{"id":228218,"date":"2025-10-16T04:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228218\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T04:46:08","slug":"altman-siegel-closes-san-francisco-gallery-after-16-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228218\/","title":{"rendered":"Altman Siegel Closes San Francisco Gallery After 16 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAltman Siegel<\/a>, one of the key galleries of San Francisco\u2019s art scene, will close this November after 16 years in operation.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement issued on Wednesday, founder Claudia Altman-Siegel explicitly attributed the decision to the current market, which she described as being particularly challenging for mid-size galleries like her own.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs it has become too difficult for a gallery this size to scale in this climate, I have made the incredibly tough decision to close rather than diminish either the space or the commitment to exhibit conceptually uncompromising work,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe gallery\u2019s roster includes artists such as Simon Denny, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Trevor Paglen, Zarouhie Abdalian, Koak, Didier William, and Kiyan Williams. Its final show will be its current solo exhibition by Shinpei Kusanagi, a Japanese painter who has shown with the gallery since the year it was inaugurated. That show ends on November 22.<\/p>\n

\n\tAltman Siegel is merely the latest gallery in a string of others that have announced plans to close or significantly pare back their operations in the past year. Those galleries include several based in Los Angeles, including Blum<\/a> and LA Louver<\/a>, the latter of which had been open to the public for 50 years before it said it would pivot to private dealing in September. New York\u2019s Clearing<\/a> and Venus Over Manhattan<\/a> galleries also closed over the summer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough there have been fewer closures announced for San Francisco\u2019s scene, the Kadist art foundation said earlier this year that it wind up operations<\/a> in the city.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2009, after having spent 10 years at New York\u2019s Luhring Augustine gallery, Altman-Siegel opened her own operation in downtown San Francisco. \u201cSan Francisco is a smaller market, so local sales are fewer and foot traffic is slower than in New York, but there is a lot of creative freedom; I have no peer pressure, and there\u2019s not much competition,\u201d she told Art in America<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat lack of pressure and competition allowed her to take a chance on work that did not conform to the dominant tastes of the market. One of the gallery\u2019s first shows was by Paglen, a photographer who had had few exhibitions outside institutions at the time. He is now represented by Pace, one of the world\u2019s biggest galleries.<\/p>\n

\n\tA range of other well-known artists have also had shows with the gallery, from Sanya Kantarovsky to Shannon Ebner, from Sara VanDerBeek to Richard Mosse, from Grant Mooney to Chris Johanson.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe gallery has gradually expanded in size, relocating first to a new space in Dogpatch in 2016 before moving again to Presidio Heights last year. \u201cEach chapter allowed the gallery to take risks, experiment, and keep pace with the evolving practices of our artists. Now, 213 exhibitions and art fairs later, the project is coming to a close,\u201d Altman-Siegel wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough she described greeting the impending closure with \u201cpride and sadness,\u201d she also wrote of connections made and artists fostered, which she said \u201cunderscores that while the art market can be relentless, the true heart of this project has always been ideas, community, and joy. My hope is that the gallery has brought you as much inspiration as it has brought me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Altman Siegel, one of the key galleries of San Francisco\u2019s art scene, will close this November after 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[127612,228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-228218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-altman-siegel","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}