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		Gary’s first photo expedition was a trip to the aquarium at Coney Island, New York, with Miss. Sperling’s 3rd grade class. He was shooting black and white film with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye. He’s been hooked on photography ever since. Gary is a Liberal Arts graduate of Plattsburg State University in upstate New York. He majored in art, studio and history, and was a photo lab assistant. He also taught evening photography classes at the Maximum Security Prison at Dannemora. He is now the Graphic Designer for Embarcadero Center (owner manager, Boston Properties). Gary currently shoots digital with a Nikon D200 and Nikon D80. Nature and landscape are a primary interest as well as underwater photography (with an Olympus 5050 and an Olympus housing) and macro photography. 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

		Martha Hubert My work is about balance. I'm concerned with the relationship between color, form and light. My inspiration comes from many directions; including architecture, nature and the spiritual. I find pleasure in the simplicity of sparse elements arranged with playfulness and meticulously embellished. Making art gives me the opportunity to create a world that can be interpreted in many ways. I am especially interested in highly saturated color. For this reason, I mix my own pigments. I often work with opposites (curves and straight lines, rough and smooth surfaces, dark and bright colors). By combining color and form in a playful and balanced way, I hope to create a realm of amusing calm. Martha's work is currently on exhibit in Four Embarcadero Center on Street Level across from the Giant's Dugout.

		Nemo Gould With years of accumulating post-consumer waste and a lifetime of absorbing pop culture imagery, Nemo Gould has been creating his signature style of kinetic metal and found object sculpture for over 20 years. Old vacuum cleaners, dead bugs, used dentures and sewing machine motors all find their unerringly rightful place in his surreal creatures and abstract sculptures, which have attracted museums, galleries and eccentric art collectors throughout the U.S. and abroad. Born in Minneapolis, MN and raised in Nevada City, CA, Nemo Gould earned his BFA in sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1998 and his MFA at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. His work has been shown in the San Jose Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and the Arizona Museum for Youth. Work in this exhibition was created by Nemo while he participated in the Artist In Residence Program at SF Recycling & Disposal (a subsidiary of Norcal Waste Systems) in San Francisco during the summer of 2007. The program provides selected local artists with 24-hour access to an art studio and San Francisco's waste stream at the garbage and recycling facilities on Tunnel Avenue. Some of Nemo's work is kinetic. To see videos of these pieces in action, please visit the artist's website at www.nemomatic.com. For more information about the Artist In Residence Program, please visit www.norcalwaste.com or call 415-330-1415. Artist’s Statement What makes a thing fascinating is to not completely know it. It is this gap in our understanding that the imagination uses as its canvass. Salvaged material is an ideal medium to make use of this principle. A “found object” is just a familiar thing seen as though for the first time. By maintaining this unbiased view of the objects I collect, I am able to create forms and figures that fascinate and surprise. These sculptures are both familiar and new. Incorporating consumer detritus with my own symbology, they are the synthesis of our manufactured landscape and our tentative place within it-- strong and frail at the same time. Be sure to stop by One Embarcadero Center, Street Level to check out this unique art exhibit.

		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.