ON VIEW APRIL 8 - JUNE 4

OPENING RECEPTION

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

3 PM ARTIST TALKS / 4 - 5 PM RECEPTION

FREE AND OPEN TO ALL!

MAIN GALLERY

FOCUS / Jenny Sharaf: It's All Flowers

Curated by Louisa Gloger

Jenny Sharaf is a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary artist who paints out of her studio in Bolinas. Her paintings, installations, videos, and happenings celebrate the process while reflecting on art history, counterculture, feminism, and abstraction. She is known for her graphic yet quasi-psychedelic poured paint technique. This exhibition explores her recent large-scale paintings on canvas. The sea plays a significant role in her current work, inspiring organic formlessness and a California-centric palette. Sharaf has recently taken on a new practice – working with clay – and this exhibition incorporates a selection of her ceramics. Sharaf's murals are found in diverse settings, including Tokyo and Beirut. 

Born in Los Angeles in 1985, Sharaf received her BFA from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and her MFA from Mills College, Oakland. John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco represents her. Sharaf’s work is in the permanent collections of Ace Hotel, Google, Rachel Zoe Inc., Yoko Ono, and Capital One, among others. Sharaf presented an installation at the 2023 FOG Art + Design Fair entrance in San Francisco, with large-scale paintings and hand-painted upholstered objects, in sponsorship with SFMOMA.

COASTAL MARIN ARTISTS GALLERY

Harriet Heyman: The Quickening

Curated by Elia Haworth

Motion is the theme of Harriet Heyman's bronze sculptures. Whether it's a dog leaping or three figures in a desperate embrace, the sculptures exude energy and vitality. Heyman explored the theme of bodies in motion in her book Private Acts: The Acrobat Sublime (Rizzoli, 2011), about the art of acrobatics as a metaphor for work and the creative process. Though cast in bronze, her sculptures are like quick sketches. The sculptures take months to make, but they feel spontaneous—as if just quickened from raw material and ready to dance in the play of light. For thirty years, Heyman has divided her time between San Francisco and the quiet of her home and studio in Bolinas. Her recent exhibitions have been in the Bay Area and London.

HELENE STURDIVANT MAYNE PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY

Ginny Felch: Silver Linings

Curated by Elia Haworth

Virginia Felch is a master fine art photographer with an eclectic eye for beauty. Whatever her subject may be—a doorway in Italy, flower petals, people, landscapes, or experimental techniques—her work expresses feminine strength, ephemeral light, and timelessness. She is best known professionally for her sensitive and compelling portraits of young people and her bestselling book, Photographing Children (Wiley, 2011). Felch was introduced to photography as a child when her father gave her a Brownie camera. After a series of searing tragedies in her own life, photography became a pathway to express resiliency, love, and joy. She has exhibited widely and lectured internationally through the Professional Photographers of America. A longtime resident of Stinson Beach, she previously served on the board of Bolinas Museum and as curator of the museum’s photography gallery.

THE FLOYD RUSSELL FAMILY HISTORY ROOM 

Selected Objects from the History Archive

Curated by Elia Haworth

Bolinas Museum collects and preserves various items that tell the fascinating history of the community of Bolinas, beginning with the Coast Miwok and the Spanish Colonials to the current era. This special exhibit in the History Room features items ranging from historical photographs and documents to surprising artifacts such as Ramona Briones’ silk shawl, a woven horsehair hat, stage driver’s leather gloves from the Wild West days, a gentleman’s pocket watch, hand forged tools, and ladies’ dancing shoes.

ON VIEW THROUGH APRIL 23.

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