SFADA: February 2026 Newsletter

Forging Ahead into 2026...

Greetings!

The year 2026 is upon us, and another compelling year in the visual arts is underway!

First and foremost, please join me in heartily welcoming our newest SFADA Members. Be sure to click each link to learn more:

We are also thrilled for our long-time SFADA Member SLATE Contemporary, as they are set to open a new gallery space in Rockridge on March 7.

Congratulations to Danielle Fox and her entire team!

L.A. Art Fairs this week!

If you are visiting the many art fairs in greater Los Angeles this week, make a plan to stop by and say hello to our exhibiting SFADA Member galleries --

Frieze Los Angeles: Berggruen / Casemore / Anthony Meier / Jessica Silverman

Felix Art Fair: Creative Growth / Johansson Projects / NIAD

Post-Fair: Rebecca Camacho Presents

SHOW LA: Casemore

Kevin T. Leong, Gallery 5

20 x 18 inches, oil on linen, 2022

Courtesy of Studio Shop Gallery

Opening/on view at our SFADA Member galleries:

M Stark Cara Kozik “Destination Superbloom” opening February 28
Morgann Trumbull Projects Ahn Lee “SILKWORM 緣份: My dream is a future with you” through February 28
re.riddle guanyu xu “i dreamt of this and there will be more” through February 28
Qualia Contemporary Art Hung Liu “Mixed Mediations” / Guillermo Galindo “Tortoise” through February 28
Rebecca Camacho Presents Christy Matson “Even So” through February 28
Scott Richards Contemporary Woods Davy “Clouds from the Sea” through February 28
K. Imperial Jenn Shifflet “We are Fleeting Skies” through February 28
Jenkins Johnson “The Sweet Appreciation of Freedom” through February 28
Maybaum Nathaniel Kyung Smith opening March 1
Studio Shop Gallery Kevin T. Leong “An Artist Introduction” opening March 1
Marrow “Orlando” featuring Tyler Eash, Hannah McBroom and Eamon McGivern opening March 4
Jessica Silverman “Beauty is the Best Defense” opening March 5
Modern Eden Heidi Taillefer “Esemplastic” opening March 5
Dolby Chadwick Louise LeBourgeois “Exhale” opening March 5
Sarah Shepard Blake Aaseby & Dwight Eschliman “Time and Place” opening March 5
Berggruen Heather Day “Blue Distance” / “Women in Abstraction” through March 5
COL Gallery “Alchemies of Place” through March 6

Henar Iglesias, Consummation III

15.75 x 20 inches, partridge & golden pheasant feathers on wood, 2025

Courtesy of TINT Gallery

SLATE Contemporary (New Location!) “A New Day” opening March 7
Hashimoto Contemporary Rachel Gregor “No Coward Soul” opening March 7
Municipal Bonds Fritz Horstman “Folded Worlds” opening March 7
Pamela Walsh Andrew Faulkner “Light Fields” through March 7
Modernism, Inc. Jerry Kearns “Zero-Sum” through March 7
Montague “Time Meets Us...A Journey with Leah Wingfield & Steve Clements” through March 7
Casemore Henna Vainio “Opposite Knots” through March 7
Fraenkel Christian Marclay through March 7
Catharine Clark Masami Teraoka” From Here to Eternity, Five Decades of Art Making” / Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain “Speculation, Like Nature, Abhors a Vacuum (LA Version)” through March 7
Ryan Graff Contemporary “Winter Pre/Re view” through March 7
TINT Gallery “Retrospective: In a New Light” through March 8
Caldwell Snyder (St. Helena) Jose Villalobos / Alejandro Rivera opening March 12
Anthony Meier “AGO Projects x Anthony Meier: En Este Momento” / Barbara Stauffacher Solomon “Garden = Grid = City” through March 13
Eleanor Harwood Joe Ferriso “Lost and Found” / Daniel Abrigo “Dream Sequence” opening March 14
Gray Loft “Orange Crush” opening March 14
Gallery Wendi Norris Marie Wilson “A Poet of Forms and Colors” through March 14
Paul Thiebaud Jeff Bellerose “A Sense of Place” through March 14

Miguel Arzabe, Recortejidos VIII

24 x 16 inches, acrylic on canvas & kite string, 2026

Courtesy of Johansson Projects

Nelson Duni Elmer Bischoff through March 15
Andrea Schwartz Elaine Coombs “Presence” through March 19
Johansson Projects Miguel Arzabe “Sin Contar Cincuenta” through March 21
Crown Point Press “Expressions of Language” through March 27
Andra Norris “Between Here and There” through March 27
Creativity Explored Hung Kei Shiu “Color Field” through March 28
Nancy Toomey John Paul Morabito “Immortal” (Curated by Patricia Sweetow) through March 28
NIAD Art Center “Transforming Space” through March 28
CK Contemporary “Equine Explorations: Walter Quirt in the Year of the Horse” through March
Telematic Media Arts Jennifer Locke “Passing Through” through April 4
Traywick Contemporary Annie Vought “Opened and Split” through April 11
Upstart Modern “Arboreal Alchemies” through April 12
Creative Growth “The Stories We Tell” through April 25
Donna Seager Fine Arts “New Works by Gallery Artists” through April 30
MADSEN Gallery Los Altos Hunt Slonem “Neo-Expressionist Exotica” ongoing
Meyerovich Alex Katz “White Lilies – New Series” ongoing
Hackett Mill Raimonds Staprans by appointment

Raimonds Staprans, Valley Fog

44 x 48 inches, oil on canvas, 1992

Courtesy of Hackett Mill

The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah.

But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect -- make you love,

are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

-- Barack Obama

We look forward to seeing you in the galleries!

-- Steve Zavattero, SFADA Executive Director