Henderson moved to the Bay Area in 1965 to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, and has been an important fixture of the local art scene ever since. Today, he is known for his abstract, highly gestural paintings that demonstrate a palpable connection to post-war abstraction and a defining instinct for improvisation. Also an accomplished…
Main Content
Recent Posts
Kota Ezawa At Haines Gallery
Throughout his career, Ezawa has appropriated well-known images from the news, art history, and popular culture, recreating them in his signature reductive style and translating them into light boxes, animated videos, and works on paper. National Anthem, the artist’s most recent project is a stirring and timely body of work that offers a powerful meditation…
Your First Destinations To Visit In San Francisco
There are not that many places left in San Francisco that speak to the history of The City. Oh, places and landmarks are still there, streets are still there, but the feel of the those places … a lot of that energy has left the room. San Francisco has morphed into something else, which isn’t…
Kate Breakey At Photo-Eye Gallery
Some of the oldest living things on earth are trees. Simultaneously fascinating and daunting in their endurance, trees are seemingly still and eternal, yet are constantly growing and changing. Trees have many stories to tell, as forests provide the backdrop for countless fairytales, ghost stories, and ancient mythologies. Home to a variety of creatures, intelligent…
Postcommodity: The Point of Final Collapse At The San Francisco Art Institute
The art collective Postcommodity is presenting The Point of Final Collapse, a sound installation and broadly conceptual work that focuses on San Francisco’s sinking Millennium Tower, responding to a scenario of capitalism contributing to the development of new conceptual frameworks of risk and accountability — as a building falls, its value rises. Postcommodity will engage…
M.Louise Stanley At Anglim Gilbert Gallery
For over four decades, Stanley has utilized narrative motifs culled from early Western Art History’s primary subjects –– Greek mythology and Christianity –– to create scathingly humorous indictments of gender inequity, sexual politics, economic disparity, and everyday instances of bad behavior. Stanley’s pointed criticisms are couched in her absurdist take on storytelling and figuration. Her…
Linda Fleming At Brian Gross
Linda Fleming’s newest works reveal her continued exploration of dynamic sculptural forms in which the interior volumes and exterior surfaces are of equal importance. Fleming’s multi-colored, powder-coated stainless steel sculptures are comprised of lace-like patterns cut into the layered planar sides of complex geometric forms. This opening up of her sculptures reveals their inner volumes…
SHAW & CO. At Gallery 16
This exhibition honors the legacy and influence of Richard and Martha Shaw through their work and that of their family and friends. The renowned artistic family includes Bay Area ceramic pioneer Richard Shaw and his wife Martha, daughter Alice Shaw and son Virgil Shaw. Their influence and contributions to the Bay Area’s art and music…
Patrick Staff At Serpentine Galleries
Through a varied and interdisciplinary body of work, the artist interrogates notions of discipline, dissent, labour and queer identity. Drawing from a wide range of sources, Staff cites the ways in which history, technology, capitalism and the law have fundamentally transformed the social constitution of our bodies today, with a focus on gender, debility and…
