Artists
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Adrian De La Fuente
23HAM
photography
Adrian is a photographer, who works with black and white film and develops his pictures in the 23HAM darkroom.
23HAM
painting
andreinadav@gmail.com
My paintings explore the relationship between life and movement. With Textures, my early work is a consciously naive experimentation with techniques, primarily concerned with color and texture, the harmony I find in new uses of materials. Feeling the need to evolve, my work started incorporating abstract representations of Nature. This time I experimented with typography and text. Reclaimed, an ode to the organic flow and constant transformation of life, the re-use of discarded objects is the central subject. BotanInk is a clean start: dots of ink, limited use of color and texture, illustrating the fragile balance between life and nature. Alive and changing, my work is evolving. Life is a gradual process of change, and so are paintings, rendering them capable of capturing that organic process. This is what I want my art to be.
Charles Goodman III
guest artist
photography
cdknottyer@yahoo.com
While employed in the carnival industry, I first picked up a camera in 2001 (a disposable) just wanting to get some pictures for myself. As my friends kept looking through them I kept hearing “OOoooo”, “Ahhhh”, “Wowww”, so at the end of the season when I had some money, I bought a Minolta point and shoot. That camera lasted for several years and I was still getting the same Oooos and Ahhhs from my friends who looked through my photos. Now, I am no longer in the carnival industry, that Minolta point and shoot has given up the ghost, and I have a Canon A1. I still take pictures because I like the shapes, the colors, the patterns, and the textures of stuff. I think that if my photos were to be categorized, they would be “outdoor still life”. I still get the Oooos and Ahhs from my friends who look through my photos. I have never been to photography school, I am self taught from a few books and by experimenting with different functions and aspects of each camera I have had. The more I learn the more I find things to learn about and ways to expand my art into new and exciting images.
23HAM
Installation (Poetry Assemblage)
Taiko Performer
The idea behind poetry assemblage is to look at the interplay between words and objects. In assemblage, the viewer creates associations between unrelated objects that have been grouped together by the artist. By adding words, which are attached to the objects but do not name them, another layer is added. Viewers can create poems with the words and then see if any interesting juxtapositions of objects are also created. Or they can combine objects in an assemblage and see what combination of words that creates. Ideally, the object, the name of the object and the word attached to it will join to make something greater than the sum of its parts.
23HAM
photography, digital imagery
chrystagiffen@gmail.com
I’m currently working on two on going projects. The first is a series of digital paintings exploring texture and form from natural and industrial elements. This series presents a surreal interpretation of our body’s reaction to its surroundings. The second is a collection of artist portraits in which the artist is in direct collaboration with the subject for the outcome of the finished images.
Dan Schwartz
23HAM
writing, film, drums, found objects, conceptual art
God forbid this gets into the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.
guest artist
illustration, design, painting
510-815-0691
Damon C. Guthrie is dedicated to creating original images designed to promote positive change for the world in which we stand. Growing up in a time when globalization still incorporated the suffering of people, Damon was continually bombarded with pressing issues. Issues, as they relate to humans, such as: symbiotic energy production, the evolution of imperialistic regimes towards a more progressive strategy for human happiness, sex, fire, music and money. Damon now bikes a lot, living close to where he lives (on purpose) and is very funny sometimes. In a recent interview, Damon spoke about his love of art, saying “Yes!”. His works now are being exhibited in their physical form in homes and public spaces all around the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in pixel-ated form to the people of the world who have access to “The Internet”. He is presently thinking about a myriad of really good ideas that will most likely come to fruition.
23HAM
architectural installations (Skyscraper), film
sixgunwoody@gmail.com
Derek is an interdisciplinary artist from Phoenix, AZ. He was born in 1982. On the weekends, he works as a baggage handler at Sky Harbor International Airport. If you are changing planes in Phoenix you might see him connecting your bags on his bag tug. He’s the one that drives with caution like your granny. During the weekdays, he walks around Berkeley and sleeps on a boat. He is currently working on his first film as well as a project involving hand-painted Fed-Ex boxes.
guest artist
living wall installation, ecological design consultation, landscape architecture, watershed master planning
www.designecology.com
Josiah Raison Cain is a self-styled landscape architect who has been pushing the boundaries of sustainable ecological design for his entire 17 year career. He is a Partner at DESIGN ECOLOGY, lectures regularly, and teaches at Sonoma State University, University of California Davis, and Esalen Institute. Born in West Marin County, he now lives and works in Mill Valley, California. Josiah received his undergraduate degree from UC Davis and a graduate degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
23HAM
drawing, painting, sculpture
kaitlinmcsweeney@gmail.com
Kaitlin McSweeney began drawing when she was a year old after her mother presented her with crayons, which she used to draw circles. Now 26, she is still drawing circles. She hopes Mama is good to everyone involved.
Today she went to the Berkeley Aquatic park to find her cousin, who texted her saying “hey are you in Berkeley? in at a graffiti park by the water and the freeway”. Turns out her cousin was in a different park, but the sun was coming down, going gold across the water and in the cypresses and all the grass was primastic green, so it was good. There were also people playing frisbee golf which she had never seen before, and trains passing by that reminded her of Switzerland. She felt it would be right to see a white egret as the water darkened, looked up and there it was.
23HAM
painting
Kira Del Mar is a Bay Area based figurative painter who daylights as a classroom assistant and after-school art teacher at Black Pine Circle school in Berkeley. By way of formal academic training, Kira holds a BA in History from Pomona College and an MPhil in Early Modern History from Cambridge University, where she studied the history of science and 17th century British alchemical illustration. The daughter of two chemists, her painting practice has grown organically from a dual interest in the close observation of nature and the historian’s desire to understand and connect with other individuals. She is twenty-four years old.
Kris Vagner
Guest Artist
Photography, Ceramics, Sculpture
kris@vagner.net
Natasha Fallahi
founder of 23HAM
multimedia, film, design
The highlight of my day was drinking a glass of water.
It felt really good. I thought this was really pathetic and I was sad for myself. Then I realised it was pretty profound. And I went to bed.
Nick Boss
Guest Artist
Painting, Illustration
nwsboss@yahoo.com
Olivia Bagdade
23HAM
painting, sculpture, hair-cutting
olivia.bagdade@gmail.com
Things Olivia has:
a white guitar, hella housepaint, a zeal for hammer and nails, freshly sharpened shears, skillz in the kitchen, a degree in linguistics, an intermittent obsession with numbers, a number of red shoes
23HAM
print-making, book arts
sooxieq@aol.com
My work has always been inextricably intertwined with storytelling. I write and I make visual art, sometimes in tandem, and I am not sure there is much of a difference between the two. Both media are essentially symbols that rely on the imagination of the audience to create meaning. My work runs the gamut from illustrated stories to solo visuals, and I make little distinction between them. I am currently working on an artist’s book of short stories and illustrations about disengagement and non-physical absence titled The Ghost Book.
Shari Goodman
guest artist
candle-making
23HAM
design, architecture, photography, installation
tealdudziak@gmail.com
805.704.2888
I studied architecture at the Academy of Art University and enjoy
combining that technical experience with emotional artistic
expression. I’m currently working on a few projects focusing on what
people consider and find ‘home’ to be and how that can be defined in a
collected visual way…to show a path, either through architectural
sketches or photos, through their life with the idea of ‘home’ being
the concept that I portray. I paint, I draw, I run marathons, I silkscreen, I can put together a
kick ass drawing set for your house, I collect things in tiny bottles,
I write, I climb, I garden, I cook, I hike, I explore, I camp, I
wonder and I dream.
