DATES: June 5-27, 2010
RECEPTION: Friday, June 11th, 7-10pm
HOURS:Fri-Sun 12 noon-5pm, and by appointment
LOCATION:ARC Gallery 1246 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94103
ADMISSION:Free and open to the public

Paper View:  Contemporary works on paper by Bay Area artists
Many artists have a long and abiding love of paper due to the tactile, sculptural and malleable qualities that paper offers the artist. With paper, artists create flat or sculptural works such as assemblage, collage, drawing, mixed-media, painting, prints and book arts.
To celebrate this much-loved medium of paper, seventeen contemporary Bay Area artists who create works on paper were selected to showcase their artwork in an upcoming exhibition at Arc Studios & Gallery. Presented in works by some of the regions most creative artists, organized by guest curator, Mike Kimball.

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San Francisco artist Mike Kimball maintains a strong interest in works on paper, and has created numerous editions of fine art prints. Kimball is an avid collector of contemporary works on paper as well, having built a collection of well over 500 pieces. As a printmaker, Kimball has completed artist residencies at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA and the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium. He is a member of the California Society of Printmakers and the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council.
The principal partners of Arc Studios & Gallery are pleased to be able to host this exhibition in their newly-opened art complex. The building, in the heart of San Francisco’s SOMA District, consists of ten quality artist studios, an art gallery, art education space, and a Blue Bottle Coffee shop. It is located in the space formerly occupied by the New Langton Arts Foundation, which closed its doors in 2009. The partners are pleased to carry on the tradition of the space as an arts venue contributing to the vitality of the neighborhood. ARC studios offers much needed space for local professional artists to create and produce their artwork, as well as opportunities to exhibit their work at Arc gallery.

Arc is conveniently located at 1246 Folsom Street between 8th & 9th streets, just three blocks from the Civic Center BART Station on Market Street.