Eleanor Harwood Gallery Please join us for a cocktail reception to honor Messy Beck, Johanna St. Clair, & Amber Jean Young, 4-6pm on Thursday, September 1st.

Cocktail Reception September 1st, 4-6 pm Messy Beck, Johanna St. Clair, & Amber Jean Young Heat Maps

Please join us for a cocktail reception to honor Messy Beck, Johanna St. Clair, & Amber Jean Young, the artists in Heat Maps.  We will be serving Pink Bikini cocktails as well as a non-alcoholic option. Please join us from 4-6pm on Thursday, September 1st.  For inquires please contact Eleanor Harwood at +1 415 867 7770 or eleanor@eleanorharwood.com

Messy Beck

Messy Beck is a painter, illustrator, and muralist. Inspiration for her work began with her fascination with the complex and dynamic nature of women. Her oeuvre has since evolved into a series of narratives that explore themes of identity, mental health, and human connection. The contrast between her inviting color palettes and uniquely contorted figures yield paintings that are constantly navigating a fine line between celebratory and disturbing. She currently lives in Montara, CA with her dog Maude.

Johanna St. Clair

Johanna St. Clair lives and works in San Francisco. Along with her husband, John McCambridge, she co-founded ​Mollusk Surf Shop,​ which has developed into a cultural institution that integrates surfing, art, craft, music, and film.​ Mollusk has brick and mortar stores in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset Neighborhood, Venice Beach, and Silver Lake, and a clothing line which is widely distributed. A few years after starting the business, Johanna returned to making art. ​First with drawings from observation on small, blank cards (she keeps a pocket-studio with her at all times), then with her larger-scale ink and brush paintings on paper, and recently with paintings in oil, Johanna's work has grown more direct, fluid, and urgent.​ Her work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, and at the Tucson Desert Art Museum.

Amber Jean Young

Amber Jean Young (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist residing in Berkeley California. Young’s work explores ideas about place, love, grief, and resilience across mediums, creating vibrant patterns and plant imagery in her compositions. She has exhibited nationally including Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, Hashimoto Contemporary and Marrow Gallery in San Francisco, Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley, Monte Vista Projects and Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles, the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. She is a 2012 Djerassi Resident Artist Program fellow. Her work has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Palo Alto Weekly and in catalogs including The MediaMath Collection: Selected Acquisitions 2012 - 2016, A Celebration of 50 Years of Women Artists At Kenyon College, MusiCares 2010 catalog. Her art has been used on the covers and inside jackets of multiple Neil Young and Pegi Young albums.

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