The University of San Francisco’s Thacher Gallery Presents Market/Value
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 1, 2026) - The Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco (USF) opens its 2026-27 season with Market/Value, an exhibit featuring six interdisciplinary artists that turns the gallery into a marketplace with a series of storefronts exploring identity and nostalgia, empire and desire, ecology and place to reveal the ways that consumerism shapes our daily lives. Market/Value is on view through November 10, 2026, with an artist tour (4-5 p.m.) and opening celebration (5-7 p.m.) being held on Thursday, September 3.
In this exhibit, interdisciplinary artists Reniel del Rosario, Kathryn Kenworth, Kevin Lopez Pardillo, Madi Reyes, Jasmine Ross, and Jeffrey Sincich make us aware of the visual artifacts of capitalism that surround us and the cultures, histories, and values they reflect through a variety of art practices.
About the artists: Reniel Del Rosario uses ceramics, quantity, and satire to discuss themes of commodification and value. His projects range from interactive mimicries of consumer establishments to reimaginings of artifacts. Kathryn Kenworth makes work that looks at how ordinary objects and materials can tell stories about social dynamics, personal desires, emotional structures and systems of value. Kevin Lopez Pardillo works with mixed-media sculptural installations and airbrush painting, focusing on the rasquache politics of “making do,” an ideology that originated within Mexican and Chicano working-class communities. Madi Reyes is a graphic designer specializing in branding, packaging design, and illustration. Jasmine Ross is a photographer and mixed-media artist whose work explores intergenerational memory, Black cultural preservation, and the communities sustained through everyday acts of care. Jeffrey Sincich is inspired by the built landscape around us and how we interact with it. His work uses quilting and found objects to represent feelings of comfort, tradition and history.
The Thacher Gallery is a public art gallery in the University of San Francisco’s Gleeson Library where creativity, scholarship, and community converge. The gallery is free and open to the public daily from 12:00-6:00 p.m. Phone: (415) 422-5178.
About the University of San Francisco
The University of San Francisco is a private, Jesuit Catholic university that reflects the diversity, optimism, and opportunities of the city that surrounds it. USF offers more than 230 undergraduate, graduate, professional, and certificate programs in the arts and sciences, business, law, education, and nursing and health professions. At USF, each course is an intimate learning community in which top professors encourage students to turn learning into positive action, so the students graduate equipped to do well in the world — and inspired to change it for the better. For more information, visit usfca.edu.
Media contact:
Kellie Samson
University of San Francisco
(415) 601-1915
ksamson@usfca.edu
Gallery contact:
Glori Simmons
Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco
(415) 422-5178
simmons@usfca.edu
