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The Anatomy of Things: Oct 17 — December 12
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The Anatomy of Things. October 17 — December 12. Opening reception: Saturday, October 17 from 6-9pm. Featuring works by @aigbslab @waxxplay @rachelenyssen @jenniferstuartart @plum_architects Th Anatomy of Things brings together five California artists whose practices span painting, sculpture, textile, collage, wax, and mixed media. Though materially distinct, the works share an attention to the ways objects and images are made, altered, and accumulated over time. Fabric is stained and stitched; paper is torn and layered; wax melts and hardens around industrial forms; sculptural surfaces are built by hand; familiar objects are rendered slowly in paint. Throughout the exhibition, traces of process remain visible. Seams, drips, fragments, irregular edges and layered surfaces become part of the finished work rather than something to be concealed. Moving between abstraction and representation, delicacy and weight, the works resist a single visual language. Instead, connections emerge through material and gesture: a repeated mark, a weathered surface, an unexpected color, the evidence of something having been handled, transformed or preserved. Together, the five artists consider the object not simply as a finished thing, but as a record of its making. These are the signs of life. taken in San Francisco, California by @uppermarketgallery
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What?! You missed the OLD TRICKS group exhibition of animated objects in San Francisco this Summer?! Well, here's a bit of documentation that does its best to simulate the experience of a visit to @uppermarketgallery during the show's run. Not nearly as special to take in as an instagram video on your phone, but hey: Maybe enough to inspire you to come out to a future iteration? A huge special THANK YOU to @can.i.livvv and @uppermarketgallery for helping to facilitate this concept in my new home city, as well as the incredible artists who pushed themselves to make new, complex, whirring, art objects: @rayfchang @eskew1000 @tallgrill @777annapurna @noimalone @coach_loves_you @lije.mo @kates.belly by @uppermarketgallery
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16 days ago
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Tickets still available! Learn how to design your own CGI sculpture in this beginner-friendly workshop introducing the basics of modeling and sculpting in Blender. Digital Gallery of Living Objects 2 hour class Thursday August 27 Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco tickets: @uppermarketgallery curated by @reyno_volcano by @uppermarketgallery
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Projected Wall Text for Old Tricks: Animated Loop & Projector Documentation, 2026 ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT to catch OLD TRICKS at @uppermarketgallery - Make an appointment (DM me or email UMG) - Open hours: Saturday, Aug. 22, 12-3pm - @777annapurna Workshop: Aug. 27, 6-8:30pm (link in bio) - Closing Reception: Aug. 28, 6-9pm This projector installation was made with the assistance of some brilliant fabricators: - Projector Box Rhino modeling: @mikepickoff - Projector Box CNC cutting: @hans_gretel - Text Stencil Laser Cutting: @pagodaarts Music in looping clip: DJ Spanish Fly - Cement Shoes by @uppermarketgallery
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Two pieces from OLD TRICKS that honor the lineage of motion picture history: 1) "Gertie Crankie" by Annapurna Kumar @777annapurna 2) "Horse Lamp" by Lije Morgan @lije.mo On exhibit now until August 28th at Upper Market Gallery @uppermarketgallery • Saturdays from 12-3pm or by appointment. by @uppermarketgallery
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3 months ago
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Sun Sucker, 2026 Laser cut acrylic, solar cells, DC motor, stucco, styrofoam, poured resin My piece for the OLD TRICKS group show that opened last Friday @uppermarketgallery Sign up for my “Animated Wind Mobile” workshop happening this Saturday, July 18th from 1-4pm at @uppermarketgallery! We will be making mobile designs inspired by the animation principles used in this piece. Great for any animation curious Bay Area artists. Link to my workshop and others listed in my bio. by @uppermarketgallery
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3 months ago
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This essay is part of our “Artist on Artist” series. Rod Roland is a poet and artist living in San Francisco. His books include The Playgroup (Gas Meter, 2012), Thrasher2 (Gas Meter, 2012), Best Loved (Old Gold, 2013) and Lunch Poems (2016). Artist: @olinartist Writer: Rod Roland Gallery: @uppermarketgallery #abstractart #roborantreview #sanfranciscoart #rodroland #fyp taken in San Francisco, California by @uppermarketgallery
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4 months ago
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NOT YET FORM\d opens on FRIDAY! Come hang with us and KC Ho from 5-9pm to kick off an awesome three week show by the painter. ___ Not Yet Form\d is a solo exhibition of new abstract paintings by San Francisco–based artist KC Ho. This body of work explores dense, highly pressurized surfaces that investigate the tension between memory, perception, and material presence while also reflecting the experience of being shaped through migration, a shifting sense of identity, and the ongoing process of becoming. Using oil paint applied through repeated strokes, KC builds paintings through accumulation, removal, and revision. Colors overlap, forms appear and disappear, and traces of earlier marks remain visible beneath the surface. Thick brushstrokes and layered textures give the abstract paintings a strong physical presence while holding a sense of movement, time, and process. Rather than presenting clear images or fixed meanings, KC’s work invites viewers to stay with uncertainty. Shapes begin to emerge, then dissolve back into abstraction, reflecting familiar human experiences of emotion, memory, change, and transformation before they fully settle into form. Not Yet Form\d speaks to a state of becoming — of existing between places, languages, histories, and selves. Through texture, repetition, and layered color, the paintings remain open and unresolved — inviting viewers to slow down and experience something still in the process of taking shape, where form hovers between appearance and disappearance. taken in San Francisco, California by @uppermarketgallery
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4 months ago
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I caught up with @Olinartist at his studio prior to his show “Hyper Normal” at @UpperMarketGallery, 4690 18th Street, SF, CA. We talked about his intent with the show, the inspiration behind the show’s title and the need for order and disorder in his work. Part of First Fridays during the @CastroArtWalk, “Hyper Normal” will be on view through June 7th, 2026. by @uppermarketgallery
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4 months ago
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Please join us Friday for the opening reception of // HYPER NORMAL New paintings by Olin Marcus Johanssen @uppermarketgallery // 5–9pm @ 4690 18th St Exhibition run time // May 29 - June 7 . . . . . . . . . . . Events // SATURDAY 5/30 - POETRY READING 1PM WITH MICAH BALLARD SUNDAY 5/31 - OPEN 12–5PM FRIDAY 6/5 - CASTRO ART WALK 5–9PM SATURDAY 6/6 - OPEN 12–5PM SUNDAY 6/7 - FILM SCREENING 3PM FEATURING SCENES FROM: JEAN-PIERRE DIEMER & FELIX MILIONIS @jp.diemer @felix_milionis by @uppermarketgallery
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4 months ago
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Vigil of the Void First rendition performed in @uppermarketgallery The candles burn as recognition of the systems that have shaped, disciplined, and confined the female body. As the flames fade, so do their claims. Stillness becomes resistance, endurance. This is not submission. This is reclamation. My body is not an object to be consumed, but a place of quiet power, a place I return to. by @uppermarketgallery
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6 months ago
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Vigil of the Void First rendition performed in @uppermarketgallery The candles burn as recognition of the systems that have shaped, disciplined, and confined the female body. As the flames fade, so do their claims. Stillness becomes resistance, endurance. This is not submission. This is reclamation. My body is not an object to be consumed, but a place of quiet power, a place I return to. (Photo credit @lookatthiscoolrockifound) by @uppermarketgallery
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6 months ago
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