September 11 - December 14
FOR-SITE is honored to present Umar Rashid at The Guardhouse as part of The Guardhouse Program, which is designed to serve three artists annually, each of whom will create a temporary art installation inside a historic, former military guard station at the main entrance to Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. This program activating The Guardhouse is free and open to the public, viewable through the windows 24 hours a day.
Umar Rashid’s installation at The Guardhouse, California Spectacle, Cosmic Errors (2025), re-imagines California’s landscapes as stages where history, myth, and pop culture collide. Together, these two paintings fold documented history into a global meditation: the human cycle of error, fleeting peace, folly, and the perpetual failure of empathy.
This installation is linked to the themes explored in FOR-SITE’s exhibition Black Gold: Stories Untold at Fort Point National Historic Site from June 6 to November 2, 2025.
The installation is free and open to the public, viewable through the windows 24 hours a day.
The Guardhouse is located at the main entrance of Fort Mason Center.