SAN FRANCISCO ART GALLERIES OPENINGS

FIRST THURSDAY - 12.04.14

(with assistance from RWM)



Art dealers to watch out for. Click Here.

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Robert Koch Gallery: Debra Bloomfield - Wilderness.

Review by RWM: The wild beckons here with images, accompanied by a book that includes a soundtrack CD. Nice to see these large images which are compelling. They invite rather than intimidate for encounters with the natural.

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John Berggruen Gallery: Holiday Sale.

Artists: John Baldessari, Al Held, Robert Bechtle, Christopher Brown, Chuck Close, Tom Friedman, Philip Guston, Jane Hammond, Martin Puryear, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith, Paul Wonner more.

Review by RWM: Cool show where one can gain ownership to art by the famous. Some quality works by some of the very best known artists on display. Everything is reasonably priced... and inspiring.

Comment by AB: Here's something you don't see every day... big name artists at bargain prices, some as much as 40% off. Special added bonus-- the gallery lists the original price as well as the sale price on every single piece. Now how many other art galleries have you ever seen do that? I like it!

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Fraenkel Gallery: The Plot Thickens - 35th Anniversary Exhibition.

Photographers: Charles Clifford, Lee Friedlander, Sol LeWitt, Jess, Christian Marclay, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Charles Sheeler, Helen Levitt, Thomas Eakins, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, found photographs, anonymous photographers, more.

Comment by AB: 100 photographs dating from 1858 to the present, and a 250-page catalogue celebrate the gallery's 35th anniversary. A little bit of everything here makes for a most entertaining show. My favorite? A photographic catalogue of lighting fixtures from 1914. Plenty to see and well worth a visit.

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SF Camerawork: Aftermath - Kerry Mansfield; Seeing Through, Stories about Cancer & Connection - Michael Shindler in collaboration with Help Each Other Out.

Comment by AB: A photography show and much more all about triumph over adversity, adversity in this case being breast cancer. Kerry Mansfield gets personal, documenting her two-year experience in photographs from diagnosis straight on through to reconstructive surgery. Michael Shindler's collaboration with Help Each Other Out is all about establishing support and assistance for breast cancer survivors, both during and after treatement. Intensely heartfelt show and well worth attending.

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Book & Job Gallery: Confessions for a Son - McNair Evans.

Comment by AB: Combination book release and photography show documents the photographer's not-always-pleasant journey into his family's past. From the good times to the not-so-good, he lays it all out here in photographs and installations.

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