This exhibition includes a variety of limited edition signed and numbered prints, including color trials, cancellation proofs, and hand-colored uniquely-altered variants....
Richard Speer, author of The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan (2020, Verlag, Scheidegger & Spiess AG, Zurich) and curator Jennifer Sudul Edwards, PhD, explore the publication of the latest book on the oeuvre of Sam Francis....
Inspired by those words from Sam Francis, Galerie Ludorff has opened a new online exhibition entitled: 'Space & Containment.' The current exhibition provides an overview of 40 years of work: from Sam's group of works of interlocking color formations to his so-called edge paintings. The gallery...
After a competitive process, Tiana Williams, a USC graduate student in Cinema and Media Studies who specializes in archives, oral histories, and documentary filmmaking, was selected as the Inaugural Sam Francis Media Fellow. ...
Edward Goldman, who many may recall as the host of “Art Talk” on KCRW, has featured an engaging review of the newly published, Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan. Goldman elicits a transcending journey saying that,” Going through the multiple reproductions and photos, gave...
18th Street Arts Center and Sam Francis Foundation are pleased to announce Call to Dream: The Sam Francis Fellowship, an ongoing artist residency exchange between Los Angeles and three other cities foundational to the artist Sam Francis’s development: Tokyo, Mexico City, and Paris. As an...
Written by art critic and curator Richard Speer, with a foreword by Debra Burchett-Lere, executive director and president of the Sam Francis Foundation, this is the first full-length monograph to explore an important but sometimes overlooked milieu in Post-World War II art—a dialogue between Eastern...
Sam Francis was passionately dedicated to the protection of the environment. He supported innovative technology, conservation and preservation. The SFF is proud to continue his commitment and support of organizations that are working for this planet’s well being. Made Out of What is highlighting incredible artists and...
California Community Foundation (CCF) together with the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Shepard and Amanda Fairey Foundation, have launched the Relief Fund for L.A. County Visual Artists, a collaborative effort to support the...
From the forthcoming publication by Richard Speer, The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan, 2020...