Avenue 12 Gallery was established in 2016 by husband and wife team Vince Meyer and Rachel Murray Meyer. See our Artists page to learn more about our current artists. Before the advent of Avenue 12 Gallery, Vince had operated a Japanese art and furnishings gallery in the same space since 2005. Rachel has her studio behind the main gallery.

Located in the heart of the beautiful Lake District of San Francisco at 12th Avenue!

Nearby attractions abound:

de Young Museum  7 minute drive, 28 minute walk

Legion of Honor 10 minute drive, 43 minute walk

Presidio of San Francisco Immediatly across Lake Street

Slow Lake Street We’re on Slow Lake!

Golden Gate Bridge  4 minute drive, 46 minute walk

Golden Gate Park distance varies depending on particular destination

Eateries  Many on nearby California and Clement Streets

Mountain Lake Park  Immediatly across Lake Street

Baker Beach 8 minute drive, 23 minute walk

Presidio Golf Club 7 minute drive, 19 minute walk

Richmond Review November 2, 2020

By Judith Kahn

Avenue 12 Gallery on Lake Street at 12th Avenue is a unique art space which continually displays paintings by artists in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area and has large glass windows which allow people to view the exhibit from outside. Artists who display their work are dedicated, established, professional fine artists, and all the works exhibited are originals and are content driven, such as Lynn Sondag’s watercolor landscapes, which are interpretations of street scenes of Lake Street, Sea Cliff and the Presidio.

Before becoming a gallery, the space was the location of Lake Market. Then in 2005, owners Vincent Meyer and Rachel Murray Meyer transformed the space into a Japanese art and antique store. In 2016, they decided to turn the space into a contemporary art gallery. Vincent said he feels it is important to display art that conveys images of what is going on now. “The newer the better when it comes to the type of art displayed in the gallery,” he said.

Vincent said he likes art that uses traditional media, like oil, as long as the subject is conveying the present. The gallery is particularly important because it brings culture to the neighborhood and now that Lake Street is a “Slow Street”, more people are stopping to view the exhibits instead of driving by in their cars.

Vincent is a native of the Richmond was inspired by his father, a painter, who taught him about art.He started a metal works shop, Metal Mending, on Clement Street and later received his landscape architecture degree from University of California at Berkeley.

Rachel’s background is in math, engineering and photography. She has displayed her photography at various galleries and is currently exploring other avenues to show her new bodies of work.  Growing up in Los Angeles, she took art lessons when she was a youth at LACMA and frequented the Getty Museums. Art has always been an important part of her life.

During the height of the pandemic, Avenue 12 created a window display of art submitted by artists who were creating work in reaction to the pandemic. Artist Yuriko Takata submitted watercolor paintings  of windmills titled “Winds of Change.”

“My work is definitely influenced by the feelings I’m experiencing at the moment,” Takata said. “This moment in time is both frightening and extraordinary. The windmills are whirling a bit too fast, at the mercy of a brutal and mysterious killer in the air we breathe. The lights are on inside; signs of fellow human beings sheltering in place. What needs to be changed to go forward and stay alive?”

Vincent and Rachel look forward to continually supporting artists in the community and giving them a place to exhibit their work, while attracting people in the neighborhood.