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Lefty

July 13, 2021ArtingSusan R. KirshenbaumComment

Shoulder-themed collage: composed of a poster hanging in my surgeon’s office, a digital abstract painting of mine, and a portion of a gorgeous ceramic sculpture in an art show.

Okay, so it was temporary. But long enough to explore ambidextrousness and using my left hand so much more. Not exactly past tense yet. This time it’s my right side. Last time it was the left.

Have you ever had to learn to function with your non-dominant hand/arm? Because of this I haven’t been writing since my right shoulder surgery (three different issues) in early May, but now I am resting my right hand on my laptop while writing with both hands, because I’m on the road to recovery. Lucky for me that I already work so much with an iPad so I can keep making art without having to use my entire arm and body. I’ve been using this time to create more digital collages. I’m taking my existing drawings from life model sessions to use as a base and adding my photos and/or my digital abstract paintings in layers. I’ve tried making some new drawings and paintings left-handed or with my right hand (attached to my immobilized right arm), albeit, crudely. Going through my treasure chest full of drawings so I can change and refresh them has been a bit like shopping in my own closet. My archive is full of endless possibilities, especially since I attended so many Covid zoom model sessions.

Kyla is a nightlife performer/aerial ballet dancer based in Brooklyn during Covid on Zoom while live performances were on hold. Collaged with the Madrid Botanical Garden.

Dieter, a member of my regular drawing group, posing here with a lovely old microscope and layered with my abstract paintings.

I can barely use my cameras one-handed. So I have even incorporated a few photos from friends’ summer gardens (Sarah S. in Western Mass grows the best flowers). I’ve been finding ways to obliterate my original drawings to increase depth and complexity. I like the painterliness, moodiness, and mirrored or multiplied images added in. The added layers help build out my ideas and the personality of the subject.

Shout out: I love my physical therapists at Davies Medical Center (SF) and so appreciate their sincere interest in getting me drawing again.

Recent Work

A portrait of Dwight made at my Zoom drawing group – with my left hand. It was juried into SFWA’s August exhibition “Bold. Color!” in August.

Titania is a popular local model, although I’ve only drawn her on Zoom. I sold a print of this work via Instagram to a friend in the midwest.

This is a portrait from Zoom group out of Dublin of Izabella. I loved these virtual travel and drawing opportunities that came out of the pandemic.

A favorite due to the yummy color palette, this too will be in the SFWA August exhibition “Bold. Color!”.

A spring trip to Palm Springs, CA helped me restock my image bank with cacti for collages.

And Men Too

Recently I was asked to show some of my male figurative work for a potential interior design project. Here are a few of my favorite male subjects.

Working on multiple versions again showing a collage with a male model and dogwood flowers (above) and abstracted, another in the same series, in situ, below.

Dwight with a mug among sunflowers in Catalonia. Virtual travel is placed in a virtual living room!

After many iterations I’m finally satisfied with this version.

WHAT’S NEXT & FALL PLANS

At last I’m beginning to shift gears into a semi-post-pandemic mode, and starting to make plans for the rest of the year, because it seems possible again!

JULY

I’m in both of these SFWA July shows, “Verdant” and “Assemblage”. Saturday was my first in-person opening since early 2020.

AUGUST

In August – I’ll be showing my work at City Art Co-op Gallery on Valencia St (btw 19th-20th) along the main corridor of SF’s Mission District. City Art is re-launching their website with members on it now so check back soon.

SEPTEMBER

This fall brings us another annual ArtspanSF Open Studios (Sept-Nov). So I’m fluffing up my studio for visitors and also hope to show at SFWA at the same time.

Looking forward to our first trip beyond California! We’re flying across country to NYC in September for the annual Armory Show.

OCTOBER

I’m also working on pieces for two exhibitions curated by Nathalie Fabri (Oct-Nov); The Naked Truth Project (Analog Gallery); and Intimacy Illuminated (Arc Project Gallery). Plus there are several juried and/or curated exhibitions at SFWA.

NOVEMBER

After a year-long delay, SFWA is holding our first major fundraiser at the top of Sales Force Tower (SF) on Nov 17, 2021! Details to follow.

DECEMBER

Plans are underway for an event and publication for The Invisibility Collective Nov-Dec 2021. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Exciting event and publication info to come.

I will once again travel to much farther away places in 2022! Most likely we’ll be going back to Spain, France, and Italy. Maybe we’ll add someplace new in Eastern Europe.

A colorful corner of the gallery section of my SoMa studio.

Fall Open Studios

Please join me at my studio in the Sobel Design Building in SoMa for a private tour of my gallery/workspace from Sept 18-Oct 30. Email me or text me for an appointment M-S, 9-5pm. I’ll have a small mix and mingle reception in my studio on a date TBD in October. Look for updates!

ArtspanSF is taking a new approach this year and there will be open studios all around SF. You can visit artists’ private studios and group spaces.

I’ll also be at SFWA the weekend of Oct 2-3 where our reception runs from 11am-5pm.

From Oct 21-Nov 21 you can see an exhibition of works by all participating artists at SomArts. There will be several additional Artspan events running throughout November.

Drawing circus artist/aerialist Bridget was my first and last in-person model session before surgery and post-vaccination.

Cherry Pits Art Merchandise

REDBUBBLE

I’ve added quite a few of my most recent artwork as repeat designs for merchandise on RedBubble. There’s an even broader range of color palettes and subject matter (still figurative). Don’t see what you want? Let me know. I can always add more!

This hot series of Amanda (#theartache) has a unique color palette – shades of purple, blue, aqua, orange, and gold.

Teal and royal blue squares and figures – a new addition to RedBubble! This is Titania.

Personally, I’ve bought and tested most of my RedBubble art merchandise – including socks, dresses, blouses, iPhone cases, notebooks, masks, coasters, postcards, and more.

I have many mask designs on RB. There are still times when you need to wear one…

Bright bold new addition of a pattern with Bridget on a circus ring – just added to RedBubble!

My friend in London just received a blanket (shown above) with my art on it. I can’t believe how fast it got to her!

SPOONFLOWER

Spoonflower (examples above) is where you can order a wide variety of textiles with my artwork in a repeat pattern. They’ll make it for you in organic cotton, chiffon, velvet, lycra, upholstery fabric, and many more options. They’ll also make you wallpaper! Since I began working with Spoonflower in 2016, I’ve designed and made or had made - all sorts of fabrics and ready-made items, mostly soft goods. I’ve bought the fabric and made all kinds of products and I’ve bought their ready-made with my textile designs. I especially love their cotton sateen throw pillows, sturdy canvas dishtowels, placemats, cocktail napkins, and table runners – all made from my designs. I’ve tested many of them myself. The quality is excellent.

This is among my first products which I started making in 2017 with the help of a pro, who also taught me how to sew, Connie Walker-Shaw (classes at SEW on W. Portal).

The Naked Truth Project Exhibition

Black and white portrait of me draped in my artwork (assisted by Jack Ostrofsky) in Radian Gallery at our exhibition, “Seen x Unseen” in Jan 2021.

Analog Gallery (SF) will host the analog exhibition of this previously Instagram-only show of black and white photographic self-portraits made by artists with their art in Covid stories. Details to follow – check back next month for dates and description. This show is curated by Nathalie Fabri. Here’s the background from her website: “My niece in France recently participated in this project for non-essential workers. The idea is from the term « a poil » a slang term meaning naked. If the government shuts us down, they are taking everything from me…so I am left naked. This has inspired me to start a campaign in partnership with Fabio Reis, artist and musician, about all creatives, called #TheNakedTruthofArts. The naked truth is that artists and musicians have certainly been considered non-essential and have been suffering…What is your story? Maybe you have had more work because of donations and grants…tell us. Maybe you lost most of your creative income? tell us! maybe your creativity has suffered so bad from stress that it has affected your livelihood.. tell us. I invite you to take a photo of yourself and a piece of your art if you are an artist, with your instrument if you are a musician, With your creative tools if that’s what you want to show, in black and white with the idea that you are naked behind it, telling us the Naked Truth about your situation.”

Cat of “Caturday”, @newyorkcat, and @DistancedDrawing Zoom modeling session. They’re a gorgeous aerialist/nightlife performer in NYC. Combined with the Berkeley Rose Garden (above). And Cat with their ring painting (below).

See more here: @newyorkcat / @distanceddrawing

“Abstracted Bibi” is placed in a virtual diningroom.

“She’s a Rose” was selected by gallerist Andra Norris for “Verdant” for July at SFWA.

Intimacy Illuminated at Arc Gallery

“Intimacy Illuminated: Light, Luminosity and Intimate Relations" is a Bay Area Exhibition in Arc’s Project Gallery curated by Nathalie Fabri. Through works that depict luminosity and use of light, to works that honor a feeling of intimacy between people, this exhibition explores the merging of these qualities these pandemic times.

I’m delighted to be included in “Intimacy Illuminated”! Nathalie Fabri saw my room-sized installation (below) in “Seen x Unseen”, the inaugural exhibition by The Invisibility Collective in Dec 2020-Jan 2021 at Radian Gallery (SF).

I’ll be creating a site-specific variation of my original installation. There will be a reception – so look for an update coming soon.
Runs Nov 20-Dec 18

Three of the five sheer fabric figurative panels hanging in “See Through Me”, a site-specific mixed media installation featured in “Seen x Unseen” at Radian Gallery.

Women’s Caucus for Art

I’m curious to see what this group will do. I have always been passionate about and actively engaged in women’s organizations, especially mentoring and advancing women in the arts.

Grace of No Age: It’s Not Too Late

“Woman on the Fence” depicts a figure both entering and blocked by an entryway/gate.

See the latest article by yours truly, AKA Creative Coach and Goddess here. I neglected to mention that everything I talk about in the article is based on what I’ve done personally. See more here.

A favorite view of NYC from my last visit in May 2019.

NYC Here I Come

Each year The Armory Show takes place during spring and fall in NYC. This September I’ll be there!

For me, NYC is about visiting friends and family AND seeing a lot of art. When I lived in NYC – way back in the wild and crazy 80’s, I was working all the time. Now I am curious to see how The City is recovering from this trying year and a half. And I always look forward catching a bit of East Coast seasonality which I always miss.

Interior Designers and Art Consultants take note! Did you know that I can make my digital original art for your client’s space in almost any size or format, and print it on almost substrate? That means paper, wood, glass, fabric, metal…and more (you name it). And all types of commissions are available too.

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SFWA SOLO SHOW & ART TALK (SHOWS & TELLS ALL)

February 24, 2019Susan R. Kirshenbaum1 Comment

Excerpted from: ART TALK FEBRUARY 23, 2019

“WOMEN IN SILK: NOT WHAT YOU THINK” AND “LIFE SQUARED” AT SFWA

I gave an art talk on 2/23/19 at SFWA Artist Salon Gallery. The exhibition closes soon - see it through March 1, 2019.

WHY I DO WHAT I DO

What drives me to create this work? When I was younger, I thought the world was progressive, moving forward, never backward.

Maybe four years old doing what makes me happiest. Sitting at the window drawing.

Now I’m both astonished and delighted that at long last there is another wave of increased awareness about the ongoing exclusion and mistreatment of women.

As a young person growing up in the 60s through the 80s I watched and participated in a wave of progress in human rights. Not knowing better, I believed that political and social change are continuous and progressive.

Drawing on the front stoop in Pittsburgh, PA, around 1961.

I thought with the women’s movement that our progress was leaping ahead and my generation would at last achieve equality - that the world would not judge us by our bodies and treat us like second-class citizens. I was wrong. Now I know this is not so. But I see now that the old cliché one step forward two steps back is apt for much of life and obvious in our political climate. This is why resilience is so important.

The fight is still on and there is renewed energy. I continue to play my part through my art.

At Miami Art Basel in 2017 wearing one of my handmade art dresses.

THE FEATURED SERIES

Three years ago I began this new phase of life as a full-time visual artist. I realized "It's never too late to do what you really care about - and it's important for me to create lively, provocative art".

The work on these walls (in the SFWA Artist Gallery exhibition) represents three series over several years. The first was the Silk Scroll series of seven scrolls (White and Color Block).

The Laundry Gallery: First exhibit of all of the Silk Scroll Series

“Red Hair Curly and Straight” white silk scroll - I have thing about hair…

“Red Kimono” from Color Block Silk Scroll Series (created at the same time as the White Silk Scroll Series).

“Reaching” from the Color Block Silk Scroll Series

Next came the site-specific series of five “Banderas” (flags in Spanish) .

And most recently I produced the Life Squared series of small works on paper in shadowboxes, often they are collages and/or mirrored images.

A FEMINIST FIGURATIVE ARTIST

All of my work is purely figurative and unashamedly feminist. It’s about women, reclaiming our bodies, being proud and self possessed. It’s straightforward yet open to interpretation. My drawings are brisk, bold, gestural works made from short poses. I’m inspired by my models.

Here’s the graffiti I shot in Spain before it became a layer in the collage to the right.

Left side of a planned diptych collage - not in print yet

Digital collage: produced in 2 unique editions: a metal print and a print on paper in a shadowbox.

Right side of a diptych collage - not in print yet

Golden Gate Bridge up close and a collage layer.

I often make multiple versions from one original. I choose the best of the bunch or there may be several editions that spring from the initial drawing. This is one way that I make the most of the digital drawing process and my need to experiment and see my options.

Every February I watch for the first signs of spring in Golden Gate Park (SF) such as the magnolia trees in bloom. Nature is often a theme in my work.

Two titles: “Head Butting” and “Let’s Put our Heads Together”

“Leafy Dreams” collage is a popular piece in the show

“Skeletons” - an example of multiple images also in the show

Show Ends March 1!

INTO YOUNG ADULTHOOD

That’s me teaching in 1978 at Ivy School of Professional Art.

The impetus for being an artist goes way back. I’ve always drawn people. From paper dolls to life drawing, my singular interest and focus is figurative. And I enjoy using all sorts of mark-making materials. I think I’ve tried just about every tool and technique out there. In fact the first art class I ever taught was called Marks on Paper to teach freshman art students about the many ways of using of art supplies and found materials.

Weekend at Kala making silkscreen prints in 2017 - I still like to explore all methods and mediums. My work sometimes looks like it was silkscreened.

GOING DIGITAL

As a creative director for many years I built campaign after campaign with teams of creatives. I conceived ideas and explored what words, images, and designs had the greatest impact. But I was not hands-on nor a techi.

I came around to using professional digital drawing tools for practical reasons. Without hauling around a car-load of art supplies I could switch from one tool or medium to another instantly. These are called “digital originals”. My process is the same for each piece, since I always start by drawing a live model.

Original - Version 1 in the “Tami Series” 2019

David Hockney made digital art and process videos famous. I too can add, test, and remove layers and lines. I can include my photography so that the work becomes a collage. I can make multiple iterations and series, like monoprints.

I edit my work, scale it, and apply my artwork to a variety of substrates, from tiny to huge, and paper to fabric and metal. It’s important to experiment.

The Laundry Gallery SF 2016 - a dialog about art at a wine tasting meetup at the gallery.

THE SCROLLS AND BANDERAS

The grand scale of these works makes the space feel alive with the figures. The fluidity of the fabric combined with the movement reflected in the drawings helps produce this life-like feeling, although the drawings are not intended to be realistic. They are meant to convey a personality and a relationship. They are not “model drawings” but more of a conversation with an individual.

A “digital original” drawing for the Banderas series.

This sheer series is meant to hang from the ceiling in an overlapping cluster

Production: Sewing the edges of the Banderas series

Production: Creating the Silk Scroll series in an upholstery studio

THE BANDERAS SERIES

When I originally created the Banderas series it was for a site-specific installation in response to my residency at the Troll house.

I needed to express and insert a strong female presence – to take up space and touch the tips of a tall person’s head – to have an impact on the young male residents of this co-work space in Pier 26.

Jack hanging the Banderas Series in a Pythagorean Triangle

Adam demonstrating the height of the Banderas

The arrangement of the five translucent banderas hanging from the ceiling creates a play of color, light, and shadow from the inside and the outside. Passersby could see this show while walking along the Embarcadero. The light filtered through the sheer chiffon and shifted the colors as they overlapped. I’d love to create a version of these pieces for an even larger space on a grander scale in a public building.

The installation at the Troll House on Pier 26

Besides light and shadow and content and form, color is a key factor in my work. I am in love with color!

A collage with my own textile art as a layer

Multiples and mirror images in a new series

COLLAGES & MIRROR IMAGES

When I create collages I combine my drawing with my photographs and painting to create a rich, layered affect. I continuously change the layers, photos, and colors until I’m satisfied. I’ve been photographing for decades, especially when traveling but now I have a place to include these images as part of a bigger picture.

Always photographing gardens you can see the flowers here.

This turned into fairy princess twins - harkening back to my youthful fantasies

This collage combines a photo of Spanish graffiti art that is also a sign for a shop.

Note that the background image matches the stance of the model.

POLITICS AND ART

Now some of my work is outright political and maybe even a little subversive, such as my “Burma Series”. This series comments on religious oppression, targeting a group of people as “the other”, and massive ousting of the Rohingya people by the Buddhist majority.

I photographed ancient temple walls in Bagan, Burma.

Aluminum dye-infused archival print, ed. 1/1 , 20 (w) x 25 (h) Burma Series

I have a series that features the struggle for Catalan Independence too. I spend a lot of time in the region and know it well, so I have conversations about the topic frequently. Most my work is not obviously political but still attempts to illicit a response.

“THIS IS MY MANIFESTO”

Backsliding, covering up, and our hard-won battles are still coming undone. Every expose is important for building a case to protect women from religious, sexual, political, social oppression, and abuse. We are all humans and we are all equal, naked, and striving to be free.

My work celebrates women.

I will see my narratives grow into gallery-size installations. In my upcoming art residency I have space to expand my scope, scale, and impact.

Catalan independence poster in Girona, Spain

“Filled with Poppies” -a California version of the collage above right.

Collage with Catalan poster changes the meaning

May 16 is the Lunar Eclipse!
Here’s a photo of me (tiny) at an art show in Frank Gehry’s Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Photo by Tom Sparks.
@srkirshenbaum
#frankgehrybuilding
#architecture
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I’m giving an Art Talk tomorrow (tickets free on Eventbrite) about my piece “Appear/Disappear” in the “Women Rising” show at The Drawing Room at 780 Valencia Street: April 5, from 4-6:30pm, featuring multiple artists. I&

@invisibilitycollective members @srkirshenbaum and @rhiannonblackandwhite are pleased to be participating in @rootdivision 20th annual art auction and exhibition!

Don’t miss this exhibition which is strategically placed around the legion of honor and so powerful...
@legionofhonor
@wangechimutu
#arttosee
#sfartscene

When was the last time you really looked at your lettuce? 🥬

Another shooting in Minneapolis.I cannot stop crying.
feeling that the world is falling apart morally. it is so easy seemingly to kill another human. To in a second wipe out a young man’s Existence And to spread pain and despair so completely

“White / Colored” installation art in the desert by Noah Purifoy seen near Joshua Tree (by Collective Member Susan Kirshenbaum).

Invisibility Collective creates, promotes, and disseminates arresting art and ideas about those who feel invisible, those who are fighting to have a cogent voice. As a member of the Collective I make art work not only about my fellow humans, but als

Cherry Pits Art Cards Are In!

September 20, 2016ArtingSusan R. KirshenbaumComment

This is a limited edition set of 4 x 6 inch blank greeting cards. This selection of five images represents some of my favorite works, which I’m currently featuring in several mediums – large prints on silk, fine art paper prints, soft sculpture, and textiles. I’m making cards now because I’ve always loved paper and ephemera. I save and collect cards, postcards, and stamps. I even met my husband while working at a renowned postcard shop in San Francisco’s North Beach. I still live in San Francisco (and we're still married). Each 5-pack of cards comes with a set of brown craft envelopes.

These cards and more will be available for sale at my Pop-Up Art Show at Maker and Moss on October 22 in Hayes Valley and also at my Open Studio at The Laundry on 26th and Mission Streets on November 5 and 6. Stop by either or both between 11 am - 6pm. These cards are available to order online HERE. Hand-signed. Printed in the USA. © 2016 SRKirshenbaum

Red, White, and Blue Series - It's in the Air

August 29, 2016Susan R. Kirshenbaum1 Comment

Wanting to bring attention to the election during my ArtSpan SF Open Studios scheduled the weekend before the election - oh my! I wasn't thinking about that when I registered for November 5-6. Oh well, I hope we are not all too distracted! I'm sure engaged in this campaign.

Here's a little series of drawings in the appropriate color scheme.

"Looking at You" ©2016 Susan R. Kirshenbaum

"Leaning Back" ©2016 Susan R. Kirshenbaum

Making My First Fine Art Digital Print Edition

April 22, 2016Susan R. KirshenbaumComment

Until now, I've made editions of fine art prints using silkscreen and etching techniques. This is photo of "Red and Black Moment", my first digitally printed edition of 10. This is a 16 x 20 inch print on archival paper made with pigment inks. I worked closely with a local expert in fine art printing to get these luscious results. The black looks like matt velvet and the red lines are like a silk ribbon is running through it. These prints are for sale on my just-opened shop on my Cherry Pits website. They are not available anywhere else - yet!

My last name, Kirshenbaum (Kirschenbaum), means Cherry Tree. Now I’m using everything in my life’s toolbox, the cherries and the pits.

I’m married to Jack, and we have two cats and no kids. We live high on a hill in San Francisco, CA, USA. I write, draw, paint, collage, take photos, sew, cook, entertain, design, and make things. I like to watch films, take classes, walk, dance, and travel – but most of all – I love to draw people.

Read more about me here and take a look at my latest photos below.

May 16 is the Lunar Eclipse! Here’s a photo of me (tiny) at an art show in Frank Gehry’s Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Photo by Tom Sparks. @srkirshenbaum #frankgehrybuilding #architecture #spraypaintart #portraitphotography #barelyvisible

Here’s a tiny snippet of the performance piece I saw a few days ago at ICA. She’s a commanding performer with strong ideas. So happy to have Mary participate in the Invisibility Collective conversations and exhibitions despite her busy CCA schedule. @mary.graham.art @ccaexhibitions @ccafinearts @icasanfrancisco #performance art #voice #callandrepeat #anscestors @anno.kim

I’m giving an Art Talk tomorrow (tickets free on Eventbrite) about my piece “Appear/Disappear” in the “Women Rising” show at The Drawing Room at 780 Valencia Street: April 5, from 4-6:30pm, featuring multiple artists. I’ll be talking about this piece which I originally created for my series “See Through Us” shown for the first time at the Invisibility Collective’s initial exhibition “Seen x Unseen” in Dec 2020 at Radian Gallery. @invisibilitycollective #appear #invisiblewomen #olderwomenrule @radiangallery @drawingroomsf @inside.outside.project @curatedstate #rootdivision @sfwa_artistsgallery @artspansf @sfcityartgallery #sfartist #digitalartist #procreateartist #ipadartist #figurativeartist #worksonfabric #lifedrawing #gesturedrawing #modeldrawing #artshow #contemporaryart #drawing #portraits #artforsalebyartist #womenartists #artgallery #artstudio #artpractice #bayareamodelsguild #portraitdrawing #digitaloriginalart #digitalcollage #redbubbleartist #spoonflowerartist #wordpairs #upsidedown

@invisibilitycollective members @srkirshenbaum and @rhiannonblackandwhite are pleased to be participating in @rootdivision 20th annual art auction and exhibition!

Don’t miss this exhibition which is strategically placed around the legion of honor and so powerful... @legionofhonor @wangechimutu #arttosee #sfartscene

When was the last time you really looked at your lettuce? 🥬

Another shooting in Minneapolis.I cannot stop crying. feeling that the world is falling apart morally. it is so easy seemingly to kill another human. To in a second wipe out a young man’s Existence And to spread pain and despair so completely easily with seemingly no resistance from so many other humans. I invite all who read this to stand in front of your houses this evening with a lit candle and say a prayer for all who have died through police brutality and racism. — Angela Tirrell, Invisibility Collective

“White / Colored” installation art in the desert by Noah Purifoy seen near Joshua Tree (by Collective Member Susan Kirshenbaum).

Invisibility Collective creates, promotes, and disseminates arresting art and ideas about those who feel invisible, those who are fighting to have a cogent voice. As a member of the Collective I make art work not only about my fellow humans, but also about creatures of the earth and sky, and the planet itself. I subscribe to the brilliant idea my painter aunt and mentor in Rome, Pucci Clerici, has lobbied for over decades: there should be a representative for planet Earth in the UN!

Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle spread featuring collective member Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen and discussing the invisible labor of artists. Images taken at Radian Gallery at the end of our group exhibition Seen × Unseen in January. @rhiannonblackandwhite @invisibilitycollective @sfchronicle @sfchronicle_datebook @sfchronicle_art @radiangallery #seenxunseen #labor #ab5 #gigwork #artistsarelaborers

Come see the show. Bernie's gallery-sitting for us. As always, masks and mittens required.

LAST CHANCE to see the unseen at Seen × Unseen, closing soon at @radiangallery ! DM us here or contact @srkirshenbaum to schedule a safely-distanced visit!

Last days! Here is a series of photos of Seen X Unseen @radiangallery until 1/25. By appointment only. DM me (susan). @rhiannonblackandwhite @mrlonniegraham @cmtandy @srkirshenbaum @mary.graham.art @cindynwndrlnd @art_as_essay @sfwa_artistsgallery @artspansf @sfcityartgallery #artgallery #sfart #sfbayarea #artistsoninstagram #artwork #contemporaryart #installationart #artonfabric #contemporaryfigurativeart #contemporary_collective #photographysouls #invisibility #seethrough #videoperformance #contemporarypainting #artexhibition #covidart

“Very” by Sawyer Rose in the Seen X Unseen exhibition- see it now in its last week! Dm me for an appointment at Radian gallery in SF (one person at a time). @radiangallery @art_as_essay @ksawyerrose @srkirshenbaum @mrlonniegraham @rhiannonblackandwhite #installationartist #sculpture #portraitphotography #storytelling #invisible #castmetalsculpture #sfartscene #sfartgallery

It’s the last week to visit! Make an appointment for a one on one visit to Radian Gallery to see “Seen X Unseen”. Work pictured here is by Angela Tirrell. @art_as_essay #contemporaryart #mixedmedia #internetinvisible #wired #sfartgallery @radiangallery #floorpieces

The collective’s “Seen X Unseen” exhibition catalogue is out! @cindyrenee4 @cmtandy @ksawyerrose @nancywillisart @art_as_essay @artbysamira007 @mrlonniegraham @bldrman @sophiagreenart @nancywillisart @art_as_essay @artbysamira007 @radiangallery #sfartist #sfartgallery #exhibitioncatalog #covidart #contemporayart #drawing #photography #mixedmedia #printmakingart #installationart #performanceart #alter #rituals #artcollective

Tomorrow ! Saturday December 19 noon -3pm pdt join us for an art talk about “Seen x Unseen” group show on zoom register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIode6hrDMoEtJLuSkKzZDnSxpG2zDnfD_y @bldrman @cmtandy @radiangallery @art_as_essay @rhiannonblackandwhite @srkirshenbaum @nancywillisart @ksawyerrose @cindynwndrlnd @artbysamira007 @mrlonniegraham @sophiagreenart @sfwa_artistsgallery @sfcityartgallery @artspansf @sfartsmonthly @sfchronicle #sfartist #sfhearts #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #digitalart #artonfabric #installationart #contemporaryphotography #portraitphotography #portraitpainting #mixedmedia #assemblageart #sculpture #printmakersofinstagram

Catch a glimpse of this poignant first group exhibition by The Invisibility Collective and invited artists. See “Seen X Unseen” @radiangallery this month and join the artists in conversation on 12/19. @cmtandy @cindyrenee4 @srkirshenbaum @mrlonniegraham @nancywillisart @rhiannonblackandwhite @artbysamira007 @ksawyerrose @sophiagreenart #invisible #seeandbeseen #sfartshow #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #contentcreator #galleryshows #artcollective #bicoastal #intergenerational #interdisciplinaryart #installationart #videoart #performanceart #artonfabric #groupartshow

A cluster of images from “Seen X Unseen”yesterday at our opening day. Don’t miss the his exhibition! @radiangallery #artstudio #artist #lifedrawing #modeldrawimg #figuredrawing #figurativeartist #virtualdrawing #procreate #digitalartist #drawingbyhand #sfart #sfartist #portraits #artspanartist #artforsale #womendrawingwomen #artmodel #artshowsanfrancisco #invisibility @cmtandy @nancywillisart @art_as_essay @artbysamira007 @rhiannonblackandwhite @bldrman @mary.graham.art @sophiagreenart @sfwa_artistsgallery @sfcityartgallery @artspansf #scupture #installationart #performanceart #ritualart #invisibiltity #seen #unseen

Here’s a tiny snippet of the performance piece I saw a few days ago at ICA. She’s a commanding performer with strong ideas. So happy to have Mary participate in the Invisibility Collective conversations and exhibitions despite her busy CC

Wearing my “Scent of Red” art scarf and art dress made by RedBubble, I’m posed in front of two of my works which were juried into “Hue and Me” at SFWA Gallery, in the Spring 2024.

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