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Fraenkel Gallery

Contemporary art gallery focused on exploring photography and its relation to other media.⁣ Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems.

The gallery represents the work of Robert Adams, Sophie Calle, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Richard Learoyd, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, Alec Soth, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, and works closely with the estates of Diane Arbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Hujar, and Garry Winogrand. In recent years, the gallery has expanded its roster to include multidisciplinary artists suc

h as Elisheva Biernoff, Mel Bochner, Kota Ezawa, Martine Gutierrez, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Christian Marclay, Wardell Milan, Richard T. While photography has been a consistent through-line of our exhibitions and more than 70 publications, it is far from the whole story. Many exhibitions have featured artists whose work is not strictly, or not at all, photographic: Mel Bochner, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Agnes Martin, and Sol LeWitt among others. Fraenkel Gallery maintains long-established relationships with museums, private collectors, and corporations around the world, and welcomes the experienced collector as well as those just beginning.

05/27/2026

Our upcoming exhibition, Slice of the Pie, brings together fourteen of the Bay Area’s most dynamic commercial galleries, from those with more than sixty years of history to others founded in recent years. Together, they illuminate the range, resilience, and ongoing evolution of the Bay Area’s art ecosystem.

CROWN POINT PRESS (Founded 1962) began as a print workshop, and in 1965 started a publishing program with etching portfolios by Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. Since then they’ve worked with more than 120 artists, including key members of the Minimalism movement and Conceptual Art movement.

Photorealist painter Robert Bechtle regularly depicted the quiet streets of San Francisco in exquisite light. Besides making paintings, watercolors, and drawings, he was an accomplished printmaker, working in lithography early in his career and mainly in etching after 1982, when Crown Point Press began publishing his prints. His 2011 print of houses in Potrero Hill was created with seven plates.

🍰 Join us for the opening reception of Slice of the Pie on Saturday, May 30, 3–5pm at Fraenkel Gallery (49 Geary St).
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Pictured: , Three Houses on Pennsylvania Avenue, 2011
soft ground etching with aquatint, 30-1/2 x 39 inches (sheet) [77.5 x 99.1 cm], edition of 40. Courtesy of Crown Point Press, San Francisco

05/26/2026

Happy centennial to American trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis, who revolutionized jazz and influenced 20th century music. Irving Penn photographed Davis for the cover of his album "Tutu" in 1986. The stark images created by Penn gave visual form to Davis’s abstract sound. Penn recalled after the sitting, "At the end, I said, ‘Thank you very much.’ He got up, came over to me, and kissed me on the mouth. I didn’t know what to say. We shook hands, and he left. Later, I got the chance to know his music, and it struck me as being visual art of a most profound kind. How terrible I couldn’t share that with him then. This is one of the heartbreaks of the profession, I have only the kiss to remember."

📸 Miles Davis, New York, 1986, gelatin silver print © The Irving Penn Foundation

05/24/2026

📸 Lee Friedlander, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, 1976

05/23/2026

We ❤️ NY! What an incredible past two weeks we've had in The Big Apple. Thank you to Ortuzar Gallery and Metrograph for two incredibly rewarding collaborations, and to all the artists who helped us make the events of the past month a reality. And most importantly, thank YOU for joining us in the festivities.

Pictured: Liz Deschenes, Martine Gutierrez, Ethan Winogrand, Carrie Mae Weems, Joel Coen, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Wardell Milan, Christian Whitworth, Jeff Hoone, and Nan Goldin. Images courtesy Jeff Hoone, Metrograph and Mettie Ostrowski.

05/21/2026

Opening next week—Fraenkel Gallery presents Slice of the Pie: Fourteen Bay Area Galleries & What Makes Them Different, a group exhibition that brings together a vibrant cross-section of some of the Bay Area’s most influential and idiosyncratic art galleries. Featuring work by more than 40 artists, the exhibition illuminates the diverse perspectives and practices that define the region’s rich gallery ecosystem. Learn more: https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/slice-of-the-pie-2026

🥧 Join us in the gallery (49 Geary St) for the opening reception, Saturday, May 30, 3–5pm.

05/20/2026

"I've been thinking about history in terms of scale and distance."
—Richard T. Walker

Featured in our New York pop-up residency is a new work by artist : "something as some thing (else)," 2026.

Walker pictures nature as a language. By fragmenting and re-arranging the established grammars of the horizon, the mountain peak, and scale, the artist shows that the landscape depends entirely on the projections we cast onto it. "To put it briefly," he states, "the work is about time, scale, memory and how representation can inform the expectation of experience."

⌛️ There's just 2 days left to see Whipped Cream & Other Delights, our New York pop-up residency installed in Ortuzar Gallery's West Broadway space. The last day to view the presentation is Friday, May 21.

05/19/2026

Opening May 29 at Singapore Art Museum, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness brings together five decades of work across photography, sculpture, installation, design, and for the first time—video—tracing an artistic practice shaped by Buddhist philosophy and scientific inquiry.

Featuring works from 11 series alongside fossils from the artist’s personal collection, the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider time, perception, and the act of seeing itself. Designed by Sugimoto as a mandala-like environment with looping, nonlinear paths, the exhibition unfolds as an immersive meditation on the interdependence of form and emptiness.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Form Is Emptiness runs from May 29 to October 4. Learn more about details and programming: https://www.singaporeartmuseum.sg/art-events/exhibitions/hiroshi-sugimoto
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Pictured: Brush Impression 0866 (Flame), 2023, gelatin silver print, unique, 36-7/8 x 29-1/2 inches [93.7 x 74.9 cm]

05/18/2026

A new mixed media work by Wardell Milan depicts people lounging on waterlilies and floating in effervescent water. Milan found inspiration for the piece in the surreal, Alice in Wonderland–themed landscapes he saw in an exhibition at the Bronx Botanical Garden. Images from photojournalism and news media have often served as references for Milan, but he notes that with this piece, he was interested in the fantastical, as a retreat from the news cycle.⁠
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This work is featured in Whipped Cream & Other Delights, our New York pop-up residency in Ortuzar Gallery's West Broadway space. The presentation is on view for just 4 more days, through May 21st. ⁠
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Pictured: , Water Lillies no. 1., 2026, charcoal, graphite, pastel, oil pastel, acrylic paint, cut-and-pasted paper on hand-dyed paper, 43 x 58-3/4 inches (framed) [109.2 x 149.2 cm]. Installation view by Nicholas Knight

05/17/2026

"Hujar:Contact" will be on view at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York from May 22 through October 25, 2026. Offering an unprecedented look into the life, times, and creative evolution of the master photographer, the exhibition features more than 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements from the Morgan’s Peter Hujar Collection. Bearing editing marks and revealing intimate pictorial narratives, Hujar’s contact sheets tell the nuanced story of a lifetime, a community, and an era. Learn more: https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/hujar-contact

🗓️ On June 24, the museum will host a panel discussion, Remembering Peter Hujar, with Vince Aletti, Fran Lebowitz, and Gary Schneider. Tickets are available online: https://www.themorgan.org/programs/panel-discussion-remembering-peter-hujar
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Images by :
• Self-portraits at 189 Second Avenue, 1974
• Candy Darling in room 1423, Cabrini Health Care Center, 1973
• Vince Aletti and Fran Lebowitz, Morristown, New Jersey, 1974
• Marsha P. Johnson on Christopher Street Pier, Easter, 1976
Courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum, Peter Hujar Collection, New York © The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS)

05/16/2026

In new work on view in Whipped Cream & Other Delights, Liz Deschenes soaks digital photography paper in Kodak dye transfer dyes, exploring the convergence of photographic materials and histories.

This week we're sharing works on view in our New York pop-up residency in 's West Broadway space. If you're in town, visit us now through Friday, May 21st to view this work and many more. ⁠
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"Kodak" (2026), Epson paper, Kodak dye transfer dye, UV laminate

05/15/2026

“Gene did not like the idea that a photograph could reveal such a thing as a real person, a hidden person. There are only masks, one after another.”
—Alex Nemerov, American Mystic

Today we're celebrating Ralph Eugene Meatyard, who was born on this day in 1925. Meatyard’s work spanned many genres and experimented with new means of expression, from dreamlike portraits—often set in abandoned places—to multiple exposures, motion-blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction.⁠

Explore more from the artist: https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/ralph-eugene-meatyard

📸 Images by :
• Lucybelle Crater and her 16 year old son's quiet, demure girlfriend Lucybelle Crater, 1970-72
• Untitled, 1961
• Untitled [Thomas Merton, early winter], 1966
• Untitled, 1960
• Untitled, 1964

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Thursday	10:30am - 5:30pm
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