FLAX Canvas

Date of event: January 15, 2011Angela Oswald began painting in high school much as a journal entry, a place to release the fervor of young years that occurs in all of us when struggling to adapt in a seemingly nonsensical world. Having spent her early years beside the ocean furnished her love for the element that most all of life relies on, water. Her work is a blend of organic derived shapes and surreal suggestions. She approaches the canvas as both a personal and public place to reflect, …

Date of event: March 19, 2011 Trish Tunney is a professional photographer living and working in San Francisco. She has been voraciously making pictures since she was given her first camera in 1979. For her live demonstration she brought her typewriter and wrote live poetry for a project of 50 mixed media photography and poetry haiku pieces. Trish received a Masters Degree in Engineering and spent 15 years working as a Computer Engineer. When she left her first career to pu …

Date of event: January 21, 2012, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pmWe are pleased to welcome Chiyo back for her third visit as a Live Artist. Come see the artist behind our second artist signature series T-shirt, now on sale!Artist’s StatementArtist may have freedom, but they may not. They can create their art by struggling for their freedom. I wish I had wings and were free from the burden of my flesh, and I am wondering what the world look like if I could see from beyond space and time. But the reality is that …

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 …