Five Bay Area Emerging Artists Take Over MarinMOCA

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present its sixth annual Emerging Artists of the Bay Area Juried Exhibition. This exhibition will expand throughout both galleries. The featured artists are Ryan Carrington, Tibor Simon-Mazula, Justin Pastores, Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, and Kyong Ae Kim.

Come to the reception on Saturday, August 29, and see what new directions art is taking in the Bay Area.

A denizen of Sunnyvale, artist Ryan Carrington explores issues of class, culture and history as they relate to the American labor force through mixed media and performance works.

During the reception, he will perform a new work entitled “Face to the Faceless,” which explores the relationship of big business executives to the blue collar workers who form the foundation their enterprise. He has exhibited at venues across the Bay Area, the state, and the nation.

A graduate of the MFA program at San Jose State University, Carrington has taught in the fine arts department of his alma mater since 2010 and has been an adjunct lecturer at Santa Clara University since 2012.

Hungarian painter Tibor Simon-Mazula left his hometown of Budapest seven years ago to work and travel across Asia. He eventually settled in San Francisco three years ago, and has since garnered an MFA in painting from the Academy of Art University.

He creates textural, semi-abstracted portraits of the people from his life and travels. His paintings obscure the individuality of his subjects through an aerial perspective and gestural brushwork, rendering them universal depictions of the human experience.

He has exhibited at many San Francisco galleries and internationally.

The youngest artist featured in the exhibition, Alameda-based painter Justin Pastores recently received his BFA from California State University East Bay.

His work has been shown throughout the Bay Area at venues including the Frank Bette Center for the Arts, the Fremont Art Association, and the Oakland Museum. His most recent series of work, entitled “Between the Fourfolds,” explores processes of assimilation, separation, integration and marginalization as they occur in Oakland’s Chinatown.

His work evokes feelings of displacement and conflicting cultural identity through portraits that incorporate graffiti and abstraction.

Born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, painter Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian creates intricate, graphic abstractions in a hyper-saturated color palette.

Her works explore movement and form with kaleidoscopic compositions that conjure utopian landscapes. Harris-Sintamarian is represented by Jack Fischer gallery in San Francisco and has shown at many local and national arts venues.

She holds an MFA in printmaking from the University of Delaware and an MFA in painting from San Jose State University. Harris-Sintamarian lives and works in Oakland.

Kyong Ae Kim uses a fusion of traditional painting techniques, digital rendering and collage to create delicate images of skulls and other natural forms. Using many layers of tracing paper, Kim creates topographical maps of light and shadow within each work, echoing the ecological landscapes that produce her subjects.

Kim holds an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Born in Gyeongju, South Korea, Kim lives and works in San Francisco.

The Emerging Artists of the Bay Area exhibition will be on view August 29 - October 4, 2015.

• --News release from Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. “Flag 2” by Ryan Carrington, “Combing 2” by Tibor Simon-Mazula, “Fruits of Labor” by Justin Pastores, “Diluted Memory: Trove of pleasure” by Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian, and “The Skulls 1” by Kyong Ae Kim