Hackett-Freedman GalleryDavid Park Exhibition

Hackett-Freedman Gallery presents a group of important, rarely exhibited works on paper by David Park (1911–1960), May 8–June 28, 2008. A full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

David Park
Nude with Striped Rug, 1956
Gouache on paper, 17 x 13.75"
Image © owned the Estate of David Park
Courtesy of Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco




David Park
Man in Rowboat, 1960
Gouache on paper, 14 x 11"
Image © owned the Estate of David Park
Courtesy of Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco



David Park
Ball Players, 1960
Gouache on paper, 11 x 14.25"
Image © owned the Estate of David Park
Courtesy of Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco

Park reasserted the primacy of the figure within abstraction in the 1950s, ushering in a return to figuration that continues to impact American art today. This exhibition features a selection of Park’s paintings and drawings on paper, rang-ing from rare, early drawings from the 1930s to his celebrated late gouaches, completed shortly before his death in 1960. Also included are figurative drawings that were executed during the now-legendary 1950s group drawing sessions that included Park’s peers Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Paul Wonner, and Theophilus Brown. Several ink on paper works from the collection of the late Mary Keesling, a well-known San Francisco art patron and a major advocate for postwar California art, are on exhibit as well.

David Park’s paintings are featured in major museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Oakland Museum.


Daivid Park (1911–1960)
May 8 – June 28, 2008


Hackett-Freedman Gallery
250 Sutter Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 362-7152


Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday - 10:30-5:30 pm
Saturday 11:00-5:00 pm


For additional information contact the gallery or visit their website Hackett-Freedman Gallery


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Robert Koch GalleryShai Kremer: Broken Promised Land

The Robert Koch Gallery is presenting an exhibition of images by Shai Kremer: Broken Promised Land, a selection of large-scale color photographs of Israeli landscape transformed by military occupation.

Shai Kremer's transfixing compositions explore contested territory throughout Israel. In this region, conflict has left an indelible imprint on the land and on the psyche of its inhabitants. The ominously still images of decommissioned fighter planes used for target practice, eerie mock-ups of Arab villages erected for combat training, and walls and fences built to divide and break up the country, are all artificial structures imposed upon the land; they represent scars that are a constant reminder of active and unresolved strife. The exhibition will be on display until May 31st.

Photograph by Shai Kremer
Former Ground Force Training Zone,
next to Tze'elim, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco




Photograph by Shai Kremer
Urban Warfare Training Center,
Panorama, Tze'elim, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco




Photograph by Shai Kremer
Edge, 'Chicago' Ground Force Training Zone
Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco




Photograph by Shai Kremer
Planes, Air Force training targets,
Big Rivers Nature Reserve, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
Courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco




Photograph by Shai Kremer
Skyhawk, Air Force training targets
Big Rivers Nature Reserve, Israel, 2007
© 2007 Shai Kremer
courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco

Shai Kremer was born in Israel and lives in Tel Aviv and New York. His photographs are included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Chapman Museum, New York, Harvard University, Boston, the Contemporary Art Museum, Tel Aviv, and the Israel Art Museum, Jerusalem. His work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

A publication of this body of work, Infected Landscape: Israel, Broken Promised Land, will be released in September 2008 by Dewi Lewis Publishing.


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Shai Kremer: Broken Promised Land
April 3 - May 31, 2008


Robert Koch Gallery
49 Geary Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
(415) 421-0122


Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:30-5:30 pm


For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website: Robert Koch Gallery.


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