Returning to San Francisco, California, for its 11th edition is the esteemed Art Market San Francisco, where visitors can expect to see a celebration of the local arts community with national and international galleries in attendance. Hosted at the Fort Mason Center, the art fair boasts around 85 top galleries featuring a variety of contemporary artworks, projects and events that present an array of innovative programming.
Attendees enjoy the 2022 Art Market San Francisco line up.“This year’s fair, under the esteemed leadership of fair director Kelly Freeman… promises to be a powerful platform for the dynamic, experimental and inclusive strength that reflects San Francisco’s thriving art market with its robust community of galleries, dealers and collectors,” say Art Market Productions (AMP) representatives. “It will showcase yet again, why the Bay Area is revered as an international arts destination.”
Ashley Amery, Ocean Floor, gouache on 640 gsm Fabriano paper, 30 x 22". Courtesy Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery.
AMP, a creative events firm that produces five contemporary arts fairs nationwide, also notes that this year will have even more engaging content under the leadership of the new creative director, Nato Thompson, who “comes to the fair with a robust curatorial background, including a decade-long tenure overseeing projects for innovative arts nonprofit Creative Time,” among others.
Along with a wide variety of artworks on display, there will be a plethora of special installations, events, talks and performances including the theatre series lectures by Art Marketpartners such as The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Art + Climate Action and much more, “showcasing a dialogue of diversity and inclusion.”
Ole Marius Joergensen, The No Man, photo print, 45 x 39". Courtesy Momentum Fine Art.
One lecture will come from the organization Creativity Explored, who partners with artists with disabilities. “This panel will discuss what fashion is, where it becomes art and what that can look like,” explains a show spokesperson. “We will discuss what the future could look like and how to approach creating garments with disabilities in mind and still dealing with authenticity.”
Attendees will also see public project displays that feature work like Mads Christensen’s Campfire,“a torch-like vessel composed of 12 highly polished steel ‘ribs,’ their curved interior surfaces embedded with LED lights, serving as a canvas for the artist’s slowly changing compositions of form, color and light,” says the presenting gallery Timothy Yarger Fine Art, located in Los Angeles, California.
Rocca Luis Cesar, Oaxaca (triptych), acrylic on canvas, 35 x 70". Courtesy Sin Título Gallery.
Additional galleries showcasing exceptional artworks include Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery based in London, and Miami, Florida, representing non-Western artistic traditions like Ocean Floor, a gouache painting of botanical and abstract forms by Ashley Amery. Momentum Fine Art from Miami, Florida, will display Ole Marius Joergensen’s “cinematic photographs” like The No Man, pictured here; and Sin Título Gallery in San Francisco will showcase Latino and Chicano artists including Rocca Luis Cesar and his work Oaxaca (triptych), featuring “the abstract human form and eclectic lines.”
Art Market San Francisco will kick off with an Opening Preview on April 20, from 6 to 9 p.m., followed public viewing days running from April 21 through 23. Please visit the fair website for ticket prices, opening times and additional information on programming. —
Art Market San Francisco
When: April 20-23, 2023
Where: Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94123
Information: (212) 518-6912, www.artmarketsf.com
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