Too Strange to Believe

Javier Chalini, Peter Doolin, Melanie Dorson, and Dilcia Giron

Gallery Hours Fridays and Saturdays / noon – 5:00 p.m.
Closing Reception Saturday, August 29 / 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

During August, the Graphic Arts Workshop Gallery will be highlighting the work of four Bay Area printmakers who explore the porous boundary between the magical and the rational world.

Javier Chalini is a San Francisco artist specialized in metal etching printmaking. He creates images exploring human nature, myths, fantasies, and personal memories.

Peter Doolin says “I’ve always been making art. When I was born, and the doctor gave me my first spanking, the crayon flew out of my hand. I cried and cried, until he gave it back. Since then, I’ve been drawing the world as I see it.”

Melanie Dorson is a San Francisco-based artist. Her prints and zines are oriented toward the surprising and the transformative and often work in combination to form dreamlike narrative sequences.

Dilcia Giron is a mixed media artist, originally from El Salvador, who has resided in San Francisco since 1997. She grew up within a family of circus performers, spending most of her childhood on stage doing circus tricks and explores her memories of this childhood in her etchings and aquatints.