Open Call for Holiday Pet Portraits

I am currently taking commissions for holiday-ready pet portraits.

Special holiday pricing: $300 for 9" x 12" or 11" x 14" on a stretched canvas support. Normally $500!

Custom sizing and pricing negotiable.

Sign up before October through this website or dm me on my instagram account @profound_familiar

New essay by Scott Hewicker published by the Poetry Foundation

Very grateful to the Poetry Foundation for the digital publication of my essay about the ruminative drawing practice of the Bay Area poet Norma Cole. Find it here with a folio of her poems and essays about Cole in the lead up to Dale Smith's new critical anthology on the poet, That Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making from University of New Mexico Press.

Book release is September 30 2025 at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.

Join Small Press Traffic for a benefit at Et Al Gallery on May 31st. Scott Hewicker’s piece “Remote Viewer” will be one of the many pieces up for auction at the event. This is also a fundraiser for Et Al Gallery.

When: May 31, 2025 from 2pm-7pm

Where: 2831a Mission Street, San Francisco

Cost: Tickets are $5 at the door or pre-purchase tickets

You can also place bids for auction items online.
Go to smallpresstraffic.org/event/the-auction to see the items you can bid on.

Mighty Real/Queer Detroit (MR/QD) presented a biennial exhibition devoted to LGBTQ+ art: I’ll Be Your Mirror—Reflections of the Contemporary Queer. The exhibition featured over 170 artists, in 12 galleries, showing more than 800 pieces of art. The exhibition ran May 31-June 30, 2024.

Scott Hewicker was grateful to participate in an incredible survey of queer artists curated by patrick burton. I'll Be Your Mirror was featured in Hyperallergic's Top Exhibitions of 2024 end of year list!

Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker were invited by artist Karla Milosevich and writer Bett Williams to spend time making art in a vintage midcentury house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hengst and Hewicker made dozens of drawings and watercolor paintings inspired by the environment of their trip and displayed them all over the main rooms of the house emphasizing the brilliant details of this special building for the Sounds and Visions exhibition. The two artists also performed in Karla Milosevich's restaging of "Love Will Build a Bridge,” a poet's theater play she co-wrote with Kevin Killian in 2003.

Improvisational ensemble The Color Organist (Scott Hewicker, Wayne Smith, and David Van der Voort) host an evening of performance, video, readings, and sound inspired by the ideas of The Uncanny, or the subtle horror of the familiar made unfamiliar. The Color Organist offer a phantasmagoric glimpse through the veil in order to share through voices (bodied and disembodied) our common fears and misgivings, and find a path out of the darkness towards something... less dark.

Gallery 16 is pleased to present The Mystery Of The Mystery, a new group exhibition by Rebeca Bollinger, Scott Hewicker, and Wayne Smith. The three artists have long been involved in the Bay Area art and music communities over the past 30 years, and each have rich generative practices in a wide array of mediums, forms, and styles.

The Great Highway Gallery is excited to present Pete’s Cafe – SFAI in the 90s. The group exhibition features works by the invited artists who attended or worked at the San Francisco Art Institute in the 90s. Patricia Kavanaugh will be recreating the Pete’s Timeline that she and Tanesha Jemison displayed on the back wall of the cafe in 1997. Andytown Coffee Roastery and Seven Stills & Hard Frescoes Tap Room (storefronts on either side of the gallery) are participating by providing Pete’s Cafe experiences inside their establishments.

Golden Prisn is a two-person exhibition from longtime partners Cliff Hengst and Scott Hewicker. For Golden Prisn, the artist's marry the word “prism” with the concept of the Gilded Cage or “Golden Jail.” Describing a situation as paradoxically valuable and trapping, the Golden Jail limits the inhabitant, making any alternative to the current situation comparatively worse. The introduction of the Prism into the exhibition’s title promotes an uplifting opportunity to re-interpret the often-told tale of San Francisco’s gentrification through the unifying element of color. White light contains the full spectrum of colors, though only visible through a prism.

Karla's Living Room is a collective art exhibit based on a specific scene cultivated in a Capp Street residence in San Francisco, Cafornia. The show was curated by Kal Spelletich, Thomas Moller, and Matt Bernstein. As San Francisco’s cultural landscape continues to evolve at a seemingly dizzying pace, a community of artists whose roots stretch back to the 1970s and beyond still thrives. These roots extend through a living room on Capp Street known as Karla’s Living Room.

Since Cliff and Scott are both artists, record collectors, and DJs, they were asked to create a playlist of songs to go along with pieces they like in the SFMOMA collection; a sort of meta-curation of sound and image if you will, or a visually suggested DJ set. They realized the extensiveness of the museum’s holdings and their own massively unorganized record collection required intense focus. They were pleased to discover how the group of artworks and set of songs played off each other on their own as an engaging mini-show or a late-night DJ set. Atmospheric, raw and beautiful.

The Universe by Chris Johanson and Scott Hewicker.

Jack Hanley Gallery

89 Valencia - 395 Valencia St, San Francisco, California.

(Formerly located at 41 Grant St, San Francisco, California).

Featuring works by Chris Johanson and Scott Hewicker.

Gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday from 11am-6pm. Exhibition runs July 8 – August 5th