Verses From The Abstract showcases work that is non-representational yet tells its story with color and shape. Lines, curves, and contrasting or complementary hues commingle to evoke emotions, while subtle gradations create depth and movement. Chad Hasegawa, Evan Venegas, and Michael Moncibaiz — each with many years of experience developing their craft — present an exhibition of visual compositions that harken Kandinsky’s theory that color, like music, influences the soul.

There are places in this world where the veil between heaven and earth is thin and porous. They are shrouded in mystery, containing shadowy passageways that connect light and dark, this world and the next. Crossing through them is not without consequence. The delicate equilibrium between the worlds shifts as light, life, and color are pulled from one to the other, taking with them fragments of the landscape. These are The Thin Places.

Chris Stokes mixes acrylic, graphite, pen and ink, and watercolor to explore movement, tension, and transcendence in this new collection of work.

Arcana features paintings, prints, and floral design by artists Amandalynn, Lady Mags, Gloria Muriel, Erin Yoshi, Megan Shaffer, and Nine Swords Design. Arcana, by definition, refers to a deep secret, a mystery, or an elixir. With this exhibition, Amandalynn invites some of her favorite artists to discover and celebrate the hidden magic brought to light by working together. The show also features two mural / painting installations — by Amandalynn and Lady Mags — which evoke a sense of discovery and found treasure.

Visible Light Spectrum is a collection of paintings that explore the perceived notions of light and color. With his signature style, Apexer takes spray can to surface to create abstract styles with high-key color combinations that dazzle the viewer’s eye.

The Future Is Now touches on themes that are part sci-fi, part futurism, and part technological. Each distinctive in their rendering of figure and landscape, Alec Huxley, Felicia Ann, and Paul Lewin collectively create an existence that is well within the realm of probability. World culture, global technology, and the unknown meld into a new reality that we are simultaneously excited by and cautious of.

Shifting Seasons delves into the effects of extreme weather: what our planet and, more specifically, San Francisco and its surrounds might look like in a changing climate. Marrying her love of nature with the magical reality of what is, what was, and what could be, Ursula Xanthe Young takes us through the seasons of her imaginary visions. We see San Francisco through different phases: in winter filled with snow, submerged underwater after rainy season, bursting with vibrant green in tropical spring, super blooming wildflowers after epic rainfall, enduring desert conditions in blazing dry summer, and celebrating autumn with a universe of fungi and and fall colors. Young's latest body of work is both a fantastical daydream and a cautionary vision.

Sleight Of Hand investigates perceptions of reality via surrealism and trompe-l'oeil painting by three artists who use a combination of craft and imagination to create visual tricks on the viewer's mind. They juxtapose seemingly ordinary things with elements of the extraordinary, harkening thought about what is real, imagined, and induced. Reza Alhosseini critiques media as fabricating reality, while J.L. King and Monty Guy use the medium of painting to create alternative reality.

Holidazical is a collection of works by local urban contemporary painters ranging in style from figurative to abstract, spray to brush, and floral to sci-fi.