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To Do List: July/August

Anne Buckwalter “Rainforest Documentary” 2022, gouache on panel.  Image courtesy of Rebecca Camacho Presents and Friends Indeed.

Ongoing to July 30 – Anne Buckwalter:  Two Story House at Rebecca Camacho Presents and Friends Indeed:  Rebecca Camacho Presents and Friends Indeed Gallery are presenting a dual venue exhibition of new paintings by Philadelphia based artist Anne Buckwalter. Inspired by the culture and folk-art traditions of her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, Buckwalter’s intricately detailed, small scaled domestic spaces serve as a framework to explore themes of gender identity, intimacy, and the body. Exposing the contradictions, pluralities and dualities coexisting in one orderly space, Buckwalter allows for things that are often perceived as disparate to live harmoniously together – documenting elements that suggest a wholesome, conservative household alongside elements alluding to sexuality, eroticism, and female hygiene.

Tuesday July 12, 1pm – Artist dialogue with Veronica Roberts, Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, on Zoom.

 

Irene Poon “Virginia” 1965, silver gelatin print.  Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Gallery at SFSU.

July 2 to July 29 – Moving Pictures:  The Photography of Irene Poon, at the Fine Arts Gallery at San Francisco State University:  Irene Poon is best known as a photographer, art historian, curator, and author. She was born and raised in San Francisco’s Chinatown, a vibrant community that inspired her and her work throughout the years. This exhibition showcases Poon’s own work, as well as her work as a curator and community activist through sharing highlights from her personal collection of photography. Along with Poon, the exhibit will include works from Ansel Adams, Minor White, Don Worth, Wright Morris, Imogen Cunningham, Charles Wong, Benjamen Chinn, and others.  Opening reception is Saturday, July 2 from 1 – 3pm.

 

 

 

Jessica Dickinson “From/With” 2021-2022, oil on limestone polymer on wood panel.  Image courtesy of Altman Siegel Gallery

July 8 to August 26 – Jessica Dickinson: From: Know-Here-With-This at Altman Siegel: Time and change, always central concerns throughout Dickinson’s oeuvre, are highlighted for the first time in the installation, as her work will shift and rotate in position four times throughout the duration of the show.  The exhibition features four new paintings which were developed simultaneously over the course of the past year.  As each work evolves, Dickinson periodically records large-scale graphite rubbings documenting the changing surface.  Each finished painting produces a suite of these drawings, or remainders, the record of its evolution over time.  Rarely exhibited in their entirety due to their scale, the shifting nature of this exhibition will allow for each painting to be presented for a period in the gallery’s main space alongside the full set of remainders.  The exhibition will rotate on July 19, August 2, and August 16.

 

 

Robert Minervini “9.9.2020 (Adrian’s Room)” 2022, acrylic on canvas.  Image courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery.

July 9 to September 10 – Robert Minervini: L’Attesa at Rena Bransten Gallery:  Minervini’s work revels in intoxicating color palettes and precisely rendered forms, with keen attention to balance and bringing the depth of the three-dimensional world to the two-dimensional picture plane. His work depicts a “new naturalism”—one that is tethered to the rich traditions of western painting, while making connections with contemporary ideas about beauty and the sublime.  Formally, the works focus on interior and exterior spaces; objects and plants populate the foreground while California cityscapes and landscapes stretch out through the window behind them. Opening reception – July 9, 3-5pm.

 

July 14 to 16 – San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Project:  The 5th San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) is back after a two-year pandemic haitus.  SFABF is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. The event features artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and more. These works are presented by over 100 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts.  Preview event – Thursday July 14, 6–10pm.

 

Felix Quintana “Till time signals us with the days last flower (sonnet xxiii), cyanotype on coffee filter.  Image courtesy of Arion Press.

July 16 to September 16 – Pablo Neruda 10 x 10 at Arion Press:  To mark Arion Press’s release of Neruda’s 100 Love Sonnets they have invited 10 artists from a variety of disciplines to create new artwork inspired by 10 selected sonnets. The show will present a dynamic range of visual artwork to spotlight some of the Bay Areas’s most innovative creators and the mood of the current moment, as well as the timeless resonance of Neruda’s verse. Featured artists: Kim Anno, Ashwini Bhat, Paz de la Calzada, Mary Fernando Conrad, Gina M. Contreras, Matt Gonzalez, Felix Quintana, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Emilio Villalba, and Rochelle Youk.  Arion Press is located at 1802 Hays Street in the Presidio.

 

 

To Do List: June

Amy Nathan “Mars from Todi” 2021, colored pencil and flashe on paper.  Image courtesy of CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions.

Ongoing to June 29 – Amy Nathan: Slipknot Loophole at CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions:  The works in Slipknot Loophole engage the mechanisms women use to hold themselves together and find that allowing release is an essential part of those systems. Ranging in scale from jewelry to architecture, Nathan’s work continues her material experimentation and her acute study of the distance between image and embodiment. Slipknot Loophole extends Nathan’s engagement with the clothing and tools that are meant to double, reshape and camouflage the body. Eclectic in form and playful in style, Nathan’s works are culled from sources both ancient and contemporary.

 

 

Analia Saban “Flare-Up #7” 2018, black acrylic paint in linen.  Image courtesy of Slash Art.

Ongoing to August 20 – A Sieve for Infinity curated by Astria Suparak at Slash Art:  This group exhibition includes works by Jovencio de la Paz, Yeni Mao, and Analia Saban.  These artists test materials and technology, both traditional and modern, incorporating handcrafted and industrial production. Analia Saban extends a lineage of conceptual art, Yeni Mao breaks camp from aa modernist architectural practice.  Jovencio de la Paz blurs the line between creativity and computation.

 

 

Katie Paterson “The Cosmic Spectrum”  2019, spinning disc, printed vinyl, motor.  Image courtesy of McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.

Ongoing to August 27 – MYR at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts:  Guest curated by Elizabeth Thomas, MYR assembles artworks in a wide array of media that leverage science and technology to see through and beyond the Anthropocene—the current epoch in which humans have had dominant control over the environment.  Featured artists include: Sophia Al Maria, Amy Balkin, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Alexandra, Daisy Ginsberg, Rhonda Holberton, Candice Lin, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Katie Paterson, Tomás Saraceno, Miriam Simun, Cauleen Smith, Jenna Sutela, and Sissel Marie Tonn.

 

 

Liz Deschenes “Green Screen #1 and #3” 2001 Fujiflex print mounted on plexiglass.  Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

June 2 to August 13 – Liz Deschenes: Works 1997-2022 at Fraenkel Gallery:  This exhibit is a new survey of the work of Liz Deschenes, who uses photography’s fundamental elements of light, chemistry, and time to explore the inherent meaning of the medium. The exhibition features installations that incorporate silvery cameraless photograms, made by exposing photographic paper to moonlight and sunlight, as well as work focused on the significance of color in industrial and commercial processes.

 

Carlos Villa “Painted Cloak” 1971, airbrushed acrylic on unstretched canvas with lining of feathers and taffeta. Image courtesy of Asian Art Museum.

June 17 to September 3 – Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision and Carlos Villa: Roots and Reinvention at Asian Art Museum and SFAC Galleries:  San Francisco-born Carlos Villa (1936–2013) was a groundbreaking American artist whose work broadened the horizons of 20th-century modernism. His search for personal and aesthetic meaning in his own Filipino heritage and global indigenous cultures led him to develop an original and expansive approach to art and the role of the artist. This two-venue retrospective will celebrate Villa’s legacy and give viewers the opportunity to experience the work of an artist with deep ties to the City and who was an influential thinker, community organizer and dedicated educator.

May To Do List

Jim Campbell “Edition 28 (Surf)”, 2021 custom electronics, 384 LEDs, treated plexiglass.  Image courtesy of Hosfelt Gallery.

May 7 to June 11 – Jim Campbell: Wandering at Hosfelt Gallery:  Jim Campbell uses technology to filter images of daily life, mediating the audience’s encounter with his subjects and amplifying the flow of time and memory. Campbell primarily utilizes LEDs to translate time-based subjects—scenes of jostling crowds, found home movies, and the rhythmic movements of nature, such as waves and clouds—into blurred, sculptural or gridded forms that test the limits of perception.  Exploring the line between representation and abstraction, Campbell plumbs the human ability to interpret information and “fill in the gaps” necessary to create a complete idea. Opening reception is Saturday, May 7, 3–5 pm.

 

 

Edie Fake “Ferments”  2022, gouache on masonite panel.  Image courtesy Rebecca Camacho Presents.

May 7 to June 11 – Edie Fake: Night Life at Rebecca Camacho Presents:  Edie Fake’s work blurs the lines between geometric and organic forms with structures adorned by elements that serve as both decorative and protective, Fake’s precise, intimately scaled, gouache paintings on panel center exploration of identity in the transgender and queer experience.  In a series of paintings analogous to sewing patterns, Fake considers the nourishment of personal presentation. Highlighting the importance of being able to wholly create or piece together from varying elements one’s external appearance, to adorn oneself in clothing and decoration that exemplifies self-care and intimate preferences, Fake’s impulse to paint towards situations that are significant on a singular scale becomes a larger queer dialogue of expression, visibility, and acceptance.  Opening reception is Saturday, May 7, 4 – 7 pm.

 

Wendy Red Star “Dust” 2021. Three-color lithograph on Somerset Satin soft white, with archival pigment printed chine collé on mulberry paper.  Image courtesy of the Anderson Collection.

Ongoing to August 28 – Wendy Red Star:  American Progress at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University:  Wendy Red Star was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. Red Star’s work is informed by her cultural heritage and engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. This exhibition explores the ideas of Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny through the lens of John Gast’s 1872 painting, American Progress. Gast’s painting exemplifies the justification of American settlers driving Indigenous communities off their land during the 19th century.

 

Headlands Center for the Arts

May 20 to 31 – Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Art Auction held at Fort Mason Center: Showcasing works from more than 60 partnering artists and galleries, this benefit features silent and live auctions; creative experiences to bid on; site-specific installations from Headlands Alum Carole Kim, Annie Albagli, and Anja Ulfeldt and art activations inviting you to engage and play with practicing artists. The preview exhibition is free and open to the public.  Purchases tickets to the May 31 auction here.

 

 

Image of Robin Koda, courtesy of the Asian Art Museum.

Thursday, May 19, 6:30 pm – CAAMFest 40: Rice and Asian Americana presented by the Asian Art Museum on Zoom: Rice farmer Robin Koda and wheat farmer Mai Nguyen join chef and cookbook author Diep Tran for a conversation about the complex role of rice in the formation of Asian Americana. In popular culture, rice plays many roles, from a crop that symbolizes the ingenuity, thrift, and resilience of Asian American farmers to a food that represents Asian American cuisine as a whole. In this event co-presented by CAAM and the Asian Art Museum, they will explore the many narratives of rice and consider if these stories expand, or narrow, our understanding of Asian American culture.  Buy Tickets for this online event here:

 

 

Kikuo Saito “Ouray” 1979, acrylic on canvas.  Image courtesy of the estate of Kikuo Saito.

May 5 to June 25 – Kikuo Saito: Ouray at Altman Siegel Gallery:  Altman Siegel presents Ouray, the gallery’s first exhibition with the estate of Kikuo Saito (1939-2016). Long overlooked within traditional art historical discourses, Saito’s practice, and life, articulate a state of in-betweenness. Informed by his background in the theater, the artist created space for himself within established Color Field circles by devising a distinctive lexicon that integrated his multitude of experiences and artistic interests. Hence, Saito’s paintings are both historically significant and timely, reflecting a need to contemplate the hybridity and complexity of personal identity.

 

 

 

 

April To Do List

 

Alice Neel “Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd” 1970, oil on canvas, Image courtesy of the de Young Museum.

Ongoing to July 10, 2022 –Alice Neel: People Come First at the de Young Museum:  Alice Neel (1900–1984) was one of the century’s most radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art.  Neel spent most of her life in New York City, and her work testifies to the diversity, resilience, and passion of the people she encountered there. The exhibition includes depictions of Neel’s neighbors in Spanish Harlem, political leaders, queer cultural figures, activists, and mothers, along with a diverse representation of nude figures, including visibly pregnant women. Neel’s “pictures of people” embody a rare candor and irreverence. Together they emphasize her belief in the dignity and worth of all individuals, a view that remains critical to the social and cultural politics of our time.

 

 

David Huffman “Sideshow” 2009, acrylic, oil, glitter, collage on paper.  Image courtesy of MOADSF.

Ongoing to September 18, 2022 – David Huffman: Terra Incognita at the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD):   Emerging from Huffman’s lifelong interest in science fiction, formalist abstraction, and social justice movements, the “Traumanauts” are futuristic beings that travel the galaxy in constant search for home. This exhibition showcases the extensive narrative that Huffman has been designing since the early 1990s across a range of media including large-scale canvas, works on paper, ceramics, video, and printmaking. This work explores an Afrofuturistic landscape disrupting the canon of historical narrative painting with otherworldly horizons. Combining his notable abstract, gestural style with a decidedly figurative focus, these works present an imagined and safe interstitial space that plays between these aesthetics. With influences from cartoons, the Black Power movement, and poetics of basketball, Huffman brings us into his celestial world.

 

Libby Black “Untitled” 2022, paper, acrylic paint, glue.  Image courtesy of Gallery 16.

April 9 to May 21 – Libby Black: Returning To This Moment at Gallery 16:  Returning to This Moment encompasses work from different phases of Black’s over two decade career. Drawing, painting, and sculptures are made from paper, hot glue, and acrylic paint, playing with the line between two and three dimensions. The exhibition is a chance to look at and return to moments from the vantage of the present– to observe, reflect, and marinate. She decodes and combines to create work that represents the things she thinks about, to see herself in the world.

 

Soo Sunny Park “Silver Linings” 2015, stainless steel, tar paper, Mylar, artificial light, daylight.  Image courtesy of SJICA.

Ongoing to August 14 – Soo Sunny Park: Viewing Filter (Veil of Vision) at SJICA:  Soo Sunny Park explores light as a sculptural material. She reconfigures boundary materials – fencing, plastic, glass, sheetrock – to expand and explore the space between inside and outside, sculptural and drawing, vision and perception, objects and their shadows. In this exhibition Park  investigates visual perception through the use of reflective surfaces, grids, and variable light conditions. Her large-scale, immersive installation is built out of retro-reflective paint and nylon netting, stretched into curtain-like forms. Layers of accumulated drawings, on different layers of the netting,  create a sense of amplified depth in a 3-dimensional floating space. Visitors walk through the gallery and interact with the space using their camera flashes and phone flashlights.

 

Bay Area non-profit art spaces – Root Division, Berkeley Art Center, Southern Exposure and Kala Art Institute fundraising events.

Saturday, April 9, 7 to 9 pm – Root Division 20 Year Anniversary Celebration:  Join Root Division as they commemorate 20 years of cultivating community-minded artists and arts-minded community. To mark this historic milestone, the organization will present a variety of inclusive festivities and goods.  Purchase tickets here.

Thursday, April 14, 6 to 8 pm – Berkeley Art Center Community Dinner: Join Berkeley Art Center for an evening celebrating community and connection under the Live Oak trees.  The evening will include a three-course-meal, wine & cocktails, a preview of the next exhibition with the curator, and a special live drag performance!  Purchase tickets here.

Saturday, April 23,  6 to 9 pm – Southern Exposure’s Annual Art Auction:  Join SoEx on Saturday, April 23, in the gallery for an in-person and online event channeling the electrical strength and energy of the Bay Area art community.  The Main Event will feature both a silent and a live auction, showcasing over 120 pieces of electrifying art from some of the Bay Area’s most energizing new and established artists.  Purchase tickets here.

April 7 to May 23 – Kala Art Institute’s Annual Art Auction:  Help celebrate 48 years of Kala! Kala’s annual auction exhibition includes work by over 100 artists from the Bay Area and beyond. This year celebrate the 2022 honored artists Leah Rosenberg and Ramekon O’Arwisters.  The exhibition kicks off with an all day VIP in-person preview at the gallery on Thursday April 7, 12-8pm.  Purchase tickets here.

 

 

 

Headlands Center for the Arts

Sunday, April 24, 12 to 5 pm – Spring Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts:  Roam the Headlands’ campus, engage with artists, experience new work and works in progress, grab a house-made picnic lunch from the Mess Hall, and for the first time since 2019, enjoy open artist studios.  Open House connects visitors to artists and fosters casual conversations about the creative process. Curated happenings and events occur throughout the day, including readings, performances, screenings, and guided walks.  Reserve a free time-slot here.

 

Roland Mayer “Dialog” 2004, redwood, madrone, pine, barbed wire.   Image courtesy of  Djerassi Resident Artist Program.

Saturday April 2 to May  – Spring Walking Meditation and Sound Immersion at Djerassi Resident Artist Program:  At Djerassi each year, artists from around the world are awarded the gift of time + space—a one-month residency on their ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains. These hikes provide a thorough look at 40+ sculptures with a focus on the flora and fauna, while providing quiet, reflective time to experience the sounds of nature. For the Sound Immersion Experience guests will lay down and relax to the soothing sound vibrations of Gongs & Singing Bowls as they surround you and guide you into a deep meditation.  Register here.

 

 

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