Tag: Arleene Correa Valencia

To Do List: September

Sep 4, 2023 In: To Do List Tags: Adia Millett, Arleene Correa Valencia, Heesoo Kwon, Julia Goodman, Klea McKenna, Miguel Arzabe, Patrick Martinez, Richard T. Walker, Rupy. C. Tut By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Richard T. Walker “This, as it Isn’t (mountain #2), 2022 ” pigment prints in artists’ frames. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

September 7 to October 21 – Richard T. Walker: Never Here/Always There at Fraenkel Gallery: Incorporating photography, video, music, sculpture, and performance, Richard T. Walker continues his exploration of the relationship between the individual and the changing natural world. In eleven new works, Walker reorders the elements of the environment, upending assumptions about humankind’s place in nature by embracing futile connections to the vast landscape. A public reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, September 9, from 1:30–4 pm. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street in San Francisco.

Arleene Correa Valencia “Yaaoma” Repurposed textiles on canvas, pheasant and peacock feathers. Image courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery.

Ongoing to November 4 – Arleene Correa Valencia: Naces Así, Naces Prieto. No Naces Blanco / You Are Born Like This, You Are Born Brown. You Are Not Born White: Arleene Correa Valencia creates paintings, textiles, and drawings that reflect on patterns of migration and family separation. Her recent work is inspired by the letters that she wrote to her father as a child, during a period when her father had migrated to the United States while Correa Valencia remained in Mexico. Correa Valencia draws on her family’s archives and correspondence to craft a visual language that considers the politics of visibility and the complexities of undocumented immigration. Catharine Clark Gallery is located at 248 Utah Street in San Francisco.

Left: Julia Goodman “Farther and Farther (III)” 2023, Watercolor on hand formed paper. Pulp made from different color repurposed bedsheets and t-shirts. Right: Klea McKenna “Untitled (cascade)” from the series Rainbow Bruise, 2023, Unique photographic relief. Embossed silver gelatin photogram and fabric dye. Images courtesy of EUQINOM Gallery.

September 7 to October 28 – Vessel: Julia Goodman & Klea McKenna at EUQINOM Gallery: Vessel brings together two artists, and long-time friends, for the first time in a two person exhibition at EUQINOM. Julia Goodman and Klea McKenna are both Bay Area-based artists whose work centers time and its relationship to our human experience. While working in markedly different mediums, the artists overlap in their innovative and intimate relationship to their material processes, which are shaped by years of experimentation and adaptation. In their textural and low relief works, they also share subject matters – short and long time, bodies, human connection, caretaking, and transformation. Vessel is a presentation of two artists using their personal experiences to explore the sublime in the hard work of caring for and carrying on for each other, our children, and future generations. The opening reception is on Saturday, September 9 from 1:30-4 pm. EUQINOM Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street in San Francisco.

Top: Adia Millett “Untitled” Bottom: Heesoo Kwon, “Leymusoom Garden”. Images courtesy of SJICA.

September 16 to February 18 – Adia Millett: Wisdom Keepers and Heesoo Kwon: Leymusoom Garden: Following Naked Dancing and Long Dreaming at the San Jose ICA: Adia Millett explores the parallels and interplay between a craftswoman and a warrior. In both cases “martial arts” is an intricate set of techniques and skills used with the intentions of protecting, preserving, and building a community and its culture. While the tools used in this process differ for the soldier and the quilter, put side by side a shared story is revealed, providing a new perspective of our ancestral past, and perhaps our future. Power, endurance, and resourcefulness reveal the cultural interplay between tribal war and post-slavery reconstruction. As exhibited by the title, the characters and tools crafted in this exhibition act as keepers of knowledge, guidance and keen judgment. Heesoo Kwon explores her spiritual journey connecting Korean shamanistic and indigenous perspectives to the land with her female ancestors. Her multimedia installation extends the queer feminist utopian digital space of Leymusoom to the mysticism of the garden, deepening her connection to the land and women’s freedom and desire. Opening reception Saturday, September 16th 5-8pm. SJICA is located at 560 South First Street, San José.

Miguel Arzabe “Puma Roja” woven acrylic on canvas and linen. Image courtesy of Johansson Projects.

September 16 – Miguel Arzabe: Animales Familiares at Johansson Projects: Red pumas, shark whales, and flamingos are among the animals populating Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe’s exhibition at Johansson Projects. Emerging from the abstracted surfaces of his painting-weavings, Arzabe’s creatures form a contemporary bestiary that expands on a genre that spans European Middle Age illustrated books to the watercolors of Mexican modernist Francisco Toledo. Yet, whereas such artistic predecessors reflect imagined mythological beasts, Arzabe presents more familiar specimens, as declared by the title of one of the show’s anchoring pieces. Opening reception Saturday, September 16, 12-3pm. Johansson Projects is located at 2300 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland.

Top: Rupy C. Tut “Placing Self” 2023. Bottom: Patrick Martinez “Serpents (Welcome to the Jungle)” 2022, stucco, neon, mean streak, ceramic, acrylic paint, spray paint, latex house paint, ceramic tile and tile adhesive on panel. Images courtesy of ICA SF.

September 23 to January 7 – Rupy C. Tut: Out of Place and Patrick Martinez: Ghost Land at ICA SF: Out of Place, a solo exhibition of paintings by Rupy C. Tut dives deeper into experimenting with new surfaces, materials, and scale. Through her practice, she preserves historic methods of making pigments, creating delicate works inspired by traditional Indian painting—also known as miniature painting. Tut is process-driven and includes personal meditations on the nuances of hybrid identity, belonging, and cyclical time. Patrick Martinez exhibits a diverse practice, ranging from painting to mixed media and neon. His exhibition will highlight his “landscape” paintings: works that evoke the topography of personal, civic, and cultural loss. These large-scale works excavate urban histories as abstractions of the Los Angeles landscape, incorporating recognizable materials like distressed stucco, spray paint, window security bars, vinyl signage, ceramic tile, and neon. Martinez layers imagery inspired by graffiti, activism, and Mayan and Aztec symbolism to recount the overlooked stories of California residents—particularly concerning their resilience in the face of gentrification. The ICA SF is located at 901 Minnesota Street in San Francisco.

To Do List: March

Feb 28, 2023 In: To Do List Tags: Ali Dadgar, Arleene Correa Valencia, Georgina Reskala, Kehinde Wiley, Nan Goldin, NIAD, Rema Ghuloum, Shirin Towfiq, Sholeh Asgary, Taraneh Hemami By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Nan Goldin “Falling buildings, Rome” 2004 dye sublimation print on aluminum. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

March 2 to April 29 – Nan Goldin at Fraenkel Gallery: This exhibition includes still photographs as well as the centerpiece Memory Lost, a slideshow in which Goldin explores the darkness of drug addiction through images and recordings from her extensive archive. Projected in a darkened room, Memory Lost presents a haunting and emotional narrative comprised of outtakes drawn from Goldin’s archive of thousands of slides. Depicting scenes from her life and circle of friends, the 24-minute piece recounts the pain and fleeting moments of beauty in life lived through the lens of addiction. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street in San Francisco.

(Left) Georgina Reskala “Untitled #202320″ 2023 (detail). (Right) Arleene Correa Valencia “Querido Hijo” 1991 / Dear Son, 1991, 2020. Images courtesy of SFAC Galleries.

March 3 to April 29 –Crossing Lines/Lineas que Cruzamos at SFAC Main Gallery: Curated by photographer, curator, and educator Ann Jastrab, the exhibition features the work of Georgina Reskala and Arleene Correa Valencia, both graduates of CCA, who both live and work in California, and who both have an immigration story to share. Arleene Correa Valencia’s textile works draw heavily from her upbringing and her migration to the United States. Her work explores her identity as a registered “illegal alien” through a thoughtful play portraiture. Georgina Reskala seeks to stop transient moments, creating a record of what slips away from history. Her photography and textile-based work involves folds, layers, cuts, and transformation to reveal hidden images and through that investigates how stories get reshaped and how history is written. Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 6 – 8 p.m. A special blessing for the exhibition will be offered by Xiuhcoatl Danza Azteca. SFAC Main Gallery is located at 401 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.

Rema Ghuloum “4 is a Rainbow Line” 2022, oil and acryla-gouache on canvas. Image courtesy of Et al.

March 4 to April 8 – Rema Ghuloum: 4 is a Rainbow Line at Et al. etc (Mission Street): Ghuloum paints ethereal, atmospheric abstractions that revolve around and evolve through her process. Beginning on the floor, Ghuloum uses squeeze bottles and buckets to pour, flick, and drip diluted acryla-gouche onto the canvases. Once this layer dries, Ghuloum moves the canvases onto the wall and slowly builds up thin glazes of oil paint, working with and against the initial poured layer. Moving geologically, Ghuloum continues to build and subtract from the composition, sanding between each successive layer until the work vibrates with an internal tension. The finished surfaces retain the history of this improvisatory and responsive practice, manifesting a resonance between the works and the viewer. Et al. etc is located at 2831 Mission Street in San Francisco.

Sky Hopinka, “Teją́. The Sea. It’s neither our name for the great lakes or lesser lakes. It’s the sea, and we said we were from the north and from the salt. It’s too much right now. Too much like learning that my father performed the Breathings his entire life. I have recordings of him, and I heard them when I was little, and I said them myself after his death” 2020. Inkjet print, etching. Image courtesy of McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.

March 10 to May 27 – Rituals of Devotion at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts: The artists in this group exhibit use a wide variety of methods to externalize the feelings inherent to the powerful connections we associate with faith, family, and community. Together, the artworks demonstrate the possibility offered by ritual to examine how our predecessors try to make sense of the unknown, while simultaneously defining new methods for sharing knowledge and care in our contemporary moment. Opening Reception, Thursday, March 9th at 6pm. McEvoy Foundation for the Arts is located at 1150 25th Street in San Francisco.

NIAD

Saturday, March 11, 3 to 7pm – Win Win Eleven at NIAD Art Center in Richmond: NIAD is a progressive art studio for adult artists with developmental disabilities. Through its visual arts studio program, NIAD gives people with disabilities the skills and experience to express themselves, be independent and earn income as an artist. Win Win Eleven is the annual fundraiser and community event. Money raised by this annual fundraiser goes to the NIAD Art Center general operating fund. NIAD Art Center is located at 551 23rd Street in Richmond.

Kehinde Wiley “The Death of Hyacinth (Ndey Buri Mboup)” 2022, oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

March 18 to October 15 – Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence at the De Young Museum: American artist Kehinde Wiley’s new body of paintings and sculptures confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence against Black people through the visual language of the fallen figure. It expands on his 2008 series, Down — a group of large-scale portraits of young Black men inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521–1522). Wiley investigates the iconography of death and sacrifice in Western art, tracing it across religious, mythological, and historical subjects. In An Archaeology of Silence, the senseless deaths of men and women around the world are transformed into a powerful elegy of resistance. The resulting paintings of figures struck down, wounded, or dead, referencing iconic paintings of mythical heroes, martyrs, and saints, offer a haunting meditation on the legacies of colonialism and systemic racism. A conversation with Kehinde Wiley will be on March 18, 1–2pm. The de Young Museum is located at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, in San Francisco.

Ali Dadgar “For Her Hair” 2022, mixed media. Image courtesy of Round Weather Gallery.

March 19 to May 13 – The Other Side of Time at Round Weather Gallery: Round Weather is a nonprofit art gallery committed to alleviating the climate crisis. It directs funds raised through the sale of contemporary art to three organizations selected each year for their effectiveness in climate change mitigation. The Other Side of Time features Iranian-American artists Sholeh Asgary, Ali Dadgar, Taraneh Hemami, and Shirin Towfiq. The Other Side of Time is where individual imagination and voices may move with freedom and as collectives, thus gathering strength to build an infinitely less shadowed world. Round Weather Gallery is located at 951 Aileen Street in Oakland.