San Francisco Artwork Honest brings consideration to Bay Space scene and gross sales for exhibitors from close to and much – The Artwork Newspaper

A temper of conviviality reigned on the high-energy opening of the San Francisco Artwork Honest on 17 April, with sellers, artists, collectors, curators and celebrities in attendance. The truthful, which continued till 20 April on the Fort Mason Heart for Arts & Tradition, rebranded because the San Francisco Artwork Honest final yr after beforehand being often called ArtMrkt San Francisco.

“Every time we return we’re reminded of the deep dedication the area has to their artists. San Francisco reveals up. The sense of neighborhood is what makes this metropolis really distinctive,” says Kelly Freeman, the director of Artwork Market Productions, which runs the truthful.

The truthful featured 88 exhibitors this yr, with a powerful contingent from the East Bay, together with the Oakland-based galleries pt.2 (which had 4 areas all through the truthful) and Johansson Initiatives, in addition to Good Mom Gallery, which has areas in Oakland and Los Angeles. The truthful additionally devoted stands to different areas and fashions, together with the worldwide residency programme the Different Artwork College and the Portland-based artist-run house after/time Collective Gallery, amongst others.

The artist Marc Horowitz had a solo stand with the Los Angeles-based DeBoer Gallery, which was in utter disarray as he used the house as a studio all through the run of the truthful. The artist nailed and stapled massive unstretched canvases that includes shiny summary compositions to the partitions; water bottles and a worth record hand-scrawled on a mangled piece of carboard littered the desk. Regardless of the satirical tone of his “efficiency on laziness”, a number of of the work offered for $25,000 and up.

The Different Artwork College, which was co-founded by Nato Thompson (AMP’s inventive director) and the artist Amber Imrie, showcased works by 4 artist-members: Imrie, Kellie O’Dempsey, Victoria Loren Miller and Stacey Goodman. “We needed to point out a few of our artists’ work as a solution to introduce broader audiences to the larger work we do,” mentioned Imrie.

The truthful’s programming pulled in lots of native companions, together with a Friday evening celebration co-hosted by the Additional Triennial, a Bay Space-wide recurring exhibition launching in 2027, on the downtown lodge The Jay, with wine donated by the art-filled vineyard Donum Property. Based by the philanthropist Robin Wright, the Additional Triennial has already raised greater than $1m for its inaugural version and partnered with nearly each artwork establishment within the area. On Saturday the director and chief curator of the Institute of Up to date Artwork, Ali Gass, led a studio go to with the artist Masako Miki, whose solo exhibition on the ICA SF Midnight March opens 16 Might.

In the meantime, on the truthful, sellers reported wholesome gross sales of works priced from a couple of hundred {dollars} to the decrease 5 figures. The closely-watched native gallery Micki Meng gave 100% of the proceeds from its stand to Artwork into Acres, the artist-founded environmental non-profit. The partitions had been lined with small works priced at $500 every by Bay Space artists and members of the neighborhood, together with SFMoMA board president Robert Fisher, the museum’s affiliate curator of portray and sculpture Nancy Lim, the artists Michelle Yi Martin and Drew Bennett, and others.

The St Louis-based Duane Reed Gallery offered six tarot-inspired ceramic works by artist Alessandro Gallo for $7000 every. The native seller Eleanor Harwood offered works for costs starting from $2,400 to $12,500, the latter for one in all Mary Finlayson’s glass tile nonetheless life mosaics. Studio Store Gallery, primarily based simply south of San Francisco in Burlingame, offered two mixed-media, Delft-inspired works from Rob Strati’s Fragmented collection for $15,500 and $20,500. The native powerhouse gallery Jessica Silverman reported almost a dozen gross sales, together with eight works by Clare Rojas starting from $14,000 for an oil-on-paper work to $45,000 for the brand new portray Spiraling Time (2025).

A number of worldwide galleries reported sturdy gross sales, too. The Paris-based Sobering Galerie offered ten works for costs between €1,700 and €3,900 ($1,900-$4,400). Gallery Playlist, from Busan, South Korea, offered 9 ceramic works by Jung Jisook for costs starting from $780 to $3,600. The German house coGALERIE offered seven works, together with a bronze by Olivier Messas for $3,400. The London-based gallery TAG Effective Arts positioned seven works, starting from $650 for a number of of Neil Carroll’s nonetheless lifes to $8,500 for a brand new portray by Michael Azgour. Yiwei Gallery, which has areas in Los Angeles and Wuhan, China, offered a four-panel portray from its solo sales space of works by Liu Tianlian for a worth within the vary of $40,000.

Commenting on the truthful’s strengths, Freeman provides: “The spirit of collaboration, innovation and social consciousness is core to what we goal to spotlight on the truthful.”