SFAA Newsletter March 2023 |
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Photo: Ansel Adams, SFAI Campus, c1939. Courtesy the SFAI Legacy Archive + Foundation. |
THE SPIRIT IS ALIVE will be a celebration for artists, organized by artists, and about artists. Anticipated events will be going on simultaneously, just like "the good old days of SFAI," and will include music, films, performance, photography, paintings, sculpture, dance, a silent auction, SFAI historical displays, and more.
JOIN US TO CELEBRATE THE HISTORY OF SFAI! All proceeds will benefit the SFAI Legacy Foundation + Archive (SFAI LF+A).
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Kezia Harrell, I Finally Know How to Speak, 2021. |
Please join us for our April Spotlight lecture with Kezia Harrell (BFA Painting 2017)!
Kezia Harrell (born 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an interdisciplinary artist working in painting, illustration, and performance. A graduate of San Francisco Art Institute now living in Fresno, California, Harrell paints fantastical, hyperrealistic worlds of Black femme freedom. Her work draws attention to the histories of white supremacist and misogynoir violence while making space for herself and other Black people to heal and define themselves outside of the white gaze.
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The talk will be online through Zoom. All alumni are welcome to join in!
You can view all of our previous Spotlight lectures on our website! And please stay tuned for the April and May Spotlight lectures!
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The Silicon Valley Asian Art Center features works by Martin showcase Martin's artistic development and style in different periods and serve as a tribute to his artistic contributions and legacy. Martin's art has left valuable spiritual wealth for the world. Read MORE. Watch the memorial event HERE.
Silicon Valley Asian Art Center & Narx Gallery 3777 Stevens Creek Blvd, Suite 400, Santa Clara, CA 95051 |
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Aziz + Cucher, video Still from 6-channel installation of the series You’re Welcome and I’m Sorry, 2019. |
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On the occasion of the publication Aziz + Cucher: XXX, a 30-year retrospective of their work, Aziz + Cucher will engage in a wide-ranging, public conversation with Richard Meyer, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor of Art History. Free event, register HERE. Stanford, Department of Art & Art History Cantor Arts Center, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies McMurtry Building, 355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305 |
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Aziz + Cucher And Barbara Boissevain. |
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PhotoAlliance is excited to welcome back onetime Bay Area artists Aziz + Cucher (Aziz MFA'90, Cucher MFA'92) for a special evening in celebration of their 30 years of collaboration. Joining them is Barbara Boissevain (BFA'95), returning to the Bay Area from her new home base in Palm Springs for this event. While Aziz + Cucher use technology to render the world in surreal ways, Boissevain finds the seemingly surreal within the actual vivid colors and patterns of the Bay as it’s been shaped by human development, pollution and partial restoration. Get your tickets HERE.
Randall Museum 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114 |
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Installation view of Kehinde Wiley: Colorful Realm at Roberts Projects. |
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Roberts Projects is delighted to announce Colorful Realm, an exhibition of new work from renowned contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley (BFA'99). Drawing inspiration from Japanese nature paintings of the Edo period (c.1600–1868), Wiley parallels traditional techniques and materials in nine monumental paintings. Per the artist, “So much of my work is about appearance and showing up and being visible, and this dance between exploring the vastness of space within the minimality of this technique I find to be an interesting juxtaposition.” Read MORE.
Roberts Projects 442 South La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036 |
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Joe Goode, Untitled, ca. 1962. The Menial Collection.
Photo: Caroline Philippone.
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Once dubbed “the marvelous mad maven of modern art in America,” Walter Hopps (1932–2005) estimated that he had curated some 250 exhibitions in his fifty-plus-year-long career. Hopps’s impressive curatorial record constitutes the framework of the exhibition features approximately sixty artists and more than 130 artworks.
The exhibition book will be available in gallery when exhibition opens. Read MORE. The Menil Museum, Main Building 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, TX 77006
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Robert Motherwell, The Widow, 1976. |
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The force and originality of Robert Motherwell’s (CSFA'37) work were recognized early in his career, and he continues to be included in important exhibitions at highly regarded galleries and museums around the world. This list of exhibitions represents a focused selection of major recent and historical showings of his work, complete with installation images and other archival materials. Read MORE.
View and learn more about the exhibition and videos of panel discussions on The Dedalus Foundation HERE. The Menil Museum, Menil Drawing Institute
1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, TX 77006 |
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Holly Wong, Spiral Dance.
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The Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts at the College of the Desert presents Monumentally Fragile, new exhibition of large-scale paper works. Curated by Ray Beldner (BFA'86) , artist and Director of Startup Curatorial, the exhibit brings together large works on paper by Catherine Ruane, David Tomb, and Holly Wong (BFA'93/MFA'95). Read MORE.
Artists Talk: Friday, March 24, 5:00 pm PST. College of the Desert
43-500 Monterey Ave, Palm Desert, CA 92260 |
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Bernice Bing, Untitled, 1959-63. Asian Art Museum.
Photograph © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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Into View: Bernice Bing (BFA'59/MFA'61) celebrates the museum’s acquisition of 20 paintings and works on paper that shine a light on an important local Asian American artist who has only recently gained broad recognition for her achievements. These works reveal the evolution of Bing’s remarkable practice, from paintings of the 1950s and 1960s that straddle Abstract Expressionism and figuration to work from the 1980s and 1990s that explores a synthesis of Zen calligraphy and Western abstraction. Read MORE.
Read The rediscovery of Abstract Expressionist Bernice Bing by Scarlet Cheng on The Art Newspaper. Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 |
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Elaine de Kooning, The Bull, 1959, Courtesy The Christian Levett Collection © EdeK Trust
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Whitechapel Gallery presents a major exhibition of 150 paintings from an overlooked generation of 81 international women artists. This exhibition includes the following distinguish SFAI Alumni: Ruth Armer (Student & Faculty 1933-1940), Bernice Bing (BFA'59/MFA'61), Jay DeFeo (Faculty'64-71, '79 and '82), Lilly Fenichel (1950- 52), Sonia Gechtoff (1950’s), Emiko Nakano (1947-51), and Deborah Remington (BFA'55). Read MORE.
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High St, London E1 7QX |
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Rigo 23, February 31st with the Angola-3. |
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Rigo 23’s (BFA'91) new exhibition draws upon his 22-year involvement with the three formerly incarcerated individuals in Louisiana State Prison, commonly known as the Angola-3. The Angola-3 were subjected to the longest-known solitary confinement incarceration in the world, 114 years combined. Today, Rigo 23 is working with Robert King, the sole surviving member of the Angola-3, to launch a cultural center in the historical Black neighborhood of Algiers in New Orleans. It will host the Angola-3 archives and function as a community center to continue the work and preserve the legacy of these outstanding freedom fighters. Read
MORE. Anglim/Trimble
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 |
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Cover of Blk Art: The Audacious Legacy Of Black Artists And Models In Western Art. Harper Design, 2023. |
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Blk Art: The Audacious Legacy Of Black Artists And Models In Western Art by Zaria Ware |
Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyoncé and Jay-Z break the internet by blending modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully subverts European masterworks. Calls resonate for diversity in museums and the resignations of leaders of the old guard. It's clear that modern day museums can no longer exist without change--and without recognizing that Black people have been a part of the Western art world since its beginnings.
More details and get your copy HERE. |
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SFAI Sculpture Department, 1981. From SFAI Library Archives. |
To All Alumni:
We don’t have a deadline yet. Yes we’re still collecting your photos for our Chestnut Street Photobook project.
Please dig through your old photos and post on our Photobook project page. Entering your photos means you are giving us permission to use your photos for this project only. Each photo we use will be given credit in the book. Please know that we can’t take your photos off of Facebook or instagram. We believe in asking for permission from each of you. Thanks to everyone who has contributed photos so far! Please help us by spreading the word so we get images that represent our diverse community. We specifically would like to get photographs from your time spent at the SFAI campus.
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Many thanks to Diana Fuller and Greg Flood, Kezia Harrell, Ming Ren and Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, Anthony Aziz, Sammy Cucher, Stanford Department of Art & Art History Cantor Arts Center, Barbara Boissevain, Kehinde Wiley and Roberts Projects, The Menil Museum, The Dedalus Foundation, Holly Wong, Asian Art Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, Rigo 23 and Anglim/Trimble, Zaria Ware and Harper Design with Reparations Club. |
Editor in Chief: Annie Reiniger-Holleb Designer: Lucien Liu Co-Editors: Marian Wallace, Rye Purvis |
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