Rebecca Camacho Presents, an enterprise of the Bay Area art dealer Rebecca Camacho, will commemorate its fifth anniversary this autumn with a sizable expansion, relocating from its 928 sq. ft boutique space to a 2,000 sq. ft storefront in downtown San Francisco.
A seasoned art dealer with nearly three decades of experience, Camacho first opened her eponymous space at 794 Sutter Street and will move to a historic building nearer to the San Francisco waterfront at 526 Washington Street in Jackson Square, where neighbours include galleries like Wendi Norris and Scott Richards Contemporary Art, both of whom opened shop in the area within the last two years.
"It's one of the few neighbourhoods in San Francisco where people still spend some time out and about," Camacho tells The Art Newspaper. "We're at the nexus of the Financial District, Chinatown and North Beach, and walkable to the Embarcadero, so there's a draw beyond the people who happen to live or work in the area."
The forthcoming space is sited in a building dating to the 1850s that was constructed on San Francisco's original shoreline, before it was extended with landfill. Some of the original features remain, like its brick façade and some pillars made from ship masts.
"It's important that artists walk into the space and imagine what it's like to work in San Francisco, versus places like New York or Los Angeles," Camacho says. "Because several of the artists I work with do work with other galleries, I want this space to make them think about what it means to work in this community."
