Arden Fair unchARTed | Revolving Window Galleries

Window display created by artist Tess Gallagher.

18 Jun Revolving Window Galleries

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Artist Exhibits

June begins the Revolving Window Galleries, where local artists have the opportunity to curate and showcase their works in a storefront’s window display. The Revolving Window Galleries allow guests to experience various types of artwork and see the local talent we have in our city. Stop by today to check out our current exhibits!

Location: Lower Floor, Near Ann Taylor

On View: October 1 – November 30, 2024

Crystal Light Garden / LED lights and mixed media

Erin St. Blaineis a mixed-media artist specializing in LED lights. Her latest piece, Crystal Light Garden, features over 500 iridescent paper crystals in a 2’x4′ illuminated wall-hanging. As LED lights shift and glow, the organic forms of the crystals create a mesmerizing dance of light and texture, drawing viewers into the complexity of the work.

Crystal Light Garden was inspired by the quiet introspection of the Covid lockdown. Each hand-folded crystal represents the patience and reflection of that time, encouraging viewers to pause and engage with their emotions through the piece’s delicate beauty.

Sacramento’s vibrant art scene, from Second Saturdays to Crocker ArtMix, provides a nurturing environment for St. Blaine’s artwork. The city’s inclusive maker community has supported her growth as an artist, making Sacramento the perfect place to explore deeply personal projects.

St. Blaine hopes viewers will see the piece as a meditation on isolation and resilience, inviting them to reflect on their own experiences during challenging times. Displaying the work at Arden Fair offers an opportunity to share this reflection with a diverse audience in a public space that fosters connection and community.

About the Artist

Erin St. Blaine

Erin St Blaine is a light artist based in Sacramento, CA. She creates sculptures, costumes, and artwork with programmable LED lights, often including interactivity and data visualization to bring her creations to life. Her artwork melds the beauty of nature with the magic of technology, prompting viewers to stop and be inspired.

Instagram: @erinfirepixie

About the Artist

Mercy Hawkins

Mercy Hawkins is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Northern California. Her practice is born of a love of land, natural spaces, and the life that inhabits them. Hawkins reveals a new language, expanding the glossary of the possible, as it relates to the sensorium of the living body, both in and as the natural world. Working within a craft-based manipulation of materials combined with collage, painting and sculptural practices, she pursues a return to a visual lexicon invested and participatory with the living, gestural world. Hawkins received her BA from CSU Sacramento, 2018 and MFA from UC Davis, 2021. She was Graduate Fellow in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, 2022, is featured in New American Paintings #153, MFA Annual and has exhibited across the country. She currently teaches at CSUS and UC Davis.

Instagram: @mercy.hawkins

Location: Lower Floor, Near JCPenney

On View: September 15 – November 15, 2024

Notes from the Nucleus / Interdisciplinary – Painting/Drawing, Sculpture/Installation

Mercy Hawkins is an interdisciplinary artist known for her evocative sculptures, paintings, and installations that blend intuitive, empathic connections with the natural world. Her latest work, Notes from the Nucleus, explores our relationship with nature through a dynamic interplay of form, texture, and movement, encouraging viewers to rediscover the music within visual art and expand their interpretation of rhythm and harmony.

Inspired by the landscapes of Sacramento—its agricultural fields, rivers, and neighborhoods—Hawkins draws on experiences like bike rides along river trails and walks through the city to inform her artistic vision. Growing up, she frequented Arden Fair, a vibrant space that has always fueled her creativity, making it especially meaningful to exhibit Notes from the Nucleus there. This exhibition offers a chance to engage a broad audience in an accessible, unexpected setting.

Hawkins’ artistic process is both intuitive and improvisational, blending craft traditions with fine art techniques. She hopes the joy and care she invests in her work will resonate with viewers, inspiring a deeper connection to the land and the natural world.

Location: Lower Floor, Near JCPenney

On View: July 1 – August 30, 2024

Convergence / Hand-crocheted fiber and sculpted wire

Jada Simone Haynes is a mixed media artist known for their hand-crocheted fiber and sculpted wire creations. Each piece is suspended in varying states of textures, colors, and tension. These works predominantly take the form of
emotional landscapes, terrains, and thoughts of the future, with each piece reflecting the complexities of Black queer existence.

Convergence, their latest work, visually represents the intricate interplay of emotional, historical, and personal aspects of their identity. This installationuses weaving and merging to create a dynamic, suspended interplay that invites viewers to contemplate the nature of our collective future—a future shaped by resilience, transformation, and the ongoing negotiation of identity.

This opportunity to display Convergence at Arden Fair is particularly special and exciting, making their work more accessible than it would be in a gallery. At Arden Fair, they can create a world that is both thought-provoking in an unexpected setting.

About the Artist

Jada Simone Haynes

Jada Simone Haynes is a Black non-binary archivist and multidisciplinary artist who is deeply engaged in exploring the nuanced aspects of Black queer existence, resistance, and resilience. In their creative practice, they are particularly drawn to abstracted images and the transformative potential of knotted and knit fibers to serve as conduits for the density of personal and collective grief, memory, security, and desire. These vessels that weave fibers, verses, and vision create a constellation of experiences that delve into the textures of these themes and their futures. Haynes’s work reflects a dedication to storytelling through various dimensions, a convergence that’s committed to blending the realms of archives and art practice where the past is dynamically engaged and inherited by the present.

Instagram: @shortcenterart

About the Artist

Ciara Cumiskey

Ciara Cumiskey is a portrait artist, graphic designer, and muralist, creating original and custom works. In her free time, she enjoys being among nature, practicing photography and videography, and reading historical fiction. Her work explores the beauty and wonder of short moments, and the belief in their strength to build resilience and appreciate relationships.Born in 1985 in Dublin, Ireland, her young family emigrated to the United States before she started grade school. She studied Graphic Design at Norwalk Community College, and later completed a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from Southern Connecticut State University in 2014, before relocating to the Sacramento area. She has been exhibiting work since 2012 and is preparing for a solo exhibition at The Mills Art Center at the Crossing this October. The artist currently lives and works in West Sacramento, California. She is the Gallery 1075 curator at the West Sacramento Community Center and also volunteers on the Board of Directors for Rancho Cordova Art.

Instagram: @CiaraCCreates

Website: CiaraCumiskey.com

Location: Lower Floor, Near Ann Taylor

On View: June 7 – July 31, 2024

Uplifting Community Artists With Pride

In partnership with the Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Arden Fair proudly presents “Uplifting Community Artists With Pride,” featuring the works of Ciara Cumiskey. Ciara captures the beauty and wonder of fleeting moments, highlighting her strength in fostering resilience and appreciating relationships. The Center chose Ciara for her deep personal connection to the community and her ability to express profound themes through art. Her work is a celebration of acceptance, equality, and the fundamental role of art and love in the human experience, inviting viewers to embrace authenticity and build meaningful connections. Sacramento’s vibrant diversity and thriving art scene serve as a constant source of inspiration for Ciara. “Pride Month is a time of acceptance, equality, celebration, and education,” Ciara shares. “Growing up, many of my friends had to hide their true selves. Through my art, I strive to create spaces where everyone feels seen and valued.” With her installation, Ciara aims to honor the resilience and beauty of everyday moments, contributing to the rich cultural tapestry of Sacramento and advocating for the LGBTQ+ community’s visibility and acceptance.

About the Sacramento LGBT Community Center

The Sacramento LGBT Community Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; they support health and wellness, advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift their diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.

The Center offers peer support groups for a variety of marginalized populations, community resource referrals to meet individual basic needs, education, and training to improve the competency of businesses and organizations to LGBTQ+ issues, numerous artistic expression, and cultural activities that build community, and volunteer opportunities that empower individuals to give back.

Location: Lower Floor, Near Ann Taylor

On View: February 16 – April 16, 2024

Mara’s World / Mixed Media

Mara’s art, aptly titled “Mara’s World,” explores the vibrant tapestry of life through mixed media, fiber, and found objects. Drawing inspiration from the textures and colors of her surroundings, particularly from her experiences at Short Center North, Mara’s pieces convey a message of finding beauty in the ordinary. Her work encourages viewers to open their minds and hearts to the endless possibilities that art offers.

Displaying her collection at Arden Fair is particularly thrilling as it marks the first time her entire series has been showcased in one venue. Mara cherishes the freedom Sacramento offers for self-expression as an artist.

About Short Center North

Short Center North (SCN) was developed in 1978 as an arts-based program for adults with developmental disabilities. SCN offers several opportunities to develop life skills, form meaningful friendships, and become more involved with the community. This center is truly a treasure in the art community.

SCN is more than a place to go — it is a way of life for our clients; it is where adults with developmental disabilities share a culture and a lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams. Many have seen SCN art at such diverse venues as the Crocker Art Museum, the California State Fair, the State Capitol, public mural installations, as well as countless galleries and businesses throughout the Central Valley region.

About the Artist

Mara Moony

Mara Moony, an artist and student at Short Center North, welcomes you to step into her world, where she demonstrates how ordinary objects can transform into breathtaking works of art. Mara is a vivacious creative person with boundless energy. She is continually drawing and working on new art projects from the time she arrives at Short Center North until the time she leaves to go home. Her work is spontaneous, colorful and full of life. Her images seem to reverberate and grab the viewer’s attention. Every time you look at these pieces you will see something completely wonderful and new

Instagram: @shortcenterart

About the Artist

Beth Consetta Rubel

Beth Consetta Rubel focuses on themes of duality, identity, and representation related to pop culture. Her work blends traditional mediums with historic found objects, and modern technology to reflect on what we have learned from the past. She taunts the viewer, while opening dialog to consider their role in our collective progress.

Instagram: @bethconsettarubel_art

Website: bethconsettarubel.com

Location: Lower Floor, I’m A Star

On View: February 12 – April 7, 2023

Paper Bag Test: Ebony Ava Harper / Chalk, Pastel, Gouache, Ink on Paper Bag

Beth Consetta Rubel is a visual artist from Austin, Texas. Rubel’s work focuses on the themes of race, gender, sexuality, and pop culture. This is evident in her series, “The Paper Bag Test,” where she draws and paints portraits of Black subjects—many of them well-known Black celebrities and public figures, such as President Barack Obama and Richard Pryor. In light of the recent cases of police brutality and state-sanctioned violence against Black men, women, and children, she has also included portraits of victims like Michael Brown and Aiyana Stanley Jones, in the series.

Making art accessible to the public is crucial and Rubel is honored to be a part of the vibrant artist community in Sacramento being featured by Arden Fair.

"Paper Bag Test: Ebony Ava Harper," art installation by Beth Consetta Rubel.

Location: Lower Floor, I’m A Star

On View: February 4 – March 31, 2023

Stay At It / Photography, Fashion Design

The rare Sacramento city and county, with its melting pot full of unique individuals, must be presented with luxuries for its residents and natives who have endured times of lost hope, economic hardships and mistreatment. Our heads have remained high and our backbones, unbreakable. All the while producing a hybrid of people that have transcended barriers in movie, music, art, sports, the fashion industry and then some.

This is why marrying photography with fashion of, and for, Sacramento’s very own encourages confidence with collectiveness. This fuels a creative drive to shine light on our people and city’s gems.

Clothing and Novelty available April 2023.

"Stay At It" art installation by Dev Anglin.

About the Artist

Dev Anglin

A creative mind with a love for crisp, rare, subtle details. This mind had a spark at a young age, with his grandmother’s JVC video recorder narrating as he filmed family gatherings. Dev’s childhood and teenage room displayed his interests on the walls with magazine clippings, CD booklets, SLAM posters, disposable camera portraits, polaroids and more. All curated by his hands inevitably came 35 & 120 film with an array of personal nostalgic cameras. An analog shooter was born.

This visual love transcended his life of creating across America. Creating in the Carolinas, Dallas and Fort Worth, TX, and Ventura, CA. Landing back in Sacramento with some wild stories & new friends with BMW of North America , New York & Rakuten Fashion Week, Sol Blume Music Festival added to his resumé.

Instagram: @dev_anglin

Website: devanglin.net

About the Artist

Sarah Golden

Sarah Golden is a fine artist and surface pattern designer born and living in Sacramento, California. She paints on canvas and wood panels, mixing media, adding collage and print-making techniques to her pieces. Working with print and pattern, she’s been designing fabric since 2016 with Andover Fabrics and she licenses her artwork to a number of large and small independent brands.

Instagram: @sarahgoldenart

Website: saragolden.org

Location: Lower Floor, I’m A Star

On View: December 15, 2022 – January 31, 2023

Fields From 1985, Fresh Start / Acrylic, Graphite, Oil Pastel on Canvas

A few ongoing bodies of work are abstracted landscapes, mixed media plants, and collages using vintage papers and monotypes. She has been featured in publications such as Uppercase Magazine, Nylon, and Where
Women Create. Sarah has a dedicated studio practice to “putting in the painting hours,” art self-education, experimenting, and creating ways to connect people with her art.

These works, Fields From 1985 and Fresh Start, use blocks of color to create abstracted aerial landscapes. Golden draws inspiration from her upbringing in rural Nicolaus in Sutter County. The fields of sugar beets,
rice, and walnut orchards that surrounded her childhood homes, show up repeatedly in her work. These paintings create a visual record and connect
to memories through abstraction.

"Fields From 1985 and Fresh Start," art installation by Sarah Golden.

Location: Lower Floor, I’m A Star

On View: November 17, 2022 – January 5, 2023

California Centric / Oil on Canvas

Erik Castellanos is based in the Sacramento area, where he received Studio art degrees from the University of California at Davis, and Sacramento State University.

The pieces on display are part of an ongoing series of direct studies and memory studies inspired by the diverse California mountain ranges and seasides. Castellanos feels being in regular contact with the sublime grounds him in humanity and keeps him connected to a meaningful existence. If he was a writer, he would write a poem; if he was a singer, he would sing a song. Since Castellanos abilities are best suited for visual expression, he paints to create a sense of mood and emotion.

His hope for the viewer is that they will feel connected to the places he feels grounded, and that these images will remind them of the sublime.

"California Centric," art installation by Erik Castellanos.

About the Artist

Erik Castellanos

Erik teaches painting and drawing at local colleges and offers lessons from his private studio. In his own work there is a creative cycle of invention and destruction used with concepts and techniques rooted in perceptual vision. He uses painting and drawing fundamentals to anchor his subjects to light and space. He likes that atmosphere and mood can be achieved with paint while topics like growth, death, melancholy, transformation, and hope, all have a place to be expressed in the work. It is rare that he can let go of something that he has not spent a long time with. It often takes manny paint applications to complete a piece.

Instagram: @erikcastellanos

About the Artist

Jennifer Laurel Keller

Jennifer believes nature is the answer to our modern-day cares and worries. She feels the most alive when she’s outdoors and when she’s creating.

As a child, Jennifer spent her summers on a farm in Northern California and went camping in the forest with her friends and family. This taught her a deep respect for the natural world. Like many adults, however, Jennifer lost touch with her truth. She focused on the responsibilities of the real world. She worked in art galleries, frame shops, an art supply store, and an auction. It was a great experience, but she was always helping others achieve their goals and not doing it for herself.

In 2020, after a long road of working on herself, Jennifer became very clear about what she needed. Not only did she face the confinement of the pandemic, but she also had a brush with cancer. Luckily, she only needed surgery to heal, but as she recovered, she realized that life is short and she must follow her dreams while she can.

Instagram: @jenniferlaurelkeller

Location: Lower Floor, Between Brighton Collectibles and Apple Store

On View: February 15 – March 31, 2022

Field Notes / Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas

Jennifer Laurel Keller is an artist and instructor born and raised in midtown Sacramento. Born into a family of creative educators and nature enthusiasts, Jennifer developed a deep appreciation for both the arts and the world around her.

Field Notes celebrates the natural beauty of California in vivid landscapes. Drawn to the natural world, Jennifer creates natural scenes that honor our environment. Salvaged, vintage, collaged papers and found objects in addition to her acrylic landscapes create a juxtaposition that encourages people to make up stories within the work. By pairing the collage with the landscape in a new way, they relate to each other, inviting the viewer into an environment with more going on under the surface.

Jennifer hopes that Field Notes will get people thinking and appreciating the beauty of nature surrounding them.

"Field Notes," art installation by Jennifer Laurel Keller.

Location: Lower Floor, Between Brighton Collectibles and Apple Store

On View: February 15 – March 31, 2022

Midtown Portals / Photographic Exploration

Midtown Portals, Cate’s first art display, was born during her daily commutes to her midtown office. A collection of interesting entrances familiar to all who live and abide in midtown. This series celebrates both Sacramento’s architecture and famous trees. Each entrance elicits a stream of memory for the viewer who may have passed the same doorway hours before or even years ago. Cate hopes this series brings about a sense of nostalgia and connection to each viewer.

"Midtown Portals," art installation by Cate Hidalgo.

About the Artist

Cate Hidalgo

Cate Hidalgo has been living in and around midtown Sacramento since 2005. A great admirer and supporter of the arts, Cate began her own art career at the beginning of 2020 when the shutdown began. Her photography, minimal and striking, began as a ritual during her long hours of walks and bike rides around midtown. Cate, an avid cyclist and explorer of Sacramento, started her photography series Midtown Portals in early 2021. The collection of images focuses on minimal snapshots of doorways located on the Sacramento grid. Cate’s perspective gives viewers a raw and honest glimpse into one of our city’s most creative neighborhoods.

Instagram: @midtown.portals

About the Artist

Garrett Cotham

Garrett specializes in travel, landscape, and documentary photography.
Whether trekking across the mountains, deserts, and forests of North America, wandering the winding streets of Europe, or experimenting with a new recipe, he approaches life with an endless curiosity, always looking to learn something new. Garrett loves to travel by foot and document the world around him in photographs. Based in Sacramento, CA, Garrett has wonderful access to some of the most beautiful and unspoiled wilderness areas in the world. Being an avid hiker, he loves to explore these areas, documenting the changing landscape of each season. When not hiking, he can often be found in the kitchen, testing out new recipes on his wife and friends.

Instagram: @garrettcotham

Location: Lower Floor, Next to BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse

On View: January 9, 2022 – February 3, 2022

In the Bleak Midwinter / Photographic Exploration

Garrett Cotham has been living in the Land Park region of Sacramento since 2007. Garrett specializes in travel, landscape and documentary photography which often has him trekking across the world. He prefers to visit places in the “off-season” and has a vast love of open spaces with endless views.

In the Bleak Midwinter, Garrett shares with us some of his winter experiences. Viewing these photographs, one feels a sense of desolation and awe in putting oneself at the mercy of nature. This display is meant to instill a greater appreciation of the comforts we enjoy every day. Garrett hopes viewers gain a greater perspective on one’s life, work, and things they hope to accomplish before their time in this world is done.

"In the Bleak of Midwinter," art installation by Garrett Cotham.

Location: Lower Floor, Next to BJ’s Restaurant and Brewhouse

On View: November 26 – December 31, 2021

The People and the City / Photographic Exploration

Using storytelling through photographs, Daniel follows the work of Sacramento’s creative community and captures each mural, painting or event as they unfold.

In Daniel’s display, The People and the City, his photographs depict recognizable spots in Sacramento as well as locals who have impacted him in some way. Daniel hopes to provoke a deeper appreciation, respect and pride in the creatives and educators who, by sharing their spirit, light and gifts, make Sacramento more beautiful.

"The People and the City," art installation by Daniel James.

About the Artist

Daniel James

Daniel James has had a camera in his hands his whole life. Over the last 10 years, a growing number of friends, family and co-workers asked him to photograph their families and events. Things grew organically and before long, he was contributing to Tube Magazine, MileSplit.com and Street Art Cities, and saw his photos published in several media outlets including: SacTown Magazine, Sac News and Review, Self Magazine, National Public Radio, and several others.

Instagram: danieljamesphotos

About the Artist

Tess Gallagher

Tess Gallagher is a visual artist based in Northern California. She received her Bachelors of Art in Art Studio from California State University, Sacramento in 2014. Her creative practice is centered around the development of drawings that are further informed by her installation. Her gestures are
directly connected to the movements found in nature. She facilitates internal environments that further the potential of the external world. Through a process of discovery, she forms continuous lines in the landscape that become patterns of natural formations. Combined with physical
movements, instinct and intuition become visual documentations of her inner life. From the mountains east of Sacramento to the city itself, she is a part of both. Each piece explores feelings
of the unknown in relation to the landscape. The body is an instrument, a tool, a vessel and force.

Instagram: @tessgallagher

Location: Lower Floor, Next to BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse

On View: November 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021

On Ice / Mixed Media

Gallagher’s installation, On Ice, follows her ever-present theme of movements found in nature. Inspired by John Berger’s essay, “The White Bird.” “The first necessity of life is shelter.” The cave is a shelter that produces a literal backlit warmth that express both emotional comfort and beauty.

She wants viewers to experience beauty as a feeling that continues despite its obstacles. “Under the fallen boulder of an avalanche a flower grows.” Ice caves and avalanches influence the shape and textures of the varying materials she uses and are meant to invoke a sudden breakthrough of overwhelming feeling.

"On Ice," art installation by Tess Gallagher.

Location: Lower Floor, Between J.Crew and A|X Armani Exchange

On View: October 15 – December 27, 2021

Perhaps I Survive Because of You, and You Survive Because of Me / Fiber Arts, Textiles, Natural Dye, Film Photography

Cardenas’s installation is an altar to her weaving sisters and to her own incredible journey into becoming an Ilocano weaver. Driven by survival, she started researching and practicing her culture’s plant dying techniques during the pandemic. While both of her grandmothers were weavers, she didn’t learn how to weave from them. She feels blessed to have been given the opportunity to learn more about the symbols and stories of her ancestors through fiber arts. She believes it’s important to keep the weaving traditions alive.

She chose this artwork for Arden Fair because she thinks it’s important for Filipinos to share their own stories. She is excited to celebrate the Filipino fiber arts and weaving culture and share these traditions with our community.

"Perhaps I Survive Because of You, and You Survive Because of Me," art installation by Jamie Cardenas.

About the Artist

Jamie Cardenas

Jamie Cardenas is an interdisciplinary artist, herbalist, and cultural worker located on Unceded Nisenan Territory/Sacramento. She is a first generation Filipinx-American and Ilokana. She is a distiller, natural plant dyer, weaver, potions maker, and film photographer. Daughter of Jaime Galinato Cardenas and Angelita Pesquiza Cardenas – She comes from a line of stewards of the land, of healers, weavers of Abel Iloko and storytellers. She shares her gift of fiber arts, plant medicine and healing from her Grandmother’s ancestral knowledge in the hopes of supporting her community with healing, fortifying and celebrating their skin, and helping them stay in touch with their body, lineage and senses with the magic of plants.

Instagram: @magpiealchemy

About the Artist

Roxanne Brodeur Young

Roxanne Brodeur Young is an intuitive fiber artist, surface designer, and workshop facilitator. She offers online group workshops on restoring connection to soul and environment through intuition development and California native plants.
Her passion is working with others to encourage poetic connection to and development of relationships with the human and non-human world to ease the transformation process we are collectively going through, and to live a more joyful and richer life. Roxanne works closely with local plants to develop deeper relationships with them to fully appreciate and utilize their energetic and physical medicine. She portrays her personal lessons and messages in her art through color, images and poetry. She harvests local plants from her private garden and community. She creates her clothing and art pieces with natural fibers, plant and procion dyes.

Instagram: @invisiblepractices

Location: Lower Floor, Between J.Crew and A|X Armani Exchange

On View: October 15 – November 30, 2021

The Psyche Will Have Its Way / Textile, Fiber, Plant, Procion Dyes, Embroidery

Young’s inspiration for The Psyche Will Have Its Way came from an art class she took as a teenager. The class started with a grounding meditation and was followed by a drawing exercise which required all the students to make marks on the paper without imagining a final outcome. Throughout the class, the instructor repeated, “the psyche wiIl have its way.” Upon viewing the completed artworks at the end of the class, unintentional images emerged from the drawings which resonated deeply with each of the students. This was the first time Young experienced what she describes as, “the invisible communicating with her.” At that moment she realized the many layers and interpretations art can inspire from each viewer. She hopes this artwork will encourage people to stop and allow their psyches to slowly reveal new and surprising images.

"The Psyche Will Have Its Way," art installation by Roxanne Young.

Location: Lower Floor, Between J.Crew and A|X Armani Exchange

On View: October 15 – November 30, 2021

Thank You, Come Again Soon / Acrylic, Wool Fibers, Paper Mache, Cotton, Paper, Wood

Hall’s work illustrates her cultural identity through the use of traditional Filipino and American craft techniques such as weaving, embroidery, and quilting. This quilt entitled, Thank You, Come Again Soon, was made with acrylic and wool fibers, paper mache, cotton, paper, and wood.

Hall started this quilt after one of her good friends passed away. The middle panel represents reincarnation and illustrates the ways we visit each other in the physical world. The blue and white pots, which are often seen in Hall’s art, are reminiscent of the decorative pots around her childhood home. The pots hold flowers which represent love, understanding, celebration, mourning, and congratulations.

Hall chose this artwork for Arden Fair because she believes it serves as a gentle reminder to practice compassion towards each other. She hopes this quilt expresses her wish for more true love and understanding in the world.

"Thank You, Come Again Soon," art installation by Esther Marie Hall.

About the Artist

Esther Marie Hall

Esther Marie Hall is a Filipino American multidisciplinary artist with a primary focus on fiber and textile art based in Sacramento, CA. Her work illustrates her cultural identity through the use of traditional Filipino and American crafting techniques such as weaving, embroidery, and quilting. Esther uses her practice as a connection between a projection of consciousness and our physical world while also highlighting matters within our sociopolitical climate such as mental health, human rights, and environmental conservation. Her fiber and textile work is predominantly done with secondhand and upcycled materials with a means of moving towards a self sustainable practice by growing her own materials. Esther has worked with organizations such as the Latino Center of Art and Culture, Planned Parenthood, and Facebook, has exhibited work throughout the Pacific Northwest and Midwest, and has been a part of the Filipino American Artist Directory since 2019.

Instagram: @esther___rehtse

About the Artist

Jared Konopitski

Jared Konopitski is an artist living and working in Sacramento, California. Jared works in many mediums, however, primarily with acrylic paintings. Jared has worked with many clients such as, Art O Mat, Turning Art, Wide Open Walls and more. In addition, Jared has curated numerous gallery shows and corporate art seminars. In his spare time he enjoys facilitating art workshops, with focus on early art education. His work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums across the US and Internationally.

Instagram: @jaredkonopitski

Location: Lower Floor, Between BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse and Valliani Jewelers

On View: October 1 – October 31, 2021

Cabinet of Curiosities / Mixed Media, Acrylic

Oddities and Curiosities have been the driving force for Jared’s work since he was a small child. Lifting up a rock in the backyard at five years old to see the weird world underneath full of small critters, sparkling stone specks in the dirt, the roots of plants weaving a chaotic map and so much more, locked in Jared’s love of the strange, weird and morbidly beautiful ever since. Jared brings to you his own cabinet of curiosities filled with the colorful and the strange. The odd and the curious. The whimsy and playful. And he hopes it invites you to take a peek into a world that may be waiting for you to discover, and who knows, this world of wonder may be in your own backyard patiently awaiting your notice.

"Cabinet of Curiosities," art installation by Jared Konopitski.

Location: Lower Floor, Between BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse and Valliani Jewelers

On View: October 1 – October 31, 2021

Tiny Wizards / Illustration, Comic Design & Script Writing

Tiny Wizards is an on-going comic book series written and created by Sacramento-based cartoonist, Eben Burgoon (B-Squad: Soldiers of Misfortune, Eben07: Covert Custodian) and illustrated by UK-based artist, Dean Beattie.

This exhibit presents the first five pages and the cover of Tiny Wizards and, using the last page of this scene, displays the process of making comics from written word to the art process from pencils to final colors and lettering.

If you enjoyed the comic, you can find the full story so far at www.tiny-wizards.com

"Tiny Wizard," art installation by Eben Burgoon.

About the Artist

Eben Burgoon

Eben is a comic book author, cartoonist, masking tape wizard, and generally fuzzy and ill-defined character. Coming from a background in short fiction and sketch comedy, Eben’s produced dozens of comic books like the webcomic, Eben07: Covert Custodian and B-Squad: Soldiers of Misfortune. In 2019, B-Squad was published by the Burbank-based animation studio and production house, Starburns Industries (Rick & Morty, Morel Orel, and HBO’s Animals) to be set-up for development into an animated series. In 2021, Eben is currently debuting on a new comic book series, Tiny Wizards, about a realm of ancient wizards stranded in a California truck-stop town with UK-based artist Dean Beattie. It has even been turned into a beer by the local brewery, New Helvetia Brewing Company.
In addition to writing and comics, Eben’s been active in Sacramento advocating for the use of comics in schools as literature and arts, including partnering with the Crocker Art Museum for annual comic book celebration event “CrockerCon”.

Instagram: @burgooneytune / @deanbeattie

About the Artist

Lynn Tobin

Lynn Tobin is a Sacramento artist who works primarily in acrylics. Lynn is also interested in making comics and using found objects for sculptural work. He draws inspiration from many places, largely animation and comics, Japanese art and design, and folk art.

Instagram: @lynntobin

Location: Lower Floor, Between BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse and Valliani Jewelers

On View: October 1 – October 31, 2021

Untitled / Plywood, Acrylic

Lynn generally does not intend to convey any overt messages with his work. He is mostly interested in synthesizing whatever feelings, ideas, and bits of inspiration he has into some kind of graphic representation. In this way, Lynn’s work is personal but also vague in its meaning, leaving the viewer to relate it to it as they see fit. If Lynn can be sincere in his process and elicit any kind of emotional response from the viewer or facilitate a conversation, he feels he has succeeded.

"Untitled," art installation by Lynn Tobin.

Location: Lower Floor, Between J.Crew and A|X Armani Exchange

On View: September 1 – September 30, 2021

Media Diet / Plaster, Neon, Lights, Acrylic, Paper

Humans have an overload of media consumption being thrown at them from every angle, nearly 24 hours a day, every single day. While technology of course has its perks, it also has many downfalls.

This piece is asking you to take a break from the overload of information forced down our throats every day and let your mind wander without being guided.

"Media Diet," art installation by Melissa Uroff.

About the Artist

Melissa Uroff

Melissa Uroff is a California based artist and photographer. As a photographer, she works in alternative, historical and experimental processes including cyanotypes, gum printing, polaroid transfers, hand coloring and traditional darkroom techniques. She has a long love affair with mixing mediums in both 2-D and 3-D work. She often creates installations, works in printmaking, painting, drawing, electronic art, neon tube bending, collage, and assemblage. Melissa has several public art pieces on display throughout CA, which include large-scale murals along with free-standing art pieces. She currently has artwork traveling throughout China in a group show with the GoGoGallery.

Instagram: @melissauroff

About the Artist

Colleen Craig

Colleen Craig holds a Fine Arts Teaching Credential and a B.A in Fine Arts from CSUS. She has always identified as an artist, living and breathing creativity. Life to her is art. For her there is no other option than to create it fuels her entire being. Colleen has a diverse background in the arts, has taught Industrial Art & Fine arts at the high school level as well as a private art teacher. Colleen has faced much adversity in her life, surviving through homelessness and was kidnapped as a young child. Creating art was her tool to survive and has continued to be a vital part of her life. She wants to be there for other artists who come from challenging backgrounds and foster their creativity to make our world a more vibrant and loving place.

Instagram: @colleenmcraigart

Location: Lower Floor, Between J.Crew and A|X Armani Exchange

On View: September 1 – September 30, 2021

Our Infinite Heart / Mixed Media, Acrylic, Sculpture

Our Infinite Heart represents the many transitions, stages and phases of our lives we all experience, such as birth, grief, loss, love and our current times of living through the global pandemic, Covid-19. Colleen hopes to inspire viewers of the power each of us holds within ourselves; that ultimately through self love, we not only can survive hard times, but we can grow from these dark times and be a light of love — for ourselves, others and future generations.

This piece is in memory of Alicia Relles (8/22/1976 – 8/9/2021) who is no longer with us, but will continue to live on through Colleen’s art.

"Our Infinite Heart," art installation by Colleen Craig.

Location: Lower Floor, Between XK Gifts and See’s Candies

On View: August, 2021

Untitled / Sculpture

Interweaving art, design and research practices allows Dan to investigate material ecologies and applications that bridge communities between un-built and built environments. In 2015, Dan began augmenting greywater systems with irrigation tube sculptures to shift the dialogue in water reuse to broader audiences and to blur borders between art, agriculture, urban and rural.

"Untitled," art installation by Dan Tran.

About the Artist

Dan Tran

Dan Tran is a trained architect, organic farmer and public servant. Dan is drawn to how rural/urban relations shape our climatic, cultural and ecological resilience.

Instagram: @growetry

About the Artist

Jeff Mayry

Jeff is a painter, and to this extent, he uses a variety of tools that are found, made, or bought. The work that Jeff makes is mixed media with collaged pieces of fabric and canvas that float on top of the paint. In other instances the collaged portions are pressed into the paint. As a ritual to get started without feeling the weight of over-thinking or analytical inhibitions, Jeff typically begins his paintings by establishing a pattern. He never really knows what something is going to look like or become when he begins. Because of this, Jeff considers the pattern a metaphorical leg to stand on. He gets his ideas from responding to his paintings. As a result, these patterns are quickly forgotten and left behind.

Instagram: @jeffmayry

Location: Upper Floor, Between Bergman Travel Shop and Kevin Jewelers

On View: August 4 – September 30, 2021

Untitled/ Acrylic

Jeff is drawn towards disarray of all kinds, so much so that during the creation of his work he finds himself simultaneously wallowing and rejoicing in his own confusion. It is in these moments of disarray and confusion that he feels he is able to find new life within his compositions. Jeff considers his imagery to be abstract thoughts. They are ideas that recall or bring back a connection, without developing material form.

All of the paintings in this installation were made at different times. In their original conceptions, each work was made to stand alone as a singular thing. However, when overlapped and combined, each piece becomes a part of an ontological timeline. It is Jeff’s hope that the viewer will look into this work and see their own reflection. Not in a physical sense, but internally, on a primal level where existence is not concrete.

"Untitled," art installation by Jeff Mayry.

Location: Lower Floor, Between XK Gifts and See’s Candies

On View: August 1- 31, 2021

Vision Board: Tranquility / Collage + Mixed Media

When times are hard and it’s difficult to imagine anything beyond your current problems, sometimes you just have to close your eyes and start picturing one thing that brings you peace. In one of Jill’s darkest times, she was able to imagine only a single, yellow flower. At first the flower was by itself, surrounded by darkness. She took a deep breath, focused, and allowed herself to think bigger. Before long that simple flower became an entire garden – flowers, butterflies, hummingbirds; a small bench in the middle of all this color with sun shining down on it. Warmth and beauty surrounding her, making her feel safe and hopeful.

"Vision Board: Tranquility," art installation by Jill Allyn Stafford.

About the Artist

Jill Allyn Stafford

Jill Allyn Stafford is a collage and mixed media artist based out of Sacramento, California. Jill’s experimentation with collage as an art form began as a way to fashion new stories from images she found in magazines and books. Taking them from one environment and throwing them into a new one has allowed Jill to express conflict, love, humor and loss. Jill currently creates work using not only found paper, but also photographs she’s taken, stamps, envelopes, and vintage papers from her family’s estate. She has also found a love in creating depth and multiple textures in each piece, utilizing crushed chalk pastels, tissue paper, newsprint, modeling paste extender, and pumice gel medium among other things. Jill believes strongly that her art should not only be viewed but touched.n’s work is inspired by the belief that great furniture is rooted in innovative design, excellent craftsmanship and a passion for simple living. His main areas of expertise are furniture design and fabrication, home accents and accessories, as well as custom residential and commercial installations.

Instagram: @jillallynstaffordcollage

About the Artist

Tess Gallagher

Instagram: @tessgallagher

Location: Lower Floor, Between Brighton Collectibles and Apple Store

On View: July 1 – August 30, 2021

Turbulence/ Mixed Media

Everyone carries a magnetic energy, a force of nature. Like magnets, we are connected with the Earth. When our surroundings are unsteady, it moves us. With that movement, energy is created. Waves of energy are gusts of wind your whole body can inhale. Turbulence is created by changes in the wind.

When viewing this installation, the intention for the viewer is to experience these feelings from the outside looking in, to foster the relationships we all have with the world around us.

"Turbulence," art installation by Tess Gallagher.

Location: Lower Floor, Storefront in Center Court

On View: June 16 – July 30, 2021

Boozy Brancusi Jacuzzi / Sculpture + Furniture Design

Boozy Brancusi Jacuzzi is a sculptural singles party reaching into the gooey underbelly of commerce in our day, where human meets product and product becomes human.

Studio Tapa is a sculptural collaboration between Alexander Macdonald and Trent Dean. Together they create objects that inhabit a conversational space informed by their backgrounds in furniture, lighting and interior design. From deep inside the rabbit hole they investigate the utility of objects, the process of the made world and the repetition of collective histories.

"Boozy Brancusi Jacuzzi," art installation by Trent Dean.

About the Artist

Trent Dean

Trent Dean’s work is inspired by the belief that great furniture is rooted in innovative design, excellent craftsmanship and a passion for simple living. His main areas of expertise are furniture design and fabrication, home accents and accessories, as well as custom residential and commercial installations.

Instagram: @trentdean

About the Artist

Denae Davis

Denae Davis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sacramento, CA. Her work in the city over the past 10 years ranges from video installation, mixed media works on canvas and large scale abstract sculpture. Her early works include immersive installation, with digital media essays programmed through tube televisions with respective performative elements. Her current series in progress includes large abstract mixed media on wood and canvas with written word as texture and balance amongst a bright yet stark palette, this emotive work serves as a very therapeutic experience for voyeur and creator.

Instagram: @deconstructedframes

Location: Lower Floor, Storefront in Center Court

On View: June 16 – July 30, 2021

One & All / New Media Installation

One & All combines outdated objects and video to create a whimsical installation that is intended to bring viewers amusement or a breath of surreality for a moment of sensory escape. The film essay that casts onto the monolith sculpture aims to translate the journey inward and back outward that artist Denae Davis experienced during 2020: the Covid-19 global pandemic, and the massive protester turnouts in response to the deaths of Daunte Wright, Rayshard Brooks, Daniel Prude, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, Aura Rosser, Botham Jean, and Philando Castile.