SFAA Newsletter January/February 2023 |
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SFAI Chestnut campus, January, 2023. Photo by Marian Wallace. |
SFAI no longer has the building at Ft. Mason, but is still occupying the 800 Chestnut Street campus. SFAI continues holding the lease there month-to-month, at least until March 15th. The librarians are still maintaining the books and archives of the school at the campus.
The SFAI Legacy Foundation has received its non-profit status and is on the lookout for another site for the archive—should it have to move, which is still uncertain. The Foundation and others are working on a Legacy Party to raise awareness of the archives and to celebrate SFAI’s 152 years. The event will also include an art auction curated by Diana Fuller. Watch for news about this event, slated for late March. At this time, 800 Chestnut is closed to the public. — Marian Wallace, alumna, SFAA board member, former SFAI ajunct faculty member, SFAI neighbor
Further SFAI update from Marian Wallace, please check the link HERE. |
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Francisco Pinheiro, White dragon, 2018.
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Today, please join us online for our launch of the 2023 Spotlight lectures with Francisco Pinheiro (MFA New Genres 2014)! 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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Every Hundred Miles (Across America with Robert Frank) by Kirk LeClair and Finley Fryer. |
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We are excited to announce our March Spotlight artist, Kirk LeClaire (BFA'78/MFA'83), is coming on March 6, 2023! Kirk LeClaire is a multidisciplinary artist who will talk about his paintings, his two recent films, So Good I Can’’t Take It and Every Hundred Miles (Across America with Robert Frank) plus his two new records! Learn more about 55 Film by Kirk LeClaire HERE.
RVSP your ticket for free now! |
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Left: Joan Brown, Harmony, 1982, Right: Self-Portrait in Studio, 1984. © Estate of Joan Brown |
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Comprising eighty colorful paintings and sculptures, Joan Brown spans the charmingly personal and engaging career of one of San Francisco’s most important local heroes. Deeply embedded in the Bay Area art scene, Joan Brown (BFA'59/MFA'60) drew inspiration from many sources to create works that merge autobiography, fantasy, and whimsy, with weightier metaphysical and spiritual themes. This retrospective is the most expansive presentation on the artist’s work in more than twenty years, charting the turns and devotions of a vision that was once dismissed by critics as unserious but was rooted firmly in impassioned curiosity and research and remains uniquely compelling today. Read MORE.
Read Mark Van Proyen on Joan Brown on Squarecylinder.
Read Dodie Bellamy on the art of Joan Brown on Artforum Magazine. SFMOMA, Floor 7
151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103 |
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Mike Henderson, Trust, 1981.
Fine Arts Collection, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Museum purchase, Gina and John Wasson Acquisition Fund. © Mike Henderson. Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery. |
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UC Davis Professor Emeritus Mike Henderson (BFA'69/MFA'70) ’s first solo U.S. museum exhibition in 20 years brings to light the pioneering artist’s rarely seen contributions to the history of contemporary painting and filmmaking, radical Black politics, and to the story of California art. The exhibition integrates paintings and films by Henderson that offer new ideas about Black life in the visual languages of protest, Afro-futurism and surrealism. Challenging the protocols and propriety of art-making in the 20th century, these works depict scenes of anti-Black violence as well as utopian visions and questions of self-making. Read MORE.
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti ShremMuseum of Art 254 Old Davis Rd, Davis, CA 95616 |
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Installation view of Mike Henderson: Chicken Fingers, 1976–1980 at Haines Gallery. Photo: Robert Divers Herrick. |
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Haines Gallery proudly presents Mike Henderson: Chicken Fingers, 1976–1980, a solo exhibition by the acclaimed Bay Area artist, filmmaker, and blues musician. Henderson's fifteenth solo exhibition with the gallery presents a selection of rarely seen abstract canvases from his early career. Read MORE. Haines Gallery 2 Marina Boulevard, Building C, San Francisco, CA 94123 |
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Poster of the Lourdes Portillo exhibition at Academy Museum of Motion PIctures. |
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Lourdes Portillo graduated with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1985. Her film, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo won twenty international awards as well as receiving an Academy Award nomination in 1987 for Best Documentary. The gallery devoted to Lourdes Portillo highlights the life and career of this remarkable documentarian, visual artist, journalist, and activist. Born in Chihuahua, Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, Portillo’s documentaries blend experimental and traditional modes of storytelling to focus on themes of identity and social justice in the US and Latin America. Read MORE.
Academy Museum of Motion PIctures 6067 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 |
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J. John Priola, Sebastopol Mistletoe, 2022.
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| Now showing until February 25th: J. John Priola (MFA'87), photographs: Light/Symbiosis Arngunnur Ýr (BFA'86), Paintings: Onomea
Read MORE.
Read J. John Priola @ Anglim/Trimble by Mark Van Proyen (BFA'77/MFA'79) on Squarecylinder. Anglim/Trimble
1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 |
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Sojourner ZY is an original play written by Eugenie Chan. Performed by ShadowLight Productions in their signature style of large-scale cinematic shadow theater. Featuring original music by Paul Dresher. Directed by Larry Reed (MFA'71). Learn more and get your ticket HERE.
Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center
99 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94129 |
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Nan Goldin in All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, 2022.
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Congratulations to Laura Poitras (SFAI 1989) whose Golden Lion awarded film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is nominated for an OSCAR in Documentary Feature Film category. This documentary film explores the career of Nan Goldin and the fall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty. Read MORE.
Official Trailer HERE.
Read All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with Laura Poitras /Academy Conversation HERE. |
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Mildred Howard in her Oakland studio (photo Emily Wilson/Hyperallergic) |
| "She has raised generations of Bay Area artists and changed the local landscape with her public artworks, colleagues tell Hyperallergic." Read MORE. |
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Virginia Dwan in her New York gallery during the exhibition Language III, May 24–June 18, 1969. Photo: Dwan Gallery records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution |
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Charles Stuckey reflects on the unparalleled life and career of the gallerist, patron, and curator Virginia Dwan, enumerating key moments from a lifetime dedicated to artists and their visions.
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Desert X 21 Landscape. © Desert X |
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Desert X is produced by The Desert Biennial, a not-for-profit organization founded in California, conceived to produce recurring international contemporary art exhibitions that activate desert locations through site-specific installations by acclaimed international artists.
Read MORE. |
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@ Frieze & Casey Kelbaugh |
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Taking place for the first time at Santa Monica Airport, the fair expands to feature more than 120 galleries, including new specialists in 20th-century art, alongside restaurants and Frieze Projects spread across the multiple sites.
Read MORE. |
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Cover of Not Too Late. Haymarket Books, 2023. |
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Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, anxious, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present—and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy.
This book is coming on April, 2023. More details and get your copy HERE. |
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Cover of Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965–1985. University of California Press, 2023. |
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In 1985, a studio fire damaged much of Henderson’s output from the previous two decades, obscuring vital ideas about a time of tumult and change, often referred to as a world on fire. Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965–1985 addresses Henderson’s multifaceted art of that period, which examined and offered new ideas about Black life in the visual languages of protest, Afrofuturism, and surrealism.
This is the first major exhibition and catalog dedicated to the work of groundbreaking painter and filmmaker Mike Henderson. Published in association with the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis. More details and get your copy HERE. |
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Students in Linda Connor's critique class, 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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Many thanks to Jeff Gunderson, Francisco Pinheiro, Kirk LeClaire, SFMOMA, Mike Henderson, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and Haines Gallery, Academy Museum of Motion PIctures, Laura Poitras, Anglim/Trimble, Larry Reed, Mark Van Proyen, Mildred Howard, Charles Stuckey, and Not Too Late with Rebecca Solnit. |
Editor in Chief: Annie Reiniger-Holleb Designer: Lucien Liu Co-Editors: Marian Wallace, Rye Purvis |
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