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Jun 1, 2025 In: To Do List Tags: Anthony Meier Gallery, Arleene Correa Valencia, Catharine Clark Gallery, Cecilia Mignon, Demitri Broxton, FOR-SITE Foundation, Gallery 16, Headlands Center for the Arts, Libby Black, re.riddle, Rebekah Goldstein By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

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.

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.

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