Public Reception:

Thursday, January 22: 6pm-9pm

Fair Hours:

Thursday, January 22: 6pm-9pm
Friday, January 23: 11am-6pm
Saturday, January 24: 11am-6pm
Sunday, January 25: 11am-5pm

1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco, CA

This presentation brings together two related bodies of work by Cole Barash.

The first includes selected works from When the Wind Blows North, an ongoing project developed over the past six years, with a forthcoming book to be published by TBW Books and Deadbeat Club Press in Fall 2026. Initiated following the artist’s father's passing in 2020, the work unfolds through repeated journeys along wilderness routes Barash’s father once traveled. These excursions function as both physical and temporal retracing, using place to sustain an ongoing relationship and pay homage to other mentors such as Walker Evans, Robert Adams, and Dorothea Lange.

The second body of work is also ongoing and centers on the solstices. Developed over the past three years across various locations, this work considers how natural systems respond to the changing position and distance of the sun at fixed points in the year. While the solstices remain astronomically constant, climate change has increasingly disrupted the ecological rhythms that once aligned with them. Shifts in seasonal timing, biological behavior, and environmental response reveal a growing misalignment between celestial cycles and the natural world.

Together, these works reflect an ongoing investigation into time, memory, and environmental change, using photography to engage both lived experience and larger natural systems.

Cole Barash (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans analog, digital and archival photography, sculpture, and film. His portraiture and still-life works are distinguished by an organic, spontaneous intimacy, capturing moments of quiet, yet profound, connection. Barash's artistic inquiry revolves around the interplay of color and composition between objects or temporal occurrences, often culminating in the creation of books or immersive installations. Drawing from a childhood immersed in natural landscapes, his work remains deeply influenced by nature—not only as a physical presence but as a dynamic force that shapes both form and perception.

Barash’s work has been exhibited globally, and his books are held in prominent public collections, including the Franklin Furnace Archive and the MoMA Manhattan Artists’ Books Collection. His photography has garnered widespread recognition, appearing in esteemed publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and Vogue, among others.