Demetri Broxton “Eyes That Have Seen the Ocean Will Not Tremble at the Sight of the Lagoon” 2025, Japanese & Czech glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, quartz, wood beads, antique silk and rayon chainette, wool, serigraph printed on Japanese sateen cotton, mounted on birch board. Image courtesy of FOR-SITE.
June 6 to November 2 – Black Gold: Stories Untold at Fort Point: FOR-SITE’s exhibition Black Gold: Stories Untold invites 17 contemporary artists and collectives to reflect on the resilience, struggles, and contributions of African Americans in California from the Gold Rush through Reconstruction (c. 1849–1877). Featuring newly commissioned and recent works, the exhibition sheds light on overlooked histories—examining slavery in a so-called “free” state, the fight for legal rights, the rise of Black entrepreneurship, and the legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers. Black Gold highlights the vital role Black communities played in shaping California’s cultural and political landscape. Participating artists include Akea Brionne, Demetri Broxton, Adrian L. Burrell, the artists of Creativity Explored, Adam Davis, Cheryl Derricotte, Carla Edwards, Mildred Howard, Isaac Julien, Tiff Massey, Umar Rashid, Trina Michelle Robinson, Alison Saar, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Bryan Keith Thomas, Cosmo Whyte, and Hank Willis Thomas. Fort Point National Historic Site is located at the south anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge at the end of Marine Drive on the Presidio of San Francisco. The exhibition is open Thursday through Monday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Top left: Teresa Baker “Two” 2023, oil pastel on paper, Top right: Dashiell Manley “Places in Common (Joy)” 2025, Clare Rojas “Setting Sun Mountain” 2014 oil on linen. Images courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts.
Thursday, June 5 at 7pm – Headlands 2025 Auction at Headlands Center for the Arts: Support the rich and diverse arts ecosystem in the Bay Area by attending this annual fundraising event. The Headlands’ Auction features work by emerging and established artists and Headlands Alumni, as well as creative experience packages. The live auction and party on June 5, is their main fundraising event that supports the big ideas and innovative work that Headlands makes possible. Purchase tickets here.
Margot Wolowiec “Water, Water” 2025 handwoven polymer, linen sterling silver-leafed thread, dye sublimation ink, mounted on hemp support. Andrea Bowers “There Are Secret Passageways (Passage from Deena Metzger, “Sanctuary in a Time of Dread”, Desperate Love Letters to a Wounded Earth, February 4th, 2025) Local Plant Studies, 2025, acrylic on cardboard. Images courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery.
June 7 to July 19, 2025 – Margot Wolowiec: Midnight Sun and Andrea Bowers: Hope is Never Silent at Jessica Silverman Gallery: Midnight Sun is a solo exhibition of tapestries by Margo Wolowiec. Named for the Arctic’s polar day—when the sun doesn’t set during the summer months—this exhibition features eleven round wall works that explore cycles of healing and regeneration. Hope Is Never Silent by Andrea Bowers is a solo show about the power of words. The exhibition includes works that quote the visionary human rights leader, Harvey Milk. Bowers started collecting inspirational texts in college; creating pictures of poetic verses and enlightening catchphrases has been a significant part of her practice ever since. Jessica Silverman Gallery is located at 621 Grant Ave in San Francisco.
Cecilia Mignon, folding (i) & folding (ii), Cyanotype on Kitakata Paper. Image courtesy of Re-Riddle.
June 7 to July 19 – Closer Than They Appear at Re-Riddle: Reflections—both literal and metaphorical—have long served as points of inquiry in the history of representation. In Closer Than They Appear, Bay Area artists and designers explore mirrored and reflective materials not only as optical tools but also as philosophical provocations: instruments for examining how we recognize ourselves in images—or fail to. Through multimedia works, sculptures, paintings, and installations, the artists—Elizabeth Barelli, Fyrn Studio, Studio Hecha, Sierra Kanistanaux, Kaarhaus, Medium Small, Cecilia Mignon, Studio Mondragón, Anna Monet Studio, AG Nwosu Ceramics, Alex Olwal, Ellen Posch, soft-geometry, Andy Vogt, and Yaaqee Studio x Saint—engage the reflective surface as an active site, where the gaze can loop, inform, reframe, and deflect. Re-Riddle is located at Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street in San Francisco.
Rebekah Goldstein “Ball and Chain” 2024, oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Gallery 16.
Ongoing to July 3 – Rebekah Goldstein: Full Length Mirror at Gallery 16: Full Length Mirror is an expansive exhibition that presents a survey of the paintings Goldstein has been making for the past 3 years. It includes large shaped canvas works for which the artist has become known, as well as large rectangular works and small, sculptural works that push and pull at the boundaries of the two-dimensional plane. The exhibition presents a body of work in which Goldstein turns painting into a kind of time travel. Built on years of layering and reworking, her paintings contain a history of transformation. Each of Goldstein’s paintings reflect multiple layers at once: its own material history, references to art history and visual culture, and Goldstein’s personal timeline that spans the past, present, and future. Gallery 16 is located at 501 Third Street in San Francisco.
Libby Black “Consider the Oyster MFK Fisher” 2025, Paper, paint, pencil, and glue. Image Courtesy of Anthony Meier.
Ongoing to August 8 – Consider the Oyster at Anthony Meier: Titled after Fisher’s 1941 publication Consider the Oyster, this exhibition features work across textile, painting, photography, and sculpture by artists who share Fisher’s instinct to excavate the overlooked and elevate the everyday. Their practices defy convention, delving into intimacy, ritual, and transformation to reveal what lies beneath the surface of ordinary materials and moments, and in doing so, expand the possibilities for how we see, feel, and move through the world. Featured artists include Emma Amos (1937-2020), Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), Teresa Baker, Libby Black, Carol Bove, Tracey Emin, Terri Friedman, Yayoi Kusama, Nan Montgomery, Soumya Netrabile, Rel Robinson, Daisy Sheff, Tabitha Soren, and Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936-2006). Anthony Meier is located at 21 Throckmorten Ave in Mill Valley.
Arleene Correa Valencia “Casa De La Abuelita / Grandma’s House” 2024, acrylic, textiles and thread on Amate paper made by Jose Daniel Santos de la Puerta in Puebla, Mexico. Image courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery.
Ongoing to July 19 – Arleene Correa Valencia: Codice Del Perdedor / The Losing Man’s Codex at Catharine Clark Gallery: Arleene Correa Valencia creates works on Amate paper—the same material her Indigenous Mexican ancestors used to document their migration stories. Drawing inspiration from the Codex Boturini, which depicts the journey from Aztlán to the founding of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, Correa Valencia references imagery of mothers carrying their children on their backs in search of safety and home. The works in this exhibition reflect on themes of migration, memory, and intergenerational healing. Catharine Clark Gallery is located at 248 Utah Street in San Francisco.