July 5 - Aug 2, 2025

Pissed off Moms! Art Show

Curated by Krystal Lauk
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2344 3rd St. SF, Natasha Tsozik Fine Art Studio
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Nathalie Da Costa Ferro

Nathalie is a Venezuelan-Portuguese-American artist, family law attorney, and mother of four. Formerly a preschool teacher and parenting instructor, she brings a deep understanding of family life and cultural richness into her art. Her bold, vibrant paintings reflect her Caribbean roots and passion for life—expressive, healing, and full of joy. Not for the fainthearted or wallflowers, Nathalie’s work is designed to turn heads and spark emotion.

Rebecca Szeto

Rebecca Szeto native San Franciscan and first generation Chinese American mother, artist and educator living and working in San Francisco. She graduated from UCB but was trained initially in Italy and South Africa in an off the grid program spanning 30 years begun by long time mentors Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky, known professionally as Rosenclaire. She has exhibited her work and been awarded residencies locally, nationally and abroad.

Simona Bunardzhieva 

Simona is a Bulgarian-born, Bay Area-based artist and illustrator known for her highly detailed black-and-white illustrations. With over a decade of experience in illustration and lettering, her work spans editorial projects, packaging, branding, murals, and children’s books. She blends hand-drawn and digital techniques to create bold, intricate visuals rooted in both tradition and modernity. Lately, she has been expanding her practice through traditional painting and more varied color palettes.

Christine Rhee

Christine is an artist, lifelong learner, mother, daughter, wife, friend, and soul searcher. She reads voraciously and absorbs stories, movies, and words—letting them swirl together into images, quotes, and colors. Her work aims to connect with others like a big hug or a gut punch. She draws and paints in San Francisco, often inspired by long beach walks and good books.

Melissa Willett

Melissa Willett is a San Francisco-based painter and printmaker whose work explores the vivid, layered beauty of the natural world. Influenced by Impressionist masters, her art is filled with bold colors, blooming life, and organic movement—often contrasted with skulls, deep shadows, and signs of decay. She paints both joy and sorrow, growth and loss, reminding us of life’s fleeting nature. With a background in art education and a passion for creative community, Melissa’s practice is both personal and expansive.

Melissa created a handmade book titled Please, See Me. The piece reflects on the layered experience of motherhood—the beauty of it, and the way it can sometimes make her feel unseen. While being a mom is a powerful part of her identity, this work asks others to recognize the full complexity of who she is, beyond the role of mother.

Meg MacLeod

Meg MacLeod is a mixed media abstract painter and member of the ICB Artists Association in Sausalito, CA. Her work draws from intuition, archetypal symbolism, dreams, nature, and ecofeminist ideas—rooted in a deep interest in gynocentric iconography. She studied art and psychology at the University of Michigan and earned her doctorate in creative arts-based counseling at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Since 2022, her work has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally, featured in showrooms, cafés, and galleries across the U.S. and Europe. She also curates, juries, and consults for exhibitions throughout the Bay Area.

Elizabeth Barelli

Elizabeth is a French American visual artist based in Berkeley, CA. Her practice is rooted in visual arts, combining meditative embodied experiences with research. She is driven by intuitive experiments, blending a variety of media. Through her work, a sort of ‘conceptual craft’, she seeks to create experiences that actively engage sensorially and emotionally. Subjects she is interested in include natureculture, the way humans relate to art, the blurry lines between the natural and the human-made, and the nature of the creative process. She draws references from philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, mythology and literature to illustrate personal narratives rooted in the female experience.

Irene Kaoru

Irene Kaoru is a San Francisco-based artist working primarily in watercolor and ink. Her compositions explore natural forms through an intuitive process that embraces both control and surrender. Drawing from landscapes and botanical forms, her work investigates patterns and geometries found in nature while maintaining an emphasis on organic fluidity. Her paintings reflect her engagement with diverse ecosystems, translating rich natural environments into abstractions that drift between representation and pure color exploration. Her Moon paintings explore and celebrate the moon as a symbol of the divine feminine, motherhood, and the passage of time. She holds a degree in Art History from Barnard College and Design from Parsons School of Design. She lives in Noe Valley, SF, with her family.

Rachelle Derouin

Rachelle is a San Francisco-based photographer who has been documenting weddings since 2012, using a mix of digital and 35mm film to capture honest, intimate moments. She also offers family documentary sessions throughout the year, holding space with care and presence. A big-hearted queer empath, Rachelle finds sanctuary at home—surrounded by plants, books, and art made by friends. She drinks hot coffee and hot water year-round and brings her quiet sensitivity into every story she photographs.

Maia Piccagli

Maia Piccagli has lived in San Francisco since 1980, with brief chapters in Phoenix, Bologna, St. Louis, Seattle, and New York. She works as a Community Schools Coordinator in a K–8 SFUSD school and somehow still finds time to play soccer in adult leagues around the Bay—alongside the daily adventure of raising two kids.

A lifelong photographer, Maia caught the photo bug early, following in the footsteps of her father and grandfather. She’s rarely without a camera, creating art that begins in the personal and often lands somewhere universal. Her photographs capture the quiet absurdity, tenderness, and chaos of family life with a sharp eye and deep affection.

Angela Chu

Angela Chu is a self-taught artist whose work spans paintings, illustrations, and murals. Her art speaks to the interplay between our inner landscapes and the surrounding environments –– centering moments of connection and quiet wonder as portals into rest. Currently, as a new mother, she explores how matrescence shapes one’s emotional and somatic terrain.

Natalie Dunnege

Natalie Dunnege is a California-based artist living in San Francisco. Raised in Central Florida with an unconventional upbringing, she spent much of her socially awkward childhood outdoors, finding solace in photography and journaling. As a young adult, she studied black-and-white film photography and creative writing between the Northeast and Florida. A cross-country road trip eventually brought her west, where she settled in San Francisco, earned a Master’s in Psychology, and began exploring oil painting, abstract art, and contemporary dance.

Olga Zalite

Olga Zalite is an illustrator and designer based in San Francisco. Her work is defined by bold colors, playful compositions, and emotional storytelling. With a passion for education, Olga spent the past four years as a Senior Illustrator in EdTech, helping to shape creative experiences for students and educators worldwide. Her artistic practice centers on the power of connection and community, exploring how illustration can spark conversation, evoke feeling, and create memorable shared moments. Olga’s portfolio spans product illustration, exhibition design, and brand collaborations. Through her work, Olga invites viewers to pause, reflect, and discover meaning in details: always aiming to make the ordinary feel extraordinary and to foster genuine human connection through art.

Ruochen Wang

Ruochen (若琛) Wang is a Chinese-born artist and landscape designer based in San Francisco. Her artistic journey began on her son AJ’s playmat, where casual sketches unfolded into a deeper creative exploration. Trained in both studio art and ecological design, her practice interweaves psychological symbolism, embodied motherhood, and spatial imagination. Through mixed-media drawings and immersive installations, she explores the porous boundaries between inner and outer landscapes, translating emotional terrains into visual form.  Wang holds a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley and currently works as a landscape designer in San Francisco. Her ongoing project, Inner Landscape, reclaims the maternal psyche as a site of mythic power, rupture, and transformation. These works trace a psychic initiation—where caregiving becomes an alchemical space for creative emergence, and inner rupture is not pathology, but fertile ground for becoming.

Émeline Brulé

Émeline is a designer and childhood researcher with a drawing and textile practice focusing on experiences of motherhood and kinship.

Caterina Falleni

Caterina Falleni is an Italian-born artist, designer, and creative thinker based in San Francisco. Her work explores the tension between control and chaos, purpose and purposelessness—often through swirling hand-drawn sketches that evolve into layered digital paintings. Each piece is a meditation on existence, identity, and the beauty of not knowing. A mother of two young children—a four-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son—Caterina’s home life is a daily dance of multilingual chaos, where Italian, French, and English blend fluidly in the air. Her art is deeply influenced by this vibrant domestic rhythm, where stillness and movement coexist. When not drawing or parenting, she is on her yoga mat. A passionate practitioner, she is currently working toward completing her yoga teacher certification by the end of the year. Her creative practice—like her yoga—embraces breath, balance, and surrender. Caterina also builds tools for collective well-being and conscious living, blending technology, intention, and community in her entrepreneurial work.