About this Event
Join us each month for a lively evening of new exhibitions, fresh activities, creative energy, and something unexpected around every corner. Mark your calendar—it’s always different!
Experience downtown San Rafael through art.Free and open to the public, the 2nd Friday Art Walk brings downtown San Rafael to life on the second Friday of every month with gallery exhibitions, open artist studios, special installations, artist receptions, and more.
Anchored by Art Works Downtown’s galleries and 35+ artist studios, the Art Walk connects galleries, arts organizations, businesses, and independent exhibition spaces throughout downtown—creating an evening of art, discovery, and community
https://www.artworksdowntown.org/2nd-friday-art-walk
Art Works Downtown provides an environment where visual arts thrive for the well-being of community.
- reception
Gallery 1337
In collaboration with the Lucid Art Foundation
Curatorial Statement
This exhibition presents art as a way of knowing. Entering the unknown territories of consciousness and inner spaces, requires multiple approaches. Science and art offer different, yet complementary, ways of exploring phenomena. The quantitative methods of science and the qualitative inquiries of artistic practice illuminate experience from different directions. Art contributes to this broader understanding through its capacity to reveal and communicate dimensions that might otherwise remain unseen or invisible.
Art is a form of inquiry that creates an intersubjective encounter between the artwork and the viewer. A work of art is not merely an illustration of knowledge acquired elsewhere; it can itself become a site of discovery.
The unveiling of inner space likewise calls for a multiplicity of approaches. In this exhibition, each artist enters this world through a distinct visual language, revealing dimensions of inner and outer experience through abstraction, automatism, alchemy, nature, light, and energy.
The artworks themselves become portals. Some invite contemplation and sustained attention; others seize us immediately. Each offers a different threshold between the known and the unknown.
- Discover two levels of art studios and galleries
Founders’ Gallery
Ceramic Art Center of Marin
A ceramics exhibition exploring the breathtaking beauty and fragility of our ocean world, from sky to shore and sea. Featuring works inspired by coastal landscapes, land and marine life, deep water mysteries and the urgent call of climate awareness.
Donors’ Gallery
Abstract photography by Rina Neiman & Marsha Heckman
When the world shut down in March of 2020, Rina Neiman and Marsha Heckman began an artistic partnership that became a glorious obsession. Sometimes huddled under blankets on the porch in the cold and rain, housebound with nothing to do, the two friends created art projects that kept them engaged, wearing masks, and six feet apart. What may have started as art-therapy, turned into an Artnership between two friends.
Using a Liquid Color process, they create other-world-scapes; explosions and unique shapes that pull the viewer in. Shot on digital camera, each is a world made of vibrant colors, mysterious movements, and varying perceptions of depths
Event venue & nearby stays
Art Works Downtown, 1337 4th Street, San Rafael, United States
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