refusalon gallery is dedicated to bringing great art to the private and public sector and offer expert services in curation, logistics, and financing. We offer seminal works by modern masters from the late 19th and 20th century. We specialize in conceptual and minimal works by artists like Sol Lewitt, David Nash and Bill Fontana. The gallery shows renowned artists like Sandro Chia, Uri Traig and Janine Gordon and acts as a platform for emerging artists and aspiring art professionals in the San Francisco Bay area. Our work has been placed in the hands of major public institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern, the Berkeley Art Museum, the di Rosa Preserve, the Frankfurt Ballet, the University of Nevada. Our private clients include Shimon Peres, Mrs. Swig, Yoko Ono, Dali Lama, and Queen Noor.
We offer a residency each year that provides for studio facilities at Public Glass to three artists working in glass for seven days per year and a show at our gallery. The artists chosen this year are: Uzi Traig, Sam Yates, and Adam Gale.
Shmulik Krampf, Director of refusalon for 30 years, was born in Israel in 1956. He attended Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv on a full scholarship and graduated with a degree in Art History, Painting, and Print Making. He lectures extensively on art with public speaking engagements at the Contemporary Art at University of California, Berkeley MFA program (“Art Transcends Reality”), as well as the Art Dealer’s Association of America (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), the San Francisco Art Institute, the University of Nevada, Reno, CCA, Bezalel Art School Jerusalem, and Avni Art Institute.
Artists
1990 | Chris Isner | Charles Linder | E. Tidemann | C. Hengst | S. Scarboro | J. Locke | Rev. Marko Aaron | Presley Kennedy | 23 Degrees (band) | Nurse Margot | Brother Perkins | Jimmy Lee | Sudduth Kyra Nijinsky | Dennis Shelden | KEVIN SUDEITH | KEVIN EVENSEN | ADAM QUEST ZO’ | DIANA BARBEE | Katrin Sigurdardott | MICHAEL DAMM | MICHAEL MOORE BILL DANIEL | CHARLES GOLDMAN | J. Cline | M. Fox | BEN BUCHANAN | Robert Heckes | CHERYL MEEKER | RIGO NELSON | HENDEE | DAVID NASH | GERHARD NICHOLSON | DALE CHIHULY | TIM EVANS | RODNEY ARTILES | PATRICK TIERNEY | Clay Culbert | RICHARD LODWIG | URI TZAIG | MARLENE ZULLO | PAUL BRIDENBAUGH | Mari Andrews | Rodney Artiles | Heather Bruce | Tim Evans | Richard Haden | Douglass Kerr | Sam McAfee | John Muse | Bob Ortbal | Carla Paganelli | Stephanie Syjuco | Norma Yorba | DAVE ARDITO | GAY OUTLAW | Tal Angel | Yasmin Guri | Tuire Helena | Hamalainen | Ruti Helbetz | Yehudit Sasportas | Nati Shamia-Ophir | Nurit Tal-Goldwirth | Galya Uri | SIMON LEUNG | Pip Culbert | Permi K. Gill | Amy Berk | Paul Bridenbaugh | Castaneda/Reiman | Caroline Clerc | Ben Dean | Cirilo Domine | Paul Gasper | Neil Grimmer | Suzanne Kanatsiz | Arnold Kemp | Chris Komater | John Muse | Robert Ortbal | Hugh Pocock | William Radawec | Martha Schlitt | Stacey Vetter | Megan Wilson | Martha Benzing | Charles LaBelle | Robert Levine | PHILIP KNOLL | JSG Boggs | Orianne Stender | Ming Wei Lee | Eric Jones | Graham Gillmore | David Hunt | Jill Weinstock /Heather Sparks | Toland Grinnell | Steve Roden | Don Suggs | TILO SCHULZ | Jeremy Dickinson | Gilad Ophir | Roi Kuper | IZHAR PAKTIN | Joe Bloggs | Paul De Marini | Lewis DeSoto Gustavo | Dough Harvey | Guy Hundree | Marie Puck Broodthaer | Scott Williams | Vegar Abeslnas | Linda Sandhaus | Lesley Ruben Kunda | Alexandra Bowes | Jonthan Fung | Brandon Labelle | Ati Maier | Tom Marioni | Steve Roden Steve Peters | Heather Sparks | Adam Sinykin | Totemplow | Illana Zuckerman | Jennifer Davy | LARRY ABRAMSON | Jake Tilson | Herman de Vries | CHRIS DRURY | SAM YATES | Marcia Tanner | Castaneda/Reiman | Mary Tsongas | Orly Maiburg | Michael Shamir | Sono Osato | Miriam Cabessa | Tsibi Geva | Adam Berg | Shirley Tse | Yehudit Sasportas | CONRAD ATKINSON | MARGARET HARRISON | Anna Novakov | Zadok Ben-David | Terry Berkowitz | Adam Berg | China Blue | Paco Cao | Nicola Cipani | Michael Kessus Gedalyovitch | GARY GOLDSTEIN | Cheryl Meeker | Luisa Lambri Horea | Jim Lutes | Ken Goldberg | Matmos | Kim Pietrowski | Lucy Puls | Rik Ritchey | John Roloff | Tony Labat | Julia Scher | Reout Shahar | Esther Shalev-Gerz | Anita Sieff | Patricia Tavenner | Francesc Torres | Leslie Johnson | Ange Leccia | Alfredo Jaar | Marie-Ange Guilleminot | Didi Dunphy | Jason Byers | Evelyne Koeppel | Pam Davis | Alfred Spolter | Valery Grancher | FX C | Thomas Buisseret | SOL LEWITT | Margaret Crane/Jon Winet | Guy Over | Felt Herman de Cries| Desiree Holman | Shu-Min Lin | Sonya Rapoport | LYN HERSHMAN LEESON | DAVINA GRUNSTEIN | John C. Rogers | Jay Evaristo | Batlle Alex Kahn | Slater Bradley | Andrew Bennett | Paul Kos-Linda Fleming| Madeline O’Connor | Renee Shearer | Rae Culbert |Marcy S. Freedman | Sally Elesby | Naomi St. Clar|Naomie Kremer | Alen Ozbolt | JONATHAN RUNCIO | Susannah Hayes | John Hoppin | Jonathan Hammer | Bill Fontana | Christopher O’Conner | Helen Mirren| Will Rogan | Matthew Bakkom| Douglas Ross | Elizabeth Saveri | Suzanne Stein | Julie Deamer | KIM ANNO | Keith Boadwee | Yauger Williams | Tia Factor | Katrin Feser | Harrell Fletcher | Heather Johnson | Ted Purves | Libby Black| Erez Golan | Rigo 01 | Matthew Higgs | Amanda Hughen | Jon Rubin | JP Villegas | Roman Signer | Hans Winkler | Paul Bridenbaugh | Pam Davis | Charles Long | H C Westermann | MEIN KAMPF-MIEN KRAMPF | DJ Polywog | Lee Walton | Yori Levin | Silent Gallery | Janine Gordon | FUCKSHITUP | YORAM WOLBERGER | John Slepian | Rebecca Miller | Tommy Becker | Michael Goedecke & Eric Saks | Chris Perez | Geof Oppenheimer| Sasha Baguskas | Sarah Hughe | Douglas Argue |Ori Gersht | D3ms | Jeremy Cline | Jess | Brain Goldberg | PINO SIGNORETO | JOSEPH DELLAPE| Tony Labbat | Guido Gerlitz | Adam Gale | Sam Yates | NAT WILSON | MARCY FREDMAN | Mimi Mayer | AVI S RAVITI | Justin Charles Hoover | Tamir Karta | Elizabeth Atjay, | Alex Bargas | Camilla West | Felipe Dulzaides | Yin-Ju Chen | Ana Teresa Fernandez | Ron Hutt | Jennifer Locke | Allan Gerson | Sabina Ott | Bijan Yashar | Michelle Wasson | Shiri Mordechay | Jack Leamy | Maya Smira | Mie Hørlyck Mogensen | Sandro Chia | Elisabeth Ajtay | Ron Hutt |wexller | Salvador Dali | Menashe Kadisman | JUST ART 2023 John Killacky, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eliezer Sonnenschein | Haim Kiewe |Daniel Rolider | Nitza Livay Barry macgee |Pino Signorreto |Yonatan Gold | Daniel Tsel Ben Kadishman | Orit Zarmi| Alon Kedem |JUST 2024 Joshua Neustein | Benni Efrat Sigalit Landau | Shimon Avni | Eyal Sasson | Shara Levin | Berger Melech | Gabi Klezmer | Amos Stockfish| Yossi Joseph Somer | Shirley Wagner | Mira Maylor | Amira Zan Yael Miller and more