March 7 – April 12, 2026
Forces of Nature
Curated by Megan Broughton & Kelley Berg
Five Bay Area printmakers share a variety of print media work that depicts literal and/or metaphorical portrayals of natural forces.
QUINN KECK
quinnkeck.com | @quinn.r.keck
Quinn Keck (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates concepts in math, technology, sociology, ritual, and philosophy. They work across artists’ books, printmaking, creative coding, and installation to discuss memory, perception and grief through questioning the manifestation of systems. They look beyond the arithmetic to dissect the axioms that define what is rational, logical, and default.
LEAH KORANSKY
leahkoransky.com | @leahkoransky
Leah Koransky is an artist and graphic designer who lives and works in Berkeley, California. Her artwork has been shown in group and solo shows across the country. She is also co-founder of Deep Time Press, an independent publisher of artist books and prints dealing with time, place, and the environment.
MARGARET MURRAY
@memprintmaker
Margaret E. Murray is a printmaker and photographer. Born and raised in the District of Columbia, she has lived in San Francisco for most of her life. She is an ongoing artist in residence at KALA Art Institute in Berkeley and a member of the California Society of Printmakers. Murray exhibits her work locally and nationally and has been awarded The Arctic Circle, Artica, and In Cahoots artists’ residencies.
Murray holds a BA in semiotics from Brown University and a JD from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. She studied printmaking at the City College of San Francisco, KALA, Crown Point Press, and the San Francisco Center for the Book. Making has been her way of life since she was a child, and pressing ink into paper is a thrill hard-wired into her by her great-grandfather, a Scottish letterpress man.
MICHAEL O’SHEA
mike-oshea.com | @mike.o.shea
Michael O’Shea obtained his MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and practices painting, printmaking, and photography. He recently mounted solo shows at The Sequoias in San Francisco, The Dance Palace in Pt. Reyes Station, and Tom Biagini Gallery in Inverness.
NORA PAUWELS
norapauwels.com | @norapauwels
Nora Pauwels is a Belgian-born, Bay Area–based visual artist and printmaker known for inventive works on paper and textiles that explore botanical themes, typologies, neighborhood portraits, climate change, and the archiving of the everyday. She is internationally recognized for her printmaking and artist books, particularly for her use of unconventional intaglio techniques, including plexigravure and Dremel-tool methods. Her work often takes the form of documentation-like series that combine organic subject matter with structural systems and grids.