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12.4_MY CITY SF FINAL

Amy Kisch
Amy Kisch

The document discusses the burgeoning art scene in San Francisco. It notes that major institutions like SFMOMA have expanded, attracting more galleries like Gagosian and Pace Gallery. Emerging collectors in the tech industry are cultivating relationships with galleries and artists. New spaces like Minnesota Street Project are opening galleries and shows to foster art in the city. Despite rising housing costs, many artists are relocating to San Francisco from other art centers due to the supportive environment and innovative collaborations between different arts organizations.

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158 Last year, when I left New York for San Francisco, I was curious to see whether the landscape here would prove fertile ground for the vision of creating access to the art world that Ive been developing since I left my roles at Sothebys and the Williamsburg Gallery Association. I was committed to continuing my work with a wide arts ecosystem and have been delighted to find that, due to the engagement of a pioneering and diverse art sector in San Francisco, it is one of the art worlds leading cities. While 2016 in particular has refocussed attention on institutional Bay Area heavy-hitters such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), which reopened this year after a USD305 million expansion, Thomas Sevcik noted in the Financial Times on 13 May, As the US West Coast is emerging as the worlds techno-utopian powerhouse, the arts are responding to this shift of power,moneyandimagination.LongstandingSan Francisco leading galleries, such as Gallery Wendi Norris, have anchored the downtown arts district for years, cultivating collector bases strong enough to now draw the likes of Larry Gagosian and John Berggruen to establish sites in the neighbourhood, andPaceGallerytoopeninSiliconValley.Forthose industry newcomers in the Bay Area, cultivating Amy Kisch explores the burgeoning art scene in San Francisco. collectors here is similar to markets like the Middle East, where I have exhibited and worked for nearly a decade," Norris says. "Collectors here and in the MENA region require thoughtful cultivation based on education and trust. The tech sector is a catalyst for much of the wealth being generated... Being accessible, informed and transparent will certainly aid in cultivating the burgeoning art collectors here. Similarly, Project Mixed Use uses food as an access point for would-be collectors from the tech industry, organising intimate dinners in which local chefs and artists collaborate in alternative spaces, programmed with provocative art installations to foster meaningful connections and dialogue. Further, Dorka Keehn, San Francisco Arts Commissioner and Principal of Keehn On Art, has successfully fostered commitments to art by the tech and private sectors including Leo Villareals The Bay Lights, the Salesforce Tower featuring a significant artwork atop its building and Sites Unseen which will bring both permanent and temporary art installations and performances to the areas surrounding SFMoMA and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Established galleries across the Mission, Dogpatch and Portrero Hill areas including Jenkins Johnson, Ratio 3, Romer Young, Catherine Clark and Rena Bransten are now joined by the gallery multiplex, Minnesota Street Project (MSP). FoundedbyentrepreneursandcollectorsDeborah and Andy Rappaport, the project was inspired by the couples belief that philanthropy today requires an updated model suited to the innovative nature of Silicon Valley. "There is no great city without art," Deborah Rappaport maintains. "Art presenters have an educational responsibility that the state at large has abdicated, to make people comfortable with various forms of the arts, whether visual or performing." MSP opened this past March, hosting over a dozen gallery shows, and presenting Christies preview of highlights from their NewYork auctions.The goal of keeping local artists here and drawing new ones is also supported by the hard work of area agencies and non-profits like Root TECHNO UTOPIA MY CITY Division, Kadist,The Lab, Diaspora Arts Connection, amongst others. Similar to Brooklyns relationship to Manhattan, San Franciscos East Bay including Oakland and Berkeley is a toehold of top-notch, innovative galleries, organisations and programming. Founder of the Paulson Bott Press Pam Paulson shares,We are part of a large effort on the part of the art community to connect and educate the young professionals in the area.Amy Cancelmo of the San Francisco-based non-profit Root Division further explained, We have always maintained that the arts and technology sectors are two of the most creative fields we are all creative problem solvers, and that if we can find ways to work together, we will all be better for it."The innovative ideas of pioneers have laid the foundation for the growth we see today.With this economic and cultural boom, have come soaring housing costs, which preclude many artists from living in the area but despite this, there is an observable influx of international artists have come from the denser art capitals like New York and Los Angeles. Iranian artists such as Sanaz Mazinani, Ala Ebtekar, Shadi Yousefian, Taraneh Hemami, Sam Nejati and Yari Ostanovy, maintain the Bay Area as one of their hubs, if not their home. Mazinani came here eight yearsagotoattendgradschoolthinkingshewould move on to New York once complete, however, she has stayed, finding the artistic and institutional environments incredibly supportive. There is a historyofsocialpracticeandactivismhere,thatthe reception of works by critically engaged audiences is strong,she remarks.This enables artists to think deeply about their practice outside the art market sector. Mazinani is also excited by the increasing strength of commercial venues and their focus to educateandbuildconnoisseurshipandartspatrons, giventhatuntilnow,areaartistshavehadtodepend on other markets outside of San Francisco. In the Bay Area at this moment, institutions, public art organisations, galleries, artists, non-profits, corporations and individual collectors are working together in truly innovative and extraordinary ways.
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12.4_MY CITY SF FINAL

  • 1. 158 Last year, when I left New York for San Francisco, I was curious to see whether the landscape here would prove fertile ground for the vision of creating access to the art world that Ive been developing since I left my roles at Sothebys and the Williamsburg Gallery Association. I was committed to continuing my work with a wide arts ecosystem and have been delighted to find that, due to the engagement of a pioneering and diverse art sector in San Francisco, it is one of the art worlds leading cities. While 2016 in particular has refocussed attention on institutional Bay Area heavy-hitters such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), which reopened this year after a USD305 million expansion, Thomas Sevcik noted in the Financial Times on 13 May, As the US West Coast is emerging as the worlds techno-utopian powerhouse, the arts are responding to this shift of power,moneyandimagination.LongstandingSan Francisco leading galleries, such as Gallery Wendi Norris, have anchored the downtown arts district for years, cultivating collector bases strong enough to now draw the likes of Larry Gagosian and John Berggruen to establish sites in the neighbourhood, andPaceGallerytoopeninSiliconValley.Forthose industry newcomers in the Bay Area, cultivating Amy Kisch explores the burgeoning art scene in San Francisco. collectors here is similar to markets like the Middle East, where I have exhibited and worked for nearly a decade," Norris says. "Collectors here and in the MENA region require thoughtful cultivation based on education and trust. The tech sector is a catalyst for much of the wealth being generated... Being accessible, informed and transparent will certainly aid in cultivating the burgeoning art collectors here. Similarly, Project Mixed Use uses food as an access point for would-be collectors from the tech industry, organising intimate dinners in which local chefs and artists collaborate in alternative spaces, programmed with provocative art installations to foster meaningful connections and dialogue. Further, Dorka Keehn, San Francisco Arts Commissioner and Principal of Keehn On Art, has successfully fostered commitments to art by the tech and private sectors including Leo Villareals The Bay Lights, the Salesforce Tower featuring a significant artwork atop its building and Sites Unseen which will bring both permanent and temporary art installations and performances to the areas surrounding SFMoMA and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Established galleries across the Mission, Dogpatch and Portrero Hill areas including Jenkins Johnson, Ratio 3, Romer Young, Catherine Clark and Rena Bransten are now joined by the gallery multiplex, Minnesota Street Project (MSP). FoundedbyentrepreneursandcollectorsDeborah and Andy Rappaport, the project was inspired by the couples belief that philanthropy today requires an updated model suited to the innovative nature of Silicon Valley. "There is no great city without art," Deborah Rappaport maintains. "Art presenters have an educational responsibility that the state at large has abdicated, to make people comfortable with various forms of the arts, whether visual or performing." MSP opened this past March, hosting over a dozen gallery shows, and presenting Christies preview of highlights from their NewYork auctions.The goal of keeping local artists here and drawing new ones is also supported by the hard work of area agencies and non-profits like Root TECHNO UTOPIA MY CITY Division, Kadist,The Lab, Diaspora Arts Connection, amongst others. Similar to Brooklyns relationship to Manhattan, San Franciscos East Bay including Oakland and Berkeley is a toehold of top-notch, innovative galleries, organisations and programming. Founder of the Paulson Bott Press Pam Paulson shares,We are part of a large effort on the part of the art community to connect and educate the young professionals in the area.Amy Cancelmo of the San Francisco-based non-profit Root Division further explained, We have always maintained that the arts and technology sectors are two of the most creative fields we are all creative problem solvers, and that if we can find ways to work together, we will all be better for it."The innovative ideas of pioneers have laid the foundation for the growth we see today.With this economic and cultural boom, have come soaring housing costs, which preclude many artists from living in the area but despite this, there is an observable influx of international artists have come from the denser art capitals like New York and Los Angeles. Iranian artists such as Sanaz Mazinani, Ala Ebtekar, Shadi Yousefian, Taraneh Hemami, Sam Nejati and Yari Ostanovy, maintain the Bay Area as one of their hubs, if not their home. Mazinani came here eight yearsagotoattendgradschoolthinkingshewould move on to New York once complete, however, she has stayed, finding the artistic and institutional environments incredibly supportive. There is a historyofsocialpracticeandactivismhere,thatthe reception of works by critically engaged audiences is strong,she remarks.This enables artists to think deeply about their practice outside the art market sector. Mazinani is also excited by the increasing strength of commercial venues and their focus to educateandbuildconnoisseurshipandartspatrons, giventhatuntilnow,areaartistshavehadtodepend on other markets outside of San Francisco. In the Bay Area at this moment, institutions, public art organisations, galleries, artists, non-profits, corporations and individual collectors are working together in truly innovative and extraordinary ways.