San Francisco Gallery Notes
Current highlights from San Francisco art galleries, updated regularly. Not a complete listing, but a selection of shows you might not want to miss. More locations coming soon.
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San Francisco and Bay Area art news, including featured museum and gallery shows, brief reviews, artist profiles and more. Join our team covering art and design in San Francisco, Oakland and the Bay Area. Submit your short reviews and pictures to news [at] artculture [dot] com.
Rediscovering Photography at Three SF Galleries
Three gallery shows in San Francisco, by Doug Rickard, Richard Learoyd and Alex MacLean, offer exciting images and new perspectives on the future of photography.
Space Art in SF: Zero Gravity Arts Consortium
Collaborations between contemporary artists and space scientists are featured in a program by the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, at the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
Takeshi Murata at Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco
Vivid pigment prints by video and digital artist Takeshi Murata, at Ratio 3 Gallery in San Francisco
Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Extraordinary photographs by Richard Learoyd at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.
Installation 5: International (and LA) Art in San Jose
The Scion Installation Five Art Tour exhibition opens June 5 at Gallery Anno Domini in San Jose. Bay Area art fans can view works by Souther Salazar, Ron English, Alex Hornest, Yoskay Yamamoto, Nicholas Harper and more.
Public Art in the Tenderloin
Cultural Geometry is a new piece of public art by Rigo 23, the San Francisco-based political artist and muralist. The work is a large stone mosaic which comprises the heart of the “Tenderloin National Forest”, a public space reclamation project led by the luggage store, a San Francisco arts organization. Many years in development, the [...]
San Francisco’s New Generation Galleries
San Francisco magazine featured a story in its April arts issue about the city’s changing gallery scene. The premise: A handful of “young and hungry” gallerists are working to transform San Francisco from a backwater to an international power center for emerging contemporary artists. The question asked and answered throughout is whether recent developments in [...]
SFMOMA SECA Award Show
Bay Area art fans still have a few weeks to see the SECA Art Award exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The biennial award is administered by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, an SFMOMA-associated art interest group. Since 1967 the SECA award has honored Bay Area artists of exceptional [...]
