For a limited time we will be selling quality toilet plungers at affordable prices.
Hey, this exhibition is about the banal, the everyday and the do it yourself style.

If you’ve got a toilet in your home or apartment you should have a plunger.
Don’t miss out on this once in a while opportunity.
Come in today and let us set you up with a plunger that’s right for you.
While you’re here have a look at the Isn’t It Obvious? exhibition.

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To purchase any item, please contact Gallery Director, Meg Shiffler or Gallery Manager, Aimee Le Duc. We will be happy to assist you with your purchase.

Thank you and enjoy!

Meg Shiffler
SFAC Gallery Director
meg.shiffler@sfgov.org
415.252.2568

Aimee Le Duc
SFAC Gallery Manager
aimee.leduc@sfgov.org
415.554.6080

Leslie Shows
untitled, 2009
archival pigment print, collage and monoprint
17" x 14 1/2"
Edition of 20
$525, unframed

The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is pleased to offer a monoprint by Leslie Shows, produced exclusively for the SFAC Gallery. Shows created a unique pattern for each print using a monoprinting technique. Finally, incorporating her elegant and complex collage process, the process resulted in a series where no two prints are alike! These remarkable monoprints are Shows’ foundational pieces exploring imagery that will inform an upcoming video project.

Shows received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her MFA at the California College of the Arts. Shows was included in Bay Area Now 5 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Her work has also been exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Armory Show, NY; Frieze Art Fair, London, England; and Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Nova, Miami, FL. Solo Exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A recipient of the SFMOMA 2006 SECA Art Award, her work was featured at SFMOMA in early 2007 and is also included in their permanent collection.

Purchase Information

To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

Ala Ebtekar

Ala Ebtekar
The Absent Arrival, 2008
mixed media print, Edition of 10
$1000, unframed

The Absent Arrival was produced for the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in June of 2008. All proceeds from the sale of this limited edition print go directly to the SFAC Gallery programming fund which supports artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

In The Absent Arrival Ebtekar collaborated with Electric Works Printmakers on his elaborate printmaking process, layering figures on top of each other by employing an energetic and light line-work method.

Ebtekar was raised in both Iran and the U.S. As a young teenager he joined the K.O.S. (Kids of Survival), working with artist Tim Rollins on collaborative artworks involving groups of urban youth. He received his BA from the San Francisco Art Institute and in 2006 his MFA degree at Stanford. He was a 2005 recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Arts Award. His work is exhibited internationally and was recently featured in two prestigious exhibitions: One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now, a touring exhibition originating at the Asia Society, NYC, and in the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. In 2007, his work was featured in a solo exhibition at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, and in Under the Indigo Dome at The Third Line in Dubai. In 2007 Ebtekar participated in a six month residency with Cite des Arts in Paris. Ebtekar was a finalist for the 2008 SECA Award given by SFMoMA biannually to outstanding Bay Area artists. His work was also featured in Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2008.

Purchasing Information
To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimeeleduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

J. John Priola
Three Weep Holes, 2005
gelatin silver print
15" x 9.75"
Edition of 10
$200

J. John Priola shows a  series of black-and-white pictures that continue his survey of undernoticed details of domestic architecture.

This time he has turned his attention to vent grates in house foundations and the "weep holes" in retaining walls that permit drainage. As in "Hillhurst Avenue" (2007), he offers these tiny architectural epiphanies, in a plainspoken manner, in big prints with wall, aperture, sidewalk and perhaps a fringe of vegetation forming a nearly depthless, nearly abstract pattern.A series of postcard-size prints examines single weeds obtruding, one or two at a time, between wall and sidewalk.

Priola poises these images on the border between documentary and conceptual art. They seem to equate the insufficient attention people give to details of the world and the insufficient attention they give to photographs. Such an equation would risk insulting the viewer, did Priola not effect it so discreetly that it too may pass unnoticed. Priola also quietly revives what Vancouver, British Columbia, photographer Roy Arden calls "the romance of the index" - the excitement of believing, in the Photoshop age, that the phenomenon before the lens left its own photo-chemical imprint.

Purchase Information

To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

Laura Ball
(in hand-crafted envelopes by Cecelia Gates) 2005
digital pigment print and C-print
5" x 7"
Edition of 50
$150

Purchase Information

To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

Maizie Gilbert
(in hand-crafted envelopes by Cecelia Gates) 2005
digital pigment print and C-print
5" x 7"
Edition of 50
$150

Purchase Information

To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

Valerie George
On the Grass, from the series Recapturing Grace 2005
B&W photo
13" x 19"
Edition of 10
$200

Valerie George’s work is best categorized in new genres. She uses a variety of mediums, chosen particularly, to best support each concept and project.

The spectacle and diverse popular practices of escapism are the underpinnings of my current research. The quagmire where pop culture meets subculture, public space meets private space, and consumer culture meets service aesthetics, propels these investigations of social cultural phenomena. Her work is ever changing and expands with the evolution of our societies’ fickle taste and favored routines, social structures, and engagements.

Purchase Information

To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

David Hamill
Sequence 10, View 6, 2005
digital pigment print with watercolor, unique
11" x 11"
Edition of 20 unique works
$300

Purchase Information

To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.

Tucker Nichols
Untitled, 2005
graphite and colored pencil on used placemat, unique
9.5" x 13.5"
Edition of 20
$300

Purchase Information

To purchase please call the SFAC Gallery at 415.554.6080 or email gallery manager, Aimee Le Duc at aimee.leduc@sfgov.org. The Gallery offers a three-month installment plan as a purchase option. All proceeds go to SFAC Gallery’s programming fund supporting artist honoraria and exhibition costs.