THINK ROUND FINE ARTS ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
Think Round. Fine Arts
Reopens for in-person exhibits at 2140 Bush Street, Suite 1, SF, CA 94115
Yosemite Suite & Recent Works
Opening reception for Elaine & Leslie this Saturday.
March 2 - April 27, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, March 2, 3 PM - 6 PM
ARTISTS' TALKS @ 4 PMThink Round Fine Arts is thrilled to announce the unveiling of not one but two compelling art shows by the esteemed local artists Elaine Michaud and Leslie Aguilar.
Elaine Michaud, a seasoned artist with deep roots in the vibrant art scene of San Francisco, will showcase her mesmerizing series titled "Yosemite Suite." Inspired by the majestic granite formations of Yosemite National Park, Michaud's abstract paintings and ink drawings evoke a harmonious dance between form and emotion. Each piece invites viewers to embark on a visual journey through the rugged beauty of nature, capturing the essence of Yosemite's grandeur.
Leslie Aguilar, another luminary of the San Francisco art world, presents "Recent Works" - a captivating exploration of geometric abstraction, landscapes, and animals. Aguilar's artistic prowess transcends traditional boundaries, manifesting in a diverse array of mediums, including pastel drawings, water-soluble pastel monoprints, and intricately crafted stone and wood sculptures. The exhibition seamlessly blends 2-D and 3-D elements, providing a multi-dimensional experience that engages the senses and sparks the imagination.
"We are thrilled to host these two exceptional artists whose works reflect the rich tapestry of San Francisco's artistic landscape," says Heidi Hardin, executive director at Think Round Fine Arts. "Elaine Michaud and Leslie Aguilar bring a unique blend of inspiration and innovation, captivating our audience with their distinct perspectives and creative brilliance."
The opening reception for the dual exhibitions will take place on Saturday, March 2nd at Think Round Fine Arts, located at 2140 Bush Street, Suite 1, San Francisco CA 94115. Attendees will have the exclusive opportunity to meet the artists, gain insights into their creative processes, and immerse themselves in the transformative power of art.
Seeing Bali Through Artists Eyes
A showcase of Balinese culture and environments
January 6 - February 28, 2024
RECEPTION: JAN 6, 3 PM - 6 PM
ARTISTS' TALKS @ 4 PM
Think Round Fine Arts is pleased with the return of Jennifer Ewing and Leo Germano, a renowned Bay Area artist couple who have recently returned from a life-altering journey through Bali.
Prepare to be transported into Bali's vibrant, mysterious world as artists Jennifer Ewing and Leo Germano invite you on an immersive journey through their exhibition, See Bali Through Artists' Eyes, at Think Round Fine Arts. From January 6 to February 27, 2023, the gallery is transformed into a showcase of their sojourn through Bali's landscapes and rich cultural tapestry.
Their journey began as artists-in-residence at the Devfto Printmaking Institute in Ubud. This gave them a relationship with other contemporary artists, a deeper understanding of East and West concepts, and a studio from which to produce prints.
Take a break from winter and open yourself to a warmer tropical world found in this exhibit.
To view the exhibit please call or email to schedule an appointment! (415) 602-9599 or info@thinkround.org
Spring, Sprang, Sprung
San Francisco Blooming Flowers & Jumping Spiders
An exhibition of photographs, paintings, & drawings by eco-artists & educators:
Heidi Hardin & Russ Aguilar
May 1 through June 29, 2023
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 6, 4-6 PM
Artists' Talks at 5 PM
Think Round is pleased to present two Bay Area eco-artists, who have taught local children, youth, and families for decades about the precious nature of air, water, soil, plants, animals, and people of San Francisco through their art and school programs. Spring, Sprang, Sprung is a multimedia art exhibit that encourages learners of all ages to look closely and deeply at the seasonal changes and animal inhabitants and their habitats of our shared urban home, San Francisco.
Please join us for this Spring has sprung exhibit that screams the sap is running in San Francisco!
SCHOOL TOURS are available by appointment on FRIDAYS from noon-three. For more information, please contact info@thinkround.org.
Shapeshifters: Myth & Magic of the North
March 8 through April 22, 2023
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 11, 2023, 3-6 PM
Artist Talks at 4 PM
The artists of Nordic 5 Arts share heritage and/or an interest in the nature and culture of the five Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Together they have created this exhibit to express their personal representations of the ways in which the folklore and mythologies of the Nordic countries have affected their lives.
Heidi Hardin’s
Beginning Family Dharma (Hindus & Sikhs)…an installation
of 40 digital portraits
October 1 through December 30, 2022 Opening Reception: October 29th, 2-6 PM
with special guests, our subject family members: TRI volunteer Richa Sharma, URI's Regional Coordinator for North America, Tahil Sharma, along with other Bay Area United Religions Initiative (URI) Cooperation Circle leaders. (Richa and Tahil are not related.)
Artist and Subject Family Talks at 4 PM
Part IV of The Human Family Tree/A Walk through Paradise…7 Installations
otherwise known as The Paradise Project produced by Think Round, Inc.
with music & soundtracks by LA composer and Hardin's long-time collaborator, Jonathan Sacks
Join us in person for the first time since 2020!
OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES
SF OPEN STUDIOS
November 12th & 13th, 11 AM-6 PM each day
FAMILY ART-MAKING WORKSHOPS
ALL SATURDAYS, 10:30-NOON
K-12 SCHOOL TOURS & PORTRAIT MAKING ACTIVITY
FRIDAYS: 12:30-2:30 PM BY APPOINTMENT
HUMAN FAMILY SUPPER/SALONS
2nd TUESDAYS, 6-8 PM. CREATE YOUR OWN. OUR SPACE IS YOUR SPACE. PLAN AND HOST A SUPPER-SALON OF YOUR OWN DESIGN.
EMAIL: info@thinkround.org
NOTE: October—December 2022 Class and dinner group sizes are limited to 8-10 people! You MUST sign up to be able to participate in classes. All activities are free and open to the public. Suggested donations for family art class $5/member. Suggested donation for Supper-Salon $10/person.
Think Round Fine Arts
2140 Bush Street, Suite 1
San Francisco, CA 94115
Tuesday through Friday
Noon-4, & by appointment:
heidi@thinkround.org
415.602.9599
For more information, please visit: https://www.thinkround.org/exhibitions
or review our press kit.
The Animals Are Watching
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September 1st - November 30th, 2022
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 3rd, 2022
4-5 PM PDT via ZOOM, Artist Talk: 4:30 PM
Fuzz E Grant says,
"This exhibition brings together works from my overarching theme of “The Animals Are Watching”. The non-human animals are watching humans, waiting with patience for our species to become part of the ecological system once again.
Working with characters allows me to bring a connection with you and the art, at a personal level, and provides comfort and support. I’m often told from humans that they “need this work to be in their lives”, I feel, because of our self-made nature deficit and hopefully this will restore the balance."
Tiny & Wild Visions of San Francisco
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June 15th - July 31st, 2022
Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 25th, 2022
4-5 PM PDT via ZOOM, Artist Talk: 4:30 PM
Russ Aguilar’s camera takes us up close to examine San Francisco’s smallest residents, invertebrates. Vibrantly colored images give primacy to the 21 species of insects and spiders that the artist photographed along San Francisco’s streets and in her parks and gardens. The artist used macro photography techniques to highlight the interconnections between these creatures and the earth and plants where they thrive to create a series that is both foreign and familiar. Each photo is a lightly edited, uncropped, single shot of an invertebrate found in the “wild” of San Francisco, and the artist took care to minimize disturbance to these animals and their ecology in making this catalog. His work asks us to tread lightly in exploring our man-made and natural ecosystems and to stop and consider even the smallest forms of life with which we coexist in our environment.
Constructions: Old & New
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Magic: The Art and Science of Aligning the Energies of My Personality with the Intentions of My Soul...a retrospective
by Heidi Hardin
This exhibition is a retrospective of six exhibitions Heidi created from 2005 through 2016. These exhibitions include:
1. 2016 Oklahoma is not O.K./Soul Retrieval Journey
2. 2015 Self-Portraits: K-12, Heidi, Then Then
3. 2014 Plum Blossoms/Valentine’s Day 2010
4. 2012 Power Lines/Cherry Tree Skies
5. 2006 Chocolate in the Garden/Plum Tree Skies
6. 2005 The Ideal Point/Looking into the Event Horizon
of My Deep South Life
Each exhibit is a collaboration with LA composer
Jonathan Sacks who provides original music and soundtracks
Heidi Hardin closes Think Round Fine Arts ONLINE by closing the many chapters of her trauma story in this final online exhibition titled Magic: The Art and Science of Aligning the Energies of My Personality with the Intentions of My Soul…a retrospective (Magic...)
Magic... as a retrospective is fleshed out with the addition of two exhibitions: Oklahoma Is Not OK! and The Ideal Point that now have been added to Chocolate in the Garden/Plum Tree Skies, Self Portraits: K-12, & Discovering True Love: An Installation that have been on view virtually.
Twenty-three solo exhibitions and sixty-five group exhibitions later, over the course of Heidi’s career as an exhibiting fine artist, she has used her artmaking and writing practices as ways to uncover, discover, illuminate, and integrate the many toxic stresses (9 of 10 on the ACE Test*) of her childhood. Magic... is a retrospective of six exhibitions Heidi created from 2005 through 2016. These exhibitions include:
2016 Oklahoma is not O.K./Soul Retrieval Journey
2015 Self-Portraits: K-12, Heidi, Then Then
2012 Plum Blossoms/Valentine’s Day 2010
2012 Power Lines/Cherry Tree Skies
2006 Chocolate in the Garden/Plum Tree Skies 2005 The Ideal Point/Looking into the Event Horizon of My Deep South Life
Magic… presents a tribute to the power of art, science, people, and prayer to heal the most tragic trespasses against her from the age of five. Please join Heidi, her family, and friends at the reception as she describes in a chronological walkthrough how the power of creativity has allowed her broken places to become her strengths.
Magic... will be the last exhibit to be displayed in our Virtual Galleries online through August 31, 2021. If you have not yet experienced these immersive virtual galleries you can view them all here. Here, you will also find Salma Arastu's exhibition Meditations on Rumi. Don't miss these soulful surveys of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by esteemed Bay Area artists Salma Arastu and Heidi Hardin.
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*ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) Test:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean
Salma Arastu
Meditations on Rumi
Salma Arastu
Meditations on Rumi
JAN 9 - AUG 30, 2021
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JAN 23,2021 (4-5 PM)
EXHIBITION EXCLUSIVELY HELD AT THINK ROUND FINE ARTS ONLINE
Think Round Fine Arts is happy to welcome San Francisco Bay Area Fine Artist Salma Arastu to our online gallery. Salma's artworks are lyrical, spiritual, figurative, and calligraphic. Her paintings reveal stories of unity in diversity, peace and joy, a celebration of life, and women and dancing whirling dervishes. Whether in paintings or sculptures, the faceless figures represent the universal oneness of all humanity. Her calligraphic work attempts to celebrate the same message of oneness spread through verses in Arabic calligraphy and in the poetry of Rumi.
If you'd like to use the press kit, please click here.
SALMA’S ARTIST STATEMENT
My works are lyrical, spiritual, figurative, and calligraphic. My paintings reveal stories of unity in diversity, peace and joy, a celebration of life, and women and dancing whirling dervishes. Whether in paintings or sculptures, the faceless figures in my work represent the universal oneness of all humanity. My calligraphic work attempts to celebrate the same message of universality spread through verses in Arabic calligraphy and in the poetry of Rumi.
The line is a very important component in my work. I celebrate the energy and movement of the line in my paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Since my exposure to Arabic calligraphy during my stay in the Middle East, my line has become more lyrical, melodious, and powerful.
The lines I create represent the spiritual energy that emanates from a soul. I use the same stroke of the brush for Arabic letters as I do for suggesting human forms. Both are fluid as if temporary expressions of the eternal universal energy. These paintings are visually flowing in deep, hushed tones, connecting forms and ground in a spiritual union, a synthesis of contour, and an exploration of space.
My method is a physical and meditative process that fills each canvas with moving lines and multi-layered textures. For me creating art means getting physically involved with the piece: scratching, sanding, layering materials like paper, rope, modeling paste, paper mache or copper plate, and embroidering with pen and ink. I apply thin layers of acrylic color and the different layers bring out subliminal images.
Arabic Calligraphy, miniatures, and the folk art of Islam and the Hindu tradition continue to influence my work today. I have tried to bring together Eastern spirituality and Western techniques of painting learned over the years. Through the contrasting elements in my work, I yearn and search for unity, and when that unity or balance is achieved, it brings about tranquility and joy.
I am blessed because I was born with the urge to create and a love for God. These two gifts have been sources of eternal joy and a constant flow of positive inspiration in my life. My mission is to spread the joy and blessings I have received through my work.
Salma Arastu
Visit In Person
Think Round Fine Arts
Heidi Hardin
Scott Madison, His Youth Explored
Heidi Hardin
Scott Madison/His Youth Explored
THINK ROUND FINE ARTS
2140 BUSH STREET, SUITE 1, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94115
( BETWEEN FILLMORE AND WEBSTER. GALLERY ENTRANCE IS ON THE DRIVEWAY.)
GALLERY HOURS: 9 AM-12 PM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AND BY APPOINTMENT
Think Round Fine Arts is pleased to present this tribute to the life of the artist's close friend and community colleague, Scott Madison. The exhibition will be on view in the gallery from October 10, 2020, until further notice.
Visit by appointment only.
Strict social distancing and mask-wearing observed.
Think Round Fine Arts
2140 Bush Street, Suite 1
(Between Fillmore & Webster)
San Francisco, CA 94115
Call or text: (415) 602-9599
Email: heidi@heidihardin.com
1998. “In His Hands” Quadriptych
Panel 1: “Scott Meditating Eve”
Panel 2: “Scott Meditating Family Values: Bull, Cocks & Hens, Sheep”
Panel 3: “Scott Meditating Hierarchies, i.e. Feudalism, The Trinity, etc.”
Panel 4: “Scott Meditating the Unknown”
Oil Pastel on Paper on Handmade Gold Foil and Vinyl Wallpapers on Panels.
4 Panels: 48” x 112” overall.
Heidi Hardin’s Artist Statement written December 31, 1998 about these portraits and others...
It is my belief that the peoples of the earth exist within a web of natural, spiritual, and social forces much as individual planets and moons orbit within the subtle influences that both hold them together and keep them apart. Just so, in the human universe, though we are separate individuals, nations, cultures, faiths—we are one in our humanity. My vision for these paintings...Read more here.
Collage Art by Marc Ellen Hamel & Heidi Hardin
Rebuilding
JAN 2 - AUG 30, 2021
EXHIBITION EXCLUSIVELY HELD AT THINK ROUND FINE ARTS ONLINE
The virtual exhibition of two San Francisco Bay Area collage artists.
Artist Statements
ARTIST STATEMENT: Marc Ellen Hamel
I make collages using my original monotypes. By cutting up previous work and rearranging chosen sections, I aim for drama and new visions from altered combinations of color and shape. I have been a monotype printmaker for many years. I love intense color and always find that there are really delicious parts to the many monotypes that I decide are unfinished or just not good enough. It is a joyful challenge to take those best parts and make new compositions.
ARTIST STATEMENT: Heidi Hardin
Keeping family secrets (by using sugar and alcohol) left me without a childhood and teen years that I could remember. To remember, “What happened?” in my childhood, to re-center and reignite my life, I present 13 mixed media collages: Self-Portraits: K-12 Heidi, Then. This new work is a meditation on the dualities between truth and denial that reshape boundaries between consciousness/unconsciousness, awake/asleep, good/evil, visible/invisible, reality/fantasy, now/then, sanity/insanity, and how these dualities can be created within negative and positive spaces of artworks, and between artworks on the gallery walls. The shared cultural understanding of image, text, and objects provides viewers inroads to the humor, irony, poignancy of my own stories, struggles, and a deliberately pointed message about the common struggle of families faced with mental illness and addiction. [Alcoholism and codependence entwine to form] "a conspiracy of silence, not only for the person who is suffering [from mental illness and/or addiction],but for everyone else who's forced to interact with that person. That's why they call[alcoholism] a family disease."1As a fine artist working in Southeast SF community arts for the past twenty years, I have taught art and science to children about the clean-up/reuse of Hunters Point Shipyard. From this work and the thousands of children I have taught, I learned that no matter how traumatic or toxic one’s childhood might have been, there are those (visible and invisible)willing and able to help with the cleanup and reuse of one’s life. My awareness of and trust in these processes were the heart of staying resilient as a human being while facing the darkest realities of my past, accepting them, and developing emotional maturity after57 years of being numb, disassociated five-year-old girl and a blacked-out drunken teen.
Heidi Hardin
Chocolate in the Garden/Plum Tree Skies
SEP 18 - NOV 28 , 2020
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, OCT 3, 2020 FROM 4 - 6 PM
ARTIST TALK: 5 PM
EXHIBITION EXCLUSIVELY HELD AT THINK ROUND FINE ARTS ONLINE
Think Round Fine Arts is proud to open our first debut “virtual gallery” 100% online and walkable with the beautiful series “Chocolate in the Garden/Plum Tree Skies” by Heidi Hardin.
THE REVENUES FROM THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE DONATED TO THE THINK ROUND’s TWIN VISIONS
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Chocolate in the Garden/Plum Tree Skies at Laguna Heights Cooperative Corporation (LHCC) is a series of paintings I created in a matter of weeks in August 2006 at a time in my life when I was reaching another breaking point. My place of work that I had considered my home away from home for 17 years was recreating stresses from my childhood that I had repressed. I had completed a year of teaching hundreds of children to paint and preparing fourteen children and their chaperones to go on a second trip to Africa and France. All was complete—all but submitting the invoices. I found myself in the presence of a fellow artist who had helped me with these programs and who was helping me prepare invoices for him, me, and six other artists who had helped us, when I suffered the second panic attack I had ever experienced in my life. I could not submit the invoices. Read more here
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Originally from Oklahoma City, Heidi Hardin received her MFA in Painting in 1979 and her BA in Biology and Visual Arts in 1976, both from the UCSD. For thirty years she has exhibited her paintings nationally in galleries and museums and has taught arts at all levels. Her artwork was represented by Newspace, LA until from the early 1980s until 2006 when the gallery closed and its archives—along with Ms. Hardin's exhibits—became a part of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D. C.. She now directs and represents her own artwork and that of other San Francisco fine artists at Think Round Fine Arts (TRFA), located at 2140 Bush Street, Suite 1, SF, CA. TRFA is a not-for-profit gallery that represents artists with a focus on the Earth and its families.
Heidi has taught community children for the past twenty years about the Superfund Cleanup and Reuse of Hunters Point Shipyard in SF schools through the innovative art and science curriculum, The Children’s Mural Program (CMP). In 2010, Ms. Hardin and Think Round were awarded one of the nine public art commissions for HPS through the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency HPS Public Art Program. In 2010-11, more than 60 local CMP students participated in the creation of this commission, titled STREAM of CONSCIOUSNESS, a 1’ x 120’ handmade ceramic & mosaic tile mural.
All of Ms. Hardin’s work as a community-based artist & as a practicing fine artist are now held in trust in the vision, mission & objectives of Think Round, Inc., (TRI) a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that she formed in 2004. TRI offices relocated in 2012 to expanded facilities including exhibition, studio & teaching spaces with a modest art & science library. In 2018, TRI became a Cooperation Circle of United Religions Initiative. (URI). Currently, Heidi Hardin is: completing her birth vision, The Human Family Tree/A Walk Through Paradise...seven installations & working to build The Center for the Human Family to house it. For more info, visit: www.thinkround.org.
ABOUT THE COMPOSER
Composer Jonathan Sacks has worked as a composer and orchestrator on over 30 feature films over the past 25 years, including Mr. Holland’s Opus, Toy Story 2 & 3, and both X-Files films. He is most recently on a Noah Baumbach film “Marriage Story”, featuring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson. He created orchestral arrangements for Metallica, Kiss, and Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, most recently creating musical arrangements for Steve Martin and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
As composer Sacks has written music for the concert hall and stage, including settings of 20 Shakespeare’s sonnets, as well as for productions with San Diego Repertory Theatre, Antaeus Theatre, and Shakespeare Festival, LA among others. Sacks has also worked with Cedering Fox and Word Théâtre in “In the Cosmos” performed at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre and music for a new translation of the Odyssey performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Jonathan Sacks and Heidi Hardin have been friends and collaborators for the past thirty years creating performance artworks and installations including Stardust...a performance, Incantations: Book 1/Parsifal and Self Discipline, The Human Family Tree/A Walk Through Paradise...seven installations. Parts I: The Human Family Tree (The Four Christians) was on display at The Bayview Opera House in 2000 and Newspace LA in September in 2001. Part III: Art of the Family (The Four Muslims) was on display here in October, November, and December 2017. Part II: Families in Paradise (The Four Jews) was on view here in October, November, and December 2018.
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