SFAA Newsletter October 2023 |
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Photo: Cristina Velazquez |
Join us for an info session with BPPE/OSAR on Monday 16th, 2023 at 10am PT on zoom. BPPE (Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education) can now process and fulfill requests for SFAI transcripts for the years 1960-2022, which are now in the Bureau’s possession.
During this informative session, Janel Quayle, and Scott Valverde from the Office of Student Assistance and Relief (OSAR) at BPPE will provide guidance on the process of obtaining SFAI transcripts. Additionally, they will discuss student loan forgiveness options due to the school's closure and address any inquiries related to transferring to another educational institution.
An opportunity for a Q&A session will be available at the conclusion of the information session. For more information on BPPE/OSAR and school closure assistance please visit here.
To request your transcripts use the form here. |
The info session will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel. |
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Image credit: Andrea Gonzales |
| For our November SFAA Spotlight we are featuring artist Andrea Gonzales (MFA 2016).
Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Andrea Nicolette Gonzales now lives and works in San Francisco, California. After completing her bachelors degree from Texas Wesleyan University she worked as a make-up artist and was asked to face paint for a Dia De Los Muertos event; which led to her fascinating and exploration of the three-dimensional surface of the face and body. RSVP HERE. |
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Image credit: SFAI Archive and Legacy Foundation |
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In case you missed our latest Spotlight talk with Jeff Gunderson and Becky Alexander you can watch it now on our youtube channel. Becky and Jeff gave us a wonderful online tour through their new space at the Crown Point Press building at 20 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, 94105. They are open for visitors!!
Watch video HERE More info on the SFAI Legacy Foundation and Archive HERE |
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Photo by Christopher Dane - © red splat productions |
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Make Me Famous is a madcap romp through the 1980s NYC Downtown art scene amid the colorful career of artist Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. We take a look at the popular 80s East Village art scene through the lens of a striving artist to give you the chance to experience the thrill of what it was like to be an artist in that creative explosion of art. Edward Brezinski was a 1977 graduate of SFAI in the 99th commencement with a BFA. Watch trailer HERE
Read the review on ARTFORUM Tickets: Oct 15 6:00 PM Q/A to follow,
Roxie Theater, 3125 16th St, SF https://roxie.com/film/make-me-famous/ Oct 19 - Nov 3 7:30 PM, Q/A to follow Oct 19 4-Star Theater, 2200 Clement St, SF
https://www.4-star-movies.com/ |
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Paul Pfeiffer, “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse(30)” (2015), digital C-print on Fujiflex, 56 11/16 x 78 3/4 x 2 3/4 in (©Paul Pfeiffer; image courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York)
Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom |
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Surveying twenty-five years of the multi-disciplinary practice of artist Paul Pfeiffer (b. 1966, Honolulu, Hawaii; lives in New York), Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom will celebrate a pioneering artist known for his incisive work that interrogates ideas of spectacle, belonging and identity. Inspired by televised sporting events and popular entertainment, Pfeiffer’s work deconstructs our fascination and obsession with celebrity culture, unpacking how collective consciousness is shaped and manipulated through his masterful editing of found footage.
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Josephine Taylor, Lepidoptera, at night, 2023 |
Artwork by Jon Rubin at SFAI |
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Catharine Clark Gallery announces Josephine Taylor's solo exhibition Night House, on view in our South Gallery from September 30 - December 23, 2023. Taylor's dazzling new work reflects on the boundaries between a family and their home, and the luminosity of objects that anchor a person in their most private moments. In conjunction with Taylor’s exhibition, the gallery opens
two presentations with Jon Rubin in EXiT and in the Vestibule, include an encore presentation of his banner installation Photograph Yourself Naked at Your Parents’ House (2018), originally presented at the San Francisco Art Institute.
In Rubin’s installation, myths, legends, lies, and misremembered stories of past student art works are presented as both cautionary tales to be never repeated
and possible instructions to future students. |
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Still from Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was an Idea (2023). A close-up of the artist's eponymous 1958 sculpture |
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“His unusual yet endearing mannerisms, coupled with his unwavering devotion to craftsmanship, won the hearts of a plethora of major art-world players. Many of them appear in his new documentary
—Ed Ruscha, William T. Wiley (1937-2021) and Billy Al Bengston (1934-2022) among them. A true “artist’s artist”, Westermann remains beloved more than 40 years after his death. (The Art Newspaper)
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Unknown maker, unknown, Collection of Ken Gonzales-Day |
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Queer-ish, organized by Ken Gonzales-Day, brings together over one hundred vernacular images with photographic works by contemporary LGBTQ + artists and invites viewers to consider what it means to be queer in our own time. The addition of “ish” in the exhibition’s title is a playful gesture of recognition of the precarity of gender non-conformity, same-sex identities, and the performative nature of image production. |
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IN-FLUX: recalibrating the unknown will feature works by SFAI alumni, staff, and faculty, and will be curated by Jeremy P. H. Morgan.
With the 2022 closure of the San Francisco Art Institute, a bedrock of contemporary American art education for 150 years as a backdrop, this exhibition will lean into the role of art in deciphering the current confluence of social, environmental, economic, and epidemiological challenges.
There are two components to the exhibit: artworks by individual artists and a collaborative site-specific installation to be constructed at MONCA. We invite you to apply with up to 3 individual artworks and/or for the collaborative project. Jeremy Morgan will make the final selections for the exhibition by January 15, 2024.
Best,
Eve Werner (MFA 2022) IN-FLUX Exhibition Lead |
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