Join us as we close out the Open Color Presents: The Secret Paths to Marina Fini installation at Heron Arts in San Francisco. After a two-week run, this neon, jungle/desert/water/floral wonderland will be closing its rainbow-awning doors, so be sure not to miss this one last opportunity to enjoy it!

As this will be an Open Color event, the night will also serve as a rare opportunity to join at intersection of artists, patrons, business professionals and educators, all invested in the preservation of our local arts scene. We advise you to pack your business cards to come meet and mingle with a huge range of fellow art enthusiasts.

**Capacity is limited** and door price will be higher, so we highly recommend purchasing your presale early! Any patrons interested in purchasing a piece pre-close may contact Kate Zaliznock at kate(at)weareopencolor(dot)com to arrange a viewing.

About Marina Fini: "At the intersection of fashion, photography, film, stagecraft, and design, artist Marina Fini creates hallucinatory, alternative worlds. Based in California, she collaborates with friends and artists alike in the staging of these otherworldly scenes, using colorful costumes and her own handmade, plexiglass jewelry to turn her photographic subjects into ethereal cyber goddesses. When asked how she builds these characters, Fini remarked, 'There’s something about transforming someone into someone they wouldn’t normally be … that is, creating an extension of themselves that I see in them.' All of her characters exude a captivating power, like the whimsical and intangible figures seen through a psychedelic dream. By exploring alternative selves in familiar contexts – a convenience store, or the Californian seaside, for example – Fini explores how subjecthood is fluid, and how such creative 'shape-shifting' can alter the way we perceive our immediate reality." - Hayley Evans

About Open Color: Open Color was founded to connect emerging artists to both their cities’ established creative communities and the primary demographics fueling the overall local economy (such as the tech sector in our home city of San Francisco, the finance sector in New York and the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, among others).

It’s no secret that creative communities across the country are suffering from a severe lack of financial support, even when a city’s overall economy is thriving. Our goal is to create a neutral space for three key demographics (established members of the arts community, underground creatives, and business professionals) to organically connect, learn about each other’s work, and subsequently grant the artists who make a city great access to the driving force behind its financial success.

If artists continue to be forced out of major cities economically, art capitals from San Francisco to New York City will lose a cornerstone of their cultural foundations. That’s why we’ve been working diligently toward a viable solution to this dire issue. Our model for success is built around quarterly events, a digital magazine featuring interviews, photo spreads, art reviews and more, and a webstore (launching soon) that will include exclusive originals from partnered artists who share our passion for reinvigorating their local creative economies.

We are you. We are all of us. We are Open Color.

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