Image Courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim The Bay Area art community has gone into mourning with the news that prominent dealer Paule Anglim passed away peacefully on Thursday, April 2, 2015 in her Russian Hill home. A leader in in showing the some of San Francisco's most important artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, Gallery Paule Anglim has always been one of the sought out homes for artists to show their work. Paule Anglim opened her gallery in the early 1970s, with its

Joan Brown at artMRKT 2013 (Image courtesy of Gallery Paule Anglim) The 2013 Art Fair season arrived in San Francisco with about as much anticipation as the ticking of a clock. Their descent on the city marks the passing of another year and is a seasonal rite of passage. They also serve as the annual convention for the bay area art world, since it is the only time that collectors, curators, and gallerists all gather together in one place to see, be seen, check in with each ot

On January 27 the show ‘Renaissance on Fillmore 1955 – 65' closed at The di Rosa in Napa, CA. This important show contained numerous works from the Fillmore group of artists and exhibited them a historical context that has only begun to be fully investigated by the greater art world. In the 1950s, art in the United States went through a period of drastic change and upheaval. Abstract Expressionism (AbEx) dominated New York for much of this period, and the style and ideas it e

'The Rose", 1958-1966; oil on canvas with wood and mica (128 7/8 x 92 1/4 x 11) ©2012 The Jay DeFeo Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Image Courtesy of The Jay DeFeo Trust Twenty three years after her death, the Jay DeFeo retrospective has arrived. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, but mounted at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art first, ‘Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective’ is an expansive look at the life and career of this immensely import

Having three fairs in San Francisco each May for the last two years has shown us that there was room for growth in this region of the art market and that San Francisco would support it. The ArtMRKT San Francisco fair is in its second year and it dazzled the visitors again with beautiful works. The selection committee for the fair did an excellent job curating which galleries would be represented. The consistency of quality was such that, as one fairgoer that I spoke to put it