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The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
63 Bluxome was an artist run space created by John Behanna, Brian McPartlon, Bill Quinlan, Katherine Quinlan, Doug Gower, and Alex Buys and located in the South of Market area of San Francisco that emerged in the mid 1970s, [1] which became recognized as an “alternative space” that presented works of various mediums of art from neighboring artists in a casual and social environment.
The Saint Joseph's Arts Society works in collaboration with other arts nonprofits, and serves in many capacities including as a gallery, museum, event space, and an artist-in-residence space. [3] [8] [9] It houses a branch of Carpenters Workshop Gallery. [10] In 2021, Saint Joseph's Arts Society hosted Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary ...
The history of art in the San Francisco Bay Area includes major contributions to contemporary art, including Abstract Expressionism. The area is known for its cross-disciplinary artists like Bruce Conner , Bruce Nauman , and Peter Voulkos as well as a large number of non-profit alternative art spaces .
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Art museums and galleries in San Francisco" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States.Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, national, and international artists and the Bay Area's diverse communities.
Galería de la Raza (GDLR) is a non-profit art gallery and artist collective founded in 1970, that serves the largely Chicano and Latino population of San Francisco's Mission District. GDLR mounts exhibitions, hosts poetry readings , workshops, and celebrations, sells works of art, and sponsors youth and artist-in-residence programs.