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20 Years - Anniversary Exhibition
Eleanor Harwood Gallery marks 20 years with 22 of its artists, including Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Bryson Gill, Carmen McNall and Paul Wackers.
In 2006 Eleanor Harwood opened her gallery in an Outer Mission storefront, with a hair salon in the back half of the space. More than 140 exhibitions later, this show brings back 22 of her artists, including Emily Prince, the first one she showed. By San Francisco rent standards, splitting a room with a salon was the sensible start.
You get a petalled papier-mâché sculpture, a ledger page cut by hand and Artforum magazines screwed behind plexiglass in the same show, alongside paintings from 2009 to this year. Harwood's press text explains the mix: for twenty years her answer to what the gallery shows has been "whatever I like", and what she likes is "evidence of an extremely practiced hand". Every artist has Bay Area roots.
Treat it as a dealer looking back at her own taste, not a themed exhibition. Entry is free. It's in Suite 105 on the ground floor of 1275 Minnesota St, Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm, until 31 October.
Look for
Dana Hemenway's column after Brâncuși
Look for a stack of ceramics 47 inches tall, threaded on brass chain that pools on the floor at its base.
Francesca Pastine's Artforum 44
Copies of Artforum magazine, screwed to wood behind plexiglass, built into a piece almost four feet tall.
Tiffanie Turner's Comme une monticule de beurre
A three-foot-wide petalled form in papier-mâché and Italian crepe paper, whose title means 'like a mound of butter'.
Jill Sylvia's Untitled (Balance Sheet, White)
A sheet of accounting ledger paper, cut away by hand.
Kirk Maxson's Japanese maple leaf
A maple leaf made in copper and brass, set with a rock, in a piece 22 inches tall.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You want a themed exhibition: the selection rule, in the dealer's words, is "whatever I like".
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Image credits
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- 20 Years - Anniversary ExhibitionCourtesy of Minnesota Street Project
- Martin Venezky: Process WorkLetterform Archive
- Type for All! Ten Years of Type WestLetterform Archive
- Caguiat Delacruz: The TrampCCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
- Minnesota Street ProjectPigeonChickenFish / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Letterform ArchiveClyde Charles Brown / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary ArtsMariwlqs / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0