"Art on the Edge" Video Series

In the video series’ inaugural release, Elvira Dayel talks about her personal history, her inspiration and how the Shipyard shapes her work. Elvira thinks of herself as a minimalist, using only as much as needed to convey an idea. She re-invents environments by deconstructed, flattened and re-assembling, thereby creating new realities.

This episode highlights Wynne Hayakawa, a painter best known for her mesmerizing abstracts inspired by trees and the light around them. Her creative process evolves from a fleeting experience in the field to her painted interpretation of the interplay of light, color, pattern and space inherent in that experience.

This episode highlights Ayanna U’Dongo, a video artist and photographer whose work has been featured in public venues including The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

This episode features versatile painter Jeff Long. Equally at home in abstraction or realism, Long’s paintings draw from many different sources – landscape and nature, cultural traditions, tribal design elements, Modernist motifs – fusing these elements into uniquely personalized impressions of the world.

This episode highlights Linda Larson, an oil painter who is inspired by the transformative power of nature. Her paintings evoke deep watery worlds in which recognizable and ethereal forms appear and vanish, creating an experience of both calm and a palpable tension between the translucent and the mysterious.

This episode highlights painter Rob Cox, whose representations of urban landscapes, figures, and everyday objects showcase the process of painting itself. In Cox’s pursuit of the unique essence of his subject how to paint is as important as what to paint.

This episode highlights Howard Hersh, whose work embraces both painted and sculptural elements. The integration of two very differently defined disciplines – painting, which creates a two-dimensional illusion of the 3-D world, and sculpture, which exists wholly as a 3-D object – speaks to structure as both a metaphor and a reality.

This episode highlights Martín Revolo, whose artistic expression finds many outlets, including photography, filmmaking, music, collage, painting and printmaking. Each project is realized using a different combination of media, but all Revolo’s work speaks to the connections artist and viewer have through “personal mythologies.”

This episode features abstract artist Kim Smith, whose meticulously assembled collages evoke the influence of Dada, the Bauhaus and Wiener Werkstätte movements. She works almost exclusively with vintage and antique materials to bring the feel of old Europe to her art.

This episode highlights Carrie Ann Plank, an artist working in the mediums of installation, printmaking, painting, and glass. A large portion of Plank’s work considers reinterpreting and reorganizing visual information systems and how content changes meaning.

This episode highlights Rhonel Roberts, a California-born “color expressionist,” whose vibrant and ever-evolving work has been featured in the posters for The Fillmore Jazz Festival, at home decor retailer Batch, and in the book Love Your Color.

This episode highlights Marti McKee, a San Francisco native, who has pursued the study of the figure with intensity and commitment for many years. For the past two years McKee has focused on designing and printing silkscreen posters advocating women’s rights, immigrant rights, social justice and impeachment.

This episode highlights Stephanie Peek, whose florally-inspired oil paintings speak metaphorically of the lush but fragile beauty of the world.

This episode highlights Eric Joyner, a painter well-known for his iconic scenes of robots and donuts, which range from deadpan to self-assuredly absurd. He is a member of San Francisco Society of Illustrators and New York Society of Illustrators,

This episode features painter Stanley Goldstein, whose evocative images of everyday life are painted with fluid brushwork that reveals his passion for the lushness of paint. In his depiction of the myriad physical and emotional connections between people, Stanley’s work embodies both the dramatic and intimate.

This episode highlights RONDOVAL, a mixed media artist whose work transforms objects and elements of timeless nostalgia into a distinctly modern aesthetic.

This episode highlights Rebecca Haseltine, whose somatically-inspired work sources experiences and sensations from the body, translating them into fluid visual renderings that can take any number of forms, including paintings, installations and collaborations.