Peter Foucault: Local artist does very well...

A couple of weeks before this magazine cover came out, I met with Peter Foucault to discuss his ongoing work. At that time, he was looking forward to installing Attraction/Repulsion at the SFMOMA's museum café and a prospective multi-media collaboration with SFAI colleague, Jenna North, addressing issues of climate and global warming.

Peter Foucault is a multi-media artist who creates drawings based on self-perpetuating systems responding to elements of chance. An Oakland resident, his work is currently on view at the SFMOMA's Caffe Museo through May 12.

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Marvin Lipofsky - Living Legend

Fine art glass sculptors, such as Dale Chihuly, and his proteges at the Pilchuk Glass School, line the Pacific Northwest to Jamex and Einar de la Torre’s studios in California’s southernmost border town. In between is the San Francisco Bay Area, and its rich repository of award-winning glass sculpture. Local glass artists such as Julie Alland, Jaime Guerrero, John Lewis, Clifford Rainey, Randy Strong, Pamina Traylor, Chuck Vannatta, and Dana Zed, are but a few; and the most exciting of these is Berkeley resident, Marvin Lipofsky, the understated pioneer of the contemporary glass movement, whose sculpture and educational efforts over the past 40+ years are fundamental to establishing glass as a fine art medium.

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Pauletta Chanco, Painter

Pauletta Chanco, a San Francisco Bay Area resident, was recently sought out by a local gallery on behalf of its client, because of Pauletta's ethnicity (like me, one of her parents was born in the Philippines), but mostly because of her beautiful paintings.

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