"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arcadia 2007


Host Committee

  • Co-Chairs
  • Janet Bishop
  • Anne & Paul Wattis
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  • Gretchen Berggruen
  • Catharine Clark
  • Jeffrey Fraenkel
  • Raman Frey
  • Ed Gilbert
  • Ann Hatch & Paul Discoe
  • Charles Hespe
  • Dorka Keehn
  • Thomas Reynolds
  • Lawrence Rinder
  • David Sifry
  • John Trippe
  • Mark Ulriksen
  •  

Arcadia Committee

  • Amber Bieg
  • Kristin Brewe
  • Christine Cariati
  • Liz Hager
  • Anne Hector
  • Joann Lee
  • Kelly Quirke
  • Mireille Schwartz

Arcadia Curator

  • Christine Cariati

Event Artwork

  • Paul Madonna

Arcadia Web site

  • Cliff Gerrish

Event Production

  • CapirasoBing Consulting
 

Mimi Jensen

  • From a Dream Tree
  • Oil on Arches paper
  • 11" x 14" (framed)
  • See Live Auction

Statement

Instead of turning to nature for inspiration I turned to chocolate, which is always a fine idea.

I dreamed I saw a chocolate tree
with leaves by Joseph Schmidt.

I wondered at its beauty;
then ate it bit by bit.

Made by local chocolatiers
with only one exception—

Hershey's kisses dropped each day
from this, my dream confection.

The trunk was Ghirardelli
with ScharffenBerger bark.

Its blossoms by Recchiuti
and buds of pure Guittard.

Truffled fruit by XOX;
the sap ran simply See's.

Even FUF would never plant
this San Francisco tree.

Learn more about Mimi Jensen
Contact:
nullfalsenull
Visit Mimi Jensen’s Website:
http://www.mimijensen.com
Gallery: Hespe Gallery
http://www.hespe.com

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Marvin Johnson

Statement
In the early morning sun my eye catches the patterns. Do you see them too? They fascinate.

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Sara Kahn

  • Spring, Tree and Chair
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • 20" x 20"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
In my landscape paintings I try to picture the individual character of each tree in connection with its surroundings and other elements in the painting. The series "Chairs and Trees" focuses on their restful and supporting qualities and explores the visual relationship between them.

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http://www.sarakahn.net
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Josh Keyes

Statement
My intention is to create work that asks questions about the implications of urban sprawl and its impact on the environment. I am interested in creating psychological narratives set in closed systems that express the behavior of and the interaction between humans and animals. The dystopian model creates a dynamic playing field where I can experiment with these ideas and forms.

Learn more about Josh Keyes
Contact:
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Visit Josh Keyes’s Website:
http://www.joshkeyes.com
Gallery: Hang Gallery
http://www.hangart.com

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Victoria Kirby

  • Tree - 07
  • Monoprint w/chine collé & watercolor
  • 20" x 26"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
Trees in the Bay Area and near Mt. Shasta were the inspiration for my current tree-related series using solarplates (etched using sun and water only) and hand colored. Mulberry paper was used for the chine collé.

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John Oliver Koelsch

  • Magnolia,
    February 28, 2007
  • Photograph
  • 20" x 16"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
The ambiance of Victorian architecture in a stroll past the Flower Conservatory in Golden Gate Park is enhanced by the free form of a flowering white magnolia.

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Joe Kuo

Statement
My paintings are about light. I always strive to create a harmonious atmosphere in my paintings via a proper balance of values and colors, so as to provide the viewer an opportunity to appreciate art and to react to it emotionally.

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Contact:
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Visit Joe Kuo’s Website:
http://www.garyblaise.com/joe/
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Colette Lafia

  • Peeling Bark
  • Acrylic, pencil, bark on canvas
  • 24" x 24"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
I have always been intrigued by the layers that compose a tree. A tree has a deep interior life that is a mystery to the naked eye. I am fascinated with the inner life of a tree, and Peeling Bark is an interior composition about the life inside the life of a growing tree.

Learn more about Colette Lafia
Contact:
nullfalsenull
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http://www.colettelafia.com
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Gyöngy Laky

  • Play by the Rules
  • Construction with grapevine, apricot, plum and nails
  • 33" x 33" x 2"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
What is considered waste and what is not, is both intriguing and problematic in a throwaway culture. I respond to resources presented by nature and the environment each year as growers trim and discard tree limbs. I often use branches from trees in my North Beach neighborhood. This work, titled "Play by the Rules," addresses a different kind of waste. March 29, 2003, during the first week of the Iraq war, the San Francisco Chronicle published a photo of a family with three small children running from the fighting—so reminiscent of my own experience when, as a young child, I fled war-ravaged Hungary with my two brothers and parents. Since 2003, much of my work touches on the tragic and wasteful war in Iraq. Dramatist Bertolt Brecht once said, "Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer to shape it." I have my hammer, my electric drill, my nails and my screws (strangely, called "bullets for building") and my pieces of wood. With these I hope to make a small dent.

Learn more about Gyöngy Laky
Contact:
nullfalsenull
Visit Gyöngy Laky’s Website:
http://www.gyongylaky.com
Gallery: Braunstein/Quay Gallery
http://www.braunsteinquay.com/archive/laky2007.html

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José Ramón Lerma

  • Flowing Flower
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • 9" x 12"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
As an artist, Ive always admired paintings of flowers. I use flowers as shapes and catchers of light.
Con carino, José Ramón Lerma

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Nora Lindahl

  • Indian Lime Tree in Russian Hill Garden
  • Watercolor and gouache
  • 19.5" x 16.5"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
Nora Lindahl has enjoyed making art since childhood. She has studied painting in New York, San Francisco and at the Accademia de Belle Arte in Florence. Landscape painting is her way of becoming more deeply connected with the world.

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Leslie Lusardi

  • Street Scene #4
  • Oil on canvas
  • 12" x 18"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
Courtesy of Hespe Gallery

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Gallery: Hespe Gallery
http://www.hespe.com

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Derek Lynch

Statement
I work with elements from nature. I enjoy using the chaotic patterns and textures of organic life from our environment.

Learn more about Derek Lynch
Contact:
nullderek@lynchart.comnull
Visit Derek Lynch’s Website:
http://www.lynchart.com
Gallery: Julie Nester Gallery
http://www.julienestergallery.com

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Paul Madonna

  • Seed
  • Ink & watercolor on watercolor paper
  • 11" x 14" framed
  • See Live Auction




  • Plum Blossom
  • Ink & watercolor on watercolor paper
  • 12" x 16" framed
  • See Live Auction

  • London Planes
  • Ink on watercolor paper
  • 16" x 20" framed
  • See Live Auction

Statement
I want to offer the same beauty that I see every day when I walk out my door, the beauty that would change this city, and that I would miss, if it were no longer here.

Learn more about Paul Madonna
Contact:
pmadonna@paulmadonna.com
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http://www.paulmadonna.com
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Mary V. Marsh

  • History Lesson
  • Gouache on checkout card, bookcover
  • 8.5" x 15" x .75"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
I am recycling discarded library materials and using the nostalgia of old bookcovers to imply a new narrative about trees as if they are only known through reading old books.

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Contact:
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Visit Mary V. Marsh’s Website:
http://registry.whitecolumns.org
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Paula McCartney

  • Bird Watching (Vermillion Flycatchers)
  • Chromogenic Print
  • 10" x 10"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
In Bird Watching, I have combined varied natural settings with carefully placed craft store songbirds to create an enhanced landscape. This work questions what is natural, and whether being so holds any intrinsic importance.

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Contact:
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http://www.paulamccartney.com
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Barry McGee

  • Untitled
  • Latex and gouache on paper
  • 10" x 8.5"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
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Gallery: Gallery Paule Anglim
http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com/mcgee_barry.html

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Keegan McHargue

  • Seed Bearers
  • Acrylic on board
  • 16" x 20"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
In the redwoods I found a fallen tree. In the middle of its root ball there was an entrance which I climbed into and crawled 100 feet to be reborn through the other end.

Learn more about Keegan McHargue
Contact:
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Visit Keegan McHargue’s Website:
http://www.supervisionstudy.org/
Gallery: Jack Hanley Gallery
http://www.jackhanley.com/id246.htm

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Beverly Mills

  • Paris October
  • Black & white collage
  • 26" x 20"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
Paris in October: cobblestones and plane trees
melancholy sunshine; deep shadows.

Learn more about Beverly Mills
Contact:
nullfalsenull
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http://www.studiobeverly.com
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Doris Mitsch

  • Verse 12A
    (beaucarnia recurvata)
  • Photograph (#2 of limited series of 15)
  • 20" x 24"
  • See Live Auction

Statement
This photograph is from a series of digital explorations of organic forms, isolated by a sweeping beam of light in the dark. The process I'm using is somewhat unusual: I'm using a flatbed scanner as a camera. The scanner captures an image by slowly moving both the light and the lens across the subject, essentially lighting and photographing it from multiple angles in one long exposure. This produces a single image stitched together from thousands of tiny slivers, to which I then make endless, minute adjustments.

Learn more about Doris Mitsch
Contact:
nullfalsenull
Visit Doris Mitsch’s Website:
http://www.dorismitsch.com
Gallery: Clamp Art
http://www.clampart.com

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Kyle Mock

Statement
I am interested in exploring the relationship of personified objects and the narratives created by their interaction with one another in isolated and nondescript settings.

Learn more about Kyle Mock
Contact:
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Visit Kyle Mock’s Website:
http://www.basebasebase.com/archive/flat_files/000061.html
Gallery: Triple Base Gallery
http://www.basebasebase.com

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John Musgrove

Statement
How about the interplay of humankind and Mother Nature? I like it.

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http://www.musgrovepainting.com
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Derek Nunn

Statement
What would our world be without trees? I should know, in a former life, I was a tree, so I take care of them now. And so should you.
Derek "The Tree" Nunn

Learn more about Derek Nunn
Contact:
nullderek@art4lifesf.netnull
Visit Derek Nunn’s Website:
http://art4lifesf.net
Gallery: Hang Art
http://www.hangart.com

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Karen O’Brien

  • Golden Tree Triptych
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • 8" x 8" (x3)
  • See Live Auction

Statement
My philosophy about painting: the best work comes from a place of passion. I become fervent about color or an idea and the creativity just flows. Inspiration? Viewing the masters, bakeries and the colors of a spring day.

Learn more about Karen O’Brien
Contact:
nullcupcakeartist@gmail.comnull
Visit Karen O’Brien’s Website:
http://karenO.imagekind.com/cupcakes
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