​We are so honored to be invited by our friends at COL Gallery, to join them for Mexican artist Francisco Moreno's California debut. COL Gallery is co-founded by our very own, Julia Li, along with Callie Jones.

​As part of SF Art Week FOG Fair Programming, the artist will be speaking about his work. Light bites and drinks will also be provided.

​From Callie and Julie:

​"We have been following Francisco's practice for years and are honored to have the opportunity to present these new pieces he has been creating for the past three years. Francisco grew up in Mexico City and currently lives and works in Texas and I've always admired how he masterfully blends cultures and time periods and interrogates the European painting tradition."

​About Francisco Moreno:

​For his California debut, COL Gallery is thrilled to present recent paintings by Francisco Moreno (b. 1986).

​Originally from Mexico City, Moreno currently lives and works in Dallas. Over the past three years, inspired by his Mexican heritage, Moreno has inserted bodies into the Western art historical cannon not commonly seen, re-imagining history as it would have been experienced. While he makes historical references and employs a highly technical style of European painting, Moreno blends cultures and time periods to create fantastical explorations that are also deeply tied to his personal life and contemporary experience. His paintings are not only the narratives of his culture made visible and current, they are also meditations on how one navigates finding their unique place in a society from someone who has lived across multiple cultures.

​About Col Gallery:

​COL Gallery is a project-based, contemporary gallery founded in 2023 by Callie Jones and Julia Li in Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco, a bayside landmark since 1862, a Lawrence Halprin-designed community space, and home of Ruth Asawa's first public work. COL is named in honor of the late sculptor Richard Nonas.