Fraenkel Gallery is an art gallery that represents contemporary artists and showcases their work through exhibitions and a shop. Self-described as a prominent space in the art world.

Fraenkel Gallery

Fraenkel Gallery is an art gallery that promotes emerging and established contemporary artists, focusing on photography and a range of other media. Self-described as a leading gallery.

Fraenkel Gallery | 492 followers on LinkedIn. Exploring photography and its relation to other media, since 1979.⁣ | Fraenkel Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in San Francisco.

Since 1979, the gallery has presented almost 400 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other media. The gallery exhibits and publishes significant works of art in a variety of media spanning two centuries.

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🇫🇷 ⁣Join Fraenkel Gallery at Paris Photo in Booth B34, now through November 10. Explore a special solo presentation of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto on view at the Grand Palais online now: https://lnkd.in/gp3Q-Zn5

🇫🇷 As Paris Photo returns to the newly-renovated Grand Palais November 7-10, Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present a solo booth featuring work by #HiroshiSugimoto . The central focus will be two new immense folding screens shown in daily alternation featuring photographs of Japanese landmarks of sacred significance, delicately printed onto washi paper. Surveying the range and depth of the artist’s conceptual practice, the gallery will also present selections from celebrated series including Seascapes, Dioramas, Theaters, Lighting Fields, and Brush Impression. Preview the presentation: https://lnkd.in/gNNQ7dvf — 📸 Images by Hiroshi Sugimoto: • Rockefeller Center, 2001, gelatin silver print, 24-3/4 x 19-3/4 inches (mount) [62.9 x 50.2 cm] • Brush Impression 0866 (Flame), 2023, gelatin silver print, 36-7/8 x 29-1/2 inches (image, sheet & mount) [93.7 x 74.9 cm] • Distorted Universal Vision (Self-Portrait), 2003, gelatin silver print, 36-7/8 x 29-1/2 inches (image, sheet & mount) [93.9 x 74.9 cm]

💥 Now on view—a new exhibition featuring work by Bay Area-based German-Japanese American artist #KotaEzawa . The artist’s first exhibition with Fraenkel Gallery reimagines key images from the cultural narrative. Encompassing a range of media including collages, lightboxes, animations and pigment prints on wood, the show brings together Ezawa’s most recent output as well as works from earlier in his career, and will be on view through December 21. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g_s9cKY6 🗓️ On Saturday, November 16 from 12‑4pm, join us at the gallery for an open house celebrating Kota Ezawa's exhibition. Families are welcome.⁠

🥇 Congratulations to #CarrieMaeWeems on being awarded the 2024 National Medal of Arts. President Biden will present Weems the United States government’s highest award given to artists and art patrons. Weems is the first Black female visual artist to be awarded the National Medal of Arts. Since the 1980s, Weems has developed a groundbreaking and highly distinctive practice comprising photography, text, audio, installation, and video. Amplifying the voices of those whose stories have been silenced or ignored, Weems’s incisive multidisciplinary work invites sustained contemplation of race, gender, social injustice, and economic inequity throughout American history to the present day. ⁠ ⁠ A private ceremony will be held today, October 21st, at the White House, with a reception beginning at 2:30PM PDT / 5:30PM EDT. Watch the remarks live at whitehouse.gov/live .⁠ ⁠ Portrait of Carrie Mae Weems, Photo: © Rolex, Audoin Desforges.

➡️ Read now: Hilton Als writes about our current show, Elisheva Biernoff: Smashed Up House After the Storm, in The New Yorker, describing Biernoff’s “fantastically poignant and unusual paintings,” which explore “memory, the desire to capture the real self, the longing to be seen, and questions of identity.” 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3vQRKHP “One could say that the process of remaking an image as a painting is a way for Biernoff to get to know unfamiliar landscapes and her subjects, who are strangers to her—and thus to deepen the mystery through alchemy,” Als writes. “Looking at a piece by Biernoff, one stands between known and unknown worlds.” The last chance to see the show in our gallery is Saturday, October 19. — Pictured work by #ElishevaBiernoff : After Dark, 2024, acrylic on wood, painted both sides; painted cherry & fir stand, 7 x 5 inches (painting) [17.8 x 12.7 cm]

Opening next: Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by #KotaEzawa featuring a number of important new works. This will be his first solo show with the gallery since joining the roster last year. https://lnkd.in/g_s9cKY6 Ezawa reimagines key images from media, art history, and popular culture, translating complex visual information into its essential elements to explore the construction of shared experience. Encompassing a range of media, the show brings together Ezawa’s most recent work as well as key pieces from earlier in his career. 🗓️ On Saturday, November 16 from 12‑4pm, join the gallery for an open house celebrating Kota Ezawa's exhibition. Families are welcome. —⁠ Pictured: Trolley, New Orleans, 2024, transparency in lightbox, 20-3/4 x 30-3/4 inches (overall) [52.7 x 78.1 cm]

Happy birthday #PeterHujar . 🌹 There's still time to catch the artist's legendary Portraits in Life and Death, on view in Venice until November 24. Presented by the Peter Hujar Foundation as a collateral event of the 60th Venice Biennale, the exhibition is comprised of the complete set of 41 photographs reproduced in the 1976 monograph, Portraits in Life and Death—the only publication Hujar produced during his lifetime, for which his friend, the critic Susan Sontag, penned the introduction. 📕 In concert with the Venice exhibition, Liveright Publishing has reissued Portraits in Light and Death with a new forward by Benjamin Moser. Learn more and purchase: https://lnkd.in/gfTJA3JU . . Installation views, Peter Hujar: Portraits in Life and Death, Santa Maria della Pietà, 2024. Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri © Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS)

📖 Robert Adams’s new book presents 15 recent photographs depicting a sculpture of the goddess Thalia, the Muse of pastoral poets. Made at the artist's home where the sculpture sits near a window in ever-changing light, the images explore the enigmatic beauty of Thalia's face, and the peaceful corner where it sits. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dE4b9dpP

"To me it’s the clash between the visual beauty of the thing and the horror of what you’re looking at that makes it effective.” —Richard Misrach Weekend reading: The Atlanta-based nonprofit magazine ART PAPERS recently revisited an interview between #RichardMisrach and environmental journalist Ruth Dusseault, originally published in print in 2000 with the title Richard Misrach: The Machine in the Garden. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3nByhRw In the conversation, Misrach talks about his Desert Cantos series, and his work photographing Louisiana’s infamous Cancer Alley, which had been commissioned the previous year by the High Museum of Art as part of their “Picturing the South” program. 📸 Image: Richard Misrach, Hazardous Waste Containment Site, Dow Chemical Corporation, 1998, chromogenic print, 30 x 40 inches

✨️ Now on view—Elisheva Biernoff: Smashed Up House After the Storm, through October 19. Join us for a reception with the artist TODAY (Saturday, September 7) from 2 to 4 PM.⁠ ⁠ The exhibition traces Biernoff’s expanding approach through 13 recent works – carefully painted remakes of familiar pictures and objects. Biernoff continues her project of meticulously recreating found, anonymous photographs, while several new pieces draw from sources outside of photography, including butterflies, posters, paint-by-numbers pictures, and postcards. Learn more at fraenkelgallery.com .

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