Neighborhoods & Artists

Central Market

Alexis Amann & Jonathan Burstein
Alexis Amann’s paintings and installations contain layers of worlds populated by girls, fish, whales, zombies, rabbits, houses, boats, demons, harpies, bearded ladies, and other flora and fauna driven by the forces of love and water. Her work has been shown at New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, Dust Gallery in Las Vegas, and Johansson Projects in Oakland, as well as in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Miami, and New York.

Jonathan Burstein A San Francisco-based visual artist and teacher, Jonathan Burstein creates mixed-media portraits and figures from a wide range of materials, including contemporary art magazines, found photographs, museum recycling, and Xeroxed currency. He also works with community groups and the public to create site-specific, collaborative murals and temporary installations. He is currently at work on a Kiosk Poster Series for San Francisco Art Commission’s Art on Market Street Program.

Helen Bayly & Leanne Miller
Helen Bayly (bio to come)

Leanne C. Miller was born in Phoenix, Arizona and moved to San Francisco to attend the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. She graduated in 2005 and has since shown her work in San Francisco and New York as well as participating in murals and San Pancho Art Collective.

Drone Dungeon Collective (Hunter Longe, Jason Hendardy and Brett Foreman), originally formed by the spontaneous convergence of Hunter Longe and Jason Hendardy, has evolved to include contributions from other like minded individuals, such as Chad (No) Wayman and Brett Foreman. Their work hints at a new form of Brechtian distancing through the application of a degraded aesthetic, the destruction of traditional narrative and removal of original context. Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Drone Dungeon patiently awaits the day of the unionization of their minds and your soul.

Rachel Beth Egenhoefer considers her Commodore 64 computer and Fisher Price Loom to be defining objects of her childhood. She is an artist, designer and writer. Her work explores the intersections between textiles, technology and the body, on historical, constructional and conceptual levels.

Paul Hayes received a BFA in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and has been living in San Francisco since 2001. His site-specific installations consist of vast swarms of crumpled or folded pieces of paper suspended on strands of wire. Recent examples of Hayes' works have been shown at the San Francisco Arts Commission's Grove Street Space, the Exploratorium, Alcatraz, Red Ink Studios, and Johansson Projects Gallery.

Born in Silicon Valley and currently living in San Francisco, Phillip Hua explores the process of artmaking as it intersects with the environment. His work has been exhibited locally and nationally including Cornell Museum of Art and History, California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Google Inc., Mission 17, Kearny Street Workshop, Micaela Gallery, and Hang Art Gallery, where he is represented.

Liz Maher uses a variety of low-tech means to explore the ever shifting relationships between constructed reality and perceived environment. She received her B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004, and since then has honed her casting and sculptural skills by pouring chocolates and baking cakes at her day job.

The San Francisco Film Museum and Archive is a non-profit organization that chronicles the rich heritage of film making in San Francisco. Through education and examination of the art and science of these motion pictures, the Museum seeks to inspire innovation that will advance the future of film and digital media in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christopher Simmons and Tim Belonax
Christopher Simmons is a designer, writer, educator, design advocate and principal of the noted San Francisco design office, MINE™. His design work has been exhibited in museums and galleries from Chicago to Japan, including the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art and the Smithsonian Institution. Most recently he was selected as one of 12 designers to represent San Francisco Graphic Design at an exhibition at San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design. Christopher is an adjunct professor of design at the California College of the Arts and a past president of the San Francisco AIGA (the professional association for design). On completion of Christopher’s tenure, Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an official proclamation declaring San Francisco to be a city “where design makes a difference.”

Tim Belonax is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a former Chronicle Books fellow and a member of the experimental design collaborative, Project M. Tim’s work has been recognized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Graphis, Print magazine, STEP magazine, HOW magazine, Coupe, and GDUSA. His work was recently exhibited at the de Young Museum as part of Warhol:Live exhibit.

Taylor Street in the Tenderloin

Central City Hospitality House's Community Arts Program is the only free-of-charge fine arts studio and gallery space providing materials, professional instruction, and sales/exhibition support to poor and homeless Tenderloin artists and neighborhood residents. Founded in 1969, the program is pleased to be marking 40 years as an epicenter of urban and ‘outsider’ art. Through the Community Arts Program, Hospitality House endeavors to showcase the unique and powerful cultural contributions Tenderloin residents make to the greater community.

Sasha Krieger (bio to come)

Chris Treggiari & Billy Mitchell
Growing up in a family of social workers led Chris Treggiari, a Root Division Resident Artist, to eschew the art “establishment” in favor of public performances that allow him to interact with a broader audience and the public space outside of the art institution. Much of his work also involves collaborations, many times with local non-profits and usually involving mobile stages brought around SF to create public events.

Billy Mitchell is a 56 year old, disabled, black man who has lived and worked in the Tenderloin and SOMA for 20 years. He has also been a member of 6th Street Photography since 1995.

Betty Nguyen is the founder and creative director of First Person Magazine. She has been actively curating exhibitions for four years in San Francisco most notably the show "Cosmic Wonder" at YBCA in 2006 and last year's "Carnivalesque" show for the Treasure Island Festival. Her own artistic work is not bound to material nor media, but utilizes the pop lexicon to recycle artist culture.

Third Street in Bayview

ART 94124 is a grassroots organization formed by community residents to celebrate the long-standing tradition of art in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point district. Our mission is to inspire, strengthen, and unify the community through art. The ART 94124 GALLERY reflects our mission as the only community-run art gallery in the area. Through the establishment of this gallery and other initiatives, ART 94124 will showcase the work of artists of all disciplines in an effort to enrich our community.

Elisheva Biernoff looks for the spectacular in the everyday. In her work, she revisits and reinterprets the bits of ephemera – old photographs and battered postcards – that pass through our hands, hinting at extraordinary stories and experiences. She received her B.A. from Yale in 2002 and her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in May 2009.

A San Francisco native, Kristine Mays has shown her work in various art exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California over the past 17 years. A graduate of Lowell High School, Kristine went on to earn a Bachelor Degree in Arts Administration from DePaul University. She has raised thousands of dollars for AIDS research through the sale of her work at charity auctions benefiting local and global efforts, has been a featured guest artist at the DeYoung Museum, and an active participant in the San Francisco Open Studios Events. Collectors of her work include an eclectic mix of people, with her work hanging in many Bay Area homes and numerous private collections throughout the United States.

24th Street in the Mission District

Abner Nolan is a San Francisco-based artist and educator. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis and SF Camerawork. In 2006, Nolan produced a series of posters for the San Francisco Arts Commission's Art on Market Street program, and a monograph of his work was published this year by TBW Books. Nolan is currently an adjunct professor in the photography program at the California College of the Arts.

Kelly Ording & Jetro Martinez
Kelly Ording was born and raised in Northern California and received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has been involved in exhibitions throughout the Bay Area, the U.S. and Internationally including Triple Base Gallery (San Francisco), New Image Art Gallery (Los Angeles) and Ichi (Tokyo, Japan). Kelly has worked on several projects with Bay Area artist, Jetro Martinez, including murals with The Clarion Alley Mural Project, Mission District, San Francisco as well as Elementary School No. 5, Florianopolis, Brazil.

Jet Martinez is a Mexican-born, San Francisco- based painter and muralist. In addition to exhibiting paintings throughout the country and internationally, his public works can be found in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Arizona, Colorado, and in Mexico, Brazil and Switzerland. Jet is passionate about public art, and as an organizational member of the Clarion Alley Mural Project, he aims to fulfill a vision of a more colorful, engaging and imaginative San Francisco.

Tahiti Pehrson’s work seeks to examine the memorialization of memory. Born to a Bay Area art teacher, art was always present in daily life as a language. Growing up in early years on the coast of Northern California and the wilderness of the Gold Country Foothills, nature is a prominent theme. Later, immersed in the blooming skateboard scene of the eighties and early nineties, Pehrson designed skateboard graphics and traveled in search of art in squat artist colonies in Europe. Attending school at the San Francisco Art Institute and showing internationally in galleries and streets, Pehrson continues to cut paper scenes and create ephemeral art.

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The Office of Economic and Workforce Development is dedicated to enhancing San Francisco's economic vitality. OEWD’s programs are responsible for strengthening San Francisco’s many diverse neighborhoods and commercial corridors, creating a business climate where companies can grow and prosper, and ensuring a continually high quality of life for all San Franciscans.

The San Francisco Arts Commission champions the arts in San Francisco. The arts are essential to making San Francisco the dynamic city it is, the favorite of visitors from around the country and around the world—and a treasure for those of us fortunate enough to live here. Our overarching goal is access. Our programs make the arts available to each and every person in San Francisco, each program in its own unique way—from the murals and monuments under the care of the Civic Art Collection, to the dance and theater productions funded by Cultural Equity Grants, to the teen poets’ work published by WritersCorps.

Triple Base intends to invigorate the local art community with experimental art exhibitions and provide emerging artists with artistic mentorship and financial support through art sales and funding through grants. Triple Base aims to foster exchanges between a growing network of national and international artistic communities, which they believe is one of the best ways to support the careers of emerging artists. Triple Base strives to give an artist the time, space, and resources to create thought-provoking artwork that is accessible to the diverse audience that Triple Base attracts, located along the 24th Street Corridor.