From mountain moss in photographs by Stephen Galloway, to natural movements of the hand in works on paper by Marc Katano, to organic abstractions in paintings by Tim Rice, our featured works are drawn from nature. Read about these artists below and on our recently launched news page. Keep abreast of what’s happening or find out what you’ve been missing by viewing our ever-expanding archive of art.

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Stephen Galloway
Flow 22, 2011 Chromogenic Print Face-mounted to Plexiglass
76.25 x 76.25 Inches

Using the tradition of landscape photography as a launch pad, Stephen Galloway focuses on new ways of seeing nature. His large-scale photographs question nature and reality. With every handpicked branch, seed, and clump of Sierra moss meticulously rendered at life size, he strips nature down and reassembles the elements in relationship with human design. 

Galloway is a contemporary artist living in San Francisco, California, and an Associate Professor of photography at Sonoma State University. He has exhibited his photographs regionally and nationally, and his work is included in many private and public collections. Galloway has also completed a number of commissions which are photographic, but fabricated with materials such as polyurethane, acrylic, enamel, and glass. He is currently working on a major suite of photo-based glass works for the new San Francisco General Hospital.

Marc Katano
Flutter, 2010
Acrylic and India Ink on Nepalese Paper
59 x 56 Inches

Marc Katano uses Sumi and India ink and acrylic paint on large expanses of tactile Japanese or Nepalese handmade papers to create his organic compositions. He works on the floor of his studio swishing his hands in buckets of watery paints and inks, using his fingers like a brush to create the background matrix of his paintings. He then wields a bamboo rod dipped in ink to create spontaneous marks and drips to finish the painting. Although Katano’s gestural lines may resemble forms from the natural world, a Ginko leaf perhaps, the marks exist as their own self-referential language, each line representing nothing more than its own creation, each piece finding meaning in the harmony of its own and unique internal structure. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Katano lives and works in Northern California. His work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Jose Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Tim Rice
Flow 22, 2013
Oil on Panel 66 x 69 Inches

Nature is omnipresent in Tim Rice’s intuitive and organic abstractions. Using layer upon layer of oil paint in thin washes results in deep, indefinite, and luminous spaces. His paintings have the quality of filtered sunlight, multi-hued clouds, underwater refractions, lily pads afloat, dappled forest shade, and reflections in a slightly disturbed pond’s surface. “I come to an empty canvas in a spirit of adventure without a specific idea or image in mind,” says Rice. “My process is improvisational. My only goal is that the ‘found’ image–through its mood, tension, movement or light–creates its own world and inhabits a palpable space. I remain intuitive rather than mindful in this activity.” Rice lives and works in Berkeley, California. His works are in collections throughout the United States and Japan.

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The paintings of Casper Brindle look as sleek as surfboards and shiny as high beams. Using color-shifting automotive paints and coats of glossy resin, this contemporary Los Angeles artist’s work stems from the Light and Space and Finish Fetish art movements of the 1960s, reflecting the car and surf culture of Southern California. As these movements are experiencing a resurgence in the international art world, we are proud to be showing the next generation of talent.

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Casper Brindle
Platinum Stratum, 2013 (Sloan Miyasato Installation View)
Acrylic, Automotive Paint, and Resin on Panel
44 x 94 Inches

Casper Brindle was mentored by the internationally acclaimed artist Eric Orr, one of the pioneers of the Light and Space movement. Though Brindle’s work cannot be separated from the movement’s practice, it does stand out with its sophisticated studies of atmosphere and vaporous ambiguities that intrigue and compel us to navigate the hazy borders of perception. Subtle horizon lines aide this navigation. His richly hued canvases, composed of bands of softened colors, seem to radiate and extend far beyond the boundaries of the picture plane. Having spent a considerable amount of time on a surfboard, his work also reflects his personal passion for the ocean and skies of California.

Casper Brindle: Stratum Series, 2013
Film by Eric Minh Swenson
2:31 Minutes

Casper Brindle
Solo Night, 2013 (Gallery View with Artist)
Acrylic, Automotive Paint, and Resin on Panel
44 x 94 Inches


Casper Brindle
Dislocated Stratum Series, 2009 to Present (Gallery View)
Acrylic, Automotive Paint, and Resin on Panel


Casper Brindle
Blue Too, 2013
Acrylic, Automotive Paint, and Resin on Panel
44 x 94 Inches


Casper Brindle
Copa, 2013
Acrylic, Automotive Paint, and Resin on Panel
38 x 68 Inches


Casper Brindle
Night Depth, 2013
Acrylic, Automotive Paint, and Resin on Panel
40 x 72 Inches


Casper Brindle
Blue Aqua with EJ, 2013
Acrylic, Automotive Paint, and Resin on Panel
48 x 96 Inches


Casper Brindle
Green Flash, 2012
Automotive Paint, LED Lights, and Aluminum on Panel
41.5 x 90 Inches


Casper Brindle
Gold Stratum, 2013 (Detail)
Acrylic, Automotive Paint, and Resin on Panel
40 x 72 Inches

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Artist Catherine Courtenaye brings the everyday handwriting of the past into the present by exploring historical artifacts in fields of color and gesture. Read more about her paintings below and see them, and works by other artists, in person at Sloan Miyasato Fine Art in San Francisco.

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Catherine Courtenaye
Extracurricular 10 (Overboard), 2012
Oil on Panel
12 x 12 Inches

Catherine Courtenaye
Jabberwocky 9 (Wintergreen), 2009
Oil on Panel
12 x 12 Inches

Catherine Courtenaye
Extracurricular 8 (Swoosh), 2012
Oil on Panel
12 x 12 Inch

Catherine Courtenaye
Jabberwocky 36 (WSH), 2009
Oil on Panel
12 x 12 Inches

Catherine Courtenaye
Extracurricular 4 (Double Helix), 2011
Oil on Panel
12 x 12 Inches

Catherine Courtenaye in the studio with her dog Tintoretto.

Courtenaye was born in Madrid, Spain, the daughter of an American diplomat, and lived in various foreign countries throughout her youth. She divides her time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Bozeman, Montana. She has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries throughout the US including her most recent solo show at Boise Art Museum in Idaho. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Oakland Museum of California, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, Boise Art Museum, and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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From snow white horses in photographs by Susan Friedman, to fantasyscape paintings by Lorene Anderson, to a chiaroscuro interior by contemporary realist painter Bruce Cohen, our winter show is filled with drama and wonder.

Read more about these selected works below and see them, and other art, in person at our San Francisco location.

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Susan Friedman
Vito 3, 2012
Archival Pigment Print
30 x 30 Inches
Edition 1 of 5

In her photographs Susan Friedman captures the powerful and muscular forms of horses, and depicts the spirit of this timeless muse. An award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer, her work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and the Oakland Museum.

Lorene Anderson
Octavia, 2009
Acrylic, Casein, Ink, and Mica on Canvas
72 x 80 Inches

Lorene Anderson paints vast and shimmering spaces of unknown fantasy by using chance and gravity to control the shape, direction, and distribution of paint. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities her paintings take their titles from places described by Marco Polo in prose poems to the Emperor Kubla Khan. Anderson has exhibited throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and internationally including the Kyoto Museum in Japan.

Bruce Cohen
Still Life with Tulips and Shadow and Light, 1999
Oil on Canvas
48 x 48 Inches

Influenced by Dutch still life painting and Surrealism, contemporary realist painter Bruce Cohen creates a dramatic interior scene heightened by shadow and light. We are fortunate to offer this exemplary still life directly from an important American collection. Cohen’s work can be found in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles.

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Ring in the new year with silver deposit paintings by Los Angeles artist Jimi Gleason. LA Times art critic David Pagel writes Gleason’s “densely textured surfaces are a cornucopia of unimaginable delights” and describes his work as “a glistening chunk of the Beyond, somehow brought back to Earth and polished up by a jeweler whose love for rough edges is matched by his fascination with blinding brightness.” Visit us in person at our San Francisco location.

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Jimi Gleason
Diamond DeLap, 2011
Silver Deposit and Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 36 Inches

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