A temper of conviviality reigned on the high-energy opening of the San Francisco Artwork Truthful on 17 April, with sellers, artists, collectors, curators and celebrities in attendance. The honest, which continued till 20 April on the Fort Mason Heart for Arts & Tradition, rebranded because the San Francisco Artwork Truthful final 12 months after beforehand being referred to as ArtMrkt San Francisco.
“Every time we return we’re reminded of the deep dedication the area has to their artists. San Francisco exhibits up. The sense of neighborhood is what makes this metropolis really distinctive,” says Kelly Freeman, the director of Artwork Market Productions, which runs the honest.
The honest featured 88 exhibitors this 12 months, with a powerful contingent from the East Bay, together with the Oakland-based galleries pt.2 (which had 4 areas all through the honest) and Johansson Initiatives, in addition to Good Mom Gallery, which has places in Oakland and Los Angeles. The honest additionally devoted stands to different areas and fashions, together with the worldwide residency programme the Various Artwork Faculty and the Portland-based artist-run area after/time Collective Gallery, amongst others.
The artist Marc Horowitz (in white shirt) works within the DeBoer Gallery on the 2025 San Francisco Artwork Truthful Images by Drew Fowl, Courtesy of Artwork Market Productions
The artist Marc Horowitz had a solo stand with the Los Angeles-based DeBoer Gallery, which was in utter disarray as he used the area as a studio all through the run of the honest. The artist nailed and stapled massive unstretched canvases that includes vibrant summary compositions to the partitions; water bottles and a worth checklist hand-scrawled on a mangled piece of carboard littered the desk. Regardless of the satirical tone of his “efficiency on laziness”, a number of of the work bought for $25,000 and up.
The Various Artwork Faculty, which was co-founded by Nato Thompson (AMP’s inventive director) and the artist Amber Imrie, showcased works by 4 artist-members: Imrie, Kellie O’Dempsey, Victoria Loren Miller and Stacey Goodman. “We wished to indicate a few of our artists’ work as a strategy to introduce broader audiences to the larger work we do,” stated Imrie.
The honest’s programming pulled in lots of native companions, together with a Friday evening get together co-hosted by the Additional Triennial, a Bay Space-wide recurring exhibition launching in 2027, on the downtown resort The Jay, with wine donated by the art-filled vineyard Donum Property. Based by the philanthropist Robin Wright, the Additional Triennial has already raised greater than $1m for its inaugural version and partnered with nearly each artwork establishment within the area. On Saturday the director and chief curator of the Institute of Modern Artwork, Ali Gass, led a studio go to with the artist Masako Miki, whose solo exhibition on the ICA SF Midnight March opens 16 Might.
Alessandro Gallo, The Idiot, 2025 Courtesy of the artist and Duane Reed Gallery
In the meantime, on the honest, sellers reported wholesome gross sales of works priced from a number of hundred {dollars} to the decrease 5 figures. The closely-watched native gallery Micki Meng gave 100% of the proceeds from its stand to Artwork into Acres, the artist-founded environmental non-profit. The partitions have been lined with small works priced at $500 every by Bay Space artists and members of the neighborhood, together with SFMoMA board president Robert Fisher, the museum’s affiliate curator of portray and sculpture Nancy Lim, the artists Michelle Yi Martin and Drew Bennett, and others.
The St Louis-based Duane Reed Gallery bought six tarot-inspired ceramic works by artist Alessandro Gallo for $7000 every. The native vendor Eleanor Harwood bought works for costs starting from $2,400 to $12,500, the latter for one in every of Mary Finlayson’s glass tile nonetheless life mosaics. Studio Store Gallery, primarily based simply south of San Francisco in Burlingame, bought two mixed-media, Delft-inspired works from Rob Strati’s Fragmented sequence for $15,500 and $20,500. The native powerhouse gallery Jessica Silverman reported practically a dozen gross sales, together with eight works by Clare Rojas starting from $14,000 for an oil-on-paper work to $45,000 for the brand new portray Spiraling Time (2025).
Clare Rojas, Girl’s Head within the Fern, 2025 Photograph: Phillip Maisel. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
A number of worldwide galleries reported robust gross sales, too. The Paris-based Sobering Galerie bought ten works for costs between €1,700 and €3,900 ($1,900-$4,400). Gallery Playlist, from Busan, South Korea, bought 9 ceramic works by Jung Jisook for costs starting from $780 to $3,600. The German area coGALERIE bought seven works, together with a bronze by Olivier Messas for $3,400. The London-based gallery TAG Wonderful Arts positioned seven works, starting from $650 for a number of of Neil Carroll’s nonetheless lifes to $8,500 for a brand new portray by Michael Azgour. Yiwei Gallery, which has areas in Los Angeles and Wuhan, China, bought a four-panel portray from its solo sales space of works by Liu Tianlian for a worth within the vary of $40,000.
Commenting on the honest’s strengths, Freeman provides: “The spirit of collaboration, innovation and social consciousness is core to what we purpose to spotlight on the honest.”
