March 10 - April 5, 2008
Heike Seefeldt
mixed-media
collages
- & -
Art Tiles
created by Excelsior residents
at the 2007
Excelsior Festival
Artists' Reception
Friday, March 28th
6 to 8 pm |
website: Heike Seefeldt
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Art Tile
5" x 6" sculpture, 2007
(one of 45 showing)
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Bridge-mix
30" x 40" mixed media
Heike Seefeldt 2008 |
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February
11 - March 3, 2008
Oil and Acrylic Painitings by Luis
Valverde
The Andean landscape of the Peruvian villages, Huancayoq
and Chula, provided the inspiration for these colorful paintings
by Luis Valverde.
Artist’s Reception:
Friday, February 29 from 7 to 9 pm
Live Music by La Maggi and her group, providing
song and dance from the Peruvian
Coast
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December 3, 2007 - January
2, 2008
Profound/Refound:
Sculptures and Paintings by
Benjamin Smith
Artist's Reception
Saturday, December 8th
5 to 8 pm
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Benjamin Smith 2007
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Lone Surfer 2006, Sonja Norwood
Reflection 2005, Gabriel Escobar
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January
10 - February 10, 2007
And We Live Here...
Photographs by Sonja Norwood and Gabriel Escobar
Sonja Norwood and Gabriel Escobar are valuable customers and friends
of Mamá Art Cafe that have been supportive of the arts venue.
Having lived in San Francisco for several years, their photographs
demonstrate a sensitivity towards fleeting moments in the natural and
urban landscapes of the Bay Area. Sonja's gaze focuses on the details
of flora and renders the sky as a painter's canvas, while Gabriel captures
the unusual in the everyday: reflections, murals, and parades are among
his many diverse subjects. Technically, both photographers use a Canon
Rebel digital camera and all prints were made on a Canon printer; a
combination that yields a beautiful result.
website: Sonja Norwood
website: Gabriel
Escobar
- Reception on February
2nd at 7:00pm -
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December 2006
La Liberación de los Colorines:
Paintings
by Natta
Haotzima
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Natta Haotzima 2006
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today in Acapulco
Michael McCauslin 2005 |
February 2006 - April 2006
Slow Eye, Quick Shutter:
Images by Lev Anderson and Michael
McCauslin
In a digital world, where
technology has increased the production of images and
speed of accessing them, Lev Anderson and Michael McCauslin
invite the viewer to slow down in the act of looking.
Michael McCauslin's flickr
sets
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December 2005 - January
2006
Rafael
Landea: One Thousand
and One Books
Rafael Landea returns to Mamá Art Cafe with a series
of paintings inspired by an installation created by Chris
Cobb in Adobe Bookstore last year.
Acrylic and ink paintings on 6'x2' linen
website:rafael-landea.com |
Rafael Landea 2005 | Part of The
Copacabana Project |
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Cara
de la Vida, 2002
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October – November 2005
Jesus Corona : Paintings
Through his paintings
influenced by cubist and surrealist painters, Jesus
Ayala addresses many challenging issues of our contemporary
world, such as cloning, cancer, and terrorism.
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July – September 2005
Mary Ann Williams : Animal
Anecdotes
Mary Ann Williams' sensitive
eye captures the personalities and spirits of animals
that might otherwise go unnoticed. Her talent
for hand-coloring further enhances the humor and tenderness
of the farmyard photographs made in Kansas, Nebraska,
and Florida.
website:mawilliams.com |
Swope Park, 1990 |
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May – June 2005
Beginning : A
Celebration of Mamá
In Honor of Mamá 's
1-year Anniversary
Photographs by Cecelia
Hahn, Paintings by Katerina Connearney & Marta
Ayala
During her pregnancy,
Cecelia Hahn projected slides of various images,
including old family photos and a portrait of her
husband directly onto her growing stomach. The
self-portraits express outwardly what Hahn was thinking
and feeling inside including childhood memories that
were surfacing. Paintings by Katerina Connearney
and Marta Ayala celebrate the expectant mother. |
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April 2005
Photis Pishiaras : Paintings
Photis Pishiaras' large-scale paintings
are classical still- lifes that reflect his homeland,
Cyprus, Greece. |
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Michael McCauslin 2004
cbrown 2004 |
February –– March
2005
Tri – Ex
: Excelsior Exposures Exhibition
color photographs
of the neighborhood by Michael McCauslin and cbrown
The digital photographs
of Michael McCauslin illustrate the beauty that exists
in the everyday urban landscape; store window reflections,
sidewalk designs, stairwells, murals, bus stops, signs
and more.
Using photoshop to carefully
alter the color of her digital images, cbrown creates
surreal artworks whose unexpected colors accentuate
architectural and design details. |
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December 2004 – March 2005
Hands : Drawings by Students
from James Denman Middle School
Given the assignment to use complimentary
colors to render a hand gesture, the students of Ann
Miller's art class made colorful, and expressive studies
that were displayed in a grid. |
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Rafael Landea
Deus Ex Machina, 2004 |
December 2004 – January 2005
Painters Cubed
Paintings by Three Local Artists
: Rafael Landea, Todd Brown, and Jose Mondragon
Rafael Landea's theatrical paintings
from his Deus Ex Machina series explore the
Latin phrase which refers to a god, in Greek and Roman
drama, that was lowered by stage machinery to resolve
a plot or extricate the protagonist from a difficult
situation.
website: rafael-landea.com
Tango is the subject of Todd Brown's
paintings that successfully convey the importance of
connection between dancers.
website: redpoppyarthouse.org
Jose Mondragon draws on memories from
his childhood in El Salvador to create cubist-influenced
paintings on wood and canvas. |
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October – November 2005
Marta Ayala
: Stone, Water, Wind
Drawing from memories of her childhood
in El Salvador, Marta Ayala poetically merges the abstract
with imagery from ancient cultures and the earth including
stone, water, and wind. These portraits
of stones, pebbles, and rocks remind viewers of the
earth below and its ever-changing character upon exposure
to the natural elements. Ayala painted the mural
on the back wall of Mamá in June 2004, Madre
Tierra.
website:martaayalaminero.com |
Las Piedras II |
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