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Gary Morgret, Brilliant Photographer

Gary has been taking photos since his first Brownie camera, bought for a 6th grade class trip to the Coney Island Aquarium. As an art student, in studio and art history, at Plattsburgh State University – he began photography with more seriousness by taking classes, working in the university photo lab and by teaching a photography class for inmates at a maximum-security prison in Dannamora, New York. As graphic designer for Embarcadero Center, he soon saw the need to go digital and bought his first digital camera in 1999 and has graduated to a Nikon D200. Several of Gary’s photos have also been purchased by the City of San Francisco’s Art Commission for the newly completed Laguna Honda facility.

Gary's work is currently on exhibit in the Embarcadero Conference Center, located in 4EC on the Promenade Level. More of his work can be seen on the flickr website at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/garybill/. He can be reached at garybill@gmail.com

Winter Granary by Dan Scannell

Dan Scannell

Dan Scannell is a graphic artist who grew up in San Francisco. He now splits his time between the City and Sonoma County. Until recently most of his creative energy went into designing paper goods and fabric. In the last couple of years his focus has shifted to landscape painting in oils and acrylics. He also works in soft pastels, another medium that lends itself to capturing the landscape. The inspiration for his paintings comes from the rural settings around the Bay Area and Northern California.

To see more of Dan Scannell's paintings, please visit the Street Level of One Embarcadero Center.

		Ellen Babcock is a part of the Art in Residence Program at the SF Recycling and Disposal, Inc. "I undertake actions with various materials, often materials associated with construction, with the aim of uncovering either a link between the material and its past and future manifestations or pointing to a desire for such a link. I look for simple gestures to enact on materials such as wood, concrete, paper, Styrofoam, sheetrock, spackle, or silicone caulk. I like to interrupt bland surfaces, drawing out a sense of fragility and a very precarious balance between activities of construction and decay. I often allude to landscape in my arrangements of prosaic materials, hoping to expand the presence of such things as sheetrock or spackle beyond the confines of a wall."
		As part of a comprehensive 10-year project, Tim Baskerville continues to photograph and exhibit black and white photography of the interiors of the restored historic streetcars operated by the S.F. Municipal Railway (MUNI) and the Market Street Railway, a nonprofit organization supporting the preservation of rail transportation. The light, fine detail and elegance found in the interiors of these proud old cars represents a mode of transportation all but gone from the hustle-bustle of our modern age and is captured in the series, Interiors: The F-Market Line.
		THE NOCTURES – 4EC Lobby Level As Tim Baskerville, Founder and Director of The Noctures, explains: "The focus of the exhibit, 'Embarcadero Nocturne' is on San Francisco's revitalized waterfront—from the Ball Park on the south, to Pier 35, at the north end. I had photographed this area extensively prior to, and immediately after, the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989—then, it was an area marked by monolithic freeway ramps and derelict piers and trainyards. As all San Franciscans know, since that monumental 15-second event, the Embarcadero has been transformed in many wonderful, unforeseen ways. This juried exhibit reflects on some of that change, and was open to all different interpretations—the only criteria is that images be taken from, looking at, or be about the Embarcadero, San Francisco's waterfront!" With this recently transformed area of San Francisco as its theme, and night photography, and its inherent transformative ability, as the vehicle, this show presents some engaging imagery by an accomplished group of San Francisco photographers.[website ]
		KEVIN BERNE – 4EC Lobby Level Since 1989 Kevin Berne has followed dual passions of commercial and fine art photography. As photographic artist, Kevin is mesmerized by simple elements of nature which transcend the clutter of the everyday world and attract him with their mysterious sensuality and sublime power. Kevin's fine art photography has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area and internationally. [ website ]
		MARK FAIGENBAUM – 2EC Street Level Mark comes from a background in graphic design, but has focused exclusively on fine arts for the past 7 years, having work exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco as well as the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. He works with images from outdated analog machines as well as diagrams and visual information taken from natural and esoteric sciences and works to create a greater whole out of disparate elements. [ website ]
		GARLAND FIELDER [ website ] grew up in Houston, Texas, and received his bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently works as a freelance designer on Web site and print collateral projects and spends as much time as possible painting. A section of his painting Benty Benty is shown above (topmost image on this web page).
		JOHN SMIDDY – 1EC Street Level John's recent body of work touches on the intersection of the themes of nature and culture, science and the occult, and versions of self. The artist's intent is to bring to light the secret of the biological self; our hidden inseparability from nature. Richly textured pieces are created using combinations of collaged pages from medical text books, silk screens of clustered and entangled calligraphic ornamentation, hand painted decoration or simple organic line and shape. [ website ]
		CYNTHIA TOM – 2EC Street Level Cynthia works in a variety of mediums, but primarily with acrylics. She develops her paintings largely through subconscious inspiration. Often, a symbol, an image, or a phrase will begin her creative process. Each painting develops like the telling of a story, and the use of intense color and ethereal perspective has become her trademark. [ website ]
		VICTORIA WAGNER – 2EC Street Level The overriding theme in Victoria's work is the frenetic pace at which nature seeks to order itself. Within that reach for order exists a system that at once appears chaotic, then reveals itself as pure and universal patterning. In her acknowledgment of nature's divine systems, she finds the order that directs, manipulates and resolves the human spirit in its struggle to regiment information and feelings. [ email ]

		ALLISON WRIGHT [ website ] is a documentary photographer based in San Francisco who specializes in photographing the traditions and changes of endangered people in remote areas around the world. Her work has been featured in magazines and newspapers world-wide and includes photo essays on medicinal healers in the Amazon rainforests, the hill tribes of South East Asia, Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, Burmese refugees in Thailand, Marco Polo's footsteps across the Silk Road of China and Pakistan, as well as life in the outback of Australia, where she lived for two years.