A UNIFYING FORCE
THE ART OF REVISION SAN DIEGO
March 14 - April 18, 2026
Alex Acosta
Nora By The Bay
acrylic on wood panel
2025
A painting of a stylized figure with large, bright orange curly hair and a simplified cartoon-like face. The figure’s eyes appear through a rectangular cutout or inserted image resembling reflective glasses, revealing a more realistic pair of eyes behind the otherwise flat, graphic features. The person wears a dark purple robe and smiles, showing uneven teeth. Behind the figure is a dramatic coastal landscape: the sky shifts from warm orange tones on the left to stormy gray clouds on the right, where rain falls over a dark blue sea. A small boat sits in the water near a sandy shoreline, creating a surreal contrast between the playful portrait and the moody seascape background.
Charlie Allbritton & Charlotte Voitzwinkler
Tribute to San Diego
acrylic on canvas
2025
A colorful, cartoon-style painting shows two large figures sitting side by side above a lively collage of scenes. One figure is a blonde mermaid with a green tail wearing a crown and a striped shirt, while the other is a person in a blue shirt and red shorts holding a tall swirl of chocolate ice cream. Behind them, a dark blue sky, city skyline, and beach imagery create a nighttime coastal setting.
The composition is filled with small drawings and references to places and activities associated with San Diego, including ocean animals like dolphins and sharks, beach scenes, lifeguard imagery, construction vehicles, and signs welcoming visitors to San Diego. Other playful elements include cartoon characters, musical references, and speech bubbles, creating a dense, narrative mural that celebrates local culture, pop references, and seaside life.
Delano Carter
Bee Blaze, 2025
Military Vehicle, 2025
Otto Parks, 2025
marker on paper
Three drawings depict cars viewed from directly above, each rendered with bold outlines and filled with bright marker or colored pencil. The vehicles are simplified into graphic shapes with clearly defined sections for the hood, windows, wheels, and headlights, creating symmetrical, almost pattern-like compositions. One car is bright yellow with black and blue accents, another is shaded in muted greens and grays with black wheels, and a third is red and blue with yellow headlights. The flat perspective and vibrant coloring emphasize the cars’ forms while giving the drawings a playful, hand-drawn character.
Sean Chambers
Every direction
acrylic on canvas
2025
An abstract painting composed of bold blocks of color is overlaid with energetic, scribbled lines. Areas of teal, purple, yellow, pink, red, and black form an irregular patchwork background, while looping and jagged marks in white, pink, green, and brown move across the surface in layered gestures. The dense tangle of lines creates a sense of movement and spontaneity, contrasting with the flat color fields beneath. Framed simply, the composition emphasizes expressive mark-making and vibrant color relationships.
Xavier Dionne
Blue and Green Squares
acrylic on canvas board
2025
A geometric abstract composition features four softly edged squares arranged in a grid against a dark background. Each square is filled with a different color—green, yellow, light blue, and deep blue—creating a balanced arrangement of cool tones. The slightly textured paint and subtle transitions at the edges give the forms a soft, atmospheric quality. Framed with a wide mat, the work emphasizes simple structure, color relationships, and quiet visual harmony.
Katie Flores
Football Season, 2024
Sleepover Food, 2024
Stash Food, 2025
Vons, 2025
acrylic on canvas
A series of colorful paintings features cartoon-style drawings of snacks and treats arranged against bright backgrounds. Each composition includes bold, simplified images outlined in black—such as popcorn, chips, pizza, pretzels, candy, soda, cupcakes, and lollipops—paired with playful titles like “Football Season,” “Sleepover Food,” “Stash Food!,” and “Vons.” The foods are spaced across the surface like stickers or icons, creating lively, graphic arrangements. Bright colors and flat shapes give the works a cheerful, pop-inspired look that celebrates everyday snack foods and familiar grocery items.
Alex Katzenson
Anatomy of an Egyptian God, 2024
Brazilian Vampire, 2025
Running Croc, 2025
colored pencil on paper
A group of detailed animal drawings depicts unusual prehistoric or mammal-like creatures rendered in colored pencil. One image shows a red, reptile-like head with an elongated snout and rows of sharp teeth, its jaws open in profile. Another features a striped, four-legged creature with a long tail and slender limbs, shown walking in side view with careful attention to its markings and anatomy. A third drawing portrays a shaggy, anteater-like animal with a long snout and curved claws, its tongue extended as it stands against a dark circular background. The works emphasize texture, anatomy, and expressive detail, giving the animals a vivid and slightly fantastical presence.
Alex Nichols
Koi Fish
acrylic on canvas
2025
A large, expressive painting depicts a watery, abstract scene filled with swirling blues, greens, and yellows. Two large koi fish with bright orange and white markings glide diagonally across the composition, their forms outlined with loose, energetic lines. Around them, other shapes—suggesting rocks, plants, or aquatic creatures—float within the layered brushstrokes and scribbled marks. The combination of bold color, fluid movement, and playful drawing gives the scene a lively, underwater atmosphere.
Alex Nichols
Neon Irises
acrylic on canvas
2025
A bright still-life painting shows a vase filled with a dense bouquet of blue flowers and long green leaves. The flowers cluster together in rounded shapes, painted with layered blues and touches of white. They sit in a warm brown vase placed on an orange surface, set against a vivid yellow background. Bold brushstrokes and strong color contrasts give the composition an energetic, expressive quality while emphasizing the lively arrangement of the flowers.
Joe Thurston
Crown
tempera paint stick on paper
2023
An abstract composition features overlapping geometric shapes arranged around a central square form. Triangles and angular forms radiate outward in vivid colors including red, pink, orange, purple, blue, yellow, and green. The layered shapes create a sense of depth and movement, with darker tones framing brighter areas. Bold color contrasts and expressive textures give the work an energetic, dynamic feel while emphasizing the central, star-like pattern within the square.
Deanna Tran
Waterfall
yarn, paintbrush
2024
A small woven textile hangs from a paintbrush using loops of twine. The piece is made from thick yarns and fibers in varying textures and shades of blue, gray, brown, and green. The upper section is soft and shaggy, while the middle and lower sections feature tighter weaving and layered patterns that resemble a landscape with sky, clouds, and earth tones. Loose strands hang from the bottom, adding movement and a handmade quality to the fiber artwork.
Kelsey Wilson
Love Overflowing, 2024
Two Handled Red Vessel, 2024
Atypical Neon, 2024
pâper maché, upcycled plastic, tape, paint
On a pedestal, a red sculpture shaped like a stylized torso with curved arm-like handles features rounded, organic forms and a glossy surface. A blue container holds clustered red and blue shapes. The third work on the pedestal is a spherical sculpture made from many brightly colored, crumpled-looking forms in yellow, green, purple, and pink. The playful textures and bold colors give the sculptures a lively, handmade quality.