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Impulse
Celeste Talks DIY Attitudes and Mexican Hospitality June 7, 2025 Mexico City-based artist duo Celeste, Gabriel Rosas Alemán and María Fernanda Camarena, craft fabric-based installations across galleries, museums, and community... Read more -
Monocle
Different strokes: the unique canvas works of Pol Taburet and Claire Oswalt May 23, 2025 Parts of a whole Claire Oswalt Austin Texan painter Claire Oswalt ascribes to the theory that all art is generated... Read more -
Colossal
Celeste’s Immersive Textile Installations Embrace the Warm Intimacy of Home May 9, 2025 When María Fernanda Camarena and Gabriel Rosas Alemán aren’t in their Mexico City studio, you might find them pulling weeds... Read more
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All Arts
How Art Changed Me - Angelo Vasta April 9, 2025 The figures in artist Angelo Vasta’s vibrant oil-pastel drawings embrace, lock arms, balance hand-in-hand. Echoing his background in dance videography,... Read more -
Hyperallergic
Artists Meditate on the Rose as a Symbol April 1, 2025 In the millenia-old fairytale “Beauty and the Beast,” the rose is a symbol of love, time, magic, and transformation. Fitting,... Read more -
Aperture
A Queer Wish for Other Worlds February 28, 2025 The light hits differently in Los Angeles. They say it’s an effect of smog, as sunbeams refract through toxic gases... Read more
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Portland Press Herald
Durham painter Anne Buckwalter’s exhibit at the Farnsworth is both everyday and erotic February 14, 2025 Last summer, Anne Buckwalter visited the house where Emily Dickinson once lived in Massachusetts. In a parlor, she studied a... Read more -
Artnet
How a Visit to a San Francisco Weed Shop Sparked Stacy Lynn Waddell’s Gilded Botanical Series January 22, 2025 “It all kind of started with this idea about edibles,” said Stacy Lynn Waddell via video call from her North... Read more -
Galerie
8 Collectible Design Shows to See in January January 2, 2025 Julia Haft-Candell has long wielded sgraffito—the technique of carving into clay before firing to achieve variations in textures and colors—to... Read more
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ARTnews
San Francisco’s Art Scene Is Thriving, In Spite of ‘False Doom Narrative’ December 23, 2024 Earlier this year, dealer Rebecca Camacho was standing in her new and expanded downtown San Francisco gallery in Jackson Square,... Read more -
Observer
In Two Shows, Maryam Yousif’s Clay Sculptures Evoke Mesopotamian Culture and the Divine Feminine December 9, 2024 Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif's whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional works—exchanges that connect the women... Read more -
KQED
'All This Soft Wild Buzzing' Review: A New, Smaller Wattis November 14, 2024 When the art community bid adieu to the Wattis Institute's decade-long home on Kansas Street earlier this year, I was... Read more
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Wallpaper
Anne Buckwalter's erotic interiors on show in San Francisco October 21, 2024 What lies beneath the surface of an apparently innocuous domestic environment? For Anne Buckwalter, an environment littered with the routines... Read more -
SF Chronicle Datebook
Rebecca Camacho Presents opens in Jackson Square with titillating show September 20, 2024 Jackson Square has become a revitalized location for the arts in recent years. Joining the neighborhood — alongside Gallery Wendi... Read more -
Family Style
Behind Closed Doors September 19, 2024 Anne Buckwalter is cleaning out the closet, so to speak, unmasking and normalizing hidden queer desire. A blood spot on... Read more
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KQED
Provocative Paintings Challenge Ideas Around Sex and Domesticity September 18, 2024 A quick glance at Anne Buckwalter's new exhibition can’t help but evoke the purest childhood memories. Scenes of wholesome domesticity... Read more -
Observer
The First American Pavilion in the Gwangju Biennale Questions Notions of National Identity September 12, 2024 The Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, Asia’s oldest Biennial, was founded in 1995 to honor the spirit of the 1980... Read more -
SF/Arts Monthly
I will clean the closet, I will climb the stairs August 30, 2024 The gallery inaugurates its new space across from the Transamerica building with a collection of Anne Buckwalter's gouaches depicting domestic... Read more
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Milwaukee Magazine
Kohler’s Arts/Industry Program Lets Artists Create in the Factory August 28, 2024 Inside the Kohler Co. pottery, where workers cast and fire clay into sinks, toilets and tiles on an industrial scale,... Read more -
A Sneak Peek at This Year's Armory Show
August 25, 2024 The Armory Show is set to take over the Javits Center in less than two weeks' time, setting off a... Read more -
48 Hills
"Beasties" ventures where the wild hybrids roam August 6, 2024 Rebecca Camacho Presents has, most refreshingly, used the summer season to stage two thematically curated shows, both of which have... Read more
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Flash Art
Whitney Biennial 2024 “Even Better Than the Real Thing” Whitney Museum of American Art / New York July 19, 2024 Curating the Whitney Biennial is a fool’s errand by design. A snapshot of contemporary American art — a wide tent... Read more -
The Art Newspaper
San Francisco dealer Rebecca Camacho expands downtown footprint 5 July 2024 Rebecca Camacho Presents, an enterprise of the Bay Area art dealer Rebecca Camacho, will commemorate its fifth anniversary this autumn... Read more -
The New York Times
A Masterpiece of Fiction Inspires the Urge to Submerge in a Gallery Crawl July 4, 2024 ...The strivings of Thek, Bradford and others — artworks that deal with escape — get quite literally swallowed up by... Read more
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Burnaway
David Gilbert: Flutter at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem June 6, 2024 Flutter is flirty. David Gilbert’s works, photographic documents of slap-dash sculptures and painterly interventions in often dramatic natural light, are... Read more -
The FLAG Art Foundation
The Swimmer June 6, 2024 The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present The Swimmer , an expansive group exhibition inspired by John Cheever’s 1964... Read more -
SF Chronicle
David Gilbert’s ‘Fairy Tale’ is an enchanting display of light and shadow May 21, 2024 David Gilbert’s second solo presentation at Rebecca Camacho Presents features photographs of his paper and paint vignettes that are meant... Read more
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Metalsmith
ektor garcia: Crossing Arbitrary Boundaries April 17, 2024 Though ektor garcia is material agnostic, he is preoccupied with copper. He was born in Red Bluff, California, the child... Read more -
Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing March 20, 2024 The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features seventy-one artists and collectives... Read more -
Artsy
8 Breakout Artists of the Whitney Biennial March 14, 2024 Migration is at the core of ektor garcia’s practice. Frequently crossing the U.S.–Mexico border as a child with his family,... Read more
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Blaffer Art Museum
Intimate confession is a project October 27, 2023 Intimate confession is a project is a group exhibition that considers transmission, intergenerational life, and cultural inheritance through the prism... Read more -
Wexner Center for the Arts
Sahar Khoury: Umm August 25, 2023 Reflective of her training as an anthropologist, Khoury's works incorporate a range of techniques and media-ceramic, metal, glass-as well as... Read more -
Blanton Museum of Art
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art July 22, 2023 The Blanton Museum of Art opens an exhibition featuring recent acquisitions, including two photographs by Jamil Hellu from the artist's... Read more
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48 Hills
Diurnal rhythms captured on fabric in Christopher Robin Duncan’s ‘SEASONS’ July 18, 2023 In Christopher Robin Duncan’s solo show “SEASONS' through July 29 at Rebecca Camacho Presents, the Oakland-based artist presents a series... Read more -
Whitehot Magazine
Tony Feher’s Simple Pleasures July 1, 2023 There is in the purposeful placement of things, and even in an appreciation that which is found as-is, for the... Read more -
Cantor Arts Center
Full Figure Collection Rotation June 7, 2023 Full Figure presents a selection of prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures that depict the human body from head to... Read more
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ARTnews
At Frieze, Artist ektor garcia Refashions Previous Works for an Installation Referencing La Llorona May 18, 2023 Artist ektor garcia‘s piece la llorona is installed at the Shed now that Frieze has opened its doors, but when... Read more -
Artnet
Frieze Forecast: Artists Opt to Either Ply Ancient Traditions or Explore the Outer Realms of the Future May 16, 2023 With Frieze week upon us, art amateurs and cognoscenti alike will be looking to see what styles and concepts are... Read more -
Artforum
Critics Pick: Tony Feher May 7, 2023 Taking a small bite out of a larger sculptural practice, “Tony Feher 1986–1994” is a precious reminder of the late... Read more
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SF/ARTS
Yuval Pudik Touching Myself with (Personal) History May 1, 2023 Enter a silent cacophony; fragments of phrases written across light boxes are stacked inside the gallery like a cityscape full... Read more -
Nob Hill Gazette
A Private Canine-Centric Art Collection Goes On View for a Limited Time March 31, 2023 Like a lot of folks, Pamela Hornik found that her social media usage swelled in the early days of the... Read more -
Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art & Design
Journey Around My Room March 3, 2023 Journey Around My Room presents the work of seven artists who work in photography, painting, and textile to explore the... Read more
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John Natsoulas Center for the Arts
Women of Northern California March 1, 2023 The John Natsoulas Gallery is pleased to announce that, coinciding with Women’s History Month, we will be hosting an exhibition... Read more -
San Francisco State Fine Arts Gallery
HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Press Release February 25, 2023 HAVE YOU SEEN ME? centers on the return of the gaze in contemporary self-portraiture created by diverse artists across diverse... Read more -
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now February 16, 2023 How does one experience a photograph that appears “unphotographic”? Focusing on the material and tactile properties of the medium, Direct... Read more
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Orange County Museum of Art
13 Women Variation II February 14, 2023 13 Women marks the museum’s 60th anniversary, paying homage to the thirteen women who founded the Balboa Pavilion Gallery, the... Read more -
SF Camerawork
Dismantling Monoliths January 17, 2023 SF Camerawork is proud to present Dismantling Monoliths , a group exhibition of artists who catalyze their medium to challenge... Read more -
80WSE Gallery
Introverse: Allegory Today December 14, 2022 Introverse: Allegory Today intimates the allegorical turn in current artistic practice characterized by the psychological interiorization, libidinal symbolism, and melancholic... Read more
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Squarecylinder Art Review
Oh, Those Messy Royals! September 20, 2022 One of the unexpected pastimes of the covid pandemic was the ability to peruse the home décor of television reporters... Read more -
KQED
Jennie Ottinger’s ‘Princess Series’ is a Perfectly Timed Musing on Diana—and Her Ex-Husband September 15, 2022 The timing of Jennie Ottinger's Princess Series is fairly astounding. This thoroughly absorbing exhibition of paintings documents pivotal moments in... Read more -
KQED
de Young Museum Acquires 42 New Works by Bay Area Artists July 11, 2022 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced on Monday an exciting expansion of its contemporary Bay Area art collection... Read more
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SF Chronicle
Anne Buckwalter explores domestic duality in two-location S.F. Show June 24, 2022 Philadelphia artist Anne Buckwalter is featured in a new dual-location San Francisco exhibition titled “Two Story House,” on view at... Read more -
Henry Art Gallery
ektor garcia: matéria prima April 2, 2022 Across his artistic practice, ektor garcia (b. 1985, Red Bluff, California) challenges the hierarchies of gendered and racialized labor, combining... Read more -
BOMB Magazine
Swallow the Parts Whole: Sahar Khoury Interviewed March 21, 2022 I met Sahar Khoury last summer at the Headlands Art Center in California where we were both artists in residence.... Read more
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Milwaukee Art Museum
Currents 38: Christy Matson February 25, 2022 The woven pictures featured in Currents 38 resemble contemporary paintings, yet they are deeply rooted in weaving traditions. Using a... Read more -
SFSU Fine Arts Gallery
When Light Becomes Form February 19, 2022 How do we consider what makes a photograph in this time of merging and diverging technologies? Every photograph, regardless of... Read more -
Art in America
One Work: Sahar Khoury’s “Untitled (cooperative trees)” February 14, 2022 Sahar Khoury spent part of 2021 in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. In the small... Read more
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SF/Arts Monthly
Stephanie Crawford and Meg Lipke November 5, 2021 Stephanie Crawford's paintings are as colorful as her life story. A celebrated jazz vocalist, the trans artist joined drag with... Read more -
The Art Newspaper
New and noteworthy: see what the Armory Show's younger galleries are bringing to the fair September 2, 2021 Jamil Hellu at Rebecca Camacho The San Francisco-based dealer Rebecca Camacho has assembled a solo presentation by the photographer Jamil... Read more -
Art Daily
Natani Notah: Normal Force opens at Rebecca Camacho Presents August 6, 2021 Rebecca Camacho Presents is presenting an exhibition of ambitious new works by Bay Area artist Natani Notah. Exploring Native American... Read more
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48hills
In “Altered States” exhibition, artists play with the illegible July 13, 2021 With his keen eye and artistic investment in ideas of process, Los Angeles artist Gary Simmons has curated a provocative... Read more -
The New York Times Magazine
The T List June 10, 2021 The artist Gary Simmons is best known for deploying a technique called erasure. Using as his source material pop culture... Read more -
SF Weekly
Worth A Look May 15, 2021 With their Miami Beach colors and almost-animated veneers, Andy Mister’s drawings that incorporate appropriated images are beautiful to look at.... Read more
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Whitewall
Andy Mister: Solemn Anthems April 8, 2021 At Rebecca Camacho Presents through May 21, guests can explore Andy Mister: Solemn Anthems . The solo exhibition of the... Read more -
Mercer Contemporary
Artist to Watch, Andy Mister February 1, 2021 Interview with gallery artist, Andy Mister Read more -
Journal
Sharing a (S)hell January 15, 2021 I often ponder what the window-gazer thinks when they pass by a gallery. For those who peer curiously through the... Read more
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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Twenty Twenty October 12, 2020 2020 has been historic year and the work being created by the artists now reflects their lived experience through a... Read more -
Phillips
House Calls: Christy Matson October 1, 2020 Integral to textile artist Christy Matson’s work is her process: beginning with quick sketches or watercolor paintings, she uploads her... Read more -
Art in America
Photographer David Gilbert’s Tableaux Give Studio Detritus an Air of Drama and Glamour January 16, 2020 David Gilbert’s photographs depict arrangements he creates in his studio out of whatever happens to be on hand: scrap paper,... Read more
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Cranbrook Art Museum
Christy Matson: Crossings December 14, 2019 Christy Matson is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her painterly approach to textiles. Matson employs a hand-operated, computer-programmable Jacquard... Read more -
NBC News
12 queer artists whose work is making us pay attention December 13, 2019 “Art exists where language fails.” Illustrator Marcos Chin first heard this quote last summer, when he attended a talk by... Read more -
SF Chronicle
Visual intelligence trumps theory: SFMOMA’s 2019 SECA exhibition November 13, 2019 Since 1967, nearly 200 of the brightest lights among Bay Area artists have been honored by the San Francisco Museum... Read more
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SFMOMA
2019 SECA Art Award Exhibition November 1, 2019 Since 1967, the SECA Art Award has honored more than seventy Bay Area artists with an exhibition at SFMOMA and... Read more -
California Home & Design
Gallerist Crush: Rebecca Camacho September 1, 2019 After two decades as the senior director of Anthony Meier Fine Arts in San Francisco, Rebecca Camacho is branching out... Read more -
Los Angeles Times
Long live Anni Albers: L.A. show pays homage to an overshadowed Bauhaus artist August 5, 2019 If there were any justice in this world, those hearing the name Albers would ask “which one?” rather than assume... Read more
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SF Chronicle
Bay Area ceramics scene fired up in new ways July 29, 2019 “I always second-guess the students when they come into class. I look at them, I’m like, ‘What are you doing... Read more -
Artsy
20 Art Dealers on Their First Jobs in the Art World July 1, 2019 At 22 years old, I got an unpaid internship at the Capp Street Project, a nonprofit artist residency program in... Read more -
Artnet
This New Gallery in San Francisco Wants to Cultivate the Next Generation of Tech Collectors April 5, 2019 The San Francisco art scene is at something of a crossroads these days, trying to square its old grassroots ideologies... Read more
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SF Chronicle
Trio of Bay Area artists named SFMOMA’s 2019 SECA Award winners April 4, 2019 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced the 2019 recipients of its biannual SECA Art Award. Conferred this... Read more -
SF Chronicle
Veteran San Francisco gallerist launches new contemporary space April 3, 2019 Contemporary art galleries come and go, but the opening of a new space by a veteran of San Francisco’s quietly... Read more
