San Francisco Art Fair 2024

This year, San Francisco Art Fair, emerging from the legacy of Art Market San Francisco, announces its much-anticipated return to Fort Mason’s Festival Pavilion from April 25th to 28th, 2024. This update is not merely a change of title; it…

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“Confront the void”: Talking to Shingo Francis

July 14, 2023 Claudine Dixon, Curatorial Assistant, Prints and Drawings   As the exhibition Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing will soon be closing, I feel fortunate to have been able to spend some time recently in the galleries with…

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Art at Amtrak Expands to Metropolitan Lounge at Moynihan Train Hall with Installation of Karen Margolis’ Continuum

On view through Spring 2024, four-panel piece adds color and inspiration to lounge NEW YORK – Amtrak continues its celebrated Art at Amtrak public art program, expanding to the Metropolitan Lounge at Moynihan Train Hall with new work from multidisciplinary…

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Quiet in the chaos: Mel Prest at the Schneider Museum of Art

By: Georgina Ruff   Joint shows at the Schneider, a solo show of Prest’s work and a group show curated by Prest, offer viewers a meditative moment contemplating abstraction.     Installation view of Golden Hour at the Schneider Art…

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SAM STILL: Talking Drawings Review by Dewitt Cheng

K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco   Contemporary art never stops developing; apparently, like a shark, if it stops, it dies—and perhaps gets preserved in formaldehyde by Damian Hirst. Recent shocks of the new which the art world is trying…

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Visual Art Source – Shingo Francis, Review by Richard Speer

  Continuing through August 30, 2022 Immaculate geometry, nubby organicism, and illusionistic effects all meet in Shingo Francis’s “Transparent Reflection,” a suite of seven oil paintings that deftly reimagine key elements of the artist’s earlier series. The new works’ most…

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Bumin Kim: Moon Shadow review by Richard Speer

The first thing you notice about Bumin Kim’s sumptuous and meticulous compositions are their formal qualities—the bold chromatic choices, the unusual medium of thread on panel, the immaculate gradations of shading—but those attributes alone don’t explain the works’ powerful emotional…

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Mel Prest, “Color Unfolding” by DeWitt Cheng

K. Imperial Gallery, San Francisco, California Continuing through September 4, 2021   Matisse famously remarked that he wished to paint pictures that would refresh weary businessmen. If few artists would dare make such a baldly hedonistic claim in today’s politically…

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K. Imperial Fine Art Has Moved!

K. Imperial Fine Art is excited to announce that we have moved to a new location! 49 Geary Street, Suite 525 San Francisco, CA 94108 Gallery Open by Appointment Only kimperialfineart@me.com 415-277-7230

Square Cylinder Review: Lorene Anderson

Square Cylinder March 6, 2021 Lorene Anderson @ K. Imperial by Mark Van Proyen Each of Lorene Anderson’s 15 recent paintings (2018-2021) prompts a single question: what are we looking at? The more one looks, the more complicated the answer…

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