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Insightful, generous, radical, and very 鈥淏ay way鈥� shows, including Bernice Bing, Estefania Puerta, Alicia McCarthy, Sadie Barnette, and more.

pt.2 Gallery is excited to present an exhibition featuring the work of longtime San Francisco artists and counterculture icons, John de Fazio and Cliff Hengst.

The first show I visited in 2021 was also a last: Gallery 16鈥檚 final exhibition in the ground-floor SoMa space it鈥檚 leased since 2005.

When Sophie Appel and Cole Solinger opened San Francisco鈥檚 Delaplane gallery at 483 14th Street, they were unaware the narrow storefront was already a landmark of local art history.

In 鈥淎rt, AIDS, SF: Tales of the City,鈥� an essay looking back on San Francisco in the early 1990s, local art critic Glen Helfand writes of 鈥渁 city on fire with the urgency of grappling with mortal coils, and with the erotic power of seizing a moment as if it were your last.鈥� 

In the back corner of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, a small stack of Cliff Hengst鈥檚 Untitled (Signs) series lean against the wall.

I have loved and lost San Francisco multiple times during our tempestuous, decades-long relationship. I understand that it is through the sheer