Lee Gallery

05/19/2025

Tonight! Big drop!

The long awaited documentary, Who is Michael Jang? premieres tonight on PBS.

Link in bio

07/26/2023

Well done Joe. The photograph reproduced is in the collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture as a gift from Lauren and me. Curator Jackie Serwer chose it at an AIPAD Photography Show the spring before the museum opened.

03/30/2023

Lee Gallery @ The Photography Show 2023

02/02/2023

This golden railroad spike commemorating the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was recently deaccessioned from the Museum of the City of New York for $2,220,000. Bidding for the spike far exceeded expectations and the press speculated it was because the spike symbolized American unity. Several years ago I found this albumen print of the event in a stack of old photographs at a small auction in New Hampshire. It was exhilarating to win this piece of history. Yet not lost on me is the exclusion of any Chinese or women.

12/21/2022

More press for Post no Jangs!

Emily Wilson’s write up for - link in bio.

12/01/2022

WE ARE HAVING AN ART SHOW!!

Post No Jangs: Notes from Underground

For decades Michael Jang flew under the radar, his career as a professional artist first gathering public acclaim in 2001 with the submission of a portfolio of images from the 1970s to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Like Jang’s oeuvre, the underground setting of this latest exhibition presented by Lee Gallery shifts our everyday coordinates—what’s right under our noses, on the streets and sidewalks? If you haven’t been paying attention, this exhibition is your alert to an artist making their literal mark on the city and redefining what their prime looks like.

Post No Jangs: Notes from Underground opens in the basement of Crown Point Press, directly across from SFMOMA, where pristine black and white gelatin silver prints by Jang live in the permanent collection. You won’t find any clean photographs or murals hanging on the walls here though. Installed with the help of longtime friends and collaborators, assistant Brent Willson and curator Adrian Martinez, Jang’s most recent works demand physical engagement: mounted on plywood, some sit in the hallway floor, others are arrayed like an altar in the main room. Ripped and written over, stickered over, these images leap out at the viewer. Such ad hoc layout directly expresses the mode of working on the street and epitomizes the spontaneity and community that have been core tenets of Jang’s career. At his solo exhibition at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (2019–20), it was the backroom with its graffitied pictures tacked to the wall which first hinted at this series developed during the pandemic. In 2021 Jang was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue stretching the limits of photography; with the words “Post No Jangs,” the artist teasingly proclaims his own blacklist, transforming the stenciled tagline into a new calling card.

The art world may be familiar with his more traditional photographs, but what San Francisco knows is that the sharpest street artist out there wheat-pasting and spray-painting is a septuagenarian fluent in pop culture and a visual vocabulary that tackles everything from takeout food to anti-Asian violence.

11/19/2022

POP-UP ANNOUNCEMENT

Post No Jang: Notes from Underground
Michael Jang
Lee Gallery
San Francisco

Opening December 8.

09/07/2022

Back to the museum to celebrate the first wheat paste sale w

05/19/2022

Come see Michael Jang’s latest mural at The Photography show.

05/02/2017

http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2017/05/02/article/159949222/the-allusions-of-american-artist-sturtevant/

Sturtevant has bestowed a particular importance to photography throughout her career and perhaps this medium epitomizes best her resistance to the categorization of her work. Rather than creating exact replications, she engages a dialogue with her sources by complicating the basic mimetic process an...

05/01/2017

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