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To Do List: June

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.

To Do List: May

Isaac Julien, “Maiden of Silence (Ten Thousand Waves)”, 2010, Endura Ultra photograph. Image courtesy of de Young Museum.

Ongoing to July 13 – Isaac Julien: I Dream a World at de Young Museum: Over the last 25 years, artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien has created immersive, multichannel video installations exploring power, politics, and personal experience through the lens of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Featuring 10 major video installations made between 1999 and 2022, alongside select early single-channel films including Looking for Langston (1989), this exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of Julien’s work in a museum and his first retrospective in the U.S. Shot across Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and Asia, Julien’s works untangle the web of post-colonial conditions that shaped the lives of individuals and societies across the globe. de Young Museum is located at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr in San Francisco.

 

Alec Soth, “Lee”, 2023, pigment print, edition of 9 + 4 APs. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

Ongoing to May 23 – Alec Soth: Advice for Young Artists at Fraenkel Gallery: Advice for Young Artists explores the cultivation of creativity through playful and surprising photographs made at undergraduate art programs. Rather than offering the guidance promised by the show’s title, the series presents reflections on artmaking at different stages of life, exploring the connections between photography, time, and aging. Inspired by Walker Evans’s Polaroids of young people, the photographs range from bright still lifes made from art department props to enigmatic images of students and oblique self-portraits. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary St #450 in San Francisco.

 

Mattea Perrotta, “Letters Never Sent”, 2024, oil stick and plaster on canvas. Nick Gorham, “Passage”, 2025, oil on canvas. Images courtesy of Et al. Gallery.

Ongoing to May 31 – Mattea Perrotta: The Forgetting of Air and Nick Gorham: Sun Turn at Et al. Gallery: In The Forgetting of Air, Rome-based artist Mattea Perrotta presents compositions that fuse monumentality with delicacy. Drawing from personal memory and the art historical lineages of the many cities she has inhabited, Perrotta crafts a painterly language of abstract forms and tonal gestures. Her works invite viewers into a meditative space shaped by cultural observation and emotional resonance. In Sun Turn, Nick Gorham explores the liminal space between landscape and abstraction. Rooted in his deep connection to Northern California, Gorham’s paintings balance intuitive mark-making with careful observation. The resulting works evoke internal landscapes as much as external ones, reflecting a search for meaning through painterly process. Et al. Gallery is located at 2831a Mission St in San Francisco.

 

Val Britton, “Transit”, 2025, acrylic, ink, collage, monoprint, and colored pencil on paper. Isca Greenfield-Sanders, “Pink Lake”, 2024, mixed media oil on canvas. Vanessa Marsh, “Grand Teton 8, mid day from Jenny Lake, Grand Teton National Park WY”, from the series “The Sun Beneath the Sky”, 2020, unique silver gelatin lumen photogram. Joni Sternbach, “13.08.30 #4-5 Yuko-Milo”, from the series “Surfland”, 2013, tintype diptych. Images courtesy of Berggruen Gallery.

May 1 to June 19 – Val Britton: Ghost Coast, Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Cut From A Dream, and Western Wave: Vanessa Marsh & Joni Sternbach at Berggruen Gallery: Portland-based artist Val Britton’s newest mixed media works form invented psycho-geographic terrains that explore themes of memory, care, and transformation. Combining painting, collage, ink, watercolor, drawing, and cut paper, Britton’s abstract compositions mimic and evoke the intertwining of spatial networks–cosmological, symbolic, emotional, topographic–that we inhabit at each given moment. In Cut From A Dream, New York-based painter Isca Greenfield-Sanders features idyllic landscape paintings and works on paper depicting the fleeting moments of found and collected memories. Western Wave is a photography exhibition by American artists Vanessa Marsh and Joni Sternbach exploring themes of memory, landscape, and the passage of time through historical techniques. Through various photographic processes, Marsh and Sternbach emphasize the tactile, ephemeral nature of their materials—where hand-poured emulsions, exposure times, and environmental factors leave visible traces of the artist’s hand. Berggruen Gallery is located at 10 Hawthorne St in San Francisco.

 

Martin Machado, “My Wake Series 15”, 2024, oil on linen. Image courtesy of Eleanor Harwood Gallery.

May 3 to June 21 – Martin Machado: Fine Dine the Demons at Eleanor Harwood Gallery: In this recent group of works, Martin Machado continues several ongoing series relating to the natural world’s cycles and his experience working on the water as a commercial fisherman and merchant mariner. Machado’s works are painted in oil, both on linen, and on nautical charts collected from international containerships Machado worked on. With equal parts gallows humor and optimism, the moodiness of these new works is also reflected in the show’s title “Fine Dine the Demons” borrowed from the lyrics of musician Adrienne Lenker’s song titled “Once A Bunch.” Eleanor Harwood Gallery is located at Minnesota Street Project at 1275 Minnesota St #206 in San Francisco.

 

Top: David Antonio Cruz, Detail of “thesecretofremainingyoung isnevertohaveanemotion, thatisunbecoming; thosebarriokids”, 2022; Bottom: Masako Miki Detail of painting. Images courtesy of ICA San Francisco.

May 16 to December 7 – Masako Miki: Midnight March and David Antonio Cruz: stay, take your time, my love at ICA SF: As Japanese artist Masako Miki’s largest presentation to date, Midnight March is also the first fully site-responsive exhibition at ICA SF’s new location at The Cube. The exhibition will collapse Miki’s two-dimensional and three-dimensional practices, bringing her paintings known as “Night Parades” to life in experiential form. David Antonio Cruz’s site-specific solo exhibition, stay, take your time, my love, acts as a “love letter” to the Bay Area queer community, layering references to art history, the handkerchief code, leather culture, and iconic sites around the San Francisco landscape. ICA SF is located at The Cube at 345 Montgomery St in San Francisco.

 

Tiona Nekkia McClodden “NEVER LET ME GO XII” 2024, Black jute rope, leather, leather dye and Saphir shoe polish. Image courtesy of SFAC Main Gallery.

May 29 to August 23 – Service Tension curated by Elena Gross and Leila Weefur at SFAC Main Gallery: Service Tension is a group exhibition curated by Elena Gross and Leila Weefur featuring work by Salimatu Amabebe, Ricki Dwyer, Xandra Ibarra, Sasha Kelley, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, and Autumn Wallace. The exhibition will explore the messiness and complexity of the queer body.  The title, Service Tension, is an interpolation of “surface tension,” a phrase that signifies a resistant relationship between two surfaces and the title of the exhibition suggests a playful interrogation of sex, penetration, and power. The works in the exhibition trouble notions of masculinity within queer dynamics as well as sexual desire.  The SFAC Main Gallery is located at 401 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.

 

To Do List: April

Todd Gray, “Cosmic Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)”, 2019, four archival pigment prints in artist’s frames, UV laminate. Image courtesy of Cantor Arts Center.

Ongoing to August 3 – Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene at Cantor Arts Center: Over 20 years ago, scientists introduced the term “Anthropocene” to denote a new geological epoch marked by human activity. Comprised of 44 photo-based artists working in a variety of artistic methods from studios and sites across the globe, Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene explores the complexities of this proposed new age: vanishing ice, rising waters, and increasing resource extraction, as well as the deeply rooted and painful legacies of colonialism, forced climate migration, and socio-environmental trauma. This exhibition proposes that the Anthropocene is not one singular narrative, but rather a diverse and complex web of relationships between and among humanity, industry, and ecology—the depths and effects of which are continually being discovered. Cantor Arts Center is located at 328 Lomita Dr in Stanford.

 

Steuart Pittman, “Stones”, 2025, oil on canvas with walnut frame. Image courtesy of Traywick Contemporary.

Ongoing to May 17 – Steuart Pittman: Les Cheneaux at Traywick Contemporary: Steuart Pittman’s newest body of work showcases his signature blend of modernist abstraction with personal history. The exhibition’s title, Les Cheneaux, refers to a chain of islands in Northern Michigan with deep personal significance to Pittman and his family’s history. While rooted in a specific place, the artist’s compositions remain both ambiguous and referential which he describes as “distilled glances blurred and softened by age and nostalgia.” Architectural structures and manmade forms from his memories reappear in his work as irregular, quirky shapes, distorted over time yet anchoring his exploration of place and remembrance. Traywick Contemporary is located at 895 Colusa Ave in Berkeley.

 

Andrew Schoultz, “In This Age, War Is Always Struggling to Stay Afloat, It Can Float for a While, but in Time, Nature Will Swallow It”, 2025, acrylic, graphite, collage on canvas over panel. Image courtesy of Hosfelt Gallery.

Ongoing to May 10 – Andrew Schoultz: Linescapes at Hosfelt Gallery: Los Angeles-based artist Andrew Schoultz leans into his long-standing practice as a street muralist to transform the gallery into an environment of optically vibrating wall paintings. Inspired by mid-twentieth-century Op Art, Schoultz’s installation is an architecturally scaled metaphor for the complex, unstable and anxiety-inducing world we currently find ourselves in. Within the framework of the installation, Schoultz adds additional layers of pattern to the murals and hangs paintings of creatures with ancient cross-cultural associations that are often important as protective talismans. The installation aims to envelop viewers in a playful and protective aura, while surrounding visitors with amulets of hope for protection, wisdom, healing, and strength. Hosfelt Gallery is located at 260 Utah St in San Francisco.

 

Detail of Reniel Del Rosario, “Guns, Beauty, Donuts” graphic, 2025, mixed media, ceramics. Image courtesy of Gallery 16.

April 4 to May 22 – Reniel Del Rosario: Guns, Beauty, Donuts at Gallery 16: Reniel Del Rosario’s exhibition transforms the gallery space into three specialty stores made entirely of ceramic works: a gun store, a beauty supply store, and a donut shop. Inspired by the South Y Center shopping plaza in South Lake Tahoe, the three stores playfully encapsulate the obsessions of US capitalism in 2025. Del Rosario brings inventive energy to clay; his process of creating deliberately imperfect, hand-built ceramic objects challenges societal value systems through recreating and reimagining familiar objects. In these ceramic goods, viewers may find performances of power through violence, the quest for superficial beauty, and gratuitous indulgence. Gallery 16 is located at 501 3rd St in San Francisco.

 

Nat Farbman, “Artist Ruth Asawa making wire sculptures, California, United States”, 1954, photograph. Image courtesy of SFMOMA.

April 5 to September 2 – Ruth Asawa: Retrospective at SFMOMA: This first posthumous retrospective presents the full range of Ruth Asawa’s work and its inspirations over six decades of her career. As an artist, Asawa forged a groundbreaking practice through her ceaseless exploration of materials and forms. As an educator and civic leader, Asawa’s impact on San Francisco can still be felt today. The exhibition features her signature suspended looped- and tied-wire sculptures alongside lesser-known works, including a selection of her sculptural “miniatures”—the smallest measuring just over one inch in diameter. From vibrant drawings and paintings to clay masks and cast bronze sculptures, more than 300 works give insight into Asawa’s relentlessly experimental vision. SFMOMA is located at 151 3rd St in San Francisco.

 

Tom Ide, “Fall Open House with Mark Gibson”, 2024, photograph. Image courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts.

April 13 at 12 PM – Spring Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts: The Spring Open House provides a seasonal opportunity to roam the various buildings of the Headlands Center for the Arts campus, meet their current artists, view works in progress, and attend screenings, performances, and readings. Visitors can explore Artists in Residence and Graduate Fellows’ studios, stop by the Project Space to view in-progress installations, and enjoy a house-made lunch from the Mess Hall. Special to Spring 2025, Headlands and Slash Art are also co-presenting a participatory performance and hike beginning at 11 AM in the Headlands Commons, RSVP required. Headlands Center for the Arts is located at 944 Simmonds Rd in Sausalito.

 

Leo Bersamina, “Triad (Red)” 2024, acrylic on linen. McArthur Binion, “MAB: 1947: I”, 2017, color aquatint. Kelly Ording, “Out to Sea”, 2023, acrylic on hand-dyed paper. Images courtesy of Southern Exposure.

April 18 at 6 PM – NEW SUNS: Resist and Rejoice 2025 Benefit Art Auction at Southern Exposure: Inspired by Octavia Butler’s words, “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” Southern Exposure will present 130 artworks from some of the Bay Area’s most exciting artists in their largest fundraiser of the year. As Southern Exposure currently faces significant economic uncertainty in this shifting landscape of local and national government grants for nonprofits, the 2025 Benefit Art Auction aims to raise $275,000 through sponsorships, ticket sales, and auction sales. This call to the art community comes at a time when arts organizations must be prepared to adapt and respond to the rapidly shifting needs of artists, local communities, and society as a whole. Southern Exposure is located at 3030 20th St in San Francisco.

 

Adia Millett, “Hues of the New Moon 6”, 2022, hand-painted lino print on folio vellum paper. Archana Horsting, “Underwater Arch”, 1983, etching. Ross Bleckner, “(On) Surrender”, 2010, color aquatint. Images courtesy of Kala Gallery.

April 26 at 6 PM – ART KALA 2025: Auction Benefit & Exhibition at Kala Gallery: Celebrating Kala’s 51st year, ART KALA 2025 brings together Kala’s creative community and features the inventive and meaningful art being made in the Bay Area. This year’s auction closing party showcases artwork by over 100 local artists and includes food, drinks, music, a live and silent auction, and a short program honoring artists Gale Antokal, Cathy Lu, and Adia Millett. ART KALA is Kala’s biggest fundraiser of the year and directly supports Kala’s arts education, artist residencies, and exhibition programs. Kala Gallery is located at 2990 San Pablo Ave in Berkeley.

To Do List: March

Liz Hernández, “March of the Gator #25”, 2025, acrylic on paper. Image courtesy of SFSU Fine Arts Gallery.

Ongoing to April 5 – Objects of Inquiry: The Office for the Study of the Ordinary at SFSU Fine Arts Gallery: Objects of Inquiry is the culmination of an artist residency with Liz Hernández at SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, sponsored by the Harker Fund of the San Francisco Foundation. For her residency, Hernández has been serving as the lead researcher for the fictional The Office for the Study of the Ordinary. Her office focuses on investigating the everyday, and documenting hidden narratives through the creation of objects, images and writing.⁣ It fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration, vulnerability, curiosity and experimentation. This culminating exhibition on the San Francisco State campus features documentation of the physical office, processes, artifacts, collaborations, and printed material. The office ultimately brings together a group of unconventional researchers trained to understand the poet’s mission: summoning beauty where it holds no right to exist. SFSU Fine Arts Gallery is located at 1600 Holloway Avenue, Fine Arts Building, Room 293 in San Francisco.

 

Top: Stacey Beach, “Still Life with Chalkware Cat and Bird Amphora Quilted”, 2025, cotton, rayon, lycra, canvas, thread batting stretched over panel. Bottom: Amber Jean Young, “Urn #12”, 2024-25, glazed ceramic. Images courtesy of K. Imperial Fine Art.

Ongoing to March 31 – Stacey Beach and Amber Jean Young: Altar at K. Imperial Fine Art: Altar is a multimedia two-woman exhibition featuring the ceramic and textile works of California artists Stacey Beach and Amber Jean Young. This exhibition treats the gallery space as an altar where each artwork is an offering–playful, sometimes solemn, and invariably healing. Many of the pieces are titled “Vessel” or “Urn,” indicating an arm outstretched toward the spiritual realm, and each piece contains a collection of memories, both personal and historic. These florals, still lifes, and ceramics are more pattern than precise representation. They embody the rituals of these objects and their importance to diverse cultures, both recent and ancient. Both Beach and Young participate in these rituals while acknowledging the vast histories contained within them. K. Imperial Fine Art is located at 49 Geary St #440 in San Francisco.

 

Detail of Sophie Calle, “Cale Mona Lisa (Wrong turn)”, 2023, text panel in artist’s frame, two pigment prints in artist’s frames, thread, pigment print in cardboard frame, edition of 3 + 1 AP in English & edition of 3 + 1 AP in French. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

Ongoing to April 12 – Sophie Calle at Fraenkel Gallery: For over forty years, Sophie Calle has made work that draws from her life, transforming elements from her public and private relationships into intimate narratives. This exhibition features several series exploring questions about legacy and loss, topics Calle approaches with her typical humor and candor. Making its U.S. debut, catalogue raisonné of the unfinished focuses on projects Calle previously conceptualized but didn’t pursue. Each piece pairs fragments from the project with Calle’s text about its failure. Another series, Picassos in lockdown, comprises photographs Calle made at the Musée National Picasso in Paris during the pandemic. Each shows a painting covered for protection while the museum was closed. This exhibition also features a selection of works looking at death and remembrance through the lens of Calle’s relationship with her parents. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary St #450 in San Francisco.

 

Top: Jessie Schlesinger, “Untitled”, 2024, glazed ceramic and salvaged redwood. Bottom: Manfredo De Souzanetto, “10.2023”, 2023, natural pigments, acrylic resin on canvas and cedar. Images courtesy of Anthony Meier Gallery.

March 6 to May 2 – Jesse Schlesinger and Manfredo de Souzanetto at Anthony Meier Gallery: Anthony Meier presents sculptures by San Francisco-based artist Jesse Schlesinger in conversation with paintings by Rio de Janeiro-based artist Manfredo de Souzanetto, underscoring their mutual reverence for material sources and commitment to ecological concerns. Both artists place great emphasis on the cultural and symbolic resonance of their materials, using them not only as physical substances but as carriers of meaning. Schlesinger’s locally salvaged wood and quarried stone, along with de Souzanetto’s natural pigments, are integral to each artist’s philosophy, reflecting the fragile, interdependent relationship between humans and the land. Through Schlesinger’s organic forms and de Souzanetto’s earth-toned canvases, each artist challenges the traditional boundaries of their mediums and invites contemplation of the tension between the human-made and natural worlds. Anthony Meier Gallery is located at 21 Throckmorton Ave in Mill Valley.

 

Top left: Aileen McCourt, “Untitled”, 2023, wax pastel on paper. Top right: Maria Radilla, “Modern Morán Quilt”, n.d., batting, embroidery on fabric. Bottom: Deatra Colbert, “Raptor Cat”, 2023, mixed media on paper. Images courtesy of NIAD.

March 8 at 7 PM – ARTFUL: NIAD’s Gala and Benefit Auction at Minnesota Street Project: NIAD’s inaugural Artful fundraiser aims to celebrate the power of art and inclusivity, and raise crucial funds to support NIAD artists and programs. NIAD is a vibrant community of 80 artists–many of whom have practiced in the studio for decades–united by a shared commitment to creativity, connection, and discovery. The Gala includes dinner; a live auction; a celebration of Marlon Mullen, a NIAD artist whose historic solo exhibition at MoMA makes him the first artist with known developmental disabilities to receive this honor; and keynote speakers Ann Temkin, Marie-Josée, and Henry Kravis, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Every facet of Artful helps raise funds that directly support NIAD’s artists and mission. Minnesota Street Project is located at 1275 Minnesota St in San Francisco.

 

Ala Ebtekar, “Nightfall [after Asimov and Emerson]”, 2017, book pages from Asimov’s “Nightfall” treated with Potassium ferricyanide and Ammonium ferric citrate (cyanotype) exposed by the night sky. Images courtesy of the artist.

March 12 at 6:30 PM – Arion Artist Talk: Ala Ebtekar and Kim Stanley Robinson at Bayfront Theater: Arion Press is hosting a genre-spanning conversation between artist Ala Ebtekar and celebrated science-fiction novelist Kim Stanley Robinson. The talk will draw inspiration from Ebtekar’s upcoming edition of Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall which he is creating as the second King Artist in Residence at Arion Press, developing cyanotype prints during the lunar eclipse on March 13th. Their conversation will explore the work of Asimov and the creative connections across science, nature, and both the literary and visual arts. Bayfront Theater is located at 2 Marina Boulevard, Building B, in San Francisco.

 

Enrique Martínez Celaya, “The Prodigal Room”, 2024, oil and wax on canvas. Image courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris.

March 27 to May 10 – Enrique Martinez Celaya: The Wilderness at Gallery Wendi Norris: The Wilderness marks Los Angeles-based artist Enrique Martínez Celaya’s first exhibition with Gallery Wendi Norris. Across nine paintings, The Wilderness explores fragility, endurance, displacement, and longing through an intricate and confrontational interplay between humanity and nature, unfolding across two San Francisco locations: the gallery’s headquarters and a landmarked carriage house directly across the street in the historic heart of Jackson Square. The recurring motif of “the artist” is portrayed in these paintings not as a heroic figure, but as a reflective consciousness. Gallery Wendi Norris Headquarters is located at 436 Jackson Street and Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite is located at 38 Hotaling Place in San Francisco.

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