Nina Barchilon Daley, 29Currently enrolled at SRJC: studio classes in printmaking and sculpture. Barnard College, BA in Art History.I plan to build on technical skills and aesthetic and conceptual development to work towards an MFA, so that I can teach and give back. I remember all of my art teachers starting from Kindergarten! Young people need to be creative and I want to foster that for the next generation.

My work on paper is a very physical process. I use the medium of etching as an almost sculptural form by work-ing and reworking the plate itself by hand, rather than by tradition stage etching with acid. I have come to devel-op this technique which is a hybrid of drypoint etching and mezzotint. In drypoint, a line is created by dragging a sharp tip through the plate. The result is a soft aura around the line due to the metal burrs created by the dis-placed metal. Mezzotint is an altogether different method: a tiny rocker, with tiny teeth like those of a grapefruit spoon, is used to create countless tiny pockets below the surface of the plate. These tiny pockets hold ink and build a rich and deep black when printed. Once this black is achieved, I use a burnisher to smooth out certain areas which will read as white or grey. By combining these two methods, I can create depth and nuance - and I am deeply engaged with the plate as a physical form. This tactile working and reworking of the plate has become an essential part of creating work on paper for me.My imagery finds its inspiration in portraiture one step removed from its subject: the chair as a stand-in for the person, the teeth as a synecdoche for the body and its place in the world outside of the body’s confines. The re-moval of the figure or self from the image offers me a broader and less precious space to explore the concepts of self, and the internal and external worlds the self occupies.

TITLE: (Hanging Shirt)SIZE: 14” x 18”MEDIUM: Drypoint and mezzotint zinc etching on cotton paperPRICE: 175DESCRIPTION: (Hanging Shirt) is a portrait of a lover, a material shell whose presence is a metaphor for their very absence.

Andrea Bergen, 282013 BFA in Painting and Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA

Rather than collaging disparate images together, I create one unified image from pieces of hand cut paper. Each image is created using my singular collaging technique with only scissors, gel medium, and colored pastel paper. Thousands of pieces are layered together on wood board until the surface of the collage is dense and sculptural. This unexpected use of the medium expands the definition of collage and gives the pieces their bold, textural, and energetic appearance.

In this digital era when all trends are moving towards automation and mass production, I seek to put the value back into the analog, hand crafted process. On a screen, the graphic look of the collages can give the impression that they were created with paint or a computer but the power of the work comes from its handmade origin. Just as the digital format could never fully capture the beauty of nature, the collages are best experienced in person when the viewer can observe all the details and effort that went into their creation.

My current work expresses my anxiety about the impact of climate change and humanity’s footprint on the environment and wildlife. Through literal and metaphoric representations, the collages pose a vision of the future in which animals are the protagonists in a post apocalyptic world. Recognizable consumer products and architecture stand in for humans while animal create chaos and enjoy their new freedom after man’s self-destruction.

The pieces pose a hopeful view that even with pollution and the altered climate, nature will regain equilibrium and wildlife will adapt to thrive. Despite the representation of environmental destruction and a bleak outlook for the fate of humanity, the bright colors and playful vivacity of the collages imbue them with a fun and energetic spirit. Even the garbage is rendered in cheerful, clean colors and the healthy looking predators and prey live in harmony and make mischief amongst the remains of society.

TITLE: Vacation Wasteland SIZE: Triptych, three 3’ x 4’ panelsMEDIUM: cut paper and gel topcoat on wood panelYEAR: 2016PRICE: 13,500 per panelDESCRIPTION: These three connected 3x4ft panels imagine the future of California after the mega-drought has wiped out the human population. The setting is in an abandoned location that was once a popular destination. In the scenes, native California wildlife have adapted to the arid climate and survive amongst the trash and remains of the human world.

Max Murray, 17Currently a Senior at Maria Carrillo High School. I plan to attend the Santa Rosa Junior College then pursue a trade or attend art school for photography.

The creative process for my photos would consist of capturing true moments, emotions and stories. I strive to photograph the body to display the beauty within the soul. I use mainly prime lenses and fast apertures to make the subject stand out but still use the background to complete the story of the image. My goals for the next 5 years would be to learn more about composition and storytelling through photos, do some photo journalism work and go on more adventures with friends to keep capturing moments like these.

TITLE: Manchester SIZE: 20" x 30" MEDIUM: Photograph on a luster printPRICE: 490DESCRIPTION: I was exploring the Mission district of San Francisco one weekend when a SFPD car drove by. The man digging through the garbage bin in front of me noticed and was immediately filled with explosive anger. He jumped up and yelled "FUCK YOU YA BLOODY PIGS". I then approached the man and asked him why he hated the police so much. After about 10 minutes of rants, I asked him his name. The man's name was Manches-ter. Before parting ways, I shook his hand thanking him for his time and asked to take a photo.

Nicole Schlaeppi, 24Seattle University BFA in Photography, Minors in French and Spanish

Nicole Schlaeppi is a Photographer born and raised in California she has spent a majority of her life dedicated to art and travel. Her passion is Travel Photography, capturing scenic landscapes and engaging portraits of locals, and in her spare time she can be found dancing and photographing at Social Dance event. By living with an ar-tistic spirit and an open mind she has been able to explore the world in a way that has broadened her perception and personality. She can always be found with her camera in hand, ready for the next adventure life throws her way. She enjoys meeting new people and experiencing different cultures, often traveling through Europe, North and South America and Asia. She captures it all in snapshots to remember in the future.

TITLE: Iceland SIZE: 16” x 24”MEDIUM: photography printed on satin paper PRICE: 300DESCRIPTION: Taken in Iceland

Alex Shirwo, 26Santa Rosa Junior College, Cabrillo Community College(Santa Cruz), San Francisco Art Institute--Art and TechnologyMy name is Alex and I’m a26 year old artist, a cyborg, and designer living in Santa Rosa, California. I live in chronic pain and I suffer with mental health issues but these things aren’t who I am or what my artwork is. Those two things have been molded through life experience and searing flames:In 2011 I was the second person in the world to live through experimental brain, chest, and neck surgeries and have a machine placed inside my brain to help me control and extremely severe case of Tourette’s Syndome. I have a remote that I can connect to my chest and then I can change my brain chemistry(by changing the settings of the machine) with the push of a button. To quote Joseph Beuys, “Life is art”. My art is my life and my life is my art. My art is the way it is because of the things that I’ve experienced in my time on earth. I was very ill before my brain surgeries in 2011 and I lived for many years in a depleted state where the majority of my time was spent resting in bed or on the floor of my room making artwork. My work was dictated by the things I was experiencing and the idea of conceptualizing my feelings and then releasing them onto the canvas was a form of intensive therapy that shaped the artist I am now. The powerful imagery, massive abstraction, media molding, and vibrant colors speak to the indescribable intensity of what it actually feels like to walk in my shoes, see from my eyes, and feel the pain that I live with every day. Concepts surrounding “mark making” swirl around canvas, keyboard, etching plates, textuers, lead, and pigment roling themselves together into a tiny crystal lens that if you look very closely through the glass, one may be able to truly see me authentically.

TITLE: It's HereMEDIUM: Conceptual, mixed media, 1/5YEAR: September 12th, 2017PRICE: 1,350

Sandra Silvoy, 30University of San Francisco BFA : Major in Fine Art, minor in Art History/Arts Management/ JournalismAcademy of Art 2 years Classical Painting

My work is playful, looking to take back innocence, with a touch of humor. I mostly paint in oil but recently have been delving into acrylic. My paintings have a tactile quality in both paint application and sometimes with the addition of clay and other materials.

I try to be as honest as I can with my work. Although I had a more classical training in school, I am attracted to the guttural and a bit cheeky in the work that I like and the work that I make.

I plan on applying to Autodesk’s Artist in Residence to create lightweight 3D sculptural paintings. Merging art and technology, speaks to the permanence and specificity of a commodity using the visual weight and vocab-ulary of the handmade object. Its organic nature, to really see the maker’s finger prints, creates a vulnerability in an otherwise slick, manufactured item. Using the unbreakable material of the prefab object, the 3D printer extrudes a sculpture, relieved from the burden of it’s own fragility.

TITLE: Untitled SIZE: 40 x 40 x 1.5 inMEDIUM: Oil paint, crayon, colored pencil, oil pastel on canvasPRICE: 7,500YEAR: 2016DESCRIPTION: I am attracted to the tactile quality of the gesture and turning it into a more guttural vernacular.

Ivan Thorpe, 21I am currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in fine art. While I now attend SRJC, I will be applying for transfer this fall in order to continue my education. Afterwards, I hope to pursue an MFA.

I am an artist who lives in Healdsburg, California, and attends Santa Rosa Junior College, where I hope to gain enough credits to transfer and pursue an art degree at a four-year university. I enjoy creating new designs for shirts, listening to music with an intriguing vocabulary, and trying out new media. My work is focused on printmaking, drawing inspiration from pop art, street art, myth, and literature. I often finds myself fascinated with thought processes, analytics, and meta-thinking; and the problems that attempting to depict these themes present. I also occasionally becomes obsessed with ants. I knows that it’s strange, but I can’t help it. They’re super cool!

TITLE: Thoughts of You SIZE: 10 panels 20"x12" MEDIUM: mixed-mediaPRICE: 250 eachDESCRIPTION: This series of ten mixed-media pieces are combined with a ten-part haiku set that I composed for a former love, lost.