“So when I first opened up downtown in SF, most of the artists from the area that I knew already had galleries. I initially showed lots of NY, LA, and European artists like John Currin, Zoe Leonard, Raymond Pettibon, Karen Kilimnik, Andrea Zittel, Catherine Opie, Erwin Wurm, Christian Marclay, Christopher Wool, Jack Pierson, Sue Williams, Rirkrit Tiravanija, on and on. Not many painters actually. I liked a more ephemeral-type work, usually somewhat humorous…