Jonathan Carver Moore Breaks Gallery Ground

"Jonathan Carver Moore understands that a good story connects the deeply personal to the universal. His gallery offers underrepresented voices a safe space to tell their own—it’s the reason why his artists trust him, and why his eponymous gallery, which opened on March 23 in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, has been overrun with visitors. Moore anchors his gallery program in the power of shared experiences and the intersections of race, sexual orientation, and gender identity. “When you are part of a marginalized group—and have been treated differently based on how you identify or present—there's a natural connection,” he says. “When I have spoken to these artists, it's almost like they are able to breathe; they don't have to explain things to me because they can look at me and know that I get it.” Some of the artists in his program have waited a decade or longer for the right person to show their work; with Moore, they feel seen."

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