Haines Gallery

Haines proudly presents Pilgrimages, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Mexican artist Ricardo Mazal. Exploring themes of transformation, impermanence, and renewal, Pilgrimages invites viewers into Mazal’s investigations of spiritual sites and cultural traditions across the globe, bringing together abstract paintings from five interrelated bodies of work, including his two latest series, Ba Zasa and White Mountain.

Haines Gallery proudly presents State Shift, our second solo exhibition with Meghann Riepenhoff. Opening in tandem with SF Art Week 2025, this highly anticipated show debuts a poetic, visceral, and personal body of work that expands the artist’s collaboration with both the cyanotype and the environment. Created at national sites highly compromised by human intervention, State Shift marks an important breakthrough in Riepenhoff’s practice, with the introduction of new pigments and gestures into her process.

Haines proudly presents Bend Di Young Tree, an exhibition of new work by Stuart Robertson (b. 1992, Kingston, Jamaica; lives and works in New York, NY). A graduate of Stanford University’s MFA program, Robertson’s practice is inspired by nostalgia for his birthplace, confrontations with the American dream, and fantasies about the future of the African diaspora. He paints, collages, and assembles images from Black life, creating striking, often resplendent images that combine materials such as aluminum, textiles, bubble wrap, glitter, and acrylic paint. Bend Di Young Tree is Robertson's first West Coast solo exhibition, and introduces audiences to his practice through a deeply personal body of work that focuses on the familial relationships, institutions, and vernacular culture that shaped his formative years. Bend Di Young Tree reflects Robertson’s desire to examine and foreground his Jamaican identity after half a life lived abroad, while inviting viewers to reckon with the influences—cultural and kindred—that have shaped each of us.

Haines and Arion Press proudly present A New Chapter: Arion Press at Haines, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the press’ recent move to Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Since 1974, Arion Press has partnered with contemporary visual artists to bring seminal texts to life. Collaborating with artists whose practices and concerns often dovetail with these written works, their publications offer fresh perspectives on literary texts ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Octavia Butler’s Kindred to Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. The exhibition at Haines showcases a selection of Arion Press’ handmade books alongside original artworks and limited edition prints by contributing artists such as Enrique Chagoya, Kenturah Davis, Michele Oka Doner, Natalie Frank, Tim Hawkinson, William Kentridge, Alison Saar, Richard Wagener, and Kara Walker. Many of these will be on view for the first time, including works from Arion Press’ latest release, Fables of Aesop.

For over fifty years, Deborah Butterfield has relayed a love of horses into a sculptural practice known for its craftsmanship, material experimentation, and nuanced depictions of a singular, recurring subject. Her debut exhibition at Haines features a selection of Butterfield's signature equine sculptures, constructed from wood and cast in bronze, each imbued with a specificity and presence typically reserved for living beings.

Material Matters brings together eight artists whose highly inventive use of materials is central to their practices. Some may take the natural world as a site of inspiration and transmutation or substitute one material for another, creating new chains of associations and meanings. Others combine and collage their materials in unexpected ways to reconsider the boundaries of form and genre.

Haines Gallery proudly presents Equations, our ninth solo exhibition with Northern California painter Patsy Krebs. Imbuing abstract geometry with a lush sensualism, Krebs' work exemplifies the restrained dignity of minimalism at its very best—elegant, intelligent, and enigmatic. Equations draws upon three decades of Krebs’ practice, ranging from paintings created during the early 1990s to newly completed works from 2024.

Haines proudly presents Sea of Glass, an exhibition of new and recent works by San Francisco-based photographer John Chiara. Focusing on the dynamic forces that continually re-shape San Francisco, Sea of Glass includes a striking new body of work created during Chiara’s recent residency on Treasure Island, as well as images made on nearby Yerba Buena Island and elsewhere along the bay. Chiara’s inventive methods yield images that subvert and refresh our reading of these familiar vistas, while the stylistic signatures of his analog process lend a sense of disorientation and discovery. Within these evocative, atmospheric photographs, the changing light and fog so distinctive to San Francisco parallels the story of a city in transition.

Haines proudly presents Earth and Sky, our 7th solo exhibition with the distinguished photographer Linda Connor. Connor's peripatetic approach to photography demonstrates a longstanding interest in the relationship between systems of belief and the natural landscape. Bridging the terrestrial and the celestial, Earth and Sky includes images from her ongoing series Once the Ocean Floor, which depicts the intricately jagged cliff faces in the mountainous Ladakh region in Northern India, as well as iconic images of the cosmos created from historic glass plates at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California, reproduced as luminous sublimation prints on aluminum. Contemplative and quietly powerful, these images invite us to contemplate our place in the universe.

Haines proudly presents Reflections on Black, our first solo exhibition with Oakland-based multidisciplinary artist Adia Millett, whose practice weaves threads of African American experiences with broader ideas about personal identity, collective history, and human interconnectivity. Blackness and the subtleties of moonlight inform Millett’s palette in new paintings and glass mosaics that examine our experiences of literal and metaphorical darkness. Presenting a nocturnal world navigated through introspection, Reflections on Black asks the questions: What do we see when we close our eyes, and when do we choose to close them?