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Mill Valley, California
Built, 2022-2023
Anthony Meier
Contemporary Art Gallery
5,000 Square Feet
A fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area art community since 1984, Anthony Meier has nurtured the careers of now renowned artists such as Janine Antoni, Larry Bell, Sarah Cain, Leonardo Drew, and Teresita Fernández. Having resided in residential spaces for the past four decades – most recently on the ground floor of a 1911 mansion designed by the San Francisco architect Willis Jefferson Polk that the gallery has operated out of since 2004 – Anthony Meier’s relocation to a historic 1925 Studebaker dealership in Mill Valley marks its first public-facing, traditional brick-and-mortar venue.
Located across the Golden Gate Bridge and a mere 7 miles from San Francisco, Marin County has remained a haven for artistic production for some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century – from Etel Adnan and Luchita Hurtado to Lawrence Weiner, Bruce Nauman and Richard Serra. In addition to its counterculture history, Marin County is best known for the view from Mount Tamalpais, known locally as Mt. Tam, with its unobstructed vistas of the bay and surrounded by redwood valleys.
“The ocean, below, beats, trying to reach the crater. Tamalpais looks over the hills, the rings of beaches, the screams of so many tempests, the sensuous futility of many storms, and the agonizingly warm insistenceof so many suns. And Tamalpais remains alone, wise in its ingathering, peaceful in its knowledge, happy. ”
- Etal Adnan 1977
T.W. Ryan, Thomas Ryan
Main Building Architect of Record:
Jessup Architects
Contractor:
Dowbuilt Construction
Photography:
Joe Fletcher