Just a week after Anglim/Trimble became the third gallery at Minnesota Street Project to announce its closure, a fourth has joined the list. Jack Fischer Gallery, established in 2002, will close at the end of January 2026.
“The reasons are many, but suffice to say that it has become unsustainable from the personal to the existing gallery model,” today’s email announcement reads. Fischer notes that he is not retiring, but moving to a different venue he did not identify, “one with a smaller profile that is more sustainable.” He will continue to represent gallery artists.
From the start of his career, Fischer championed artists with disabilities, exhibiting work by Judith Scott, Marlon Mullen and Camille Holvoet, and collaborating with organizations like Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and NIAD. “The common ground of every work is based on intuition, vision and heart,” Fischer’s website states. “One of the most important factors in the program is that the hand of the artist be readily apparent.”
Before he had a fixed location, Fischer operated as a private dealer. Jack Fischer Gallery opened in the Union Square-adjacent 49 Geary building in the early 2000s and moved to 311 Potrero Ave. in 2013. In 2016, Fischer was one of the “founding” tenants at Minnesota Street Project. He gave up the gallery’s Potrero Avenue location in 2020.
The news comes after the announcement of Anglim/Trimble’s upcoming closure at the end of December, and the Nov. 22 closures of Rena Bransten and Altman Siegel; all are part of the Dogpatch arts complex established by Deborah and Andy Rappaport just under a decade ago.
