“WOMAN MADE: A Seismic Sisters Art Show” was the centerpiece of a party celebrating the launch of Seismic Sisters Magazine. Hosted at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco on October 12, 2018, the night was filled with art, music by B-Side Brujas, and an unforgettable live performance by Rhodessa Jones.
Woman Made Art Show Poster by Tori Seitelman
Twenty Bay Area artists, some established and some emerging, contributed to the WOMAN MADE Art Show curated by Tumay Aslay. Neon artist Meryl Pataky and wood sculptor Aleksandra Zee showed pieces alongside fiber artist Hannah Crawford, who brought her “Bust” and “Vocal Chords” sculptures.
Hailey Gaiser’s glowing “Call Me Mother” painting set the stage for an evening filled with woman power and creative fever. Audrey Bodisco’s exquisite watercolors “Booby Trap” and “No Two Alike” celebrated the beauty and variety of breasts. Louise Alban’s ceramic sculptures “Flow One, Flow All” hovered near paintings and multimedia art by Melanie Alves, including two life-size pillow sculptures of women’s bodies that invited viewers to sit down and reflect their thoughts in a journal.
Aleksandra Zee’s wooden squares
Shannon Tallcouch’s luscious red “Fallen Petals” vibrated with energy, as did Olivia Krause’s bright paintings with one named “It’s Not a Date.” Carissa Potter Carlson showed several sweet and lovely illustrations including “May You Feel Safe.”
Photographers showed a collection of works, including Lorena Jimenez revealing glimpses of the Tenderloin, Buu with her powerful and sensitive portraits, Ashley Habr with striking portraits of women in Africa, and Tumay Aslay with street photography. Painter Miranda Evans sold her first piece and is feeling encouraged to fully dive in and make her career in art. Graphic designer Tori Seitelman showed colorful prints in addition to having designed the WOMAN MADE Art Show poster. Conceptual artist Amy Morgenstern capped off the show with her “Becoming Plant” multi-media work of art.
Over 300 guests attended the art party celebrating the launch of Seismic Sisters Magazine. See artist bios and a virtual gallery of the art work at “WOMAN MADE: A Seismic Sisters Art Show.” A portion of proceeds from the art sales went to The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, directed by Rhodessa Jones.
Ashley Habr
I’m a Bay Area native, moved to sf to study video production at SFSU. My love for media and social justice has inspired me to spread awareness about communities around the world. Traveling abroad to Tanzania, Africa, i created videos that empower women in a country where their education and skills are devalued.
I found skateboarding through my love for photography and video. Being a part of the skateboarding community, i began to grow a passion for people and lifestyle. Through photography and video, i love to capture moments of friends, family, strangers and places around the world to show my audience that skateboarding takes you places - whether it’s through the internet, through volunteering or just pushing down the street. Women are underestimated in our world, and i didn’t realize this until i started skating. So i skate for all girls and i do It to empower women in every community where they are a minority.
Rhodessa Jones
Performer, teacher, director RHODESSA JONES is Co-Artistic Director of San Francisco’s performance company Cultural Odyssey. Jones directs The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, an award-winning performance workshop committed to incarcerated women’s personal and social transformation, now in it’s 29th year. As recipient of US Artist Fellowship, Jones expanded her work in jails and educational institutions internationally. She conducts Medea Projects in South African prisons, working with incarcerated women and training local artists and correctional personnel to embed the Medea process inside these institutions. In 2012, she was named Arts Envoy by the US Embassy in South Africa. Recent US residencies include Brown University and Scripps College Humanities Institute. Recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from CA College of the Arts, SF Bay Guardian’s Lifetime Achievement Award, SF Foundation’s Community Leadership Award, Non-Profit Arts Excellence Award by the SF Business Arts Council, and an Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theater.
BUU
Buu is a San Francisco based photographer & stylist. she is particularly inspired by the beauty, strength and grace of black & brown artists, creatives and otherwise.
growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, her mind was constantly overrun with images of wypipo. in her everyday life, on television, in movies, cartoons, advertisements, gracing the covers & pages of magazines. accordingly, throughout her adolescence, her standard of beauty was incredibly Eurocentric. throughout her childhood, she aspired to be something she fundamentally could not. she longed to be thin & white, but was and will all ways be thicc & brown.
These days, she finds salvation in her curves, comfort & power in her melanin. her story & sentiments are not unique. all said & done, she only creates & contributes photographs of poc to this world.
Hailey Gaiser
Hailey Gaiser is an artist living and working out of a warehouse space in the Mission district, San Francisco. She received her BFA in printmaking at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA in 2006. After moving to the Bay Area in 2007, she began painting bright energy portraits inspired by the mix of graphic 2D design and rendered 3D images found in collage.
Olivia Krause
Olivia Krause is a visual artist currently living and working out of Oakland, CA.
She graduated from California College of the Arts in 2016 where she studied painting and drawing.
Olivia's work is often expressed through abstract painting and rapid image making.
In 2016 Olivia has been focusing on film photography and collage like illustrations to create vivid intimate spaces for the viewer. Most of her photography captures her experience living in the Bay Area and being an active member of the Oakland Creative Community.
Louise (Beez) Alban
she/her/they/them
Newly transplanted east bay artist originally from the Southern California high desert. finds strength in their queer identity and the inherently deeper connection to mother earth and all her godly energies that all womxn share. their work attempts to recreate the feeling of being, free of ego & learned prejudices; the true core of soul, of mankind, or more rightfully, womxnkind.
Miranda Evans
Miranda Evans is a painter from Southern California currently working in San Francisco. Working primarily with watercolor paint, she is interested in exposing inner conflicts, struggles and anxieties through self portraiture.
Lorena Jimenez
Lorena Jimenez is a film photographer and events curator currently based in San Francisco. Originally from Barcelona, her photos explore the world around her and its characters. She is inspired by people and taking candid photographs creates that visual connection with her surroundings. She appreciates the unique aspects of every person and the way they portray themselves to the world.
Lorena is also one of the founders of Mambo! SF, a platform run by women and created to connect communities and the different realities existing in this city through cultural events. Mambo! is also an open space for shakers and makers to show their creations and a channel to discover local culture.
Aleksandra Zee
Oakland-based woodworker Aleksandra Zee builds large and small scale intricate wooden wall hangings, headboards and table tops. With a degree in Fine Arts, Zee has built a full-time career in making art as a living. From trips to the desert, spending time in front of the ocean, and being out amongst the trees, Zee draws her inspiration from travel and being heavily rooted in the past.
Melanie Pereira Alves
Melanie Pereira Alves is a Portuguese-American multidisciplinary artist living in San Francisco, Ca. Alves has a 5 year degree (equivalent to master degree) in Fine Arts at Porto University, Portugal. She also studied at ENSBA de Paris and ENSBA de Bordeaux, France.
Over the past few years, Alves has been focusing her art on themes addressing the refugee crisis, the war on Syria, immigration, gun violence and culture of fear.
Hannah Crawford
Hannah Ruth Crawford is a Mixed Media Fiber Artist from Northern California. She received her B.A. from Evergreen State College where she studied Fibers, Poetry and Craft. Currently Hannah is exploring Needle Felting, Sculpture, Bobbin Lace and tarot. Her main inspiration comes from The Feminine, Dada, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Eli West, Meghan Shimek, and magic. Hannah has shown internationally as well as more recently at West Coast Craft, Girl Gang Craft, Mule Gallery, and Get High on Mountains Gallery.
Amy Morgenstern
Amy S. Morgenstern has been questioning the conventional order of things for a long time – first as a student activist in her native New York, then as a PhD student in Memphis, and later as a philosophy professor in Ohio – awakening her students, both male and female, to the freeing powers of intersectional feminist philosophy. Since relocating to the Bay Area in 2007 (Ohio in the Bush era took its toll), she’s earned an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute and founded her own consulting business, leading a team of creative professionals who empower Bay Area teens and young adults.
Throughout her years as a professor and consultant, Amy has changed many lives. Now it is time to change culture. Having returned to her guiding passion – feminist philosophy, multimedia style – she's bursting with excitement to share its emancipatory treasures with all co-lovers of the world.
Carissa Potter
Carissa Potter lives and works in Oakland, California. Her prints and small-scale objects reflect her hopeless romanticism through their investigations into public and private intimacy. Speaking both humorously and poignantly to the human condition, Carissa’s work touches chords we all can relate to - exploring situations we’ve all experienced at some point in our lives and conveying messages we simply long to hear. She just finished her second book with Chronicle books and is the founder of People I've Loved.
People I've Loved is a few human beings longing for connection / a small printmaking workshop based out of Oakland, California. We specialize in hand-printed & assembled objects, in an Oakland farmhouse with a lemon tree.
People I've Loved 's works (or pressing issues) intend to facilitate the communication between real, tactile people. Not that we want to deny people their digital selves, we just think there can be room for both. We are “in search of the miraculous” yet tragic definition of what it means to exist, in this time and space. And feel that we should make time to share it.
Meryl Pataky
Originally from South Florida, Pataky moved to San Francisco in 2002 to attend the Academy of Art University. She fell in love with the tactile nature of sculpture and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture. An artist of many disciplines and mediums, Meryl focuses on the relationship between her own hands and material. Informing her material selection is a meditation on the elements of the periodic table from noble gases to metals and organics. She is aware of the history of her elements from their origins in the universe to their applications in culture and myth. The artist derives deeper meanings from these histories to add layers to her concepts. Both a personal and process driven narrative drive the work further forward.
Meryl is currently working on exhibitions in Oakland, California as well as curating the all-female, all neon exhibition entitled, "She Bends". The exhibition features female benders from around the world.
Audrey Bodisco
I’m a wife and stay-at-home mom of a one and a half year old, River. We live in San Francisco, where I was born and raised. I have an online shop, Industry & Alchemy selling vintage clothing and home goods and also my own original art. I also have a host of titles that I cling to even though it’s been a while: climber, surfer, retail buyer/merchandiser.
B-side Brujas
Oakland based vinyl DJ’s — Spinning Souldies, Salsa, Funk, Freestyle!
