the COVID-19 lockdown, January 22, 2021