«Summer in the Sunset»
A Group Exhibition at Sealevel・ July 20 – September 27
Gallery Hours from July 21 - September 27:
Friday 4 - 7 PM, Saturday + Sunday 1 - 5 PM or by appointment
(Please check our event calendar for any changes)
Our annual Summer in the Sunset Group Exhibition celebrates our community, creativity, and the unique summer vibes that make the Sunset so special. Featuring 24 local artists, the exhibition reflects the diversity and creativity of our residents.
We’re excited to present work that reflects the distinct character of our neighborhood, Golden Gate Park, and Ocean Beach. Whether you’ve lived here forever or just love to visit, this is a great opportunity to dive into the local art scene, chat with the artists, and maybe even bring a piece of the Sunset District home with you.
Alice Tu
Alice is a Bay Area native and has loved to create and paint since she was a child. Over the years, she’s developed a particular love of painting landscapes and is continually inspired by California’s coastline. She works primarily in watercolor and also explores ideas in acrylic and mixed media.
Alison Cowell
Alison Cowell is a cartoonist/comic artist and zine maker raised by Mad Magazine. Originally from Worcester, MA, now based in SF with a deep love for the Sunset and fascination with SF history.
Find out more about Alison on her instagram
Baptiste Benet
Baptiste is an artist based in the Outer Sunset, mostly creating with ink and watercolor. His favorite subjects are European and Californian landscapes, as well as San Francisco houses. He also regularly teaches watercolor workshops at Sealevel.
Find out more about Baptiste on his instagram
Carlo Grünfeld
I have lived in the outer Sunset ever since my birth in 1960. I’ve shopped at Other Avenues Food Cooperative since 1990 and volunteered there for eleven years. Two other artists and I created the original mural above the store’s entrance, I renovated it about nine years ago, and I directed the recent repainting of it. I have been teaching landscape and the figure in watercolor at Sharon Art Studio in Golden Gate Park for the past thirteen years. I enjoy seasonally painting my favorite perennial subjects in the Sunset District whenever the weather is kind.
Find out more about Carlo on his website
Chantal Jolagh
I live in the Outer Sunset and enjoy taking photographs of the neighborhood, especially Ocean Beach. The photographs I submitted show Brown Pelicans flying over the ocean, and the beach and Great Highway at night on Fourth of July with fireworks through the fog—a typical summer in the Sunset.
All proceeds will be donated to Gaza.
Find out more about Chantal on her instagram
Chelsea Owens
I'm an outer sunset artist, therapist, and art therapist, and I've been in SF for 16 years and still love it. I am a Cancer sun so I feel at home in ocean beach.
Chris Hennessy
Chris Hennessy is a Sunset District based sculptural artist and lifelong Bay Area resident. His primary occupation is as a maker of fine wooden desk and table lamps for local business Hennessy Lampworks. Over the years, Chris has sculpted many other small works which are often influenced by the forms and textures found in the coastal environment.
Claudia Guevara
I'm a Graphic Designer originally from México, living in SF since 2016 -- Always in The Sunset! My art medium varies from digital to real pigments, lately watercolors. Nature is my biggest inspiration -- Art is everywhere!
George Rocha
George Rocha is an artist and lifelong skateboarder who, for over a decade, has been working with recycled skateboards and concrete for his sculptures and functional art. George's work is heavily inspiredby skateboarding, sustainability and his belief that it is every persons responsibility to make the world abetter place.
Helene Park
Helene Park is a multi-disciplinary artist who loves to tinker with a wide variety of mediums, including animation, sculpture and performance art. She draws inspiration from her immediate surroundings, such as weeds, stones and the local Gem and Mineral Society.
Irman Arcibal
Visual artist and poet Irman Arcibal makes process-based drawings, and writes poetry ranging from rhythmic, musical wordplay to crafted chronicle of sensory experience. After a Biological Sciences BS from Cal Poly SLO, he earned his Art Studio MFA from UC Davis, and studied poetry and art at Solano College. An SF Arts Commission grant recipient, he teaches traditional visual arts at a San Francisco highs chool.
Jamae Tasker
Jamae Tasker is a collage artist based in San Francisco. Colorful, playful, emotional; her heartfelt "paperpeople" are constructed with hand painted papers, acrylic paint, pastels, stencils and anything else shecan get her hands on. The ebbs, flows, grows and glows of the human experience is her inspiration.
Find out more about Jamae on her instagram
Jason Shields
I paint simple reflections of the world I see around me, sometimes words, sometimes figures and objects, often abstraction. The "individuals" who appear on the canvas have intrinsic value and offer each other context and depth, both begging for attention and wishing to blend in. What happens when Nature meets human-nature?
Find out more about Jason on his instagram
jay murallon
Jay strives to capture the unique everyday life within the Sunset District. Inspired by its rich history, he is dedicated to documenting the unfoldingmoments that contribute to its ongoing story.
Jessica Dunne
Jessica Dunne makes large urban landscape paintings, monotypes, and tiny spit-bite aquatints. She received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the James D. Phelan Art Award in Printmaking, and manyartist-in-residency awards. She has had solo shows in museums and universities around the country, including the Frye Art Museum, the Flaten Art Museum, and the Fresno Art Museum. She lives and works near The Great Highway.
Kimberly Long
Kim delights in art, music, books and travel while raising 17 and 10 year old daughters with her partner, Jeff. She is a proud public school, special education teacher who teaches children who are on the autism spectrum. She is pursuing a master's degree in Library and Information Science.
Find out more about Kimberly on her instagram
Liam Kaczmar
Liam Kaczmar is an artist in San Francisco, California. His work investigates ideas of higher consciousness, energy healing, psychedelic vision, cats, new age spirituality, and regularly occurring natural phenomena.
Find out more about Liam on his instagram
Lorie Lee
Documenting sunset beauty through my point of view
Find out more about Lorie on her instagram
Paul Ouellette
Paul Ouellette is a Filmmaker, Photographer & Musician based in the Inner Sunset, San Francisco. He uses alternative techniques to create ethereal, dream-like worlds in hopes of taking viewers out of their comfort zones and providing new perspectives on his subjects.
Sean Silk
Sean Silk lives and creates in the Outer Sunset District of San Francisco. His artwork explores the symbiotic relationship between time and change. His current mediums include painting, sculpture, photography and film.
Serena Pappas
Serena Pappas is a self taught photographer based in San Francisco, CA. Her work focuses on the ebbs and flows of everyday life, capturing the small moments in between. Drawn to the beauty and chaos of Ocean Beach, San Francisco, her current work focuses on the city of dwellers of OB.
Find out more about Serena on her instagram
Steven Starfas
Steven Starfas is a photographer who works primarily with instant film and alternative processes. He was born in Ventura, California in 1975. He graduated in May 1999 with a B.F.A. in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Steven has lived in the Avenues of San Francisco since 1996.
Yvonne Martinez
Yvonne Martínez is a native Californian, and outer sunset transplant. She is endlessly inspired by the past, present, and future of this neighborhood’s ever-changing landscape. She’s interested in the process of capturing a digital photo, and investigating what happens as that image is translated back into the physical world, through a textile medium. Knitting is used as a means to document the collaboration between the tangible and the ephemeral. The types of images we collect and keep fascinate her, and shelooks to examine what it means to publicly immortalize a fleeting moment.