Established in 1991, the Catharine Clark Gallery presents the work of contemporary, living artists using a variety of media. The gallery is located in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill Neighborhood, at 248 Utah Street. The Catharine Clark Gallery is the only commercial gallery in San Francisco with an entire room dedicated to showcasing video projects.

History

The Catharine Clark Gallery opened in 1991 with a location in the

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district of San Francisco. In 1995, the gallery moved from its original "hole in the wall" to a space at 49 Geary. In 2007, the gallery was moved to a location on nearby Minna Street. The new location placed the gallery close to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the African Diaspora. The move from Geary to Minna brought the gallery a larger, more consistent audience, as the gallery's change in location gave it greater independence from the numerous galleries at 49 Geary. With the demolition and on-going construction going on at the San Francisco MoMa next door, Clark decided to move her gallery once more, this time to 248 Utah Street in the Potrero Hill region of San Francisco. On September 7, 2013, the gallery opened its new location with an exhibition titled, "This is the Sound of Someone Losing the Plot," curated by Anthony Discenza.

Exhibitions

Exhibitions at the Catharine Clark Gallery generally last six weeks and feature one or two individual artists' work in addition to work that is being shown in their dedicated media room. The gallery program has garnered critical attention from numerous publications, including The Guardian, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Artforum The Catharine Clark Gallery's artists have been featured by numerous different galleries and museums in the United States and abroad. Institutions that have hosted their artists include: the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the

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, the

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, the Queensland Art Gallery, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Locations

The Catharine Clark Gallery currently has two locations; the main gallery is located in San Francisco while a smaller salon space is located in Chelsea, Manhattan in New York City and is open only by appointment.

Selected represented artists

* Sandow Birk *

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* Chris Doyle *

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* Scott Greene *

Julie Heffernan Julie Heffernan (born 1956 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist ...

* Nina Katchadourian * Ellen Kooi *

LigoranoReese LigoranoReese is the collaborative name of Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, artists who've worked together since the mid-eighties. Their artwork falls within the fields of new technology, ice sculpture, installation art, video art, artists books ...

Kara Maria Kara Maria (born 1968), née Kara Maria Sloat, is a San Francisco-based visual artist known for paintings, works on paper and printmaking.Roth, David M"The Nature Conundrum,"''SquareCylinder'', June 2, 2021. Retrieved June 6, 2023.University of ...

Stephanie Syjuco Stephanie Syjuco (born 1974, in Manila, Philippines), is a Filipino-American conceptual artist and educator. She currently lives and works in San Francisco Career Syjuco's artwork explores the friction between the authentic and the counterfei ...

* Masami Teraoka *

Kal Spelletich Kal Spelletich ( ) is an American contemporary artist. A pioneer of San Francisco's machine art scene, he hand builds complex machines and robots. Current work, in 2018, includes building functional artificial robotic organs as a residence of t ...

References

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