Week of 05.11.25
Thing one: Main Characters, creativity explored
ONGOING: April 10th - June 14th, 2025
Highlighting a wide selection of ceramic sculptures from Creativity Explored's archive, Main Characters brings together a diverse cast of protagonists with intertwined storylines. By placing these unique characters together, new narratives surface with each new context; acting out layered stories within the artist's imagination, their lived experiences, and the larger history of our organization.
A group exhibition of Creativity Explored artists, including Andrew Bixler, Gerald Wiggins, Andrew Wong, Nubia Ortega, Peter Cordova, Andrew Li, and many more.
Curated by Jackie Meng
LOCATION: 3245 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
HOURS: Thursdays: 3 - 6 PM, Fridays: 3 - 6 PM, Saturdays: 12-5 PM
Andy Diaz at Catherine Clark Gallery
Thing TWO: Andy Diaz Hope : Yesterday's Tomorrows
ONGOING: March 22 - May 24, 2025
Yesterday’s Tomorrows is Andy Diaz Hope’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. Diaz Hope framed his previous collaborative exhibition with Laurel Roth Hope, An Inexhaustive Study of Power, as an exploration of how hierarchies are built into systems, how power changes over time, and who benefits from it. In his latest body of work, Diaz Hope continues this investigation through the lens of speculative futures. He writes, "Science fiction as a genre came into mainstream popularity in the 1940s and 1960s, eras when the world was rocked by the advent and repercussions of atomic bombs, world wars, civil disobedience and political protest, and the beginnings of space exploration. Technology was growing exponentially, and new futures needed to be imagined. People were looking for answers to existential questions about morality that, for many, religion no longer answered. Writers tackled predictions of where technology might lead us. Those once-imagined frontiers are currently being explored in the areas of artificial intelligence, climate devastation, resource depletion, and private investment in space exploration.”
LOCATION: 248 Utah Street (North Gallery), San Francisco, CA 94103
HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday | 11:00AM – 6:00PM | Sunday – Monday | closed
thing three: Emilio Villalba, Paintings from Home
May 1–June 28, 2025
11 AM–5 PM
Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Paintings from Home, an exhibition of recent work by artist Emilio Villalba.
This exhibition follows Villalba's debut solo institutional presentation, Everything is Something, at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas. Presented as a survey of his artistic evolution, and a homecoming of sorts, each composition featured in the show bursts with life and individuality. The maximalist aesthetic on the canvases, particularly in his Everything is Something series, speaks to his remarkable ability to capture the essence of everyday life. Strange, tumultuous, profound, and beautiful—all at once. Perhaps this is why these paintings resonate so strongly with viewers.
"Flattened digital images of his paintings convey only a fraction of the truth," writes the esteemed JoAnne Northrup, Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Nerman Museum, in her foreword to the institution's exhibition catalogue. "In person, his paintings are alive with busy brushwork, thick impasto, and a vibrant palette. His paintings convey a reverence for everyday objects and the people in his life."
You can find more details here.
DOLBY CHADWICK GALLERY, 210 Post Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94108
HOURS: Tuesday - Friday 9am - 6pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm
Emilio Villalba
Michelle in the Studio, 2024
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in
