Laurel Roth Hope (she/her/hers) is a self-taught artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to becoming a full-time artist, she worked as a park ranger and in natural resource conservation. These professional experiences influenced her current work, which centers on the human manipulation of and intervention into the natural world and […]
Josué Rojas (he/him/his) is a Salvadoran-American, San Francisco based painter, muralist, fine artist and educator. A socially committed creative, his work is deeply layered, content-rich, and abstract, blending satirical elements with luscious, narrative-driven paintings. Rojas is a visual storyteller who uses familiar imagery, cartoons, comic book art, graffiti and breaks their traditional settings in dynamic […]
Haley Mae Caranto (she/her/they) is a multi-cultural mixed media artist born in 2002 and raised in Los Angeles. Her work explores the intersections of neurodiversity, cultural fusion, and environmental consciousness. Born with learning disabilities, Caranto embraces the discomfort of societal “norms” and channels it into her artistic practice. Growing up traveling for her parents’ business, […]
Amanda Manitach : A self-taught multidisciplinary artist with a background in literature and writing, Amanda Manitach merges an affinity for drawing and language in large-scale works on paper. Drawings are laboriously built from fine marks made with a mechanical pencil, and austere block statements emerge from a froth of decadent pattern, interweaving aspects of the […]
Haein Kang : Through the lens of art, Haein Kang scrutinizes contemporary technologies closely intertwined with politics, the economy, and culture. Human aspirations for a better future often drive technological progress to deliver bigger and faster outcomes. However, this increase in economic efficiency provides only momentary gratification, not ultimate fulfillment. Kang’s art practice challenges that […]
Margie Livingston is a visual artist who calls herself a “painting nerd.” Based in Seattle, she earned her M.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington in 1999. The reinvention of her artistic practice and experimentation with materials are integral to her work. Her awards include a Fulbright Scholarship in Berlin; the Artist Trust Arts Innovator […]
Kalina Winska is a Seattle-based artist whose paintings, created on canvas, wood panels, and paper, present speculative landscapes in which the artist blurs reality and representation, the environment and its technological translations, with imagery taken from weather patterns, climate models, and futuristic landscapes. Winska grew up in Poland and has actively exhibited her works in the […]
Growing up as a homeschooled kid raised by TV, my father, a photographer, sparked my fascination with photography and cinematography. The notion that I could create something as resonant as the TV shows that shaped my childhood excited me and fueled my desire to create and share stories. I tell stories visually through surreal colored […]
Nimah Gobir is an artist and educator based in Oakland, California. Gobir’s work explores how she came to inherit the complexities and nuances of her Black identity from her family. Artworks source her siblings’ and Nigerian-born parents’ memories while honoring their individual experiences and essential humanity. Drawing from personal and autobiographical histories, Gobir imbues paintings […]
Nasim Moghadam, a multidisciplinary installation-based artist, explores discrimination, hyphenated identity, and the constraints placed on women, their body and their voices in her work, crafting narratives inspired by global endeavors for women’s unalienable rights. Meticulously exploring materials symbolizing femininity and societal constraints, she seeks a transformative shift at Recology, allowing materials to guide her creative […]