All photos courtesy photographer David Alexander Willis.
On Friday, La Luz de Jesus gallery invited viewers to reflect on how we see ourselves with their group exhibit, “Temple of Art”. The evening also celebrated the Baby Tattoo book release of the same name, the brain-child of photographer Allan Amato who has taken interest in photographing over 50 fine artists. Many of them have been featured on our blog recently, and will be familiar to Hi-Fructose readers; Christine Wu, Dan Quintana, Hueman, Junko Mizuno, Karen Hsiao, Ken Garduno, Kent Williams, Shaun Berke, Stephanie Inagaki, just to name a few. Their works are a collaboration between Amato’s honest approach to portraiture and their individual fine art techniques. Their styles range from high energy drawings, to soft and pretty palettes, to bold and surrealistic interpretations of the world around them. Provided with their own portraits as the blank canvas, the artists’ unique perceptions of the world shine through. While we share one reality, artists interpret it differently, just as one painting can be experienced in many ways.
“Temple of Art” is now on view at La Luz de Jesus gallery through December 28th.
Curator and contributing artist Matt Kennedy with Satine Phoenix, Karen Hsiao and Stephanie Inagaki.
Satine Phoenix
Satine Phoenix
David Mack
Scott Fischer
Christine Wu
Jaw Cooper
Jaw Cooper
Coop
Shaun Berke
Soey Milk
Ken Garduno
We've just added two special items in the Hi-Fructose store and a special bundle where you can get both books at once and we cover the priority shipping. Both are fantastic and unique books; filled with pop-up surprises on each spread, bringing each artist's work to life in new unexpected ways. Plus, the Skinner's Necronomicon book comes signed on the inside in paint by the artist! Junko Mizuno's book can be ordered 
Japanese born, San Francisco based artist 
Hi-Fructose co-founder 
Photographer Allan Amato's "Temple of Art" is a series of portraits of fine artists over two years in the making. His black and white images provided the canvas onto which the subject was encouraged to interpret his or her likeness. You could say these are artists who look like their art; Jasmine Worth shares the regal quality of her Madonnas, Danni Shinya Luo has the grace of her watercolors, and so on. Opening December 5th at