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Don Soker Contemporary Art
Don Soker Contemporary Art is a San Francisco-based art gallery, established in 1971. It is one of the longest continuously operating contemporary art galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area. The gallery exhibits contemporary international art with an emphasis on conceptual, reductive and minimal work in a variety of media. It was one of the first to show contemporary Japanese art in the 1970s. As of 2017, the gallery is located in San Francisco's Potrero Hill district. History The gallery was founded in 1971 by Don and Carol Kaseman Soker as the "Upstairs Gallery" in a Victorian-era flat in San Francisco's North Beach. Working with the Kyoto-based art venue Gallery Coco and later directly with artists, the early shows' focus was on contemporary Japanese conceptual art, which was little known in the United States at the time. These artists included the new conceptual group, as well as Mono-ha and Gutai artists. Their aesthetic was an experimental hybrid of past and present. Works on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
