Catharine Clark Gallery

SF Art Galleries - Openings & Events Event source calendar Event Link: see venue calendar above ^^ Opening October 3 Jane Ivory: Abandoned and Forgotten EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery On view October 3 - November 7, 2026 Opening reception: Saturday, October 3 from 2 - 4pm Request a preview EXiT at Catharine Clark Gallery presents Jane Ivory: Abandoned and Forgotten, an exhibition of photographs and artist books by San Francisco-based photographer Jane Ivory. Ivory's images of the historic Bodie mining town were captured through the windows of buildings abandoned between the early 20th century and the early 1940s. Due to Bodie's remote location in the Eastern Sierra, departing residents—having exhausted the diminishing veins of gold—often left with little more than the clothes on their backs. With limited room on their carts and horses, they abandoned their worldly possessions to navigate the arduous journey back to civilization. Today, Bodie's remaining structures are filled with the artifacts left behind by these fleeing entrepreneurs, ranging from dirty dishes and pool tables to unused coffins. Ivory has traveled to Bodie multiple times to photograph the remains of a town founded on collective greed and dismantled by inevitable disappointment. Enamored with these frozen tableaux, she presses her camera against the grimy windowpanes, simultaneously capturing the interior scenes and the reflections of the desolate mountain town behind her. Initially skeptical that Bodie might be little more than a superficial tourist attraction, Ivory instead discovered a profound and magnetic poignancy within the ghost town. "Abandoned and Forgotten" presents the highlights of Ivory's photographic journeys to this historic site. Request a Preview for Jane Ivory's Exhibition ===================================== Opening October 1 LigoranoReese: Nothing Beside Remains Media Room On view October 1 - 4, 2026 for Fall of Freedom Opening reception: Saturday, October 3 from 2 - 4pm (note: the artists will not be in attendance) Request a preview For this year's edition of Fall of Freedom, Catharine Clark Gallery presents a selection of LigoranoReese’s short videos from 1992 to the present. Video has been a central element in LigoranoReese’s practice since 1983, spanning single-channel videos, installations, video sculptures, time-lapse films, and livestreaming of their ice sculptures. The media room program begins with LigoranoReese’s video Deception, derived entirely from AI. The artists distilled and bottled the fragrance from melted water of the Democracyice sculpture installation on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last October. LigoranoReese began producing television ads and point-of-purchase display videos, like Deception, in 1992 for their limited-edition series PureProductsUSA. The Bible Belt was created and shot specifically for its video installations and played in the center spread of the Book of Proverbs on a small LCD monitor that the artists cut into a New Testament Bible attached to a belt with a custom, gold-plated Jesus belt buckle. In the video, an actor cast as a televangelist intercuts in a montage of on-air channel switching, scrambled porn, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, Oral Roberts, Dan and Marilyn Quayle, and others hawking their products. In 1995, the artists appropriated and re-edited Ronald Reagan’s 1984 Morning in Americatelevision spot and Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man for their Contract with America underwear ad. The limited-edition underwear features House Speaker Newt Gingrich screen-printed on the crotch and the RNC’s Contract with America’s tenets on the seat. LigoranoReese superimposed fashion footage of their Contract with Americaunderwear over the faces of conservative icons Rush Limbaugh, Bob Dole, and Ralph Reed. The ad was first shown in their installation Pillars of the Clean Order (1995) and opens their video Exposed and Debriefed (1995), chronicling the media’s reaction and ensuing upro…