Drawn to the Horizon: Long & Longing Gazes From Northern California
April 1 – June 10, 2027
Center for Creative Sustainability
Sightline
An exhibition covering 150 years, 100+ Northern California artists, 100+ landscapes, and one continuous horizon
This exhibition is located at San Francisco’s Pier 29, on The Embarcadero.
Monday–Friday 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Free
ADA Accessible
This exhibition has family labels, and offers a family guide as well as special family programming built around finding the horizon.
Drawn to the Horizon: Long & Longing Gazes From Northern California gathers 100+ works by 100+ Northern California artists, spanning 150 years of painting, photography, printmaking, sound, performance, and conceptual art, into one continuous horizon.
Beginning with Muybridge’s 1878 panorama, the works install edge to edge across several hundred feet of gallery wall, horizons aligned into one unbroken line: a watercolor shoreline dissolves into a fogbound photograph, becomes a manga rooftop, a mural ridge—organized not by medium or decade, but horizon.
The structure is the argument: Landscape isn’t a settled genre but a 150-year regional conversation, from painters Wayne Thiebaud, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Bernice Bing, and Joan Brown, and photographers Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, Richard Misrach, and Muybridge. Landscape extends to conceptual experiments by Doug Hall and Paul Kos, cartoons by Jack Ohman, and murals by Precita Eyes and Clarion Alley. Artists come from all walks of life: full-time artists alongside locals who sustain their practice around day jobs. A kinship not by subject but origin—here is where every artist learned to see.
Drawn to the Horizon: Long & Longing Gazes From Northern California is produced by curator/artist JD Beltran with Sightline Creative Director Marco De La Vega, and installed at Sightline, Pier 29.
Exhibiting Artists
3 Fish Studios, Albert Bierstadt, Albert Tolf, Alice Brown Chittenden, Amos Goldbaum, Ana Teresa Fernández, Andrew Owen, Angelo A. Sottosante, Anne Bremer, Annie Galvin, Ansel Adams, Arnold Genthe, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Becky Alexander, Benjamin Chambers Brown, Bernice Bing, Bil Keane, Bill Martin, Carl Sammons, Carol Highsmith, Catherine Wagner, Catherine Wang McMahon, Charles Rollo Peters, Chester Arnold, Chiura Obata, Clarion Alley Mural Project, Dame Darcy, Dan Kurtzman, David Wilson, Debra Walker, Dewey Crumpler, Diane Andrews Hall, Diego Rivera, Don Ed Hardy, Donny Johnson, Dorothea Lange, Doug Hall, Drew Altizer, Eadweard Muybridge, Edwin Deakin, Elmer Bischoff, Emily Fromm, Frances Gearhart, Frank Morley Fletcher, Gabby Lala, George McCalman, George R. Lawrence Co., Georgia O'Keeffe, Grace Carpenter, Harold John Brothers, Imogen Cunningham, Jack Ohman, James Gouldthorpe, James Harrison Foreman, Jane Fisher, JD Beltran, Jenifer Wofford, Jerry Garcia, Jet Martinez, Jim Campbell, Jimmy Swinerton, Joan Brown, John Chiara, Joshua Smith, Judy Dater, Kara Maria, Katherine Ella Trimmer, Kathy Aoki, Kevin Candland, Kota Ezawa, Kozyndan, Lance Scott, Larry Sultan, Lee Flynn, Londubh Studio | Lisa Donohoe & Brynn Gelbard, Lucia K. Mathews, Mabel Dwight, Mark Rothko, Marty Links, Marv Miller, May Lynne Gill, Maynard Dixon, Megan Wilson, Michael Frye, Michael Shainblum, Mike Lai, Morrie Turner, Nadeen Flynn, Paul Kos, Paul Madonna, Pedro J. Lemos, Perham Nahl, Perry Meigs, Pirkle Jones, Precita Eyes, Ray Scepter Boynton, Richard Diebenkorn, Richard Misrach, Rinaldo Cuneo, Robert Bechtle, Ryan Daffurn, Sandow Birk, Sebastien Bachar, Selden Conner Gile, Sophie Calle, Stephan Pastis, Tabitha Soren, Taraneh Hemami, Teikichi Hikoyama, Todd Hido, Tom Killion, Travis Somerville, Vanessa Woods, Victoria Mara Heilweil, Victoria Veedell, Vita Hewitt, Wayne Thiebaud, Wiley Smith, William Keith, Xavier Martinez
Elmer Bischoff, Yellow Lampshade (detail), 1969. Oil on canvas, 70 x 80 in. © Elmer Bischoff. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Center for Creative Sustainability
For 20+ years, JD Beltran has worked at the intersection of art, culture, community, and civic life—as artist, filmmaker, technologist, and educator. Her through line: using creative practice to tackle social and environmental challenges, culminating in the Center for Creative Sustainability (2020).
Sightline
Sightline grew from CAST’s work unlocking underused public buildings for arts and culture. It opens the pier to artists and community, envisioned as a rare intersectional space for mutual aid, co-learning, and place-making—a clarity of vision and an endless horizon of possibilities.
Things to Do Around Here
Don’t miss the Black Salted Mocha at the PopUp by Porter coffee stop in Levi’s Plaza just across the street—they serve special Onyx Coffee Lab coffee and Black Sesame Mochi Cake!
JD Beltran, Director & Curator, Center for Creative Sustainability
Stop for the fabulous fish and chips at Pier 23! Just a 5-minute walk south from our venue on the Embarcadero.
Marco De La Vega, Creative Director, Sightline
Don’t miss artist Ana Teresa Fernandez’s cool blue art Mareas, a public artwork right in front of Pier 27, and the perfect frame for a selfie with San Francisco’s iconic skyline in the background!
JD Beltran, Co-Founder, Art + Water