The San Pablo Community Center is pleased to feature on an ongoing basis, prints by Joseph Slusky and a large painting by Katie Hawkinson.  

Joseph Slusky is a California-based sculptor who taught at the University of Berkeley for over 25 years.  Although a prolific sculptor Slusky keeps up his creative energy at all times by constantly producing art work in every form.  “Drawing is more immediate and direct in its nature.  It can rapidly generate a multitude of ideas that in part reflect the sculptural forms or shapes that are being fabricated or manipulated at a particular time. In this way the drawing tends to keep the mind limber and agile in its confrontation with the harder, more obdurate metal medium.”

“Making art for me is about the magic of being alive today,” says Slusky. “Whatever went wrong yesterday, we have the now in which to dance.”

Slusky often shows with his wife, Katie Hawkinson whose work will also be featured in the San Pablo Community Center. We invite you all to come to the Community Center to see, Los Osos View Looking North, 2024, 76.5” x 153”, Acrylic and Oil on Arches Oil Paper.  

“In contemplating a large horizontal painting for the San Pablo Community Center my first thought was of the magnificent California landscape, especially the coast just fifty miles west of here. The native landscape full of flora and fauna, different sounds, light, and vistas has always invited curiosity and wonder for me.  I looked at the coastline from point Reyes to Berkeley to Los Osos and Morro Bay to find a scene that would allow for travel within the imagination and possibly encourage interest in our natural environment.  Part of the process was painting many small studies in order to decide which view would be best on a larger scale.  Eventually I decided on the view looking north from Los Osos across Morro Bay to Morro Rock.  In the foreground the native wetland march, eucalyptus tree, and canoe are meant to welcome the viewer into the painting and suspend reality for a few minutes.”-Katie Hawkinson

Katie Hawkinson has been an active Bay Area painter for over thirty years. Her work has been exhibited in more than 85 solo and group shows locally, nationally, and internationally. She taught at UC Berkeley’s Architecture Department for 20 years and has been teaching painting for Stanford University’s Department of Continuing Studies since 2007. Hawkinson received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in painting from the University of Washington. She has worked in a range of media, including oil, acrylic, egg tempera, watercolor, printmaking, and wood sculpture, in order to effectively respond to the environment that inspires her.

Art of the African Diaspora 2026

A Satellite Exhibit from the Richmond Art Center

Paintings, mixed media and photographs by Eric Murphy, Sonia Denise Roberts, Malcolm Ryder, Erika Stitt, Cole Ware, Joelle Williams, Nadir Wright, and Keikilani Zulu

March 6 – April 14, 2026
San Pablo Community Center (2450 Road 20)