Anglim/Trimble

Anglim/Trimble is pleased to present In a grove, a gathering of artists utilizing abstraction to create rapturous states of vision marked by the qualities of the sensorial and perceptual. Curated by Dean Smith, the exhibition includes work by Thomas Akawie, Brad Brown, Mason Dowling, Donald Feasél, Renée Gertler, Robin McDonnell, and Nancy White. Inspired by the titular poem of San Francisco visionary poet Philip Lamantia, In a grove expresses the elusive and terrifyingly ecstatic nature of our attempt to decipher the language of the godhead--whose unknowable aspects lie beyond actions or emanations. The paintings and sculptures address the exploration of spaces that create a demarcation between the body and the outside/other, between the self and non-self, or something greater than the self, and sites that vacillate between the agrestic and the architectonic. The artists ask us to consider wonderment and enigma as strategies for exploring what it means to reach outside the self and its environment into something far greater. They too ask what the possibilities of deciphering the talk of the gods may ultimately reveal. Please join us for a reception on Saturday, January 13 from 4-6 pm in our first-floor gallery at Minnesota Street Project. In a grove will be on view through Saturday, February 24. Pictured: Donald Feasél, "Ashden," Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 60 in., 2022

We are pleased to announce our first exhibition of 2024, Bryan Keith Thomas: Tufted Cotton. Tufted Cotton is an immersive exhibition that explores the nuance of an ancestral portal through global tapestries and the engagement of black as a color, community, and consciousness. The works, including sculpture, painting, installation, and gallery interventions, celebrate spirituality and the Black experience through the historic symbols of cotton, roses, Church fans, Holy Bibles, text, and the African and African American image. He includes nuances of Asia, India, and Africa as a single community. The mirrors, inspired by the Minkisi-Power figures and nail fetishes from central Africa, symbolize desire, mortality, and ancestral protection. The nails hold the energy of a prayer request. The small cloth bags (Heirloom Bags) adorning many of the paintings bear the spiritual and physical memories of the ancestors. In addition, the bags contain seeds, money, crystals, hair, prayer cloths, and more. Please join us for a reception on Saturday, January 6 from 4-6 pm in our second-floor gallery at Minnesota Street Project. Tufted Cotton is on view through Saturday, February 24. Bryan Keith Thomas was born in Dyersburg, TN and received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Thomas currently resides in Oakland, CA, where he works as a Professor of Fine Art within the Painting and Drawing and Critical Ethnic Studies departments at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Thomas has exhibited nationally, internationally, and within the Bay Area including Art Basel, Miami; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Gallery Guichard, Chicago, IL; ArtJaz Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; E & S Gallery, Louisville, KY; the American Embassy, Dakar, Senegal, and Du Sable Museum, Chicago, IL, among others. Thomas received the "White House Honor" as First Lady Laura Bush's guest for his work within the Art in Embassies Program, Washington, DC, and his paintings are in several private and public collections worldwide. Pictured: Bryan Keith Thomas, "Forever Free," Victorian mourning pins, Tennessee cotton, heirloom bags, antique silk tassel, paper flower, rolling pin, antique hand fan, mother of pearl, acrylic and oil on wood, 21 x 33 x 4 in., 2022

Prêt à Placer, or “ready to place” in French, is a gallery artist group exhibition that includes friends from SFArtsEd. The works are small but relay the depth and breadth of ideas and styles present in the Bay Area. In addition,10% of all sales benefit SFArtsEd.

Biology of Flight presents paintings and collages that layer memory and meaning. As color, shape, and pattern combine on the picture plane, stories from childhood, fables, and the artist’s delight and concern for Nature appear.

Animals’ Reading Room includes videos and paintings that question the moment when humanity took a wrong turn in the evolution towards climate change. Anno looks at animals’ domesticity and the human impulse to exoticize, reflecting on beauty, knowledge, and culpability. The career monograph, Rebel Splendor, will also be available.

A. Frick Vernon: Narratives features drawings circa 1980 and 90, including some earlier works. Frick Vernon showcases the recurring thematic of the Tall Bold Woman, alongside references from Western and Eastern thought. With active line work and Pop colors, she encapsulates the frenetic freedom that was present in Northern California.

Abstraction features gallery artists who work with abstraction and use repetition, pattern, and accumulation as formal and conceptual devices. Also included in the show are a selection of works from the estate of Paule Anglim. Artists John Beech, Leo Bersamina, Mark Brest van Kempen, David Ireland, Jack Jefferson, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni, Tomas Nakada, Milton Resnick, Katherine Sherwood, Carlos Villa, Stephen Vincent, Benji Whalen, and Hannah Wilke.

Sentient Terrains presents new ceramic projects, assemblages, and related site studies that investigate metabolism, climate, transmutation, and correlations between living and non-living systems. Throughout the gallery, sculptures, photographic imagery, and flags are in conversation about ecology in an expanded frame, complemented by proposals, video, and diagrammatic expressions. Artist Talk and Walk-through Saturday, June 17 at 3pm