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As a board member of PhotoAlliance @photoalliance_sf , I proudly share our key annual benefit dinner and auction with you to consider. On JUNE 11th, we will be hosting a fabulous evening with dinner and special guests along with a selection of amazing photographic works available in our Auction. Bidding can be done from anywhere, and artworks can be shipped as well. All purchases will directly fund an organization that has not only been a launch pad for my own career, but of many emerging contemporary photo based artists. Please join me buy getting your tickets in @photoalliance_sf BIO Link (/2026-photoalliance-community-benefit-dinner) Bidding is now live for those of you out of town who wish to find some gems for your collection: /2026-photoalliance-community-benefit-dinner Image: Meghann Riepenhoff, Ecotone #134, 2018. Dynamic Cyanotype, 26.5 x 21 inches. Unique. @meghannriepenhoff Meghann Riepenhoff is one of our artists whose work is being presented at the auction. She creates unique camera-less cyanotypes in collaboration with the landscape and the ocean, at the edges of both. Paper coated with homemade cyanotype emulsion is draped along the shore, across branches, or packed in snow, where tide and current, wind and sediment all leave physical inscriptions through direct contact with the photographic materials. The works in Riepenhoff’s related Littoral Drift, Ecotone, and Ice series stem from her fascination with the nature of our relationships to the landscape, the sublime, time, and impermanence. Waters of the Americas and her most recent series State Shift explore the impacts of human intervention on the environment, exposing the often invisible impacts of emissions, climate change, and shifting natural cycles. We are pleased to offer a work from Meghann’s Ecotone series available for bidding with the proceeds benefitting PhotoAlliance, and helping us continue to bring great photography programming to the Bay Area!

I fell in love with this series of unique works created by Tacita Dean - Found Pantone card paired with postcard from artist’s collection, monoprinted and framed- Series of 80 unique works… at @geminigel LA. On exhibit now in upper gallery. 8365 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, California 90069 Tel: +1.323.651.0513 [email protected] Gemini G.E.L. is open Monday - Friday, 9AM - 5PM.

A lovely stop at @laaagallery825 and discovered some refreshing ceramic works and paintings - I’m going to keep my eye on this place! Great to meet the artists too!

It magical moment- taking in the sculptural world of Kohei Nawa @nawa_kohei at @pacegallery in Los Angeles. His practice is expansive - there are some great catalogs at the gallery to check out for a deeper dive! Don’t miss this one 💫 Kohei Nawa Photon Camp On View thru Jun 6, 2026 Pace will present an exhibition by Kohei Nawa at its Los Angeles gallery from April 11 to June 6. Marking the Japanese multidisciplinary artist’s first solo show in Los Angeles, this presentation will bring together 20 new works from two of his iconic sculptural series—PixCell and Prism—creating a cohesive environment in which his sculptures engage directly with the architecture of the gallery’s main exhibition space.Drawing out the unique properties of various traditional and unconventional materials in his paintings, sculptures, and installations, Nawa explores nuanced relationships between physical and virtual spaces, synthetic and natural forces, and the individual and the collective. Intrinsic to his practice is a rigorous engagement with technologies that traverse eras and cultures, particularly information technologies. Visual distortions and transformations cut across his artworks, encouraging viewers to consider the ways that digital technologies impact their relationship to and experience of the physical world. Nawa has also expanded his practice into the fields of architecture and performance—he is currently presenting Mirage and Planet [wanderer], performance works created in collaboration with choreographer Damien Jalet, in select European and Asian cities.

@photoalliance_sf ’s yearly Benefit Dinner is back, now in combination with a Fundraising Auction! Join PhotoAlliance on June 11 from 6:30–9:30 PM at the Trocadero Clubhouse at Stern Grove in San Francisco for an inspiring evening that brings together artists, collectors, and lovers of the photographic arts. Enjoy a delicious dinner, meet fellow members of the creative community, and explore a thoughtfully curated auction of exceptional photographic works—all generously donated to support PhotoAlliance’s ongoing programs in education, collaboration, and artistic exchange. From emerging voices to established figures, the auction reflects the depth and diversity of today’s photographic landscape, and includes work by Meghann Riepenhoff, Bryant Austin, Tom Baril, Rick Chapman, Robert Dawson, Ken Fandell, Candace Plummer Gaudiani, James Henkel, Wayne Levin, David Liittschwager, Amanda Marchand, Arno Minkkinen, and more! The online auction opens May 11 and runs until the night of the Dinner, June 11 ———For more information and to purchase tickets, please see Link in @photoalliance_sf Bio!———

It was fabulous to see so many come to @track16gallery ’s DTLA location on Saturday at @bendixbuilding for the opening reception of @lane_barden ’s solo exhibition “This Was the Landscape of Our Innocence“- on exhibit thru June 28th. It is a deep dive into the histories that have contributed to our current imbalance of power, represented by his characters THE SUITMASTERS. Using poster formats to twist the idea of propaganda towards a narrative that desperately needs to states again and again- these days.. I congratulate Lane on this show- there is an intensity to experiencing the show together, as an installation itself. The formats lend themselves to an archive of our times- an unfortunate one. Be sure to make time to see it. The text and images have a monumental presence while are modest in scale. There is also an open of one of the posters available only during the show for a very accessible price - another way to get the word out. Check out my stories for longer video footage. “Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.” — Anton Chekov

A straight drive drive yesterday from SF to @perrotin ’s LA Gallery to see the exquisite work of @kyungmi_shin_gray - did not disappoint! Layers of clear gesso on top of found paper and fabric overlayed with Lucious acrylic painting and photo transfers from archives of Korean history melded together gorgeously with raised “gilt” metallic drawings formed with silver and pinks. I got myself her exhibition catalog for a deeper dive! Congratulations- inspiring! KYUNGMI SHIN SOLO SHOW UNTIL MAY 30, 2026 PERROTIN DELMAR LLC, LOS ANGELES, USA MY FANTASY’S BURDENS Perrotin Los Angeles is pleased to present My Fantasy’s Burdens, Kyungmi Shin’s debut exhibition with the gallery. Featuring both paintings and ceramics, the exhibition builds on Shin’s practice of interrogating Asian-American diasporic identity, drawing on a rich array of sources to foreground the cultural, economic, and scientific legacies of colonial trade.

It was so refreshing to dive back in time to a place that sadly doesn’t exist except in the philosophies, community and art that lives on from the days of the San FranciscoArt Institute. This week I visited the exhibit “People Make This Place: SFAI Stories” at @sfmoma . I’ve been lucky enough to stay connected to the community- attend talks hosted by @sfai_legacy and @sfartistsalumni - and carry as much of the flag in my own artist path. Thank you to all who worked to put this together- there could various chapters of it presented over the years. People Make This Place: SFAI Stories July 26, 2025–July 5, 2026 Exploring moments from the rich history of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) — before its closure, the West Coast’s oldest fine art school — this exhibition spotlights works by more than 50 SFAI alumni and former faculty included in the museum’s collection. The presentation underscores the school’s crucial role in fostering creativity and experimentation, featuring works across media since the post–World War II era by artists like Ansel Adams, Joan Brown, Miguel Calderón, Imogen Cunningham, Mike Henderson, Candice Lin, and Carlos Villa, among others. The exhibition also includes a dynamic and quirky range of archival materials drawn from the SFMOMA Library and the SFAI Archive. These encompass ephemera from the founding of the school’s photography department, posters for 1950s Beat-era galleries run by artist alumni, student newspapers, and flyers from the punk and new wave music scenes of the 1970s. Taking its title from a line in the final 2022 commencement speech by faculty member and alumnus Dewey Crumpler, People Make This Place is a collaborative effort across the museum in partnership with the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive.

“This Was the Landscape of Our Innocence” opens THIS SATURDAY at @track16gallery featuring a solo exhibition of @lane_barden ‘s work exploring the poetic resonance between the idealized, heroic American landscape and the landscape of our illegal, endless wars. The opening reception is Saturday May 2 from 6 to 9 pm - I hope to see you there! Track 16 Gallery 1206 Maple Ave Suite 100 DTLA at the @bendixbuilding

Deep dive into tones and colors at @dolbychadwickgallery on Thursday with the work of @gwenhardie1436 - thank you for these moments 🙏🏽 Gwen Hardie Alchemy of Light April 2–May 2, 2026 Dolby Chadwick Gallery is thrilled to announce Alchemy of Light, an exhibition of recent work by Gwen Hardie. In Hardie’s paintings, a square of canvas becomes an animated field of color that holds light and suggests three-dimensional presence. Tonal and chromatic shifts cause the surface to hover, deepen, and subtly reconfigure as we look. Hardie’s practice is rooted in decades of close observation. At Edinburgh College of Art, she spent years studying the live model in natural light, learning how minute variations in color and value generate presence rather than narrative. That sensitivity to tonal transition and how light becomes form has remained central even as her work moved from figuration to abstraction. Alongside these formal shifts has been a sustained attention to flux and to the understanding that what appears fixed is already changing. Her move to the square format in 2018 opened a new dynamic between foreground and background that continues to shape...

Congratulations to @dharmamaccoll on her opening of MAPS OF VARIATIONS at @maybaumgallery last night! Be sure of check these precious porcelain works out now thru the end of April - amazing detail and subtle line work merging materials together with joy, reflection and intuitiveness. Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:30 am - 5:30 pm Maybaum Gallery 49 Geary Street, Suite 416 San Francisco, CA Artist Exhibition Statement: My practice centers on drawing and painting in three dimensions. Through ceramics, paper, thread, and paint, I explore how materials can assume new identities. Paper is cut, pieced, and sewn like fabric, transforming the picture plane into a constructed surface. Porcelain becomes pigment, dyed and layered like paint, while thread extends drawing into space, and clay accumulates in small gestures that echo brushstrokes. In this way, each medium borrows the language of another, creating a hybrid visual field between painting, textile, and sculpture. In Map of Variations, I use satellite imagery of tidal patterns to map shifting boundaries revealed by rising sea levels. Walking the Northern California coastline year-round, I experience the push and pull of tides, light, and the increasing force of winter king tides. Each ceramic chain installation-composed of hundreds of hand-formed and pigmented links-speaks to both the strength and interdependence of communities, and to the shared path we will inevitably walk as the coastline continues to transform. Throughout history, humans have sought meaning in nature by recognizing and mimicking pattern. My practice continues this impulse: by layering color, pattern, and form, I create works in conversation with the intertwined visual languages of our built and natural environments." - Dharma Strasser MacColl

A great painting by @deborahhamon - now on display in Sausalito at @icb_art - great solo! Congratulations!