SF Art Events: Week of 07.20.25
Thing one: Joel Daniel Phillips, A Compelling Narrative
July 26 – September 27, 2025
Opening reception: Saturday, July 26 from 3 – 5pm; remarks at 3:45pm
Catharine Clark Gallery is pleased to announce its Summer 2025 program, featuring three dynamic solo exhibitions: Joel Daniel Phillips’s A Compelling Narrative (South Gallery), Gil Batle’s Almost Sanctuary (North Gallery), and Nanci Amaka’s Cleanse / Window (Media Room). These exhibitions, presented in conversation with one another, reflect on artmaking as a form of record-keeping and a means of revealing unseen histories.
Joel Daniel Phillips's exhibition, A Compelling Narrative, continues his research into the Library of Congress’s photographic archives from the 1930s, created during the New Deal by the Farm Security Administration (FSA). His acclaimed series, “Killing the Negative,” responds to the lesser-known process by which FSA photographs were selected for publication. Through a deep dive into the archive, Phillips discovered who made these choices and what happened to the negatives of photographs deemed unworthy of publication.
Phillips notes, “The American government’s social safety net—much of which is being dismantled today—was largely built around the New Deal, which the original FSA photographs were all created to sell to the American people. In this moment, I've found myself seeing the hole-punch become both a metaphor for the way political administrations are carving holes through the heart of America, as well as a potent symbol questioning how we create and tell our stories.”.
LOCATION: Catherine Clark Gallery, 248 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (map)
HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday | 11:00AM – 6:00PM | Sunday – Monday | closed
THINGS TWO: Drawn to drawing
July 12 - August 16, 2025
Todd Hosfelt combines approximately 200 drawings in an installation designed to reveal thematic and conceptual relationships across time and place. In drawings spanning the globe as well as the 16th to 21st centuries, from European Old Masters to geometric abstraction to photorealism, drawing on three-dimensional objects, drawings made with thread, made by fly larvae, and one drawn both with graphite and on it, this is an exploration of the intimacy, immediacy, and pleasure of drawing.
Artists include D-L Alvarez, Rina Banerjee, Monika Bartholomé, Anthony Baus, Judith Belzer, Harry Bertoia, JB Blunk, Jonathan Brand, William Theophilus Brown, Joan Brown, Cameron, Tyrell Collins, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Russell Crotty, Fred Dalkey, Reed Danziger, Jay DeFeo, Beto De Volder, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Robert Duncan, Emily Feather, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Max Gimblett, Ron Griffin, Susan Janow, Jess (Collins), Matt Jones, Karla Knight, Stefan Kürten, Andrew Li, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, Claire Lukas, Emil Lukas, Marco Maggi, Ruth Marten, Lucas Michael, Dan Miller, Tommaso Minardi, Lee Mullican, Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe, Sarah M. Newton, Mansur Nurullah, Arthur Okamura, Sono Osato, Nam June Paik, Patricia Piccinini, Liliana Porter, Roland Record, Lance Rivers, Lordy Rodriguez, Gideon Rubin, Salviati, Tim Savinar, Andrew Schoultz, Thomas Schütte, Shahzia Sikander, Wayne Thiebaud, Ana Tiscornia, William Tyler, Vivian Tong, Cornelius Völker, Andrea Way, William T. Wiley, Marilyn Wong, Paul Wonner, Domenico Zindato, and many others.
LOCATION: Hosfelt Gallery, 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (map)
HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday: 10am–5:30pm, Thursday: 11am–7pm, Closed Sun & Mon
Shahzia Sikander
A Kind of Slight and Pleasing Dislocation (Veiled Shiva), 1995
vegetable color, watercolor, dry pigment and tea water on wasli handmade paper
11 x 8 in (27.9 x 20.3 cm)
thing three: ”Every(body) Is Enough”, a solo exhibition from Jun Yang
July 25- September 8
Opening Friday, JULy 25 from 6-8pm
Through figurative painting, soft sculpture, and ceramics, Yang explores embodiment, belonging, and radical self-acceptance. Centering queer and gender-diverse bodies of color, the work challenges dominant ideals of beauty and identity—offering care and intimacy as acts of resistance and healing.
“This show is a love letter to the body I once tried to hide, to the self I was taught to be ashamed of, and to the city that helped me become whole,” says Yang. “It’s for every queer and immigrant youth searching for a place where they feel seen and deeply loved.”
Drawing on their experience as a queer immigrant, Yang’s work reflects the journey of unlearning shame, navigating displacement, and reclaiming joy. Interactive textiles and fragile ceramics invite vulnerability, connection, and rest—embracing imperfection and fluidity as powerful forms of defiance.
”Every(body) Is Enough” OPENS at loom + ten JULY 25, 2025; we look forward to seeing you all at the opening reception from 6:00–8:00 PM. Admission is free and open to the public.
LOCATION: loom + ten, 2323 Market Street, San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 4 pm & by appointment
