March 20 - April 18, 2021
Interactive, multimedia installation by San Francisco artist BbyBuu333.
Read moreSELF SERIES / COUNTER COLLECTIVE
Feb 19 - March 14, 2021
Malindi Jo Walker, Sarah Phenix, Victoria Campa. Counter Collective is a group of photographers based in San Francisco, California and beyond (based in unceded Ohlone territory).
Read moreCLAIRE BIVINS / LILLIES OF THE FIELD
Jan. 13 - Feb. 14, 2021
Lillies of the Field - Ceramic sculpture by local SF artist, Claire Bivens.
HIGH RISE / ERIK PARRA
Oct 15 - Nov 25, 2020
High Rise is an immersive, painting-based, and site-responsive installation building upon my previous interest in expanding the two-dimensional space in my artworks out into the actual space of the gallery.
Read moreWHAT IS FRAGILE / RHIANNON MACFADYEN
September 12 - October 4, 2020
San Francisco-born curator and project-based artist Rhiannon Evans MacFadyen explores fragility, resilience, and the physicality of our ancestral inheritance in What is Fragile—a multidisciplinary exhibition and installation.
Read moreIDEAL AND REALITY /// LEONARD REIDELBACH
August 1 - 30, 2020
An installation of paintings, prints, and textiles by Leonard Reidelbach. Opulent pattern and figurative imagery reflect moments of queer and trans community, crusing, and connection.
YASMIN HUSSEIN / SWEET & LOW
March 21 - April 29, 2020
Live stream artist reception, Saturday, March 28, 6pm. Come virtually hang out in the immersive installation created over the past two weeks in the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery.
Read morePIPER LAYNE ALAN / MAYBE LATER. / FLOYD TANGEMAN
Feb 23 - March 14, 2020
Three humans born here (San Francisco). Minds fused with surroundings and experiences existing in the 21st century.
THE ART OF FRANK MOORE + LA BASH
Feb 2 - 21, 2020
An exhibition of the life & art of shaman, performance artist, writer, poet, painter, rock singer, director, TV show host, teacher & bon vivant FRANK MOORE – with drawings from local artist Michael LaBash.
YUKI MARUYAMA
Jan 1 - 26, 2020
As the artist-in-residence Yuki explores the elastic nature of visual perception by creating an immersive red-and-cyan drawing installation that explores the effect of binocular rivalry.
Read moreART SHOP 2019
Dec 11 - 28, 2019
Group exhibition and one-night pop-up shop featuring the works of over 30 Bay Area artists
Read moreTAMSIN SMITH
Nov 7-23, 2019
San Francisco poet and fine artist Tamsin Smith began her dual art practice as an exercise in balancing what is for her the cerebral work of word-craft with a more physical experience of painting.
Read moreMCXT // SUCKA FREE
Oct 4-18, 2019
MCXT is a creative partnership between Monica + Xara, birthed out of a joint wish to communicate care + empowerment within public spaces.
Read moreDAVID BENZLER RESIDENCY
Sept 16- 29, 2019
Local artist, David Benzler takes over the Backroom Gallery for a week. Come check out his work in progress.
Read moreCO-OP ART EXHIBIT
DECISIONS, DECISIONS
July 12-Aug 10, 2019
"Decisions Decisions" features brand new work by local text based artist Siavash Almeida
Read moreCHPERWERKSEK'
May 31-June 30, 2019
Recent paintings about reclaiming space – emotional, physical, ancestral, and mental. The series is an experience of color, contrast, plant life, and abundance.
Read moreBOOKS AS OBJECTS
May 3 - 26, 2019
Sming Sming Books experiments with the book form as art object, phenomenological archive, and intimate exhibition space.
Read moreDIVINELY DINÉ
April 4 - 28, 2019
Part prayer & part declaration, this solo exhibition by Natani Notah disrupts our conceptions of what we think it means to be a Native American woman in the present-day U.S.
Read moreUNDO/REDO
March 4 - 30, 2019
UNDO/REDO is a solo exhibition of paintings by Anthony Torrano. The abstract, layered images are inspired by the sometimes chaotic and overstimulating sensory experiences of digital culture.
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