{"id":20466,"date":"2026-01-21T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/10-exhibitions-not-to-miss-during-san-francisco-art-week-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:48:22","slug":"10-exhibitions-not-to-miss-during-san-francisco-art-week-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/10-exhibitions-not-to-miss-during-san-francisco-art-week-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Exhibitions Not to Miss During San Francisco Art Week 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To celebrate the artist\u2019s 90th birthday, established San Francisco dealer Catherine Clark\u2014who also marks 35 years of operation this year\u2014is staging an extensive exhibition of Japan-born, U.S.-based artist Masami Teraoka<\/a>. Spanning five decades of the artist\u2019s oeuvre, the show highlights his ability to adapt traditional Japanese illustration\u2014particularly Edo-period woodblock conventions such as flattened space, calligraphic line and theatrical gesture\u2014to address Western consumer culture, eroticism and the collision between East and West. Blending the surreal and the humorous with sharp social commentary, Teraoka\u2019s work offers an unusually visceral, at times intimate yet deeply resonant reflection on how ideas of sexuality, gender, the body, love and affection have evolved alongside the accelerated societal shifts of recent decades. While his work in the 1970s often embraced a more optimistic vision of free love, it took a darker and more urgent turn in the late 1980s and 1990s, with searing responses to the AIDS crisis, religious hypocrisy and moral panic.<\/p>\n

This survey tracks that evolution, offering a rare opportunity to see watercolors, drawings and multiples from Teraoka\u2019s AIDS Series<\/em> and Waves Series<\/em> in conversation with projects ranging from 1974 to the present, including his later shift toward large-scale, theatrically staged works that grapple with globalization, environmental disaster and the fragility of belief systems. Together, they form a relentless critical effort to read, decode and mythologically reimagine the demons of our time. The exhibition also follows a spotlight on the artist presented by the gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach and inaugurates a year of programming celebrating Catherine Clark Gallery\u2019s 35th anniversary and BOXBLUR\u2019s 10th anniversary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n