Gallery Wendi Norris

About the Gallery
Gallery Wendi Norris champions visionary artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Grounded by its decades-long relationships with these luminaries, the gallery represents those artists whose nomadic, intuitive, and intellectually rigorous practices interrogate the aesthetic, scientific, and philosophical movements of their time and whose work flows across disciplines, continents, and generations.

The gallery is committed to advancing the legacies of historically significant estates while cultivating the current generation of artists, including María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Leonora Carrington, Chitra Ganesh, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Wolfgang Paalen, Alice Rahon, Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo, and Peter Young. Through its landmark exhibitions, museum collaborations, scholarly monographs, public programming, and meticulous stewardship, the gallery has been credited with recontextualizing art history by ushering artists into the canon. Working in concert with major museums and private collectors, Gallery Wendi Norris builds expansive and enduring collections for its array of international clients.

Gallery Wendi Norris was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco’s historic Jackson Square.

About the Presentation
Gallery Wendi Norris will present work by Marie Wilson in a solo presentation at Independent 20th Century. Following the gallery’s critically acclaimed debut solo exhibition of Wilson in early 2026—which Artforum praised as “a mash-up of delicious morsels, a grab bag of Surrealist and visionary art: a little of Wifredo Lam’s curves, dots, and dashes; overlapping waves of glowing colors that brought to mind Agnes Pelton; the gestural cartoons of Joan Miró; and grids and geometries suggestive of Hilma af Klint” —this presentation marks Wilson's New York debut and her first appearance on the East Coast.

Rooted equally in the cultural and spiritual milieu of Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area of her youth, and in the intellectual currents of European Surrealism, which she experienced while living and working among the movement’s central figures, Wilson’s practice explored new Surrealist horizons and expanded the possibilities of modern art. As Surrealism continues to dominate the art world's zeitgeist, this presentation foregrounds an artist whose contributions to the canon are only now being fully recognized.