Cutting ball's local artowrk curation
In efforts to showcase beautiful local artwork in our newly renovated lobby, Cutting Ball Theater put a call out for local Bay Area artists to submit their work. We received some beautiful pieces and ultimately chose a few for this season to be displayed throughout the run of our shows. We hope this exposure translates to more awareness and sales for these emerging local artists.
This year the theme was to match Cutting Ball's 23/24 Season theme: ADAPTATION.
Emily Cronan
In Transit
Mixed Media - Marker, Pen, and Collage
5x7in
$75
Adaption: This piece was inspired by San Francisco's adaptive spirit coming out of the pandemic and the vibrant art that prospered in the local community, while the daily reality of commuting on buses and trains is ever present. Moments of transit are spaces that hold so many different energies at once. The expectation of looking away and orderly architecture: the excitement and anonymity as you anticipate the arrival.
About the Artist: I am a multidisciplinary artist who grew up in San Francisco, CA and I recently moved back to the Sunset district after finishing school in San Diego where I studied Theatre and Communication. I am a theatre maker, writer, and visual artist looking to rediscover San Francisco's amazing arts community.
See more of Emily's Work.
To Purchase: Please do so at Box Office
Marie Cartier
Cyclops Mermaid
Acrylic on Canvas
16x20in
$280
Adaption: Rethinking what a mermaid looks like, what environment she is happy in.
Inspiration: Inspired by a storm I saw coming in over the Hudson River when I was in New York last year. You'll see she is adapted to her environment with her webbed hands.
About the Artist: I'm a local artist, better known in the theater world but a practicing visual artist as well. I haven't displayed my stuff publicly in several years. I'm born and raised in SF and live in Hayes Valley currently. However, my day job is a social worker and I spend my days walking around SOMA and the TL.
See more of Marie's Work.
To Purchase: Please do so at Box Office
Daniel Kong
my mother has cancer and I have to move back from new york
Photography
27 x 35 in
$199
Adaptation: I took this photograph on a visit basically in the middling of moving back into my childhood home but still living in New York City. It features my mom several weeks before she was set to start chemo as she tends the backyard garden (foreground) and my father washing dishes (background). It was a time of extreme uncertainty, change, and fear of loss. In trying to escape or adapt to my fears, I tried to condense and expand memories and thoughts of the future, a confusing cloud of anxiety. I often take photos of reflections in windows and mirrors, however here I can't help but think that during this time I did feel like I was perceiving my life through a window, through the haze of reflections.
About the Artist: I'm a queer and Asian multimedia artist and writer based in San Francisco. I've been making photographs intentionally for 11 years: since I was 17 as I'm 28 now. I enjoy media and thinking about media and media consumption in all its forms.
To Purchase: Please do so at Box Office
Kat Powell
Forbidden Truffles
Mixed Media - candy box, bottle caps, buttons, leather scraps, adhesives
6"x6"x2"
$80
Adaptation: In the 21st century, the line between edible and inedible art has blurred. My goal is to blur it the adaption further.
Inspiration: Trompe L'oeil, Creative Reuse, and a lifelong frustration that I can't eat all the pretty things.
About the Artist: My name is Kat Powell, and I'm an oddball who makes art out of junk for fun and profit. I'm self-taught in most media, and my life goal is to become reasonably proficient in 1,000 things. I think I'm currently in the mid 50s.
See more of Kat's Work
To Purchase: Please do so at Box Office
Cathryn Cooper
1943 v me in 23
Mixed Media
16x12"
$80
Adaptation: Over the covid shut down period I became really intrigued by what society holds sacred and how far we're willing to go to protect those things. I became fascinated by the concept of protection and the lengths we'll go inorder to prevent the inevitable change. This piece depicts the protective mesaures taken in 19432 to preemptively keep Michelangelo’s David safe during the bombings of WW II. I imagine them all alone in there and considered what other "sacred" things we'd choose to give David to help them adapt in 2023.
To Purchase: Please do so at Box Office
Noelle Castro / VoltaireVintage
Mind your Heart
Mixed Media - Patches, Apliques, Rhinestones, Cloth
$110 Each
Adaptation: What do we think consciously/subconsciously? In what way does that shape the world in which we then exist? Is your Heart on your Mind? Are you Minding your Heart? Thoughts that create the reality then navigated In.
Noelle Castro / VoltaireVintage
Mind your Heart
Mixed Media - Patches, Apliques, Rhinestones, Cloth
$110 Each
Adaptation: What do we think consciously/subconsciously? In what way does that shape the world in which we then exist? Is your Heart on your Mind? Are you Minding your Heart? Thoughts that create the reality then navigated In.
To Purchase: Please do so at Box Office
Dirk Alphin
Escalator & Tree © D. Alphin, 2019
Oil on Masonite Panel
16" x 12"
$200
Adaptation: An escalator is shown with a tree, showing nature adapting to technology and vice versa, both part of urban experience.
Inspiration: Human attempt to interweave nature into our day to day existence.
About the Artist: I am an artist in San Francisco, California, who was born and raised in Southern part of the state of Idaho in an area of the Great Basin. This was high desert landscapes turned into an agricultural hub. Because of this I am both a lover of nature, open spaces and small towns, as well as having a strong urban appreciation and outlook. I spent many years involved in performance art, wearing several hats of that trade: actor, director, producer, designer, playwright. In art I have explored stage design, graphic design, digital art, photography and painting. At present, my medium of choice is mostly with oil paint.
See more of Dirk's Work
To Purchase: Please do so at Box Office
Cristina Waters
Ends of the Earth 2021
Watercolor
27" x 12.5"
$200
Adaptation: Born in the darkness of the pandemic, this piece was a refuge and vehicle that carried me through the decision to separate from my then-fiance. Exploring the confluence and transition of passion, sadness, grief, and hope, this painting invited me to adapt and arrive into a new future that had not yet been written.
About the Artist: Cristina Waters is an Oakland-based filipina multi-media artist whose work explores the traversing of identity and time.