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

sonaholman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:10:53 +0000

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

sonaholman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:36:22 +0000

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…

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

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

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