FLAX Canvas

Date of event: March 24, 2012, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pmRobert Reed is a professional painter living and working in San Francisco. He started painting in 2000 after dropping out of graduate school (philosophy) and began assisting his friend and mentor with drawing classes in the south of France. He returned for seven consecutive years having been inspired by the landscape and culture of Europe.His art has evolved from landscape painting toward abstraction: he uses satellite imagery and biological form …

Date of event: December 18, 2010Hadley Northrop received a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1991, and spent seven years studying and painting in England before returning to settle in San Francisco in 1998.She has had solo exhibitions at the Brahm Gallery in Leeds, England, the Pacific Grove Art Center, the offices of Supervisor Matt Gonzalez at San Francisco City Hall, and establishments around the Bay Area such as the Rite Spot and Dolores Park Ca …

Date of event: January 22, 2011Vietnamese-born artist and sculptor Thai Bui makes haunting works of art that speak to a sense of displacement and longing that has characterized the artist’s own turbulent life. Bui’s extraordinary works combine references to his experiences in both the United States and Vietnam, simultaneously communicating a witty humor and penetrating sense of loss.Growing up in Hanoi during the Vietnam War, Bui’s childhood was marked by uncertainty and terror. In 1981, at the …

Date of event: September 10, 2011, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pmBorn in Rochester, New York, raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Mr Rogers has always found some kind of artistic outlet. In high school, he was inspired by a friends’ darkroom to learn photography. He pursued this for the next twelve years while focusing on science minded studies in school.After nearly completing his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he moved back to San Francisco to work in the computer industry. By this time, his …

Date of event: October 28, 2010Nataliya Tyaglo was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she began to study plein air painting on the shores of the Dnipper River. In 1994 she immigrated to the United States where she attended School of the Arts in San Francisco and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2007. Today she is gaining recognition as a Ukrainian-American painter and a Live Painting performer. Much of her work is about the celebration of life. Trained to paint in plein air, Nataliya Tyaglo has a re …