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 Fort Mason
Kim Frohsin, Claire Pasquier, Winni WintermeyerJanuary 12 - February 23, 2012 Opening reception: Portraits of the Iconic and the Mundane comprises Kim Frohsin's most recent paintings, exploring instantly recognizable numbers, symbols, and commercial packaging for branded products. Typically numbers express quantity, but in these paintings they revert to forms abounding with layers of color, multiple linear elements, and purposeful splatters. The work expands on the artist's thesis that the detritus of everyday life can be a source for telling portraiture. Portrait Landscape has been a yearlong project by artist Claire Pasquier, in which individuals were encouraged to connect with the artist via Facebook to have their portrait painted. In what can be read as a relational aesthetics piece, the artwork draws attention to the encounter – an opportunity often missed in our modern world, as Pasquier describes it: "San Francisco is a small-big city, where people from all over the world seem to crisscross. The idea of this project came to me in Paris after I opened my workshop gallery. The window overlooked a tiny busy street. I watched all the people go by but never stop; it was like the halls in the metro. I felt the need to communicate with all these people and break the protective and indifferent walls that we build when we live in big cities." The portraits will be exhibited at the Artists Gallery along with the work station where Pasquier painted over 100 portraits. Winni Wintermeyer's photographic portraits range from the constructed to the emotional, some of them carefully crafted, others captured in a passing moment. At the core they all deal with the same question of what makes a portrait. Often he eliminates elements that we've become accustomed to in traditional portraiture, like faces, and provides the viewer with a starting point to create their own narrative. He experiments by adding and subtracting to the surroundings the subject is placed in to change the scope of information and adds mystery by juxtaposing environmental images. Stripped down to the close-up of a person's face he strives to tell a story about the dynamics between photographer and subject, a tension that can create fiction instead of produce a likeness. |
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Currently at Caffe Museo
Tarra J. LyonsJanuary 19 - February 14, 2012 Bay Area painter Tarra Lyons shows recent work exploring patterning and sequencing in the natural world. Her imagery includes organic abstractions, embryonic divisions, sprouting seeds, tubers, and other botanical forms, showing how these forms tie into and resemble structures in animal and human life. |
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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
Amid A Space Between: Irish Artists in AmericaMarch 8 - April 19, 2012 Opening reception: San Francisco-based curators Al Cosio and Monique Delaunay organized this exhibition of work by six Irish artists living in America, whose ambiguous and multifaceted Irish identities create international dialogue and cross-cultural fusion. The exhibition also aims to illustrate how artists of various nationalities form communities and exchange ideas. |
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Upcoming at Caffe Museo
Liz MaxwellFebruary 16 - March 13, 2012 Liz Maxwell, painter and printmaker, distinctively balances a natural fruition of abstraction with realism in her work. Unrestricted by these representational dichotomies, Maxwell's paintings uniquely evoke mood and sensuality without offsetting the natural elements of form and pattern. Landscapes and bucolic scenery transcend into thought-provoking symbolism and layered expressions of meaning. |
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