8 Fascinating Finds from the FOG Design+Art Fair in San Francisco

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• Fog Design + Art fair and San Francisco’s art week return, adjusted for pandemic safety
• Northern California’s leading art and design fair returns with its strongest program to date
• See How San Francisco Art Whisperer Florie Hutchinson Whizzed Through the FOG Art Fair and Much More
• Standout Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong
• FOG Design+Art Fair
• California's 7 Most Instagrammable Spring Photoshoot Locations

Two of New York’s most influential galleries, Luxembourg & Dayan and Demisch Danant, join forces for a booth that promises a museum-quality display, placing the legacy of late 20th century French sculptor and Nouveau Réalisme pioneer César in conversation with works by a suite of artists and designers whom both galleries have represented. The gallery is also showing watercolors by Brazilian artist Lucia Nogueira, who will be included in the inaugural exhibition for the gallery’s Tribeca space later this year. Bringing together an international roster of leading contemporary design and art galleries, FOG Design+Art 2023 presents 48 prominent exhibitors at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture (FMCAC). FOG Fair offers visitors the opportunity to experience the best of art and design from around the world, all in one place. Fog Design + Art, the cornerstone of San Francisco’s unofficial art week, is back for the first time since 2020.

Fog Design + Art fair and San Francisco’s art week return, adjusted for pandemic safety

To learn more about the Preview Gala and view the full list of benefits, visit sfmoma.org/fog-gala. German photographer and former Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans is known for an intimate observation of his surroundings. The organization is a leading voice in supporting independent public art in the Bay Area. Wagner is known for her documentation of objects and location, and plans to debut her photo mural project at the new Yerba Buena Muni Station later this year.

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Northern California’s leading art and design fair returns with its strongest program to date

This initiative reflects San Francisco's spirit of experimentation and creative thinking, offering a stage to those often overlooked in the art world. The booming tech industry has yielded a crop of new collectors who favor younger new-media artists, as well as those bridging utilitarian design with sculptural aesthetics. Operating in San Francisco, less than an hour from Silicon Valley, FOG Design+Art fair capitalizes on the rising interest in art and design collecting across Northern California with its seventh edition, which opens at Fort Mason Art and Culture Center on January 16 for a four-day run. San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art returns to the Fort Mason Center for the eighth edition of the fair. The week kicks off with a preview gala on  January 19 that benefits the  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s (SFMOMA) education and exhibition program before welcoming visitors into the halls to see presentations by an international roster of more than 45 galleries. A strong showing of local galleries will also be part of this fair, with exhibitors like Jessica Silverman Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Altman Siegel, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Berggruen Gallery, Fraenkel Gallery, and Rebecca Camacho Presents.

See How San Francisco Art Whisperer Florie Hutchinson Whizzed Through the FOG Art Fair and Much More

First-time exhibitors to the fair include L.A.’s Night Gallery, Milan’s Nilufar Gallery, and a joint booth from Marc Selwyn Fine Art of Los Angeles and Gió Marconi of Milan. In addition to the exhibitions on view, the FOG Fair once again presents FOG Talks, a programming series that explores ideas and issues relevant to the fields of art, design, technology, and the contemporary world, in the FOG Theater. The museum also bought work by Hulda Guzman from first-time exhibitor Alex Berggruen’s booth. “Guzman is an artist I have been following closely and looking to add a strong example of her work to ICA Miami’s collection. In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the fair will launch FOG FOCUS, an invitational designed to showcase art by young and underrepresented artists.

This year, Gatti partnered with San Francisco’s Arion Press for a booth that will exhibit examples of their small-batch printings of books as well as demonstrations of the printing presses and additional aspects of bookmaking. The return of the FOG Design and Art fair to San Francisco’s Fort Mason pier—after going on hiatus last year amid the pandemic—brought out droves of buyers. As a part of SF Art Week check out everything you need to know about FOG Design and Art fair.

Contemporary African Americans stand as enduring survivors of the peculiar institution of slavery; similarly, the tulip symbolizes resistance and is a resilient flower, maintaining its physical integrity amidst extreme climate conditions. Through these metaphors, the artist speaks about subjugation in America and how this condition was transformed into a state of cultural self-fulfillment and spiritual development. Guest curator Gina Basso’s “seen only, heard only through someone else’s description” series of short films by and about women and nonbinary artists will be on view in the media room.

Specializing in Twentieth century French design with an emphasis on the late 1950s through the 1970s, Demisch Denant is showcasing a selection of works by the British textile artist, alongside an eclectic assortment of important design pieces. One participant in Fog Focus is Et al., a gallery with locations in both the Mission and Chinatown. The stand is a solo presentation of works by Laurie Reid, pairing her paintings—which feature arrays of dilapidated colour fields—alongside the first presentation of her jewellery. The fair will include a mix of blue-chip galleries like David Zwirner, Pace Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Marian Goodman Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, and Lehmann Maupin, alongside other leading enterprises such as James Cohan, Karma, Kurimanzutto, Matthew Marks, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Sprüth Magers, and Tina Kim. “Image Gardeners” highlights discussions around the representation of womanhood in photography, taking its name from the concept of “image gardening,” where a photographer builds a longstanding involvement with a subject to deepen their artistic relationship and gaze. As guests enter the fair at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, they will again be greeted by Gatti’s 21 Pop installation, traditionally one of the most elaborate displays of the week.

FOG Design+Art Fair

The exhibition in the gallery’s offsite exhibition space features work by artists Ambreen Butt, Chitra Ganesh and Eva Schlegel contemplating how contemporary concerns like political instability, climate change and economic inequality control us now much in the way the fates were believed to. Martin, an Oakland tattoo and textile artist, has created a series of multimedia, immersive installations ruminating on ideas of contemporary injustice as part of ICA SF’s “Meantime” series of temporary programs during the building’s mid-construction phase. FOG FOCUS introduces its first artist-in-residence program with Oakland-based artist and educator José Figueroa. His dynamic presence will be felt throughout the fair, as he sketches visitors and activities, offering a unique, live artistic documentation. His works, created on-site, will be displayed alongside his existing pieces, providing a fresh perspective on art in action. The unstoppable rise of ceramics continues at East Village tastemaker Karma’s booth, where a star of the recent Art Basel Miami Beach, Woody de Othello, shows his flamboyant sculpture, Mussed (2018), a modestly scaled piece in comparison to his usual renditions of oozing telephones, typewriters, and air conditioners.

FOG FOCUS will feature nine exhibitors as well as art installations, activations, and performances in Fort Mason Center’s Pier 2 building. A West Coast blue-chip gallery with a New York outpost, Blum & Poe also reserves its booth for a Japanese artist who borrows cues from craft and utilitarian objects. Kazunori Hamana, who worked at a vintage clothing store before starting to make clay sculptures, grabbed the attention of art-world superstar Takashi Murakami, who had included him in a 2016 group exhibition at Blum & Poe’s Upper East Side location.

Celebrate the tenth edition of FOG Design+Art with an unforgettable evening at the FOG Preview Gala. Enjoy early access to the fair’s prominent selection of 45 exhibitions by twentieth-century and contemporary design dealers and leading art galleries — plus entertainment, culinary delights, and cocktails by design. FOG has become a focal point for the design and arts communities on the West Coast and further afield. The fair is synonymous with a uniquely pioneering spirit due to its bold hybrid approach and intimate presentation of art and design, dynamic programming on-site and its community-led mission to champion art and design in its historic Fort Mason setting.

This edition's theme, “A Love Letter to San Francisco,” celebrates the city's cultural vibrancy. It permeates every aspect of the fair, from the mesmerizing entryway installation to the innovative FOG Talks and the launch of SF Art Week. This theme is not just a mere decoration but a profound acknowledgment of the city's artistic pulse and the fair's dedication to enriching it. One of this year’s newcomers is East Coast powerhouse Lehmann Maupin, whose global influence extends all the way to Hong Kong. Doing justice to its inaugural presentation, the gallery curates a selection from their star-studded roster, including McArthur Binion, Lee Bul, Teresita Fernández, Nicholas Hlobo, Helen Pashgian, and Nari Ward. The artists’ vast uses of mediums span Binion’s neatly-crafted oil paintings to Nicholas Hlobo’s skin-like soldered serpentine images with wire-on-cotton canvas.