Event Type: CONFERENCE

2024-01-30   to 2024-04-27  

Catchlight

KQED headquarters, 2601 Mariposa St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Event is Free

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Partisanship and distrust are at historic highs. The rise of synthetic images is undermining our ability to trust what we see. If we have, in fact, entered a post-truth era, what is the role of visual storytellers and journalists to help usher a return to critical thinking and cooperation?

Join us at the 2024 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit to hear from visual leaders who are using photography, art, film, and technology to tackle this information crisis. See how visual works can reveal deeper truths to viewers at the individual, community, and even societal levels.

Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-24 to 2024-05-04  

Fremont Main Library

2400 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538

Event is Free

Hours: Sun - Tue 1:00 PM-9:00 PM;  Wed 12:00 PM-6:00 PM;  Thu - Fri 11:00 AM-6:00 PM;  Sat 10:00 AM-5:00 PM;  

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The 29th Annual Juried Photography Exhibit for Fremont photographers will be held from Mar 23, 2024 to May 4, 2024. This year, the month of April is designated as ARTS, CULTURE & CREATIVITY MONTH and the Photography Exhibit will be held in conjunction with the celebration.

The exhibit opening is planned for Saturday, Mar 23rd from 6:00-8:00 pm and photographs selected by the panel of judges will be on display on the first floor of the Fremont Main Library. The event is a joint venture with Fremont Cultural Arts Council (FCAC), the Fremont Photographic Society, and the City of Fremont.

Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-09 to 2024-05-04  

Catharine Clark Gallery

248 Utah Street, North And South Galleries, San Francisco, CA 94103

Event is Free

Hours: Tue - Fri 10:30 AM-5:30 PM;  Sat 11:00 AM-6:00 PM;  

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Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1974, Philippines; lives in Oakland, California) works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic, and flows of capital to investigate issues of economies and empire. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, a 2020 Tiffany Foundation Award, and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award. She was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. in 2019-20 and is featured in the acclaimed PBS documentary series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century.

Event Type: CONFERENCE

2024-01-31   to 2024-04-27   1:00 PM

Catchlight

KQED, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Event is Free

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Get excited — tickets for the 2024 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit are available! Seats are free but limited, so act fast and register below.

Partisanship and distrust are at historic highs. The rise of synthetic images is undermining our ability to trust what we see. If we have, in fact, entered a post-truth era, what is the role of visual storytellers and journalists to help usher a return to critical thinking and cooperation?

Join us at this year’s Summit to hear from visual leaders who are using photography, art, film, and technology to tackle this information crisis. See how visual works can reveal deeper truths to viewers at the individual, community, and even societal levels.

The Summit will close with a showcase of visual storytelling accompanied by a live DJ set. Featuring local and global artists and visual media organizations. Presented in partnership with Fondation Carmignac and Dysturb.

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Event Type: CONFERENCE

2024-04-27   1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Catchlight

KQED, 2601 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Event is Free

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Partisanship and distrust are at historic highs. The rise of AI-generated images is undermining our ability to trust what we see. If we have, in fact, entered a post-truth era, what is the role of visual storytellers and journalists to help usher a return to critical thinking and cooperation?

Join us at this year's Visual Storytelling Summit to hear from creative leaders who are using photography, art, film, and digital media to address this crisis of truth. See how their visual works are revealing deeper truths to individual viewers, communities, and societies at large.

Click HERE for more information about the Summit and speaker line-up.

Each spring, CatchLight gathers some of the leading voices in photography for an immersive day of portfolio reviews, conversation, and community. Launched in 2019, the CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit aims to celebrate the power of visuals to inform, connect and transform communities. At the Summit you will be inspired by innovators who are working in art, journalism, technology and social impact.

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Event Type: OPENING

2024-04-27   2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

ImageCentral

1099 E Street, Hayward, CA 94541

Event is Free

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Event Type: SHOW

2024-02-08 to 2024-04-30  

Robert Koch Gallery

49 Geary Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108

Event is Free

Hours: Mon - Fri 11:00 AM-5:30 PM;  Sat 2:00 PM-5:00 PM;  

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The Robert Koch Gallery proudly unveils its fourth exhibition featuring the works of Hungarian artist Tamas Dezsö. His latest series, titled Everything is Leaf, embarks on a philosophical journey that intertwines human identity with the natural world, exploring themes of materiality, temporality, and ecological consciousness.

Everything is Leaf includes vibrant, large-scale botanical abstractions translated from slides of microscopic plant studies. The viewer is able to newly appreciate the complex and elegant anatomy of plant life. A lush, close-up image of a wildly intertwining garden, neglected for decades, reveals plants’ uncanny ability to persist without human aid. Dezsö’s work brings to light an appreciation for plant life’s extraordinary structure and capabilities, not dissimilar to human characteristics such as the ability to grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, and adapt to our environment.

Initially inspired by the writings of 17th-century German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Dezsö explores the idea that each leaf embodies the entire Universe. The series prompts reflection on human and vegetal identity, as explored by thinkers such as John Locke and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Dezsö comments on the influence of these philosophers, particularly Locke, who questioned the essence of human and vegetal existence. The exhibition encourages a reevaluation of plants’ significance in the face of the climate crisis, emphasizing their role in sustaining the planet and our interconnectedness as living organisms, a part of a greater whole.


Event Type: SHOW

2024-01-21 to 2024-05-01  

UC Berkeley School of Journalism

North Gate Hall, Hearst and Euclid, Berkeley, CA 94709

Event is Free

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Over the course of nearly three months, our team of photographers shot seven neighborhoods: Civic Center, the Tenderloin, Chinatown, Union Square, SoMa, Mission Bay, and North Beach. We hope our photos bring you closer to all the beauty and desperation of downtown.

Headquarters for investment funds tower above tents and makeshift shelters on the street. The gray-suited financiers of Montgomery Street and fleece-vested tech entrepreneurs of SoMa weave between street vendors, BART commuters, skaters, and the city’s hungry and poor. Upstart shops and decades-old restaurants pepper blocks of vacant storefronts, clinging on as they wait for “downtown revitalization.” It's where opposites intersect.

With photographers George Alfaro, Emily Brower, Shannon Faulise, Khwaga Ghani, Jule-Sophia Hermann,Grace Marion,Max Harrison-Caldwell Gisselle Medina, Florence Middelton, Najim Rahim, Kristie Song, Samuel Tanner

Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-08 to 2024-04-25  

Berggruen Gallery

10 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

Event is Free

Hours: Mon 10:00 AM-5:00 PM;  Tue - Fri 10:00 AM-6:00 PM;  Sat 12:00 AM-12:00 AM;  

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Berggruen Gallery is pleased to present Place, a group exhibition of photography. he gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, March 7, from 5 to 7 PM.

In his seminal work Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes writes, “the scene can be arranged by the photographer, but in the world of illustrated media, it is a ‘natural’ scene which the good reporter has had the genius, i.e., the luck, to catch.” In Berggruen Gallery’s first group presentation of photography since 2010, twelve photographers “catch” their scenes with impossibly good fortune. Unified by this plain but fundamental preoccupation, these photographers use place to investigate a variety of themes, from decay (Gregory Crewdson’s The Mattress, Joel Sternfeld’s Abandoned Freighter, Homer, Alaska, July 1984) to spectatorship (Richard Misrach’s White Man Contemplating Pyramids, Diane Arbus’ 42nd Street movie theater audience, N.Y.C.) to artistic legacy (Brassaï’s Henri Matisse dans son atelier a Paris). Spanning over a century of photographic work, Place is a testament to how an acuity for setting and moment transforms a photograph from a mere form of documentation into a pen rife with opportunities for storytelling.

Event Type: FUND RAISER

2024-05-02   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

First Exposures

SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Event is Free

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Looking Forward Giving Back, the biggest event highlighting youth photography, is back! Mark your calendars for May 2nd & join us for a night of #photography, #music, & #community at SOMArts Cultural Center. More info soon!

Event Type: SHOW

2024-01-13 to 2024-04-26  

Laguna Environmental Center

900 Sanford Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Event is Free

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Esteemed artist, Robin Dintiman is featuring her large-scale analog photographs of the Laguna de Santa Rosa in this new art exhibit “Water and Dreams.”

Artist Statement

The work is about love of our natural environment and habitat. It is about the many hands working to restore and preserve this habitat. It is about seeing the dream for the future restored through the waters of the Laguna de Santa Rosa.

About the Artist

Dintiman’s work is characterized by a deep connection to nature. Whether she is working directly with objects found in nature or taking nature as her subject, Dintiman strives to capture the intimate, emotional quality of certain natural settings, suffused as they are with time, change, and personal memory.

Gallery Open by Appointment Only. Due to the multiple uses of Heron Hall, the exhibit is available to view by appointment only, Monday - Friday, or during special events. Please contact Maggie Hart at maggiehart@lagunafoundation.org to make an appointment.

Event Type: SHOW

2024-04-04 to 2024-04-27  

Dolby Chadwick Gallery

210 Post Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94108

Event is Free

Hours: Tue - Sat 12:00 AM-12:00 AM;  

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Dolby Chadwick Gallery is thrilled to announce Abodes, an exhibition of recent work by French photographer Éric Antoine, on view for the month of April.

The show’s titular series Abodes speaks to how inextricably linked Antoine’s work is to his home and memories. Different configurations of numbered boxes represent the artist’s past residences, which begin and end in the secluded forest of France’s Alsace region. Within the expansive wooded landscape, Antoine developed his intense fascination for trees, documenting their lives through his anthropomorphic “tree portraits”. Continuously returning to the same arboreal sitters, Antoine’s images illustrate the passage of time.

Much attention has been brought to Antoine’s use of the archaic wet collodion process, one of the earliest forms of photography. However, his images are far from nostalgic: “I don't use the medium because it's something old. I use it because it's the sharpest, most organic material process. What’s important to me is the deep black and shimmering silver.” Moreover, the fluidic medium affords Antoine the ability to render his more abstracted works in the same manner as his paintings. For the Shore series, the artist deftly manipulates the flowing emulsion to create abrasions that give dimension and movement to the water within these somber vignettes.

In keeping with his modern approach to an antiquated medium, Antoine explores the present though a more classical use of symbolism. The development of his unique visual language is a combination of adopting historic visual motifs and embracing what symbols come naturally. Followers of Antoine’s work will recognize certain recurring elements (a pile of sand, an open book, a black ball) appearing in the Cerveaux (brains) series, a collection of still lifes featuring various curios nestled within stacks of weathered papers. These “mental maps” function as portraits, with disparate components combining to chronicle the life of a specific individual. Here, we see historical strata not as tree rings but as wood in its final form.

Perhaps the most significant element of Antoine’s iconography is the white orb, which made its first appearance in 2017 and has since become a through line in his imagery. In Useful Lies XI, the sphere rests on the bank of the river La Magel, with its glow offering some solace in the enveloping dark forest. Located only a few paces away from the artist's home, La Magel is a scene that has been lovingly recorded by the artist for years. The setting is a testament to his repetitive process and love for capturing the beauty and evolution of the familiar. “If you don't travel, time will make you travel.”

In the exhibition’s principal series, La Forme, we see the orb become the sole subject. The series greatly contributes to Abodes’ standing as the gallery’s first exhibition of Antoine’s without the human form. Within these highly minimal plates, the viewer is left only with the essence of photography: light and optics. In shooting La Forme, Antoine puts on full display what viewers have been transfixed by for years: process. “La Forme shows the lens, it shows the light, it shows the process.” As “photos of nothing”, the works serve as a study of the relationship between process and subject. As viewers instinctively search for figuration, the “nothing” slowly becomes everything. One sees the moon, the sun, light in general. One sees life and the forces that provide it.

Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-02 to 2024-04-27  

Anglim/Trimble Gallery

1275 Minnesota Street, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 94104

Event is Free

Hours: Tue - Sat 11:00 AM-5:00 PM;  

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Seeing Male is an exhibition of photographs captured by partners Ken Graves and Eva Lipman which belong to individual projects shot over three decades.

In the early years of their practice, Lipman and Graves documented rituals marking the passage of time, photographing subjects on the cusp of adulthood, or adults in the throes of initiation. Many of these early images were taken at traditionally male dominated sites: in the back rooms of sporting events, on the sidelines of demolition derbies, in European bathhouses, at military barracks and at boy scout jamborees. These images celebrate manhood and enact rituals to mark the passage of boys into men.

Turning their cameras away from the main event, Lipman and Graves searched for a visual language to express hidden tensions, vulnerabilities and desires at the heart of individual subjects. In contrast to the idealized male hero, their photographs witness the longing, obsession, self-aversion and passion that lurks beneath the surface. They hone in on body parts, signaling undertones of camaraderie and hidden emotions. At these sites, by way of coded rituals, men celebrate excess, risk and violence in a male culture that shuns physical contact between men.

After the emergence of the feminist movement and the unprecedented changes of the post-Vietnam era, the feminist perspective reanimated the discourse around male desire, and the destabilization of masculinity as a category gained momentum. With expanding notions of masculinity emerging, Graves and Lipman returned to these locations with new interest, focusing on the relationships of men with other men.

Photographing during ill-fitted moments, misperformances, and unguarded excess, the artists expose the alienation, anxiety and oppression inflicted upon the male psyche. Despite the social conventions that heterosexualize male contact, homoerotic tensions erupt with latent eroticism, manifest in such qualities as sacrifice and devotion. The extremity of competition, the profound desire for cathartic release and the drive for containment all express the need to overcome restrictions imposed on the male body.

In Seeing Male, the reconfiguration of these early images challenges past assumptions about the work, posing new questions, unveiling layers of meaning, and reflecting shifts in the current cultural landscape.

Event Type: OPENING

2024-05-02   5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

The Weston Collective

1713 Broadway Ave, Suite B5, Seaside, CA 93955

Event is Free

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The Weston Collective Scholarship is a portfolio competition for students studying fine art photography in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito Counties. The scholarship was established in 2004 to preserve the legacy of black and white film photography set forth by Edward Weston. Every year, students are encouraged to submit a portfolio for the opportunity to win a scholarship to support their photographic careers.

Awards to be presented at 6:00pm.

Click HERE to learn how to apply for the scholarship.

Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES

2024-04-26   3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The Weston Collective

1713 Broadway Ave, Suite B5, Seaside, CA 93955

Event is Free

For more information:

The Weston Collective Scholarship is a portfolio competition for students studying fine art photography in Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Benito Counties. The scholarship was established in 2004 to preserve the legacy of black and white film photography set forth by Edward Weston. Every year, students are encouraged to submit a portfolio for the opportunity to win a scholarship to support their photographic careers.

Click HERE for more information and to apply)

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-03-02   to 2024-04-30  

Corden Potts Gallery

, San Francisco, CA

Event is Free

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The Botanical Garden had lurked in my mind for a long time, and I had always suspected that someday I would venture in to photograph. What I look for when I’m photographing is something, anything, that reaches out and seems to speak directly to me. And what that voice is saying is “Hey you!, There’s a picture here.”

Event Type: WORKSHOP

2024-05-04   11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210

Event is Free

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Do you have a film camera sitting in your closet or collecting dust in an attic, inherited from a relative or borrowed from a friend, or recently purchased at a yard sale or on eBay? Bring your cameras and question to this informal workshop where we will share with others and with EPBCO member and film camera obsessive Philip Krayna (aka “Dr. Philm). Philip will test and assess your camera, if possible help with minor repairs, and explain how to use it, so you can start enjoying the magic of film photography.

This workshop is free to attend but advance registration is suggested, sign up here.

Event Type: CLASS

2024-05-05   12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

412 13th St, EBPCO Community Darkroom, Oakland, CA 94612-9461

Enrollment Fee   $70.00, EBPCO Members   $56.00

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This one day workshop will be held at the EBPCO Community Darkroom. Signup info at ebpco.org/workshops.

Delve deeper into the world of sustainable gelatin silver developing with plants by making darkroom prints using plant-based developers. In this workshop participants who have previously taken a Developing Film with Plants workshop will have the opportunity to make prints from their negatives. They will have the option of bringing their own plant brews and/or choosing from a selection. Participants will also learn to mix chemistry and observe how their negatives respond to different developers.

EBPCO Members at the Basic level receive a 20% discount off this workshop; members at the Premium level receive a 50% discount!

Event Type: FUND RAISER

2024-04-26   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Catchlight

2120 University Avenue, Ste. 311, Berkeley, CA 94704

General Admission   $250.00

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Get your ticket now for the CatchLight Annual Fellowship Benefit on the eve of our 2024 Visual Storytelling Summit. This is an exclusive chance to mingle with Summit presenters and meet our 2024 Global Fellows (before they are publicly announced!) with the iconic San Francisco skyline as a backdrop.

Whether you are a creator or patron of photography and visual art, this is a party not to miss. Join us for cocktails, enjoy a multi-course dinner, and make new connections with an inspiring creative community at the rooftop reception.

Tickets are going fast, so act now to be a part of this special evening under the stars. Click “Get Tickets” below and choose “Friday - Fellowship Benefit Dinner” at checkout. Tickets begin at $250. VIP options and tables are available.

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The evening will begin with a cocktail reception at 6 pm, followed by a dinner program introducing our 2024 Global Fellows with host Paul David Henderson at 7 pm. We'll cap the night off with a dessert reception on KQED's rooftop at 9 pm.

Event Type: EXPERIENCE

2024-05-05   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

2318 Telegraph Avenue, Telegraph Beer Garden, Oakland, CA 94612

Event is Free

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Please join us at Telegraph Beer Garden for a low-key gathering. This is a chance to mingle and meet some fellow photographers, and talk about photography, or whatever else strikes our fancy!

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-03-12   to 2024-04-30  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

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Click HERE to view the photos

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-03-14   to 2024-04-30  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

Click HERE to view the photographs

Event Type: ONLINE ARTIST TALK

2024-04-25   3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Center for Photographic Art

San Carlos at 9th Avenue, At the Sunset Center, Carmel, CA 93921

General Admission   $10.00, CPA Members   $.00

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Register before April 24 at 6:00pm, space is limited. You will receive a zoom link the evening before the talk.

Click HERE to register

Please join artist Jane Ivory as she shares her long term project, Duress, which focuses on 3 shrinking and increasingly toxic terminal lakes in the western United States: Mono Lake, the Salton Sea, and the Great Salt Lake. All 3 are victims of man's greed and short sightedness; the effects have been made worse by climate change. Jane has created a limited edition book to contain these images of both devastation and beauty.

Duress is in edition of 100. 64 images, introduction by Sandra Phillips, Photography Curator Emeritus with SF Museum of Modern Art, essays by Bonnie Baxter, Director of The Great Salt Lake Institute and Alida Cantor, Geography Professor at Portland State University. Boxed hardcover book with 8.5x11” archival print on Hahnemuhle bamboo rag. Each book and print numbered and signed.

Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-15   to 2024-04-30  

Harvey Milk Photography Center

50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117

Event is Free

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We have a new space in our lobby entry that will be used to feature and highlight works made at the center by our talented volunteers, members, and staff. Below are our current and past photographs on exhibit. Stop by the Photo Center and take a look!

Currently highlighted: Ashley Martin-Prideaux, HMPC Staff Member

Dallister and the Dog; 11x14in silver gelatin print Sullivan Playing Dead; 11x14in silver gelatin print.

These two portraits are part of a project I’ve been making for years, documenting my immediate family. I like to make images in collaboration with the people in my family, to highlight the life we’ve gotten to share with one another. It’s also been my way of holding onto special moments with the people I love, showing the progression of our lives in the past few years.

Instagram: @ashprideaux Website: ashprideaux.com

Event Type: EXPERIENCE

2024-04-24   8:00 PM to 2024-04-25   1:00 AM

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

General Admission   $500.00

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Enter the world of Bay Area–based photographer Richard Misrach in the Premium Party Lounge. Misrach has been photographing the American landscape for more than 50 years and helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that is in widespread practice today.

Misrach's Art Bash Premium Party Lounge will immerse guests in Solo to Symphony, a multimedia activation that includes a special performance by dancers from San Francisco's Alonzo King LINES Ballet.

New this year! With your Premium Party Lounge ticket enjoy expedited entry to the Art Bash party, as well as access to an artist-designed lounge with premium service and exclusive food and drink all night long.

Perks:

8 p.m. Party access Elevated lounge experience designed by Bay Area–based artist Richard Misrach Expedited entry + valet Bars featuring premium specialty cocktails Curated selection of elevated savory + sweet bites Access to the rest of the Art Bash party, including museum exhibitions, live musical performances, and immersive art encounters, plus complimentary food and drink throughout the night Tax-deductible contribution of $350 per ticket

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Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-23 to 2024-04-27  

Jack Fischer Gallery - Minnesota St

1275 Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA 94107

Event is Free

Hours: Tue - Sat 11:00 AM-5:00 PM;  

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The work encourages engagement with our senses…our sense of color and form as well as an intense interest in touching and caressing the surface.

What’s really of interest to me in this work is Koehle’s approach from a scientific vantage point. He is bringing an exacting engineer’s attitude to a field where the joy lies in that place between the zero and the one. In straddling this space we find ourselves in that sweet spot where the loveliness of art is enhanced by the rigors of science.

“The word meteor conjures images of global catastrophe on the order of world-ending extinction events. But in fact, meteorologists use the term to apply to a wide array of natural phenomena—clouds, fog, rainbows, halos, glories, smoke, and smog. Suspensions of water, light, and dust.

In rejecting the conceit of meteors as singular agents of calamity, this work seeks to recognize everyday meteors, so omnipresent we mostly don't notice. Above us, massive accumulations of water vapor play out in endless spectacle, terrifyingly majestic and completely ephemeral, perpetually coming into being and breaking apart as ordinary miracles of impermanence so commonplace— just there, in the sky—we all too frequently forget to look up.”

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-03-29   to 2024-04-30  

Robert Koch Gallery

49 Geary Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108

Event is Free

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The Robert Koch Gallery proudly unveils its fourth exhibition featuring the works of Hungarian artist Tamas Dezsö. His latest series, titled Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, embarks on a philosophical journey that intertwines human identity with the natural world, exploring themes of materiality, temporality, and ecological consciousness.

Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf includes vibrant, large-scale botanical abstractions translated from slides of microscopic plant studies. The viewer is able to newly appreciate the complex and elegant anatomy of plant life. A lush, close-up image of a wildly intertwining garden, neglected for decades, reveals plants’ uncanny ability to persist without human aid. Dezsö’s work brings to light an appreciation for plant life’s extraordinary structure and capabilities, not dissimilar to human characteristics such as the ability to grow, reproduce, respond to stimuli, undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, and adapt to our environment.

Initially inspired by the writings of 17th-century German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Dezsö explores the idea that each leaf embodies the entire Universe. The series prompts reflection on human and vegetal identity, as explored by thinkers such as John Locke and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Dezsö comments on the influence of these philosophers, particularly Locke, who questioned the essence of human and vegetal existence. The exhibition encourages a reevaluation of plants’ significance in the face of the climate crisis, emphasizing their role in sustaining the planet and our interconnectedness as living organisms, a part of a greater whole.

Click HERE to view the work

Event Type: ONLINE CLASS

2024-03-30   to 2024-05-03   6:00 PM

Center for Photographic Art

San Carlos at 9th Avenue, At the Sunset Center, Carmel, CA 93921

General Admission   $160.00, CPA Members   $130.00

For more information:

Instructor: Kari Orvik Saturdays: May 4th and May 11th 2 weeks: 10:00am-12:30pm Pacific Time

Click HERE to Register before May 3 at 6:00pm. Space is limited. We will meet through Zoom and a URL will be sent to those who register the evening before. Members must be logged in to receive the discount.

This 2-session workshop provides a supportive space to explore the process of generating and refining language to communicate your artistic practice through an artist statement. The workshop will consist of:

• Guided writing exercises: to help articulate aspects of your creative motivations, artistic identity and style.
• Peer feedback: to create a sense of community with other participants as you share your statements, and provide constructive feedback and insights to enhance the clarity and impact of each other’s writing.
• Individualized guidance: to help address specific challenges and reflect your artistic practice effectively.

Event Type: SHOW

2024-03-29 to 2024-05-04  

Mercury 20 Gallery

475 25th Street, Oakland, CA 94612

Event is Free

Hours: Thu - Sat 12:00 PM-6:00 PM;  

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Andrea Guskin works across the disciplines of photography, installation, and painting to create objects, images, and spaces where the familiar converses with the existential. She explores the act of unfurling as a way of seeking knowledge. Through the use of light and spice, her work reflects research ranging from quantum physics to her ancestry.

Fascinated with recent efforts to read an ancient scroll using a particle accelerator beam, Guskin began researching the structures related to quantum physics–from the Large Hadron Collider to quantum entanglement—and creating light installations in the Mills College Greek amphitheater. In the resulting photographs, the distorted internal structures of the accelerators became voids of possibility and a contemplation on the fragility of existence.

Guskin carried these explorations into the dark room, creating photogram spice portraits of her family’s ancestral background. She used her breath to move the combinations of spice across the paper. Through exposure to light, the tiny particles allude to the expanse of outer space—drawing a connection between the intimate, the everyday, and the vast.

Event Type: SHOW

2024-04-06 to 2024-05-04  

Casemore Gallery

1275 Minnesota Street, #102, San Francisco, CA 94107

Event is Free

Hours: Tue - Sat 11:00 AM-6:00 PM;  

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Casemore Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Mane ‘n Tail, an exhibition featuring large-scale painting, sculpture, film, and photography by Bay-Area artists Devynn Barnes, Susannah Israel, Lizzy Montana Myers, and Charles Lee, who also curated the exhibition.

In these works, the artists explore the complex dynamics and eccentricities of relationships between horses and humans—relationships of nobility and confidence, mystery and familiarity, and labor and whimsy.

As curator Charles Lee says, "Horses are massive, strong animals. And yet, we don’t fear them as we do other creatures their size. We revere them, trust them, confide in them and have depended on them for centuries. Their being tugs at the delicate threads of our adult facades and reveals our curious inner-child.

For Charles Lee, this spirit is expressed and embodied in photographs that show human and horse in moments of repose, rest, play, care and curiosity. In his picture "It's All About Trust III," we see just a portion of a horse in closeup, a human hand reaching out to caress the horse's neck.

As a part of the community-based element of his practice, Lee, as curator, has chosen to share the platform with his artist friends working on similar themes. The exhibition extends into the adjacent film room, featuring experimental films by Barnes, Lee, and Lizzy Montana Myers, as well as an array of elegantly curated photographs, drawings and painting.

Event Type: FAIR

2024-04-25   11:00 AM to 2024-04-28   6:00 PM

Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture

2 Marina Boulevard, Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA 94123

Fair Pass   $65.00, Single Day   $35.00

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San Francisco Art Fair 2024 is the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier art fair and returns to Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in the Festival Pavilion April 25, 2024 through April 28, 2024. The 12th edition of SF Art Fair (formerly Art Market San Francisco) features more than 75 local, national, and international galleries.

The 2024 edition of the San Francisco Art Fair presents a significant selection of contemporary and modern artworks from returning Art Market exhibitors and exciting newcomers. The much-anticipated 12th edition celebrates the San Francisco art scene while featuring an array of compelling installations, events, talks, and performances led by Fair Director Kelly Freeman and curated by Creative Director Nato Thompson.

SF Art Fair kicks off on Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (exclusive VIP entrance at 5:00 p.m.) with a preview reception ($65 Fair Pass), which includes unlimited three-day admission to the market. The general public hours for the exhibition are Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27, 2024, 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Sunday, April 28, 2024, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. One-day tickets cost $35 and a three-day pass is $65, which includes the preview reception.

Click HERE to purchase tickets

The fair promises to embody San Francisco’s dynamic and inclusive ethos. Featuring top galleries from the local and international scene, impressive installations, and engaging talks, it aims to celebrate San Francisco’s long standing artistic heritage and forward-thinking innovation.

On the gallery front, the fair is set to feature an impressive lineup of exhibitors, combining beloved San Francisco Bay Area institutions with global art powerhouses. Returning favorites such as Anglim/Trimble, Jack Fisher Gallery, Municipal Bonds, Marrow Gallery, Electric Works, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Maybaum Gallery, Hang Art Gallery, CK Contemporary, Garvey/Simon, John Natsoulas Gallery, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, and Pamela Walsh Gallery, share the space with other renowned galleries from all over North America showcasing a diverse range of artistic voices and visions. These include Canada’s Newzones, Seattle’s J. Rinehart Gallery, New York’s Harman Projects and Muriel Guépin Gallery, Los Angeles’ Timothy Yarger Fine Art, St. Louis’ Duane Reed Gallery, and New Orleans’ Ferrara Showman Gallery.

Additionally, San Francisco Art Fair welcomes a selection of exhibitors to the fair, including Jonathan Carver Moore, Schlomer Haus Gallery, Heron Arts, Yiwei Gallery, Staircase, Personal Space, Good Mother Gallery, House of Seiko, The Trophy Room LA, and RoundCollab, further enriching the fair’s tradition of spotlighting emerging talent alongside established names.

Complementing the visual feast offered by the exhibiting galleries, the San Francisco Art Fair’s programming has been meticulously curated to foster thought-provoking discussions and showcase innovative installations that reflect the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area. This variety in programming demonstrates the fair’s dedication to addressing key societal and environmental themes, reinforcing its role in fostering deep connections and conversations in the art community and beyond.

Event Type: FUND RAISER

2024-04-26 to 2024-04-27  

SF Camerawork

Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd. Building A, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284

Event is Free

Hours: Tue - Fri 12:00 PM-6:00 PM;  Sat 12:00 PM-5:00 PM;  

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Join us at the SF Camerawork gallery for a weekend of photo books! On Friday, April 26, from 5:00-7:00 pm, in collaboration with National Monument Press, we are thrilled to launch Ebti's new release, a riso edition entitled Tafseel. Continuing through Saturday, SF Camerawork will present a pop-up photo book sale featuring a wide range of used books, periodicals, and portfolios collected by the organization, as well as retail monographs and gallery publications by SF Camerawork alums. Grab a drink and sift through SFC's photo books. From rare collectible titles to contemporary releases, you'll be sure to find the next book for your collection! This sale is the first of several archive sales SF Camerawork will hold this year to benefit our 50th Anniversary.

Prices range from $5-25 for most publications - some more, some even less! Purchase five or more books at any price for a 25% discount off your total. (Exceptions on pricing and discounts may apply to select rare or vintage titles. Current SF Camerawork members will receive a 10% discount on up to four books and any vintage or rare titles).

Event Type: EXPERIENCE

2024-05-03   -

Leica Store and Gallery

463 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Event is Free

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Join us for a unique evening featuring the intersection of three parallel areas: Cameras, Watches, and Lifestyle. Experience the latest offerings from some of our favorite brands with collaborative experiences throughout the store for you to enjoy and explore.

The evening will begin after the close of the Windup Watch Fair at Port Mason on Friday, May 3rd. We will send official details to all those who sign up in addition to updates on the event.

While enjoying complimentary refreshments and a wide away of goods you will be able to enjoy the work of one of the Bay Area's most celebrated artists and world reknown photographer, Todd Hido. In addition, browse an extensive collection of photography and photo books from the Gallery & Bookshop at Leica Store San Francisco.

Join us for this exclusive hands-on experience, engaging conversation, and incredible photography. It promises to be a memorable evening!

Click HERE for more info and to RSVP

Event Type: SHOW

2024-04-02 to 2024-04-30  

Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center

85 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941

Event is Free

Hours: Tue 12:00 PM-4:00 PM;  Thu - Sat 12:00 PM-4:00 PM;  

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Julie Chase Baldocchi resides in Mill Valley and works as a photographer in the SF Bay Area.

Biography For me, both horsemanship and photography share a profound connection: resonance with the subject. As a graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography in 1982, I pursued a robust career in commercial photography in San Francisco.

However, it was my involvement with my family’s working cattle ranch and the relationships I built with neighboring ranchers and their families over the past 40 years that ignited my passion for capturing the essence of western life.

Raised with a horse named Missy, I always felt a connection to the western lifestyle.

As an adult I found myself drawn back to it, documenting the timeless essence of cowboys, ranchers, and their families.

Using various cameras from 35mm to 4”x 5” and available lighting, my approach emphasizes building trust and understanding with my subjects. Through my images, I aim to honor their dignity and the rich heritage they preserve.

This collection, Contemporary Western Images reflects not only my artistic legacy but also a profound respect for the lives and work of those depicted.

Join me in experiencing their world through my lens.

Event Type: BOOK SIGNING

2024-04-26   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

SF Camerawork

Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Blvd. Building A, San Francisco, CA 94123-1284

Event is Free

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In collaboration with National Monument Press, we are thrilled to launch Ebti's new release, a riso edition entitled Tafseel.

Ebti's Tafseel is a dedication and documentation of her Uncles' family tailoring shop in Cairo, housed within the same building multiple generations of her family called home. The photographs were taken on the occasion of her uncle's death, when returning home for the funeral, she attempted to capture the studio as it was, and would not be for long. Tafseel is a risograph printed booklet, part of the Dodeca Meters Series, printed in Turquoise ink, published April 2024.

Event Type: CALL FOR ENTRIES

2024-04-12   to 2024-05-01   11:59 PM

The Image Flow

328 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo, CA 94960

Event is Free

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We’re excited to announce our Image of the Month photo contest for April: Rocks! Submission is free and only images uploaded this month are eligible, so keep submitting new photographs. Beyond being featured in our gallery, newsletter, and bragging rights, the winner will receive a 16×20 giclée paper print. The moral of the story – upload awesome images every month! The Image Flow will evaluate each submission on composition, color, contrast, and overall quality when making their selections. In addition to technical components, they will also consider subject interest, point of view, and whether the image tells a story. Under this month’s theme of Rocks, the competition is open to professional and amateur photographers globally.

For this month’s submissions, we are challenging photographers to capture images that use light as the primary subject. Demonstrating a keen awareness of the dynamic qualities of light. Ask yourself, does the lighting within your photographs arouse curiosity and direct the viewer’s eye? Submit your favorite photographs that masterfully demonstrate the concept of ‘rocks’.

Eligibility

This call is open to all artists worldwide, both amateur and professional. All entries must be original works of art and entirely the work of the entrant. Open to photography mediums (film, digital, alternative process, printmaking, digital art) except film/video & mixed media.

To submit click HERE

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-04-14   to 2024-04-30  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

Click HERE to view the photos

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-04-15   to 2024-04-30  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

Click HERE to view the photos

Event Type: BOOK SIGNING

2024-05-04   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Catharine Clark Gallery

248 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Event is Free

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Centered around Stephanie Syjuco's recently released monograph, The Unruly Archive, this event will feature an enlightening conversation between Syjuco and artist/contributor Astria Suparak, moderated by Matthew Villar Miranda, Curatorial Associate at BAMPFA. Q&A and book signing to follow.

The event will run from 1 to 3 pm, with the talk beginning at 1:30. The event is hosted and produced by EXiT and Catharine Clark Gallery. It is free and open to the public, but we kindly request that you RSVP. Click HERE to RSVP

The Unruly Archive is available for purchase online or in-person. Copies will be available during the event.

A solo presentation of Syjuco's work is currently on display at the Catharine Clark Gallery, titled "Dodge and Burn." The exhibition provides a 20-year overview of Syjuco's practice and closes on May 4.

Event Type: OPENING

2024-05-04   12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

6th on 7th

105 7th Street, in the historic Hotel Isabel, San Francisco, CA 94103

Event is Free

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6th on 7th Photography Workshop & Gallery is proud to announce our 10 year anniversary at our historic spot on the corner of 7th and Mission!

On May 1st, 2014, 6th on 7th had our first photography show at our current location inside the building of the Hotel Isabel. Granted to us by TODCO (Tenants and Owners Development Corporation), our fiscal sponsor at the time, the gallery space has seen a myriad of shows, events, workshops, and transformations over the years as we’ve worked to benefit the underserved residents of SF and military veterans in need of a creative outlet.

Come join us on May 4th for a lovely photo exhibition – featuring guest artist Ted Westby and a few group shows! food, beverages, and prize raffle!

(also some FREE SWAG)

Shows on view are:

• Dirty Digital by Ted Westby
• Gridlock a group show
• Fixing a Shadow a group show
• Fabricating Evidence a group show

Event Type: OPENING

2024-05-04   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Casemore Gallery

1150 25th Street, formerly the home of the McEvoy Foundati, San Francisco, CA 94107

Event is Free

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Casemore Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Some Polar Expiation, an Enormous Cat, a Complete Collection of Cinematic Houses at Night, a Starlet, a Mentor, some Assorted Reveries & a Message from the Future, the largest survey of Todd Hido’s photographs ever assembled, including pictures from his most recent body of work, The End Sends Advance Warning, a very rare presentation of his complete House Hunting pictures, and a selection of additional key images from throughout his career.

Event Type: OPENING

2024-05-03   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

East Bay Photo Collective

312 8th St, Oakland Photo Workshop, Oakland, CA 94607-4210

Event is Free

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NOTICE invites viewers to engage in a visual dialogue with the world around them, highlighting overlooked and subtle moments that demand closer attention. This exhibit delves into the concept of noticing – the act of observing with intention and discovering the beauty of fleeting moments in our surroundings.

We live In a world saturated with stimuli, and, together, we hope to slow down and truly see the world with you. Through the lens of talented photographers, NOTICE prompts us to reconsider our perspectives and appreciate the intricate details that often elude our attention.

DJ set: @ovrkast

Event Type: ONLINE EXHIBIT

2024-04-19   to 2024-04-30  

Scott Nichols Gallery

450 1st Street East, Suite G, Sonoma Square, Sonoma, CA 95476

Event is Free

For more information:

Click HERE to view the photos

Event Type: ONLINE WORKSHOP

2024-05-07   11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Bradley Print Services

566 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove, CA 93950

Event is Free

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Join us for our free online learning sessions: "Lightroom Classic Live."

Held on the first Tuesday of every month, these one-hour interactive sessions, led by Jason Bradley, renowned Lightroom expert and author of the book Creative Workflow In Lightroom, aim to cultivate an online community of passionate photographers eager to enhance their skills in Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Next meeting: "A Natural Look at Lightroom," features guest speaker Jennifer Renwick.

Whether you're a novice seeking guidance or an experienced photographer looking for expert tips, our open forum promises to be an invaluable resource.

Register today to secure your spot and embark on a journey to unlock the full potential of Adobe Lightroom Classic.

Click HERE to register