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Opening Reception: Friday, July 10, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
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Gateway Pavilion at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94123 |
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This summer, FOR-SITE presents Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags, a site-specific exhibition by the internationally acclaimed artist, on view at Fort Mason’s Gateway Pavilion in partnership with Fort Mason Art. Marking the West Coast debut of Goldsworthy’s monumental installation Red Flags (2020), the exhibition features fifty 5 x 8-foot flags, each stained red with earth collected from one of the fifty US states. |
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Originally hung in New York’s Rockefeller Center, the flags’ presentation at Fort Mason coincides with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, reflecting on geographic and political boundaries, and on the ties between people, land, and nation. Rather than displaying emblems that differentiate each state, Goldsworthy’s flags ask us to consider what unifies them—and us. |
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Andy Goldsworthy: Red Flags is organized by FOR-SITE and presented with Fort Mason Art, with generous exhibition support from Haines Gallery, FOR-SITE’s Board of Directors, and the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Installation services provided by Fides Industrial. |
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| Andy Goldsworthy: For Olle
On view at Haines through July 3 |
Andy Goldsworthy: For Olle brings together a suite of related photographic works and a new clay sculpture made with kaolin clay. Dedicated to the artist's longtime friend and collaborator, Olle Lundberg, the show offers an intimate reflection on materiality and memory, loss and renewal.
At the heart of the exhibition are three photographic diptychs from Goldsworthy’s series Fallen Elm (2009–present), documenting ephemeral works made in relation to a single, fallen elm tree near the artist’s home in Scotland. |
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Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956, lives and works in Dumfriesshire, Scotland) is internationally recognized for his sculptures, installations, photographs, and films that engage directly with the natural world. Working with materials such as stone, wood, leaves, and earth, his practice emphasizes process, time, and transformation, and our relationship with the landscape. Goldsworthy’s works have been exhibited in major sites and museums internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa, Madrid, Spain; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland; and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, as well as permanent works at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Presidio of San Francisco, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Stanford University, CA; and Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. He has been the subject of several substantial monographic publications, as well as two feature-length documentaries: Rivers and Tides (2002) and Leaning into the Wind (2017). |
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Images: 1. Installation view of Andy Goldsworthy, Red Flags, 2020 at the Royal Scottish Academy, presented by the National Galleries Scotland in 2025. Photo by Stuart Armitt; 2. Rendering of Andy Goldsworthy, Red Flags in Fort Mason's Gateway Pavilion; 3. Detail of Andy Goldsworthy, Elm leaves. Grass stalks. Fallen elm. Calm. For Olle Lundberg. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 16 November 2025, 2025; 4. Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, courtesy the artist. |
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