Somewhere Else, Somewhere Good

Speedboat, 2014. Isca Greenfield-Sanders

With the SF MOMA closed for renovations until 2016, the best way to see contemporary art in San Francisco is through private galleries and public art spaces. Tonight's opening of New York-based painter Isca Greenfield-Sanders solo exhibition at the John Berggruen Gallery will be my art outing this week.

My first introduction to her work was from a profile in Elle Decor in 2008. Her newest paintings are inspired by a Lou Reed song.




From the John Berggruen Gallery: 
Nostalgia, memory, and longing for a collective ideal––themes explored in the work of Greenfield-Sanders––are perfectly embodied by this exhibition’s title as well as by its source of inspiration, the 1972 song “Perfect Day” by Lou Reed. Somewhere Else, Somewhere Good is a riff on the line “someone else, someone good” from this popular song by Reed, who was a close family friend of the artist. 

On view from October 2-November 1, 2014. 
228 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108