ICB Artists Association, 480 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, CA (2026)

We are a vibrant association of 100+ visual artists whose studios are located in the Industrial Center Building (ICB), a WWII shipbuilding structure on Sausalito's Marinship waterfront.

06/01/2026

It’s officially June, which means it’s time for a little look back at what’s been happening inside the studios at ICB/ART.

From bold abstractions and contemplative landscapes to intricate mixed-media, printmaking, and contemporary realism, our artists have been busy creating new work, experimenting with ideas, and pushing their practices forward.

Here’s a glimpse at some of the pieces that emerged from the studios this past month.

Featured works:
• The Eye of the Storm | Claudia Cohen
• Searching | Cindy Miracle
• Rising Tides, Sausalito II | Kay Carlson
• Silent Light | Deborah Hamon
• The King of North America | Julia Nelson-Gal
• To Forget | Rachel Davis .bayarea
• The Mountain We Love | Amanda Hinde .art
• I Was a Princess for a Very Short Time (Laundry) | Katy Kuhn
• Love Shows Up | Bibby Gignilliat
• Pink Moon | Christopher Chaffin .chaffin
• Out of Sight | Julia Baker
• Deep Current | Misha Cittadini
• Grace | Chris Adessa

Every month brings a new collection of ideas, materials, and perspectives taking shape across the building, and we’re continually inspired by the range of work being created here.

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05/18/2026

Rachel Davis is creating another piece in her ongoing Finding Faces series, where unexpected portraits emerge from the messiest parts of the studio process.

As she paints, Rachel wipes excess paint into old journals and discarded books, building layered pages filled with accidental marks, color, and texture. Once she’s done working, she flips back through the pages looking for faces hidden within the chaos.

Sometimes the faces appear immediately. Other times, she has to search for them. Once she spots one, she’ll often paint out everything surrounding it so the face can emerge more clearly, then finish it using a fine-tip ink pen.

For this particular piece, the pen had a bit of a meltdown and released more ink than intended, but Rachel simply rolled with it, adjusting the piece later with paint. That openness to imperfection is central to both this series and her broader practice.

As Rachel says, once you train yourself to find faces, you can’t stop seeing them everywhere: ghoulish faces, tender faces, startled faces, fierce faces. Whatever your mind is ready to notice.

Rachel’s work is deeply informed by nearly thirty years of Sogetsu ikebana, Japanese flower arranging, along with her decades-long career as a clinical psychologist. Both practices sharpened her attention to what exists beneath the surface: asymmetry, emotional truth, imperfection, and the quiet tension between beauty and fragility.

Her paintings and drawings move between intimate figurative work and layered botanical abstraction, always prioritizing lived-in marks, emotional honesty, and the beauty of what feels slightly off-balance.

See more of her work and process .bayarea

🏷️ Contemporary Art, Figurative Art, Drawing Process, Mixed Media Art, Ink Drawing, Bay Area Artist, Sausalito Artist, Abstract Figurative Art, Creative Process, Contemporary Painter

05/15/2026

Joyce Feeney gives us a look into her layered printmaking process, where drawing and photography come together on the plate.

Here, she’s preparing the outline layer of one of her prints using black ink on a photopolymer plate. She first floods the plate with ink so it fully settles into the etched lines, then carefully scrapes excess ink and wipes the surface back using a tarlatan cloth. Starting with a messier cloth helps her avoid removing too much ink too quickly, allowing the image to slowly emerge while keeping the fine details intact.

While she often begins with black ink because it allows the image to read clearly, color can later be added through additional techniques like chine-collé, masks, watercolor, pastels, and à la poupée applications.

Joyce’s work combines her own drawings and photography to explore the shifting spaces between inner and outer worlds, consciousness and memory, seen and unseen. What first drew her to printmaking was the unexpected way layered imagery could interact on the plate, creating mysterious visual relationships she hadn’t planned for. That sense of discovery continues to guide her work today.

As both an artist and psychologist, Joyce is fascinated by the evolving nature of human experience. Through layered imagery, symbolic forms, and recurring motifs like eyes, thresholds, and figures, her prints invite viewers into a deeper reflection on perception, identity, and the quiet complexity of being human.

See more of her work and process

🏷️ Printmaking, Monoprint, Contemporary Art, Photopolymer Printmaking, Mixed Media Art, Bay Area Artist, Sausalito Artist, Printmaking Process, Contemporary Printmaker, Abstract Figurative Art

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Sausalito, CA
94965

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