Catharine Clark Gallery

Since 1991, Catharine Clark has represented a wide range of media. Drawn to work that is content-driven and challenges both the traditional use of materials and formal aesthetics, Clark is a pioneer when it comes to new media. Hers is the only commercial gallery in the area that features a dedicated video project room. The gallery's latest location is situated among San Francisco's most prominent art institutions, and right across the street from SFMoMA, allowing Clark to inspire and provoke pedestrians on their way to more staid art experiences.

The gallery's September 2008 show includes an exhibition of paintings by Julie Heffernan called Broken Homes. Heffernan charms the eye with large, refined Baroque canvases, which upon closer examination contain subversive scenes from compartmentalized lives. Each canvas is a "self-portrait," a pastoral narrative at first glance, but the devil (and a little Bosch) is definitely in Heffernan's details.

In Adam Chapman's framed video pieces, The Starling Drawings, every gray dot is an actual bird. Shot in Rome, Chapman edited out the surrounding streets and buildings leaving the starlings alone on screen to create their mesmerizing abstract designs.

Where: 150 Minna Street, San Francisco
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10:30 - 5:30; Saturday, 11 - 5:30
Phone: (415) 399-1439

Where: 150 Minna Street , San Francisco, CA, 94105, USA
Phone: (415) 399-1439