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Stefan Kürten
Echoes From The Past Sep 8 - Oct 10, 2026 Reception: Thursday, 10 September, 5-7 PM German painter Stefan Kürten is known for depicting the domestic architecture of our dreams - rich with the promise of mid-century prosperity - yet uncannily depopulated, and in the surreal palette of a colorized film or in burnished gold and shadowy blacks. Luxurious, seductive... Read more -
Sarah M. Newton
Interruptions in the Bay Trail Sep 8 - Oct 10, 2026 Join us for the opening reception with the artist — Thursday, September 10, 5–7pm. Sarah Newton explores the margins where the San Francisco Bay and human occupation collide. Her practice begins with the 350-mile Bay Trail-or more accurately, a series of paths-that ring the San Francisco and San Pablo Bays.... Read more
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Contemporary German Painting @Christie's
Oct 8 - Nov 14, 2026 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 8, 2026 · 5:00-7:00 PM 49 Geary Street, Suite 530 San Francisco, CA 94108 At the beautiful Christie's exhibition space in downtown San Francisco, Todd curates a survey of contemporary German painting, centered on the famed Kuntstakademie Düsseldorf, and the influence instructors like Sigmar Polke, Gerhard... Read more -
Andrea Higgins
Self-Portraits Oct 17 - Nov 25, 2026 Andrea Higgins is known for her intricate paintings of fabric swatches that draw on the expressive power of textiles to create evocative, abstract portraits. Inspired by childhood trips to Britex Fabrics with her grandmother, and a fellowship in Indonesia where she observed the labor-intensive process of weaving extravagant sarongs, Higgins... Read more -
Beto de Volder
Errant Geometries Oct 17 - Nov 25, 2026 Beto De Volder begins with geometry, but as Paul Klee observed, where a line leads can often be surprising. De Volder's ink drawings circle, curve, repeat, and turn back on themselves - highly structured from a distance, but revealing irregularity, improvisation, and play when you're up close. Based in New... Read more -
Tangled Web
Weaving as a Conceptual Practice Oct 17 - Nov 25, 2026 Weaving is one of humanity's oldest creative practices, and one of its richest mythologically, metaphorically, and aesthetically. This group exhibition teases out themes of form, language, and story-telling in works by Miguel Arzabe, Ricki Dwyer, Gego, Trude Guermonprez, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Channing Hansen, Andrea Higgins, Ruth Lasky, Dinh Q. Lê, Emil... Read more
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Isabella Kirkland
Critters Jul 11 - Aug 15, 2026 The gallery will be aswarm with Isabella Kirkland's creatures - Formicinae, Trochilidae, Araneae, Dasypus, Murinae, Lacertilia (ants, hummingbirds, spiders, armadillos, mice/rats, lizards) and various Mammalia - all sculpted from organic materials (seeds, twigs, pods, leaves, etc.) that she collects while on her daily walks. Ingenious and charming, they're guaranteed to... Read more -
Patricia Piccinnini
Centrifugal Love Landscape Jul 11 - Aug 15, 2026 Hair has always been prominent in Patricia Piccinini's practice, both materially and conceptually. A signifier of mammalhood, its presence (or absence) can also represent either femininity or masculinity, depending on its relationship to the body. The prelude to this presentation, a series of new ink and gouache drawings about hair,... Read more -
Isabella Kirkland
Nature of Painting May 16 - Jul 2, 2026 Isabella Kirkland uses the techniques developed by 17th century Dutch still life artists to make paintings that explore the environmental train wreck that is the Anthropocene. Extinct, endangered, recovering or invasive, her meticulous renderings of species are an effort to document and preserve organisms in a moment of rapid climatic... Read more -
Patricia Piccinini
The Struggle that Sustains Us May 16 - Jul 2, 2026 Since she burst into international prominence at the 2003 Venice Biennale, Patricia Piccinini has become famous for creating some of the most troubling — yet lyrical — artworks of our time. Using silicone, human hair and animal fur, she imagines creatures that are hyper-realistic and disquietingly surreal, to ask us... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Detectable with Distance Mar 28 - May 9, 2026 Emil Lukas' perplexing objects transcend their materiality to become meditations on the workings of the universe and the purpose of art. This installation focuses on two types of work from the artist's many-pronged practice: the 'Thread Paintings' that he's best known for, and a new type of work he calls... Read more -
Judith Belzer
Weather Report Feb 7 - Mar 21, 2026 Judith Belzer is a bi-coastal painter who uses the language of landscape to try to understand and come to terms with the current environmental, political and social climate. Her most recent work explores the idea that instability and unpredictability, though anxiety-provoking, may offer opportunity for growth… and maybe even the... Read more -
Max Gimblett
Where Dreams Come Feb 7 - Mar 21, 2026 Max Gimblett — who recently celebrated his 90th birthday — is a painter, storyteller, teacher and Rinzai Zen monk. His third solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery focuses on his calligraphic work on paper and books, and his use of the motifs of the lotus and quatrefoil to articulate his journey.... Read more -
Birgit Jensen
A Thousand Echoes in My Mind Dec 6, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026 The German painter Birgit Jensen explores the relationship between truth and artifice — and the role mediation plays in it — through the unlikely medium of landscape painting. Her process begins with photographs, which she digitally edits, then manipulates into layers of geometric marks or patterns. From them, she painstakingly... Read more -
Driss Ouadahi
Reminiscence Dec 6, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026 The Algerian artist Driss Ouadahi studied architecture before attending Düsseldorf's famed Kunstakademie to study painting. Influenced by his experience as an émigré, he’s developed a unique visual vocabulary with which to explore themes of migration, social mobility and “otherness” through a lens of both cultural and personal history. Formally, his... Read more -
Cornelius Völker
Heart to Heart Oct 18 - Nov 26, 2025 Painting was declared dead by Paul Delaroche in 1839, and that opinion has been frequently reasserted ever since. But in the hands of a virtuoso who is also an astute conceptualist, painting persists in being the most seductive and attention-holding of all mediums. Cornelius Völker's fourth solo exhibition at Hosfelt... Read more -
Harry Bertoia
In the Great Oneness: Drawings, Sculpture & Sound Sep 2 - Oct 11, 2025 Hosfelt Gallery mounts the first major West Coast presentation of Harry Bertoia’s work since his 1956 exhibition at SFMOMA. One of the defining figures of Mid-Century Modernism, Harry Bertoia (1915–1978) made sculptures, drawings and jewelry; designed furniture that would prove to be iconic; executed more than 50 large-scale architectural commissions;... Read more -
Drawn to Drawing
Jul 12 - Aug 16, 2025 Todd Hosfelt combines approximately 200 drawings in an installation designed to reveal thematic and conceptual relationships across time and place. In drawings spanning the globe as well as the 16th to 21st centuries, from European Old Masters to geometric abstraction to photorealism, drawing on three-dimensional objects, drawings made with thread,... Read more -
William T. Wiley
Musin’ & Mussin’ with the Masters May 22 - Jul 3, 2025 One of the most innovative and influential artists to come out of the Bay Area, William T. Wiley (1937-2021), used wordplay, virtuosic painting and his encyclopedic knowledge of art history to address current social, political and environmental issues. In this exhibition of paintings on canvas and paper from the 1990s,... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Linescapes Mar 29 - May 10, 2025 Reception for the artist: Saturday, March 29, 3–5 pm, with a curatorial walkthrough at 4 pm. For his fifth solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, Los Angeles-based Andrew Schoultz leans into his long-standing practice as a street muralist to transform the gallery into an environment of optically vibrating wall paintings. Inspired... Read more -
Jutta Haeckel
Skin in the Game Feb 1 - Mar 15, 2025 Düsseldorf-based Jutta Haeckel paints on jute - the strong, coarse, natural fiber that burlap is made of - and utilizes a series of unorthodox techniques to undermine and expand traditional notions of painting. Most notably, she applies pigments to the 'backside' of the painting, then pushes it through small gaps... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Dark Rainbow Dec 6, 2024 - Jan 25, 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 Dec 6, 2024 - Jan 25, 2025 San Francisco's Bruce Conner is one of the most important artists of the late 20th Century - pioneering art-making in sculpture, drawing, photography, collage and video. In Wayfinding , Hosfelt Gallery brings together a group of exquisite drawings made with 'magic' marker between 1963 and 1975 that follow just one... Read more -
Mansur Nurullah
Waves of Change and History Re-asserts Itself Oct 19 - Nov 23, 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 -
Alan Rath
Machinery Is Not Unnatural Oct 18 - Nov 23, 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 -
JIM CAMPBELL & MARCO MAGGI
ALMOST INDECIPHERABLE Sep 7 - Oct 12, 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... Read more -
The Dump Show
A Collaboration with the Recology Artist in Residence Program Jul 13 - Aug 17, 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
May 11 - Jun 29, 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 Mar 30 - May 4, 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) Mar 30 - May 4, 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 Feb 10 - Mar 23, 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 Dec 8, 2023 - Jan 27, 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 Oct 20 - Nov 22, 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 Sep 5 - Oct 14, 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 Sep 5 - Oct 14, 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 Jul 8 - Aug 19, 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 Jul 8 - Aug 19, 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 May 25 - Jun 30, 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 May 25 - Jun 30, 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
Apr 11 - May 20, 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 Feb 11 - Apr 1, 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 Dec 10, 2022 - Jan 28, 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 Oct 22 - Nov 23, 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 Sep 6 - Oct 15, 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 Jun 25 - Aug 6, 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 May 7 - Jun 11, 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 May 7 - Jun 11, 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 Mar 26 - Apr 23, 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 Mar 26 - Apr 23, 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 Feb 25 - Mar 19, 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 Jan 27 - Feb 19, 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. Isolated... Read more -
Anoka Faruqee & David Driscoll
Datum Dec 4, 2021 - Jan 22, 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 Dec 4, 2021 - Jan 22, 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
Oct 23 - Nov 24, 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 Sep 7 - Oct 16, 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
Jun 19 - Jul 31, 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 May 1 - Jun 12, 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 May 1 - Jul 12, 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 Mar 13 - Apr 24, 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... Read more -
Ben McLaughlin
Ex Libris Mar 13 - Apr 24, 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 Jan 23 - Mar 6, 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 Dec 5, 2020 - Jan 16, 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 Oct 17 - Nov 25, 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 Oct 17 - Nov 25, 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 Sep 8 - Oct 10, 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 Jul 17 - Aug 29, 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... Read more -
Andrew Schoultz
Mother Nature, Father Time Jun 1 - Jul 11, 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 Feb 1 - Mar 21, 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 Dec 14, 2019 - Jan 25, 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 Oct 19 - Nov 22, 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 Sep 7 - Oct 12, 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 Sep 7 - Oct 12, 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 Jul 13 - Aug 17, 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 May 11 - Jul 3, 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... Read more -
William T. Wiley
SCULPTURE, EYES WEAR TUG ODD Mar 23 - May 4, 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 Feb 2 - Mar 16, 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 Feb 2 - Mar 16, 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 Dec 1, 2018 - Jan 26, 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 Oct 13 - Nov 17, 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 Sep 8 - Oct 6, 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
Jun 23 - Aug 11, 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... Read more -
Emil Lukas
Twin Orbit May 5 - Jun 16, 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 Mar 17 - Apr 28, 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 Mar 17 - Apr 28, 2018 In Anoka Faruqee’s sixth exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery, she collaborates with her partner David Driscoll to present new paintings from their Circle series. 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... Read more -
Birgit Jensen
What a Perfect Combination Jan 27 - Mar 10, 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
Jan 27 - Mar 10, 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
