SF Art Events: Week of 11.02.25
THING ONE: GATS - 20 Years of GATS
November 1 - 22, 2025
Harman Projects is pleased to announce 20 Years of GATS, an exhibition by California-based artist GATS. Known for the iconic mask seen predominantly throughout the artist’s work, the face of GATS can often be spotted peering out from an alleyway or stretched across a rooftop, greeting passerby’s with its all-seeing gaze. Representing a sense of duality, GATS’s iconic totem has been filled with intricate insignia over the years, speaking to the artist’s autobiographical experiences.
LOCATION: Harman Projects SF. 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Tuesday - Saturday / 11 am - 6 pm
THING TWO: KNEASS + GNORSKI
Installation view
KNEASS + GNORSKI brings together two Northern California artists whose shared commitment to wood carving produces strikingly different results. Ruth Charlotte Kneass presents three monumental mobiles from her Giants series—towering 9- to 14-foot kinetic sculptures that respond to air currents with the fluid grace of engineered poetry, drawing on her family's century-long boatbuilding tradition. John Gnorski shows intimate woodblock prints that deliberately embrace what he calls "the accidental and crude," creating "birds made of trees" and other forms that hover between representation and abstraction. What makes this pairing compelling is how each artist's approach illuminates the other's choices: Kneass pursues engineered transcendence while Gnorski courts controlled accidents, yet both understand wood as collaborator rather than mere material.
LOCATION: KNEASS + GNORSKI. 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Tuesday–Friday, 10:30 am–5:30 pm and Saturday, 11 am–5 pm
Particle Horizon, 2010
acrylic on panel
30 x 47 in
THING THREE: William Swanson
October 30- December 13, 2025
Skip the front room and go straight to the back gallery…
Constraint and order are balanced by chance and nature in William Swanson’s methodically abstracted landscapes. The artist creates areas of movement and intuition as he allows paint to pool and coalesce before sanding, while controlled architectural details are made using a strict grid. The quality of the surface is refined and exposed under layers that have been revealed through sanding, resulting in an atmospheric surface with both physical texture and illusory depth. Kenneth Baker described the work best in 2014, when he reviewed Swanson’s first solo show with EHG:
“bits of yellow, and orange, white and gray near the center suggest breakup in a digital image transmission, perhaps hinting that even the output of the painter’s mind has acquired the syntax of digital media.” Baker continues, “Swanson has a wonderful way with fine details that, once noticed, can remake our reading of an entire picture, looking suddenly like distant features of land or architecture or simply hovering in scale-less abstraction.”
- Kenneth Baker
LOCATION: Eleanor Harwood Gallery, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA (map)
HOURS: Open to the Public Every Saturday, 12–5PM
