Padd Solutions

Claire Jackel’s work, primarily in painting and sculpture, uses news media to remodel catastrophic events. Her practice meditates on issues of control and destructive potential, memory and the ephemeral in relation to social anxieties. She received her MFA in 2009 from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been shown internationally, including exhibitions at Gray Area Gallery, San Francisco; Root Division, San Francisco; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Clara Street Projects, San Francisco; LoBot Gallery, Oakland; The Garage, San Francisco; Th’ink Tank, Denver; The University of Colorado, Boulder; Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City. She was a painter of the SanFrancisco State University Edward Said Memorial Mural and awarded the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in the Fine Arts in 2008. Her work has been reviewed on SFGate.com, yourhub.com, and the Boulder Daily Camera. She teaches through the Good for Kids Foundation. Claire lives and works in San Francisco.

ROBERT MINERVINI

November 14 – December 9 2009

Robert Minervini is an artist working in painting, drawing, sculpture, and public art. His work draws inspiration from art history and investigates the relationships between landscape, historical, and invented narrative painting. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009, and his BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2005. His work has been exhibited internationally, including the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, the Luggage Store Gallery, Queens Nails Annex, the Pennsylvania State Museum, and the Philadelphia Art Alliance. He has been awarded the Murphy/Cadogan Fellowship by the San Francisco Foundation, the Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Fellowship by the National Academy of Fine Arts, and the Carmela Corso Scholarship by Tyler School of Art. He been a Resident artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Vermont Studio Center , and is currently in residency at the Root Division Studio Program. His art has been reviewed in Art Matters, the Providence Phoenix Newspaper, SFGate, and by www.artblog.com. He currently lives and works in San Francisco.