Hosfelt Gallery

SF Art Galleries - Openings & Events Event source calendar Event Link: see venue calendar above ^^ Three Shows Oct 17 - Nov 25, 2026 Reception: Sat, Oct 17, 2026 · 3:00-5:00 PM ANDREA HIGGINS Self-Portraits Andrea Higgins is known for her intricate paintings of fabric swatches that draw on the expressive power of textiles to create evocative, abstract portraits. Inspired by childhood trips to Britex Fabrics with her grandmother, and a fellowship in Indonesia where she observed the labor-intensive process of weaving extravagant sarongs, Higgins "weaves" textile patterns with paint. Her newest works are diptychs, in which one panel — the "woven" looking one — refers to the way skin pulls after it's been cut and stitched back together. Higgins, a cancer survivor, is referring to her own body and the series of surgeries that have left her with physical and emotional scars. The other panels refer to one of her favorite blouses. During her illness and recovery, she found herself frequently wearing floral patterns. She attributes her attraction to them both to the flowers that surrounded her while she was ill and to the way these “cheery” clothes helped her feel comfortable with herself as she re-entered the world feeling scarred and vulnerable. Of course, every floral painting is also a memento mori. This series of paintings is the most personal the artist has ever made. It, like all of her work, is about the image one presents to the world... In this case, both a direct reference to her body and her mortality and to the way we all deal with our scars and move forward to live our lives. Andrea Higgins (b. 1970, Kansas City; based in San Francisco) is a recipient of SFMOMA’s prestigious SECA award. Her work is in the collection of SFMOMA and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. She has been represented by Hosfelt Gallery since 2000. REQUEST A PREVIEW Tangled Web Weaving as a Conceptual Practice Group Show Weaving is one of humanity's oldest creative practices, and one of its richest mythologically, metaphorically, and aesthetically. This group exhibition teases out themes of form, language, and storytelling in works by Miguel Arzabe, Ricki Dwyer, Gego, Trude Guermonprez, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Channing Hansen, Andrea Higgins, Ruth Laskey, Dinh Q. Lê, Emil Lukas, Christy Matson, Sandra Monterroso, Driss Ouadahi, Kay Sekimachi, Lenore Tawney, Susie Taylor, Deborah Valoma, and Brent Wadden. REQUEST A PREVIEW BETO DE VOLDER Errant Geometries Beto De Volder begins with geometry, but as Paul Klee observed, where a line leads can often be surprising. De Volder's ink drawings circle, curve, repeat, and turn back on themselves — highly structured from a distance, but revealing irregularity, improvisation, and play when you're up close. Based in New York, De Volder began working in Buenos Aires in the 1990s, as his generation of Argentine artists was reconsidering the legacy of Latin American geometric abstraction. Rather than pursuing its historical ideals of purity and order, he treats his geometry as a "living language," using repetition and variation to explore the space between the entangled structures of ancestral weaving and basketry, and the circuits, networks, and machines of a contemporary, techno-optimist future. The dozen works in Errant Geometries embrace both movement and mistake: to be errant is to wander, but also to err. De Volder's forms follow rules without being governed by them, allowing each deviation to open another possibility and each work to become not a conclusion, but a new path through a recurring set of forms. Beto De Volder (b. 1962, Buenos Aires; based in New York) has been exhibited at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) and the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. This is his first solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery. REQUEST A PREVIEW location provided by event source: "260 Utah St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA" ―――――――――― SF Stuff To Do