Celebrating Modernism: 2020 FOG Design+Art
The Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
As a counterpoint to October's San Francisco Fall Show, which focuses on art and antiques, San Francisco recently enjoyed January's FOG Design+Art Fair dedicated to Modernism in design and visual arts. The Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture transforms for each event with the same fanfare, just different content. This year, devotees of innovative 20th-century and contemporary art and design flocked to the FOG, where they celebrated the leading international galleries and dealers. Among the forty-eight exhibitors, COUPAR showcases a few favorite contributors.
Marsha Cottrell Untitled (4:55:12pm)Anthony Meier Fine Arts
San Francisco based Anthony Meier Fine Arts specializes in post-World War II contemporary masters. Marsha Cottrell's ethereal Untitled (4:55:12pm), evokes comparisons to nineteenth-century astronomy prints of the night sky. Instead of being a Master Printer, Cottrell masterfully manipulates a computer and an electrostatic laser printer to create her moody modern cosmos.
JAMESPLUMB From This Day Forward IIGallery FUMI
Artists James Russell and Hannah Plumb of the London design studio JAMESPLUMB show their unconventional objects at Sam Pratt and Valerio Capo's Gallery FUMI, in Mayfair. They often repurpose abandoned items patinaed with time as in the broken antique chair of "From This Day Forward II." The chair's elegant frame now wraps a solid block of concrete, which serves as its seat.
Kim Tschang-Yeul Événement de la nuitTina Kim Gallery
Korean painter, Kim Tschang-Yeul's works, shown at New York's Tina Kim Gallery, represent a visual meditation on the water droplet. A part of post-war Korea's Art Informel movement, Kim studied at New York's Art Students League before moving to Paris in the late 1960s. His liquid, studies fuse Pop Art, Chinese calligraphy, abstraction, and Eastern philosophy.
FOG Preview Gala: Photo, Devlin Shand, Drew Altizer Photography
FOG's Preview Gala provides early access to the fair each year. The festive evening of entertainment, culinary delights, cocktails by design, and stellar people-watching benefiting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's exhibitions and education programs.
