DETAIL: Mika, 2015, 36 x 72 inches, acrylic on canvas, Collection of Recology, San Francisco, CA.

The Mills Building

Recology: The Art of Recycling Exhibition Talk and Reception

Join KALW to experience a special viewing and exhibition talk for Recology: The Art of Recycling, selections from Recology’s Artist in Residence Program. Join artists Jane Kim and Kara Maria for a conversation with Deborah Munk, manager of the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence (AIR) program at KALW’s live event studio at 220 Montgomery. Come early to view works by Kim, Maria, and several other visual artists currently on view in the Mills Building and stay for a lively, climate week discussion. It’s all part of KALW Earth Month, live at 220 Montgomery.

For 35 years, the Recology Artist in Residence Program has supported Bay Area artists. As part of the Sustainability Education Program, the four-month residency provides a rich and immersive environment for artists to develop their practice while deeply engaging with sustainability and community outreach.

​Since 1990, over 190 professional artists and 60 student artists from local universities and colleges have completed residencies. These emerging, mid-career, and established artists have worked across disciplines to explore themes of waste, resourcefulness, and ecological responsibility.

Reception: Thursday, April 24, 5-6pm

Panel Discussion: Thursday, April 24, 6-7:30pm

Click here for information and tickets.

The Mills Building, 220 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94104

(image: DETAIL: Mika, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches, 2015, Collection of Recology, San Francisco, CA)

Southern Exposure

NEW SUNS: Resist & Rejoice

If you’re looking for an opportunity to purchase my work and support a Bay Area arts organization doing radical things for our community, get your tickets to NEW SUNS: Resist & Rejoice, Southern Exposure’s benefit art auction. The event will take place on Friday, April 18 at Southern Exposure. Southern Exposure is facing significant economic uncertainty in this shifting landscape for nonprofits and art spaces. As a community, we must hold these spaces for open communication, risk taking, and experimentation. Check out my work and art from over 130 other celebrated artists. Get your tickets at www.soex.org/auction.  

Preview Exhibition: Saturday, March 29 – Thursday, April 17, 2025

Auction Main Event: Friday, April 18, 6pm

Southern Exposure, 3030 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

415-294-0692

(image: At Sight of Sun (lark bunting), color lithograph on Rives BFK paper, 30 x 22 inches, 2022, Published by Shark’s Ink., Lyons, CO)

San Francisco Arts Commission

Overlapping Histories: Art on Market Street Poster Series, 1992-Present

A retrospective showcase commemorating over three decades of artistic commissions.

“For over 30 years, the Art on Market Street Poster Series has transformed San Francisco’s main thoroughfare into an open-air gallery, making contemporary art created by local artists accessible to the public,” said Ralph Remington, Director of Cultural Affairs. “The 2025 poster series is a powerful retrospective that allows us to not only honor the artists who have helped shaped this program but also uplifts the stories and voices that have come to define our city.”  

The curated selection of archived commissioned works will be presented in three groupings throughout the year, based on the themes of “People, Places, and Things.”  

The first group of ten posters is focused on the theme of “People” and will be displayed at 15 SFMTA transit shelters through June 2025

Market Street between 7th and Steuart Streets, San Francisco, CA

415-252-2266

www.sfartscommission.org

(image: Boom Town, digital print on Tyvek, 2003, Project of the San Francisco Arts Commission)

Rising Tides Exhibition Catalog

Digital catalog to accompany the first show at The Floating Museum on the Barge by the Hall Art and Technology Foundation.

Please view the catalog by clicking here.

Exhibition continues until Summer 2025. You can book an appointment to tour show here.

Hall Art and Technology Foundation, 2517 Blanding Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501

www.hallartandtechnologyfoundation.com

(image: Who Watches the Watchers?, 46 x 46 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2011, Collection of Hall Art and Technology Foundation, Alameda, CA)

Shark’s Ink.

New lithograph 2024

It was wonderful to return to Shark’s Ink. in Lyons, CO to make another lithograph.

Here is a snapshot of the Trial Proof (TP). Print features an endangered northern leopard frog – my third print with a Colorado animal.

Shark’s Ink., 550 Blue Mountain Road, Lyons, CO 80540

303-823-9190

(image: Inside the Blue Sky (northern leopard frog), color lithograph, 22 x 27.5 inches, 2024, edition of 20, Shark’s Ink., Lyons, CO)

Reviews for Kara Maria, Precious and Precarious: Life on the Edge of Extinction

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

January 28 – June 10, 2022

• squarecylinder.com, “Jaimie Baron on Kara Maria”, by Jaimie Baron, April 16, 2022

• The Santa Clara, “Kara Maria’s Abstract World of Endangered Animals”, by Matthew Lallas, February 4, 2022

• metroactive, “Kara Maria at De Saisset Museum”, by Grace Stetson, January 26, 2022

(image: installation view, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, 2022)

2020 Los Angeles Billboard Show

The Billboard Creative is a non-profit organization that turns billboards into public art sites. An image of my painting Kaleidoscope Eyes was featured on a 12 x 24 foot billboard at North Fairfax Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, CA from February to March, 2020.

www.thebillboardcreative.com

(image: billboard installed in West Hollywood, CA, 2020 (Kaleidoscope Eyes, (green sea turtle), 2017, 26 x 26 inches, acrylic on canvas))