Past Events
WAVE GOODBYE TO THE PATRIARCHY - Deborah Cooper
September 13th- November 9th 2020
"Art is Spirituality in Drag"
This quote by Jennifer Yan sums up my approach to art. Art, activism and magic are one and the same to me. As far back as I can remember I have collected things and then put them together in a ritualistic manner. My earliest memory of this is creating a shrine to Barbie in a shoebox after an overnight with a Catholic friend in kindergarten. I make things out of things and everything I make is a spell, an invocation and a prayer.
I feel compelled to put pieces together to make a new whole. I never know what that whole will be when I start, but I know my intention and I begin. I’m especially drawn to using the detritus of femininity – buttons, hankies, old costume jewelry – to create spells which not only challenge, but devoke patriarchy and white supremacy. Themes that are recurrent in my lifetime have been hands, bees, hearts and eggs. Bees pollinate, hands do the work of change, hearts are meant to open and eggs represent birth.
Since the 2016 election, all my art and magic have been focused on Waving Goodbye to the Patriarchy. I started out making prayer flags that were imbued with this sentiment and this eventually resulted in portable prayer flags in the form of vintage women’s hankies. My other art (all mixed media) has carried this sentiment forward and have been invocations of the same.
To know more about my vision and process, go to WaveGoodbyeToThePatriarchy.com
September 13th- November 9th 2020
"Art is Spirituality in Drag"
This quote by Jennifer Yan sums up my approach to art. Art, activism and magic are one and the same to me. As far back as I can remember I have collected things and then put them together in a ritualistic manner. My earliest memory of this is creating a shrine to Barbie in a shoebox after an overnight with a Catholic friend in kindergarten. I make things out of things and everything I make is a spell, an invocation and a prayer.
I feel compelled to put pieces together to make a new whole. I never know what that whole will be when I start, but I know my intention and I begin. I’m especially drawn to using the detritus of femininity – buttons, hankies, old costume jewelry – to create spells which not only challenge, but devoke patriarchy and white supremacy. Themes that are recurrent in my lifetime have been hands, bees, hearts and eggs. Bees pollinate, hands do the work of change, hearts are meant to open and eggs represent birth.
Since the 2016 election, all my art and magic have been focused on Waving Goodbye to the Patriarchy. I started out making prayer flags that were imbued with this sentiment and this eventually resulted in portable prayer flags in the form of vintage women’s hankies. My other art (all mixed media) has carried this sentiment forward and have been invocations of the same.
To know more about my vision and process, go to WaveGoodbyeToThePatriarchy.com
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KEEPING HOUSE - Veronica Ceci
7/10/20- 9/6/20
Veronica Ceci’s work is an inquiry into tactile beauty and societal ugliness in the life of a queer femme working as a maid. Cleaning and art making both use tools and potions to change the perception of objects and surfaces. The artist manipulates devices used in the work of cleaning to remove their use value and transform them into objects worthy of careful consideration. In reducing the presence of the implements of cleaning to golden shapes, drawn lines and rectangular abstractions, the essential elements of functional design are presented with new context. As the figure interacts with these manipulated objects the matter of gendered hierarchical relationships to physical labor is exposed. The exaggeration of curves, emphasis on textures, and use of reflective materials moves these formerly invisible connections into the realm of hypervisible. Invoking the precise repetition and stamina honed over decades as a Master Printer, Ceci reveals parallels between high art and what is mislabeled as unskilled labor.
7/10/20- 9/6/20
Veronica Ceci’s work is an inquiry into tactile beauty and societal ugliness in the life of a queer femme working as a maid. Cleaning and art making both use tools and potions to change the perception of objects and surfaces. The artist manipulates devices used in the work of cleaning to remove their use value and transform them into objects worthy of careful consideration. In reducing the presence of the implements of cleaning to golden shapes, drawn lines and rectangular abstractions, the essential elements of functional design are presented with new context. As the figure interacts with these manipulated objects the matter of gendered hierarchical relationships to physical labor is exposed. The exaggeration of curves, emphasis on textures, and use of reflective materials moves these formerly invisible connections into the realm of hypervisible. Invoking the precise repetition and stamina honed over decades as a Master Printer, Ceci reveals parallels between high art and what is mislabeled as unskilled labor.
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ART IN THE TIME OF COVID
Curated by Mahea Campbell of Neon Raspberry, this group show presents new work made between Mid March and Mid May 2020. They are works that reflect that period of time, the early, immediate months of pandemic and quarantine Many forms are represented, including painting, writing, sculpture, fiber art, photography and drawing. NR deeply thanks the artists for sharing this recent work, made during a time of great vulnerability and questioning.
Curated by Mahea Campbell of Neon Raspberry, this group show presents new work made between Mid March and Mid May 2020. They are works that reflect that period of time, the early, immediate months of pandemic and quarantine Many forms are represented, including painting, writing, sculpture, fiber art, photography and drawing. NR deeply thanks the artists for sharing this recent work, made during a time of great vulnerability and questioning.
Artists included are:
Robyn Twomey
Bud Snow
Connor Buckley
Christie George
Catherine Sieck
Supriya Pillai-Lopez
Ash Hay
Nicole Markoff
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
Melissa Jones
Robyn Twomey
Bud Snow
Connor Buckley
Christie George
Catherine Sieck
Supriya Pillai-Lopez
Ash Hay
Nicole Markoff
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
Melissa Jones
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ANDY RADO- HOME IMPROVED
A student of humanity, eternal optimist and lover of words, Petaluma based Andy Rado creates meaning by making playful thought provoking design, art and products. Interested in the intersection of commercial and visual art, Andy's work blurs the line between the two by delivering personal messages through the medium of design and illustration. He combines his professional design background with early training in fine art to create reason to ponder and dream.
Ordinary objects painted in bright colors and illuminated with messages that contain a touch of wit and humor, invite the viewer to make the ordinary extraordinary, brining more presence and depth to our everyday lives.
Pour yourself some optimism, remember that feelings matter, consider your doubts and open a door to accepting that, in our collective humanity, everyone is someone you know.
andyrado.com
@andyrado
A student of humanity, eternal optimist and lover of words, Petaluma based Andy Rado creates meaning by making playful thought provoking design, art and products. Interested in the intersection of commercial and visual art, Andy's work blurs the line between the two by delivering personal messages through the medium of design and illustration. He combines his professional design background with early training in fine art to create reason to ponder and dream.
Ordinary objects painted in bright colors and illuminated with messages that contain a touch of wit and humor, invite the viewer to make the ordinary extraordinary, brining more presence and depth to our everyday lives.
Pour yourself some optimism, remember that feelings matter, consider your doubts and open a door to accepting that, in our collective humanity, everyone is someone you know.
andyrado.com
@andyrado
One Doubt at a Time
26”x39” Spray paint and paint markers on salvaged mirror. 2019
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Forever or Never
12” Spray paint and paint markers on salvaged frying pan. 2020
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Just Add Feeling.7” Spray paint and paint markers on antique watering can. 2019. $80
CATHERINE SIECK
EATING HONEYED POMAGRANTE SEEDS
Dec 6th 2019- January 21st 2020
Catherine Sieck is an artist and farmer who makes work informed by folk art traditions which accompany ritual, devotion, and storytelling. Her narrative cut-paper pieces celebrate the moments of beauty and grief which continually pull us apart and remake us—the elemental, the erotic, the mundane, the familial and the unfamiliar. She seeks to make work imbued with the vitality of the cycles of death and rebirth.
“Eating Honeyed Pomegranates” is the body of work made in the wake of her mom’s death. About 17 moons, held as a spiral, not a clean linear arc of healing from a loss. The time, and likewise the work, moves between deeply personal, visceral reckoning with death and panning out to encompass more of an exploration of ancestral death practices & regeneration myths and folklore. The name “Eating Honeyed Pomegranate Seeds” comes from the Persephone/ Demeter story, as the honeyed pomegranate seeds that she ingests in the underworld are what gives her the capacity to move between this world and the other.
EATING HONEYED POMAGRANTE SEEDS
Dec 6th 2019- January 21st 2020
Catherine Sieck is an artist and farmer who makes work informed by folk art traditions which accompany ritual, devotion, and storytelling. Her narrative cut-paper pieces celebrate the moments of beauty and grief which continually pull us apart and remake us—the elemental, the erotic, the mundane, the familial and the unfamiliar. She seeks to make work imbued with the vitality of the cycles of death and rebirth.
“Eating Honeyed Pomegranates” is the body of work made in the wake of her mom’s death. About 17 moons, held as a spiral, not a clean linear arc of healing from a loss. The time, and likewise the work, moves between deeply personal, visceral reckoning with death and panning out to encompass more of an exploration of ancestral death practices & regeneration myths and folklore. The name “Eating Honeyed Pomegranate Seeds” comes from the Persephone/ Demeter story, as the honeyed pomegranate seeds that she ingests in the underworld are what gives her the capacity to move between this world and the other.
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REAL FUN, WOW
The Art of Daren Thomas Magee
On show through Thanksgiving Weekend 2019
The Art of Daren Thomas Magee
On show through Thanksgiving Weekend 2019
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CHELSEA LAKIS - HOLDING SPACE
In Holding Space, Chelsea brings together the full spectrum of her creative life. She works with a variety of mediums and finds a flow in moving from one to another. They invoke the search for space, evolving identity and a desire for a room of one’s own.
“Being in this space has allowed me to bring all of my selves together. Drawings are a declaration of a feeling and my work is an evolving reflection of self. As there’s room for all my work to exist in the same space- there’s room for all of me to exist. The space creates the whole person. I am all my reflections.”
East Bay born and raised, Chelsea Lakis is a multimedia artist living and working in Occidental. She received her BFA in drawing from CSU Chico. She has studied at ENSA in Dijon, France and spent a summer session at Penland School of Craft studying experimental drawing with Joseph Hart. For more information:
Visit her website or check her out on Instagram
In Holding Space, Chelsea brings together the full spectrum of her creative life. She works with a variety of mediums and finds a flow in moving from one to another. They invoke the search for space, evolving identity and a desire for a room of one’s own.
“Being in this space has allowed me to bring all of my selves together. Drawings are a declaration of a feeling and my work is an evolving reflection of self. As there’s room for all my work to exist in the same space- there’s room for all of me to exist. The space creates the whole person. I am all my reflections.”
East Bay born and raised, Chelsea Lakis is a multimedia artist living and working in Occidental. She received her BFA in drawing from CSU Chico. She has studied at ENSA in Dijon, France and spent a summer session at Penland School of Craft studying experimental drawing with Joseph Hart. For more information:
Visit her website or check her out on Instagram
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NATALIE WOODLOCK - QUEER PORTRAITS Originally from Australia, Natalie Woodlock works in printmaking, illustration, stop-motion animation and installation. These "Queer Portraits" were a part of her 2018 MFA show at the University of New Orleans entitled “Secret Society”- a collection of the artists illustrative representations of her community. See more here: @sodapopvalentine |
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MICHELLE MILLER - RESHAPES
Michelle Miller is a Los Angeles based printmaker, painter, and muralist who uses they/them pronouns. Miller composes playful and suggestive forms in relation to hard edged geometric abstraction; compositions greatly influenced by landscape, light, design. Architectural and bodily forms are enlivened through flat, bright colors and gradients. Using their experience and lens as a queer maker, themes of the queer body and human presence have emerged across many series of Michelle's work. |
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RAISA YAVNEH - WEST COUNTY ZODIAC (REMIXED) Raisa Yavneh is a bay area raised, queer artist and freelance illustrator working and living in West Sonoma County. Her work can be seen in a number of print and online publications, including The Bohemian, The Bold Italic, The East Bay Express, Polyester Magazine and in the horoscopes for Them. - Conde Nast’s queer news platform and social media community. |
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BUD SNOW - MIX MEDIA
Through her sculpture, painting and installations, BUD SNOW creates a fantastical world of mythic creatures, archetypes and messages in vibrant color and fluid painted languages. Dive right in and smile big! |
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MELANIE CERVANTES - PRINT MAKER
Melanie is a longtime activist/artist based in the Bay Area. She creates visual art that is inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical social transformation. Melanie has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco); National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago); and Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY).
With her partner Jesus Barraza, she founded the graphic arts collaboration Dignidad Rebelde.
Following principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo, they create work that amplifies people’s stories and
to create art that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.
This show presents vivid portraits of political activist elders.
Melanie is a longtime activist/artist based in the Bay Area. She creates visual art that is inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical social transformation. Melanie has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco); National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago); and Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY).
With her partner Jesus Barraza, she founded the graphic arts collaboration Dignidad Rebelde.
Following principles of Xicanisma and Zapatismo, they create work that amplifies people’s stories and
to create art that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.
This show presents vivid portraits of political activist elders.
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ALI NORMAN
ALI NORMAN and KRISTINE VIRSIS
PRINTS AND ETCHINGS
Kristine Virsis is an artist and print maker
living and working in New York City.
She is a member of the Just Seeds Artist Cooperative.
Ali Norman is an artist currently completing her MFA in printmaking
and book arts at the University of Georgia.
She is a graduate of SCAD
(Savannah College of Art and Design).
KRISTINE VIRSIS
MELISSA JONES
Pussy Fury
Pussy Fury explores our modern world and its struggles through an alter ego, a sourpuss cat who brings a critical eye to injustice and imbalance. Occidental based, Jones draws and paints daily and takes inspiration from her internal and external landscape. She'll also share work from her daily practice and a 3d interactive monopoly game based on current Sonoma county housing dynamics.
Pussy Fury
Pussy Fury explores our modern world and its struggles through an alter ego, a sourpuss cat who brings a critical eye to injustice and imbalance. Occidental based, Jones draws and paints daily and takes inspiration from her internal and external landscape. She'll also share work from her daily practice and a 3d interactive monopoly game based on current Sonoma county housing dynamics.
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MIKE RIVER STACKWELL
New Art Messages in the 98th geographical gateway town of Occidental
"I saw the crudy past and the synthetic future, which wrapped itself around me like a golden necklace."
New Art Messages in the 98th geographical gateway town of Occidental
"I saw the crudy past and the synthetic future, which wrapped itself around me like a golden necklace."
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ROBIN EISENBERG
We're highlighting the art of Robin Einsenberg, an artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Her cast of characters, from alien girls to skeletons to mermaids inhabit her imagined world with moxie and intrigue, asking us to envision the kind of world we wanna be in. We're be showing a set of canvas prints through mid summer and also have a bunch of loose
prints available.
We're highlighting the art of Robin Einsenberg, an artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Her cast of characters, from alien girls to skeletons to mermaids inhabit her imagined world with moxie and intrigue, asking us to envision the kind of world we wanna be in. We're be showing a set of canvas prints through mid summer and also have a bunch of loose
prints available.
FIERCE AFFECTION
March 2017
Beyon Wren Moor
Nicole Markoff
Georgia Carbone
and the printmaking shops of:
Hecho Con Ganas
Just Seeds Artists Collective
The massive transition of governmental power and perspective in the last six months has been met at times with shock, excitement, fear, resistance, hope and worry.The works included in this group show offer varied perspectives on leading with a radical sense of love: for ourselves, for our communities, for the larger world and for the stranger on the street.
March 2017
Beyon Wren Moor
Nicole Markoff
Georgia Carbone
and the printmaking shops of:
Hecho Con Ganas
Just Seeds Artists Collective
The massive transition of governmental power and perspective in the last six months has been met at times with shock, excitement, fear, resistance, hope and worry.The works included in this group show offer varied perspectives on leading with a radical sense of love: for ourselves, for our communities, for the larger world and for the stranger on the street.
Victoria Wagner - New Works on Wood and Canvas
November 2016
Victoria Wagner will show her mind-bending and mind-deepening oil paintings and her magical, graceful wood rocks this November and December. We at NR and Hinterland are super excited to share space with Victoria's vision this holiday season. The Sonoma County based painter and sculptor summons the kaleidoscope of nature in her work and pairs the abstract with the organic in a truly wondrous way.
On show through New Years 2017
See more about Victoria here.
November 2016
Victoria Wagner will show her mind-bending and mind-deepening oil paintings and her magical, graceful wood rocks this November and December. We at NR and Hinterland are super excited to share space with Victoria's vision this holiday season. The Sonoma County based painter and sculptor summons the kaleidoscope of nature in her work and pairs the abstract with the organic in a truly wondrous way.
On show through New Years 2017
See more about Victoria here.
Madeleine Boga
Selected Mixed Media
June-September 2016
For more information on Madeleine Boga you can visit her here.
Selected Mixed Media
June-September 2016
For more information on Madeleine Boga you can visit her here.
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Xiomara Castro and Daniel Zarazua
Pochino Press presents: Axiom Ethiopia Axiom: logical, universal truth. How does this relate to a place like Ethiopia? A country hugely significant to so many, yet largely misunderstood by outsiders. A country that has never been colonized, one of the first Christian nations, the Rastafari promise land, and the birthplace of humanity. Yet Ethiopia is currently experiencing a never before seen opening to globalization from business and governments of the "developed" world. On the streets of the capital Addis Ababa the economic boom is palpable as the city transforms on a daily basis. What will remain, what will change? |
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These are questions photographers Xiomara Castro and Daniel D. Zarazua asked themselves while on assignment for Pochino Press in the summer of 2015. Join us for this visual and written exploration at Neon Raspberry.
March - June 2016 For more on Pochino Press, Xiomara or Daniel - check them out here. |
Wellspring: A Portfolio of Prints Celebrating Water
Just Seeds Artists Cooperative
"Even though water has supported our ancestors for millions of years, we can no longer take it for granted. It’s time to think hard about what we put in water, how we use it, and where and how we live. In creating the collection of images in Wellspring, we at Justseeds hope to further the dialogue about this elemental issue. Our hope is that these images will generalize to become a useful buoy in a sea of bad news. We know that this offering is just a drop. Much more will need to be expressed as we acclimate to our role protecting our precious water sources, embodying the hydrophilic, water-loving qualities that created us."
For more information on the Wellspring project or the work of the Just Seeds Artists Cooperative, visit them here.
Just Seeds Artists Cooperative
"Even though water has supported our ancestors for millions of years, we can no longer take it for granted. It’s time to think hard about what we put in water, how we use it, and where and how we live. In creating the collection of images in Wellspring, we at Justseeds hope to further the dialogue about this elemental issue. Our hope is that these images will generalize to become a useful buoy in a sea of bad news. We know that this offering is just a drop. Much more will need to be expressed as we acclimate to our role protecting our precious water sources, embodying the hydrophilic, water-loving qualities that created us."
For more information on the Wellspring project or the work of the Just Seeds Artists Cooperative, visit them here.
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Tintype and Ambrotype Photographs at the Neon Raspberry
November 26th-27th at Neon Raspberry
11am-8pm
The talented photographer Lindsey Ross will be at Neon Raspberry November the 26th and 27th for two days of in-house photography. To book your appointment for either a tintype (metal) or ambrotype (black glass) photo please schedule here. Appointments are filling up fast so please make yours as soon as possible.
November 26th-27th at Neon Raspberry
11am-8pm
The talented photographer Lindsey Ross will be at Neon Raspberry November the 26th and 27th for two days of in-house photography. To book your appointment for either a tintype (metal) or ambrotype (black glass) photo please schedule here. Appointments are filling up fast so please make yours as soon as possible.
Nicole Markoff
West Of Eden
Folded Landscapes - Photographic and Video Images
July-October 2015
See more of Nicole's work here.
West Of Eden
Folded Landscapes - Photographic and Video Images
July-October 2015
See more of Nicole's work here.
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Alvaro Lacayo
Multi-media Collage Growing up Catholic in the eighties, Lacayo's imagination was bombarded with religious icons and imagery and he has found as an adult that he seeks out these images in the world. These works question how to modernize conceptions of Catholicism, as well as highlight the science, sacred geometry and Pre-Judeo-Christian images that have always existed in Catholic imagery but were often denied. Fall 2014 |
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