{"id":175681,"date":"2026-02-12T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175681\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:21:09","slug":"new-gallery-brings-art-of-contemporary-africa-to-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175681\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gallery Brings Art of Contemporary Africa to SF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AOCA moves into the Minnesota Street Project space that was previously home to Rena Bransten Gallery. Mark is the first new tenant in the complex after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/arts\/13984752\/jack-fischer-gallery-closing-minnesota-street-project\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four galleries announced their closure<\/a> in late 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13986651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/battle-of-choice.png\" alt=\"A piece of contemporary art, dark with several glowing elements depicts a distorted view of humanity, twisted and blended with animals.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1721\"  \/>Mwass Githinji, \u2018The Battle of Choice.\u2019 (Courtesy of AOCA)<\/p>\n<p>The artists featured in Afropop hail from Uganda, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Costa Rica and Barbados. They range in age from 25 to 90. And though the work in the show doesn\u2019t always feel unified in style or theme, one gets the impression that Mark and Strydom are simply keen to show the Bay, right out of the gate, the wide range of what the contemporary African art world has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the Afropop works have traditional elements to them but also have a modern, contemporary feel that gives the show an interesting energy,\u201d Mark says. \u201c[Afropop is] not supposed to be a representation of Africa as a whole. There\u2019s one and a half billion people there! But by 2030, it\u2019s estimated that 42% of the world\u2019s youth will be in Africa. Their voice becomes extremely important globally. So I think you\u2019re going to see more and more African [art] shows [in the U.S.]\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AOCA moves into the Minnesota Street Project space that was previously home to Rena Bransten Gallery. Mark is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-175681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}