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A New Fall Art Season in the SF Bay Area

September is here once again, and that means dozens of inspiring new exhibitions are on view at our SFADA Member galleries. Get out there, see some art and catch up with your favorite gallery staff!

Video Still from Djibril Drame’s Sabadola Zombies, 2021. Courtesy of Telematic Media Arts.

We must bid...

...a fond farewell to our SFADA Board President, Jenny Baie, as she is stepping down after serving as our fantastic leader for the past four years. We sincerely thank Jenny for her vision, commitment, and hard work for SFADA during her tenure, which included time served as a board member prior to her serving as President. Nominations for a new board President are underway and we will have an announcement after our Fall Membership meeting.

"Dear members, it has been a pleasure to serve first as a board member and then as board President of this organization for the past five years. I’m proud of how we pivoted, during the Covid19 shutdown, to continue to provide museum tours, director meet and greets, insights into professional practices and more, albeit on Zoom. Getting back to in person meetings has been wonderful and I’m glad for the opportunity to meet so many of you and forge lasting relationships within the gallery community. That is what I love most about this organization, when the members take advantage of the opportunities offered by SFADA, wonderful connections are made. Thank you to our fantastic Executive Director, Steve Zavattero, and to all the amazing board members for giving their time and energy. I look forward to seeing everyone at future events."

--Jenny Baie

Current/Upcoming Exhibitions

On view at our Member galleries this fall:

• Andrea Schwartz John Belingheri: “Ironesty” opening September 13
• Berggruen Matt Kleberg: “Pigeon Holes” opening September 14
• Altman Siegel Simon Denny: “Read, Write, Own” / Chris Johanson in Gallery 3 opening September 16
• Rena Bransten Hung Liu: “Capp Street Project, 1988” opening September 16
• Telematic Media Arts “House of Reasoned Truths: Recent Video Art from Africa” opening September 16
• M Stark Gallery Ethan Estess: “Tradewinds” opening September 16
• Johansson Projects Richard-Jonathan Nelson: “All Up in your Mind: Blackstrap” / Miguel Arzabe: “Animales Familiares” opening September 16
• Casemore “Around Swimmers” through September 16
• K. Imperial Fine Art Danielle Rante: “Elusive Terrains” through September 16
• Hashimoto Contemporary Lorien Stern: “Old Friends” through September 23
• Local Language Lena Wolff: “Forms of Forms of Forms” through September 29
• Traywick Contemporary “New. Now.” opening September 30
• Caldwell Snyder Paul Balmer: “Recent Paintings” / Willi Siber: “Recent Sculptures” through September 30
• Dolby Chadwick Alex Kanevsky: “Last Days Before Bright Future” through September 30
• Glass Rice Shawna X: “Cosmic Intermediaries” through September 30
• Marrow Hiroshi Sato: “Transvaluation” through September 30
• Maybaum Belinda Fox: “Yield” through September 30
• Sin Titulo Alejandro Rubio: “Recent Works” through September 30
• TINT Benjamin Dobbin: “Unconscious Architectures” through September 30

Zaeda Oenema, Burnings (Colored Variation #1), 37.5 x 37.5 inches, Inshu Kozo paper, manually burnt with soldering iron, oil pastel & graphite, 2022. Courtesy of Municipal Bonds.

• Scott Richards Contemporary Art New Location! Opening in October @ 501 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco
• Municipal Bonds Zaida Oenema: “Broken Suns” opening October 4
• Modern Eden Primary Hughes: “Re-Emergent” / “Harvest” through October 5
• Pamela Walsh Don Scott Macdonald: “Vistas” through October 14
• Anthony Meier Erica Deeman: “Emerging States” through October 20
• Qualia Contemporary Nathan Randall Green: “Three Directions” / WEN Zhongyan: “Wandering in the City, Waking from a Dream” through October 20
• Eleanor Harwood Tiffanie Turner: “American Grown” through October 21
• Fraenkel Richard T. Walker: “Never Here / Always There” through October 21
• Nancy Toomey Robert Sagerman: “Numinous Substance” through October 21

Tom Birkner, Politician, 30 x 40 inches, oil on canvas, 2023. Courtesy of Paul Thiebaud Gallery.

• Anglim/Trimble Kim Anno: “Animals’ Reading Room” through October 28
• Jenkins Johnson Ben Aronson, Scott Fraser, and Julian Opie: “Evolving Visions” through October 28
• Paul Thiebaud Gallery Tom Birkner: “Mass Abstractions & DemoGraphica” through October 28
• SLATE Contemporary Maya Kabat: “Always Already Again” through October 28
• Themes+Projects Camila Magrane: “Stranding Shadows” through October 28
• Meyerovich “New and Recent Works by Alex Katz” through October 31
• Crown Point Press “Contemporary Scenes: Cityscape & Landscape” through November 3
• Catharine Clark Arleene Correa Valencia: “Naces Así, Naces Prieto. No Naces Blanco / You Are Born Like This, You Are Born Brown. You Are Not Born White.” through November 4
• Gallery Wendi Norris Ambreen Butt: “Lay Bare My Arms” opening November 9
• George Krevsky Fine Art “Politics & Poker” online exhibition

Don Scott Macdonald, Morning Rambler, oil & alkyd on linen, 2023. Courtesy of Pamela Walsh Gallery.

In Memoriam

With heavy hearts we pass on the sad news that our friend and colleague Tom O'Connor has passed away following a battle with cancer. As Principal of O'Connor & Associates Art Advisors, Tom was a long-time supporter and champion of the SF Bay Area art scene. He was a frequent patron and visitor to many of our SFADA Member galleries for over 30 years. His unique, hearty laugh and effusive positivity will be very much missed.

Rest in peace, Tom.