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Alan Rath
Machinery Is Not Unnatural 18 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 An exhibition of a dozen sculptures by the electronic art pioneer Alan Rath (1959-2020) made between 1985 and 2013, traces his interest in the relationship between humanity and technology. In works that are formally elegant and meticulously crafted - yet playful and witty – Rath employed robotics and computer-generated video... Read more -
Mansur Nurullah
Waves of Change and History Re-asserts Itself 19 Oct - 23 Nov 2024 In his first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco-based Mansur Nurullah presents intricately stitched, wall-hanging sculptures that build on the legacies of African-American quilt makers to trace personal and community histories. Made from discarded clothing, upholstery, bits of fur, disassembled shoes and handbags and other detritus, he incorporates the... Read more
Upcoming
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Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Dark Rainbow 6 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 In an exhibition of new works, Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll collaborate to create bewildering paintings devised of layers of carefully misaligned, concentric circles which generate optical effects. The resulting moiré - the fusion of two or more patterns which create another, much more complex pattern - echoes various natural... Read more -
Bruce Conner
Wayfinding: Bruce Conner's Marker Drawings 6 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 San Francisco Bay Area’s Bruce Conner is one of the most important artists of the late 20th Century –- pioneering art making in sculpture, drawing, photography and video. In Wayfinding, Hosfelt brings together a group of exquisite drawings made with magic marker between 1963 and 1975. Read more
Archive
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JIM CAMPBELL & MARCO MAGGI
ALMOST INDECIPHERABLE 7 Sep - 12 Oct 2024 In two solo exhibitions and one collaborative piece, two artists with very different practices - Uruguayan post-minimalist, Marco Maggi, and Bay Area tech pioneer, Jim Campbell - explore perception and how a viewer's perspective informs their interpretation of an artwork or experience. One artist's primary tools are paper, an X-ACTO... Read more -
The Dump Show
A Collaboration with the Recology Artist in Residence Program 13 Jul - 17 Aug 2024 The Dump Show is a collaboration with, and an homage to, the Recology Artist in Residence Program. It’s also an acknowledgement and celebration of the legacy of artists in the Bay Area working with found materials. Assembling 20 artists who have participated in the Recology program, we explore the transformational... Read more -
Rina Banerjee
11 May - 29 Jun 2024 Freedom wonders inside the fantastic, joyous, in relentless dreams free from constraints with movements wandering rotating entangled sinuous perpetual and glowing in effortless being and while wielding free will as “metallic otherness” we reach ourselves, our true selves, as singular and connected, diverse forever searching OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST:... Read more -
Tim Hawkinson
Cabinet Pictures 30 Mar - 4 May 2024 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday 30 March, 3-5 pm The California artist Tim Hawkinson is renowned for transforming everyday materials into objects that are as uncanny as they are poetic. Through virtuoso craftsmanship and the use of peculiar materials and drastic shifts in scale, he unsettles our expectations and... Read more -
Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe
Mlango (The Door) 30 Mar - 4 May 2024 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday 30 March, 3-5 pm Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe lives and works in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He appropriates found objects — rubber tire inner tubes, doors, antiquated maps — and the vocabulary of traditional body modification (Nzoloko, or scarification, a pre-colonial tradition that... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
Of Sunsets and Beautiful Endings 10 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday 10 February, 3-5 pm The most important themes in my work are flowers, wallpaper-like patterns, and domestic architecture. Of course, I'm referring to places of beauty, comfort and safety in a complex and sometimes frightening world... and our attempts to create a 'perfect world'... Read more -
LOT-EK
SPILL / from 1 to 29 8 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 Opening reception for the artists: Saturday 9 December, 3-5pm An entire shipping container - chopped into 29 pieces and exploded throughout the gallery to create sculpture, furniture, and architectural elements - is the centerpiece of an installation that calls attention to systems of global production and transportation and proposes the... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Fine Line 20 Oct - 22 Nov 2023 Emil Lukas' wall-hanging sculptures reimagine painting both materially and structurally. In his Thread Paintings, Lukas constructs shallow wooden trays or parabolic plaster bowls across which he stretches tens of thousands of colored filaments. The accumulation of delicate fiber lines creates complex color fields that shimmer and glow, changing radically with... Read more -
Bruce Conner + Jess
The Virtue of Uncertainty 5 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Reception: Saturday September 9, 3-5pm, with a curatorial tour at 3pm Two of the most original and broad-ranging 20th century American artists — Bruce Conner (1933-2008) and Jess (1923-2004) — are brought together in a presentation of more than 60 artworks to call attention to common, repeating motifs and intentions... Read more -
Liliana Porter
Unfinished Tales 5 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Reception: Saturday September 9, 3-5pm Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the work of one of the most significant Latin American artists working today – the 81-year-old Argentinian, Liliana Porter. In photographs, video, drawings, and sculptures Porter creates artworks at the intersection of object and image. By mixing the... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
The Shape of Us 8 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 Opening reception: Saturday 8 July, 3-5 pm For more than a quarter of a century, Lordy Rodriguez has utilized an ever-developing visual language inspired by map-making to generate drawings that direct our attention to complex social and cultural issues. From code-switching, to the disenfranchisement inherent in gerrymandered congressional districts, to... Read more -
Russell Crotty
An Astronomy of Dreams 8 Jul - 19 Aug 2023 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday 8 July, 3-5pm Russell Crotty is renowned for his intricate representations of night skies, made on spheres which hang suspended in space. In his sixth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, he adds quintessentially Western, extremely exaggerated horizontal landscapes beneath stellar expanses. With these drawings,... Read more -
Julie W. Chang
Amulets 25 May - 30 Jun 2023 Opening reception: Thursday 25 May, 5-7pm In her newest body of work, Julie W. Chang wields a dictionary of talismans to investigate and celebrate the power of cultural symbols to shape and transform our lives. In the wake of the 2020 pandemic, Chang began reconsidering how traditional amulets operate as... Read more -
Bernard Lokai
24.2.22 25 May - 30 Jun 2023 Opening reception: Thursday 25 May, 5-7pm When German painter Bernard Lokai saw images of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he was immediately transported to memories of his family’s escape from Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. He responded with a series of abstract, deeply felt paintings that explore... Read more -
OFF THE GRID: Post-Formal Conceptualism
11 Apr - 20 May 2023 This sprawling group exhibition traces the use of the form of the grid in contemporary art, beginning with some of its most illustrious mid-20th century proponents. From there, it examines conceptual uses of the grid from the 1970s and 80s and utilizes that history to establish a vantage point from... Read more -
Max Gimblett
The Beginning of Time 11 Feb - 1 Apr 2023 Opening reception: Saturday February 11, 3-5 pm In the spirit of impermanence — one of the core precepts of Buddhism—artworks in this solo show of the work of the 87-year-old Rinzai Zen monk Max Gimblett will rotate in and out of the galleries throughout the run of the exhibition. Viewers,... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
A tangled path sustains us 10 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday December 10, 3-5 pm Artist talk and walkthrough @ 3 pm Simultaneously captivating and discomforting, Patricia Piccinini’s sculptures, films, and environments confront viewers with possible ecological and genetic consequences of the way we live. In her third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, the Australian... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Golden Thread 22 Oct - 23 Nov 2022 Opening reception for the artist: Saturday October 22, 3-5 pm German painter Jutta Haeckel’s subversive artworks invert the act and purpose of painting—both materially and subjectively. Beginning with jute as her substrate—much thicker and rougher than standard canvas—she frays it by removing some of the threads. This opens the weave... Read more -
Marco Maggi
Tiny Tyrannies 6 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 For more than two decades, the Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi — known for his virtuoso drawings and conceptually driven installations — has considered, then elegantly answered, the question of how to take drawing from two into three dimensions. Using his abstracted lexicon, he has drawn in relief on aluminum foil,... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Yonder 25 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 In his fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Los Angeles-based Andrew Schoultz deploys a battery of both familiar and new motifs to depict the ambiguity and turmoil of our contemporary reality. Intertwining his pictographic vocabulary with densely-packed, meticulously-rendered patterns, and using bright, often fluorescent hues, he creates shimmering, optically vibrating... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Wandering 7 May - 11 Jun 2022 For nearly three decades, Jim Campbell has designed and built custom electronics, hijacking tech developed for information transfer and storage and repurposing it to make artworks that explore the limits of human perception. The pieces in this show of new work should, in theory, defy comprehension. They are either so... Read more -
Gerhard Mayer
Analog Analogy 7 May - 11 Jun 2022 German artist Gerhard Mayer's ink drawings — hand-drawn though they appear they could only be computer generated — follow seven rules: 1. Every sheet of paper is 34.3 x 43.4 cm. 2. Each drawing is made with one ellipse. 3. The ellipse must always lie in the horizontal. 4. No... Read more -
Birgit Jensen
Enacting Arcadia 26 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Birgit Jensen is interested in the connection between artifice and truth and the role of mediation in our pursuit of perfection. In service of that exploration, she's created a group of atmospheric landscape paintings, carefully constructed to suggest they might be photographic. The depictions refer to Insel Hombroich, a 52-acre... Read more -
Judith Belzer
Where We Stand 26 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 In her debut exhibition at the gallery, Judith Belzer presents her newest series of paintings developed over the past 3 years. The unusual protagonists in this body of work are rocks, ranging in size from diminutive to massive and hovering in precarious relationship to each other, to the ambiguous spaces... Read more -
Cornelius Völker
In the Last Light 25 Feb - 19 Mar 2022 Cornelius Völker explores the thorny relationships we humans have with nature and time in a series of paintings that, while rooted in conventions of historical European painting, are eminently contemporary. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a group of heroically-scaled works of luxuriant foliage. Theatrically illuminated, the vegetation emerges out... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
Red Boys and Green Girls 27 Jan - 19 Feb 2022 Opening Reception: January 27, 5-7 pm Space is limited, RSVP with the link below The paintings in Gideon Rubin’s seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery reflect the zeitgeist of our COVID-defined world. Solitary figures, frequently turned away from the viewer, stand immobilized or move dreamily in blurry, indefinite spaces.... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Datum 4 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday December 4 | 3-5 pm Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll collaborate to create bewildering paintings devised of layers of carefully misaligned, concentric circles which generate optical effects. The resulting moiré — the fusion of two or more patterns which create another, much more complex pattern — echoes... Read more -
Nicole Phungrasamee Fein
Color Study 4 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday December 4 | 3-5 pm San Francisco-based Nicole Phungrasamee Fein’s newest body of work marks an abrupt shift from a minimal palette of black, white and gray to an exuberant burst of color. Consistent with prior work, Fein restricts herself to watercolor applied to paper in the... Read more -
Where We Are
23 Oct - 24 Nov 2021 In a group exhibition marking this moment in history (and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hosfelt Gallery) the work of 34 artists is employed to reflect on the zeitgeist of the year 2021. What defines the spirit or mood of this particular point in time? The function of art —... Read more -
William T. Wiley
MONUMENTAL 7 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 Enormous paintings comprise the heart of an exhibition honoring the colossus William T. Wiley, who died on April 25, 2021 at age 83. An audacious visionary, Wiley was an oracle, combining imagery, symbols, and wordplay to articulate social and environmental angst. For nearly sixty years, Wiley (who was referred to... Read more -
Alan Rath
19 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 In formally elegant yet winsome sculptures — almost every component of which he designed, machined, and programed himself — Alan Rath explored the relationship between technology and the human body and behavior. In this exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery surveys the 35-year oeuvre of the sculptor and electronic art pioneer, who died... Read more -
Isabella Kirkland
THE SMALL MATTER 1 May - 12 Jun 2021 Self-taught in the meticulous and time-consuming techniques developed by 17th century Dutch painters, Isabella Kirkland directs her technical proficiency and rarefied access to biological specimen collections and scientific experts towards illuminating the ecological instability inherent in the Anthropocene — and more specifically, the acute threat to Earth’s smallest creatures. In... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
The Awakening 1 May - 12 Jul 2021 Patricia Piccinini creates some of the most surprising, provocative and pertinent artworks of our time. Famous for her life-like, chimeric creatures, anthropomorphic sculptures made of fiberglass and extraordinarily elaborate auto body paint jobs, and sculptural hot air balloons, Piccinini raises questions about how we define “human” and how we resolve... Read more -
Liliana Porter
The Riddle / Charada 13 Mar - 24 Apr 2021 Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the world premiere of the most recent video by Liliana Porter, The Riddle/Charada, featuring an idiosyncratic cast of characters culled from her ever-evolving collection of toys and figurines that she finds in flea markets, antique stores, and souvenir shops. The narrative is constructed from... Read more -
Ben McLaughlin
Ex Libris 13 Mar - 24 Apr 2021 The tiny and evocative oil-on-panel paintings in Ben McLaughlin's third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery were mostly made in 2019 and 2020, and they mark a time of global uncertainty, tension and precariousness. Yet the London-based painter’s intimate, often dream-like tableaus are a reflection of the slower, more interior-focused lives... Read more -
ASSEMBLED
Bruce Conner / Jean Conner / Anonymous / Anonymouse / Emily Feather / Signed in Blood 23 Jan - 6 Mar 2021 Hosfelt Gallery is thrilled to present its first exhibition in collaboration with the Conner Family Trust - a show which mines 60 years of work by Bruce Conner and Jean Conner (as well as by Anonymous, Anonymouse, Emily Feather and Signed in Blood), across the genres of drawing, collage, assemblage and painting... Read more -
Emil Lukas
All Connected, Like It or Not 5 Dec 2020 - 16 Jan 2021 Confounding and exquisitely strange, the objects that Emil Lukas develops out of his alchemical studio practice are meditations on the workings of the universe. Lukas interweaves the organic and mineral, micro and macro, ordinary and sublime, natural and technical, scientific and mystical in tinker-y processes that are ultimately transcendent. Lukas’s... Read more -
Lordy Rodriguez
Polar Democracy 17 Oct - 25 Nov 2020 Twenty-four years ago, Lordy Rodriguez (b. 1976, Quezon City, Philippines) started using a visual lexicon of map-based forms as metaphors for defining an individual's position within a culture or society. For his sixth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Rodriguez utilizes this ever-developing, cartography-inspired vocabulary to ruminate on issues about the... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Revisited Spaces 17 Oct - 25 Nov 2020 After having trained as an architect, Algerian artist Driss Ouadahi (b. 1959, Casablanca, Morocco) immigrated from post-colonial North Africa to study painting at the renowned Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany. Influenced by his lived experience as an émigré he has developed a unique visual vocabulary – a synthesis of structural design... Read more -
Max Gimblett
juggernaut 8 Sep - 10 Oct 2020 Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo exhibition of work by the esteemed painter, calligrapher, and Rinzai Zen monk Max Gimblett. Gimblett's paintings are a harmonious, postmodern synthesis of American and Japanese art. Often working on shaped panels or canvases—tondos, ovals, and his signature four-lobed quatrefoil—he marries Abstract Expressionism, Modernism and Spiritual Abstraction with mysticism and traditions of Asian calligraphy. Gimblett's paintings are defined by masterful brushwork combined with an eccentric and sophisticated color sense, and finished with sensuously glossy surfaces. Read more -
Tim Hawkinson
Tantric Drip Drawings 17 Jul - 29 Aug 2020 The word tantra, Sanskrit for 'loom' or 'weave,' is a metaphor for Hindu and Buddhist spiritual practices that bring together rituals, texts and teachings to guide understanding of the universe and a person's place within it. To create this group of large-scale drawings, Tim Hawkinson constructed an apparatus that functions... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Mother Nature, Father Time 1 Jun - 11 Jul 2020 Uncannily prescient, LA-based Andrew Schoultz’s new exhibition of paintings and sculptural installations looks at mortality—personal, societal, cultural, environmental—with an eye to taking responsibility, and glimmerings of hope. Schoultz’s stylized, symbolic lexicon includes archaic military machines, volcanic eruptions, Greek vases, mythical creatures and iconography from the Great Seal of the United... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
True Colors 1 Feb - 21 Mar 2020 Stefan Kürten’s paintings explore the complexities of our universal yearning for the ideal place to call home. His source material includes appropriated images from architecture and design magazines as well as photographs he has taken during his global travels. These become starting points for carefully constructed scenes whose idyllic environments... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Closer to Nothing 14 Dec 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 With light as his primary medium, Jim Campbell probes the liminal boundaries of perception. Utilizing devices and techniques he has developed over the last nineteen years, his newest body of work exploits extreme data deficiency as a means of engaging primal pathways of comprehension. Each piece, effectively incomplete without viewer... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Double Nature 19 Oct - 22 Nov 2019 Düsseldorf-based Jutta Haeckel may be the most original painter of her generation. Her recent paintings on jute—the strong, coarse, natural fiber that burlap is made of—utilize a series of unorthodox techniques to undermine the physical and conceptual precepts of painting. Read more -
Reed Danziger
To Sweep the Horizon 7 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Reed Danziger thinks of herself as a researcher, documenting the scene of a disruption in an imagined time and space. Her artworks take the form of large-scale paintings on paper, in which she develops a vocabulary of mark making using watercolor, ink and graphite to record moments of flux. In... Read more -
Rina Banerjee
Blemish 7 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 Hosfelt Gallery presents a solo show of new mixed media paintings on paper by Kolkata-born, New York-based Rina Banerjee, as an ancillary exhibition to her touring mid-career survey, currently on view at the San Jose Museum of Art. Banerjee’s sensuous and otherworldly paintings reflect both her transnational background and her... Read more -
BETWEEN THEM
An Installation Composed of Drawings 13 Jul - 17 Aug 2019 Todd Hosfelt combines approximately 200 drawings in an installation designed to reveal thematic and conceptual relationships across time and place. In drawings spanning the 16th to 21st centuries, from European Old Masters to work made utilizing technology, from South American geometric abstraction to photo-realism, drawing directly on the wall, drawing... Read more -
Bernard Lokai
Painting 11 May - 3 Jul 2019 In two distinct bodies of work, German painter Bernard Lokai explores the seemingly infinite possibilities of paint applied to canvas. The first body of work, which he calls Landscape Blocks, is comprised of grids of 12 x 16 inch panels in which he both refers to and disrupts the history... Read more -
William T. Wiley
SCULPTURE, EYES WEAR TUG ODD 23 Mar - 4 May 2019 William T. Wiley is one of the most influential American artists to come out of the San Francisco Bay Area. His third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery reflects the importance of what is perhaps the least known aspect of his output—sculpture—through a range of works spanning the last six decades.... Read more -
Russell Crotty
Bordering the Habitable Zone 2 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 Internationally recognized for his innovative drawing practice, Russell Crotty presents a new body of work that combines his fascination with space exploration and concerns about environmental degradation from the viewpoint of an accomplished amateur astronomer, passionate surfer and native Californian. The central motif of this exhibition is imagined planetary landers—representing... Read more -
Michael Light
Great Basin Autoglyphs and Pleistoseas 2 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 In his eighth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Michael Light presents a new body of work from his ongoing aerial photographic survey of the arid American West. Great Basin Autoglyphs and Pleistoseas ventures into deep time, moving from habited, placed settlements into pure space and its attendant emptiness. The resulting... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
Inter-natural 1 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 In her second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Patricia Piccinini presents an immersive installation of hyper-realistic sculptures probing the increasingly permeable boundaries of humanness. For more than two decades, Piccinini has explored the potentialities—both liberating and threatening—inherent in our advancing capabilities in genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. Her meticulously-crafted sculptures... Read more -
Cornelius Völker
Principles of Arrangement 13 Oct - 17 Nov 2018 With his distinctive and sensuous method of handling paint — simultaneously fluid and precise — Düsseldorf-based artist Cornelius Völker reinvigorates the traditional genre of the still life painting in a surprising and contemporary investigation of the history of art and the nature of humanity. The subjects of the paintings in... Read more -
Marco Maggi
SUPRA muro 8 Sep - 6 Oct 2018 Known for his virtuoso drawings, Marco Maggi presents a new body of surprising and beguiling sculpture for his eighth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. SUPRA muro consists primarily of works made of the tiniest hand-cut paper shapes that cluster, fold, curl, stack and bend, encrusting all sorts of surfaces, including the... Read more -
Frankenstein’s Birthday Party
23 Jun - 11 Aug 2018 2018 is the bicentennial of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Why does a 200-year-old ghost story continue to feel so relevant? It’s important to remember that the Frankenstein of Hollywood and pop culture – Boris Karloff, The Munsters or Rocky Horror Picture Show – is quite... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Twin Orbit 5 May - 16 Jun 2018 Emil Lukas’ exquisitely strange and phenomenological objects are meditations on the way we perceive the world. “We’re affected by lots of things that are larger than us — things we don’t normally know how to see — for example the laws of physics,” says Lukas. “I’m attempting to make the... Read more -
Gideon Rubin
The Kaiser's Daughter 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 Most of the paintings in Gideon Rubin’s sixth solo exhibition with Hosfelt Gallery were selected from work made for an exhibition at the Freud Museum in London. As source material, Rubin — an Israeli living in London whose work always refers to found images — mined photographs illustrating a serialized... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
structural color 17 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 In Anoka Faruqee’s sixth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, she collaborates with her partner David Driscoll to present new paintings from their Circleseries. These works exploit the optical complexity of interference created through the layering of misaligned patterns — turning what is considered a corruption in digital imagery into a source... Read more -
Birgit Jensen
What a Perfect Combination 27 Jan - 10 Mar 2018 In her first solo exhibition in the United States, German artist Birgit Jensen looks to the history of the landscape in painting to examine the role of artifice in our never-ending pursuit of perfection. Made without a brush, Jensen’s paintings are meticulously and labor-intensively constructed to look as if they... Read more -
Angelina Pwerle
27 Jan - 10 Mar 2018 Angelina Pwerle’s subtly shifting, abstract paintings come out of a history of Aboriginal art-making that is thousands of years old. Yet audiences of contemporary art will find reference points in the spatial complexity of Jackson Pollock, optical intensity of Bridget Riley, technical elegance of Vija Celmins or meditative process of... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Illuminated Opposition 16 Dec 2017 - 20 Jan 2018 Andrew Schoultz brings his signature street-savvy style to a new body of work that questions the meaning and function of public space and the nature of political discourse. With an emphasis on the formal vocabulary of abstraction, Schoultz exposes the ways in which meaning is manipulated and perception skewed as... Read more -
Stefan Kürten
Millefleurs 21 Oct - 2 Dec 2017 Stefan Kürten likes to say that every weekend of his childhood was spent accompanying his parents and their realtor in their search for the “perfect home.” In his eighth solo exhibition, marking the 20th anniversary of working with Hosfelt Gallery, Kürten explores the deep and universal yearning to find that... Read more -
Jim Campbell
Far Away Up Close 7 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 Through constantly-evolving and continually innovative iterations, Jim Campbell parses one of the most fundamental questions regarding the human mind: what enables us to interpret and understand the world around us? The 15 new works in this exhibition should, in theory, defy comprehension. They are either so low resolution (too little... Read more -
Mirror Mirror
8 Jul - 12 Aug 2017 The first mirror — likely a pool of still water — allowed humans to see themselves as others did. Later came polished surfaces — copper, bronze, silver, pyrite, even stone — though the quality of the image was so very low that Paul, in Corinthians 13:12, used it as a... Read more -
Garage Inventors
6 May - 1 Jul 2017 This exhibition features artists who exemplify the ethos of Silicon Valley in the form of the genius “garage” inventor. Many of these artists have deep roots in the Bay Area, as well as a streak of “mad scientist” that they harness to make works of brilliant technical, conceptual and aesthetic... Read more -
Marco Maggi
Global Myopia (Language in Residence) 11 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Marco Maggi’s first video installation. The two-channel, 30-minute video installation draws its content from Maggi’s 2015 Venice Biennale exhibition in the Uruguay pavilion. Maggi’s video venerates and satirizes the complexities and paradoxes of the experience of contemporary art from... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Future Echo 11 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Düsseldorf-based painter Jutta Haeckel has accomplished a rare feat in the crowded arena of contemporary art — she has developed a style of painting that is unique. In her fifth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, she uses her technical breakthrough to express the uncertainty of our time. Haeckel creates multiple viewpoints... Read more -
Rina Banerjee
Human Likeness 28 Jan - 4 Mar 2017 Kolkata-born and New York-based, Rina Banerjee fills the entire gallery with her fantastical, immoderate sculptures and delicately swirling paintings in an exhibition that seeks to describe the human experience in an era of unprecedented migration and interconnectedness. Banerjee’s sculptures are shamanistic assemblages of textiles, feathers, sparkling glass and tinkling bells.... Read more -
Crystal Liu
weighing it out 10 Dec 2016 - 21 Jan 2017 Crystal Liu constructs landscapes that are metaphors for her emotional states. In large-scale paintings on paper that incorporate her adaptation of the technique of marbleized paper along with watercolor and metallic pigments, the fundamental elements of earth and sky enact narratives of conflict, entrapment, longing, and precarious hope. There are... Read more -
Julie W. Chang
New Work 10 Dec 2016 - 21 Jan 2017 Drawing from sources as diverse as African mudcloth, Japanese shibori, and Native American basket weavings, Julie Chang investigates how identities are constructed, engaging patterns to explore the personal and political forces that shape and misshape our lives. Chang will create a work directly on the walls and floor of the... Read more -
Liliana Porter
Actualidades / Breaking News 15 Oct - 23 Nov 2016 Argentinian artist Liliana Porter is a master at distilling life and art to simple profundities through humorous juxtapositions of incongruous objects. For her first exhibition at the gallery in four years, Porter premieres a new video,Actualidades/Breaking News. In addition to the video, the exhibition showcases a full range of new... Read more -
20th Anniversary Exhibition
Banerjee, Campbell, Crotty, DeFeo, Hawkinson, Higgins, Kürten, Lukas, Maggi, O'Reilly, Ouadahi, Piccinini, Porter, Pwerle, Rath, Rodriguez, Schoultz, Wiley, Basquiat, Cave, Hansen, Ruscha, Sikander, and Wilke. 9 Sep - 8 Oct 2016 Hosfelt Gallery celebrates its 20th anniversary with an exhibition exploring what makes an artwork significant and lasting, and the qualities that distinguish the most innovative artists of our era. This carefully curated selection of artists and works has been chosen to reflect the gallery’s distinct philosophical and aesthetic approach as... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Breach in the Silence 16 Jul - 20 Aug 2016 Algerian painter Driss Ouadahi studied architecture before immigrating to Germany, where he continues to live and work. Utilizing a vocabulary of architectural motifs, Ouadahi makes large-scale paintings that borrow from the history of modernist grid painting and traditional Islamic aesthetics, while tackling the difficult and timely topic of human migration.... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep 14 May - 9 Jul 2016 Since she burst into international prominence at the 2003 Venice Biennale, Patricia Piccinini has become famous for creating some of the most troubling and provocative artworks of our time. With silicone, fiberglass, resin, human hair and animal fur, she imagines creatures that are eerie in their verisimilitude to flesh, but... Read more -
Tim Hawkinson
Garden Variety 26 Mar - 7 May 2016 Tim Hawkinson returns to his native San Francisco for his first solo show at Hosfelt Gallery and the first in the Bay Area since his survey exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 1997. Hawkinson is a master at conjuring both organic and inorganic materials into extraordinary objects... Read more -
Particle and Wave
Campbell, DeFeo, Hawkinson, Lukas, Maggi, Conner, Derges, Donovan, Ehm, Fuss, Klotz, Marioni, McCaw, Outlaw, Tomasello 6 Feb - 19 Mar 2016 “Particle and Wave” is a group exhibition of sculpture, photography and technological media in which artists explore the properties of light. Reflection, refraction and color theory are used as tools to examine human perception and to consider science and philosophy’s attempts to explain the universe. For centuries, scientists have debated... Read more -
William T. Wiley
& So… May Cuss Grate Again? 11 Dec 2015 - 30 Jan 2016 William T. Wiley’s second solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery sheds light on two important and under-examined aspects of Wiley’s oeuvre—his use of black and white and his interest in abstraction. In this show, large-scale paintings made between 2010 and 2015 are paired with a selection of watercolors to reveal references... Read more -
Cornelius Völker
17 Oct - 5 Dec 2015 In his first solo exhibition on the West Coast, German artist Cornelius Völker, painting with extraordinary prowess and sensuality as well as uncanny awareness and insight, chooses traditional genres — the still life and portrait — to explore and decode the history of representational painting. Frequently choosing subject matter that... Read more -
Jay DeFeo
ALTER EGO 12 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 alter ego: Latin, “the other I.” The sub-conscious. In literary analysis, used to describe characters that are psychologically similar, or a fictional character that stands in or speaks for the author. An exhibition of 55 paintings, photographs, collages and drawings – 46 of which have never been exhibited before –... Read more
