Art Scout presented a curated selection of five artists at the San Francisco Art Fair 2026, one of the West Coast's leading contemporary art fairs. The presentation brought together painting and ceramics in a collection that felt warm, joyful, and inviting.

Featured artists: Michael Gustavson, Javiera da Fonseca Ilić, Marc Zimmerman, Miriam Sweeney, and Lesley Anne Spowart.

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Javiera da Fonseca Ilić

Javiera da Fonseca Ilić (b. 1982, Santiago de Chile) is a visual artist based in Mexico. Her landscape paintings explore the feeling of place through memory and atmosphere, using layered materials to evoke moments that feel both personal and universal.

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Michael Gustavson

Michael Gustavson is a California-based ceramic artist who reimagines the traditional Japanese raku process through a distinctly contemporary and personal approach. His work moves between organic sculptural forms and painterly abstraction, marked by a vivid, luminous color rarely seen in ceramic sculpture.

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Marc Zimmerman

Marc Zimmerman is an American painter and ceramic sculptor based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. His work is known for its vibrant, color-driven compositions that bring together tropical imagery, figurative elements, and stylized botanicals. Across both canvas and clay, his practice feels playful yet intentional, guided by a confident use of color and form.

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Miriam Sweeney

Miriam Sweeney is a San Francisco-based artist whose work transforms aerial views of cityscapes into textured, map-like abstractions with vibrant color. Her paintings balance structure and spontaneity, using layered forms to suggest streets, movement, and the rhythm of urban life, inviting close looking and a tactile sense of engagement.

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Lesley Anne Spowart

Lesley Anne Spowart is an abstract multimedia artist based on the Monterey Peninsula. Her work focuses on material exploration, combining beeswax, tar, photographic transfers, and mixed media to create layered, textured surfaces. She balances structure with intuition, using color in a way that feels both expressive and uplifting.

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