Turning the Page
Group Exhibition
Curated by Donna Seager
June 5 to August 4, 2025

Exhibition Reception
4pm to 6pm
Saturday, June 7
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Curator Talk
5pm
DeWitt Cheng + Donna Seager

NANCY TOOMEY FINE ART
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco

Save the date! Join us Saturday, June 7, from 4pm to 6pm, to celebrate the opening of Turning the Page, a group exhibition curated by Donna Seager, on view at Nancy Toomey Fine Art from June 5 to August 4, 2025, inside San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street. Also that day, join us at 5pm in the gallery for a curator talk with Donna Seager and art writer DeWitt Cheng. This event is free and open to the public.

Brian Dettmer, Modern America Aint, 2025, hardcover book, acrylic varnish, 15.25 x 11.5 x 1.125 inches

Turning the Page is a group show curated by Donna Seager with works by Gale Antokal, Renée Bott, Brian Dettmer, Andrew Hayes, Emily Payne, and Barbara Wildenboer.

Donna Seager exhibits painting, sculpture, works on paper and book-related arts. Seager features an array of artists, ranging from outstanding emerging and mid-career talent to established and internationally known artists with a focus on works that combine content with a mastery of materials. She has distinguished herself nationally for her commitment to the book as a medium for art. Her annual Art of the Book show has attracted both artists and collectors from around the world.

DeWitt Cheng is an art writer and critic based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cheng has written for more than twenty years for regional and national publications, in print and online. He has written dozens of catalog essays for artists, galleries, and museums, and is the author of Inside Out: The Paintings of William Harsh. In addition, he served as the curator at Stanford Art Spaces from 2013 to 2016, and later Peninsula Museum of Art, from 2017 to 2020.

 

Gale Antokal
Judith’s Hair (La chioma di Giuditta), 2024
Collage with 17th century atlas book plates
19.25 x 20.25 inches

 

Renée Bott
Fact & Fiction, 2024
Acrylic and color pencil on book pages mounted to Japanese paper
34.5 x 27.5 inches

 

Brian Dettmer
Spellage, 2020
Hardcover book, acrylic varnish, epoxy putty, acrylic, wood
35 x 16 x 5 inches

 

Andrew Hayes
Proximity, 2019
Steel, book paper, paint
12 x 12 x 3 inches

 

Emily Payne
Teem, 2020
Graphite on book boards
36 x 36 inches

 

Barbara Wildenboer
Flux 2, 2017
Paper sculpture
21.5 x 21.5 inches