About Gallery Paule Anglim

Gallery Paule Anglim was founded in 1976 by Paule Anglim following an art consultancy career in which she placed sculptures of Calder, Henry Moore, and Noguchi in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston and Vancouver.

During its 30-year history, the gallery has been identified with the California Beat artists, including Joan Brown, Wallace Berman, Jay DeFeo, Bruce Conner, George Herms, Jess and others. The gallery presented a series of exhibitions over the last 20 years titled Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu. These programs often included readings by prominent Beat poets and others. The gallery has also held many one-person exhibitions of these artists. In 2006, the gallery’s Jess exhibition was voted “Best Show in a Commercial Gallery” by the U.S. Art Critics Association.  

Related museum exhibitions have been mounted within last 10 years:  Joan Brown (UC Berkeley & the Oakland Museum), Bruce Conner 2000 B.C. (the Walker Art Center with tour), “Wallace Berman and his Circle” (Santa Monica Museum of Art with tour).

From this historical foundation the gallery continues to find and support artists using new formats like video, film, digital and web-based art. The gallery represents key members of the first generation of San Francisco conceptual artists: David Ireland, Tom Marioni, Paul Kos, Tony Labat and Terry Fox. For 25 years, art of social awareness and political engagement has been supported in exhibitions by Terry Allen, Sue Coe, James Drake (51.Venice Biennale 2007), Enrique Chagoya (Des Moines Art Center, touring retrospective), RIGO 23 (2006-2007 touring exhibition Madeira/ Lisbon/ Rio de Janeiro), Barry McGee (2002 Prada Foundation, 2000 UCLA Armand Hammer, 1998 Walker Art Center), Clare Rojas, and Ala Ebtekar (“One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now,” Asia Society Museum).

Renowned San Franciscan painter Robert Bechtle has been represented by the gallery for over 15 years. His touring retrospective was exhibited at SFMoMA, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Corcoran Art Gallery in D.C.

The gallery has regularly highlighted in its exhibition program works by international figures such as Louise Bourgeois, William Tucker, Tony Oursler, Eva Hesse, Joan Mitchell and Milton Avery.

Gallery Paule Anglim has placed three generations of artists’ work in important international private and museum collections.