Art - San Francisco

No Bogging Until the Spring of 2009

2008-12-03T17:20:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately, all of our blog postings are being put on hold until the Spring of 2009. There are several reasons for this, but the main reason is family priorities. We'll continue to keep our websites and art resources current and blog again next year.

Best Wishes for the New Year!

Dan Fear
http://art-collecting.com
http://art-support.com

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Jeremy MoraMark Wolfe Contemporary Art

2008-09-04T20:04:00.000-07:00

This month, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art opens the fall gallery season with an exhibition of sculpture by Jeremy Mora. A Los-Angeles-based sculptor, Mora creates miniature landscapes using humble materials. He draws inspiration from bonsai, dollhouses, dioramas, and architectural models, objects united, according to the artist, by their status as idealized miniature environments, where humans can exert “complete control” over nature.

Jeremy Mora
Grand Opening (2008)
22 x 15 x 18 inches
Courtesy Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco

Jeremy Mora
Land Mass (2008)
26 x 14 x 8 inches
Courtesy Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco

Jeremy Mora
Mark My Words (2008)
10 x 12 x 13 inches
Courtesy Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco

An Arizona native, Mora graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. He has participated in group exhibitions in Chicago and Los Angeles, and staged solo exhibitions at Mark Wolf Contemporary Art and at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica.

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Jeremy Mora
September 3 – October 4, 2008

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10:30 to 5:30

Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
49 Geary Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108

(415) 369-9404

For additional information visit the
Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Hackett-Freedman GalleryDavid Park Exhibition

2008-05-14T09:46:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-25T15:34:00.000-07:00

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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Mark Wolfe Contemporary ArtAlessandro Busci "8"

2008-04-08T16:52:00.000-07:00

Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, in association with First Gallery, Rome, is presenting “8,” the first North American exhibition of paintings by Milan-based painter Alessandro Busci.

Using salvaged iron plates as a surface, Busci composes haunting post-industrial landscapes using traditional Japanese calligraphy and painting techniques. He begins by pouring acid in different concentrations across the iron surface of each plate, corroding the surface in a variegated fashion. He then uses calligraphy brushes to apply water-based enamel in single strokes, creating evocative images of train depots, service stations, power plant, and airports. The enamels react further with the ferrous surfaces and acids of the plates in unpredictable ways, producing colors and effects of both positive and negative space that are beyond the artist’s complete control.

Alessandro Busci
Stazione di Servizio
Enamel on iron plate, 36 x 44 x 3 inches
Copyright Alessandro Busci, courtesy of Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Alessandro Busci
Power Station Avorio
Enamel on iron plate, 36 x 44 x 3 inches
Copyright Alessandro Busci, courtesy of Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Alessandro Busci
Aeroporto
Enamel on iron plate, 36 x 44 x 3 inches
Copyright Alessandro Busci, courtesy of Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Alessandro Busci
Aereo Bianco
Enamel on iron plate, 36 x 44 x 3 inches
Copyright Alessandro Busci, courtesy of Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art

Busci studied Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano with a graduate dissertation on History of Art, tutored by Flavio Caroli. He has exhibited widely throughout Italy and abroad, including solo exhibitions at Novato Art Gallery in Fano, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Madrid, and Sala Amarica, Vitoria Gasteiz in Bilbao. In 2008, he will be participating in Italiana, a collective project being organized in collaboration with the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan.

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Alessandro Busci
"8"
April 3rd - May 31st, 2008

Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
49 Geary Street, Suite 202
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.369.9404

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

For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art.

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Frey Norris Gallery / Surrealist Paintings

2008-03-22T11:03:00.000-07:00

The Frey Norris Gallery is featuring Leonora Carrington: The Talismanic Lens. An exhibition of more than twenty paintings
and unique works on paper and ephemera. The exhibibition continues through March 30th.

Leonora Carrington
Quería ser pájaro, 1960
Oil on canvas
46 3/4 x 35 1/2 in / 119 x 90 cm

This comprehensive look at the career of Leonora Carrington includes small and large works on canvas and paper, as well as photos and ephemera, covering four and a half decades of her extraordinary life and career. Beginning with her explorations of alchemical catharsis through art making and her recovery from a traumatic series of events during World War II, the exhibition follows a sophisticated journey through the world’s various religious, literary and philosophical iconographies.

True throughout her life to her own artistic ambitions, Leonora Carrington is the consummate polymath, forever curious, a mind forever exploring, skeptical and keenly aware and one capable of unique synthetic images that will likely forever defy dialectical thinking.

This is an exhibition well worth seeing.

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Also a number of wonderful Surrealist images are at The Frey Norris Gallery Annex. Not all of the artworks are on display, but ask about them and the gallery will show them.

Remedios Varo
Papilla Estelar, 1958
Oil on board
36 x 24 in. / 91 x 61 cm.

André Masson
Sorciers, 1961
Oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 38 1/8 in / 130 x 97 cm

Stella Snead
Ritual, 1992
Oil on canvas
19 1/4 x 29 1/2 in / 49 x 75 cm

Victor Brauner
Hypergenesse de la Reapparition, 1932
Oil on canvas
75 1/4 x 50 1/2 in / 191 x 128 cm

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Leonora Carrington
The Talismanic Lens
Paintings, works on paper and ephemera
February 7 — March 30, 2008

Frey Norris Gallery
456 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 346-7812

Gallery and Annex Hours:
Tuesday — Saturday 11:00 am to 7:00 pm
Sunday 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Closed on Monday.

For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website Frey Norris Gallery

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Toomey Tourell Fine ArtKim Schoenstadt and Matty Byloos

2008-03-14T13:32:00.000-07:00

For the month of March, Toomey Tourell is featuring a two person exhibition of artworks by Kim Schoenstadt and Matty Byloos. The exhibition will continue through March 29th.

Kim Schoenstadt (Installation view)
© and courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art

Kim Schoenstadt
Resequencing Series: A, 2008
Enamel paint in Sintra on panel
45" x 47"
© Kim Schoenstadt, courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art

Kim Schoenstadt (Installation view)
© and courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art

Kim Schoenstadt
Resequencing Series: B, 2008
Enamel paint on Sintra on panel
45" x 47"
© Kim Schoenstadt, courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art

This series of paintings by Kim Schoenstadt are from her Can Control series, made in conjunction with work for New Langton, University of La Verne and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. The pieces are made beginning with a drawing that evokes a myriad of architectural forms. A vinyl cut is then made of the drawing and applied to a wood panel. Using spray enamel paint, she then coats the panel at the instruction of others. The vinyl undercut drawings are then removed, exposing the untouched, unpainted mark of the original drawing. The background splatter of paint and color is juxtaposed with the more precise under drawing done in the artist's own hand. The process is continued by then making drawings from the removed vinyl pieces in a stark black and white format. The concepts of authorship, process, shifting scale and perception are all investigated in her work.

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Matty Byloos
For Bacon, 2006
Acrylic and Prismacolor pencil on mahogany panel
44" x 38" x 3 1/2"
© Matty Byloos, courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art

Matty Byloos
By the Way in the Month of May, 2006
Acrylic, Prismacolor on mahogany panel
38" x 44" x 3 1/2"
© Matty Byloos, courtesy Toomey Tourell Fine Art

This series of paintings by Matty Byloos combines several recurring points of interest for the artist - drawing, photography and the function of memory to mention a few. Byloos starts with a photograph, sometimes taken by him and often not, as the beginning document of an existing representation. This immediately creates a foundation on which he can build or take apart, add or subtract. In the act of drawing from this existing composition, the artist can use this as a jumping off point to explore the initial image, or get lost in other layers of meaning not necessarily implied by the represented image.

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Kim Schoenstadt
March 1 - 29, 2008

Matty Byloos
March 1 - 29, 2008

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Toomey Tourell Fine Art
49 Geary Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 90401
415.989.6444

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

For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website Toomey Tourell Fine Art

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Rena Bransten Gallery / Candida Höfer Exhibit

2008-03-02T22:58:00.000-08:00

Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, is presenting an exhibition of recent photographs by Candida Höfer. The exhibition will continue through April 5th.

Candida Höfer's exhibition takes viewers on an international tour of rooms, both public and private, in schools, palaces, operas, libraries and villas – empty of humans but full of dazzling design and decorative detail. Even without people, the spaces have both a presence and energy – rooms await and anticipate – furniture stands-in for human expression and emotions.

Candida Höfer
Palacio Peredo-Barreda de Caja Cantabria Santillana del Mar I
2004, C-print, Edition of 6, 73" x 89"
Installation photo courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery

Candida Höfer
Palacio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa II (left)
2005, C-print, Edition of 6, 65 3/4" x 61 3/4"

Palacio Rio Branco Salvador Bahia I (right)
2005, C-print, Edition of 6, 58 1/8" x 48 1/4"
Installation photo courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery

Candida Höfer
Biblioteca do Palacio dos Marquese de Fronteira Lisboa I
2006, C-print, Edition of 6, 100 3/4" x 81"
Installation photo courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery

Höfer’s solo exhibitions in the past two years include Kunsthaus Hamburg in Germany, Le Louvre in France, Henie Onstad Art Center in Norway, Museum Pescheria in Italy, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland, among many others.

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Candida Höfer
Recent Photographs
February 28 - April 5, 2008

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Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
415.982.3292

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

For additional information contact the gallery
or visit their website, Rena Bransten Gallery.

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Andrea Schwartz Gallery / Patrick Dintino

2008-02-19T08:09:00.000-08:00

Andrea Schwartz Gallery is showing Endangered Species, a solo exhibition for Patrick Dintino. The exhibition continues through February 29th.

Dintino's work is composed of broad, blended bands of color, the diffused lines in Dintino’s “spectrum paintings” produce a plethora of eye-catching tones and hues. This latest series of work is based on endangered species, to bring awareness to the impact of human forces on natural resources, but to also celebrate the rich diversity of life as represented by unique flora and fauna.

Patrick Dintino
Eastern Indigo Snake
oil on canvas, 42" x 72
© Patrick Dintino, courtesy of Andrea Schwartz Gallery

Patrick Dintino
Bald Eagle
oil on canvas, 24" x 72"
© Patrick Dintino, courtesy of Andrea Schwartz Gallery

Patrick Dintino
Blue Tailed Mole Skink
oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
© Patrick Dintino, courtesy of Andrea Schwartz Gallery

Patrick Dintino
Butterfly Fish
oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
© Patrick Dintino, courtesy of Andrea Schwartz Gallery

Born in San Francisco, Patrick Dintino has resided in California his entire life, yet his travel abroad has informed and inspired a diversity of creative endeavors. He received a B.A. from San Diego State University in 1988, a B.F.A. from California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA) in 1999 and an M.F.A. from CCA in 2001. In 2000, Dintino was invited as a guest artist to work with Sol LeWitt to create “Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective” at SFMOMA. In 2003 he was a finalist for SFMOMA’s SECA emerging artist award and he received the prestigious Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant in 2004.

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Patrick Dintino
Endangered Species
January 30 – February 29, 2008

Andrea Schwartz Gallery
525 2nd Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.495.2090

HOURS: Monday - Friday 9:00 - 5:00, Saturday 1:00 - 5:00

For additional information please contact the gallery or visit their website Andrea Schwartz Gallery

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Lee Friedlander at Fraenkel Gallery

2008-02-10T16:24:00.000-08:00

Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of Lee Friedlander’s new series of photographs, America by Car, on view from February 14th through April 26th, 2008. The exhibition will feature approximately fifty photographs made over the past decade and throughout the United States.

Lee Friedlander
New York City, 2002
Gelatin-silver print, 16" x 20"
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Lee Friedlander
Pennsylvania, 2007
Gelatin-silver print, 16" x 20"
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Lee Friedlander
Texas, 1997
Gelatin-silver print, 16" x 20"
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Lee Friedlander
Nebraska, 1999
Gelatin-silver print, 16" x 20"
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Lee Friedlander
Las Vegas, 2002
Gelatin-silver print, 16" x 20"
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Lee Friedlander
New York City, 2007
Gelatin-silver print, 16" x 20"
© Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

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Lee Friedlander has been the recipient of numerous awards throughout his career. Most recently, he received the International Center of Photography’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. The artist’s work is currently the subject of two major museum exhibitions: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through May 11th, 2008. Friedlander, the major traveling retrospective begun in 2005 and organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, will be on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through May 18th, 2008.

Lee Friedlander / America by Car
February 14th - April 26th

Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary Street
San Francisco, CA
(415) 981-2661

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

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Art Galleries at 49 Geary Street

2008-02-05T12:43:00.000-08:00

Here's a list of art galleries located at 49 Geary Street. If you have the time, you can spend the whole day looking at art in this building. It is always one on my first stops when visiting San Francisco.

Art Exchange Gallery
ArtworkSF
Brian Gross Fine Art
Don Soker Contemporary Art Gallery
Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery
FiftyCrows
Fraenkel Gallery
Gregory Lind Gallery
Haines Gallery
Jack Fischer Gallery
Larry Warnock Fine Arts
Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art
Michael Shapiro Photographs
Robert Koch Gallery
Robert Tat Gallery
Scott Nichols Gallery
Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Steven Wolf Fine Arts
Toomey - Tourell Gallery

You'll also find numerous art galleries located in the neighborhood around 49 Geary Street. For a full listing of San Francisco galleries as well as alternative exhibitions spaces visit our San Francisco Gallery Guide.

Art-San Francisco Welcome Message

2008-02-05T11:49:00.000-08:00

Welcome to "Art-San Francisco" a blog about art in San Francisco.
It will cover news related to fine art in and around the San Francisco area. Our goal is to present local art news, exhibition information and to show some of the artworks being exhibited.

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Thanks for looking, check back soon and help spread the word about this new art blog.

Dan Fear
http://art-collecting.com/