Some photos from @studioahead visit to my house and studio. Big thank you to them for including me in their journal! First time I’ve done something like this so thank you again. Check out their journal and sign up for their mailing list to get the next one! Also shout out to @ekaterinaizmestieva for all the photos!
Celebrate SF Art Week with us at 500 Capp Street January 20th from 4-8 PM as we open It’s a Lamp! Our concept store’s new show with San Francisco artist and electrician Rico Duenas. Featuring never-before-seen works, the exhibition continues Duenas’ ongoing dialogue with the late artist David Ireland, nearly five years after his celebrated project Light Repair. In this new body of work, Duenas expands his poetic relationship to illumination—treating lamps not merely as functional objects, but as sculptural vessels in active dialogue with the architecture and icons of the David Ireland House. See link in bio to register ✨ @doingbigthingslittle
〰️ Lil ceramic lights 〰️ by @doingbigthingslittle and marbled by me. Rico created the ceramic bases, passed them to me to marble, then I passed them back for genius assembly and they look so good! Hope you like em!
We have 9, each one of a kind, handmade guys and they all need a home. They’re small but provide a lot of warm light. In the last few slides you can see how a few compare to the size of a quarter.
DM if interested with a screenshot/slide # 💛
Local pickup in SF only 🌝
From last night’s SCONCE SHOW reception: Rico Duenas’ (@doingbigthingslittle ) sconce is a study in how place, labor, and material intelligence converge.
Built from found and reclaimed components, the fixture carries the quiet specificity of the Bay Area’s built environment — textures and fragments that feel pulled from job sites, alleyways, and the kinds of spaces only someone who grew up here would know how to read.
Rico’s journey as an SF native and union electrician shows up everywhere in the work: the precision of the wiring, the straightforward pragmatism of the form, the sensitivity to how light behaves in real architectural conditions. The result is a piece that folds lived experience directly into its construction — humble materials elevated through craft, memory, and an insider’s understanding of how things get made in this city.
DM for inquiries and curator appointments.
@doingbigthingslittle@storefrontanandsheth@yorkstreetsf@anand.g.sheth 📸: @stephpannn
#ricoduenas #storefrontanandsheth #studioanandsheth #yorkstreetcollective
A fragment of Rico Duenas’ (@doingbigthingslittle ) “Untitled” — salvaged fiberglass and sheet metal turned into something spare, poetic, and unmistakably his. His work always seems to hold the memory of a place without naming it.
The full piece reveals its character only in person: improvised, weathered, quietly exacting. Join us at our reception this Wednesday, RSVP via link in bio.
📸: @stephpannn 🏬: @storefrontanandsheth #storefrontanandsheth #studioanandsheth #ricoduenas @anand.g.sheth@yorkstreetsf
SCONCE SHOW gathers five studios exploring light as near-body architecture. Each work addresses domestic rituals of arriving, pausing, reading, conversing. Instead of hardwired in ceilings and walls, these plug-in pieces embrace cords, switches, and outlets as visible, designable elements.
Presented in our storefront built on hospitality, the show asks how lighting can welcome, orient, and care for people without renovation — how a single fixture can tilt a room toward intimacy. The result is a chorus of portable architectures: modest in scale, generous in effect, and utterly specific to the hands that made them.
SCONCE SHOW continues Storefront Anand Sheth’s mission to reimagine hospitality as a curatorial act — framing exhibition as a tool for dialogue, infrastructure, and care.
November 4-30, 2025
York Street Collective, 1100 Valencia St. SF (visit @yorkstreetsf for cafe/bar hours)
DM @storefrontanandsheth for inquiries and curator appointments.
Artist Reception 11/19 @ 6-9pm RSVP via link in bio
@anand.g.sheth@doingbigthingslittle@johngnorski@studioahead@othr_space@serg88mondragon@soft.geometry #storefrontanandsheth #studioanandsheth #sconce
Earlier this year I got the amazing opportunity to work with @cahadesign to make a custom light for @jules.pza it was a lot of fun and super happy how it turned out. If you haven’t been to Jules yet you need to go and send me a pic of the light when you go.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who has been, shared, bought, or plans on going to the show. I had a blast and felt the love and support of my community, you make it easy to keep making ❤️.
Thank you to @parklifegallery for putting me on.
There is still time to go see if you haven’t been 😈.
Here are some process photos.
Light Work
@parklife 220 clement street
Up until 12th September or so
Come to the opening of Lite Work and get the chance to take home this light for free!
Lite Work
@parklifesf@parklifegallery 220 clement street
Friday 8/8, 6-8pm
Hope to see you there!
