FOG Design+Art 2023 Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

Table Of Content

• Eric Fischl Captures the Secret Side of Hotels for His Latest Exhibition
• Marcin Rusak at Sarah Myerscough Gallery
• Best First Date Ideas in Los Angeles
• FOG Design+Art: San Francisco, CA
• FOG Design+Art Exhibitors
• ARTnews in Brief: Polina Berlin Joins Grimm as a Gallery Director--and More from September 25, 2020
• Zaha Hadid at David Gill Gallery

To learn more about the Preview Gala and view the full list of benefits, visit sfmoma.org/fog-gala. German photographer and former Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans is known for an intimate observation of his surroundings. The organization is a leading voice in supporting independent public art in the Bay Area. Wagner is known for her documentation of objects and location, and plans to debut her photo mural project at the new Yerba Buena Muni Station later this year.

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

FOG FOCUS will feature nine exhibitors as well as art installations, activations, and performances in Fort Mason Center’s Pier 2 building. A West Coast blue-chip gallery with a New York outpost, Blum & Poe also reserves its booth for a Japanese artist who borrows cues from craft and utilitarian objects. Kazunori Hamana, who worked at a vintage clothing store before starting to make clay sculptures, grabbed the attention of art-world superstar Takashi Murakami, who had included him in a 2016 group exhibition at Blum & Poe’s Upper East Side location.

Marcin Rusak at Sarah Myerscough Gallery

FOG Design+Art Fair has become a cornerstone event for the West Coast's design and arts communities and beyond. Its unique blend of art and design, coupled with dynamic programming and a community-led approach, sets it apart. As the fair continues to evolve, it remains a beacon of creativity and a gathering point for those passionate about the arts, honoring its commitment to championing art and design in its historic Fort Mason setting. This year welcomes eight first-time exhibitors, including AGO Projects from Mexico City and Galerie Max Hetzler from Berlin, alongside local galleries like Catharine Clark Gallery. These new additions highlight the fair's global appeal and its role as a melting pot of diverse artistic expressions.

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This edition's theme, “A Love Letter to San Francisco,” celebrates the city's cultural vibrancy. It permeates every aspect of the fair, from the mesmerizing entryway installation to the innovative FOG Talks and the launch of SF Art Week. This theme is not just a mere decoration but a profound acknowledgment of the city's artistic pulse and the fair's dedication to enriching it. One of this year’s newcomers is East Coast powerhouse Lehmann Maupin, whose global influence extends all the way to Hong Kong. Doing justice to its inaugural presentation, the gallery curates a selection from their star-studded roster, including McArthur Binion, Lee Bul, Teresita Fernández, Nicholas Hlobo, Helen Pashgian, and Nari Ward. The artists’ vast uses of mediums span Binion’s neatly-crafted oil paintings to Nicholas Hlobo’s skin-like soldered serpentine images with wire-on-cotton canvas.

Two of New York’s most influential galleries, Luxembourg & Dayan and Demisch Danant, join forces for a booth that promises a museum-quality display, placing the legacy of late 20th century French sculptor and Nouveau Réalisme pioneer César in conversation with works by a suite of artists and designers whom both galleries have represented. The gallery is also showing watercolors by Brazilian artist Lucia Nogueira, who will be included in the inaugural exhibition for the gallery’s Tribeca space later this year. Bringing together an international roster of leading contemporary design and art galleries, FOG Design+Art 2023 presents 48 prominent exhibitors at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC). FOG Fair offers visitors the opportunity to experience the best of art and design from around the world, all in one place. Fog Design + Art, the cornerstone of San Francisco’s unofficial art week, is back for the first time since 2020.

FOG Design+Art Exhibitors

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The exhibition in the gallery’s offsite exhibition space features work by artists Ambreen Butt, Chitra Ganesh and Eva Schlegel contemplating how contemporary concerns like political instability, climate change and economic inequality control us now much in the way the fates were believed to. Martin, an Oakland tattoo and textile artist, has created a series of multimedia, immersive installations ruminating on ideas of contemporary injustice as part of ICA SF’s “Meantime” series of temporary programs during the building’s mid-construction phase. FOG FOCUS introduces its first artist-in-residence program with Oakland-based artist and educator José Figueroa. His dynamic presence will be felt throughout the fair, as he sketches visitors and activities, offering a unique, live artistic documentation. His works, created on-site, will be displayed alongside his existing pieces, providing a fresh perspective on art in action. The unstoppable rise of ceramics continues at East Village tastemaker Karma’s booth, where a star of the recent Art Basel Miami Beach, Woody de Othello, shows his flamboyant sculpture, Mussed (2018), a modestly scaled piece in comparison to his usual renditions of oozing telephones, typewriters, and air conditioners.

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Seeing an opportunity to correct the dearth of opportunities for young artists in the city, Fog launched a new invitational sector to include galleries that otherwise would not have participated, offering space at a lower price in the art school’s former footprint. Chris Perez, a member of the Fog Focus steering committee, stressed the importance of including “local galleries that should be represented but might not otherwise have the opportunity”. Enjoy early access to the fair’s prominent selection of forty-five twentieth-century and contemporary design dealers and leading art galleries — plus entertainment, culinary delights, and cocktails by design.

First-time exhibitors to the fair include L.A.’s Night Gallery, Milan’s Nilufar Gallery, and a joint booth from Marc Selwyn Fine Art of Los Angeles and Gió Marconi of Milan. In addition to the exhibitions on view, the FOG Fair once again presents FOG Talks, a programming series that explores ideas and issues relevant to the fields of art, design, technology, and the contemporary world, in the FOG Theater. The museum also bought work by Hulda Guzman from first-time exhibitor Alex Berggruen’s booth. “Guzman is an artist I have been following closely and looking to add a strong example of her work to ICA Miami’s collection. In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the fair will launch FOG FOCUS, an invitational designed to showcase art by young and underrepresented artists.

Zaha Hadid at David Gill Gallery

The largest work, Black Forests (2021), echoes the thousands of acres of California’s woods turned obsidian black by wildfires. But, there’s a recalibrated animism to Chongbin’s work, as if the paper retains the trees’ sensitivity. Every edition of Fog opens with a preview gala supporting exhibitions and education programmes at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA). At this year’s party, San Francisco, a city with notably bad fashion, did its best, though I still noticed dozens of black sneakers poking out beneath dress pants. Looking up from the sea of Sambas and New Balances, I was surprised to see an incredibly well-dressed John Waters standing by a row of tuxedoed busboys, surveying the scene. “Three Fates” explores mythological concepts of destiny, with the fates represented in Greek mythology as three separate female figures who even held dominion over the future of the gods.

This initiative reflects San Francisco's spirit of experimentation and creative thinking, offering a stage to those often overlooked in the art world. The booming tech industry has yielded a crop of new collectors who favor younger new-media artists, as well as those bridging utilitarian design with sculptural aesthetics. Operating in San Francisco, less than an hour from Silicon Valley, FOG Design+Art fair capitalizes on the rising interest in art and design collecting across Northern California with its seventh edition, which opens at Fort Mason Art and Culture Center on January 16 for a four-day run. San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art returns to the Fort Mason Center for the eighth edition of the fair. The week kicks off with a preview gala on  January 19 that benefits the  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s (SFMOMA) education and exhibition program before welcoming visitors into the halls to see presentations by an international roster of more than 45 galleries. A strong showing of local galleries will also be part of this fair, with exhibitors like Jessica Silverman Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Altman Siegel, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Berggruen Gallery, Fraenkel Gallery, and Rebecca Camacho Presents.

Celebrate the tenth edition of FOG Design+Art with an unforgettable evening at the FOG Preview Gala. Enjoy early access to the fair’s prominent selection of 45 exhibitions by twentieth-century and contemporary design dealers and leading art galleries — plus entertainment, culinary delights, and cocktails by design. FOG has become a focal point for the design and arts communities on the West Coast and further afield. The fair is synonymous with a uniquely pioneering spirit due to its bold hybrid approach and intimate presentation of art and design, dynamic programming on-site and its community-led mission to champion art and design in its historic Fort Mason setting.