SFAA Newsletter October 2021
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150-year alumni legacy with a commitment to SFAI's core values of critical thinking, exploration, and expression.
THREE TURNS MIAMI
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Photo by Maria Theresa Barbist.
Three Turns is Back! We are seeking video submissions by SFAI alumni for SF Artists Alumni’s Three Turns Miami, part of Special Projects Untitled Art Miami Beach 2021. Three Turns Miami will be curated by San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) professor Tony Labat. Three Turns Miami will take place on November 29, 2021,1-8PM, EST.
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SFAA EVENT
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Photo by Lucien Liu.
EDUCATION
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Public Education is now offering Fall 2021 course schedule online. SFAI alumni receive a 20% discount for the public education courses. Please contact with publiceducation@sfai.edu for the alumni discount.
Register for Fall 2021 Courses HERE.
EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
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Stephanie Syjuco, Block Out the Sun (detail), 2019.
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Ron Nagle, Hot Prowler 2021.
Ceramic, catalyzed polyurethane, epoxy resin, and acrylic, 4½ × 3½ × 3¾ inches; 11 × 9 × 10 cm.
Ron Nagle’s inventive works elicit a vast range of associations. “The thing you want people to feel,” Nagle has said, “is something they haven’t felt before.” The exhibition of eighteen new sculptures and six related drawings is on view through October 23. Read MORE.
Matthew Marks Gallery
523 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011
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Left: Jay DeFeo, Untitled, 1974
graphite, charcoal and acrylic on rag board, 8 x 7 in.
Right: Bruce Conner, UNTITLED NOVEMBER 4, 1981, 1981
engraving collage, 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.
Bruce Conner and Jay DeFeo were close friends who met in the 1950s as part of the Beat-adjacent group of artists based in San Francisco. The Conner Family Trust, The Jay DeFeo Foundation, and the Paula Cooper Gallery are delighted to present the first ever two-person exhibition of their work. Read MORE.
Paula Cooper Gallery
524 W 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
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Toba Khedoori, Untitled” (detail), 2018.
Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and David Zwirner.
Photo Fredrik Nilsen.
The Fridericianum will present Khedoori’s first solo exhibition in a German art institution. Through a selection of works created between 1994 and 2021, this survey show illustrates the diversity and development of Khedoori’s graphic and painterly oeuvre. Read MORE.
The Fridericianum
Friedrichsplatz 18, 34117 Kassel, Germany
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Paul McCarthy, Chop Chop, Chopper, Amputation (Affected) 2013-2016.
Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio.
Parts Make Up a Hole, is Paul McCarthy’s second solo exhibition at The Box LA. This grouping seeks to explore the parallels between three of McCarthy’s major bodies of work from the past two decades: Caribbean Pirates (2001-2016), a collaboration with Damon McCarthy, White Snow (2008-2017), and A&E, Adolf & Eva/Adam & Eve (2019-Present). This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth. Read MORE.
Opening Reception is on October 9th, 4-8pm.
The Box Gallery
805 Traction Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90013
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Kristin Calabrese, No To Self (Detail), 2021.
Calabrese's new exhibition How Things Feel at AF Projects elucidates conflicts between how the artist thinks things should be vs. how things seem to be. Read MORE about the exhibition.
Opening Reception is on October 8th, 6-8pm.
Louise Alexander Gallery / AFP
7503 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046
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Sarah Cain during the installation of her show at Broadway Gallery in New York.
Photo by Tonje Thilesen for The New York Times.
The Los Angeles artist, with her crazy titles and caustic colors, offers “a really provocative combination of pleasure and politics,” says on museum curator.
Read more on New York Times.
Project will be back to National Gallery of Art soon this year.
National Gallery of Art
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20565
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Farah Al Qasimi, It’s Not Easy Being Seen 3, 2016.
archival inkjet print; 47 1/4 × 37 13/16 in.
courtesy the artist; The Third Line, Dubai; and Helena Anrather.
With 140 works by 76 artists and collectives, including Catherine Opie (MFA'88) and Ruby Neri (BFA'94), this exhibition at the U.C. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is one of the largest to date on contemporary feminist art, and will coincide with a year of public programming focused on feminist theory. Read MORE.
BAMPFA
120 Oxford Street, Berkeley, CA 94720
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T.C. Cannon, On Drinkin' Beer in Vietnam in 1967 ,1971.
Soft-ground etching on cream wove paper, 17 x 21 in.
Showcasing prominent Native American artists of the 20th and 21st century in their exhibit titled "Remember the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art." The exhibit will feature SFAI Alumni T.C. Cannon (Kiowa, Caddo), specifically his lithograph titled “Drinkin’ Beer in Vietnam in 1967" (1971), a piece he made in response to his service in the Vietnam War. T.C. Cannon attended the San Francisco Art Institute briefly in 1966 after graduating from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Read MORE.
Opening Reception is on October 9th, 4-8pm.
Heard Museum
2301 North Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Laurie Anderson. Photo by Alaric Campbell.
Join Joe’s Pub for five nights of Kludge. Curated by Joe’s Vanguard Residency artist Laurie Anderson, the lineup includes poet Anne Carson, “audio provocateur” Arto Lindsay, writer Lafcadio Cass, and cellist Rubin Kodheli. This multi-faceted array of artists will be experienced differently every evening. Read MORE.
FROM JEFF GUNDERSON'S SFAI ARCHIVE
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1966 SFAI Poster Farewell to the Backyard Festival.
SFAI folk have always been eager to find a reason to celebrate and throw a party as evidenced from this 1966 SFAI poster announcing “The First & Last Annual Farewell to the Backyard Festival.” The outdoor shindig featured the SF Mime Troupe’s performance of “Olive Pits,” as well as an evening happening where “The San Andreas Fault rocks the backyard,” with additional music by the "Studio Thirteen Jass Band,” plus “Poets Under the Trees.” This event commemorated the groundbreaking for construction of the Paffard Clay building completed in 1969.
Fun fact footnote: art historian Whitney Chadwick was a member of the San Andreas Fault band while a student at SFAI.
Read MORE on the SF Mime Troupe’s “Olive Pits” performance .
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Many thanks to Tony Labat and Beth Davila Waldman, Christina Velazquez and Lior Bar, Mathhew Marks Gallery, PhotoAlliance, Paula Cooper Gallery, Bruce Connor Family Trust, Jay DeFeo Foundation, The Friderician, The Box Gallery, Louise Alexander Gallery / AFP, National Gallery of Art, BAMPFA, Heard Museum, The Public Theater, and Jeff Gunderson.
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Editor in Chief: Annie Reiniger-Holleb
Designer: Lucien Liu
Co-Editors: Marian Wallace, Rye Purvis
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