October 11 & 12 and 18 & 19
Catalog Map #77-7750 Giusti Rd, Forestville 10am -5pm
Come see what I do and the beautiful place I do it in!
MKMosaics Open Studio June & July 2025
MKMosaic New Studio Opening
June 16 & 23
July 5 & 6, 2025
11am-5pm
7750 Giusti Rd., Forestville, CA 95436
Moving to the Wine Country
An opportunity has come up for me to try to take my mosaic business to an expanded level. A large workshop space has opened up in the North Bay in the Russian River wine country, and I have accepted it. It means, that after 30 years in San Francisco and 20 years at the Shipyard, I will be moving up to a new location in Forestville at Giusti Ranch and Vineyard.
https://www.giustiranch.com
I am hopeful and excited, but this is a HUGE move for me, and I am also a little nervous!
It is my sincere hope that some of you would like to stay in touch and that, if you can, you might still visit my studio up there. Beyond feeling free to schedule a personal visit, I hope to get into the Sonoma County Art Trails, a version of the Open Studios you have always visited me at here in San Francisco. It’s not that far away and it’s beautiful up there too! There is even a Retreat house with a pool behind my studio you can rent and stay at!
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/13735612?source_impression_id=p3_1743787825_P3a6gPWrgRiIm7Qs
I hope to get connected a bit more into the winery culture up there and hopefully this may lead to more commissions.
Michael Kruzich
MKMosaics
7750 Giusti Rd.
Forestville, California. 95436
Heroes with Bling-”Not on OUR Watch!”
B.A.R. Heroes with Bling-"Not on OUR Watch!"
https://www.ebar.com/story.php?ch=Arts%20&%20Culture&sc=Art&id=337594&title=these_eyes:_mosaic_artist_michael_kruzich_auctions_portraits_for_a_cause&utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Art%20and%20style%20with%20Michael%20Kruzich%20and%20Bob%20Mackie&utm_campaign=Art%20and%20style%20with%20Michael%20Kruzich%20and%20Bob%20Mackie
Heroes with Bling-"Not on OUR Watch
Heroes with Bling- ”Not on OUR Watch”
The Academy SF
2166 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Preview Exhibit: February 7, 2025 5-8pm (part of Castro Art Walk First Fridays)
Please RSVP: https://www.academy-sf.com/event-details/castro-art-walk-works-by-michael-kruzich-mark-garrett-jasper-wilde
Bidding Begins: February 18, 2025-10am PST: https://www.32auctions.com/HeroeswithBlingMosaics
Benefit Auction Event: February 20, 2025 6-9pm Hosted by Mercedez Munro!!!!!!!
Please RSVP: https://www.academy-sf.com/event-details/heroes-with-bling-not-on-our-watch-benefit-auction-event
Bidding Ends: February 24, 2025-11pm PST: https://www.32auctions.com/HeroeswithBlingMosaics
As The Academy SF is a private club, if you are unable to attend one of the live Open to the Public events, but want to see the work in person, contact me to schedule an appointment time during The Academy's regular hours.
kruzline@gmail.com
Beneficiaries: Openhouse SF
TransThrive
GLBT Historical Society
Lyric
Imperial Council of SF
Celebrate the spirit of San Francisco’s LGBTQ2+ community at The Academy. This event features a collection of stunning 5x9” mosaics created over 18 months, each capturing local SF Drag Artists' soulful and expressive eyes. Created as a response to the rising threats against LGBTQ2+ rights, this exhibit is a love letter to our local "Heroes with Bling"—the entertainers, activists, and humanitarians who stand as pillars of strength and love in our community, keeping their eyes vigilant against the erasure of our past and present by ignorance and hate. The collection, representing 18 months of work, will be previewed on February 7, followed by a benefit auction, hosted by the fabulous Mercedez Munro on February 20. Proceeds from this event will go to Openhouse SF, TransThrive, Lyric, and the GLBT Historical Society, ensuring these organizations can continue their essential work.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to support our community and acquire a meaningful piece of art. Joy, Love, and Creativity will NOT be Trumped!!!
Article with CanvasRebel Mag
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-michael-kruzich/
deYoung Open Exhibition
I am very honored and humbled to have a work selected for the upcoming deYoung Open Exhibition in San Francisco!
October 10, 2020 through January 3, 2021!!!!
“We are enormously excited to include your work in this “salon-style” exhibition, which will be installed edge-to-edge and floor-to-ceiling. While this installation style precludes the ideal placement of every individual work, it will enable us to display the maximum number of Bay Area artworks and underscores our desire to promote the local artist community. Less than 8 percent of submissions made it into the final exhibition—more than 11,000 were submitted, and fewer than 900 made it to the final—so congratulations are indeed in order.”
Embodied: Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery-Opens March 13-May 25 2019
Embodied: Mosaic Arts International 2019 Invitational Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery
I'm super thrilled humbled and honored to be included in this years MAI Invitational Exhibit at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Thank you SAMA and I am thrilled to be in the company of such talented colleagues!!!
Cohen Memorial Hall
1220 21st Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
March 13–May 25, 2019
Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present Embodied, the 2019 Mosaic Arts International exhibition, surveying figurative works by six renowned mosaic artists working today: Lilian Broca, Shug Jones, Michael Kruzich, Atsuko Laskaris, and Carol Shelkin. The exhibition is part of the Mosaic Arts International 2019 exhibition series held in conjunction with this year’s American Mosaic Summit, taking place in Nashville from April 23 through 28.
The contemporary mosaics on view aim to capture the personal histories, preserved memories, the emotional occurrences of everyday life. Through meticulous manipulations of glass, stone, and ceramic, these detailed works achieve a dynamic range of color, texture, and reflectivity. Their durable materials and methods do not stray far from those from antiquity. Neither do their stories: Scenes presented in Embodied share timeless themes of love and family, conflict and war, spirituality and society.
This exhibition is supported in part by the Society of American Mosaic Artists. Since 1999, SAMA has presented programs, publications, events and exhibitions that promote, educate and inspire excellence in mosaic arts. Mosaic Arts International is the longest running annual juried exhibition showcasing mosaic art in the world.
The American Mosaic Summit will be held at the Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville from April 23 – 28, 2019, as well as the 2019 Mosaic Arts International Juried Fine Art Exhibition, on view at the Parthenon Museum, and the Mosaic Arts International Juried Architectural & Site-Specific Exhibition, on view at the Nashville Public Library, Main Branch Art Gallery through May 19, 2019. Find more information, as well as registration information, here.
https://sama.z2systems.com/np/clients/sama/viewOnlineEmail.jsp?emailId=f079a94aeaf5b1ae480acb2d2a7739e3fm869532f07&secureIdCustomer=1&fbclid=IwAR2Tj3prFSIb9xXe-SfGRPeD5eY_Vugnk-WD3q1EDjQsB255_-hHuVQdm0E
Hidden Benefits
I recently went through something that I thought was interesting enough (or horrific enough depending on how you look at it) of writing about.
For those who like to muse about why I still periodically do reproductions of ancient mosaics: the real answer is because I WANT to. I enjoy it and it makes me happy; semplice.
But recently something happened which revealed a hidden benefit. I had a rather large commission (5’x3’) that, once done in Ravenna Method had to be glued and “flipped”.
This is a process I am very familiar and used to. However, during the flip there was a physical slip and the mosaic was impacted in a way that displaced and destroyed the subject’s right lower leg.
Needless to say I was nauseated and absolutely beside myself. Then I realized that all of that reproduction work I have done over the years was going to come in handy. Not that it lessened my disappointment in the mishap, but since I had photos of what it was finished, I would be able to reproduce my own work in the same way I had done for ancient mosaics so many times.
Everything we learn comes in handy somewhere and you never know when doing what speaks to YOU as an artist (and not someone else) is going to pay off when disaster strikes. Stay true to what calls to you.
Google Signage Commission
Google Signage Commission for new building in Mountainview with a Moroccan-esque design theme. They designed it and wanted to hire a mosaic artist to give it a hand-made look with imperfections here and there to give a tapestry-like impression. Every tesserae is hand cut from unglazed porcelain tiles. 4' x 7'. Will be placed on wall behind reception desk, but no idea when the building will be done; I think sometime this fall.
RavennaMosaico 2017-Opere del Mondo-Great Honor
It was a great honor to be present at the 5th Biennale RavennaMosiaco festival in October! I was thrilled to have my work included with so many superstars of the mosaic world. But the best part was meeting colleagues and friends from all over the world converging on the little town of Ravenna, Italy to celebrate the ancient and ever-evolving medium of mosaic! Grazie mille to the AIMC panel for choosing my work to participate! A moment I will always remember!
"La Primavera" selected for Ravenna Mosaic Biennale Festival!!!
I am super excited and honored that my work "La Primavera" has been selected to travel to Ravenna for the RavennaMosaico 2017 Biennale di Mosaico exhibition: Opere dal Mondo October 7-November 26, 2017!I can't even tell you what a dream-come-true this honor is to have a work of mine represent me in the city where my mosaic training and roots began!
Grazie Grazie Grazie!
http://www.ravennamosaico.it/ita/
COMUNE DI RAVENNA
RavennaMosaico 2017, Rassegna Biennale di Mosaico Contemporaneo
From 2017 October the 7th to November 26t
Ravenna, 20th July 2017
Subject: announcement about OPERE DAL MONDO 2017 selection
Dear Madame, dear Sir
We hereby are very happy to give you notice that your work has been selected to participate at the Exhibition OPERE DAL MONDO 2017 that will take place in Ravenna at Chiostri Francescani from October the 7th to November the 26th, in the framework of RavennaMosaico 2017, Rassegna Biennale di Mosaico Contemporaneo promoted by Comune of Ravenna and by Associazione Internazionale Mosaicisti Contemporanei (AIMC).
As soon as possible we’ll send to you all the instructions to send us your work.
Congratulating with you we send you our best regards.
Maurizio Tarantino
WIP
Venetian Residency / June 2017
Venetian Residency / June 2017
I have the honor of being invited to participate in the pilot program of an amazing 17-day Residency and Exhibition in Venice, Italia. The theme will be "West meets East/ East meets West" and is centered on creating work beside other artists of different disciplines at the Arsenale Docks , then followed by an exhibition paralleling the 57th Venice Biennale . I am trying to raise the funds required to participate which include studio space, lodging, air-fare, materials, shipping and living expenses while there.
As a mosaic artist this is a dream for me and an opportunity I very much want to take advantage of. Can you imagine getting to go to the studio every day to create mosaics in this magical city for two weeks!
My excitement at being able to participate in this residency would only be matched by my gratitude towards all who can contribute, no matter how small or large, or even moral support towards making this a possibility. $3000+ donation owns one of these works of mine, or one of the Venetian works created if not sold, $500 + a signed poster of work of your choice, $200+ 12-set of postcards of my work, $100+ 6 postcards, under $100 a postcard and ❤!
Warmest of regards and thank you!
Michael
Time for the Empress to join her Emperor!
Tethys
"Still Beating" Installed at Linked-in new building! 222 2nd Street, San Francisco!
I am happy and honored to announce that my sculptural mosaic Heart "Still Beating" has been installed in the lobby of the new Linked-in Building in downtown San Francisco!
222 2nd Street is the address!
The building has a colossal public space as well as well as a public lobby. The Heart-work can be seen in the lobby or from the street through windows.
In case you were wondering where you are...
the building has a massive open public space with tables chairs and lots of fresh air!
the building has a massive open public space with tables chairs and lots of fresh air!
The troops coaxing it out of hibernation...
...nothing going on here, nothing to see...
Just a little break before they and 7 other guys hoist this 650 lb baby up a short flight of stairs. I WISH I had videoed that! Incredible!
The Big Reveal!
...And now some gratuitous shots of the happy father posing by his baby! LOL!
from the street
"La Primavera" on Exhibit in San Diego-April 1 through May 29, 2016
I'm delighted to have my work "La Primavera" in the annual Mosaic Arts International Exhibit 2016 at the Women's Museum of CA in San Diego. April 1-May 29th, 2016
http://womensmuseumca.org/current-exhibits