About

Wessling Contemporary was founded in 2018 in San Francisco's gritty SoMa District, with a mission to bring the best artistic work  of North America's West Coast to The World, and bring some of the best bits of the Artistic World to the West Coast. Now located at 39 Grant Avenue in Union Square, the gallery has showcased the talents of scores of emerging and re-emergent artists, primarily from the San Francisco Bay Area.  Following in the footsteps of previous generations of West Coast artists and galleries who rocked the East Coast art establishment and changed the way the world sees,  Wessling Contemporary is pursuing a vision that continues this tradition of jarring the status quo, injecting startling new ways of thinking about art and meaning and beauty into the conversation, and promoting a whole bunch of weird Left Coast ideas that blow people's minds and yes, changes the way the world sees.

  • Gallery Contributors

    Anthony Wessling, Founding Director
    Anthony Wessling, Founding Director

    Anthony Wessling

    Founding Director

    After three decades and several successful entrepreneurial endeavors in the advertising and design industry, Anthony  (Tony)  Wessling returned to his roots in the fine arts by founding Wessling Contemporary. Wessling trained as a photographer, printmaker, and painter at the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art, where he studied under Joanne Leonard, Takeshi Takahara, and Louis Marinaro, among others.

     

    In addition to running the gallery, Wessling is a bicycling urban optimist who works with numerous civic groups dedicated to improving the livability of our cities and suburbs. And even though he doesn't look much like a farmer, he also grows olives in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

  • Susan R. Kirshenbaum, Associate Art Consultant

    Susan R. Kirshenbaum

    Associate Art Consultant
    Susan Kirshenbaum is a life-long art student, artist, art administrator, teacher, and curator. 

    From early childhood she was encouraged to pursue art and photography while working and studying at her family’s art school, the Ivy School of Professional Art, in Pittsburgh, PA, where Keith Haring was a student in her first class, Marks on Paper.

     

    Susan is heavily involved with the San Francisco art community, having worked with Artspan, City Art Co-op, Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, and the Sausalito Center for the Arts. She has also served as the SFWA (San Francisco Women Artists Gallery) Exhibitions Director and Chair for the Serenity Art Series at the University of California, San Francisco . 

     

    Additionally, Susan maintains her own studio art practice at Art Explosion Studios in San Francisco's Mission District and is co-founder of The Invisibility Collective, an interdisciplinary intergenerational group of artists around the USA who delve into deep issues of identity and erasure.

     

    When not traversing the art world, she travels the real world extensively with her husband, Jack. 

  • Nate Mahoney, Associate Director

    Nate Mahoney

    Associate Director

    In addition to being a practicing artist, Nate Mahoney is a design researcher with a background in video ethnogrophy. He enjoys collaborating with clients to build compelling collections that communicate their individual narrative.

     

    When not immersed in creative pursuits, Nate spends his time sailing San Francisco Bay.

  • Julie Ann Robertson, Associate Art Advisor

    Julie Ann Robertson

    Associate Art Advisor

    Julie focuses on helping private collectors fill their world with artwork that is personally meaningful to them. Drawing on a career leading global entertainment properties as CMO of Disney Live and VP of Marketing at Discovery Channel, she brings an eye for storytelling to the collections she helps her clients curate.

     

    As a board member of the Atherton Arts Foundation and a docent at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Julie is invested in creative communities. She feeds her own creativity by combining her love of traveling the world with exploring museums and galleries and hiking anywhere she can along the way.

  • A photo of Lan Adler

    Lan Adler

    Associate Art Advisor
    Lan Adler's upbringing in the Bay Area was an immersion in arts and culture, leading her first into the study of architecture, where she was then drawn to the field of electrical engineering and ultimately to a career in Silicon Valley. Now, having come full circle back to the arts, her decades of experience in account management has resulted in a disciplined approach to helping clients build captivating and engaging art collections that provide deep and enduring emotional satisfaction.
  • Jorge Alzate, Gallery Associate

    Jorge Alzate

    Gallery Associate

    A former longtime director of Pegaso Gallery in West Hollywood and the former head of production at Philip Nimmo Design, Jorge has an innate sense of his clients' style and sensibilities, a unique trait that he deploys to help them build stunning collections that speak to their taste and individuality.

     

    If you're lucky, you will get to enjoy some of Jorge's outstanding cooking, one of his (and ours!) favorite pastimes.