Chris Duncan : b.1974; Perth Amboy, New Jersey

Chris received his BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and currently works in Oakland, California. He has exhibited throughout the US, from Massachusetts to California, Chicago to Florida. He co-founded the Oakland art collective Keepsake Society as well as the art zine Hot & Cold.
Chris' work has been described as "vibrant," "spiritual and personal". His mixed media pieces have a prismatic quality in which line and dots come together and fly apart in a rainbow of colors, often emanating from or terminating in the form of birds. The artist himself matter-of-factly groups birds together with such larger ideas of life, death and energy.

if we wanted to, 2005
9 x12 inches / 23 x 30 cm
mixed media
Image courtesy of the artist

Tara Lisa Foley : b.1975; New York City

Tara received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in NYC, studying psychology and art. After spending 4 years in Japan and India, a time she credits as being highly inspirational and prolific, she later returned to the US where in addition to producing her own work she also teaches art to inner city youth at the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco.
She counts her participation in San Francisco's Low Gallery exhibition 'Lost Civilization' as one of the most important for her. Through it she began working on the collaborative 'Excavation Project' by which multi-media artists (re)create remains of extinct civilizations through 'excavation'.
Tara works in gouache on paper through which she addresses ideas of science fiction, psychology and the unconscious.

Swarn 1, 2005
24 x 30 inches / 61 x 76 cm
Gouache on paper
Image courtesy of the artist

Jim Gaylord : b.1974; North Carolina

Previously a San Francisco-based artist, Jim now works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in 1997 and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005 where he also received the Eisner Award in Art Practice. His work has been shown at the Gregory Lind, Bucheon and New Langton Arts galleries in San Francisco and PS 122 Gallery in NYC. He is a recent recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant.
Jim describes his colorful, dream-like paintings as existing between areas of understanding and confusion. The forms in his work offer clues to their subject matter but hold back from revealing their whole story, preferring instead to let the viewer enjoy an ambiguity in the image. Jim's recent work explores this theme through painting over found photographs to isolate visual layers in the images.

Bivouac, 2005
10 x 12 inches / 25 x 30 cm
gouache on paper
Image courtesy of Gregory Lind Gallery

Robert Gutierrez : b.1972; Manila, Philippines

Robert received a BFA from Otis Parsons in Los Angeles and has shown his work in recent exhibitions of such galleries as Deitch Projects (New York); Stephen Wirtz, New Langton Arts, Bucheon and Gregory Lind galleries (San Francisco); and Galerie Ze De Bois (Lisbon). He is represented by SF gallery Ratio 3.
San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts describes Robert's work as employing "a hallucinogenic color palette to paint amorphous planet-scapes and shadowy underworlds." He combines "organ-shaped entities and abbreviated body parts" over a landscape of rocks and plants where a pseudo "sci-fi aesthetic" mixes with animist spiritualism.

As Once the Winged Energy of Delight, 2004
Mixed media on illustration board
9 x 9 1/2 inches
Image courtesy of Ratio 3, San Francisco

Xylor Jane : b.1963; Long Beach, CA

Xylor received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. She currently divides her time working in San Francisco and Brooklyn, NY. Her installations are seen as an investigation into order and chaos, and often make use of arithmetical formulas or number series (Fibonacci series, prime numbers, etc.) to create a compositional structure. Her recent subway drawings are a product of hours of work while riding the NYC subways in which the motion of the train influenced Xylor's line drawings. Canada Gallery in NYC and the Jack Hanley and the LAB galleries in SF have hosted solo exhibitions of her work. Xylor received an award for artistic achievement from San Francisco's news magazine The Guardian. and is currently represented by the Jack Hanley Gallery.

Yojo, 2005
Ink on Paper
24 x 16 inches / 51.5 x 40.1 cm
Image courtesy of Canada Gallery

Amy Rathbone : b.1972; Cleveland, Ohio

Amy received a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan (1994) and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2001). In addition to numerous group and solo shows in the US, her work has also been seen in London as well as Prague where she spent 3 years teaching and working for contemporary artists.
Amy’s work is primarily installation and works on paper. She often uses humor and familiar objects to explore line, extremes of scale, and two versus three dimensional space. In describing her drawing process she says, "When I put pen to paper I don't know what is going to come out. I start making forms and then find the representation during or after the drawing process. "The objects that are born out of this process" are symbolic of people, their conversations and relationships."

remembering winters and returning clippers (REMIX), 2005
18 x 24 inches / 46 x 61 cm
ink on paper
Image courtesy of Gregory Lind Gallery

Oliver Halsman Rosenberg : b. 1975; New York City

Oliver followed his Skidmore College study with postgraduate work at the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy. In 2003 he co-founded the gallery Triple Base on 24th Street in the core of San Francisco's historic Mission District. In his recent interactive work 'Instant Drawing Machine' Oliver and his gallery co-founder use Internet technology to help people in far-flung locations to create participants' dreams visually. His 2004 painting 'Something Rotten Washed Ashore 1492' draws on sources as varied as Buckminster Fuller and Charles and Ray Eames to the effect of prayer on crystal formation and a protest against America's politically conservative Republican party. 'Something Rotten' and its accompanying 'spherist' manifesto use circular patterns to describe a split between modern Americans' existence and the place they exist spiritually.

prayer manifestation, 2005
16 x 20 inches / 41 x 51 cm
gouache on paper
Image courtesy of the artist