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SLATE CONTEMPORARY GALLERY INTRODUCES 5 NEW ARTISTS AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ART FAIR AT FORT MASON APRIL 16–19

SLATE Contemporary Gallery is thrilled to be working with several new artists who will be introduced to Bay Area audiences at the San Francisco Art Fair at Fort Mason from April 16-19.

Oakland artist Jet Martinez is well-known for dozens of hand-painted murals he has created across the Bay Area, done in his unique signature style that draws on Mexican folk art traditions. SLATE is delighted to bring his studio painting practice into focus, featuring two works at the fair from his Arbolito series—paintings on panel originally created for a solo show at MACLA in San Jose last year.
Rubeena Ratcliffe is an abstract painter based in Vancouver, Canada. Her work will be featured in a solo exhibition at SLATE Contemporary Gallery from April 09-May 30, with one piece concurrently on view at the fair. Trained originally as an architect, Rubeena’s paintings on canvas focus on compositional relationships between shapes, color, values, and the dynamics of space.
Austin photographer Stephanie Duprie Routh had her Bay Area debut last summer in a solo exhibition at Minnesota Street Projects, produced by Fox Projects. She has since joined SLATE Contemporary, and has two works from her Daydream in Memories of Youth series in A New Day, currently on view in Oakland through April 4. A large-format figurative photo titled Julia Fierce will be on view at the fair.
Improvisational San Francisco painter Jen Garrido will be represented with an abstract painting on canvas from 2024 as a precis to her upcoming innaugural solo exhibition, which will feature a new body of 2026 work at SLATE Contemporary Gallery from June 5–July 4.
Last, but not least, SLATE is pleased to present Fort Worth, TX, artist Aubree Dale’s work to Bay Area audiences for the first time. A self-described “Maximalist painter,” Aubree builds her paintings up in layers, fluctuating between abstraction and representation to create both simple and complex worlds for exploration.

SLATE will also present work by several artists who have been working with the gallery for some time, including Hannah Franco, Patrick DeAngelis, Peter St. Lawrence, Suzanne Frazier, and Holly Wong. [Image left: Jen Garrido's painting Hot Hot.]

APRIL EVENT: SLATE CONTEMPORARY AT SAN FRANCISCO FINE ART FAIR, FORT MASON

SLATE Contemporary is pleased to present work by gallery artists at the San Francisco Art Fair at Fort Mason.

OPENING EVENT

Thursday April 16, 6–9pm

PUBLIC HOURS

Friday April 17, 11–7pm

Saturday April 18, 11–7pm

Sunday, April 19, 11-6pm

Fort Mason, Festival Pavillion

2 Marina Blvd

San Francisco, CA 94123

PURCHASE TICKETS

SPRING SOLO EXHIBITION: RUBEENA RATCLIFFE

Visit the gallery to see new work by Canadian painter Rubeena Ratcliffe

SLATE Contemporary

5510 College Ave

Oakland, CA, 94618

Open Tues–Sat 11-5pm

Exhibition runs Saturday, April 11–Saturday, May 30

SUMMER SOLO EXHIBITION: JEN GARRIDO

Visit the gallery to see new work by San Francisco painter Jen Garrido

SLATE Contemporary

5510 College Ave

Oakland, CA, 94618

Open Tues–Sat 11-5pm

OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY JUNE 6, 4–6PM

Exhibition runs Friday, June 5–Saturday, July 4

SUMMER INVITATIONAL: GESTURAL EXPRESSIONISM

Visit the gallery to see paintings by several guest artists alongside those by our gallery artists, each working in their own personal language coming out of gestural expressionism.

SLATE Contemporary

5510 College Ave

Oakland, CA, 94618

Open Tues–Sat 11-5pm

OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY JULY 18, 4–6PM

Exhibition runs Friday, July 17–Saturday, August 29

AUTUMN SOLO EXHIBITION: HANNAH FRANCO

Visit the gallery to see new paintings by Hannah Franco.

SLATE Contemporary

5510 College Ave

Oakland, CA, 94618

Open Tues–Sat 11-5pm