SFAA Newsletter November 2021
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150-year alumni legacy with a commitment to SFAI's core values of critical thinking, exploration, and expression.
INTERVIEW OF LARRY ANDREWS
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Left: Larry Andrews’ SFAI Undergrad 1987.
Right: Larry Andrews’ recent photo.
“...They were all wild and beautiful. And most of them are pretty well-known. Not everyone, but many of them are still very active in the world today and still producing work. I think of my class and my time there as being one of the more special moments in the history of the school. It felt that way to me.”
THREE TURNS MIAMI
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In conjunction with opening day of Untitled Art Miami Beach 2021, SF Artists Alumni (SFAA) presents a media based project curated by artist and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) professor Tony Labat highlighting the work of contemporary alumni from SFAI. For our participation in this year’s Untitled’s Special Projects under the guidance of Artistic Director Omar López-Chahoud, Tony Labat invited Ana Teresa Fernández, Whitney Lynn, and Kit Radford, and Minoosh Zomorodinia to feature their work alongside a juried group of submitted video work from our broader SFAI Alumni community. This second SFAA annual Three Turns project, Three Turns Miami, stems from the concept initiated in 2020 on the historic tower of the San Francisco Art Institute, that engaged projected artworks in order to provide viewers with different entry points, prompting a deeper exploration into the individual works itself.
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Three Turns Miami will be presented on a large scale digital two-sided billboard truck platform prominently located on the publicly accessible sands of Miami Beach to the left of the entrance into the white tent of Untitled Art Miami as part of Untitled’s Special Projects. We are seeking funding. No gift is too large or too small! All donations will help us reach our goal of showcasing SFAI artists at this globally-attended art fair. Gifts are tax-deductible.
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
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Left: Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy, ca.1770.
Right: Kehinde Wiley, A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, 2021.
A newly commissioned painting by renowned American artist Kehinde Wiley, A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, debuts in the historic Thornton Portrait Gallery, across from Thomas Gainsborough’s iconic painting The Blue Boy (ca. 1770). Read MORE.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum
1151 Oxford Rd, San Marino, CA 91108
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Left: Kehinde Wiley, Barack Hussein Obama, 2018.
Right: Amy Sherald, Michelle Obama, 2018.
From the moment of their unveiling at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in February 2018, the museum’s official portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama have become iconic. This five-city tour will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, High Art Museum, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from June 2021 through May 2022. Read MORE.
LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Liza Lou, Kitchen, 1991–96.
Whitney Museum of American Art, gift of Peter Norton.
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. This exhibition will include over eighty works by more than sixty artists, including SFAI alumni Liza Lou (BFA'89), John De Fazio (MFA'84), Mary Heilmann (faculty late 70’s - early 80's), Paul McCarthy (BFA'69), Ron Nagle (faculty 1961-65), Chryssa (BFA 1954-55), and Richard Shaw (BFA'65). Read MORE.
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014
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Project Lands End, 2021 by FOR-SITE.
“By bringing together a group of artists from around the world, the exhibition strives to remind viewers of our interconnectedness via global currents of water and air, and to encourage them to partake in all the fresh ideas and perspectives that emerge from the rising tides as we head deeper into this tumultuous century.”
Group Exhibition with SFAI Alumni participating in the Land’s End Exhibition are: Chester Arnold (MFA'87), Ana Teresa Fernandez (BFA'04/MFA'06), William T. Wiley (BFA'60/MFA'62). Read MORE.
FOR-SITE at Cliff House
1090 Point Lobos Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121
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Nancy Ivanhoe, Wall Sculpture (Blue Violet), 2021.
This dynamic group exhibition curated by Lisa McCutcheon (MFA'02) features 21 artists who share the ability to transform non-traditional materials into a personal visual language. 12 SFAI Alumni are represented in this show: Barry Beach (MFA’08), Jan Blythe (MFA’08), Michele Foyer (MFA'11), Ellie Fritz (BFA’04/MFA’08), Nancy Ivanhoe (MFA'13), Susinun Kladpetch (MFA’06), Denise Laws (BFA’02), Pam Martin (MFA’02), Steven V. Lopez (MFA’07), Alicia Renadette (MFA’02), Holly Wong (BFA’93/MFA’95), Maria Vasconcelos (MFA’03). Read MORE.
Root Division
1131 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
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T.C. Cannon, Two Guns Arikara, 1973/1977.
The works of T.C. Cannon (BFA ’66) have been included the Museum of Modern Art’s New Collections 1940s - 1960s: Divided States of America exhibition. Read MORE.
MoMA
11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019
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Installation of Joan Brown's The End of a Crazy Summer & Other Personal Reflections at Parker Gallery.
Parker Gallery is proud to present The End of a Crazy Summer & Other Personal Reflections, a solo exhibition of works by Joan Brown, organized in collaboration with Modern Art West. Read MORE.
Parker Gallery
2441 Glendower Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027
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Annie Leibovitz, Lena Dunham, New York City, 2013, 2021.
Beginning 6 November, Hauser & Wirth Southampton will present ‘Annie Leibovitz. Wonderland,’ an exhibition of photographic prints selected by the artist from her acclaimed body of work made over the past two decades. This presentation focuses upon work made since 1999, including fashion photography shot on assignment that, in the artist’s words, ’revealed surprising avenues to portraiture. Read MORE.
Book Launch & Signing with Annie Leibovitz: Sat, Dec 11, 2021, 2pm
Hauser & Wirth Southampton
9 Main Street, Southampton, NY 11968
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Chris Komater, Curtains (Caravaggio), 2021.
Chris Komaterhas borrowed the title of his new series of photographs, Allegory of Inclination, from a 17th century work by the great Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. Read MORE.
Mercury 20 Gallery
475 25th St, Oakland, CA 94612
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Antoinette Wysocki, Emergence Phenomena, 2021.
A group show exploring the concept of muses, musings and merriment. Read MORE.
Red Fox Gallery
55 Westchester Ave, Pound Ridge, NY 10576
FROM JEFF GUNDERSON'S SFAI ARCHIVE
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1956 6 Gallery, Bruce McGaw (left), Manuel Neri (right) after installing their show, Image from LYRICAL VISION catalog.
Manuel Neri (1930-2021) was born in Sanger, California in 1930. His parents immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, following the Mexican Revolution. Neri studied with Elmer Bischoff, Claire Falkenstein, Frank Lobdell, and Bob Howard at the California School of Fine Arts (SFAI) from 1956-1958, after he attended CCAC. By the Fall of 1959 Manuel was hired at the School to teach “Drawing & Color.” His roll book (shown below) lists Carlos Villa along with grad students, Bernice Bing, and Joan Brown. Neri’s fellow faculty that semester included Gregory Bateson, Richard Diebenkorn, Dorr Bothwell, Nathan Oliveira, Deborah Remington, Ernie Kim, and his good friend, Bruce McGaw. Manuel’s 1963 “Artist’s Bio” for the SFAI Art Bank (also shown below) highlights his teaching at SFAI, his shows at the 6 Gallery, Spatsa Gallery, Dilexi, and as the one time “Director, 6 Gallery.” As one of the sculptors of the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Neri is identified by his iconic, life-size, figurative work, with painted and abraded surfaces, created from plaster and marble. Neri received an Honorary Doctorate from SFAI in 1990.
Read more on ARTnews.
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Many thanks to Larry Andrews and Kathy Brew, Tony Labat and Beth Davila Waldman, The Huntington, LACMA, Whitney Museum, FOR-SITE Foundation, Root Division, MoMa, Parker Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Mercury 20 Gallery, Red Fox Gallery, and Jeff Gunderson.
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