Anglim/Trimble Gallery — Attraction in San Francisco

Anglim/Trimble is the model gallery for San Francisco--intelligently curated, atmospherically understated and informed by an artist-powered culture that keeps an ear to freshly plowed ground of ideas and an eye on the highest stars in San Francisco's firmament. Unfortunately, the one ingredient missing in this art-savvy, culturally literate town is a stable of smart and risk-hungry collectors. The art here is as generative and fermented as in either New York or Los Angeles, but people with deep pockets are more likely to open up to real-estate bargains or "disruptive" (wow that word is tired!) start-ups. Message to Mark, Elon, Jack and Sergey: the future is assemblage, pastels, etching & engraving, acquerelle, photography, oils, relief, acrylic, video, collage, sculpture and drawing, not zeros and ones. I'm happy to make recommendations, starting with Dean Smith, whose granular-scale drawings evoke a dreamscape and equal the skill of Vija Celmins, and J. John Priola, whose velvet-focus saturates images dedicated to recursive irony, like the one shown, which reigns over the...

One of my favorite contemporary art galleries in San Francisco. Shannon the owner is beyond friendly and informative, and has excellent taste in curation. Occasionally they have special events and those are worth attending as are...

Great gallery and wonderful people running it. Only God things to say and great things on the walls. Go in, walk in a circle sand leave...