SFAA Newsletter October 2024 |
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Rye Purvis is originally from Moriarty, New Mexico and is enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She is a PhD Candidate in the Native American Studies Department at University of California, Davis. Rye received an Associates of Science in the Funeral Service Education program at American River College in December 2023, and a Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute in 2011.
Her research and writing centers Tribal and Indigenous practices in burial and funerary support, as well as intentionally setting space for healing and grief support that reflects Native American and Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies including land-informed practices. She started Native American and Indigenous Deathcare Autonomy (NAIDCA) as a community resource and an ongoing project and co-hosts the Decolonizing Death Cafe with Dr. Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner (Luiseño & Cupeño). Rye will be interweaving her artwork throughout her dissertation work at UC Davis this upcoming year.
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Image credit: Paul Kos, Symmetry, 2004-2016, 01:44, Courtesy of Anglim/Trimble |
| In the Manner of Paul Kos Sep 14, 2024 – Oct 26, 2024 Anglim/Trimble
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, California 94107 |
In this exhibition curated by Kal Spelletich, 19 friends, colleagues and fans honor and reflect on the manner of Paul Kos.
Featured artists: Rhonda Holberton, Maggie Preston, Jennifer Locke, Chris Sollars, Terry Allen, Cliff Hengst, Chris Cobb, Gay Outlaw, Will Rogan, Justin Hoover, Léonie Guyer, Julien Berthier, Stefan Maier, Ian Treasure, Clive McCarthy, Michael Zheng, William T. Vollman, Kal Spelletich, and essay by Steven Wolf.
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Image: Mary Lovelace O’Neal, FRANCIS, 2021–23; © Mary Lovelace O’Neal, courtesy the artist and Karen Jenkins-Johnson; photo: Michael Covián |
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Over her sixty-year practice, Mary Lovelace O’Neal has experimented with materials, color, and the discursive relationship between abstraction and figuration. Her paintings allude to a vast mythology of personal and shared narratives, from her beloved dachshund Tillie to her involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Her early works from the 1960s utilized lampblack pigment — powdered soot created from burning oil, which she rubbed and pushed into her canvases — enabling her to address “surface flatness, black as a color, and blackness as an existential, racial experience.” Lovelace O’Neal would then go in with materials including paint, gasoline, and glitter, introducing imagination and play to the velvety black expanses. In time, representational elements emerged from her abstractions, offering new narrative possibilities within a constellation of references across music, literature, and social movements.
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The CCA campus in San Francisco’s design district [Photo by HaeB) |
| Various media reports indicate that the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco is the latest art school in the US to face severe financial difficulties. The San Francisco Chronicle first reported on the crisis August 23. Other accounts have followed. Read the full article here |
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Image credit: The Union for Contemporary Art
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The Studio 24 Residency is an artist residency at The Union for Contemporary Art that supports artists from traditionally marginalized communities outside of the Omaha Metro Area by providing them with time, space, and resources to deepen their connection to their creative practice.
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Image credit: SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archive |
Image credit: SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archive |
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| Editor in Chief: Annie Reiniger-Holleb
Co-Editors: Marian Wallace, Rye Purvis, Maria Theresa Barbist |
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