FOG DESIGN+ART

Johansson Projects presents Andrew Catanese and Nimah Gobir at FOG Design+Art 2025. Both bay area-based painters, Catanese and Gobir reflect on the visual and cultural environments that shape their lives. Catanese’s lush paintings recall the kudzu-laden landscapes of their upbringing in Virginia. Populated with horses, hunting dogs, and the occasional wisp of a foxtail, their work rejects the dualism that often characterizes the distinction between animal and human, nature and culture. Finding inspiration and parallels to growing up queer in traditions like the foxhunt, Catanese’s swirling compositions articulate their complex relationship to the American South and bring nuance to constructions of the self. Gobir’s work is similarly rooted in the environment of the domestic interior. Often drawing from family photographs and other personal ephemera, she combines painting with embroidery, patterned textiles, and photo transfer to create patchwork portraits of intimate memories and family histories. The child of Nigerian-born parents, Gobir’s work interrogates enduring results of diaspora and the renewal of belonging to a home.

Link to viewing room

Address:

Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA 94123

Preview Gala:

Wednesday, 22 Jan 4pm – 10pm

Art Fair Hours:

Thurs, 23 Jan 11am – 7pm
Fri, 24 Jan 11am – 7pm
Sat, 25 Jan11am – 7pm
Sun, 26 Jan 11am – 5pm