NIGHT GALLERY
FOG DESIGN+ART
Booth 105
Tomashi Jackson, Brie Ruais, and Sarah Blaustein
January 23-26, 2025
BOOTH 105
Fort Mason Center
For FOG Design+Art 2025, Night Gallery is delighted to present new work by Tomashi Jackson and Brie Ruais, two represented artists from our program. Both artists subvert craft traditions—ceramics for Ruais, collage for Jackson—as they create bold forms that unite elements of painting and sculpture. Cycles of life, death, and creative rebirth become major themes.
Ruais’s process begins when she places 130 pounds of commercial clay—the weight of her own body—on the ground. She kneels atop the material, pressing and spreading it into radial forms, capturing impressions from both the earth and her body. The structure is then fragmented, glazed, and fired in pieces. The loss of water during the firing dramatically reduces the clay’s mass, heightening its fragility. These ceramic forms embody both strength and delicacy, offering a visceral reflection on the fragile relationship between humanity and the natural world.
In her multimedia paintings, Tomashi Jackson integrates an ashen paste made from burned Los Angeles palm leaves, a material that directly engages with the landscape and history of the city she grew up in. Her work reflects a process of transformation—both of the material itself and the act of creating—as she draws from Josef Albers's color theory to explore geometric experimentation and research. Jackson’s approach embodies the ritual of art-making as a means to navigate personal and collective grief, braiding together images of joy and trauma.
Both Ruais and Jackson use their respective mediums to mourn recent losses, reimagining art as a life-affirming ritual. Their works become sites for shared bereavement and renewal.
In addition to this presentation, Night Gallery is thrilled to exhibit new work by Bay Area artist Sarah Blaustein. The artist uses domestic tools such as rags and house painters’ brushes to make vibrant marks across wet canvas. Blaustein’s use of water introduces fluidity, presence, and the constant ebb and flow of creation, complementing the elemental explorations of Ruais and Jackson.
Together, these three artists offer a poignant reflection on life’s impermanence, creating spaces where grief, materiality, and the enduring power of creation converge.
Thursday, January 23 - 11 am - 7 pm
Friday, January 24 - 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, January 25 - 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, January 26 - 11 am - 5 pm
Fort Mason Center
2 Marina Blvd
San Francisco, CA
94123
Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980, Houston, TX) received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2010; earned her MS in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012; and received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art in 2016. She was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, was a 2019 Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and received the 2023 Rappaport Prize, the 2022 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, and a 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Jackson has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus; and Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw. She has participated in group shows at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others. Jackson’s work belongs in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art, and Cooper Union, and has been a visiting artist at New York University. Jackson lives and works between Cambridge, MA, and New York City.
Brie Ruais (b. 1982, Southern California) earned her MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY. She has exhibited her work at institutions including Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany; Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, Canada; and Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. She has had solo exhibitions at Albertz Benda Gallery, New York, NY; Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON; Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX; Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and among others. Ruais's work is in the permanent collections of Burger COLLECTION, Hong Kong; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, among others. Past awards and residencies include the Montello Foundation Residency, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, and The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. The artist’s work has been written about in publications including Artforum, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Ruais lives and works in Santa Fe, NM.
Sarah Blaustein (b. 1982, San Francisco East Bay, CA). Blaustein is a visual artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent solo exhibitions include Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art San José, San José, CA; private showing and salon at PACE Gallery, Palo Alto, CA; and Hesse Flatow Gallery, New York, NY. Her work has been included in group shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY; and Hesse Flatow East Gallery, Amagansett, NY. In January 2023, art historian Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA) spoke about her work at a private exhibition The Call and salon hosted by Jennifer Stockman (New York, NY). In September 2023, Blaustein showed her work at a private salon To Radiate hosted by Berggruen Gallery at Casa Cipriani (New York, NY) where art historian Laura D. Corey (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY), spoke about her work and Helen Hatch (MOMA, New York, NY) moderated the talk. In June and December 2023, she painted at the American Academy of Rome through their Artist and Scholars Program (Rome, Italy). Blaustein has exhibited her work at The Armory Show (New York, NY), Art Basel Miami Beach (Miami, FL), Dallas Art Fair (Dallas, TX), Fog Design + Art (San Francisco, CA) and NADA Miami (Miami, FL). In 2023, she exhibited her work in Trodden Path a group show at Hesse Flatow East (Amagansett, NY) and The Big Picture a group show at Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). In 2024, Blaustein's work was included in Abstract Perspectives and California Gold a group show at Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, CA). The artist presented her first solo-show Overture with Night Gallery in September 2024 (Los Angeles, CA).
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NIGHTGALLERY.CA
2276 East 16th Street
2050 Imperial Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021
FOG DESIGN+ART
Booth 105
Tomashi Jackson, Brie Ruais, and Sarah Blaustein
January 23-26, 2025
BOOTH 105
Fort Mason Center
For FOG Design+Art 2025, Night Gallery is delighted to present new work by Tomashi Jackson and Brie Ruais, two represented artists from our program. Both artists subvert craft traditions—ceramics for Ruais, collage for Jackson—as they create bold forms that unite elements of painting and sculpture. Cycles of life, death, and creative rebirth become major themes.
Ruais’s process begins when she places 130 pounds of commercial clay—the weight of her own body—on the ground. She kneels atop the material, pressing and spreading it into radial forms, capturing impressions from both the earth and her body. The structure is then fragmented, glazed, and fired in pieces. The loss of water during the firing dramatically reduces the clay’s mass, heightening its fragility. These ceramic forms embody both strength and delicacy, offering a visceral reflection on the fragile relationship between humanity and the natural world.
In her multimedia paintings, Tomashi Jackson integrates an ashen paste made from burned Los Angeles palm leaves, a material that directly engages with the landscape and history of the city she grew up in. Her work reflects a process of transformation—both of the material itself and the act of creating—as she draws from Josef Albers's color theory to explore geometric experimentation and research. Jackson’s approach embodies the ritual of art-making as a means to navigate personal and collective grief, braiding together images of joy and trauma.
Both Ruais and Jackson use their respective mediums to mourn recent losses, reimagining art as a life-affirming ritual. Their works become sites for shared bereavement and renewal.
In addition to this presentation, Night Gallery is thrilled to exhibit new work by Bay Area artist Sarah Blaustein. The artist uses domestic tools such as rags and house painters’ brushes to make vibrant marks across wet canvas. Blaustein’s use of water introduces fluidity, presence, and the constant ebb and flow of creation, complementing the elemental explorations of Ruais and Jackson.
Together, these three artists offer a poignant reflection on life’s impermanence, creating spaces where grief, materiality, and the enduring power of creation converge.
Thursday, January 23 - 11 am - 7 pm
Friday, January 24 - 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, January 25 - 11 am - 7 pm
Sunday, January 26 - 11 am - 5 pm
Fort Mason Center
2 Marina Blvd
San Francisco, CA
94123
Tomashi Jackson (b. 1980, Houston, TX) received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2010; earned her MS in Art, Culture and Technology from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in 2012; and received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art in 2016. She was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, was a 2019 Resident Artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and received the 2023 Rappaport Prize, the 2022 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, and a 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Jackson has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus; and Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw. She has participated in group shows at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; Institute for Contemporary Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others. Jackson’s work belongs in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; MOCA, Los Angeles; Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art, and Cooper Union, and has been a visiting artist at New York University. Jackson lives and works between Cambridge, MA, and New York City.
Brie Ruais (b. 1982, Southern California) earned her MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY. She has exhibited her work at institutions including Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany; Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, Canada; and Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. She has had solo exhibitions at Albertz Benda Gallery, New York, NY; Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON; Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX; Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, and among others. Ruais's work is in the permanent collections of Burger COLLECTION, Hong Kong; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, among others. Past awards and residencies include the Montello Foundation Residency, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, and The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant. The artist’s work has been written about in publications including Artforum, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Ruais lives and works in Santa Fe, NM.
Sarah Blaustein (b. 1982, San Francisco East Bay, CA). Blaustein is a visual artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Recent solo exhibitions include Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art San José, San José, CA; private showing and salon at PACE Gallery, Palo Alto, CA; and Hesse Flatow Gallery, New York, NY. Her work has been included in group shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY; and Hesse Flatow East Gallery, Amagansett, NY. In January 2023, art historian Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA) spoke about her work at a private exhibition The Call and salon hosted by Jennifer Stockman (New York, NY). In September 2023, Blaustein showed her work at a private salon To Radiate hosted by Berggruen Gallery at Casa Cipriani (New York, NY) where art historian Laura D. Corey (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY), spoke about her work and Helen Hatch (MOMA, New York, NY) moderated the talk. In June and December 2023, she painted at the American Academy of Rome through their Artist and Scholars Program (Rome, Italy). Blaustein has exhibited her work at The Armory Show (New York, NY), Art Basel Miami Beach (Miami, FL), Dallas Art Fair (Dallas, TX), Fog Design + Art (San Francisco, CA) and NADA Miami (Miami, FL). In 2023, she exhibited her work in Trodden Path a group show at Hesse Flatow East (Amagansett, NY) and The Big Picture a group show at Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). In 2024, Blaustein's work was included in Abstract Perspectives and California Gold a group show at Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, CA). The artist presented her first solo-show Overture with Night Gallery in September 2024 (Los Angeles, CA).
For sales, please email [email protected].
For press, please email [email protected].
NIGHTGALLERY.CA
2276 East 16th Street
2050 Imperial Street
Los Angeles, CA 90021