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...
Take a moment to virtually revisit Sam Francis’s Free Floating Clouds, 1980 at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, and analyze this fundamental work through fresh eyes....
William Turner Gallery is pleased to announce Light | Space, an exhibition of new paintings by Shingo Francis and Peter Lodato. Both artists exploit the qualities of their respective mediums to achieve works of exquisite subtlety. Their nuance invites a quiet curiosity and provokes a...
With over 60 works from LACMA’s collection and key lenders, this is the first exhibition to explore the artist’s work in relation to “ma” and other aspects of Japanese aesthetics....
Master printer and Herron alumnus George Page will discuss his work with featured artist Sam Francis – one that grew out of a 21-year collaboration at the Litho Shop, the Santa Monica, California, printmaking studio founded by Francis in 1970....
Drawing from the extensive private collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, Form & Color will highlight over 20 years of prints by this prominent American abstract painter and printmaker. George Page, the artist's master printer, will deliver a talk in conjunction with...