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The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts was founded in 1998 by Lawrence Rinder. [2] It was originally named the CCAC Institute of Exhibitions and Public Programming, [2] and was renamed is 2002 following the death of Phyllis C. Wattis, a San Francisco cultural philanthropist [3] [4] and the great-granddaughter of Brigham Young.
Edward Dugmore (February 20, 1915 – June 13, 1996) was an abstract expressionist painter with close ties to both the San Francisco and New York art worlds in the post-war era following World War II. Since 1950 he had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of his paintings in galleries across the United States.
Rigo 23 (born Ricardo Gouveia, 1966) is a Portuguese-born American muralist, painter, and political artist.He is known in the San Francisco community for having painted a number of large, graphic "sign" murals including: One Tree next to the U.S. Route 101 on-ramp at 10th and Bryant Street, Innercity Home on a large public housing structure, Sky/Ground on a tall abandoned building at 3rd and ...
Fraenkel Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in San Francisco [2] [3] founded by Jeffrey Fraenkel in 1979. Daphne Palmer is president of the gallery. [4]Fraenkel Gallery has presented more than 350 exhibitions, with a focus on photography and its relation to other arts including painting, drawing, sculpture, and video.
Solo Show, American Indian Contemporary Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1998. The Fall Antiquities and Contemporary Art Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 1998. Native Abstraction: Modern Forms Ancient Ideas, Museum of New Mexico: Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM, 1997.
In 1998 Ruth-Ann Thorn and her mother Gloria Lee founded a gallery, EC Gallery. [2] Before the inception of EC Gallery, Thorn worked at an art gallery, Images International of Hawaii, in Hyatt Regency hotel in the Waikiki Beach area and this inspired Thorn to open her own Art Gallery. After spending 5 years at Images she wanted to open her own ...
During a 1974 exhibition of those works at Zara Gallery in San Francisco, local gallerist Hank Baum suggested that she head to New York, where Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art were continuing to gain traction. Breuer listened to this advice and set out to New York soon after with intentions of staying only one year, she ...
F. Scott Hess was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955, but grew up in Florida and Wisconsin. [3] When Hess' parents divorced he was seven years old, and he reacted by making drawings of bound nude women, with Hess not realizing until much later that he was magically binding 'the woman,' his mother, so that she would not leave as his father had.