SFAA Newsletter February 2024 |
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Image credit: Jeremy Moran |
Please join us for our next Spotlight talk featuring Jeremy Morgan (MFA 1985) on Monday, March 4, 2024, 10:00 AM PST! Jeremy Morgan
was born in 1956 in Cambridge, England. Educated at the Ruskin school of Drawing (University of Oxford) 1974-77, The Royal Academy Schools (RA) London 1979-82, and at the San Francisco Art Institute 1983-85. Between 1983-85 he was a Harkness Fellow. He is an Associate Professor of Painting at SFAI where he has taught since 1989 in both the Undergraduate and Graduate programs. He has also taught at JFK University (Arts and Consciousness program - Graduate Program), CCA in Oakland, California, and given various workshops in China (CAA Hanghzou, CAA Beijing, Luxan Academy, Shenyang). He is also affiliated with the Lucid Art Foundation in California, (Vision board member). He has exhibited in the USA, UK and China. His work is represented in several private collections and in the collections of Lucent technologies (CA), Beringer Wineries in Napa, CA, Saks 5th Avenue, New York, and in the collections of CAFA Beijing and CAA, Hangzhou.
For more info visit here! You can view all of our previous Spotlight lectures on our website and our Youtube channel! |
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Image: Self-Portrait, San Francisco Financial District, 1973/2019, by Michael Jang (American, b. 1951) and Barry McGee (American, b. 1966). Spray paint on archival paper. Asian Art Museum, museum purchase, 2020.25a-c. Photograph © Asian Art Museum. |
| Into View: New Voices, New Stories
features recently acquired paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, and mixed-media work by local and international contemporary artists who challenge and subvert convention by transforming familiar stories, stereotypes, and techniques. Artists: Koon Wai Bong, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Wu Chi-Tsung, Michael Jang (MFA 1977) & Barry McGee (BFA 1991), Cathy Lu (MFA 2010), Jiha Moon, Younhee Paik (MFA 1973), Nicole Pun, Stephanie Syjuco (BFA 1995), TT Takemoto, Wesley Tongson, Rupy C. Tut, and Jenifer K Wofford (BFA 1995).
Watch video here |
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Image Credit: Barry McGee |
| Barry McGee (BFA 1991): Olde Iffy
February 2 - March 16, 2024 Perrotin Gallery at Isetan the Space
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
An exhibition by contemporary artist Barry McGee, based in San Francisco. McGee, known for diverse artistic techniques, will showcase new paintings and a special video installation created for the event. The exhibition offers a unique opportunity to experience McGee's vibrant and distinctive artistic world. Visitors can also explore a showcase on the 1st floor featuring McGee's characteristic motifs from February 28. More info on Barry McGee here More info on the Exhibition here
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Image Credit: Eamon Ore-Giron |
| Seventy-one visionary artists and collectives will participate in the eighty-first installment of the Whitney Biennial, opening March 20, 2024. More info on the Whitney Biennial 2024 here More info on Eamon Ore-Giron here New York Times Review here |
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Book Cover Image credit: Adrian L. Burrell |
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Adrian L. Burrell employs multiple modalities of imagery and storytelling to, in his words, “create a visual meditation on my family's untold history. Reinterpreting and archiving these histories creates a space for collective memory to challenge erasure, and explore the knowledge that Black kinship networks reveal.”
Burrell, who grew up surrounded by three generations of his family in Oakland, California, worked with an investigative genealogist while researching his family’s experiences in Louisiana, and tracing further to their origins in West Africa. His monograph combines his writing, photographs and footage with found letters and personal correspondence, pages from family albums, and stills from home videos, making fluid geographies and collapsing time. More info here |
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Amie Potsic, Pilgrims – Tirupati, India, Chromogenic Print, 19” x 19”, 1996 © Amie Potsic 1996 |
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Amie Potsic's Seeker: An Extraordinary Photographic Odyssey in the Holy Lands is a new book and exhibition that reveal a transcendent journey. With fearless exploration, Potsic's feminist lens captures a unique perspective on India and Israel, defying stereotypes and revealing a resilience of tradition. Created during a year-long solo backpacking expedition across the Holy Lands India and Israel at the age of 23 in 1995, her work invites reflection on female empowerment, cultural identity, and religious patriarchy.
Book Release & Artist Talk:
Saturday, February 24, 2024, 2:00 – 5:00 pm
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THE STATE OF ART EDUCATION
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Recently, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the oldest art school in the country, announced that it would no longer be accepting students for its degree-granting programs. Combined with the ongoing financial struggles of esteemed art schools nationwide, this marks a calamitous moment for the present and future of art schools. Read the full article here. |
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Image credit: Brent Sikkema, slide by Linda Connor |
Brent Sikkema was born in 1948 and raised in Morrison, Illinois. An alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute, Brent began his gallery work in 1971 as Director of Exhibitions at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. He acted as the Director of Vision Gallery in Boston from 1976 until 1980 and owner from 1980 to 1989. After moving to New York in 1991, Brent opened a contemporary art gallery in Soho named Wooster Gardens. The gallery moved to the Chelsea arts district in early 1999 and a few years later the name was changed to Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
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Editor in Chief: Annie Reiniger-Holleb
Co-Editors: Marian Wallace, Rye Purvis | |
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