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San Francisco Gallery Notes

• June 22, 2011 • Comments (0)
Scott Yeskel at Jack Fisher Gallery

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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Rediscovering Photography at Three SF Galleries

• June 7, 2011 • Comments (0)
Doug Rickard, New Orleans, LA 2008

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.

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Space Art in SF: Zero Gravity Arts Consortium

• May 25, 2011 • Comments (0)
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.

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Takeshi Murata at Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco

• May 12, 2011 • Comments (0)
Gumbone and Coke, Takeshi Murata, 2011

Vivid pigment prints by video and digital artist Takeshi Murata, at Ratio 3 Gallery in San Francisco

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Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

• May 7, 2011 • Comments (2)
Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Extraordinary photographs by Richard Learoyd at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.

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Public Art in the Tenderloin

• May 15, 2009 • Comments (2)
Cultural Geometry, Rigo 23 and Fernando Cardoso

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 [...]

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San Francisco’s New Generation Galleries

• May 8, 2009 • Comments (0)
Desiree Holman - Surplusage - Courtesy of the artist and Silverman Gallery

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 [...]

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SFMOMA SECA Award Show

• April 23, 2009 • Comments (1)
Trevor Paglen, KEYHOLE-IMPROVED CRYSTAL from Glacier Point

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 [...]

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Lisa Congdon

• March 25, 2008 • Comments (2)
Lisa Congdon

Stumbling, eclectic and intense; three words that San Francisco based artist Lisa Congdon uses to describe her work. She began in the education and non-profit world and worked her way onto the art scene later in life. When she began producing art at the age of 33, she had no formal training – save a [...]

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Beach Impeach 4

• October 5, 2007 • Comments (2)
Beach Impeach 4

The fourth execution of San Francisco’s “Beach Impeach” rally is set to happen on Oct. 7th at 11 A.M. at the Berkley Marina. Approximately 1500 people in support of impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney will be spelling out ‘IMPEACH!’ in 120-foot lettering. The photographers for the rally will be positioned in the helicopters enabling [...]

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