End of the Year Sale (2)
From 2003 to today, a wide variety of creations: pencil drawings, inks, acrylics on paper and canvas, small and large formats, book-objects, and everything that defines the path of a multidisciplinary artist.
To my dear friends and the wonderful community of the San Francisco Bay Area, this opportunity is for you: a special selection of works that may find a place in your homes or hearts.
As we approach the close of the year, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your constant support and companionship on this artistic journey. I hope you find something that resonates with you.
If you feel connected or interested in any of these pieces, do not hesitate to write to me at adrian.arias@gmail.com
1 SOLD
I think of the twilight of your hands / Pienso en el crepúsculo de tus manos -with poem by Teresa Kenneth (2003) not framed / Serigraphy, 22×30
Original price $200, now $80
Dreamscapes:
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Landscape listening to Ravel’s string quartet (2009) Framed / Acrylic on canvas, Framed 13×17 (art 8×10)
Original price $240, now $80
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Landscape listening to La Mer by Debussy (2009) Framed / Acrylic on Canson cardstock, framed 12×18 inches (art 9×12)
Original price $240, now $80
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Landscape listening to Claire du Lune by Debussy (2009) Framed / Acrylic on Canson cardstock, framed 12×18 inches (art 9×12)
Original price $240, now $80
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Landscape listening to piano concerto #2 by Rachmaninov (2009) Framed / Acrylic on Canson cardstock, framed 12×18 inches (art 9×12)
Original price $240, now $80
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Landscape listening to Ravel’s Bolero (2009) Framed / Acrylic on Canson cardstock, framed 12×18 inches (art 9×12)
Original price $240, now $80
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Flower of a dream (2017) not framed / Acrylic on Canson cardstock, 18×24 inches
Original price $250, now $100
Abstracts:
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Abstract # 3 (at Frida Calicos 2016) not framed / Mixed media on canvas, 10×30 inches
Original price $400, now $100
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Abstract # 9 (flowers floating in a small pond)(2017) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 10×20 inches
Original price $300, now $100
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Abstract # 14 (Living things at the bottom of the ocean) (2018) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 16×20
Original price $400, now $100
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Abstract # 16 (waterfalls)(2018) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 16×20
Original price $400, now $100
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Abstract # 22 -diptych- (2020) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 32×20
Original price 700, now $175
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Abstract # 23 (Broken liberty) (2020) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 11×14 inches
Original price $240, now $80
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Abstract #27 (Pollen explosion)(2021) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 16×20
Original price $400, now $100
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Abstract #37 (2023) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 24×36
Original price $700, now $175
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Abstract #44 (Listening Cascades and Canyons by Anais Azul)(2023) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 24×36
Original price $700, now $175
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Abstract #46 (painted at the Red Poppy Art House)(2024) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 12×36
Original price $400, now $100
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Abstract #47 (painted at the Red Poppy Art House)(2024) not framed / Acrylic on canvas, 12×36
Original price $400, now $100
Drawings, pencil and ink
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Mujer-pez sueña con un faro (2020) not framed / Pencil and ink on Canson cardstock, 18×24
Original price $240, now $80
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Caracol-persona (Pandemia 2020) not framed / Pencil on Canson cardstock, 18×18
Original price $240, now $80
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Day #2 of quarantine, Mr Toilet Paper(2020) not framed / Pencil on Canson cardstock, 18×24
Original price $240, now $80
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Day #6 of quarantine, Animal full of hands(2020) not framed / Pencil on Canson cardstock, 18×24
Original price $240, now $80
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Heart of Tarot in Pandemic (2021) Framed / Ink on Canson cardstock, framed 10×10 inches (art 7×8)
Original price $250, now $100
Big Format:
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Dream with a Bell pepper (2021) not framed / Watercolor on Arches paper 300 grs, 51×62 inches
Original price $800, now $320
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Jack Hirschman (2021) not framed / Watercolor, pencil and pastel on Arches paper 300 grs, 45×59 inches
Original price $600, now $200
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California fuchsia (2021-22) not framed / Watercolor and Acrylic on Arches paper 300 grs, 59×45 inches
Original price $750, now $250
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Chili peppers cross the border without any problem (2021-22) not framed / Watercolor and Acrylic on Arches paper 300 grs, 45×64 inches
Original price $750, now $250
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Ancestros caracoles (2022) not framed / Watercolor and Acrylic on paper 240 grs, 38×50 inches
Original price $900, now $300
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Angel no trates de colonizarme (2022) not framed / Watercolor on Arches paper 300 grs, 42×51 inches / Original design that will become a mural in Clarion Alley in 2023
Original price $1200, now $400
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Not in our name (2024) not framed / Watercolor, ink and Acrylic on paper, 42×60 inches / Painted live at Yoshys in Oakland in concert with John Santos Sextet
Original price $700, now $220
Watercolor, Acrylic:
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Listening to “La flor azul” sung by Mercedes Sosa (2022) not framed but with passepartout / Watercolor and ink on Arches paper, 12×16 inches
Original price 300, now $100
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Mending Heart, Listening to “Yo vengo a ofrecer mi corazón / I come to offer my heart”, sung by Mercedes Sosa (2022) not framed / Acrylic on Arches paper 300 grs, 26×40
Original price 600, now $180
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Yellow Dance (2022) not framed / Acrylic, watercolor and ink on Arches paper 300 grs, 26×40
Original price 600, now $180
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Escuchando Pat Metheny “are you going with me?” (2023) not framed / Acrylic and pastel on Arches, 16×20
Original price 300, now $100
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Mis 8 ojos cuando sueño (2023) not framed / Acrylic & ink on Canson cardstock, 18×24
Original price 400, now $120
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Blue Flower of a Dream (2023) not framed / Watercolor and ink on Arches paper 22×30 inches
Original price 400, now $150
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Listening to Milhaud(2024) not framed / Watercolor and ink on Arches paper 22×30 inches
Original price 500, now $250
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Woman dreams that she is an octopus with a person sleeping upside down (2024) not framed / Watercolor and ink on Indian 600 grs paper 22×30 inches
Original price 450, now $150
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Cesar Chavez is an ancestral hummingbird (2024) not framed / Watercolor and ink on paper 26×40 inches
Original price 600, now $200
Ink:
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Robot in Paris (2023) not framed / Ink on Fabriano paper, 20×40 inches
Original price 300, now $100
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Woman in the Paris metro (2023) not framed / Ink on Fabriano paper, 16×20 inches
Original price 240, now $80
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Warrior #1 (2023) Framed / Ink on Arches paper, framed 12×18 inches (art 9×12)
Original price 240, now $80
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Warrior #2 (2023) Framed / Ink on Arches paper, framed 12×18 inches (art 9×12)
Original price 240, now $80
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Happy Bread Slices (2023) not framed / Ink on Arches paper, 16×20 inches
Original price 240, now $80
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Black moon, blue sky (2023-24) not framed / Ink on Arches paper, 22×30 inches
Original price 400, now $200
Medicinal Plants:
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Medicinal Goddess Plant Rue (2024) not framed / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, 21 x 30 inches
Original price 500, now $250
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Medicinal Goddess Plant Pansy (2024) Framed / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, Framed 29 x 42 inches (art: 26×40)
Original price 1200, now $600
Bobby McFerrin series:
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Moonscape (2023) not framed / Painted live at Fright & Salvage with Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, 22×30
Original price $400, now $150
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Face-heart, color of life (2024) not framed / Painted live at Fright & Salvage with Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, 22×30
Original price $400, now $150
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Mother carrying her child (2024) not framed / Painted live at Fright & Salvage with Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, 22×30
Original price $400, now $150
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Night Blue (2024) not framed / Painted live at Fright & Salvage with Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, 22×30
Original price $400, now $150
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Things going on in the head (2024) not framed / Painted live at Fright & Salvage with Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, 22×30
Original price $400, now $150
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Hope (2024) not framed / Painted live at Fright & Salvage with Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, 22×30
Original price $400, now $150
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Anna the hummingbird visits the Freight (2024) not framed / Painted live at Fright & Salvage with Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs / Ink and watercolor on Arches paper, 22×30
Original price $400, now $150
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Stones and petals floating in the song (2024) not framed / Painted live at Fright & Salvage with Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs / Ink and watercolor on Indian hand made paper 600 grs
Original price $500, now $200
Book-Objects 2010-1012:
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“Poetry” (blue book) / Created with a poetry book found in San Francisco, a part of my broken glasses, a small container of my acrylics, objects found on the beach in Santa Cruz, California, and acrylic paint. 6 x 9 x 1 inches.
Original price $800, now $200
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“N N” (black-golden book) / Based on a futuristic dream, where a snail emerges into a giant spoon-totem that creates a new robotic star. Created with plastic objects: spoon, fork, doll leg, plastic cat-dinosaur skeleton, seashells found on Tortugas beach in Peru, book found in Berkeley, California, two gastric proton pump inhibitor capsules, mini clothes hangers, and acrylic paint. 6.5 x 9.5 x 2 inches.
Original price $1,000, now $250
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“Forgive For” (brown book) / Book that depicts the story of a supposed idolized character, who emerges from the sea, coming from the real island “Trash Vortex” built with plastic remains in the North Pacific. Created with a plastic mini doll found in Tulum, some plastic packaging from products purchased by me, seeds from Peruvian lemons, fake nails bought at the dollar store in Oakland, book found in Berkeley, California, and acrylic paint.. 6.5 x 9.5 x 1 inches.
Original price $800, now $200
End of year art sale (1)
To my dear friends and community in the San Francisco Bay Area, this is for you: a selection of works you might love to call your own. As we approach the year’s end, and in gratitude for your constant support, I’m offering them at 50% off their original price.
WATERCOLOR & INK (not framed)
1 Reunion in blue (not framed)
Painted live at Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs at the Freight & Salvage
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper
22×30 inches, 2024
Regular price $300 now $150
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5 Catrina visit Dia de los Muertos in San Francisco (not framed)
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper
26×40 inches
Regular price $500 now $250
6 Blue heart full of birds (not framed)
Painted live at Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs at the Freight & Salvage
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper
26×40 inches
Regular price $500 now $250
7 Sunflower & Lemmon (not framed)
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper
26×40 inches, 2022
Regular price $700 now $350
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ICONS on INK
9 Nina Simone (not framed)
Ink on Arches paper
26×40 inches, 2022
Regular price $600 now $300
10 Tina Turner (not framed)
Ink on paper
26×40 inches, 2023
Regular price $400 now $200
11 Lawrence Ferlinghetti (not framed)
Ink on paper
18×24 inches, 2021
Regular price $300 now $150
12 Sinead O’Connor (not framed)
Ink on Arches paper
22×30 inches, 2023
Regular price $250 now $125
WATERCOLOR
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14 Thoughtful Heart (not framed)
Watercolor on Arches paper
26×40 inches, 2024
Regular price $300 now $150
INK DRAWINGS
15 La Boheme (opera in Paris) (not framed)
Ink on paper
18×24 inches, 2023
Regular price $200 now $100
16 Sloth Bear / Oso Perezoso (not framed)
Ink on paper
26×40 inches, 2023
Regular price $300 now $150
17 Healing Flower (not framed)
Ink on Arches paper
26×40 inches, 2022
Regular price $400 now $200
18 My hair is freedom (not framed)
Ink on Arches paper
26×40 inches, 2022
Regular price $500 now $250
MEDICINAL GODDESS PLANTS 2024
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20 Ginger / Kion (not framed)
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper
22×30 inches
Regular price $500 now $250
MEDICINAL GODDESS PLANTS 2024 Framed
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22 California Poppy Medicinal Goddess (not framed)
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper
26×40 inches, 2024
Regular price $700 now $350
23 Nasturtium Medicinal Goddess (not framed)
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper
24×32 inches, 2024
Regular price $500 now $250
24 Marigold skull with traveling bodies (not framed)
Ink and watercolor on Arches paper
30 x 42 inches, 2023
Regular price $700 now $350
25 Goddess of mushrooms (not framed)
Ink on Arches paper
20 x 28 inches, 2024
Regular price $300 now $150
26 Mujer-Pez (framed)
Ink on paper
8 x 10 inches, 2024
Regular price $200 now $100
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PRINT
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29 Heart-Octopus / Corazon-Pulpo (Framed)
Digital print, 11×17 inches
Original price $80, now $40
PRINT
30 Woman-Heart (Framed)
Digital print, 11×17 inches
Original price $80, now $40
Mother Earth
Adrian at SFO
Thanks to Winslow & Associates, Inc. for the invitation to paint a temporary mural to honor a wonderful celebration, Dia de los Muertos at San Francisco Airport, SFO, Terminal 2, which will be visible to passersby until November 9th.
Adrian at The California Museum
It is an honor to have been invited to create two altars at the California Museum in Sacramento, dedicated to Yolanda Lopez and Rene Yanez, two of the most prominent and influential Chicano artists, in addition to having been my friends and mentors. Thank you Lindsey Crawford for the constant support. A big thank you to Amanda Sanchez, Exhibitions Director of the California Museum.
Here is a link to learn more about the exhibition
CORAZONES / HEARTS. New exhibition at the Red Poppy Art House
Thursday October 3rd, 6:33pm to 9pm
Music by singer songwriter Lalin St. Juste, Special Ceviche-performance by Adrian. RSVP sending an Email: adrian.arias@gmail.com
Live painting at Freigth & Salvage Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs
Here a collection of images of several sessions painting live
Paintings and poems
Origin of love and water
When elements merge,
water and love weave a dream
blue light births new life.
Sacred Corn
Roots deep in moist earth,
golden sun in ancient eyes
journey’s light now shines.
Love can be a blue hot pepper
secret endless hugs
Kiss in Pandemic
Kisses flow like waves,
magic fish in many hands,
love sails, hug in air.
New murals in Italy
Murals created on the island of Procida. Thanks to the coordination of Annalisa Fico.
Fishes by Adrian
During his trip to Italy in July-August 2024, Adrian created a series of small books, here we highlight the fish he drew in some of them
Capuchina banner in Italy
Capuchina / Nasturtium Medicinal Goddess plant is in exhibition during the month of July at San Marco, Venice Art Space, Italy
New series of Mini-Books
Mini-books #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Harbin, California
Mini-book #6, Milan / Malpensa / Vizola-Ticino, Italia
Mini-book #7, Monferrato, Italia
New series of medicinal Plant Goddesses in paper
Fuchsia
Passionflower 
Capuchina / Nasturtium
Ruda / Rue
African Sage 
Ginger
Pensamiento / Pansy
Maps to find 4 of Adrian’s murals in SF
Magic Theatre at Fort Mason: HERE
Red Poppy Art House at Folsom @ 23rd Street: HERE
“River to the Sky”, Turk @ Hyde, SF: HERE
“BLM in Chinatown”, Grant 2 Vinton Ct: HERE
Live painting at El Rio in SF
with the Left Coast Ensemble as part of the SF International Arts Festival
Live painting at Yoshi’s with John Santos Sextet
some images by Tom Ehrlich 
Live painting weekend
On May 2nd at El Rio with Left Coast Chamber Ensemble
On May 3rd at Yoshi’s with John Santos Sextet
Happy Birthday Billie Holiday
A couple of sketches prior to the execution of the “River to the sky” mural on the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco. Billie Holiday did her last West Coast tour at the Blackhawk Jazz Club, which was located on this corner between the years 1948-1961. More info about the Jazz Club here
The Ambassador Hotel re-opening with my mural
Solaz get an award at the IZZIE’S
Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Production Honoree
La Tania Baile Flamenco and the Presidio Theatre recognized for the outstanding production of Solaz an immersive flamenco, multimedia performance with choreography by La Tania, artistic direction by La Tania and Adrián Arias (visuals)
Photos and video by Adrian Arias, except when Adrian appears, photo by Julie Mushet. Link to see a SOLAZ 2 minutes video clip HERE
Remembering Jess Curtis
#adrianariasart
Upcoming Exhibition of new work
Dear community, my next exhibition of recent works will be in a different, unconventional space, and very connected to my new series of Hearts/Corazones and drawings made after a dream or a vision. It will be at the eleventh house, 7 Bolinas road, Fairfax, California. opening on Saturday March 16 at 7pm. There will be some lately created work live at Freight & Salvage with the legendary Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs.
Manifest Differently at Minnesota Project
Live painting for 2 hours at Manifest Differently
I’m participating in the Manifest Differently exhibition curated by Megan Wilson, Kim Shuck and Trisha Lagaso, at the Minnesota Project, from February 3 to March 16, 2024. With this interactive tree and with these two works related to my feeling as an immigrant, and with a Tree of Life for an interactive experiece with the audience.
Live painting at John Santos and Bobby McFerrin
In the past few months I have participated in several live painting sessions with great musicians from the Bay Area. Here are images from John Santos’ CD Release and some images from my usual participation in Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs Mondays. Both at Freight & Salvage, Berkeley.
Hank Wilson mural at the Ambassador hotel in San Francisco.
Ancestral Hummingbird at Mission District in San Francisco
Part of the series of Ancestral Hummingbirds that I have painted in Peru and Mexico, now in San Francisco, on the corner of 24th Street and Osage Street, half a block from Mission Street, in front of the BART station. More murals here
Ancestral Hummingbird at SFO
As part of Day of the Dead organized by the San Francisco International Airport, here images of the great experience at Terminal 2.
Ancestral Hummingbird at the Exploratorium
As part of Day of the Dead organized by Marigold Project.
Día de los Muertos at SOMArts, 2023
Dia de los Muertos exhibition at Somarts, curated by Rio Yañez and Bridgétt Rex. There I have an altar-installation dedicated to the great Harry Belafonte and the sacred Hummingbirds. Open until November 3, 2023 in Somarts, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco
New solo exhibit at ATA
thanks to Trisha Lagaso, Megan Wilson, Kim Shuck, all Mannifest Differently team, and Rene Yañez Presente! Show open October 8-31, 2023. ATA is located at 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco.
New mural at the corner of 23rd Street @ Folsom
“La mujer Indígena no es invisible”, mural unveiling on Saturday October 7th, Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom St, San Francisco. Thanks to Dina Zarif, Reneé Baldocchi and Finny Balboa for the support, thank you to Jorge Molina and Kim Shuck for the Land Acknowledgment and poetry. And thank you Lindsey Crawford for your help painting this mural.
Dia de los Muertos / Marigold Project
I have the honor of co-curating Dia de los Muertos at the Marigold Project with Rosa de Anda, holding two exhibitions and ceremonies at the Exploratorium on October 19 and at Potrero del Sol Park on November 2. Participating artists are Mara Lea Brown, Susan Matthews, Lila Maes Shah, Danielle Revives, Bryan Dominguez, Fiorella Dominquez and Arturo Mendez
Altar installation for Dia de los Muertos at SOMArts
opening on October 6th, 6-9 pm SOMArts, 934 Brannan St, San Francisco
New Mural at Clarion Alley
Inspired by this drawing, which is part of a dream with my ancestors, I paint this mural in September, as part of the Mannifest Differently event.
New Murals in Mexico & Peru
Ancestral hummingbird at Bundo Cafebreria, Xalapa, Mexico and at Kasa Kambalache, Lima, Peru 
SOLAZ
at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco
photos byKegan Marling
photo by La Tania
Multidisciplinary Flamenco and visual show, created by La Tania and Adrian Arias, with music by Jose Luis de la Paz, dance by Mizuho Sato, Melissa Cruz and Cristina Hall, cante by Jose Cortes, and musicians Gary Haggerty and Faisal Zedan.
More information about the artists HERE
World Premiere, July 21 at 7pm, Shows also on July 22 at 7pm and July 23 at 4pm. Buy tickets for SOLAZ HERE
New exhibition
SOLAZ Multidisciplinary flamenco show
I am happy to announce my collaboration with La Tania Baile Flamenco, in the creation and co-direction of SOLAZ, which will be presented at the Teatro Presido on July 21, 22 and 23. You can see the complete information and get your tickets HERE.
After my artistic trip to Paris, a collection of new pieces. More art HERE
MURAL at FREIGHT & SALVAGE
I’m so happy to announce that I was selected to create a mural at the iconic Freight & Salvage in Berkeley
And FaceBook page for comments here
MARCH-APRIL-MAY PERFORMANCES
Saturday March 25, Grand Opening and Party for the Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution at CAST & 5M Park
Saturday April 1st, I’m curating MAPP-Illusion show at the Red Poppy Art House
Sunday April 2nd I will be performing a special poem, as part of John Santos
Saturday April 15 and Sunday April 16, Adrian will be performing with his group PERFORMANCE L.A.B. at D.I.R.T. Festival, at Dance Mission Theater
May 20 & 21. Performance LAB presents “Pieces of Time”
More info and Buy tickets HERE
Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution
I am happy to announce that The Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution will have a great public birth on Saturday March 25, 2023 on CAST. Full information here
And you can contact me at adrian.arias@gmail.com if you like to buy a deck
Image reclaiming the power of the Indigenous Woman
Indigenous Woman of the Americas is not invisible (3)
Watercolor and ink on Arches paper, 26 x 40 inches
Indigenous Woman of the Americas is not invisible (2)
Watercolor and ink on Arches paper, 26 x 40 inches / Private Collection
New work – Pandemic Art
The New Monolith (1) -negative-. Acrylic on canvas, 30×40 inches
“Flooding in my used covid test cabinet, while a california golden trout streaked across the sky casting ancestral blessings”. Acrylic and watercolor on Arches paper. 26 x 40 inches
“Strange Totem from the 21st century found in an old abandoned house in the desert in a full moon night”. Acrylic, ink and rainwater on Arches paper. 22.5 x 30”. Acrylic and watercolor on Arches paper. 26 x 40 inches
Live painting at the Berkeley Museum
As part of the Full Long Moon celebration, and dedicated to the Tarot in Pandemic & Revolution
Adrian in a news article on KQED, NPR, Click HERE
New private mural in Lima, Peru
The image represents the birth of a bird when two people meet. The iconography and graphic images are inspired by Mochica-Chimu designs, ancestral cultures of ancient Peru, and in nature.
Adrian’s new book of poetry
will be presented in Lima on November 29, 2022. Edited under the Peisa publishing house, and with a preface by Mario Bellatin.
Visual collaboration with “Archipielago”, play created by Begoña Caparrós in Madrid, Spain
Altar Sound-installation by Adrian will be at the Exploratorium
Opening November 10, closing December 4th.
This altar sound-installation, with music specially composed by Anais Azul, was part of the Day of the Dead organized by the Marigold Project at the Potrero del Sol Park.
More images of Adrian’s Día de los Muertos installations HERE
Adrian in new book about Artists in San Francisco, 2022
I am very grateful to be a part of this book edited by Shizue Seigel with 16 pages of my multidisciplinary art.
If you want to buy it go to this LINK
MURALS
“River to the Sky”
A mural on the corner of Turk and Hyde in San Francisco, honoring Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, the Blackhawk Jazz Club, BLM, the sacred water and rivers under the ground, the California Poppies, the Ohlone territory, my ancestral Mochica land.Thank you Darryl Smith of Luggage Store Gallery and Someland FoundationThank you Kasey Rios Asberry and the Tenderloin neighborhood, Caleb, Krissy and Stella for your incredible help.69 second video showing the making of River to the Sky HEREImages from the process and the finished mural
Complete Statement and meaning of RIVER TO THE SKY HERE
Mural at GOOGLE
Very proud to have been part of an Art Residency at the new Google facilities, creating a two stories four walls mural dedicated to my grandparents: Love story of Hummingbirds and Ancestors
These hummingbirds tell us a love story that made my grandparents’ hearts beat on their night of love, after which my family grew like a garden, always visited by more hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are sacred messengers between life and death, between what must be transformed to stay alive.
CLICK HERE to read about the 9 selected artists and Adrian’s explanation and images at the end of the article.
New Mural @ MAGIC THEATRE in San Francisco
“Indigenous Women are not invisible”
The image of this indigenous woman is based on four native women from the territory that we now call America. Woman of Mochica ancestors in Peru, my culture, mixed with Nukak Woman native to the Colombian Amazon, from which I have been inspired in her face painting. Ohlone woman, who also painted her face with that black line and other parts of her body. And Yuma and Pápago Woman from the border area between what we now call Arizona and Mexico, whose hat I have used, which is a basket, and also features of her face.
On her chest you can read “My Body Not Yours”, and also in Spanish “Mi cuerpo, Mi Alma”. It bears the image of the fallopian tube, as a sign that indigenous women also have reproductive rights. In her right ear she wears a “Chakana” which is an aboriginal symbol of the indigenous peoples, of what was the Tahuantinsuyo (now part of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina) that is more than four thousand years old, and represents a four-sided ladder, connecting the four elements and the four directions. And in her left ear she wears an earring with the inscription “Say Her Name”, which is a social movement that emerged to denounce police brutality against black Women, and in this case, it is also a claim for indigenous Women.
“Dreams and Suitcases” ephemeral mural at The Red Poppy Art House
Adrian Artist in residence at the Red Poppy Art House. Several events and art pieces will be created at the RPAH. Here the link to see Live painting by Adrian on June 18, 2022 LINK
Mini ILLUSION show 10.1 @ Red Poppy Art House
Mini Illusion show 10.1 created by Adrian on June 4, 2022. With special guests Mara Brown, Pancho Peskador, Tongo Eisen Martin, Josiah Alderete, Lucia Lilikoi, The Genie and Monica Maria Fimbrez.
TAROT in Pandemic & Revolution24 visual artists and 43 poets from the Bay Area participating in this unique Tarot deck, whose idea came from a dream of Adrian.
You can order your deck HERE
Adrian in Instagram:
Dia de los Muertos @ SOMArts
dedicated to five human beings who lost their lives due to police brutality
Altar for Jack Hirschman
With tremendous pain, I am drawing this life-size portrait of Jack, unstoppable poet, friend, and mentor, who rests in the pantheon of revolutionary poets.
Jack Hirschman, December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021
Jack and Adrián at the entrance of the Red Poppy Art House in 2004.
My first poetry reading in San Francisco was with Jack at Café Boheme in 1999
Gracias querido poeta
Adrian´s statement here
New Flower series
Anna Halprin, teacher and friend who is always with us. Her wisdom will continue to inspire us, to create artistic spaces that help us reconcile life with the body, humanity with social justice, inner strength with the energy of our senses. Thank you Anna for everything you gave us.
Altar for Anna at MCCLA 
Adrian 15 minutes collaboration online with Darren Johnston in trumpet, Shania Rasmussen in dance and Amy Seiwert as producer. February 2021
“Adrian´s Art in Pandemic & Revolution” a virtual exhibition, at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco.
Dance and painting collaboration with Mimi Cezanne Stoll at the Red Poppy exhibit “Adrian´s Art in Pandemic & Revolution”
Another mural at Grand Ave in Oakland, supporting local business
New temporary murals at Lakeshore in Oakland
@ Good Vibrations, first sex-positive and women-friendly store in the United States, founded in 1977 by Joani Blank. In 1992 it became a cooperative of its workers and in January 2012 open its 6th store in Lakeshore Ave. in Oakland, where this temporary mural is located. As part of their recognition as a leader in sex-positive culture and education, GV received a Certificate of Honor from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Last live-performance-painting @ Machina Loci Space in Berkeley
50 seconds time-lapse here
New Mural @ Machina Loci space in Berkeley. Life is a Treasure was a live paint improvisation, for 3 hours while Anais Azul played music on September 27th 2020.
Thanks to Carol Mancke for the commission to create this piece.
You can see 3 hours work in one minute time-lapse HERE
Also here the Adrian Time-lapse collection and more in his VIMEO page
Adrian Arias is an American poet, visual artist and performer. He was born in Peru and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000. Adrian reinvents animals, creates dream-based languages and codes, explores the absurd and the surreal visually and creates paintings in action and murals related to the pandemic and the social revolution that we are experiencing.
Adrian use movement as a form of art, as a choreographer and visual poet. Adrian is also a cultural promoter, art teacher and artivist actively working in the community, receiving commissions to create murals in the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of California.
Letter A as part of Black Lives Matter on the asphalt of Petaluma Public Library
“8:46” Altar installation for Day of the Dead at SOMARTS San Francisco, 2020
Mural commission in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
“Adrian Arias, the ever brilliantly inventive poet of the gesturing Word” Jack Hirschman, poet and activist, San Francisco Poet Laureate.
Here you can see his new series of painting in pandemic
Here PANDEMIC CREATIONS in collaboration
Here my STORE with small paintings
Adrian lives and works in Oakland, California.