Abundance of Botanical Forms and Monumental Paintings Reflects Optimism at San Francisco’s Fog Design+Art Fair

Tara Anne Dalbow, The Art Newspaper , January 23, 2026

Jonathan Carver Moore, the director of the eponymous San Francisco gallery, which has participated in the Focus sector for the past three years, says the San Francisco community really showed up for the fair this year. “People treated it like a civic duty,” he says. “With politics being what they are, and with the sudden closure of the California College of the Arts, everyone is doubling down on supporting the arts.” Moore’s presentation is part of the large-scale canvas trend, with epic paintings by Sesse Elangwe that the artist made during a residency at the gallery.

 

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