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September To Do List

Sep 1, 2021 In: To Do List Tags: Adia Millett, BAMPFA, Berkeley Art Center, Carrie Mae Weems, David Huffman, Farah Al Qasimi, Favianna Rodriguez, Fraenkel Gallery, Joan Mitchell, Koak, Maia Cruz Palileo, SFMOMA, Shimon Attie, The Wattis Institute, Traywick Contemporary By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Maia Cruz Palileo “The Sun and the Moon, 2021”. Image courtesy of The Wattis Institute.

September 14 to December 4 – Maia Cruz Palileo: Long Kwento at The Wattis Institute: Influenced by the oral history of the artist’s family’s arrival to the United States from the Philippines, as well as the history between the two countries, Maia Cruz Palileo investigates larger questions pertaining to identity, history, migration, and concepts of time. Infusing narratives with both memory and imagination, Palileo translates diverse materials into a novel formal language to describe a new world of their own making. Opening reception September 14th, 4–8 pm, with a curator’s walkthrough at 5:30pm.

Shimon Attie rendering of “Night Watch”. Image courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery.

September 17 to 19 – Shimon Attie: Night Watch produced by Catharine Clark, BOXBLUR and Immersive Arts Alliance: In conjunction with artist Shimon Attie’s exhibition Here, not Here, at Catharine Clark Gallery, Night Watch is a floating installation featuring close-up video portraits of 12 refugees granted political asylum in the United States. The work is presented on a 20ft-wide hi-resolution LED-screen aboard a large, slow-moving barge to allow for on-shore public viewing. On the evenings of September 17 – 19, 2021, Night Watch will travel on a barge captained by Matt Butler and slowly navigate the cities’ shorelines from 6:15pm to 8:15pm, corresponding with scheduled live nightly performances.

Friday September 17 – Launch party for Night Watch at Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture (free with registration). For more information and registration, please visit here.

Saturday September 18 – An evening panel discussion, a brass-band marching procession, and live floating video installation by artist Shimon Attie at Minnesota Street Project. For information and tickets, please visit here.

Sunday September 19 – Prime viewing for East Bay shorelines will be on the Oakland Estuary. Oakland’s Brooklyn Basin will be activated by live music selected by Classical Revolution and educational materials provided by non-profit partners. For more information visit here.

Joan Mitchell “Bracket” oil on canvas. Image courtesy of SFMOMA.

September 4 to January 17 – Joan Mitchell at SFMOMA: The painter Joan Mitchell has long been hailed as a formidable creative force. She first attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated abstract expressionist circles of 1950s New York, then spent over three decades in France creating distinctive abstract paintings that pulse with energy and color and draw on landscape, memory, poetry, and music. This exhibition includes rarely seen early paintings and drawings that established Mitchell’s career, along with large-scale multi-panel masterpieces from her later years that demonstrate her mastery of color. Suites of paintings, sketchbooks, and drawings, as well as an illuminating selection of the artist’s letters and photographs, open a new window into the richness, range, and ambition of Mitchell’s deeply influential and barrier-breaking creative practice. SFMOMA is located at 151 Third Street in San Francisco.

Adia Millett “Black Mountain” acrylic and glitter on panel. Image courtesy of Traywick Contemporary.

September 11 to November 6 – Adia Millett: There is no them. There is only us at Traywick Contemporary: This solo exhibition features recent paintings and works on paper by Oakland based artist Adia Millett. Addressing issues of identity, personal memory and collective history, Millett is concerned with the fragile complexity and interconnectivity among all living things. A creative fluidity informs her larger art practice which includes a diverse range of media including textiles, constructions, and video. Millett’s approach is intuitive and improvisational, with a process-oriented, tactile sensibility. Running through her practice and her varied materials choices is an interrelated narrative about the imaginative, liberating possibilities of abstraction. Traywick Contemporary is located at 895 Colusa Ave in Berkeley.

Carrie Mae Weems “Color Real and Imagined” archived inkjet print with silkscreened color blocks. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

September 9 to October 23 – Carrie Mae Weems: Witness at Fraenkel Gallery: This survey exhibition examines Weems’ extraordinary achievement as an artist over four decades. Focusing on history, identity, and the structure of power, Witness traces Weems’s use of performance and her exploration of the inscription of authority in architecture and photography. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street in San Francisco.

David Huffman: Afro Hippie installation view. Image courtesy of Berkeley Art Center

Ongoing to October 16 – David Huffman: Afro Hippie at Berkeley Art Center: For his solo exhibition at The Berkeley Art Center, artist David Huffman presents a deeply personal show of new and existing works, including family mementos and a series of ‘psychic portraits’ that have never been seen publicly before. Born and raised in Berkeley in the late 1960s and ‘70s, he was heavily influenced by his mother’s social and political activism — especially her work for the Black Panthers, which included designing the iconic Free Huey flag. The Berkeley Art Center is located at 1275 Walnut Street in Live Oak Park.

David Huffman will be in conversation with Rhea Fontaine, Thursday September 23 at 5:30 pm. RSVP here.

Hito Steyerl still from “Factory of the Sun” single channel video installation. Image courtesy of SJMA.

Ongoing to November 27 – Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun at San Jose Museum of Art: This immersive video installation tells a surreal story of workers whose forced dance moves in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial sunshine. The story is based on an actual YouTube phenomenon (her studio assistant’s brother whose viral homemade dance videos were used as a model for Japanese anime characters) and a news story about an experiment at CERN nuclear research facility that claimed to have measured a particle traveling faster than the speed of light. On screen, Steyerl interweaves fact and fiction; a montage of YouTube dance videos, drone surveillance footage, real documentation of recent international student uprisings combines with video game characters, fake news, and dancing, gold lamé-costumed avatars. In this imaginative reality spun from Haraway’s theory, the motion capture studio’s glowing grid of blue LED lights extends beyond the screen into the gallery, like a Star Trekkian “holodeck” able to materialize a different world in three dimensions. Modern warfare, corporate culture, and anti-capitalist resistance movements are played out by disembodied characters—avatars, bots, or proxies for the human viewers who watch the video from the vantage of reclined beach chairs. The San Jose Museum of Art is located at 110 South Market Street in San Jose.

Koak “Breaking the Prairie”; Farah Al Qasimi “It’s Not Easy Being Seen”; Favianna Rodriguez “Release What Doesn’t Serve Me”. Images courtesy of BAMPFA.

Ongoing to January 30 – New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century at BAMPFA: This exhibit is a major survey exploring recent feminist practices in contemporary art. Although artworks made since 2000 are the primary focus, the objects and installations on view span several generations, mediums, geographies, and political sensibilities. In this way the project seeks to convey the heterogeneous, intergenerational, and gender-fluid nature of feminist practices today. BAMPFA is located at 2155 Center Street in Berkeley.

July/ August To- Do List

Jun 28, 2018 In: To Do List Uncategorized Tags: Corine Vermeulen, De Young Museum, di Rosa, Farah Al Qasimi, Gregory Lind Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, Lava Thomas, Lexa Walsh, Marcela Pardo Ariza, Martin Machado, Minnesota Street Project, Phillip Maisel, Pier 24 Photography, Ranu Mukherjee, Richard McLean, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SFAI, Victor Cartagena By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Richard McLean, “All American Standard Miss”, 1968. Image courtesy of di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art.

Ongoing to December 31– Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times (Part 2) at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art: Part 2 of Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times is an experimental blend of new art commissions and works from the di Rosa collection. The exhibition will also have four new projects by Bay Area artists, each responding to the evolving social and political climate through a topic of their choice. Lexa Walsh explores the topic of assembly through her guest-curated presentation of works from di Rosa’s collection of Northern California art. Victor Cartagena, Ranu Mukherjee, and Lava Thomas address immigration, societal health, and solidarity through large-scale commissioned installations. Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is located at 5200 Sonoma (Carneros) Highway in Napa.

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 30, 5– 7pm

Farah Al Qasimi, “Living Room Vape”, 2016. Image courtesy of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

July 6 to August 25– Conversation 7 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery: The exhibition brings together work by Marcela Pardo Ariza and Farah Al Qasimi. Farah Al Qasimi’s work draws upon her communities in both the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Marcela Pardo Ariza’s practice explores queerness and representation, using photography as a means to reveal the construction of persona and identity—both public and personal. The exhibition engages a dialogue that not only concerns the nature of photography, but also how similar ideas around context and framing affect how we interact with those we do not know. For the communities that these artists are collaborating with—the LGBTQ+ community, the Arab community, performers, family, and the intersections of identities that people occupy—there are imposed expectations about ‘who they are’ that both artists are able to expose and exploit within their work. The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is located at 401 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 126.

Opening Reception: Friday, July 6, 6– 8pm

Phillip Maisel, “Untitled (3477)”, 2018. Image courtesy of Gregory Lind Gallery.

July 12 to August 25– Phillip Maisel at Gregory Lind Gallery: While rooted in the language of photography, Maisel’s practice traverses sculpture, collage, and installation. Never fully resigning itself to a single medium, each piece meditates upon perception, while drawing on the framework of architecture and design. Maisel makes series of photographs of everyday materials, making adjustments between each frame by repositioning, introducing, or extracting elements. On the final printed image, Maisel reintroduces dimensionality to the flat picture plane by integrating collage elements or physical cuts into the surface. Maisel draws attention to the form by confusing the perception of its layers—the collage within the collage, where the part cannot be differentiated from the whole, nor the image from the real thing. Gregory Lind Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street, Fifth Floor.

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 12, 5– 7:30pm

Ranu Mukherjee, “Movement 1”, print design detail, 2018. Image courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris.

July 14 to January 20– Ranu Mukherjee: A Bright Stage at the de Young Museum: Combining printed linen, embroidered silk, paint, and animation, Ranu Mukherjee’s A Bright Stage metaphorically transforms the de Young atrium into a grove of banyan trees. Native to India, the banyan tree is sacred to people of diverse faiths as a symbol of fertility, life, and resurrection. The canopies of mature banyans often reach such significant scales that they come to define the outdoor meeting places that form the social, commercial, and political core of many Indian communities. Responding to the history and architecture of the de Young, A Bright Stage reflects on the cultural and spatial perspectives of the museum. Invoking the banyan’s form and mystical and political connotations, the installation accentuates the atrium’s physical qualities and its role as a social gathering space. The de Young Museum is located in Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive.

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 14, 1– 4pm. Ranu Mukherjee in conversation with Claudia Schmuckli, the Curator in Charge.

View from last years event. Image courtesy of Minnesota Street Project.

July 20 to 22– 2018 SF Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Project: The 2018 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is free and open to the public and will feature artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers, antiquarian dealers, artists, collectors, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks, discussions, book launches, on and off-site special projects, exhibitions and signings. Minnesota Street Project is located at 1275 Minnesota Street.

Image from last years event. Image courtesy of the Headlands Center for the Arts.

July 29, 12- 5pm– Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts: Three Sundays a year, the Headlands Center for the Arts invites guests to roam the various buildings of their campus, engage with artists in their studios, experience new work and works in progress, and stay for a homemade lunch in the Mess Hall. The Open House connects visitors to the working process of artists and fosters conversations about the creative process. Scheduled in conjunction with the Headlands Center for the Arts’ three Artists in Residence seasons, the Open House features curated happenings and events scheduled throughout the day, including readings, performances, screenings, and guided walks. The Headlands Center for the Arts is located at 944 Fort Barry in Sausalito.

Martin Machado, “Ships Passing, Red Sea”, 2018. Image courtesy of SFAI.

Ongoing to August 19– Martin Machado: Fluid State at SFAI’s Main Gallery: SFAI alum Martin Machado is a visual artist who has traveled the world on international commercial vessels as a merchant mariner. His work takes the form of drawings, paintings, and photographs that offer a window into this often-overlooked system of global commerce that underpins modern life. Cumulatively, the works in this exhibition illustrate Machado’s time at sea and his deep engagement with the people, places, and historical and cultural complexities of maritime exploration and trade. The exhibition’s title, Fluid State, alludes to the state of flux that defines both a life at sea and the shifting tides of global capitalism. SFAI’s Main Gallery is located at Fort Mason Campus, 2 Marina Blvd.

Corine Vermeulen, “Boy and fire hydrant”, 2011. Image courtesy of Pier 24 Photography.

Ongoing to March 31– This Land at Pier 24 Photography: The exhibition focuses on work made throughout the United States within the past decade. The photographers included in the exhibition examine aspects of the country’s current social climate, from the mundane to the politicized. The exhibition’s title is drawn from Woody Guthrie’s song “This Land Is Your Land”. Viewed by many as an alternative national anthem, it alludes to the uneasy tensions fundamental to our vision of this nation filled with promise and peril, possibilities and letdowns. At the bottom of the sheet of paper on which Guthrie hand- wrote the song’s lyrics, he noted, “all you can write is what you see.” The artists included in this exhibition use cameras rather than pens, creating photographs that speak to what they see in the United States today. Pier 24 Photography is located on Pier 24.