Bay Area visual arts scene stacked with new shows, anniversary celebrations for 2023

Ja’Tovia Gary, “Citational Ethics (Saidiya Hartman, 2017),” 2020.Photo: Ja’Tovia Gary / Paula Cooper Gallery

The Bay Area’s visual art scene has entered an exciting new era in the 2020s. In 2023, anniversaries of beloved organizations will be celebrated, local artists will be feted and new contexts will be given to old favorites.

有这么多产品,编年史narrowed the upcoming year down to a dozen shows, events and organizations we’re excited to experience in 2023.

Kehinde Wiley, “Femme Piquée par un Serpent (Mamadou Gueye),” 2022, oil on canvas.Photo: Kehinde Wiley

de Young Museum

In addition to “Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence” coming to the museum March 18-Oct. 25, after an acclaimed debut at the Venice Biennale in 2022, artists from the nine Bay Area counties will again be showcased in a new edition of the de Young Open, dates still to be announced.

9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $15-$30. de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F. 415-750-3600.https://deyoung.famsf.org

John Singer Sargent, “Mosquito Nets,” 1908, oil on canvas.Photo: The Detroit Institute of Arts / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

‘Sargent and Spain’ at the Legion of Honor

The work of portrait master John Singer Sargent will be presented from a new perspective in the exclusive West Coast venue for “Sargent and Spain,” which will also include a selection of the painter’s landscapes and architectural efforts. The exhibit is set to be on display Feb. 11-May 14.

9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $15-$30. Lincoln Park, 100 34th Ave., S.F. 415-750-3600.www.famsf.org

Genevieve Gaignard, “Look What We’ve Become,” 2020.Photo: Jeff Mclane / Jeff McLane

Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco

An exciting spring has already been announced for the new Dogpatch museum. Up first are “Resting Our Eyes,” curated by Tahirah Rasheed and Autumn Breon, featuring new and existing works from 20 multigenerational Black artists; and “A Weed By Any Other Name,” artists Liz Hernández and Ryan Whelan’s meditation on the blackberry as a symbol of the artistic community of the Bay Area.

“Resting Our Eyes” and “A Weed By Any Other Name” will be on view Jan. 21-June 25.

Noon-5 p.m. Wednesday; noon-7 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Sunday. Free. Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, 901 Minnesota St., S.F.www.icasanfrancisco.org

Rina Kimche, “Work Tool/Fold,” 2014; hand-built stoneware sculpture with engobe.Photo: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

‘Rina Kimche’ at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Israeli artist Rina Kimche is getting her first solo exhibition in the United States featuring her distinctively primordial works of sculpture, which combine contemporary Middle Eastern minimalism with Mediterranean antiquity.

11 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday. Jan. 11-March 26. $10-$14. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St., Berkeley. 510-642-0808.www.bampfa.org

A still from Pushpamala N’s video work “Indrajaala/Seduction.”Photo: Pushpamala N / Asian Art Museum

‘Beyond Bollywood: 2000 Years of Dance in Art’ at the Asian Art Museum

This exhibition will bring together artworks from across South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas that depict how dance informed these cultures, and how visual art captured dance’s central importance over the millennia.

1-8 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Monday. March 31- July 10. $15. Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., S.F.www.asianart.org

Creativity Explored marks 40th anniversary year

The beloved San Francisco art center for the neurodiverse celebrates its 40th anniversary with a year of special events, including the opening of its new artist-in-residency at Recology and its companion show, “Relove,” at the gallery. Shows curated by Hilton Als and Larry Rinder, and at the Oakland Museum and Bayview Opera Center are also in the works.

“Relove”: 4-7 p.m. Thursday; by appointment Friday; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 26-March 18. Free. Creativity Explored, 3245 16th St., S.F. 415-863-2108.www.creativityexplored.org

For-Site Foundation

Ahead of its 20th anniversary, the For-Site Foundation plans to unveil a new art commission and exhibition program at the former U.S. Military Guardhouse at the entrance of the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. The inaugural show will feature San Francisco photographer Kija Lucas, whose evocative nature works were recently on view at SF Camerawork.

Open to public 24 hours a day, viewable through the windows. Jan. 14-March 12. Free. Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Blvd., S.F.www.for-site.org

Photographer Nan Goldin (left) and Bea Boston in an image used for the documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.”Photo: Associated Press

Fraenkel Gallery

An exhibition of photographer Nan Goldin opens at Fraenkel Gallery in March, on the heels of her celebrated bio-documentary“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.”Following the gallery’s artists-curating-artists format, that has seen Carrie Mae Weems explore Diane Arbus, and Elton John look at the work of Peter Hujar, Fraenkel will present filmmaker Joel Coen’s selections of Lee Friedlander photos in May.

“Nan Goldin” will be on view March 2-April 29.

“Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen” will be on view May 4-June 24.

10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. Free. Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary St., S.F. 415-981-2661.www.fraenkelgallery.com

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.Photo: Yerba Buena Center for the Art / Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The “Bay Area Now 9,” YBCA’s signature triennial survey of Northern California art, returns this fall in person.

Noon-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday. October-May 2024. Free. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., S.F. 415-978-2700.www.ybca.org

Mike Henderson featured in San Francisco and Davis

The acclaimed East Bay artist is being celebrated at both the Haines Gallery and Manetti Shrem Museum this January. The painter, blues musician and filmmaker was initially known for more figurative protest works before moving into abstraction later in his career.

“Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985”: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Thursday, Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Jan. 30-June 25. Free. UC Davis’ Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, 254 Old Davis Road, Davis. 530-752-9623.https://manettishremmuseum.ucdavis.edu

“Mike Henderson: Chicken Fingers, 1976-1980”: 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.Jan. 14-March 25. Free. Haines Gallery, 2 Marina Blvd., Building C, S.F.www.hainesgallery.com

Renee Cox, “Miss Thang,” 2009.Photo: Renee Cox

‘Black Venus’ at the Museum of African Diaspora

“Black Venus” willexamine the representation of Black women in visual culture through images from nearly 20 contemporary artists, ranging from depictions of colonial-era caricatures to portraits that aim to shatter stereotypes,with Sadie Barnette, Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, Kara Walker and Carrie Mae Weems, who are all redefining and reclaiming Black womanhood.

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday. April 5-Aug. 20. $6-$12. Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St., S.F.www.moadsf.org

Ann Hamilton, “Torpedo Scan,” 2022.Photo: Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton Celebrated at Headlands and David Ireland House

Multimedia installation artist Ann Hamilton will be featured in a dual-location exhibition at the David Ireland House in San Francisco and Headlands Center for the Arts in the Marin Headlands. The exhibition is part of the Headlands Center’s ongoing 40th anniversary celebrations, featuring esteemed alumni from their residency program.

“Process + Place: Ann Hamilton, here • there • then • now”: 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. Fridays, noon-5 p.m. Saturdays. Feb. 11-April 29. Free. David Ireland House, 500 Capp St., S.F.www.500cappstreet.org

Satellite installation on view at Headlands Center for the Arts: noon-5 p.m., Sunday-Thursday. Feb. 12-March 19. Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Simmonds Road, Building 944, Sausalito.www.headlands.org

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