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“I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. . . there’s something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one’s thoughts.”
-Hilton Als

Heather James Fine Art presents a two-part online exhibition of the avant-garde art and artists from Northern California. Part one focuses on figurative and representational art and how these artists pushed against the overwhelming tide of East Coast abstraction.

The San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California proved to be fertile in producing artists that changed the course of art history. The artists …