current exhibition

Mga Mumu, Multo, at Maskara
Lydia Ortiz

On view 12/06/19–03/13/20

Lydia Ortiz is an illustrator, designer, and art director living in San Francisco. She was born in Tondo Manila, Philippines. Her childhood was filled with animals, Filipino folklore, stories of ghosts, and regular visits to the witch doctor. She likes to believe that at the age of 8, she saved her family from a fire that consumed their home. At age 18, she migrated to the United States with her family. In San Francisco, she worked full time while going to school. It took her 10 years to finish college. Oof. She graduated with honors from the California College of the Arts with a BA degree in Design. She tried living in New York for 5 years but it was too damn cold. She draws a lot. She works a lot.

She is currently a children’s book designer at Chronicle Books and she moonlights as an editorial illustrator during nights and weekends. She does work for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Instagram, Teen Vogue, California Academy of Sciences, WIRED, and more. She is happily married to a photographer and together they are raising two cats in San Francisco! She still believes in ghosts and other dimensions.

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june 2019 – september 2019

Projections
Michael Bartalos

These wall pieces are part of an ongoing Projections series. Made from wood, thread, and colored acrylic panels, the sculptures suggest multiple concepts around ‘projection’ — that of physical protrusion as well as projected light and shadow. In sunlight, the shadows shift and colors mix over the course of the day, marking time. In artificial light, the shadows' shapes and colors project to mark the space.

Michael Bartalos is a San Francisco-based artist working in print, video, and sculpture. He is a grantee of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program and has held fellowships at the Headlands Center for the Arts and SOMA Summer in Mexico City. Bartalos attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pratt Institute (BFA), Stanford University (MFA), and teaches in the MFA Design Program at CCA.

december 2018 – may 2019

Works of/from Varying Dimensions
Jon Hioki

INTERDIMENSIONAL BEING: What is this art show about?

JON HIOKI: This is a collection of new and old paintings made over the last ten years or so. I think of them as little portals to other worlds or realities. Mostly they are images that I dream up and think to myself “that sounds cool, I’d like to see that” and then I make it.  Does that answer your question?

IB: Yes, thank you. Goodbye.

*Being disappears into the infinite*

JH: Goodbye.