Sonoma Valley Museum of Art 2009 Biennial & San Francisco 2009 Open Studios at Soma Artist Studios

Lots of Art happening this year – Been in several shows…

Right now – I’m in a great juried show  at the Sonoma Valley  Museum of Art – 48 artists showing from nine Bay Area counties in California- curators Susan Cummings (of the late, great Susan Cummings Gallery) and Frances McCormack artist and professor and Michael Schwager, curator and professor   selected the art  from  out of 300 entries - http://www.svma.org. My  painting Gathering Force, shown below

and in  the blog entry from last year’s  Open Studio got me in the door. Just finishing up  with  a group painting show this week at Chroma Art & Design, but you  know , its fall -time for making new work .

Works in progress

This weekend October 24th & 25th, 2009  is San Francisco Open Studios and I’m showing at  Soma Artists Studios  at 689 Bryant ( at 5th) – home to more than 30 Artists. There is all sorts of great art in the area with  many artist  buildings participating in the great South of Market  District  of San Francisco.  11-6PM Saturday  and Sunday.  www.sonaholman.com

The link below is a map to all the artist buildings in the neighborhood

www.somaopenstudios.org/OS09/SOMAOS09-flyer.pdf

And last but not least , thanks to Art Span for hosting this great month long art event  in SF! www.artspan.org

All images  shown on this blog are copyrighted by Soña Holman 2009

 

Soña Holman Painting from the Inside Out -Open Studios San Francisco Nov.1 & 2, 2008

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Photo by The Shadow

November 1 & 2, 2008 Showed the  3 year survey of my work as guest artist at The Point, an artists colony at Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco:   Painting from the Inside Out - Lyrical Abstractions: Enigmatic, dynamic, metaphoric, peaceful paintings by  award winning artist Soña Holman.  San Francisco’s top Open Studio  Destination, Building 117,  Suite 3206- Visit www.thepointart.com for  map and a list of all participating artists. Event Sponsored by Artspan   www.artspan.org

November 2nd, 2008- What a great response and great turnout. There was an huge  rain storm the first day and they  still CAME in, dripping wet ,rivulets running down pants and faces arriving after  managing to wade and swim through the huge and scary parking lot mud lake that may have spawned frogs and rubber duckies and a few trout over the weekend.  Impressive – Seems like  everyone had that desperate feeling of  MUST SEE ART to be sustained enough to get through this wacked out election.  Most Grateful to them for coming and buying art too. One  rainy day  visitor was The Shadow, a great supporter of the local art scene  who photographs  shows and post them on  his blog theshadowsf.blogspot.com – here’s the Hunters Point link http://shadowsf.blogspot.com/2008/11/open-studios-week-5-day-1.html

So…  Tony the super hero  owner of   Berkeley Giclee, made got me prints in time for OS . The 8” x 8” prints all sold at the Hunters Point event this weekend. HE IS GOOD and my  new hero

People loved Gathering  & Gathering Force  and Alchemy  www. sonaholman.com

I had alot of fun – thank you April Hankins  for the use of your great studio (a great abstractionist herself). Just alot of curious  humans feeling it there at the old Navy shipyard on the waterfront , where my Mom worked during World War II, drawing  blueprints for battleships  and where her daughter found her audience…

www.sonaholman.com

All images  shown on this blog are copyrighted by Soña Holman 2008