A LOVE LETTER TO ART

Art Calendar: Creativity Explored X Open Invitational ART FAIR (SF SoMa) | Jan. 23–25, 2026 & Hung Kei Shiu: Color Field (SF Mission) | Jan. 15–Mar. 28, 2026
2026-01-23 - 2026-01-25 | 215 Fremont Street, 215 Fremont Street, San Francisco, 94105, United States
Art Calendar: Creativity Explored X Open Invitational ART FAIR | Jan. 23–25, 2026

Event Details
The Creativity Explored X Open Invitational marks a new art fair in downtown San Francisco, presented through a partnership between Creativity Explored and The Open Invitational, centering artists with disabilities. FREE and open to the public, the fair brings together progressive studios from across the country—offering individual funding to make participation accessible—and expands SF Art Week by spotlighting artists and artworks often excluded from the traditional art fair circuit, igniting vital conversations about inclusion, visibility, and representation in contemporary art.
Event Dates & Hours
*Admission is FREE to the Creativity Explored X Open Invitational art fair. It will take place at 215 Fremont Street from Jan. 23–25, 2026.
Friday, January 23, 2026: 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 24, 2026: 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 25, 2026: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Creativity Explored (3245 16th Street) Exhibitions
UPCOMING: Hung Kei Shiu: Color Field from January 15–March 28, 2026. Creativity Explored presents Hung Kei Shiu, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring his signature abstract works built from layered dashes, dots, and color fields that create dense, atmospheric compositions. A longtime member of the Creativity Explored community, Shiu’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Oakland Museum of California and has been exhibited internationally. *Opening Reception is Thursday, January 15 from 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
*The gallery at Creativity Explored is open Thursday and Friday from 3:00 p.m.–6:00p.m.; Saturday 12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Art Calendar: ATRIUM Art Fair at Minnesota Street Project (SF Dogpatch), Jan. 22–25, 2026
2026-01-22 - 2026-01-25 | Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, 94107, United States
ATRIUM Art Fair | Jan. 22–25, 2026

Event Details
ATRIUM debuts as a new alternative art fair at Minnesota Street Project, spotlighting small, emerging, and underground contemporary galleries from across the San Francisco Bay Area. Timed to coincide with SF Art Week, the fair takes place January 22–25, 2026 at MSP’s flagship Dogpatch campus.
Free and open to the public, ATRIUM offers an approachable entry point into the region’s gallery ecosystem, inviting visitors to engage directly with artists and gallerists in a welcoming, non-intimidating setting. Rooted in Minnesota Street Project’s mission to support independent art spaces, the fair emphasizes accessibility, experimentation, and community—while making the experience of discovering and collecting contemporary art feel inclusive and attainable.
Featuring presentations from 15+ Bay Area galleries, ATRIUM reflects the breadth of contemporary practice in the region, from established artist-run spaces to newer, more experimental programs.
Event Dates, Hours, & Admission
Thursday, January 22 from 6:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. *Opening Reception
Friday and Saturday, January 23–24 from 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m
Sunday, January 25, 2026: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
RSVP for your FREE tickers HERE.

Art Calendar: FOG Design+Art Fair (SF Fort Mason), Jan. 22–25, 2026
2026-01-22 - 2026-01-25 | Fort Mason Center for the Arts, 2 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, 94123, United States
Art Calendar: FOG Design+Art Fair | Jan. 22–25, 2026

Event Details
FOG Design+Art Fair returns to Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture for its 12th edition, activating Piers 2 and 3 with a dynamic program of installations, talks, and community-driven experiences. Highlights include the expanded FOG Talks in Pier 3’s FOG Theatre—featuring leading voices across art, design, architecture, and technology—alongside FOG FOCUS, which spotlights emerging artists through installations and accessible works, including a participatory storefront project by Jasko Begovic (Sko Habibi. Also featured in Cult Aimee Friberg’s upcoming THE VEIL BETWEEN opening Jan. 16, 2026. See his work from SFMOMA’s Get in the Game HERE).
The fair also offers FOG Family Days with hands-on art-making for children, FOG MRKT showcasing distinctive vendors and makers, and new pop-ups such as The Stout Bookmobile and Loquat café, plus returning favorites like A16, Park Life, and the FOG Lounge, making FOG Design+Art a lively, multi-sensory anchor of San Francisco’s art calendar.
Event Dates, Hours, & Admission
Thursday, January 22–Saturday, January 24, 2026: 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m
Sunday, January 25, 2026: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
*FOG Design+Art offers two general-admission ticket options: A SINGLE DAY TICKET or a FOUR-DAY FAIR PASS. Tickets to the fair include entry to both FOG Design+Art and FOG FOCUS, as well as access to FOG Talks, which feature dynamic conversations with leaders across the fields of art, design, and technology.
Single-day tickets are $35 in advance and $40 after January 21, 2026 (plus fees). Four-day tickets are $95 in advance and $100 after January 21, 2026 (plus fees). Purchase tickets HERE.

Art Calendar: L. Song Wu: Feast at Johansson Projects (Oakland) | Nov. 7–Dec. 31, 2025
2025-11-07 - 2025-12-30 | Johansson Projects, 2300 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
L. Song Wu: Feast | Nov. 7–Dec. 31, 2025

Event Details
Feast at Johansson Projects is a solo exhibition by L. Song Wu that unfolds like an Italian full-course meal, exploring the sensual, performative, and unsettling nature of eating and consumption. Each painting evokes the exaggerated intimacy of mukbang videos—overflowing with surreal abundance, absurd beauty, and emotional detachment. Drawing from Wu’s cross-cultural experiences across the U.S., China, and Italy, the works reflect how food, desire, and identity intertwine through race, gender, and class. At once seductive and grotesque, Feast invites viewers to consider what it means to consume—and to be consumed—in a world of endless appetites.
Event Dates & Hours
Feast is on view at Johansson Projects (Oakland) from November 8–December 31, 2025. *Opening on evening of November 7, 2025.
*The gallery is open Thursday–Saturday from 1:00 p.m.–5:00p.m.

Art Calendar: Auudi Dorsey: What’s Left, Never Left at Jonathan Carver Moore (Tenderloin SF) | Oct. 9–Dec. 20, 2025
2025-10-09 - 2025-12-20 | Jonathan Carver Moore, 966 Market Street, San Francisco, 94102, United States
Auudi Dorsey: What’s Left, Never Left | Oct. 9–Dec. 20, 2025

Event Details
Jonathan Carver Moore’s What’s Left, Never Left, is a solo exhibition by New Orleans-based artist Auudi Dorsey, featuring a powerful new body of work created during his six-week residency at the gallery. Expanding on his research into the intertwined histories of African American communities and water, Dorsey’s largest paintings to date reimagine lost leisure spaces that once fostered joy, resilience, and belonging. Drawing from archival photographs, his work centers the experiences of African women and reflects on the generational loss of swimming traditions—challenging narratives that distance Black communities from aquatic life. Through a deeply intuitive, Southern-rooted visual language, What’s Left, Never Left offers a moving meditation on memory, reclamation, and cultural empowerment..
Event Dates & Hours
Auudi Dorsey: What’s Left, Never Left is on view at Jonathan Carver Moore (Tenderloin SF) from October 9–December 20, 2025.
*The gallery is open Thursday and Friday 12:00 p.m.–6:00 pm.; Saturday 12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. and by appointment.

Art Calendar: Pegan Brooke: Into absence, MIST at re.riddle (Minnesota Street Project SF) | Oct. 4–Dec. 20, 2025
2025-10-04 - 2025-12-20 | re.riddle, 1275 Minnesota Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94107, United States
Pegan Brooke: Into absence, MIST | Oct. 4–Dec. 20, 2025

Event Details
Into absence, MIST is a solo exhibition by artist Pegan Brooke exploring what remains in the quiet space after loss. Using mist as both metaphor and medium, Brooke’s monochromatic, layered paintings evoke the ethereal threshold between presence and absence—where light, air, and matter blur. Through subtle shifts of tone and delicate, reflective brushwork, her works transform the experience of looking into one of perception and renewal, inviting viewers to dwell in the open, shimmering terrain where something new begins to emerge.
Event Dates & Hours
Pegan Brooke: Into absence, MIST is on view at re.riddle (Minnesota Street Project) from October 4–December 20, 2025.
*The gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday 11:00 a.m.–5:00p.m.

Art Calendar: Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California at BAMPFA (Berkeley) | June 8–Nov. 30, 2025
2025-06-08 - 2025-11-30 | BAMPFA, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California | June 8–Nov. 30, 2025

Event Details
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California at BAMPFA traces how African American quiltmaking traditions migrated and blossomed in the West during the Second Great Migration (1940–1970). Featuring one hundred quilts by nearly eighty artists—many with Bay Area ties—the exhibition celebrates the artistry, heritage, and resilience embedded in these textiles, honoring generations of makers who transformed everyday materials into carriers of memory, beauty, and cultural legacy.
Event Dates, Hours, Admission & Discounts
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California is on view at BAMPFA (Downtown Berkeley) from June 8–November 30, 2025.
⭐ HOURS: Open Wednesday–Sunday 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
⭐ MUSEUM ADMISSION:

General Admission Tickets Adults $18
Seniors 65+, College Students (non-UC Berkeley), UC Berkeley alumni and retirees, Visitors w/Disabilities, Military Personnel $12.
Group Visits/Tours $9 (reserve in advance)
Ages 14–18 $5
Ages 0–13 FREE
Membership starts at $40

⭐ MUSEUM DISCOUNTS (FREE GA):

FREE FIRST THURSDAYS.
UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff
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Hofmann Circle, Leadership Board, Director’s Cabinet, and Curator’s Circle members
MATRIX artists and BAMPFA Collection artists

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re.riddle's MATERIAL CONTINUUM - Saint Joseph's Arts Society - San Francisco (SoMa)
2025-01-23 - 2025-04-11
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