SFAA Newsletter December 2022 |
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The SFAA Holiday Card was designed by Yana Liu. |
This was an exceptional year for all of us. Thanks to all those who supported us in so many different ways!
With Gratitude, Your SFAA team. |
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Please join us for our next Spotlight talk featuring Francisco Pinheiro (MFA '14) on Monday, February 6, 2023, 10:00 AM PST! Francisco Pinheiro is a visual artist and his practice stems from narratives associated with a particular territory, summoned in installations, videos, texts and performances.
You can view all of our previous Spotlight lectures on our website and our Youtube channel! |
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Joan Brown, The Journey #5, 1976. Collection of the Orange County Museum of Art. |
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13 Women marks the museum’s 60th anniversary, paying homage to the thirteen women who founded the Balboa Pavilion Gallery, the earliest iteration of OCMA, which opened in 1962. Includes SFAI Alumni: Sarah Cain (BFA '01), Joan Brown (BFA '60), Mary Heilmann (Faculty) , Catherine Opie (BFA ’85). Read MORE. Orange County Museum of Art
3333 Avenue of the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 |
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Installation view of California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold with the artwork by Laurie Steelink, Gathering Power (indian Market Booth), 2022 |
| The Orange County Museum of Art is reviving the
California Biennial 2022: Pacific Gold. Bringing the series forward from 1984, their biennial had defined the spirit of the institution for decades. It exemplified the museum’s six-decade history of presenting new developments in contemporary art, while identifying emerging artists on the verge of national and international acclaim. They are now presenting a set of distinctive voices, ones which question, challenge, and animate the past, while looking to the future. The show includes 19 artists, including the following SFAI alumni: Candice Lin (MFA ’04), Alicia McCarthy (BFA ’93), Laurie Steelink (BFA ’86), and Raul Guerrero who exhibited at SFAI in 1970. Read
MORE. Orange County Museum of Art
3333 Avenue of the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 |
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Cathy Lu, Resurgence, 2022 (installation view, SFMOMA). Photo by Katherine Du Tiel. | |
Congratulations to our alum Cathy Lu (MFA '10) who has been selected in this year's SECA Art Award Exhibition. Read MORE. SFMOMA
151 Third St, San Francisco, CA 94103 |
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Aziz + Cucher, The Lobby, 2022. Courtesy the artist and Gazelli Art House. |
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Gazelli Art House proudly presents You’re Welcome and I’m Sorry, an exhibition of recent works on canvas and video along with a selection of historically important pieces that mark the three decades of artistic collaboration between Anthony Aziz (MFA '90) and Sammy Cucher (MFA '92) (Aziz + Cucher). Read MORE.
Read The Brooklyn Rail article by Tennae Mak HERE. Gazelli Art House
39 Dover Street, London, W1S 4NN |
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Arngunnur Ýr, Onomea IV, 2022.
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Two new shows are coming in January 2023 at Anglim/Trimble featuring two of our alumni Arngunnur Ýr (BFA '86) and J. John Priola (MFA '87)! Read MORE.
Anglim/Trimble
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 |
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Don Ed Hardy and Laurie Steelink at Track 16 Gallery. Photo by Matt Stromberg/Hyperallergic. |
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Both Don Ed Hardy (BFA ’67) and Laurie Steelink (BFA ’86) refuse to adhere to traditional artistic hierarchies, an attitude they have shared throughout their 30-year friendship.
Read MORE. |
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Dean Fleming, 65 Black Blue Red White, 1965. Courtesy David Richard Gallery. |
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David Richard Gallery presents Fourth Dimension, a solo exhibition by Dean Fleming (MFA '59) focused primarily on seminal paintings from 1965 that evoked myriad changes in not only the artist’s approach to painting, including the scale, compositions, and pallets, but also where he produced and exhibited these works in the late 1960s and throughout his career. Read MORE.
Read The Brooklyn Rail articles by Tom McGlynn HERE.
David Richard Gallery 526 West 26th Street, Suite 311, New York, NY 10001 |
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Franklin Williams,
Unaccountable Reverberations, 1975. Courtesy Parker Gallery. |
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Parker Gallery is proud to present its third solo exhibition with Franklin Williams. This special presentation features paintings from the mid-1970s, a rich period of material and conceptual experimentation within the visionary artist’s evolving oeuvre. Many of the works included will be exhibited for the very first time.
Read MORE. Parker Gallery
2441 Glendower Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 |
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Jay DeFeo, The Rose (1958–66). © The Jay DeFeo Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. |
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Paula Cooper Gallery will now handle the estate of the late Abstract Expressionist artist Jay DeFeo, representing the Jay DeFeo Foundation in New York. Marc Selwyn Fine Art works with the foundation in Los Angeles.
“There’s a boldness to DeFeo’s work and to her radical, anti-hierarchical approach, to her drive and commitment to working in multiple mediums simultaneously,” Steve Henry, a senior partner at the Paula Cooper gallery, told Artnet News in an email. “This cross-disciplinary approach creates many entry-points to her work, and it’s been exciting to see growing interest from younger audiences—and in particular from artists.” Read MORE.
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Constance Lewallen and John Baldessari in his studio, Los Angeles, 1977. Photo: Thomas Lewallen Gallery records, 1970–80, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. |
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"For a half century, Connie Lewallen was a curatorial force, alternating between New York and California—a bicoastal pioneer. The path to becoming a curator of contemporary art in the 1970s, when Connie began her career, was not just a matter of academic credentials; it was about a certain kind of hustle in which you learned to pivot among places, evolving aesthetics, and the distances between art history and the art of the moment. Energy and intellect had to be fused with determination and perseverance."
Read MORE. |
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Pfffffffffffffffff by Blanca Bercial at Your Mood Gallery.
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Your Mood Gallery presents Pfffffffffffffffff by Blanca Bercial (MA '20) featuring her new works. The exhibition is curated by Selby Sohn. Read MORE.
Your Mood Gallery Noonan Building, Pier 70, Bldg 11, Rm 108B, San Francisco, CA 94107 |
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The Whole Story by Michael Jang, installation view SFMOMA. © Michael Jang.
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Michael Jang (MFA '77) has spent a lifetime documenting the world around him. In early 2021, he wheat-pasted a series of his photographic images taken in the 1970s over a boarded-up storefront on Clement Street, the heart of San Francisco’s unofficial Chinatown. Unsanctioned public installations have since become his primary form, fueling his artistic practice with new resonance. Jang’s SFMOMA commission departs from his Clement Street project, adorned with new images and designs and anticipating further intervention by the artist during its installation. Read MORE.
SFMOMA
151 Third St, San Francisco, CA 94103 |
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Cover of A Time of Panthers: Early Photographs. SPQR Editions, 2022. |
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Few photographers had the insider access Oakland native Jeffrey Henson Scales (SFAI '73) did around the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Capturing intimate portraits and protest images of the organization and its leaders in a time of societal upheaval, Scales archive lay dormant and forgotten for some 50 years. Then in 2018, when his mother died and the contents of the family home were sorted, the negatives were discovered. More details and get your copy HERE.
Read Jeffrey Henson Scales interview by Kathy Brew. | |
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Cover of Natural Light. Kehrer Verlag, 2022. |
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J. John Priola's (MFA '87) second monograph, features work from twelve different series made over twenty years time and investigates the natural and un-natural world. There is a beauty and perversity at work in this collection of images. Plants carry stories and offer information about their caretakers, perseverance, and what nature and nurture hold. The images are often portraits and evidence of what was and can no longer be seen. Photography is magic in this way, deceptively acting as a document, yet personal, seen but beyond reach. While there are different formal approaches to image making, the aspirations remain the same. More details and get your copy HERE.
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Cover of Liza Lou. Rizzoli Electa, 2022. |
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Liza Lou (SFAI '89) first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labor, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa. Over the past fifteen years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process underlying her work. More details and get your copy HERE.
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Sam Tchakalian on the right reviewing student work, from SFAI Library Archives. |
| To all alumni: We are still collecting photos for our Chestnut Street Photobook project.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed photos so far! Please help spread the word so we get images from as many alumni as possible. We specifically would like to get photographs from your time on campus at 800 Chestnut Street. |
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FROM JEFF GUNDERSON'S SFAI ARCHIVE
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Happy 100th Birthday Charles Wong! |
Charles Wong (SFAI '38/'39; '49-'51) studied at the School in the late 1930s returning on the G.I. Bill to focus on photography from 1949-1951, studying with Dorothea Lange, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Lisette Model, and Ansel Adams. He was the first photographer to win the prestigious Albert Bender Award in 1952. The project for his Bender Grant was titled The Year of the Dragon which was published by Minor White in Aperture magazine in 1953. Wong's original The Year of the Dragon portfolio is in the collection of the San Francisco Art Institute Library.
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Charles Wong, turns 100, seen here driving his Jaguar to Irene Poon’s photo exhibit opening earlier this year. Photo by Victoria Whyte Ball. |
| Charles Wong, c. 1952, photo by Gene Peterson |
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Many thanks to Jeff Gunderson, Francisco Pinheiro, Yana Liu, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, Orange County Museum of Art, SFMOMA, Anglim Trimble Gallery, Track 16 Gallery, David Richard Gallery, Parker Gallery, Your Mood Gallery, and Charles Wong. |
Editor in Chief: Annie Reiniger-Holleb Designer: Lucien Liu
Co-Editors: Marian Wallace, Rye Purvis |
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