8 Standout Works to See at FOG Design+Art in San Francisco

Table Of Content

• A Buyer’s Guide to the Hottest Artists in This Year’s Venice Biennale
• Eric Fischl Captures the Secret Side of Hotels for His Latest Exhibition
• Northern California’s leading art and design fair returns with its strongest program to date
• Marcin Rusak at Sarah Myerscough Gallery
• DISCOVER CALIFORNIA
• ARTnews in Brief: Polina Berlin Joins Grimm as a Gallery Director--and More from September 25, 2020
• Standout Works to See at FOG Design+Art in San Francisco

“Teresita Fernández is a great example of an artist who has been championed by San Fransisco over the years, including a major site-specific public commission at the Park Tower at Transbay last year,” partner Jessica Kreps tells Galerie. Bringing together leaders in art, design and technology, the annual FOG Talks is always something to look forward to. Taking place alongside the fair, the talks offer engaging perspectives on some of today’s most buzzworthy themes, like what to know about the burgeoning NFT market, the future of art museums, and even a deep dive into the region’s incredible collection of public murals.

A Buyer’s Guide to the Hottest Artists in This Year’s Venice Biennale

This year, Gatti partnered with San Francisco’s Arion Press for a booth that will exhibit examples of their small-batch printings of books as well as demonstrations of the printing presses and additional aspects of bookmaking. The return of the FOG Design and Art fair to San Francisco’s Fort Mason pier—after going on hiatus last year amid the pandemic—brought out droves of buyers. As a part of SF Art Week check out everything you need to know about FOG Design and Art fair.

Eric Fischl Captures the Secret Side of Hotels for His Latest Exhibition

Diane Arbus, Zoe Leonard, Susan Meiselas, Lorna Simpson, Francesca Woodman and Stephanie Syjuco are among the artists included from the McEvoy Family Collection, as well as newly commissioned presentations by Marcel Pardo Ariza, Carolyn Drake and Chanell Stone. “We’re thrilled to kick off the new art season in San Francisco at FOG,” said Hauser and Wirth president Marc Payot after the gallery sold a whopping 20 works on opening day. Works by a cross section of the gallery’s artists and estates it manages, were placed into some of the “most rigorous, esteemed private collections in Northern California,” he said. Of the fair’s 45 exhibitors (down just a notch from 48 exhibitors in 2020), 10, or more than 20 percent, were first-time exhibitors, including Friends Indeed, as well as Alexander Berggruen, Cult Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, Michael Rosenfeld, Nina Johnson, Pt. Both local galleries and those that visited from around the U.S. (plus a few international names) reported healthy sales and a strong showing from important private and institutional collections.

Northern California’s leading art and design fair returns with its strongest program to date

“The return of FOG is a very hopeful moment reminding us how art builds and sustains community,” said San Francisco gallerist Jessica Silverman. “The fair provides us with a platform to strengthen our relations with West Coast institutions and share the depth of our roster with collectors,” said Kim. “It’s wonderful to see museum curators and leaders from all over the country, particularly given the growing conversation around what new models of museums will look like in the coming years,” said fair co-chair Wayee Chu. But she lamented the absence of student groups that typically visit with their schools. “This is a very personal work drawn from the artist’s memory, and it resonated with me, our curators and donors,” said ICA Miami director Alex Gartenfeld, who visited the fair remotely this year.

Marcin Rusak at Sarah Myerscough Gallery

West Coast artist Hun-Chung Lee transforms harsh materials like marble and concrete into soft, painterly sculptures using a 15th-century Korean celadon glazing technique. For the 2022 edition of FOG Art + Design, Lee is presenting a new selection of chairs that are sure to mesmerize. In addition, to the 45 stands in Fog’s main sector and nine galleries participating in Fog Focus, Creative Growth Art Center, Creativity Explored and NIAD are co-presenting an exhibition of works by Bay Area artists with disabilities. Anthony Meier, a storied Bay Area gallery, is showing two pared-down Etel Adnan paintings and an envelope on which the late artist had painted a sketch of Mount Tamalpais. The gallery’s stand also features notable works by artists Dave Muller and Jesse Schlesinger. ICA San Francisco extended its hours this weekend to include Sunday because it received over 700 RSVPs for Chris Martin’s project “Ancient As Time.” And since its opening in November, Lands End by FOR-SITE Foundation, has welcomed over 10,000 visitors.

DISCOVER CALIFORNIA

“The fair's elegance and energy, and San Francisco's stunning historic atmosphere, together create such a unique context for engaging with the Bay Area's community,” says Marc Payot, Hauser & Wirth’s president. Perhaps it is because San Francisco is somewhat removed from the globalised art world that its scene retains a sense of particularity even when cast within the overwhelming sameness of art fairs’ white-walled stands. Hauser & Wirth reported more than a dozen sales on opening day, ranging from a $950,000 Ed Clark painting to two works on paper by Flora Yukhnovich for $22,000 each. As far as I know, it’s never proclaimed great artistic centrality or wrestled with the naked ambition of cities like New York or Los Angeles.

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Working from a studio in Chiba, Japan, Hamana creates jars that are traditionally named tsubo. The artist’s instinctive approach to his subjects result in distinctly-shaped, meditative sculptures that are humble in their visual presence yet visually arresting thanks to his meticulous glazing process. The last thing I saw during the preview gala on Wednesday (17 January) was Untitled (Human Mask) (2014) by Pierre Huyghe, loaned by the Kramlich Family Foundation and on display in the fair’s black box theatre. The haunting video documents an abandoned sake house near Fukushima where a masked figure with long black hair attempts to serve long-gone customers. Its inclusion at Fog disrupts the sense of division between the “art world” and the “world”, reminding visitors of the power of art. Many local galleries, perhaps in a nod to the theme, are showcasing Bay Area artists at the fair this year.

“I think if you placed me almost anywhere and gave me a camera you could return the next day to find me photographing,” the celebrated American photograher Robert Adams once said. This abstracted picture of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on view at the esteemed Fraenkel Gallery reveals his mastery of the medium. There will be many exciting highlights to look out for, including 21POP, a special installation by Stanlee Gatti celebrating the Arion press. The installation will highlight the storied San Francisco–based press through a demonstration of the Arion’s entire printing process.

Standout Works to See at FOG Design+Art in San Francisco

Celebrate and explore the work of some of the most innovative contributors to the worlds of design and visual arts. FOG Design+Art fair assembles leading international galleries and design dealers plus exciting public programming for an unforgettable experience unique to San Francisco. FOG Design+Art fair assembles leading international galleries and design dealers, plus exciting public programming for an unforgettable experience unique to San Francisco. FOG Design+Art Fair assembles leading international galleries and design dealers plus exciting public programming for an unforgettable experience unique to San Francisco. Celebrating today’s most significant creatives and leading contributors to the worlds of design and visual arts, the fair assembles 45 leading international galleries; prominent 20th-century and contemporary design dealers; and a weekend of exciting programs.

Contemporary African Americans stand as enduring survivors of the peculiar institution of slavery; similarly, the tulip symbolizes resistance and is a resilient flower, maintaining its physical integrity amidst extreme climate conditions. Through these metaphors, the artist speaks about subjugation in America and how this condition was transformed into a state of cultural self-fulfillment and spiritual development. Guest curator Gina Basso’s “seen only, heard only through someone else’s description” series of short films by and about women and nonbinary artists will be on view in the media room.

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This year marks a special milestone with the introduction of FOG FOCUS, a platform showcasing art by young and underrepresented artists. Marcin Rusak’s Perma collection, exclusive to London’s Sarah Myerscough Gallery, will be a key feature at Sarah’s booth this year. Marcin’s innovative furniture-sculptures are made using the excess accumulated by florists; the discarded flowers are transformed into something eternal. “When I discovered them in Morocco, the prayer rugs and the architecture with the arches, I became fascinated with the idea of the feeling of ascension, ascension through this arched form,” says Sheila Hicks of the inspiration behind her prayer rugs.

Othello won hearts with his large-scale ceramic sculptures of mundane objects radiating with bright colors and fluid forms at Art Basel’s Meridians section, where he had showed with San Fransisco’s own Jessica Silverman Gallery. Now, he continues his star-making gesture at the West Coast fair with this small metallic-hued biomorphic form that poses in an eerily erotic manner. “In the face of the isolating situation, I focused on depicting my spaces and surroundings,” writes the Dominican Republic–based artist on her new series of paintings, shown at Berggruen Gallery. Judy Chicago’s “Garden Smoke” series was created in response to the artist’s experience during the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. Chicago staged and photographed vibrant colored smoke sculptures in her home garden in New Mexico.

Specializing in Twentieth century French design with an emphasis on the late 1950s through the 1970s, Demisch Denant is showcasing a selection of works by the British textile artist, alongside an eclectic assortment of important design pieces. One participant in Fog Focus is Et al., a gallery with locations in both the Mission and Chinatown. The stand is a solo presentation of works by Laurie Reid, pairing her paintings—which feature arrays of dilapidated colour fields—alongside the first presentation of her jewellery. The fair will include a mix of blue-chip galleries like David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Marian Goodman Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, and Lehmann Maupin, alongside other leading enterprises such as James Cohan, Karma, Kurimanzutto, Matthew Marks, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Sprüth Magers, and Tina Kim. “Image Gardeners” highlights discussions around the representation of womanhood in photography, taking its name from the concept of “image gardening,” where a photographer builds a longstanding involvement with a subject to deepen their artistic relationship and gaze. As guests enter the fair at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, they will again be greeted by Gatti’s 21 Pop installation, traditionally one of the most elaborate displays of the week.

Building on FOG’s longstanding commitment to cultural institutions, the fair’s Preview Gala is honored to continue its crucial support of SFMOMA’s exhibitions and education programs. FOG represents a key moment in which the local and global community congregate to engage in critical dialogue, artistic exchanges, and a shared passion for creative pursuits. Enjoy early access to the fair’s prominent selection of forty-five exhibitions by twentieth-century and contemporary design dealers and leading art galleries — plus entertainment, culinary delights, and cocktails by design. After the San Francisco Arts Institute closed last year, its Fort Mason campus was left empty.

For its ninth edition next year, FOG Design+Art will gather 48 galleries in 45 booths at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture in San Francisco. The fair will run from January 19 to January 23, with a preview gala on January 18. That gala will benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and is co-chaired by ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg. Forty-five galleries from the Bay Area and around the globe are expected to exhibit at Fog, while a score of local galleries will also be opening new shows and presenting special events in their own spaces. Those exhibitors include Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Cult Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, Haines Gallery and Jenkins Johnson Gallery. David Zwirner, Pace Gallery and Tina Kim Gallery will be among the representatives from New York, while David Gill Gallery, Gallery Fumi and Sarah Myerscough Gallery will be making the trip from London.

But still, the art scene here seems to perpetually disappoint outside visitors, who routinely proclaimed it dead. With the tenth edition of the Fog Design+Art fair (until 21 January), the city’s art community is rewriting its narrative under the theme, “A Love Letter to San Francisco”. Crumpler is attracted to the physicality of the tulip, its fullness, emptiness, and relationship to space. To him, the tulip is analogous to African bodies when they move; tulips, like Africans, were taken out of their original environment, shipped around the world, and therefore transformed.