A UNIFYING FORCE
THE ART OF REVISION SAN DIEGO

March 14 - April 18, 2026

OPENING RECEPTION - SATURDAY, MARCH 14th 5 to 8pm

BEST PRACTICE is very excited to present A Unifying Force: The Art of Revision San Diego. This exhibition highlights the work of Revision San Diego, a nonprofit organization that provides inclusive access to art, culture, and environmental education for artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Founded in 2017, Revision provides studio spaces in Hillcrest and La Mesa, where thirty-five resident artists collaborate with creative mentors to craft vibrant works in painting, drawing, sculpture, video, textile, and other mediums. The organization also runs a gallery and gift shop—where resident artists’ work is on display and for sale—and offers inclusive workshops open to the wider community. 

BEST PRACTICE’s presentation brings together some of Revision’s most dedicated artists, whose work often prizes material re-use and sustainability. Titled after Revision Founder and Director Joy Boe’s comment that art is a “unifying force,” the exhibition reveals the aesthetic dynamism, creative innovation, and contemporary relevance of the work being made at Revision.

Artists in the exhibition include Alex Acosta, Charlie Allbritton, Delano Carter, Sean Chambers, Xavier Dionne, Katie Flores, Alex Katzenson, Alex Nichols, Joe Thurston, Deanna Tran, Charlotte Voitzwinkler, and Kelsey Wilson.

This exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Rooklidge.

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Alex Acosta’s signature animated style is inspired by his love of cartoons, sports, and his epic VHS collection. By using bold outlines and vibrant colors, he brings characters to life, including his original creation, Nora Redman. Acosta participates in community art events all over San Diego, including regular art rotations at Subterranean Coffee Shop and Sketchparty gatherings in South Park. He has taught public demonstrations in mini-zine making at the North Park Book Fair and Goldenpalooza. Acosta has illustrated a series of bookmarks for Joyride Shop and accepts commissions for custom portraits in his unique style.

@alex_acostaart
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Charlie Allbritton is best known for imaginative worlds that combine his love of music, pop culture, animated series, paleontology, commercial vehicles, and holiday traditions. Beyond acrylic painting, Allbritton explores fashion design and sculpture. Of particular note are the inventive ceramic mashups of his favorite fictional characters– for instance, Yoda riding an excavator, or Mermaid Carly Rae Jepsen with a tail star of Patrick, from SpongeBob Squarepants. His work is currently on view at Joehns Coffee in the Webster neighborhood of San Diego.


Delano Carter is an animated impressionist, builder, and anime fanatic. He translates his love of large-scale drawings into 3D creations and has experimented with clay, paper craft, and most recently, fiber arts. This exhibition presents a selection from Carter’s series of car drawings, in which automobiles are flattened and viewed from above, offering a curious perspective on these everyday vehicles.


Sean Chambers is an abstract artist who works on recycled canvas using a low-tech adaptive brush, blow-dryer, pour paint, and acrylic paint pens to embellish the surface with layers of color. Beyond painting, Chambers takes digital photos using his phone, which he edits with highly saturated, almost psychedelic filters. He has experimented with analog photography, using a disposable camera attached to a lap tray as he navigates personal and public interactions. The series of images depict his everyday life from the perspective of a wheelchair user.

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Xavier Dionne typically builds his artwork in layers with a light touch of hand, which allows him to apply very thin layers of medium to surfaces, creating a unique texture. Much of his process is focused on savoring the immersive sensory experience of artmaking. Dionne often finds inspiration in Pixar, Studio Ghibli, Disney, illustrated books, and music, and also references photographic field notes collected on family travels. Frequent motifs include characters with fun expressions, geometric shapes, humorous mash-ups, the color blue, and a general sense of tidiness.


Katie Flores is a prolific painter with an exceptional eye for balancing color. She has crafted an extensive collection of abstract color field paintings, and her love of animals and junk food further influences her work. Many of her images have been transferred onto wearable art products, some of which are available in Revision’s shop, both in Hillcrest and online. A selection of Flores’ Animal Family Series is permanently on view at the Knox Library in Hillcrest.

@inclusionartbykatie
katieflores.com


Realism is Alex Katzenson’s specialty. He creates graphite drawings of historically accurate and supernatural characters with great detail. His most frequent subjects are organic in nature–such as animals and zoological plants–or mythological creatures and prehistoric life. Katzenson is also a skilled painter of wearable art, and has created sweatshirts, t-shirts, hats, and bags with one-of-a-kind designs, along with custom commissions on canvas.


Alex Nichols is a painter and free-style weaver who follows the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, which represents embracing imperfection. His paintings, expressive and brightly colored, often take inspiration from the history of art and the natural world. Using a Saori loom and various handweaving techniques, Nichols creates wall hangings mixing textures and vibrant colors using yarn and unconventional materials. He sometimes combines the two mediums, affixing yarn-based, 3- dimensional components onto paintings on canvas.


Joe Thurston is a multi-media artist who works in watercolor, collage, and paper mache. His carefully composed abstract images employ intricate geometries and energetic colors, presenting the viewer with a dynamic visual field. Thurston often brings humor into the Revision studio community, a lively spirit felt, too, in many of his artworks.

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Deanna Tran possesses an eye for detail and has mastered the application of many mediums. She often uses ProCreate to bring animations to life in digital art, and has also explored bookbinding and jewelrymaking. Her primary subjects include fantasy-based characters, anime, dogs, dragons, and plants. This exhibition highlights Tran’s weaving practice, in which she offers a sensitive exploration of texture and color.

@miss_deannatran99


Charlotte Voitzwinkler is a multi-disciplinary artist who primarily works as a painter, digital artist, and fashion designer. She is known for her brightly colored and playful renditions of designer fashion labels, often embellished with glitter or rhinestones. Her body of visual art includes themes of pop icons, local landmarks, and sentimental moments between friends and relatives. Voitzwinkler’s works have been displayed at the Coronado Library and Mister A’s rooftop restaurant in San Diego.

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Kelsey Wilson is an artistic explorer, creating unexpected shapes, textures, and color combinations with her signature tape and beadwork techniques. Wilson has invented a unique method of sculpting that involves layers of brown paper and masking tape rolled into balls, which are then applied onto surfaces, made into vessels, strung into jewelry, or crafted into wall hangings. Her artwork is often accompanied with a greeting card or positive message for the patron.

Elizabeth Rooklidge is a San Diego-based independent curator whose exhibitions have been featured around Southern California. She previously served as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Associate Curator at the Katonah Museum of Art. 

Recent exhibitions include Picturing Health, Best Practice (2024); Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive, La Jolla Historical Society (2022); Shirin Towfiq: Looking For a Sign, City Gallery, San Diego City College (2022); Flavia D’Urso: Slippage of a Strand, Grand Central Art Center (2020); and A Show About Touching, Bread & Salt Gallery (2019).

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UPCOMING

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curated by Nathan Storey
May 9 - June 13, 2026

Cat Gunn & Mika Castañeda
July 11 - August 15, 2026

Noé Olivas
September 12 - October 17, 2026


Jertsin Crosby & Tara Merenda Nelson
curated by Joshua Tonies
November 14 - December 19, 2026

1955 Julian Avenue
San Diego, CA 92113
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 25th/Commercial on the Orange Line
Barrio Logan on the Blue Line

Gallery hours (during exhibitions):
Tuesday - Saturday
11am - 4pm