Artists Gallery Exhibitions
Overview
In keeping with its mission to promote Northern California art, the SFMOMA Artists Gallery presents eight exhibitions each year in its main gallery. Focusing on both new and established artists, the exhibition program consists of solo, group, and thematic shows, and represents a diverse range of art practices, including painting, sculpture, photography, and new media works.
As an extension of the gallery's exhibition program at Fort Mason, solo shows featuring selected gallery artists are on view year-round at SFMOMA's Caffè Museo.
All exhibited works are available for rent or purchase. Please contact the Artists Gallery at 415.441.4777 or artistsgallery@sfmoma.org for more information.
Currently at Caffe Museo
Owen SmithApril 19 - May 29, 2012 Owen Smith's illustrations have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Time, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker, for which he has created 15 cover illustrations. He recently completed work on a new children's book for Simon and Schuster. Smith's influences come from the WPA artists of the 1930s, Diego Rivera, and the lurid covers of pulp magazines and dime-store paperbacks of the 1930s and 1940s. His paintings have been featured in exhibitions in New York, Rome, and Milan, and in solo shows in Los Angeles. In 1998, a set of mosaic murals Smith designed was permanently installed in a New York subway station at 36th Street in Brooklyn. Currently Smith is designing permanent art for a historic San Francisco hospital, including murals, mosaics, and relief sculptures. |
Currently at SFMOMA Garage Windows
Ian Padgham, Claire PasquierFebruary 4 - August 31, 2012 Artists Ian Padgham and Claire Pasquier are partners in art and life. Padgham is an American and Pasquier is French. A play on words, their installation entitled 7 ans de "Moirage" presents seven scenes using moiré patterns and refers to the seven years the couple has been married. Each vignette is also associated with a place where they lived — from Paris and the French countryside (Creuse) to San Francisco and the California coast. The phenomenon of the moiré pattern is significant here because it is a product of interference. It is a result of alteration, modification, even disruption from another source. A moiré is created when two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes. The moiré effect can be undesirable, as in a distorted half-tone print; or desirable, as in the pleasing flourishes that mark silk taffeta. As Pasquier describes: "A couple is two people interacting, in the same set in the same time. Two people together create new stories and future memories." The couple has also likened the work to weaving a tapestry, as they have painted and followed the lines on the canvas at the same time, intertwining and overlapping to re-create moments from their lives together. |
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Upcoming at Fort Mason
The Golden Span: A Celebration of the Golden Gate BridgeMay 26 - June 28, 2012 In celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Artists Gallery will feature an exhibition of work about the bridge and the bay by local artists. More than a dozen artists working in painting and photography will show recent work on these themes. |
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Upcoming at Caffe Museo
Deladier AlmeidaMay 31 - July 10, 2012 Originally from Brazil, painter Deladier Almeida has called the Sacramento Valley home for nearly 30 years. This exhibition includes landscape paintings of the area within an 80-mile radius of his home. His aerial perspective yields geometric patterns and reveals much about how California's land is organized and how its water is diverted for the purposes of agriculture. |
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Kerry Vander MeerJuly 12 - August 21, 2012 Bay Area printmaker Kerry Vander Meer shows recent work that draws on images from everyday life. Household fixtures such as chandeliers and common items like shopping carts show up as silhouettes in brightly colored works where the negative space is as important as the positive. Vander Meer, who teaches printmaking workshops in both California and Mexico, encourages viewers to consider how the space around the images creates what she calls "hidden treasure": "I look through, around, or underneath an organized clutter of (visual) information. Hopefully underneath that clutter exists a larger space of calm." |
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