The Shadow Views Sensual Lines

WARNING -- MATURE CONTENT FOLLOWS

After leaving San Francisco City Hall, The Shadow traveled to see his friends at ARTWorkSF at a new venue for another reception. The location was One Taste Urban Retreat Center, located in the SOMA area of San Francisco. The exhibit was entitled "Sensual Lines" and is a solo exhibit by artist Jan Small.

Artist Jan Small in front of one of her works "Woman in Pink"

Jan's work is a selection of paintings and sketches of nude women in various poses and colors. Her work is very stimulating and pleasing to the eye.

Nude in Yellow and Blue by artist Jan Small

One Taste Urban Retreat Center -- the venue for this exhibit -- was the perfect setting for this exhibit. One Taste's mission -- from their website -- "is dedicated to bringing conscious awareness to the senses. We embrace all levels of our being, our bodies, our emotions, our minds and our spirits -- while promoting a healthy balance between them. OneTaste offers classes in yoga, meditation, and massage. Our workshops explore a disciplined enquiry into sexuality, sensuality and intimacy."

Some of the crowd at One Taste during the reception

This exhibit will run through August 27, 2007 at the One Taste Urban Retreat Center, 1074 Folsom Street (between 6th and 7th streets), in San Francisco, during normal business hours.

All works shown at this exhibit are available for sale or rental (for a three-month period). You can contact ARTWorkSF for more info (they are listed in the gallery links on the left).

For more information on other activities at One Taste Urban Retreat Center, visit their website.

For more pictures from the reception, click here.

The Shadow Views Visual Aid

For those of you who may have thought that The Shadow has left, fear not -- he has returned from a much needed vacation. The Shadow is back in full swing again

Our journey through the art world, took us first to San Francisco City Hall and the offices of San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi for his monthly "Third Fridays" art reception. The featured artist this month is Anders Barth in an exhibition put on by Visual Aid (more on them in a moment) entitled "Present Dangers."

One of the works by Anders Barth at the reception

The artist describes the exhibit best in her own words:

The series Present Dangers examines the violence which can occur in daily life. It may happen suddenly in the best of neighborhoods to the best of people. It may happen in the most tranquil of landscapes. The possibility of violence is inescapable

Another work from the reception

Detail of the above work

Visual Aid, the sponsoring organization for this exhibit, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to helps produce, present, and preserve the work of professional artists whose careers arechallenged because of a life-threatening illness. Visual Aid servesprofessional artists from the nine-county Bay Area, providing artists withdirect services including free art supplies and exhibition opportunities. For more information call 415-777-8242 or visit their website here.

This exhibit is available for viewing in the offices of Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, Room 282 in San Francisco City Hall, during regular business hours through August 15, 2007.

You can view other pictures from the reception here.