HANG ART

ORIGINAL ART BY SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ARTISTS

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In attempts to address the concept and theory of uncertainty, Calip focuses on the experimentation and exploration of the “idea” rather than the finished outcome. Interested in the unpredictable results of working intuitively, his practice is reflective of this process of discovery. Encouraging unexpected dialogues between time and memory, Calip aims for his work to shine light on the over-looked fact that life is random.

Calip’s graphite drawings are created through a process of rubbings taken from his studio floors, walls and various surfaces at his disposal. Improvising each composition and allowing the work to run its course, the texture of the drawings resemble photos of microscopic organisms, evoking a feeling of familiarity within the uncontrollable chaos.

Inspired by 15th and 16th century mille-fleur tapestries and Persian manuscript paintings, Mohammadi is interested in both their flattened landscape and the tactile space that is meditative, immersive and rigorously decorative. Enticed by the seductive qualities of gold, vellum and ink found in manuscript paintings, Mohammadi’s work is similarly inviting with her combination of fluid washes and powdery pastels.

Beyond the material qualities, Mohammadi feels connected both spiritually and physically to her surroundings in nature and the transformative experience of motherhood, which she manifests in the form of shells, pinecones or ferns. Through forming her own visual language, Mohammadi is able to create a personal utopian landscape.

Lexygius Sanchez Calip (b. 1974) studied fine arts at the Technological University of the Philippines and is currently continuing his studies and pursuing a degree in "New Genres" under the Presidential Merit Scholarship at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has shown work nationally and internationally including the De Young Museum, San Francisco; Ateneo Museum of Modern Art, Manila; and the Metropolitan Museum, Manila. Calip lives and maintains his studio in Berkeley.

Melissa Mohammadi (b. 1973) received her BFA from Rhode Island College in Providence, RI and her MFA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. Melissa has shown her work nationally including Tammany Art House, Covington; and FWCAC, Fort Worth. Mohammadi lives and works in San Francisco.

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Sung Eun Kim (b.1985)

Night Bay Area, 2017 

Oil on Canvas

40 x 60 inches

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Chris Ehlers Gestalt Exhibition Dates June 1 - 15, 2017 Artist Reception June 3 from 3 to 5pm

Hang Art is pleased to announce Gestalt, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Chris Ehlers.

In Gestalt, Ehlers continues to build on her recurring theme of piecing together fragments of images, abstract shapes, words, and figurative elements to create a personal narrative. Ehlers narrative is one based on the desire to welcome change in pursuit of embracing what is missing from our busy lives; optimism, empowerment and courage. The story, which develops prior to beginning the physical process, acts as a spark and propels the work forward, serving as a compass to guide each painting through the different chapters.

Describing her process as cyclical, Ehlers application is almost ritualistic as she paints, layers, scrapes, and repeats until there is a stopping point of reflection. Once Ehlers stops on a painting, she’ll then live with it for a few days or weeks in order to decide if the painting effectively conveys her message or if she has to continue the process. In result, Ehlers end goal is for each painting to conjure a reverie or happy memory.

Gestalt noun ge·stalt \gə-ˈstält, -ˈshtält, -ˈstȯlt, -ˈshtȯlt\: something that is made of many parts and yet is somehow more than or different from the combination of its parts. 

Born in Hanover, Germany, Ehlers earned an M.B.A. from the University of Luneburg and worked as an economist before returning to formal art studies at the Free Academy of Art Berlin and Academy for Painting Berlin. In 2009, Ehlers relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, and currently exhibits her artwork throughout Northern California and Germany. She lives and works in San Mateo, California.

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Olivia Brown Eclipse

Exhibition Dates April 1 - 15, 2017 Artist Reception April 1 from 3 to 5pm

For Eclipse, Olivia Brown explores various aspects which occur during this astronomical event including the temporariness, visual perception, and the ambiguous forms created in the process.Within this passing moment, the opaque overlap of shape and light alters your perception, in-affect creating a strange and mysterious experience. Intrigued by the magical possibility of an eclipse, Brown invites us to explore our subconscious and encourages the engagement of the our senses as meditation. Brown is continuously investigating the relationship between painting and movement by creating a physical experience through her use of bold and fluid abstractions. Through this relationship led primarily by instinct, Brown searches for the physical interpretations of painting.

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DAVe Warnke Coloring Book Launch Party 

Saturday, March 25 3-5pm

Join us for the SF - Bay Area launch of the DAVe Warnke Coloring Books! Taking a glimpse into the lively world of of fantasic "goofer" creatures and playful geometric patterns, we invite you to add color to "The Wonderful World of DAVe". Originating from a series of 49 drawings, both books offer a variety of DAVe's signtaure creatures and abstractions and are single-sided so your colorful creations can be individual works of art. Signed editions are available and limited to only 100 of each book, so act quickly if you'd like to get your hands on this collectors item! Signed and un-signed editions will be available to view and purchase in gallery and DAVe will be in attendance to meet, greet, and color!

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Roommates 

Anthony May & Ilya Shkipin

Exhibition Dates: March 1 - 15, 2017

Artist Reception: March 4, 3-5pm 

Hang Art is pleased to announce "Roommates" featuring new works from Anthony May and Ilya Shkipin. Both bodies of work serve as explorations of human interaction and levels of detachment increasingly affecting our relationships. Through a combination of mixed media collage and paintings, "Roommates" examines our perspective on public versus personal space, and how it affects our daily interactions.

Anthony May (b.1965) holds a BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and currently lives in Alameda, California. May begins his paintings from meticulously observed preparatory sketches, but he relies on instinct to carry the work forward from there. As a result of their own developmental stages, the finished works become diaries of a process that maintains an open spontaneity and freshness. Ilya Shkipin (b.1989) holds a BFA in Illustration from the Academy of Art in San Francisco and currently lives and works in Hayward, California. Shkipin employs mixed-media impasto technique to interpret the spectrum of emotional response through amorphous imagery. Shkipin depicts intense emotion from a journalistic perspective, capturing his anguished figures in moments frozen in time. He explores the transformation of shapes, surreal imagery and blind line work. The technique varies from digital illustration to traditional mediums, such as watercolor, ink, graphite and oils.

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Pouké Halpern : Delicacy

Exhibition Dates: February 1 - 15, 2017

Artist Reception: February 4 from 3 to 5pm

After working in a variety of different mediums, Pouké picked up a brush one day and promptly painted a giant glass. She has not stopped since, endlessly painting tabletop compositions with bottles, glasses, amphorae, jugs, and bowls. Pouké is drawn to the feminine shapes of these domestic objects, which simultaneously appeal to her design aesthetic and reflect on her inner life as a woman.

Born and raised in Paris, France, Pouké studied interdisciplinary arts at San Francisco State University. Her art has been shown in local and national galleries and hangs in many private collections. She currently lives in Berkeley, and maintains a studio in neighboring Emeryville.

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Jon Shannon Rogers b. 1984

Jon Shannon Rogers’ paintings capture his viewers’ attention with the insinuation of shape and structure through the confluence of colorful lines.  As his viewers navigate his cleverly structured webs of vibrant color and rich texture, Rogers invites his audience to lose themselves within the visual maze and to consider each painting as a unique visual phenomenon.

Image: Seabreeze, 2016, Oil on Canvas, 40″ X 62″

Born in Arkansas, Rogers earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the New York Studio School.  He has also studied at the International School of Painting, Drawing, & Sculpture in Umbria, Italy.  He currently lives in Oakland, CA and works in Emeryville.

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Sung Eun Kim takes us on a journey through San Francisco’s dynamic urban boroughs in oil paint. With a devoted eye and a meticulous hand, Kim paints an array of tones that carefully convey the soft yellow glow of morning, the austere black shadows of dusk and the warm glow of a San Francisco dawn. Step out into the light on Saturday, January 7th 3-5pm!

Sung Eun Kim

b. 1985

Sung Eun Kim’s paintings capture and re-state the urban landscape by finding moments of beauty in everyday city life through his devoted consideration of light and color. From early morning fog to the hazy darkness of night, the varied characteristics of light provide fuel for Kim’s interpretation as both observer and artist. To Kim, illumination is the catalyst that lends the city its character, adding emotion and warmth where there would otherwise be none.

Sung Eun Kim completed his BFA in Painting & Drawing in 2010 at the California College of the Arts, and graduated in 2015 with an MFA in Painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Based in the Bay Area, Kim has exhibited and earned acclaim both nationally and internationally. He lives and maintains a studio practice in Alameda.

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Good art should elicit a response of ‘Huh? Wow!’ as opposed to 'Wow! Huh?’

Ed Ruscha, born on this day in 1937.  (via whitneymuseum)

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Join us this Saturday 12/10/16 3-5pm for the opening reception of Same Same but Different 5.0! 

For the past five years, Hang Art has celebrated our eclectic community through the featured exhibition, Same, Same, but Different. Our unique artist roster is asked to create new artwork(s) according to a specific set of dimensions that are the same height and width, but of variable depth. This year, we are proud to present an exhibition of brand new 6" x 6" artworks.

Exhibition Dates: December 1-23

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Jennifer Damas' artwork is an autobiography in color and brushstroke, and underneath each of her patina-fashioned paintings lies an emotional narrative of the passage of time. We are proud to open the next chapter of Jennifer Damas' wonderful tale with an exhibition of her most recent paintings: a collection that is calm, confident, and at peace with the future.

We invite you to consider these circumstances on Saturday, November 5th 3-5pm!

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Hecate

FEV on Canvas, 69″ x 69″, 2016. 

Orphne

FEV on Canvas, 69″ x 69″, 2016. 

Olivia Brown creates paintings to transform her observational and physical experiences of movement into visual abstractions. In her ongoing studies of all forms of movement, she finds common ground of innate energetic wisdom within each type. She applies the kinetic knowledge embedded within these physical movements to her painting practice, utilizing the fluid French enamel varnish as her primary medium on canvas. In her current body of work, Brown explores ideas of separation and shifting to create new spaces of impenetrable impossibility.

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Katherine B. Young 

At Sea 

Exhibition Dates: October 1-15, 2016 

Artist Reception: October 8, 3-5pm

Katherine B. Young’s paintings and drawings are meditations on the crossroads between the spiritual and the natural world. Young draws her inspiration from the tradition of Eastern Orthodox icon paintings, and her lovingly rendered seascapes transcend these bodies of water into places of personal revelation. For the first time, Hang Art is thrilled to turn an exclusive spotlight onto Katherine B. Young's beautifully precise graphite drawings for this solo exhibition.

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Please to announce Jon Shannon Rogers as the newest addition to our roster! 

Jon Shannon Rogers’ paintings capture his viewers’ attention with the insinuation of shape and structure through the confluence of colorful lines.  As his viewers navigate his cleverly structured webs of vibrant color and rich texture, Rogers invites his audience to lose themselves within the visual maze and to consider each painting as a unique visual phenomenon.

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The Vermont Paintings

On view through 9/15/16

Taken by the spirit of adventure, artist Peter Dimick gathered a few essentials and took to the road in search of inspiration like so many creatives before him. His travels finally led him to Vermont, where Dimick produced a kaleidoscopic body of earthy geometric abstractions reflective of the state's natural beauty and his time spent there.

Peter Dimick b. 1971

Peter Dimick’s paintings are part of an ongoing search for imbalance. He is inspired by random events and imagery from film and print. He overlaps his own sketches with layers of acrylic paint as he searches for the perfectly imperfect stage of the painting. Deconstruction and rebirth play a large role in his work. He destroys and reworks the colors, shapes and materials themselves. He piles drawings on top of each other and finds new images among the disorder. He cuts finished paintings into pieces and sews them back together and paints with anything from knives to the back of his fingers. On a daily basis he is challenged by the lack of guidelines in art and enjoys discovering new ways to approach his painting; whether he starts with a drawing, a blank canvas or pieces of canvas sewn together. His differing approaches are evident in his wide variety of styles from abstract to realism.

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Fain Hancock’s paintings explore the narrow line between chaos and control. She often wipes away, paints over, or sands the surface if her chance operations leave her unsatisfied. Layer after layer, the paintings become composites that simultaneously reveal and redact the history of their making. The resulting rich and subtle paintings emanate a sense of fragile beauty.