tonight, 10/31/14, from 6-9: join us at 1890 Bryant for a spooky preview of all the amazing art you can see this weekend. I'm in studio 207, same floor, different space!

Open Studios will be NEXT WEEK - and in the Mission!!

I am off for a few days. Leaving tomorrow for some faraway east coast place with a lot of amazing art...

Postponing the Bayview Open Studio for this weekend to next weekend, and to the Mission and Bryant Street Studios!!

Hope to see you there!!

Katja Leibenath Open Studio
1890 Bryant Street @ Mariposa
Studio 207
San Francisco, CA 94110

Friday, 10/31 6-9PM
Saturday and Sunday 11/1 and 2, 11-6PM

Open Studio THIS weekend, NEXT weekend and more...

***NOTE:
Open Studios for 10/25 and 26 has been postponed to Nov 1/2.
See you in the Mission!

a poem

this is how it works

  

 

 

what happened in August

Remember how, a few months ago, Pinterest thought the only space in the city good enough for them would be the San Francisco Design Center, because it is so pretty and made of brick and just the only building pin-worthy in all the Bay Area?

No other office space would do, even though there still seems to be plenty of it. The Design Center had to be converted from coveted PDR space into office space, just for them to be happy. And they are a big company after all.

And the city said no.
And the current tenants were so happy.
And then the landlord raised their rents. Astronomically.

In short, my gallery is closing. John McEvoy Fine Art is closing end of this month after 20 years in business. I know it is not Pinterests fault. Maybe nobody is to blame and it is just the way things go.
It still makes me not want to paint. At all. Because, if galleries keep closing, how am I going to sell my work?

If you were making, let's say, liquor, and all the liquor stores that sell your stuff were closing, it would be pretty clear to you that the place needs no more liquor, no? So there.

I am contemplating Detroit, just to be far away from San Francisco- or from what San Francisco wants to be all of a sudden. Of course I am not going. But I am so, so sad.

Article from February 2014
Article from last month.

Back in town

I am back from my travels and the studio is buzzing with work -
come by this

Sunday, July 20, between 2 and 7PM,

to chat and to see the new studio - and some new works in progress.

Bayview Industrial Park
1044 Revere Avenue @ Griffiths

Drive into the lot, the building entrance is on your left, halfway down the building, or up the ramps on either side. Sorry, no elevator.

Studio C76

Plenty of free street parking, or park in the lot behind the building, along the fence.