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...
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...