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Mark Taylor is a book artist, printmaker, filmmaker and arts journalist.
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Don’t miss this event, the original Sacramento holiday art festival. The Crocker Holiday Artisan Market will take place on Thanksgiving weekend,  Friday, 11/27/26, through Sunday, 11/29/26. Friday, 12 noon to 5 pm Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm Sunday, 10 am to 4 pm at the Sacramento Scottish Rite Center 6151 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819 And it’s extra easy to reserve your spot: You can even get your tickets online NOW! You can see the participating artists for this year, too. Check out our link in bio. Remember, you will only see the best of the best regional artists at this special fundraiser for the Crocker Art Museum. We can’t wait to see you! In this video: - @crockerart Crocker Art Museum entrance - @creativeartsleague board members of the Creative Arts League of Sacramento in meeting and presenting a check from the Crocker Holiday Artisan Market, their fundraiser for the Crocker Art Museum - Santa & Mrs. Claus at David & Teresa Levy’s Hardwood Creations booth - angel ornament at Betty Kaneko’s Designs By BettyK booth - twinkling holiday lights adorning ceramic pottery at Tanveer Khondker’s Earth Fire Water Pottery booth - and a whole bunch of other art… - @lingyenjones - @slaintebags - @emptypictures - @o_zweaver - @curvyclayworks - @3dcandies - Santa & Mrs. Claus - live music, guitar (ironically, if your sound’s on) . . #sacramentoevents #artfestival #handmadeart #artlovers #holidayfun
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Thank you @sfartsmonthly and Mark Taylor for featuring our show! “After suffering a stroke in 2018, Detroit artist Antwoine Washington dedicated himself to making art, using common house paint to infuse canvases with the fragility of existence. While the paint is flat (as opposed to glossy), the compositions are layered with texture, buzzing with bright color and frenetic activity. Many of the abstracts resemble crowd scenes, perhaps seen from above, populated with figures of rain drops falling, flowers popping, and birds in flight,” Mark Taylor, SF/Arts Curator.
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Our upcoming exhibition "Illuminating Abstractions" brings together the beautiful abstract works of local artist Mira M White and "illuminating" creators James Aarons & Mark Taylor's amazing functional decorative lamps. This will be another exhibit showing how art and utility come together to enhance your living space. The Artist Reception will be Saturday, Sept 12, from 3-6pm. Visit www.eppersongallery.com for more! #artgallery #artexhibition #abstractpaintings #artisticlamps #sculpture
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Cal college days, early 80s. This is slide film. I loved that Fujica. It got stolen out of the car in front of CBGB years later (served us right.) 📷1: selfie. Note the door covered with layers of latex paint, which we peeled obsessively. Ida Sproul dorm, 8th floor, woo! 📷2: i do not recall to which dorm posse member these shoes belonged. Adorned with petals. [I tagged college chums on this photo just because] 📷3: my side of the dorm room. This dates these photos from 1983. Note: FB3/Bananarama super group! 📷4: Ida Sproul and her creepy hallways
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WARNING: DEADLINE APPROACHING! Artists, THIS Is The Art Festival You’ve Been Waiting For JULY 1ST IS THE DEADLINE to apply! The Crocker Holiday Artisan Market is a beloved holiday tradition, BOTH for art lovers AND for artists like YOU. This is the kind of festival experience you dream about: - enthusiastic and sophisticated art lovers shopping your artwork, - plenty of volunteer staff who check in on you to help out, - free onsite parking makes load-in and pack-up easy for you, - we’ve refined our catering this year, so you can pick up a quick snack, - a three-day event, so you can get the most out of your experience, - the best neighbors: other high caliber artists like you who often become your good friends, - and plenty of publicity to bring those art lovers to your booth, with extensive social media and email campaigns. This exclusive event is in coordination with the Crocker Art Museum and considered a holiday tradition by Crocker Art fans and art lovers in the region. We draw visitors from all over Northern California. The Crocker Holiday Artisan Market will take place on Thanksgiving weekend, Friday, 11/27/26, through Sunday, 11/29/26. Venue: Scottish Rite Center 6151 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819 **The DEADLINE is JULY 1ST!** APPLY NOW before you miss out (link in bio). In this post: - Artist Livia Kerr’s Fine Art booth @liviakerrfineart - Handmade miniature drawer-box from artist Garon Curtis at his Ice Box Gallery booth - Handmade lamps from artist Mark Taylor at his Imaginary Lamp Empire booth @emptypictures - Handmade handbags from designer fabrics from Jill Bornemann of Slainte Bags @slaintebags - Gourmet olive oil from artist Monica Keller of CalOlea Olive Oil @calolea_olive_oil - Ceramic artwork from artist Susie Rubenstein @susie_rubenstein . . #sacramentoevents #artfestival #handmadeart
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SF/Arts Gallery Highlight!⁠ ⁠ "Visit the rescued remains of a fictional Swiss art school (Zürich's State Art Academy aka SKZ) to view partially completed color studies, signed by imaginary students, produced at the instruction of non-existent professors in pretend painting classes. Observe the preferred palettes abandoned by phantom artists whose works will never be realized. All that potential resides in the mind of LA's Dan Levenson, who shares enticing scraps that conjure the outlines of workrooms, the architecture of buildings, the possible art careers, and the potential art movements of a school that never existed, which is made all the more poignant by the closing of storied Bay Area art schools (Mills, SFAI, CCA) that once birthed legends and have ceased, or will soon cease to exist."⁠ —Mark Taylor, SF/Arts Curator⁠ ⁠ Thank you, @sfartsmonthly and @emptypictures, for your insightful highlight of @dan_levenson's solo exhibition, "A5 Format Oil on Paper Studies and A3 Format Student Palettes from the SKZ," featured in today’s SF/Arts insert in The New York Times.⁠⁠ ⁠ On view through June 20⁠ ⁠ —⁠ ⁠ #municipalbonds #danlevenson⁠ #sfarts #galleryhighlight #nytimes
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Thank you @sfartsmonthly and Mark Taylor for featuring our forthcoming show “Esteban Samayoa: Somethin’ Bout the East” opening May 8th! “Esteban Samayoa combines airbrush and charcoal to create both clean and slightly off-kilter portraits and dense, mural-sized community clusters that feel like snapshot collages of daily life. Next to these trot colorful images of dogs looking hungry and paintings that recall baseballs cards or grocery store ads, which explore the odd phenomenon of marginalized communities ‘pushed to the Eastern edges of cities through displacement and gentrification.’”
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Thank you, SF/ARTS, Mark Taylor and Catherine Barry for highlighting Gina Pearlin's new exhibition, The Travelers. Opens Saturday, Feb. 21. Reception is Saturday, Feb. 28, 2-4pm. #sfarts #ginapearlin #sanfranciscoart #25thstreetgalleries #surrealism #smallworks #smallworksofart #oaklandartist #artcollector
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Long before there was Tiny Little Cosmos, I toted a notebook, camera, voice recorder, around the SF Bay Area to report on local arts and culture. I had such a great time producing stories for The California Report and then writing for my editor Mark Taylor (@emptypictures) at @kqedarts. That spirit of curiosity still lives at the heart of Tiny Little Cosmos. Every project starts with that same instinct: listen deeply and paint vividly. #TinyLittleCosmos #CreativeDirection #Storytelling #AnchorAndAction #PlotAndPulse #CreativeProduction #DesignForChange #ArtAndImpact This image features a picture and a testimonial quote from Mark Taylor, filmmaker and visual artist at Imaginary Lamp Empire, and former editor at KQED. The quote reads: “Love Deepthi. She’s a really wonderful writer who has on more than one occasion turned me on to interesting cultural information that I would have otherwise been oblivious to. She’s fun to work with, creative and has great style and energy.”
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Thank you @sfartsmonthly and @emptypictures for including 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓼 in this Sundays @nytimes 💚 We’re here today 11-3! Don’t miss the opening of Periscope, new paintings by @leahtumerman from 2-5 today at the Benicia Public Library, just up the road! 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓼 Curated by Rebekah Goldstein and Lisa Rybovich Crallé August 17 - September 28, 2025 Featuring works by: 🌀Wilder Alison @wilderalison 🌀Yevgeniya Baras @yevgeniya.baras 🌀Kerry Cottle @kerrycottle 🌀Azadeh Elmizadeh @azadehelmizadeh 🌀Yaxkin Fuentes @yaxkinfuentes 🌀Linda Geary @lindageary 🌀Rema Ghuloum @remaghuloum 🌀Rebekah Goldstein @rebekahgoldstein 🌀Felicia Griffin @niadartcenter 🌀John Lees 🌀Padma Rajendran @padmavathy_r 🌀Leah Tumerman @leahtumerman Instrumentals flyer designed by Crystal Dawana @sillyg000se featuring artwork by Padma Rajendran @padmavathy_r
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Had a wonderful time in Sutter Creek for the opening of my show Tell Me How to Be a Lily at Yorba Gallery last weekend! Many thanks to the people of Amador County for coming out and engaging with my work, to @jamestanleyaarons for his curatorial vision and organizing, and to @yorbawines for hosting a warm reception with excellent drinks and snacks. Extra gratitude to James and @emptypictures for the lovely afternoon/evening (the peach tart was heavenly!)! @hernberferd and I also did some classic exploration of Amador County folkways, along with a meander through the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta on the way home. 💐🐸🤠🇺🇸
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We’re honored to see our exhibition “Concentric Circles: Tracing the Radiance of Bay Area Figuration” featured in this month’s issue of SF/Arts! Big thanks to Mark Taylor @emptypictures for the thoughtful write-up and to SF/Arts @sfartsmonthly for shining a light on our exhibition. We’re proud to be part of the conversation about the legacy and ongoing relevance of Bay Area Figurative painting. On view through June 14th - only two weeks left! Don’t miss this the chance to see this landmark exhibition! 📍540 Ramona Street, Palo Alto 🕒 Tues–Sat, 11am–6pm #ConcentricCircles #PamelaWalshGallery #BayAreaFigurativeArt #SFArts #ThankYou #ArtReview #PaloAltoArt #BayAreaArtScene #nathanoliveira #Diebenkorn #ElmerBischoff #BayAreaArtists #FigurativeArt #ArtExhibition #CaliforniaArt #ContemporaryArt #ModernArt #SupportTheArts #galleryexhibition
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