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Current Exhibition
Field of View:
San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s
Elmer Bischoff, Lawrence Calcagno, Ralph Du Casse, Nancy Genn, Wally Hedrick, Robert Loberg, Irene Pattinson, Fritz Raugh, Juliette Steele, Sam Tchakalian, Leo Valledor, Julius Wasserstein
left: Ralph Du Casse, Untitled, acrylic on canvas, 60x42”, 1964
CYCLES | Time & Change
In the work of Peter Hassen, the cyclical nature of time is explored with a profound curiosity, reflecting the inevitable shifts that shape our collective history. His Cycles series brings to life the recurring themes that define the human experience, with each disk representing a facet of these universal ideas. These sculptures offer a meditation on how history repeats itself, tracing the evolution of thought and change over centuries.
Past Exhibitions
North Beach Heyday:
Aesthetic Pluralism in 1950s San Francisco
Artists include: Arlo Acton, John Baxter, Bruce Beasley, Paul Beattie, Fletcher Benton, Richard Faralla, Roy De Forest, Nancy Genn, Wally Hedrick, James Kelly, Peter Macchiarini, Sutter Marin, Robert McChesney, William Morehouse, James Prestini, Fred Reichman, Joyce Rezendes, Philip Roeber, John Saccaro, George Stillman, Julius Wasserstein
artwork: Untitled, Arlo Acton, 1961
Joyce Rezendes and friends
Bernice Bing, Joseph St Amand, and Ira Yeager
October 14, 2023 until February 17, 2024
Reception for the artist:
Saturday, October 14, 2023 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Joyce Rezendes. Untitled, 1973. acrylic on canvas
The Bay and Beyond: California Paintings and Sculpture
John Altoon, Fletcher Benton, Robert Cremean, James Eakle, June Felter, Dean Fleming, David Gilhooly, Alan Lynch, Robert McChesney, James McCray, Richard Nelson, Peter Reginato, Fred Reichman, Helen Rousseau, Jean Halpert Ryden, Sam Tchakalian, and Hamilton Wolf.
SUMMER 2023
image: James McCray, Untitled, 44 x 36”, Acrylic on canvas, 1969
West Coast Women of Abstract Expressionism
Berry Campbell Gallery, 524 West 26th Street, NY, NY
June 1 - July 1, 2023
A group exhibition featuring 24 women artists living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. After World War II, the avant-garde art world shifted from Paris to New York, making the downtown scene in New York the center of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Concurrent with the scene in New York, San Francisco was its parallel on the West Coast as a bohemian enclave. Much like the few recognized women Abstract Expressionists from the East Coast, only a handful of women artists from the West Coast have broken into the larger art world canon, most notably Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Deborah Remington, and Sonia Gechtoff. These women are a narrow representation of the robust and diverse community living and working on the West Coast in the 1950s. Jointly organized by Berry Campbell Gallery and Modern Art West.
Indicators: Nature in Flux
Solo exhibition by Peter Hassen
September 17 - December 29, 2022
Sonoma-based artist Peter Hassen is known for conceptual and public art projects that invite thought on social and environmental issues. The exhibition will feature prints, mixed media, and sculptures that explore cultural phenomena, spiritual practice, scientific discoveries, and climate predictions in search of indicators for our future existence.
The Long View:
California Women of Abstract Expressionism 1945-1965
Ruth Armer, Katherine Barieau, Emarie Bartelme, Bernice Bing, Pamela Boden, Dorr Bothwell, Joan Brown, Sonia Gechtoff, Nancy Genn, Leah Rinne Hamilton, Marie Johnson, Adelie Landis (Bischoff), Hilda Levey, Zoe Longfield, Emiko Nakano, Irene Pattinson, Margaret Peterson, Deborah Remington, Joyce Rezendes, Nell Sinton, Frann Spencer, Juliette Steele, Lenore Vogt, Ruth Wall, Katherine Westphal
Vision Become:
The Artists of the Six Gallery,
San Francisco 1954 -1957
Exhibition Reception: Saturday, May 7 from 5-7pm
Paul Beattie, Ronald Bladen, Joan Brown, William H Brown, Relf Case, Dean Fleming, Roy De Forest, Madeline Dimond, Ralph Du Casse, Peter Forakis, Dimitri Grachis, Art Grant, Wally Hedrick, Miriam Hoffman, Hayward King, Jose Ramon Lerma, Fred Martin, Manuel Neri, David Park, Deborah Remington, Joyce Rezendes, John Allen Ryan, Charles Safford, Peter Shoemaker, David Simpson, Julius Wasserstein
The End of a Crazy Summer & Other Personal
Reflections, Joan Brown
November 7 - January 8, 2022
Parker Gallery, 2441 Glendower Ave Los Angeles, CA 90027
In collaboration with Parker Gallery, Modern Art West presents rarely seen works from private collections that Brown completed between the late 1950s. Read More…
East West Abstraction
:
Asian American Artists of Post-War California
Bernice Bing, Sun-woo Chun, Tom Ide, Shiro Ikegawa, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Masatoyo Kishi, Kiyo Koizumi, James Leong, George Miyasaki, Emiko Nakano, Masayuki Nagare, Win Ng, Arthur Okamura, Eugenia Okoshi, Masako Takahashi, Carlos Villa, Noriko Yamamoto, Taro Yamamoto
SamXL + 1
Large Scale Paintings by Sam Tchakalian plus one Small One
Sam Tchakalian was a San Francisco artist and teacher admired for his forceful abstract paintings. These X-large canvases show his mastery over paint and painting tools. He is one of the trailblazers of the Bay Area Abstract Expressionists in the 50s and 60s.
The Drawing Group: Bay Area Figurative Artists
Elmer Bischoff
Joan Brown
William Theophilus Brown
Richard Diebenkorn
Frank Lobdell
Bruce McGaw
Nathan Oliveira
David Park
James Weeks
Paul Wonner
Coming Up
Roots of Bay Area Modernism
Mabel Alvarez, Arthur Atkins, Harry Bowden, Yun Gee, Sidney Gordin, Edward Hagedorn, Stanley William Hayter, Adaline Kent, Paul Landacre, Xavier Martinez, Eugen Neuhaus, Irving Norman, James McCray, Helen Clark Oldfield, Alice Rahon, Worth Ryder, Jacques Schnier, Henrietta Shore, Clay Spohn, Robert Sterling, Jean Varda, Edward Weston
Women of Bay Area Figurative
Emarie Bartelme
Helen Breger
Joan Brown
June Felter
Eleanor Kent
Adelie Landis Bischoff
Helen Rousseau
Joan Savo
and more
The Berkeley School of Abstract Expressionism
Walter Askins
Virginia Gould
John Haley
Hans Hofmann
Robert Loberg
Erle Loran
James McCray
Margaret Peterson
Felix Ruvolo
Worth Ryder
Glenn Wessels
San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
George Abend
Ernest Briggs
Lawrence Calcagno
Richard Diebenkorn
Edward Dugmore
Sam Francis
Walter Kuhlman
Adelie Landis
Frank Lobdell
Emiko Nakano
Philip Roeber
John Saccaro
Peter Shoemaker
Nell Sinton
George Stillman