Wessling Contemporary was founded in 2018 in San Francisco's gritty SoMa District as Radian Gallery, 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 in the Union Square District, the gallery has showcased the talents of scores of emerging and re-emergent artists, primarily from the San Francisco Bay Area. Just as pioneering Napa Valley wineries caused a tectonic shift in enotechnical perception via The Judgement of Paris, Silcon Valley innovators such as Fairchild Semiconductor, Hewlett Packard, Xerox PARC, and Apple caused upheaval in the socio-technical sphere, and Northern California culinary mavericks such as Alice Waters, Bruce Aidells, Thomas Keller, Thomas Odermatt, Brandon Jiu, and Thomas Phan spilled onto the international food scene, the bold actions of pioneering San Francisco galleriests of the 60s and 70s fomented the introduction of such now universally-revered Bay Area artists such as Ruth Asawa, David Park, Stephen de Staebler, Nathan Olivera, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, and Robert Arneson, who rocked the East Coast art establishment, Wessling Contemporary is pursuing a vision that continues this West Coast 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 world.
It's a tall order. But we're up for it.
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Gallery Contributors
Anthony Wessling, Founding Director
