Our Mission

Point Richmond Gallery seeks to explore, share and support artful expressions. A space where emerging and established artists connect with educators, curators and collectors. By exhibiting local and international artists, Point Richmond Gallery will further contribute to Point Richmond’s vibrant character and creative economy. This is our focus. This is our passion.

 

Our Team

 

Margi Sullivan

Margi is a Bay Area native. She and her husband, Bill van Dyk, built a home in Point Richmond in 1977.  Her professional work, in office design, moved them to San Franciso for many years but they have returned.

Margi is the chair of Project Color Corps, a non-profit that engages, empowers and teaches the power of color to youths while designing and painting mural in schools and clubs.

She is a painter and is creating the “Studio Above the Post” downtown above the Post Office, which will feature artists mostly from the Bay Area.

She is delighted to serve with the leadership of PRNC to support Point Richmond’s unique community

Mary Culverwell

I was born in San Francisco. I have worked most of my life in sales with commercial interior furniture dealerships throughout San Francisco. I fell in love with art when the Keane Art Gallery was on Broadway Street in San Francisco. I very young  but remember when my father and mother would take me there. I was completely memorized by those Keane eyes. 

In the eighties I started collecting the likes of Tarkay, Watanabe, Susan Rios, Dorothy Spangler, Jim Buckels, Mark King and Luciano Pavarotti. Yes, I have a picture by the opera singer. He drew very simple things that he was compassionate about such as whales, flowers and his homes in Italy.

Art makes me smile and colors make me happy. 

I am looking forward to being apart of  the “Studio Above the Post.”

Jane Steel

Jane was born in Indiana and a graduate of Purdue University, where she  received a BA in interior design. After graduation, she practiced interior  design in Indiana, Ohio & San Francisco Bay area. After 15 years of  practice, she moved into textile sales for two San Francisco based textile  companies: Deepa Textiles and Luna Textiles. Combining her 30 years of  design and sales experience, she launched her own company in 2010.  Jane Steel+Co is an independent sales representative firm based in San  Francisco, representing cutting-edge textiles and furniture manufacturers  for corporate interiors. Jane sold her firm in 2017 and is now focusing on  her own personal interests, including art and serving the design community. 

I look forward to being part of the Studio above the Post and supporting  local artists! 

Choosing my favorite painting is impossible, but I will submit an American Painting that moves me: Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth. This is a psychological landscape/portrait that I find both beautiful & moving

Julie Holaday

Julie Holaday is Principal and Owner of Place Partners, San Francisco. She has a BA Interior Architecture from Purdue University and studied Construction PM at UC Berkeley Extension.

Julie is a designer who works as owner’s representative to manage the design and construction of practical, sustainable & inspiring spaces for corporate and non-profit clients. She assists clients with acquiring and placing art and urges participation in the arts. Julie discovered her love of art in her art history studies at Purdue. She is passionate about Bay Area artists and has been a volunteer for ArtSpan for many years, helping the organization create artist studios, exhibit space and pop up gallery space in derelict buildings around San Francisco. She is delighted to support the Studio Above The Post.
While modern art is her greatest love, she literally wept when seeing Michelangelo’s David in person. An art tour of Havana, Cuba was also an incredibly pivotal moment in her art lover’s life.

Jane Sullivan

Art is an exchange. A give & take of ideas from one  to another.  A letter, a painting, a sculpture et al. are messages in need of an interchange. A place. I’m here to lend a hand in making Margi Sullivan’s Art Above the Post a happening art gathering. How could it not be? It’s Margi’s!

Some background: Consulted for Romero Institute/Lakota Law, Sciencewiz.com, Chronicle Books, Portland Maine Film Festival, 

Geography of Hope Film Festival and Public Art, Project Color Corp.

Managed: Alex Gallery - Persian and Iraqi Antiquities & Michael Ingbar Gallery of Architectural Arts NYC.  

Some Art shenanigans: Naomi Pitcairn’s Chalkupy, ArtCop21, 

Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephen’s Ecosexual marriage at La Bienalle di Venezia, David Best Temples, Detroit, Ireland, Burning Man.

Founded: Santa Cruz Film Festival 

Past Advisory Board: Black Rock Arts Foundation


Elizabeth Scarborough

Elizabeth Scarborough holds a MBA from Clemson University and MA in Art History from Richmond University. Having spent over 12 years overseeing the Art Department for the annual Burning Man event, she has a passion and expertise in managing and promoting artists and art installations of all sizes. She is thrilled to be a part of the Studio Above The Post to be able to showcase and celebrate artists like June Felter, Pat Hayashi and Margi Sullivan.

Van Gogh’s Starry Night is one of her favorite paintings, as it reminds her of a late night staring at the sparkling sky in a small southwest village in France.