Fraenkel Gallery
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| Established | 11 September 1979[1] |
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| Location | 49 Geary Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108 |
| Coordinates | 37°47′17″N 122°24′15″W / 37.788172°N 122.404278°W |
| Founder | Jeffrey Fraenkel |
| Director | Amy Whiteside, Emily Lambert, Daphne Palmer |
| President | Frish Brandt |
| Owner | Jeffrey Fraenkel, Frish Brandt |
| Public transit access | Bay Area Rapid Transit Montgomery Street Station |
| Nearest car park | Fifth & Mission Yerba Buena Garage and Ampco System Parking |
| Website |
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Fraenkel Gallery is an independent art gallery in San Francisco[2][3] founded by Jeffrey Fraenkel in 1979.
Fraenkel Gallery has presented more than 300 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other arts. The exhibitions have spanned the medium’s history, from its early masters to the present day. In exhibitions such as Edward Hopper & Company, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Open Secrets, Not Exactly Photographs, and Nothing and Everything, Fraenkel Gallery has brought together work across media, interweaving photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture.
The gallery also publishes photography books, including those to accompany its exhibitions and to coincide with its anniversaries.[4]
Maria Morris Hambourg, former curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has said "As a New Yorker, I never come to the West Coast without going to the Fraenkel Gallery [...] Amongst professionals in the field, we really count on Jeffrey and Frish, on their expertise and imagination and enterprise to keep finding and preserving the very best."[4]
History
Jeffrey Fraenkel opened Fraenkel Gallery on 11 September 1979 at 55 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, with 19th-century photographs of California by Carleton Watkins.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake caused the gallery at Grant Avenue to close, shortly after Fraenkel and business partner Frish Brandt had invested $300,000 into the gallery's expansion.[4][5][6] The earthquake also destroyed the spaces occupied by other galleries around Union Square and a number of them, including Fraenkel Gallery, migrated to 49 Geary Street.
Frish Brandt joined Fraenkel Gallery in 1985.[4][7] In 2015, Brandt was named president of the gallery.
In 2016 gallery owners Brandt and Fraenkel opened a second space, FraenkelLAB, at 1632 Market Street in San Francisco. The inaugural exhibition at FraenkelLAB was Home Improvements, curated by John Waters, and subsequent exhibitions have featured the work of Richard T. Walker and David Benjamin Sherry.
Artists or their estates represented by Fraenkel Gallery
- Robert Adams[1]
- Diane Arbus[1][4]
- Eugène Atget
- Richard Avedon
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
- E.J. Bellocq
- Elisheva Biernoff
- Mel Bochner
- Sophie Calle
- Lee Friedlander[1][4][9]
- Adam Fuss
- Nan Goldin
- Katy Grannan[10]
- Peter Hujar
- Idris Khan
- Richard Learoyd
- Helen Levitt[4]
- Sol LeWitt
- Christian Marclay
- Ralph Eugene Meatyard
- Richard Misrach[1][4]
- Nicholas Nixon
- Irving Penn
- Alec Soth
- Hiroshi Sugimoto[1]
- Richard T. Walker
- Carleton E. Watkins
- Garry Winogrand[4]
Fraenkel Gallery has in the past represented the estates of Richard Avedon[6] and Ansel Adams.[5]
Publications (selected)
- Open Secrets: Seventy Pictures on Paper 1815 to the Present. San Francisco: Fraenkel; Matthew Marks Gallery, 1997. ISBN 978-1881337034.
- The Book of Shadows. San Francisco: Fraenkel, 2007. ISBN 978-1933045665.
- The Unphotographable. San Francisco: Fraenkel, 2013. ISBN 978-1881337331. Edited by Jeffrey Fraenkel.
- Robert Adams: Around the House
- Nicholas Nixon: About Forty Years
- Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus & Howard Nemerov
- Robert Adams: A Road Through Shore Pine
- Katy Grannan: The Ninety Nine and The Nine
- Peter Hujar: Love & Lust
- Christian Marclay: Things I’ve Heard.
- Robert Adams: Light Balances & On Any Given Day in Spring
- Lee Friedlander: Mannequin
- Richard Learoyd: Presences
- Lee Friedlander: The New Cars 1964
- Katy Grannan: Boulevard
- Mel Bochner: Photographs and Not Photographs
- Lee Friedlander: America By Car
- Edward Hopper & Company
- Christian Marclay: Stereo
Anniversary publications
- Seeing Things. San Francisco: Fraenkel, 1995. ISBN 978-1881337003. Published to coincide with the gallery's fifteenth anniversary.
- 20Twenty. San Francisco: Fraenkel, 1999. ISBN 9781881337423. Published to coincide with the gallery's twentieth anniversary.
- The Eye Club. San Francisco: Fraenkel, 2003. ISBN 978-1881337171. Edited by Jeffrey Fraenkel. Text by Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt. Published to coincide with the gallery's twenty fifth anniversary.
- Furthermore. San Francisco: Fraenkel, 2009. ISBN 978-1881337270. Published to coincide with the gallery's thirtieth anniversary.
- The Plot Thickens. San Francisco: Fraenkel, 2014. ISBN 978-1881337393. Edited and with an introduction by Jeffrey Fraenkel. Published to coincide with the gallery's thirty fifth anniversary.
See also
- The McLoughlin Gallery, also at 49 Geary Street
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Whiting, Sam (29 November 2014). "Picture of success: Gallery owner Jeffrey Fraenkel marks 35 years". San Francisco: San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ↑ Stein, Suzanne (3 January 2011). "75 Reasons to Live: Jeffrey Fraenkel on Diane Arbus". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ↑ Conway, Richard (5 February 2013). "The Unphotographable at Fraenkel". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Whiting, Sam (3 September 1999). "A Photographic Memory / Fraenkel Gallery celebrates 20 years". SFGate.com. San Francisco: San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- 1 2 Baker, Kanneth (25 August 2003). "For 25 years, the Fraenkel Gallery has focused its lens on photography's emergence as an art form. A celebration is developing.". SFGate.com. San Francisco: San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- 1 2 Baker, Kanneth (30 November 2014). "The best photo gallery ever, Fraenkel Gallery, turns 35". San Francisco: San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ↑ "Frish Brandt Appointed President of Fraenkel Gallery". Fraenkel Gallery. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ↑ "Artists". Fraenkel Gallery. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ↑ Baker, Kanneth (7 January 2010). "Catching up with Jeffrey Fraenkel". SFGate.com. San Francisco: San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ↑ Baker, Kanneth (12 June 2015). "An antidote to irony at Fraenkel Gallery". San Francisco: San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 15 November 2015.