Opening Reception: Friday, September 5, 5–7pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, November 1, 3–5pm
Art of the Community: Redwood City 2025 features the creative works of 38 Redwood City artists who submitted their artwork to an open juried call specifically for this exhibition. The exhibition was jurored by Elizabeth Gómez, Justin Hunt, and Yunan Ma, all also of Redwood City. Each juror and the CfC curator selected two works for awards.
The artworks on exhibit include animation, assemblage, ceramics, collage, digital media, drawing, mixed media, glass mosaic, painting, photography, printmaking, and works on paper. Their subjects span current events, contemporary culture, personal experience, mythologies, landscape and the natural world, portraiture, whimsy, and abstraction.
Many of the artist have shared that this is their first professional exhibition. These emerging creatives are showing alongside their Redwood City professional peers. The artists are: David Anderson, Kitty Baker, Ann Baldwin, David Beres, Michelle Boire, Camila Buitrago, Shirley Bunger, Belinda Carr, Karen Chew, Mimi Chung, Zachary Costa, Karen Cox, Jacob Creedon, Madeline Dei Rossi, Catherine Delfs, Gina Donoghue, Karen Hart, Katinka Hartmetz, Christina Holmes, Damo aka Damien Kardokas-Johanson, Jennifer Kelley, Eric Kneeland, Alyssa Levitan, Michael Limón, Eric Lopez, Adrienne Lyles, Pat Mayer, Robin McCloskey, Sonny Mencher, Angela Mesgarzadeh, Larra Olson, Gail Ragains, Daniel Ricks, Gato Rivera, Leanne Robinson, Ever Rodriguez, Viktoria Sjolund, and Deb Zupancic.
Awards
The Jurors
Elizabeth Gómez is an artist, art educator, and community organizer born and raised in Mexico City. She has made her home in the Bay Area since 1991. As a practicing artist, she paints, illustrates books, leads community murals, and makes art installations. One of her proudest moments is finishing a 750 sq. ft. mosaic mural at the Redwood City Magical Bridge playground in Red Morton Park.
Elizabeth has illustrated five award-winning multicultural children’s books and has developed multicultural art-teaching curriculum. She has an MFA in Pictorial Art from San José State University. She has shown at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco; the Oakland Museum of California; MACLA in San José, the Mohr Gallery in Mountain View, and the Redwood City Art Kiosk.
Justin Hunt is a Bay Area-based fine art wedding photographer and United States Marine Corps veteran. His work captures raw emotion, soulful connection, and the quiet poetry of human experience. With a BFA in Photography and a background rooted in storytelling, Justin’s imagery reflects a deep sensitivity to vulnerability, movement, and light. His creative lens is shaped by his lived experience as a veteran, father, and emotional alchemist—bringing empathy and presence into every frame.
When he’s not documenting love stories, Justin is spending time with his son, working out, meditating, and staying grounded through practices that support both his artistic flow and personal growth.
Yunan Ma is a Redwood City based textile artist. She was born and raised in China where she studied fine arts, and came to the U.S. at the age of 17. Her work uses sustainable ingredients from land animals which are translated into vibrant representations of sea creatures, plant life, emotional states, geographical events, and galaxies. She believes art is more than beautiful texture and exquisite craftsmanship—every piece depicts a storytelling experience by interpreting energy and emotion in a cheerful way. A complex universe can be discovered inside Yunan’s fiber creatures—big or small, quiet or loud.
Yunan has a BFA in Fashion Marketing and Management from Savannah College of Art and Design, and an MFA in Knitwear Design from Academy of Art University. She was mentored by the famous knitwear designer Midori Sergent, and was the only knitwear designer to attend the NYFW graduation runway.
This exhibition is funded by a generous grant from the Redwood City Arts Commission.