Reception for Encore 2025

Some of our artists:

Liz Mamorsky with Beaky  photo:Mary Margaret (aka Ems)

Henry Bridges studying his pencil drawing, Sacramento

Natalie Craig with her active ocean painting,  
The Wilderness of and Embrace

Norita with Waiting for the Puppeteer  
photo: Mary Margaret (aka Ems)

Brigid Horgan talking about her striated painting, When The Day Is Done

Michelle Mongan next to her Reflection print

Ems with her Assemblage, Two of My Favorite Things: Local Parks & Books with Deborah Corsini and her weaving, Scream above.

David Stroud talking about his photograph, Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley

Anne Marguerite Herbst    photo: David Stroud

Anne Marguerite with Connie Harris photo: Michelle Mongan

Roxie Reed talking about Howling at the Unknown  
acrylic skins applied to copper background

Sunset Dunes Inaugural Art Exhibition Celebration

Last Sunday's event was sunny and celebratory! Anne Marguerite Herbst had been invited to curate this show of 13 Artists whose art reflects the beauty and wildness of Ocean Beach. Each artist contributed one image, enlarged and printed on a waterproof panel. Below are a few of the artists.

Yvonne Martinez, Ken Downing, Nathalie Roland

Natalie Craig, Kevin Webster, Michelle Mongan

Leslie Lacko, AMH with Eric Mar (photo by Elaine Chan-Scherer), Starr Sutherland

 

RECEPTION FOR ANNE MARGUERITE HERBST'S "PORTALS"

Surprise Gift!

Starr & Natalie had buttons made from Anne Marguerite's painting Ablaze. They secretly gave a button to everyone at the reception. The cue was to put it on when the FOG Horn blew, right before the artist's talk. Anne Marguerite never noticed as she was preparing to speak. Afterwards, when she realizes everyone is wearing a piece of her painting, see her reaction!

 

Reception for Autumn Exhibition

Leslie Lacko and Ken Downing

Leslie Lacko and her husband Bob

Surrounded by admirers: Ken in checked shirt with wife Boz in flower dress

 

Ready for the artists' talks

Leslie explains how she began painting mandalas in 2020 to calm her mind and focus her thoughts.

Ken answers questions about his work.

Reception for FOG's 10th Anniversary Open Invitation

Our Reception Saturday was extraordinary.
The energy was buzzing from 12-6pm with Artists celebrating one another.

184 artworks as of July 12!

Karen Anderson and Richard Mendendez pointing out their paintings.

Surreal collage artist, Ronn Rosen in Red

Scott scored The Dog by 13-year-old Seamus Stannora. This is Seamus' first painting.

Richard Louis Perry  Palace of Fine Arts  oil  $2,250

Chandler White  Puzzleggs  $400

Paul Slade  Road Trip  oil   $500

Richard Menendez  Dashur  oil  $1,500

 

Upcoming: Summer Solstice Celebration

photo by Natalie Craig

I am excited to announce a wonderful day of music celebration on the first day of Summer, June 21. FOG has historically honored the turning of the seasons with a program of singing, which I will start at 5 on the 21st.

There is more: I have invited four wonderful musicians to fill the day. Starting at 1:30 Roy Zheng will play piano and accordion. At 2:30 Zachariah Spellman and Karen Hutchington will amaze you with their wizardry on tuba and piano. At 3:30 we have the pleasure of hearing Tom Huber play guitar- a truly masterful guitarist.

I am offering an “open call” from 12 to 1:30 for anyone from our community to add to the musical festivities. Please join us for a day of musical splendor as we usher in our summer.                                                                                      -Peter

 

Anne Marguerite at Atlas Cafe

Join Peter and me at Atlas Cafe Wednesday, May 28  4:30 - 6pm

3049 20th St. corner of Alabama St.

I am delighted to have 17 paintings on view through June.

It was marvelous… We gathered at one table and connected. In these dim days, it’s heartwarming to know we can make good times for ourselves no matter what.

photo by Natalie Craig

photo by Natalie Craig

Paper Trails: Reception

We had another full house of friends and supporters at the reception and artists' talks.

 

Our Paper Trails artists: Jo Ann Biagini, Nathalie Roland, and Louise Jarmilowicz

 

Our Irish Celebration

Barry Marris, special guest and Peter’s long time friend, entertained us with humorous Irish and Scottish songs, and poet Jonah Raskin read.

 

Embracing Nature: reception

We had an overflow of visitors supporting the Artists and curious to see their art.

Brigid Horgan on right with sister and Dad who made a surprise visit from Houston, TX

Deborah Corsini

Deborah Roxie Reed

 

Sundays at 3

Some fantastic guests are showing up for Sundays at 3. Two weeks ago, Roy treated us to an international selection of accordion music. This past week, Zachariah Spellman recited a poem by Elizabeth Bishop about a fish.

photo by Mary Margaret aka Ems

Our Winter Solstice Celebration

Peter sang songs of winter and the Sun’s return to longer days ahead, and artist Ronn Rosen read his Winter Solstice Evocation.

 
 

Encore 2024 Reception

December 7 was a fun and festive occasion with 30 artists participating.

 

Stephen Fox

Mary Margaret (aka Ems)

Darryl Sapian

Liz Mamorsky

Carlo Grünfeld

Deborah Corsini

Chandler White

Joann Edmunds Matthew

Roxy Reed

 

FOG is closed through November 5 for voting

This week through November 5th,
FOG is transforming into an election voting place
as equipment is rolled into the gallery.
We reopen Friday, November 8

Doggie to Doggie:  Kevin Webster, Artist Extraordinaire - and Maya.

 

C O A S T : The Reception

We had a full house on a steaming hot day.

Natalie speaks, and Cathy Perillo shows her sketch book, the source for her oil paintings.

Starr talks about his work.

Natalie Craig

Cathy Perillo

Starr Sutherland

Olivia Ting: Touching Sound

Five repurposed vintage radios with a diorama embody sound through touch. 

The audio sources are reflective of the Far Out Gallery location and include the ocean, birds, foghorns, and Muni tracks. These sounds are translated to vibrations by means of transducers installed in the radios. Olivia Ting grew up in this neighborhood. It’s where she became an artist and discovered sound as her medium despite being deaf. 

 
 

Anne Marguerite, Olivia, and friend    
photo by John Sanborn

Olivia and Lloyd May in background     
photo by Anne Marguerite Herbst

a guest feeling sound    photo by John Sanbornn

 

I was inspired by the story of Helen Keller experiencing the broadcast of a Beethoven symphony performed by the New York Philharmonic with her hands on the radio; it was as if she held the music as a morphing sculpture that spoke to her through touch. As a deaf artist, I am intrigued by sound as energy— the physical repercussions of molecular vibrations and their harmonious metamorphoses. The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed from one form to another. For me, what came through the radio for Keller was the creative energy of Beethoven, who himself lost his hearing as an adult, making a powerful haptic connection across time and space.

The five haptic radios I built for this series are meant to be touched. The audio sources I chose are reflective of the Far Out Gallery location – the ocean, birds, foghorns, and Muni tracks — and are translated to vibration by means of transducers installed in the radios. The neighborhood is also quite personal to me: growing up here, this is where I became an artist and discovered sound as my medium despite being deaf.

These haptic experiences are interwoven with excerpts of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, which was, in ways, his lyrical aural portraiture of the countryside where he escaped from the cacophony of city life as his hearing was deteriorating. 

 This project seeks to paint a cheeky, vibratory, phonic and visual tapestry of the ways how sound infiltrates our senses, memories, and bodies.  
-Olivia