Studio Visit & Artwork Pickup
with Artist Alexander Hernandez
& Tour of Public Glass
Date Sat. May 6
Time 11 AM-2:30 PM
Location San Francisco, Yosemite Place Art Studios
*Reserved for Circle Members (Join the Circle)
It's Never Enough for Me, Alexander Hernandez, 2022, Deconstructed quilt, fabric remnants, paint, wine stains
We’re thrilled to offer a series of spring studio visits exclusively for our Circle Members. These curated experiences foster a deeper understanding of NUMU’s exhibiting artists, offering a glimpse into their creation processes and their artist studios.
Exterior of Yosemite Place Artist Studios.
We’ll kick off the series with a fun-filled day in San Francisco exploring the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood. Join us for coffee and pastries at the hip coffee shop Bloomstock before we tour Public Glass, a glass studio and school. There, we’ll observe artists at work in their hot shop before viewing completed creations in their gallery. Lauryl Gaumer, featured in NUMU’s rotating exhibition series In the Artists Studio is both an instructor and operations coordinator at Public Glass.
After we’ve warmed up, we’ll venture over to Yosemite Place for the main event. We’ll tour the intimate studio of this year’s Director’s Circle artist, textile artist Alexander Hernandez. We’ll learn more about his process, and the event will culminate in the unveiling of this year’s Director’s Circle Artwork Commission. Each of the limited edition artwork that Alexander has created is unique and he will explain the various techniques he implemented in each. Alexander was NUMU’s inaugural Artist in Residence, and his work was featured in the exhibition, Retazos: New Works by Alexander Hernandez (Jun 3-Oct 9, 2022). We’ll also be joined by another Yosemite Place Resident,Visual Artist Michele Foyer. So Save the date and join us on this special day.
Interested in carpooling? Hitch a ride with Kim, Ami, or a NUMU board member, please let us know and we’ll coordinate with you. Event details and exact location will be emailed to guests who RSVP.
Join or renew today to take advantage of this new series, along with other circle benefits. See you in the studios!
A work-in-progress video of Alexander designing a Director’s Circle exclusive print.
Schedule of Events
11 AM - Pastries and Coffee at Bloomstock
12 PM - Public Glass Tour (Hot Shop & Gallery)
1 PM - Yosemite Place Studios:
Alexander Hernandez Studio Visit and Director’s Circle Artwork Reveal
Michele Foyer Studio Visit
About the Artist, Alexander Hernandez
Website | Instagram
Hernandez is a mixed-media artist who currently resides in San Francisco, CA, working as a social worker finding housing for displaced LGBTQ youth in San Francisco. Born in Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca- Mexico, and raised in Grand Junction, CO, he received his BFA (2007) in Painting and Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design in Denver, CO, and an MFA in Studio Art (2012) from California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. He creates soft forms and layered quilted collages of textiles to represent stories of resilient individuals dealing with the experience of being othered, isolated, and excluded because of their identities. Hernandez often repurposes found materials and other textiles with motifs and colors that speak to the recombination of cultures and frames of reference that shape our complex modern lives. His previous work, “STAYIN’ POSITIVE,” is a series of textile portraits investigating the identities of Latinx and other people of color living with HIV. Hernández has participated in art residencies at at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA; San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA; Root Division in San Francisco, CA; Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC; Mark Rothko Art Center in Latvia; and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, among others.
About Public Glass
Website | Instagram
Since 1997, Public Glass has been San Francisco's only public access glass studio and school. As a 501(c)3 arts organization located in the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, our outreach includes a full curriculum of glass courses taught by local and nationally recognized artists, as well as programming for under served youth and adults, corporate group experiences, events, and exhibitions. More and more the new and unexpected experiences that we offer are becoming a known and positively regarded part of the Bay Area arts landscape.
About Artist, Michele Foyer
Website | Instagram
Michele Foyer is a visual artist whose thoughtful abstractions address the movement intrinsic to color and its non-linear qualities of relation, resonance, and rhyme.
Her sculptural paintings made of paper and on canvas explore how we see and know. She is intrigued by how objects, people, and thoughts gather disparate times, places, and modes of ordering experience in an often tenuous aggregate. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from UC Berkeley, honors + departmental honors.
