Fog Design And Art Fair 2024

A platform for contemporary design and art that shifts, morphs, and reveals itself through multiple forms and dimensions.

Schedule:

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

PREVIEW GALA - 4–10 p.m

Kick off 2024 with an unforgettable evening at the FOG Design+Art Preview Gala. Enjoy early access to the fair’s prominent selection of forty-five exhibitions by twentieth-century and contemporary design dealers and leading art galleries — plus entertainment, culinary delights, and cocktails by design.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2024

1:00: Sustaining the Bay Area’s Creative Ecosystem

Michael Arcega, artist

José Figueroa, artist

Martin Strickland, Director of Curatorial Initiatives, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Ileana Tejada, Senior Fellowships Manager, Headlands Center for the Arts

Nicole Shaffer, artist

What role do we each play in sustaining the region’s robust creative ecosystem? How do we support artists being able to stay in the Bay Area—living outside of the art market-dominated cities? From institutions, residencies, and foundations to private and corporate philanthropists, what does investment in the artistic community look like? How do artists foster a culture of mutual aid, community-building, and sustenance of future Bay Area arts practitioners? Join the panelists to explore why they each choose to call the Bay Area their creative home and how the artistic community remains vibrant.

3:00: The Art of Design Collecting

Michael Jefferson, International Senior Specialist, Design, Christie's

Abigail Turin, Founder, KallosTurin

Abigail Turin speaks with Michael Jefferson on collecting design. From their first pieces to the collections they’ve helped shape, Turin and Jefferson swap stories of the excitement of chasing down an elusive work, funny conversations with designers, and reliable resources that contribute to building a unique collection.

5:00: Whose art is it? How AI impacts Intellectual Property

Presented by UOVO

Andy Gass, Partner, Latham & Watkins

Generative AI tools have captured the popular imagination and their ubiquitous use now raises new questions about long standing intellectual property laws. How do we deal with this new wave of innovation, and how does it impact the way in which art is owned, shared, and collected? Join intellectual property lawyer Andy Gass to learn about what the relationship between AI and intellectual property means for art, artists, and the medium in which they create.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2024

4:00: Books by the Bay

Tammy Nguyen, artist

David Senior, Director of Library, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Vivian Sming, Artist-publisher, Sming Sming Books

V. Vale, Publisher: RE/Search and Search & Destroy

The Bay Area has long been a hub for artist published books and zines. Join four people from the artist publishing field with roots in the Bay Area to learn about their practices with artist-books and zines. Each panelist will discuss their practices and share why the Bay Area has been so important in shaping their work.  Learn more about historical artist publications from the Bay Area as well as some of the local inspiration that has influenced the making of zines.

5:30: A Director's Journey: Co-Creating a Leadership Vision

Presented by Bank of America

Christopher Bedford, Helen and Charles Schwab Director, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Join Christopher Bedford and Thomas Campbell for a lively moderated conversation exploring each director's path to leadership and the lessons, challenges, and invaluable community connections fostered along the way.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 2024

12:30: We Start With The Things We Find

Presented by Christie’s

Giuseppe Lignano, Founding Partner, LOT-EK

Thomas Piper, Filmmaker

Ada Tolla, Founding Partner, LOT-EK

Moderated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator and Head of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA

Look at things differently. LOT-EK's inspirational art and architectural work reconsiders our modern economy through the icon of globalization, the shipping container.

3:00: 3 Wheel Motion: A conversation with Mario Ayala, Rafa Esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales

Mario Ayala, artist

Rafa Esparza, artist

Maria Castro, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA

Guadalupe Rosales, artist

Jovanna Venegas, Former Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Join the artists for an informal conversation among longtime friends. Touching on their art, practices, and recent exhibition Sitting on Chrome, currently on view at SFMOMA, they will expand on their shared interests in the visual language of lowriders and the practice of cruising, discuss how they have engaged with the archive to bring light to Latinx histories in California, explore how concepts of hybridity have informed their work, and reflect on the role of collaboration in their practices.

5:00: Art, Collecting, and Musings with David Hornik and Troy Carter

David Hornik, Founding Partner, Lobby Capital

Troy Carter, Founder and CEO, Q&A

Troy Carter and David Hornik live in different worlds but view their jobs the same way – find something nascent but amazing and help it blossom. Troy has spent decades helping some of the world’s great musicians flourish (Lady Gaga, John Legend…). David has spent decades helping some of the world’s great entrepreneurs flourish (Splunk, BILL…). Troy and David bring this same philosophy to finding and nurturing great artists. Join Troy and David as they chat about how their professional worlds collide with their passion for contemporary art and vice versa.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 2024

1:00: Reshaping Narratives: Asian and Asian American Voices

Heesoo Kwon, artist

Vi?t Lê, artist

Rupy C. Tut, artist

Moderated by Naz Cuguoglu, curator, Asian Art Museum

Bringing artists and curators from the Bay Area together, this conversation focuses on how worldbuilding and storytelling practices foster community spirit and reshape Asian American narratives. This talk features three artists whose diasporic practices are tools for demanding agency by imagining alternative histories/futures through spirituality, collective healing, and magical realism.

3:00: Workshopping the Outside In: Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and NIAD

Amanda Eicher, Executive Director, NIAD Art Center

Joseph “JayD “ Green, artist

Chelsea Wong, artist

Erica Tanov, Founder | Designer | Creative Director of ERICA TANOV

Moderated by Natasha Boas, Independent Curator

The Bay Area has historically led conversations around neuro-diverse artists. Three Bay Area progressive independent art centers – Creativity Explored, Creative Growth, and Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development (NIAD) –  have expanded representation for developmentally disabled artists. This conversation will convene contemporary artists and curators who work with and for these three organizations to celebrate the power of art to change lives. 

Tickets

FOG Design+Art offers two ticket options in 2024, a single day ticket or a four day fair pass are available for purchase.

General Admission

Single Day Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door and online.

Four Day Fair Tickets are $75 in advance, $80 at the door and online.

Children 12 and under are free.

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Date: January 18-21, 2024

Thursday, January 18–Saturday, January 20, 2024

11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.

Sunday, January 21, 2024

11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Location: Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

2 Marina Blvd San Francisco, CA 94123

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