If you don’t know the work of artist Marie Wilson, you’re not alone. But with the California-born artist now on the verge of long overdue mainstream rediscovery, you will soon.
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Marie Wilson | A Poet of Forms and Colors
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The Art Newspaper | ‘Painting continues to be viable’: Enrique Martínez Celaya on his sugar-coated show at the Wende Museum
February 26, 2026By Scarlet Cheng The Los Angeles-based artist’s new show is inspired by his Cold War-era childhood in Cuba, and the final entry in a trilogy of exhibitions The past is... -
Artforum | Boom or Bust in the Bay
Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors February 2, 2026By Bryan Barcena “Boom or Bust in the Bay” ' Despite the gloom and doom, the folks at Gallery Wendi Norris suggested to me that it had been a good... -
Observer | 10 Exhibitions Not to Miss During San Francisco Art Week
Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors January 20, 2026By Elisa Carollo Now in its 12th edition, FOG Design+Art has become a critical proving ground for testing that connection. Beyond its annual, tightly curated international showcase, the fair has... -
Whitewall | 10 Must-See Exhibitions to See During San Francisco Art Week
Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors January 20, 2026By Victoria Pokovba Marie Wilson: “A Poet of Forms and Colors” Gallery Wendi Norris Jackson Square, San Francisco Gallery Wendi Norris hosts the first major solo exhibition of Marie Wilson... -
Cultured | 14 Must-See Art Shows to Catch While You’re in San Francisco for FOG
Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors January 19, 2026By Karly Quadros “Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors” Where : Gallery Wendi Norris When : January 20 – March 14 Why It’s Worth a Look : Mentored... -
Becky Koblick Joins Gallery Wendi Norris as Director
January 15, 2026We are pleased to announce that Becky Koblick has joined Gallery Wendi Norris as Director. Koblick comes to the gallery from Altman Siegel, where she served as Managing Director for... -
San Francisco Chronicle | The biggest Bay Area arts and culture events to watch in 2026
Marie Wilson: A Poet of Forms and Colors December 26, 2025By Tony Bravo Marie Wilson at Gallery Wendi Norris Bay Area artist Marie Wilson’s often surreal paintings and drawings of biomorphic and geometric forms are ripe for rediscovery. Gallery Wendi... -
ARTnews | How Artists Responded to 2025’s Surging ICE Raids
December 19, 2025By Tara Anne Dalbow Julio César Morales, The Border (Los Pollos vs. La Migra), 2025 In a new multi-channel video installation, The Border (Los Pollos vs. La Migra) , Julio... -
Observer | Wendi Norris Bet On Women Surrealists—Now the Market Has Caught Up
The dealer’s collaborations with artists, scholars and institutions have been central to elevating Carrington, Varo, Tanning and their peers into a broader cultural spotlight. December 2, 2025Elisa Carollo 2 December 2025 A recent report by ArtTactic with Sotheby’s found that in 2024, Surrealism achieved annual growth of 8.8 percent, with auction sales rising to $439.7 million—a... -
Video | In Conversation: Selva Aparicio and Alison Gass
November 24, 2025On Friday, November 14, 2025, Gallery Wendi Norris hosted a conversation between Selva Aparicio and Alison Gass, Founding Director & Chief Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco.... -
San Francisco Standard | Eight must-see art shows in the Bay Area this fall
Selva Aparicio: What Remaines November 16, 2025By Sam Mondros From glitter-trailing roombas to dreamworld sleepovers and Impressionist pairings, here are the Bay Area art shows worth your time this month. It’s not every day you see... -
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Sextant
The Wende Museum, Culver City, CA November 8, 2025On view November 8, 2025 - October 11, 2026 Between 1957 and 1963, the artist’s father built a modernist house in a small coastal village in Cuba. The time period... -
Hyperallergic | Julio César Morales Looks at Life on the Edge-Lands
In his exploration of the US/Mexico border, the artist asks: In today’s social climate, who has the privilege of having a future and who does not? November 3, 2025By Natasha Boas DAVIS, California — San Francisco-based artist Julio César Morales was born on the US/Mexico border in Zona Norte, the red-light district of Tijuana, Mexico. When he was... -
SquareCylinder | Julio César Morales
October 20, 2025By Emily Davis Adams Is it possible to translate someone else’s experience accurately? This is the question at the heart of two concurrent exhibitions of the work of Julio César... -
Art Bae | Like A Summer Thursday: An Alternative Art Loop
October 17, 2025By Janie Perez-Radler Slip back into the city and under the primordial trees at the recently renovated Transamerica Redwood Park. Twelve bronze sculptures by Max Ernst linger in the shade... -
48 Hills | Julio César Morales’ tender work renders the pain of migration
The artist's latest show 'My America' utilizes painting, sculpture, immersive sound installation, and neon to tell 'the story.' October 7, 2025By Mary Corbin It’s hard to pin down the multidisciplinary work of artist Julio César Morales . If you ask, he will tell you he is a musician using visual... -
The New York Times | In London, a California Gallery Shows Expat Mexican Surrealists
For two decades, Gallery Wendi Norris has broadened and complicated ideas about Surrealism. Now she is bringing major Mexican-influenced works to Frieze Masters.By Will Higginbotham On a Friday morning in July, in the Jackson Square neighborhood of San Francisco, just a stone’s throw from the Transamerica Pyramid, the cafes and galleries were... -
Roborant Review | Julio César Morales, My America, Gallery Wendi Norris
October 2, 2025By Hugh Leeman Outside Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco's compact Jackson Square neighborhood, where gold rush-era buildings back the facades of today's trendy consumer boutiques, a glowing red neon... -
San Francisco Chronicle | Julio César Morales returns to S.F. with ‘My America,’ confronting immigration crisis
Julio César Morales: My America September 30, 2025By Tony Bravo Bay Area artist Julio César Morales is known for works that explore migration, labor and underground economies. Now, after a dozen years in Arizona, he returns to... -
The Huntington Acquires Landmark Collection of Works by Enrique Martínez Celaya
A major gift makes The Huntington the primary destination for experiencing the artist’s work September 23, 2025The Huntington has acquired eight major works by artist Enrique Martínez Celaya, deepening its long-standing relationship with the Cuban-born American artist and establishing the institution as having the most significant... -
Nob Hill Gazette | The California Homecoming of Julio César Morales
Julio César Morales: My America September 25, 2025By Emily Wilson Artist Julio César Morales grew up in Tijuana, moving with his family when he was 10 to San Diego, which was only a block away. Today, in... -
Hyperallergic | 10 Art Shows to See in the Bay Area This Fall
Julio César Morales: My America & "OJO" Julio César Morales September 17, 2025By Max Blue Returning to his full-time art practice after several years as a curator and museum director in Arizona, Julio César Morales debuts two concurrent exhibitions in the Bay... -
KQED | 10 Art Shows to See This Fall
Julio César Morales: My America August 19, 2025By Sarah Hotchkiss Julio César Morales, ‘My America ’ Sept. 19–Nov. 1, 2025 Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco Julio César Morales, recently returned to the Bay Area from Arizona, has... -
San Francisco Standard | Go Here Now: Transamerica Pyramid’s secret garden just got famed surrealist’s sculptures
Max Ernst at Transamerica Pyramid Center July 21, 2025By Sam Mondros Max Ernst’s fantastical bronze works take up residency in an oasis of redwoods in downtown San Francisco. Amid the steel canyons of the Financial District, the Transamerica... -
Los Angeles Review of Books | Double Indemnity
Ted Barrow visits Lisa Jo’s exhibit “Ecology of Fear” at Gallery Wendi Norris. July 2, 2025By Ted Barrow SAN FRANCISCO’S Yeon Building at 432-436 Jackson Street was either built in 1855 or rebuilt after 1906: surviving multiple earthquakes and fires or else rising from the... -
Datebook | Lisa Jo ‘Ecology of Fear’ at Gallery Wendi Norris
May 30, 2025By Tony Bravo Los Angeles-born, Berlin-based artist Lisa Jo presents a new series of six new paintings with her debut presentation at Gallery Wendi Norris. The works exist in an... -
Consecutive Matters | Some Art in San Francisco Part 6
Lisa Jo: Ecology of Fear May 30, 2025By Jonathan T.D. Neil I recall seeing an exhibition of Cheyney Thompson’s paintings at Andrew Kreps in 2009 and thinking the work, with its arch intellectual proclivities, was being made... -
Square Cylinder | Enrique Martínez Celaya, “The Wilderness”
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Wilderness May 9, 2025By DeWitt Cheng In his 1897 tract, “What Is Art?,” Russian novelist and Christian mystic Leo Tolstoy argued that art should convey traditional religious feeling, as in the past, and... -
Video | The Brooklyn Rail: Enrique Martínez Celaya and Jessica Holmes
The New Social Environment May 6, 2025Enrique Martínez Celaya speaks with Jessica Holmes from the Brooklyn Rail for a New Social Environment conversation about his exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris, 'The Wilderness.' -
Video | 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... -
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 –... -
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...
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