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Enrique Martínez Celaya | The Wilderness
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In Conversation: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Alexander Nemerov
April 9, 2025On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, Gallery Wendi Norris hosted a conversation between artist Enrique Martínez Celaya and Alexander Nemerov, Stanford University’s Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts... -
The Brooklyn Rail | Leonora Carrington: Mythopoesis
Leonora Carrington: Mythopoesis March 1, 2025By Mark Van Proyen For several decades, the art world has witnessed a widespread resurgence of fantasy figuration, reaching a high point in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition titled The... -
ArtReview | The Other Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington: Mythopoesis March 5, 2025By Theodora Walsh The late surrealist painter and writer was known for her dreamlike paintings but a new exhibition brings her versatility between mediums to light Fantasy bleeds onto the... -
Datebook | January 2025 has been a year, so I escaped to this S.F. gallery
Leonora Carrington: Mythopoesis February 7, 2025by Tony Bravo 7 February 2025 I could stare at Leonora Carrington’s art for hours and still discover new worlds and characters. And in times as strange as 2025, perhaps... -
KQED | Who Needs AI Dreamscapes When We Have Leonora Carrington?
Leonora Carrington: Mythopoesis February 5, 2025by Brian Karl 5 February 2025 Where do dreams come from? Questions about their origin are worth asking on occasion, especially when a sampling of the work of the prolific,... -
Datebook | The best things to do at San Francisco Art Week
Leonora Carrington: Mythopoesis January 18, 2025by Tony Bravo 18 January 2025 Gallery Wendi Norris will present its fifth solo exhibition of the British-born surrealist Leonora Carrington with “Mythopoesis .” Norris’ presentations have been key in... -
Cultured Magazine | In the Midst of FOG, Co-Chairs and Collectors Mario Russo and Jim Abrams Share Their Must-See Exhibitors and Shows
The San Francisco fair presents a perfect opportunity to get to know the city's "under-the-radar" art scene. January 24, 2025by Cristina Macaya 24 January 2025 Collectors Mario Russo and Jim Abrams have a clear take on San Francisco’s art scene: personal, unpretentious, and brimming with hidden gems. After all... -
Artnet | Collectors Covet Dorothea Tanning’s Surrealist Work. The Best Is in Short Supply
Prices for her colleague Leonora Carrington have exploded recently. Could hers be next? January 16, 2025by Eileen Kinsella 16 January 2025 “I bought my first Dorothea Tanning as a gallerist about 21 years ago,” art dealer Wendi Norris said in a recent interview. “So it’s... -
The Guardian | The most exciting US art exhibitions in 2025
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold January 7, 2025By Veronica Esposito 7 January 2025 María Magdalena Campos-Pons : Behold The Cuban-born María Magdalena Campos-Pons explores issues of gender, identity and sexuality, and is considered a major figure in... -
Hyperallergic | The Cosmic Energy of Peter Young’s Paintings
What you see in Young’s “stick” paintings is not a tightly executed, machine-like painting, but a humbler and more vulnerable approach. January 5, 2025By John Yau 5 January 2025 Around 1963, Peter Young began to think of himself as a painter. A Los Angeles native who spent two years at Pomona College, in... -
Artnet | As Leonora Carrington’s Market Soars, San Francisco Gallery Plans Major Show
Dealer Wendi Norris will present some 15 works that span 50 years—and many mediums. January 4, 2025by Eileen Kinsella 4 January 2025 Last year was a big one for the market of Surrealist master Leonora Carrington, whose colorful life and works are finally getting the star... -
ARTnews | María Magdalena Campos-Pons Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
December 4, 2024December 4, 2024 María Magdalena Campos-Pons won the ARTnews Awards in the Lifetime Achievement category. The awards honor influential living artists with a retrospective or survey exhibition at a major... -
Art Basel | Data, Surrealism, and a little magic: Gallerist Wendi Norris’ recipe for success
Credited with fostering the legacies of artists such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning, she will soon showcase her vibrant program at Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time November 14, 2024By Tara Anne Dalbow 14 November, 2024 For San Francisco gallerist Wendi Norris , words matter. More so than ‘surrealist’ – the characteristic most often attributed to her program –... -
Peter Young | In the Studio
October 31, 2024Peter Young gives a behind-the-scenes look at his studio in Bisbee, Arizona, walking through his six decades-long career. Peter Young (b. 1940, Pittsburgh) grew up in Los Angeles and studied... -
Chitra Ganesh in Conversation with Janna Keegan and Tausif Noor
October 17, 2024On Saturday, September 14, 2024, Gallery Wendi Norris hosted a conversation between artist Chitra Ganesh and curators Janna Keegan from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Tausif Noor... -
Hyperallergic | The Feminist Multiverse of Chitra Ganesh’s Art
There are boundless ways to interpret the artist’s works, each populated with fierce femmes and curious chimera, and layered with symbols. October 14, 2024By Julie Schneider 14 October 2024 SAN FRANCISCO — Hot pink paint, like the tropical flash of a wild bougainvillea vine, radiates from the walls of Gallery Wendi Norris. On... -
The Brooklyn Rail | Chitra Ganesh: Tiger in the Looking Glass
October 8, 2024By Danica Sachs October, 2024 A hybrid beast, a woman with a cat-like tail and tiger’s head, clad in a magenta jumpsuit, is poised on all fours in the middle... -
Frieze | Celebrating 100 Years of Surrealism at Frieze
Discover the movement’s iconic artists and contemporary legacy at the London fairs, from Man Ray, Dora Maar and Leonora Carrington, to Carol Bove and Leiko Ikemura October 3, 2024By Livia Russell 3 October, 2024 '...Leonora Carrington ‘didn’t have time to be anyone’s muse’. Having left London for Paris, with the arrival of World War II, Carrington fled Europe... -
The Brooklyn Rail | Surrealism’s Polymorphous Afterlives
By Chitra Ganesh in the Critics Page October 2, 2024By Chitra Ganesh October, 2024 1. A woman and her companion, a tree-human hybrid, walk hand in hand under the moonlight on a stone path that zigzags across lush valleys.... -
Artforum | Enrique Martínez Celaya
Hispanic Society Museum and Library October 1, 2024Barry Schwabsky October 2024 Museums with historically oriented collections have long recognized the value of inviting contemporary artists to intervene in their spaces. The idea is a win-win: Contact with... -
Now Representing Enrique Martínez Celaya
September 19, 2024San Francisco, September 19, 2024 —Gallery Wendi Norris proudly announces its representation of acclaimed Cuban-born, American artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. Through his paintings, sculptures, installations, and writing, Martínez Celaya explores... -
The New York Times | Don’t Call It a Protest. It’s a Walk for Radical Love.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons is marshaling New Yorkers for unity, linking uptown and downtown communities while highlighting inequities in city parks. September 16, 2024Aruna D’Souza 16 September 2024 On a gray and drizzly Saturday morning, 120 people or so met at a small East Harlem park to begin a walk organized by the... -
Chitra Ganesh: "Tiger in the Looking Glass" Talk & Book Signing
September 14, 2024Saturday, September 14, 2024, 3:00 - 4:30 pm PDT 436 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Discussion with Chitra Ganesh, Janna Keegan, and Tausif Noor... -
Gallery Wendi Norris Expands Team
August 22, 2024August 22, 2024: In response to the evolving needs of its vibrant artist roster and collector base, Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to welcome Ye-Bhit Hong as Assistant Director and... -
Twelve Museums Acquire Works by Gallery Wendi Norris Artists
July 9, 2024June 9, 2024 Please join Gallery Wendi Norris in congratulating the Art Institute of Chicago, the Asian Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Female Artists of... -
ARTnews | A Bay Area Dealer Who Rewrote the History of Surrealism Makes Her Art Basel Debut
June 11, 2024By Alex Greenberger June 11, 2024 These days, it is hard to imagine a time when everyone wasn’t talking about Leonora Carrington’s art. In 2022, the Surrealist artist’s writings lent... -
Hyperallergic | Remedios Varo Thrives at the Edges of Perception
Varo’s drawings crack the cold flawlessness of her paintings, and it’s exciting to see the looser, simpler skeletons underneath the surface. May 20, 2024By Alice Procter May 20, 2024 Remedios Varo’s work has always been on the edges of recognition. Less celebrated than her surrealist peers, her solo shows have been sporadic, and... -
A Curatorial Conversation on the Drawings of Remedios Varo
May 11, 2024Saturday, May 11, 2024, 2:00 pm 34 E 69th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY On Saturday, May 11, Gallery Wendi Norris hosted a conversation between Samantha Friedman , Curator...
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