re.riddle’s MATERIAL CONTINUUM; MIRIAM HITCHCOCK: ALL AT ONCE; FLIGHTS OF FANTASY: WORKS BY SYLVAN FISS
January 23–April 11, 2025
Group Show
MATERIAL CONTINUUM (Curated by Candace Huey); MIRIAM HITCHCOCK: ALL AT ONCE (Presented by Opera Parallèle, Curated by Martin Strickland); FLIGHTS OF FANTASY: WORKS BY SYLVAN FISS (Curated by Ken Fulk).
Image: Summer Mei Ling Lee. Annunciation I, 2024. Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco.
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| Monday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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| Tuesday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Wednesday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Thursday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Friday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
Overview
Today’s LOVE LETTER TO ART focuses on Saint Joseph’s Arts Society’s current shows: re.riddle’s MATERIAL CONTINUUM, featuring Tana Quincy Arcega, Kamran Samimi, and Summer Mei Ling Lee; MIRIAM HITCHCOCK: ALL AT ONCE; and FLIGHTS OF FANTASY: WORKS BY SYLVAN FISS, which close on April 11, 2025.
Preview of MATERIAL CONTINUUM, MIRIAM HITCHCOCK: ALL AT ONCE; and FLIGHTS OF FANTASY: WORKS BY SYLVAN FISS. Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco.
“MATERIAL CONTINUUM brings together Tana Quincy Arcega, Kamran Samimi, and Summer Mei Ling Lee, who transform fragments—textiles, natural elements, and symbolic imagery—into powerful reflections on resilience, interconnectedness, and transcendence. Through their unique practices, the artists reveal how materials carry memory between the physical and spiritual realms.
Summer Mei Ling Lee reflects on the fragility and freedom of being human, using symbolic motifs like birds to explore the tension between constraint and transcendence.”
Tana Quincy Arcega reclaims discarded textiles, stitching abstract forms that map care, identity, and time. Her ‘scrappiness’ philosophy challenges consumerism, finding beauty and value in the overlooked.
Kamran Samimi works with stone impressions, mist paintings, and basalt sculptures that contemplate the cycles of life and time, highlighting nature’s quiet endurance and its connection to human experience.
All at Once. That’s how the world presents itself to our senses: everything happens all at once, all the time. My work intentionally echoes this quality of experience-the exhilarating fabric of uncertainty and change in which we live. Just as in life, the past permeates the present, and the commonplace collides with the extraordinary.
—М.Н.
“Miriam Hitchcock often paints on non-rectangular formats, a choice that encourages an improvisational working attitude and a more playful outcome, one that interacts directly with the wall itself. In the work exhibited here, viewers will find familiar domestic and local landscape elements that are both representational and abstract.
Primarily a painter, Hitchcock began creating short experimental films using stop-motion animation as an extension of her drawing practice, and to invite collaboration with music and poetic text. Filmmaking has significantly broadened the content of her work and naturally cross-pollinates with her ongoing painting projects. Shown here together for the first time are eight short films, each enhanced by original soundtracks.
ALL AT ONCE is presented in conjunction with the San Francisco-based Opera Parallèle, which has graciously commissioned composers to score original music for four of the animations.”
“Curated by Ken Fulk, SYLVAN FISS: FLIGHTS OF FANTASY offers a glimpse into the singular vision of Sylvan Fiss, an Italian-born, San Francisco-based designer whose practice has quietly redefined collectible design. Known for his extraordinary ability to fuse fine materials with daring creativity, Fiss has spent decades crafting pieces that blur the line between furniture and art—works that surprise as much as they inspire.
With a touch of surrealism and an uncompromising attention to detail, Fiss’s designs-whether a dry bar disguised as a rhino or a seated gorilla clutching a brass banana —challenge conventional notions of utility and beauty.”
Don’t miss these wonderful exhibitions and the chance to spend some time at Ken Fulk’s fabulous art haven in the city.
*All works presented in these exhibitions are available for purchase.
🗓 re.riddle’s MATERIAL CONTINUUM; MIRIAM HITCHCOCK: ALL AT ONCE and FLIGHTS OF FANTASY: WORKS BY SYLVAN FISS are on view until April 11, 2025 at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society.
💌 Did you see the show(s) or try any of our recommendations? What did you think? Let us know in the comments (in the Reviews section located on the second tab at the top of the page).
More exhibitions curated by Candace Huey:
- Edge on the Square (Chinatown) – Contemporary art gallery focused on culture and community. ON VIEW: All Eyes on Us: Invention & Ingenuity During Artistic Diasporas feat. Bhumikorn Kongtaveelert, David Huang, Jeanette Lazam, Jiabao Li, Ko Si Hing, Leland Wong, Sun Park, Terry Luk, Yumei Hou, and Yuqian Sun (March 27–Dec 13, 2025). EVENTS: MSG: Making, Sharing, Gathering: Henry Hsu (dumpling maker) on May 3, 2025 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Tickets are $10-$20.
- re.riddle at Minnesota Street Project (Dogpatch) – Contemporary art gallery showcasing socially engaging, multidisciplinary works, with exhibitions and art advisory services. ON VIEW: Boris Labbé: Wandering Threads (March 8–April 12, 2025).
Here’s a recap of Saint Joseph’s opening party for the exhibitions at Club Limelight.
Club Limelight at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, San Francisco.
Shown here:
1) Street View of Saint Joseph’s Arts Society
2) Club Limelight guests and dancers
3) Andy Warhol. Liza Minnelli, Nell Carter and Andy Warhol, 1979
4) Andy Warhol. Ladies and Gentlemen (Wilhelmina Ross), 1974
5) Summer Mei Ling Lee. Annunciation I, 2024 (re.riddle’s Material Continuum)
6) Summer Mei Ling Lee. Into the Nearness of Distance XXIV, 2024 (re.riddle’s Material Continuum)
7) Tana Quincy Arcega. Tulip Garment, 2023 (re.riddle’s Material Continuum)
8) Sylvan Fiss’ Rhino Drybar (Flights of Fantasy)
9) Sunny Merry with Sylvan Fiss’ Sea Anemone Floor Lamps (Flights of Fantasy)
10) Liam Ocean and friend
11) Fabulously sequined partygoer and pup
QUICK GUIDE: SAINT JOSEPH’S ARTS SOCIETY
⭐ LOCATION: 1401 Howard Street (cross is 10th Street) in SoMa. Closest Muni bus line is the 14 stop at Mission and 11th Street.
⭐ HOURS: The gallery is open Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
⭐ MEMBERSHIP: The gallery FREE to visit. Consider joining Saint Joseph’s Patron program for exclusive benefits such as complimentary invitations to select events and VIP access for you plus one guest. Membership starts at $100.
⭐ EXHIBITIONS:
- Material Continuum featuring Tana Quincy Arcega, Kamran Samimi, and Summer Mei Ling Lee presented by re.riddle (Closes April 11, 2025)
- Flights of Fantasy: Works by Sylvan Fiss, curated by Ken Fulk (Closes April 11, 2025)
- Miriam Hitchcock: All At Once presented by Opera Parallèle (Closes April 11, 2025)
⭐ EVENTS :
- Mahjong Night at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society – Come join the first-ever mahjong night on April 15, 2025, from 6:00–9:00 p.m. Play or learn, with beer and wine available for purchase at the bar. ($20/Free for Patrons)
⭐ RELATED VENUES:
- Little Saint (Ken Fulk’s vegan restaurant/cocktail lounge/music venue in Healdsburg, CA)
- Provincetown Arts Society (Ken Fulk’s art and event space in the Mary Heaton Vorse House in Provincetown, MA)
⭐ NEARBY ART:
- Root Division (SoMa) | ON VIEW: Cian Dayrit: Liberties Were Taken – AMAZING show curated by PJ Policarpio. *Post to follow soon. (Closes April 12, 2025); 해녀 (Sea Women) – Inspired in part by the legendary ‘sea women’ of Jeju Island, South Korea—female divers who harvest seafood independently—Ji-Young Lee channels their feminine strength. (Closes April 5, 2025). UPCOMING: New Growth: Rooted Together – Showcases student artwork created throughout Root Division’s free after-school Youth Education Program. (May 7–May 31, 2025).
- EVENTS: Flourish: A Spring Soirée – Fundraiser. Cocktails, bites, music, art at stunning Four One Nine on May 2, 2025. Tickets start at $195. | 11 min walk/5 min drive
- Four One Nine (SoMa) | EVENTS: Last Supper Society’s Hands Please Dinner and Interactive exhibition featuring the photography of Brandon Ruffin on March 29 & March 30, 2025; Flourish: A Spring Soirée – Fundraiser for Root Division. Cocktails, bites, music, art on May 2, 2025. Tickets start at $195. | 7 min walk/3 min drive
- Weinstein Gallery (SoMa) | ON VIEW: Modern Women – Group exhibition feat. paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Francoise Gilot, Juanita Guccione, Jacqueline Lamba, Alice Mattern, Irene Rice Pereira, Alice Rahon, Hilla Rebay, Kay Sage, Stella Snead, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo. (Closes May 17, 2025) | 18 min walk/6 min drive
⭐ RELATED ART:
- re.riddle at Minnesota Street Project (Dogpatch) | Contemporary art gallery showcasing socially engaging, multidisciplinary works, with exhibitions and art advisory services. ON VIEW: Boris Labbé: Wandering Threads (March 8–April 12, 2025). (10 min drive/40 min bus)
- Edge on the Square (Chinatown) | Contemporary art gallery focused on culture and community. ON VIEW: All Eyes on Us: Invention & Ingenuity During Artistic Diasporas feat. Bhumikorn Kongtaveelert, David Huang, Jeanette Lazam, Jiabao Li, Ko Si Hing, Leland Wong, Sun Park, Terry Luk, Yumei Hou, and Yuqian Sun (March 27–Dec 13, 2025). EVENTS: MSG: Making, Sharing, Gathering: Henry Hsu (dumpling maker) on May 3, 2025 from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Tickets are $10-$20. (15 min drive/30 min bus)
⭐ NEARBY DINING:
- Cafe Suspiro – Music-themed cafe serving coffee and pastries within a book and record store. (7 min walk/3 min drive)
- Rocco’s Cafe – Italian comfort food. Get the CHICKEN MARSALA! (11 min walk/3 min drive)
💌 More nearby suggestions are always welcome. Feel free to add in the comments!
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