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06/18/2026

Gallery Wendi Norris is closed tomorrow, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.

“Ranu Mukherjee: The Long Middle” reopens Saturday, June 20, with the gallery’s regular hours, 11 am – 6 pm. Ranu Mukherjee’s solo exhibition is on view through July 3, 2026.

Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. Install photography by Chris Grunder.

06/12/2026

On View | “if I could describe my river” (2026) by Ranu Mukherjee (Ranu Mukherjee)

Ranu Mukherjee’s large-scale painting is a centerpiece of her current exhibition, “The Long Middle,” at Gallery Wendi Norris. The composition draws directly on a Bohemian Baroque painting by Johann Rudolf Bys that Mukherjee recently encountered at the National Gallery in Prague. “if I could describe my river” holds three categories of animal at once: species from the original painting, cats Mukherjee has encountered in her own life, and birds undocumented in the wild for over a decade—among them the Eskimo Curlew, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and Bachman’s Warbler. The living, the lost, and the remembered all share one canvas.

Monstera leaves, a plant that begins its life growing in the dark, drift through the scene with a doorway, a plastic water bottle, plastic flowers: the everyday items of the world these species are disappearing from.

Mukherjee describes the sensation as stepping into a world just out of reach, where animals are speaking to each other at a frequency you can almost, but not quite, hear.

Ranu Mukherjee, “if I could describe my river” (and details), 2026. Pigment, crystalina, and UV inkjet print on silk sari on linen, 60 x 84 inches (152.4 x 213.36 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.

06/09/2026

Please join us in wishing a happy birthday to Enrique Martínez Celaya ()!

Artist, author, former scientist, and the first Provost Professor of Humanities and Arts at the University of Southern California (), Martínez Celaya currently is the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Wende Museum () in Culver City, CA on view through October 11, 2026.

This exhibition, “The Sextant,” is an immersive installation and a visual poem, comprised of the artist’s reconstructed childhood home in Cuba and the sculptures and paintings within. Described by The Art Newspaper (.official) as being “suffused with themes of memory, exile and the passage of time,” the exhibition concludes Martínez Celaya’s trilogy about his homeland, which began at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana (), and continued with “The Word-Shimmering Sea: Diego Velázquez / Enrique Martínez Celaya” at The Hispanic Society () in New York, both presented in 2024.

Portrait of Enrique Martínez Celaya in his studio. Installation photos of “The Sextant” by Angel Xotlanihua.

06/08/2026

Born on this day in 1904 in Chenecey-Buillon, France, Alice Rahon spent her life moving between worlds, from the Surrealist circles of Paris to the landscapes of Alaska and British Columbia to Mexico, where she lived and worked until her death in 1987.

Rahon was initially a celebrated poet, earning the praise of André Breton, before turning to painting at age 36. What followed was a career defined by a singular visual vocabulary—symbols, colors, and textures woven together in delicate combinations of figuration and abstraction, drawing as deeply from prehistoric cave paintings as from the Surrealist milieu around her.

Now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago (), this self-portrait is entitled “Autorretrato con autobiografía (Self-Portrait with Autobiography)” (1948)—one of only two self-portraits she created, the other being her 1951 portrait in the collection of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires(). Rahon covered the canvas in sand as an echo of the Altamira caves and in ash sourced from the volcanoes of Mexico, then inscribed an ascending zigzag line of figures, buildings, animals, pyramids, mountains, and kites: the narrative of her life, culminating in her own image, palette in hand.

Join us today in celebrating Rahon’s legacy.

Alice Rahon, “Autorretrato con autobiografía (Self-Portrait with Autobiography),” 1948. Oil and sand on canvas, 29 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches / 74.93 x 57.15 cm. Wirt D. Walker Endowment, Major Acquisitions Centennial, Luella Thomas, Samuel A. Marx, Simeon B. Williams Endowment, and Maurice D. Gelleher funds. Image courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.

06/06/2026

Two works by Rohini Devasher ()—“Latent Field (Field One)” (2023) and “Chimera II” (2007)—are currently on view at the Nevada Museum of Art () in Reno, NV.

Devasher’s works are featured in “Into the Time Horizon,” an exhibition split into thematic subsections that occupy every gallery of the museum, inviting visitors to consider how to move forward on our planet—ethically, responsibly, and with care for coming generations.

The subsection “Altered Lands and the Anthropocene,” which ’s Bryan Barcena (.barcena) calls “sobering and sublime,” features Devasher’s “Latent Field (Field One).” A coalescence of material, visibility, scale, and temporality, this large-scale work is comprised of expansive stretches of silk emblazoned with prints and drawings, all with a mesmerizing sheen of copper. “Latent Field” plays with notions of scale, as the subatomic and the stellar collide.

Part of a subsection titled “Interspecies Relationships”—“populated by stellar objects,” per Artforum—Devasher’s “Chimera II” merges flesh, plant, machine, animal, the organic and the inorganic to fashion a hybrid with even more obscure antecedents. The result is somewhat unclassifiable, a category unto itself that isn’t quite plant, animal, human, or machine, but something else entirely; something of all those, but none of them.

“Into the Time Horizon” is curated by Apsara DiQuinzio (), with assistant curator Kolin Perry (). “Altered Lands and the Anthropocene” is on view through September 20, 2026, while “Interspecies Relationships” is on view through November 29, 2026.

Installation view of “Into the Time Horizon,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno. Courtesy Nevada Museum of Art. Photo: Asa Gilmore.

06/05/2026

Artist Walkthrough | Join Ranu Mukherjee () at 4 pm this Saturday, June 6, for a tour of her exhibition, “The Long Middle,” at Gallery Wendi Norris.

Hosted by alumni of CalArts (.alumni), where Mukherjee is Dean of the School of Film/Video, the walkthrough will explore her practice and artistic techniques. She will also address her newest body of work, which reflects on our current paradigmatic shift.

Mukherjee merges the autobiographical with the political, ecological, and geological—linking the pressures of mid-life, motherhood, and personal transformation with the threats of climate crisis, resource extraction, and species loss.

“The Long Middle” is on view through July 3, 2026.

🔗 RSVP for the walkthrough at the link in bio.

Images courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. Install photography by .

06/04/2026

Wolfgang Paalen’s significant painting, “Octopus Sky (Ciel de pieuvre)” (1938), is currently on view in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection () in Venice as part of the exhibition “Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector.”

Organized by Peggy Guggenheim Collection curator Gražina Subelytė () and guest curator Simon Grant (), the presentation is the first large-scale museum exhibition celebrating Peggy Guggenheim’s years in the United Kingdom and her first gallery, Guggenheim Jeune. From January 1938 to June 1939, the Guggenheim Jeune gallery was a beacon for the avant-garde movements of the era, known for championing and promoting local and international artists, many of whom were affiliated with abstraction and Surrealism.

In 1939, Guggenheim hosted the first UK solo exhibition for Wolfgang Paalen (1905 – 1959), where he debuted “Octopus Sky (Ciel de pieuvre).” Paalen was noted for his pioneering development of fumage, in which he used candle smoke to make impressions in his oil paintings. The billowing, unpredictable forms that resulted from this method allowed Paalen to achieve the creative possibilities of automatism, the Surrealist technique in which actions are performed without conscious thought.

“Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector” is on view through October 19, 2026, after which it travels to the Royal Academy of Arts () and Guggenheim New York ().

Wolfgang Paalen, “Octopus Sky (Ciel de pieuvre),” 1938. Oil and fumage on canvas, 97 x 130 cm. Courtesy Malingue S.A., Paris.

05/31/2026

Join us in wishing a very happy birthday to Ranu Mukherjee ()!

Multidisciplinary artist, Dean of the School of Film/Video at CalArts (), and recipient of the prestigious 2026 Ruth Awardee by the Ruth Foundation for the Arts (), Mukherjee is celebrated for her hybrid pieces in painting, moving image, and installation that are marked by a deliberate use of saturated color, the collision of tempos, and sensual materiality.

Her work is currently on view throughout San Francisco, including at Gallery Wendi Norris, which is presenting her latest series of paintings, “The Long Middle,” through July 3.

Her work is also on view in Fraenkel Gallery’s () newly opened exhibition, “Slice of the Pie,” and the de Young Museum’s () permanent collection display, “About Place: Bay Area Artists from the Svane Gift.”

Flying into San Francisco? Mukherjee’s large-scale work made of glass, fabric and metal composite is currently installed in SFO International Airport’s Terminal G ().

Portrait of the artist by Azikiwe Mohammed for Ruth Arts. Ranu Mukherjee, “men being tender” (2025), pigment, crystalina, ink, chalk pastel, and UV inkjet print on cotton jamdani on line, 60 x 60 inches. “osmotic guardians” (2023), pigment, ink, crystalina, and UV inkjet print on silk and cotton sari fabric on linen, 40 x 40 inches. “Unsettling the Gravity of Assumptions” (2021), pigment, crystalina, and UV inkjet print on silk and cotton sari fabric on linen, 48 x 48 inches.

05/20/2026

Now Open | “Ranu Mukherjee: The Long Middle”

Gallery Wendi Norris is proud to present its sixth solo exhibition with Ranu Mukherjee ().

Over the last thirty years, Mukherjee has developed a multidisciplinary practice that questions Western and human-centric ideas about intelligence, resilience, and survival, imagining a more tender and attentive way of relating to the world. This sensibility animates the eight new paintings now on view, which reflect on our current paradigmatic shift as Mukherjee links the pressures of mid-life, motherhood, and personal transformation with the threats of climate crisis, resource extraction, and species loss.

Join us tonight at 5 – 7 pm for a reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition that KQED () named one the 10 best museum and gallery shows to see in the Bay Area this summer.

🔗 Preview the show at the link in bio.

Opening reception for “Ranu Mukherjee | The Long Middle”
🗓️ Wednesday, May 20
⏰ 5 – 7 pm
📍 Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco

Images courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. Install photography by .

05/19/2026

Mark your calendar!

This Wednesday, May 20, Chitra Ganesh () will deliver the 2026 Nelson Social Justice Fund Lecture at the Portland Museum of Art () in Portland, ME, joined by Sayantan Mukhopadhyay (), PhD, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the PMA.

Informed by South Asian iconography, semiotic theory, science fiction, q***r theory, and the visual languages of vintage comics, anime, and film, Ganesh’s richly layered worlds center q***r and femme protagonists actively shaping their futures.

Ganesh’s animation ‘Rainbow Body’ (2018) from The Scorpion Gesture series recently entered the permanent collection of the Portland Museum of Art.

The Leonard and Merle Nelson Social Justice Fund honors artists whose commitment to social justice is lived and embodied in their work and lives.

📍 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
🗓️ Wednesday, May 20
⏰ 6 - 7 pm

Photo of Chitra Ganesh by Raul Irani. “The Scorpion Gesture: Rainbow Body,” 2018. Digital animation, single-channel video with color and sound, 2:02. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.

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