Rebecca Camacho Presents

Rebecca Camacho Presents

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526 Washington Street, San Francisco, CA 94111
Jackson Square

Open Hours:

Saturday, January 18 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, January 19 | Closed
Monday, January 20 | Closed
Tuesday, January 21 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, January 22 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday, January 23 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, January 24 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, January 25 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, January 26 | Closed

Special Events:

During SF Art Week ‘25, Rebecca Camacho Presents will feature Claire Oswalt: Moon Math and Julia Haft-Candell: Hold. Both exhibitions are on view at the gallery’s new space at 526 Washington Street in Jackson Square.

At FOG Design+Art 2025, the gallery will showcase the work of Stacy Lynn Waddell in FOG FOCUS.

Claire Oswalt: Moon Math is Oswalt’s third exhibition with Rebecca Camacho Presents and includes a suite of new paintings and preparatory studies. The exhibition title refers to the artist’s ongoing interest in the systems and structures – both science and metaphysics – that provide us with a possible mapping, choreography, and visualizations to both understand and attempt to comprehend the world around us. Oswalt’s work is informed by a wide range of sources, including the natural world, literature, quantum physics, and music. Several paintings in Moon Math demonstrate these interests, including Slipstone (2024), which is an amalgamation of color and form in three registers, conjuring an abstracted landscape with passages suggestive of water, rocks, and green foliage. Prelude in Green (2024) nods to musical referents such as Art Blakey’s Prelude in Blue with dynamic swaths of green paint that rhythmically collide, overlap, and intersect. Oswalt’s washy brushwork conjures the sounds of wind sweeping through grass or trees shuddering in a storm or perhaps a melodious jazz staple.

Julia Haft-Candell: Hold is Haft-Candell’s first exhibition with Rebecca Camacho Presents. Haft-Candell’s practice is rooted in clay-based sculpture. She incorporates multi-layered glazes often with bronze and gold flourishes into sculptural objects whose forms are derived from the artist’s visual lexicon, comprising specific symbols and motifs such as combs, hands, chains, and infinity loops. Sculptures that hold, contain, and behold underpin this new body of work. Employing sgraffito, a technique of carving into clay before firing, allows Haft-Candell to achieve a particular variation in textures and colors in the surfaces of her sculptures. This technique is evident in Light Holder with Mood Chart (2024), a sculpture of a hand extended backwards that doubles as a lamp adorned with chains of loops that splay across its surface. Hand Holder with Legs (2024) also dabbles in duality – it is both sculpture and stool – an object to be seen, experienced, and used.

At FOG Design+Art 2025, Rebecca Camacho Presents is mounting a solo installation by Stacy Lynn Waddell in FOG FOCUS, Booth 403. Waddell considers the authorship and idealism of art historical narratives and how they correspond to the economic and political structures of their time. 22k gold leaf is a key material in Waddell’s slow and reflective studio practice, used to address the material’s associations with value and trade, and the role of the gold standard in establishing modern banking and the distribution of wealth. Edibles – a new series of works produced exclusively for FOG FOCUS – depicts a sampling of the strange, toxic, and delicious florals consumed for human nourishment, healing, and pleasure at different moments across time. Constructed with handmade paper and pastiglia, a technique developed during the Renaissance in Italy to create low relief decoration, the artist conjures natural history specimens over thousands of years, creating beautiful, gilded fossils.

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