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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.

06/03/2026

"At times I work with people three, four times. Each person is so distinctive and every person responds to the camera in a unique way, I always rely on their collaboration. I always rely on their generosity and I’m always surprised at how open and how creative people are."
—Katy Grannan

Happy birthday to our friend Katy Grannan. 🎈

Grannan's recent portrait series Mad River depicts subjects who reflect the independent spirit of Northern California’s Humboldt County, an area known for its privacy and seclusion. Often building relationships with her subjects, Grannan explores the connections between self-presentation and place, creating a kind of collaborative fiction.⁠

Discover more images from Mad River: https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/deep-dive-katy-grannan-mad-river
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Image: , Damla, Agate Beach, CA, 2025

06/02/2026

Fraenkel Gallery's new exhibition, Slice of the Pie, highlights work by more than 40 artists from fourteen Bay Area galleries. Taking place at a pivotal moment for the shifting gallery landscape, the show reflects the sense of collaboration that has been a defining attribute of the area’s art scene and a central part of Fraenkel’s mission.

BERGGRUEN GALLERY (Founded 1970) has been a cornerstone of the West Coast art scene for over five decades. The gallery has played a significant role in introducing New York and international artists to West Coast collectors, and has long been an advocate for California artists, including Barry McGee.

McGee’s drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations address the struggles of contemporary urban life. A prominent member of the Mission School, McGee is part of a group of artists that emerged from San Francisco’s Mission District in the late 1990s, known for a handmade aesthetic that contrasted with the dot-com gentrification of the time.
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Pictured: , 100 4 Faces, 2024, acrylic, gouache, and aerosol on panel, 44 x 43-1/4 inches (overall) [111.8 x 109.9 cm]

06/01/2026

Happy birthday Marilyn Monroe 🌹
Photographed by Marilyn Monroe, "Seven Year Itch" Set, New York, 1955 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand

05/31/2026

📸 Lee Friedlander, Canadian Rockies, Canada, 1974. This image is illustrated in Friedlander's 2021 monograph The People’s Pictures (published by Eakins Press Foundation).

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.

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49 Geary Street #450
San Francisco, CA
94108

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Tuesday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

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+14159812661

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http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/

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