Academy Graduate Illustration Students Collaborate on Group Show
San Francisco residents have an excellent opportunity to see recent work from three talented
Academy of Art University Illustration students/alumni. Angela Dominguez, Kristin Boles and Jesse
Mangerson will be showing work at the Academy’s 625 Gallery, 625 Sutter at Taylor in San Francisco.
The show opened January 31 and will be on display until February 29. An opening reception
will be held Thursday, February 7 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. where food will be served by personal
chef Carly Pricco.
The show took about six months of planning and though they hit some roadblocks, the entire
process has been a great learning experience for the three artists.
“It’s been a manner of building up contacts, thinking about publicity and really listening to
people’s advice such as [Academy instructors] Danielle Beach and Carolyn Meyer,” said Angela.
She will be showing children’s book illustrations, loosely based on the book Mooncake by
Frank Asch. The illustrations are primarily nocturnal with an emphasis on magical realism, graphic
shapes and color. Angela, who graduated in Fall 2008, has been featured in CMYK magazine, among
other publications.
Kristin Boles, who will graduate in Spring 2008, is showing three illustrations with similar
themes: one of a mandarin orange tea label, another of a wine label and the third of a cake.
Additionally, she is exhibiting three landscape paintings based on a 200-mile hiking trip she took
in England. Kristin came to the Academy because of the required traditional fine art foundation and
the high quality of the Illustration program.
“I really wanted to go to a school that would prepare me for the working art world, which the
Academy has definitely done,” she said.
Jesse describes his work as “non-confrontational depictions of California food-scapes in a
direct textural-realist approach in oil on panel.” The portraits of California’s fruits and
vegetables capture the beauty and delicacy in the subjects. Jesse has been published both
nationally and locally in The Willamette Week, Turkey Pluckers Press and Perseus Press among
others.
“I look forward to this show as the start of many for Kristin, Jesse, and myself,” said
Angela.
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