2023 De Young Open

September 27, 2023December 23, 2023 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Snaps from the 2023 #deYoungOpen artist preview from yesterday, Tuesday, September 26, 2023. Pictured above (top left) is my photograph, designated as number 20 in the exhibit, titled What it Says, a Covid-19 slice of life. Above my photograph is a beautiful quilt depicting the American Sign Language alphabet.

The exhibit is five or six rooms of impressive art forms that will awe you and instill pride in the richness of expression, humanity, and creativity. Just so impressive! I am honored to have my photograph included.

Community open day is this Saturday, September 30, 2023. There will be live music, pop-up food trucks, and film screenings. Mark your calendar! For more information please visit here and https://deyoungopen2023.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery

CAPTIONS (top, left to right) Participating artists only day! Overall view images of artists enjoying each others work, milling about. A colorful rainbow entry greets all entering The deYoung museum.

Vertical image: Alberto, intake curator gives me a smile and notes that my photograph is officially in his hands and catalogued as part of the 2023 deYoung Museum Open. I smiled right back. My photograph titled What it Says, a Covid19 slice-of-life was taken while walking on Market Street, during a shopping trip for essentials during the shelter-in-place order.

Next series are images viewed through the gallery app. Enter the image number in the search field to obtain the artist name, title, artist statement and description.

Images 052 and 053: The top image, number 52, Untitled: from the series of Racial Portraits by Mark I. Chester and below image number 53 titled: Happy: A Marin Homeless Encampment by David Santschi.

Image 793: Photograph titled Ghosts from the Past, by Yunfei Ren, selected for the 2023 deYoung Museum Open.

What It says Redux

September 17, 2023December 23, 2023 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Mark your calendars for a day celebrating community artistic expression at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park on September 30. All Bay Area residents enter free. I’m so very happy to have my slice-of-life photograph, titled What it Says, wild art in the time of covid, included in the 2023 de Young Museum Open Call. The photograph taken downtown on Market Street celebrates 50 years of Hip-Hop music and heralds San Francisco as a birthplace of music and musicians who have long called the city by the bay their home. The exhibition runs from 30 September till 7 January, 2024. Hope to see you there.

Molecule Man

May 30, 2020December 28, 2023 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Molecule Man, is a series of aluminum sculptures, created by American artist Jonathan Borofsky. Installed in time for the summer Olympics, the sculpture is 32-feet high by 20-feet in diameter.

Mr. Borofsky says about the sculpture, “at the time I first conceived of this sculpture, I had been fascinated by the fact that the human body, though appearing quite solid, is mostly made up of water. In fact 97% of our body is made up of a water molecule which is ‘sea’ or salt water based, leading many scientists to hypothesize that the human species originated in the ocean.”

I had to smell the rain; six feet apart

April 7, 2020June 20, 2020 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Image copyright Ana Elisa Fuentes and licensed through Stockimo/ Alamy.

Winter Sun, Lilting Trees

October 19, 2018October 22, 2018 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Winter, sun

lilting trees

from my series: View from My Train Window

this segment photographed at dawn, sunrise, somewhere along the San Joaquin Valley, California.

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Throwback Thursday

October 11, 2018June 19, 2020 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Who says California doesn’t have culture?

Oh, heart be still. Nostalgia is in the air … It’s a blast from the past.. Is it a surfin’ safari that’s gone awry? No it’s a 1961 Mercury Meteor station wagon an, automobile manufactured in the United Stated and named for the Mercury space race from a mirrored era gone by.

This surfin’ safari machine, on a warm autumn day, parked under still Acacia trees depicts an era, stood still in time, hopefully an era that hasn’t left us?

An era of civility, peace, and goodness among neighbors.

Oh, heart be still.

Art Walk,Wild Art

October 8, 2018 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Wild Art is a newspaper term that refers to found images that are unplanned, or unscheduled; a branch of street photography you might say. On this occasion I was on a walk with a friend, and noticed our shadows on the sidewalk.. Et Voilà, there you go, here we are!

July 4, 2018July 12, 2018 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

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A crow nestles in a blooming Century plant. The tall yellow flowers may reach a height of 25-30 feet. The plant native to California is also known as an Agave and Agave Americana.

(Re)dedication

July 15, 2015June 22, 2017 | Ana Elisa Fuentes

Today, members of the Coastal and Valley tribe of the Chumash joined together with members of the Santa Barbara community to re-dedicate the Dolphin fountain at the waterfront.

The fountain which honors the Dolphin relatives of the Chumash people, was enshrined thirty years ago today.

The Dolphins face the northern direction and its placement in the fountain symbolizes harmony in the three worlds. Since we are in severe drought, plants have replaced the flow of water; the Chumash people sang traditional and contemporary songs in their language – to honor and welcome the plants, their Dolphin ancestors and the flow of life; which includes the revitalization of the Chumash language.Ho!