CALIFORNIA GOLD
June 20–July 25, 2024
Group Exhibition
Image: California Gold Installation View (Barry McGee, Seth Kaufman, Christopher Woodcock), June 2024. Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
Berggruen Gallery
10 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
+1-415-781-4629
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Berggruen Gallery Hours
| Monday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Wednesday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Thursday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Friday | 10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
Overview
CALIFORNIA GOLD features 43 artists celebrating Californian history, iconography, and culture.
They are: Tauba Auerbach, John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Helen Berggruen, Sarah Blaustein, Katherine Boxall, Val Britton, Christopher Brown, Andy Burgess, Dean Byington, Bruce Cohen, Adriane Colburn, Travis Collinson, Mark di Suvero, June Edmonds, Charles Gaines, Daniel Gibson, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Michael Gregory, Stephen Hannock, Sarah Hotchkiss, Seth Kaufman, Clare Kirkconnell, Matt Kleberg, Anna Kunz, Charles Lee, Barry McGee, Klea McKenna, Tom McKinley, Richard Misrach, Nicole Mueller, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Jillian Shea, Stephanie H. Shih, Kyle Warren Smith, Joni Sternbach, Marie Thibeault, Dani Tull, Darren Waterston, Griff Williams, Jonas Wood, Christopher Woodcock.
Preview CALIFORNIA GOLD Part I. Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
“California Gold invites artists with ties to California to engage with the Golden State, expressing a diverse set of viewpoints and relationships. From the Gold Rush to Hollywood opulence to tech booms and busts, California Gold speaks to the state’s status as a cultural center for the United States and beyond, with its rich landscapes entrenched in influential history. The show pays special homage to the contemporary renaissance of San Francisco’s post-pandemic art scene, celebrating the city as a site of artistic optimism and renewal.”
California Gold is true treasure to behold, with heavy hitters like Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, and Larry Bell, to Bay Area talents, Barry McGee and Brooklyn’s Stephanie Shih. Was also exciting to see Tauba Auerbach and Jonas Wood in this show (personal faves of mine), whom, of late, I’ve only seen in museums.
Preview CALIFORNIA GOLD Part II. Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
The Andy Burgess San Francisco series (see Preview I of the show) is a nostalgic love letter to the city. Collaged from mid-century matchbooks and ephemera, these works remind me of the San Francisco my Japanese-American parents and grandparents talked about when I was a kid—the days of the San Francisco Twins, whom I saw a few times in the early 2000s, and when Herb Caen was the king of cool and newspapers were everything.
The works in California Gold reflect a diverse range of artists and price points—something I very much appreciate in a gallery. Don’t miss this PHENOMENAL, INSPIRING show!
🗓 CALIFORNIA GOLD runs until July 25, 2024 at Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood.
💌 Did you see the show? What did you think? Let us know in the comments (in the Reviews section located on the second tab at the top of the page).
Quick Guide: Berggruen Gallery
⭐ LOCATION: Berggruen Gallery is located in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood at 10 Hawthorne Street between 2nd and 3rd streets (7 min walk from Montgomery Station) and across the street from SFMOMA’s Howard Street entrance, where Kara Walker’s FREE installation, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine), recently opened.
⭐ HOURS: Tuesday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
⭐ NEARBY ART: MUSEUMS: SFMOMA [Howard Street entrance] (2 min walk), YBCA (4 min walk), MoAD (6 min walk), CJM (8 min walk). PUBLIC ART: Revelation, the Martin King Jr. memorial fountain and several others at Yerba Buena Gardens (4 min walk) [see LINK for Yerba Buena Gardens self-guided art tour].
⭐ NEARBY FOOD/DRINK: My nearby FAVES are Fang [Cantonese] (1 min walk), Yokai (7 min walk), Wise Sons (8 min walk) and Oren’s Hummus (6 min walk). [*Check out their AMAZING HAPPY HOUR Monday–Thursday 3 p.m.–5 p.m.] and Grace [SFMOMA’s public street-level restaurant] (4 min walk).
💌 More nearby suggestions are always welcome. Feel free to add in the comments!
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