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TWO World Premiere Films at the Asian Art Museum

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TWO World Premiere Films at the Asian Art Museum

Asian Art Museum, Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture, 200 Larkin Street, San Francisco

December 3 – 11, 2016

As part of it’s current major exhibition, The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe, the Asian Art Museum worked with beloved Indian documentary filmmaker Benoy Behl and Bay Area artist and educator Anuj Vaidya to explore performance traditions from across southern Asia and the future of cinematic storytelling. With never-before-seen footage of dance, theatre, and puppetry practices from India, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar, San Francisco (and more!) Behl’s feature documentary reveals the Rama ep[ic to be one of the most influential multi-religious, multi-cultural touchstones in the world.

An ecological “film” about (Rama epic heroine) Sita’s experiences in nature, Vaidya’s Forest Tales is performed LIVE — instead of being recorded and projected — so audiences can connect modern human-powered energy solutions with creative ideals. Staged in two acts over a single weekend, Forest Tales is not only the story of Sita, but also the story of how cinema, society and the art of storytelling evolve. An Indian eco-steampunk extravaganza!

All programs are FREE with general admission/student discounts! 
http://www.asianart.org/exhibitions/rama-epic

OPEN CALL: MFA NOW

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OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS: MFA NOW 2017

Root Division, 1131 Mission Street (at 7th), San Francisco

Deadline: December 1, 2016

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to nine of the top MFA programs in the country: California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Stanford University, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley. The MFA Now Archive Project and Juried Exhibition provides a platform for looking at Bay Area artists and institutions in order to promote dialogue and to archive current art-making practices and models.

Each artist will submit a single artwork inclusion in the archive publication and for consideration for the MFA Now Exhibition. The juror will select up to twenty-five works from the submitted materials to be shown in Root Division’s gallery for the month of March 2017. An opening reception will be held on March 11th, and will also serve as the archive release party.

For more information and to apply: https://www.rootdivision.org/open-call-exhibition/mfa-now-2017

GROUP SHOW: FAULT LINES

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FAULT LINES

CCA Hubbell Street Galleries, 161 Hubbell Street, San Francisco

November 29–December 3, 2016

On July 16, 1945 the Trinity Atomic test in New Mexico unleashed a manmade force that approached those of the natural world – unwinding matter to release cosmic scale forces and in so doing igniting the atmosphere and shaking the ground at the scale of a meteoric impact or earthquake. At that moment humanity crossed a line! The complex interplay between scientific inquiry, emerging technologies, the military industrial complex, secrecy and propaganda, the natural and the manmade, the cosmic and the terrestrial, the geological and the geopolitical all came into brilliant focus at that moment and have continued to resonate throughout the ensuing 70 years. 

The artists in this group each address aspects of this trajectory as we encountered them on a 1400 mile, 4 day road trip and pilgrimage through the Great Basin to the Nevada Atomic Test Site north of Las Vegas.

Artists: Angela Berry , Amy Lange , Clancy Magnuson, Kristin Landowski, Piper Grosswendt, Prima Sakuntabhai, Russ Baldon, Donald Fortescue, Christine Metzger0

CCA MFA STUDENTS IN GROUP EXHIBITION AT EMBARK GALLERY

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CCA MFA STUDENTS IN GROUP EXHIBITION AT EMBARK GALLERY

Embark Gallery, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, 2 Marina Blvd., Building. B, Suite. 330, San Francisco, CA 94123

November 4 – December 17, 2016

Embark Gallery’s newest exhibition, #simulacra, asks how Jean Baudrillard’s philosophical treatise “Simulacra and Simulation” is relevant in the digital era. We live in a visual culture in which it is increasingly easy to participate. Images are all-important, and no longer mere symbols of truth. As Baudrillard predicted, reality itself has begun to imitate what was once its model. This medium-specific show explores signs, memory and documentation from a diverse sampling of perspectives.

Mike Cole and Jacqueline Sherlock Norheim both stray from traditional photography, utilizing the mark of the artist’s hand in two different takes on landscape, one manufactured and pixelated, the other ethereal and ephemeral. Shisi Huang’s video piece addresses voyeurism and the blurred line between public and private realities in an age where we are often being recorded. Marcela Pardo Ariza’s playful photographic sculpture references the unraveling of the meaning of images in the contemporary moment, whereas Qian Zhao’s deliciously colorful prints evoke a surreal nostalgia. Tamara Porras investigates the past without nostalgia, exposing how photographs can take on a new life of their own once those pictured are gone. Shaghayegh Cyrous’ work is planted firmly in the present, taking the form of a live feed from an apartment in Tehran, Iran. The piece references the malleability of time and place made possible by new technologies and questions the nature of reality in an increasingly global world.

If no one Instagrams it…did it ever really happen?

Artists in this exhibition include: Mike Cole (UC Davis), Shaghayegh Cyrous (CCA), Shisi Huang (SFAI), Jacqueline Sherlock Norheim (Mills), Marcela Pardo Ariza (SFAI), Tamara Porras (CCA), and Qian Zhao (CCA).

http://www.embarkgallery.com/

NEW YORK ARTS PRACTICUM: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

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NEW YORK ARTS PRACTICUM: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

New York City, June 5 – July 28, 2017

Deadline: March 13, 2017

Applications are being accepted for the 2017 New York Arts Practicum, a summer arts institute where participants experientially learn to bridge their lives as art students into lives as artists in the world. The program is structured around apprenticeships with mentor artists, a critique seminar where participants produce work without access to their institutional facilities, and site visits to artist workspaces, galleries, and museums.

The intensive eight-week program offers participants a structured environment to experience the challenges of life as an artist and demystifies the many ways one can be an artist today. Mentees work in their mentor’s studio two to three days per week, meet Monday and Tuesday evenings for a critique seminar, and convene Fridays for site visits in artist studios, galleries, and museums. Past participants called the experience: demystifying, life changing, and an inspirational reality check.

Mentors lead critiques structured around developing strategies for creating work without institutional studio facilities. Practicum mentors lead seminars on their work, or related topic; these sessions are intimate views into their in-progress work, with a focus on process.

For program description and application please see the website: http://ArtsPracticum.org

ONE + ONE + TWO (MFA 2016 ALUMNI) SUCCESS AND OPPORTUNITY

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ONE + ONE + TWO (MFA 2016 ALUMNI) SUCCESS AND OPPORTUNITY

Long Time Collective, Dogpatch

Deadline: December 15th

Collective ONE + ONE + TWO (Kathryn Ian, Jennifer Shada, Ben Cirgin, Garth Fry (MFA 2016)) aims to support artists in all visual media, as well as the greater Bay Area arts community, by pooling resources during the current space and housing crisis and acting as a platform for engaging, dynamic, critical and supportive programming around visual arts in San Francisco. The Alternative Exposure grant supports the + ONE Artist Residency and ONE + TWO Critique Group, which aim to connect artists with work space, exhibition opportunities, publications, and dynamic conversation around newly created visual artwork.

The + ONE Residency offers artists from the Bay Area and beyond the opportunity to work for 30 days in their collaborative studio space in the Long Time Collective, located in the Dogpatch neighborhood. A jury consisting of the members of ONE + ONE + TWO, a representative of the Long Time Collective, and one community representative from the Bay Area will select applicants based on the strength and quality of their proposal. Applications for the + ONE Residency will be open until December 15, 2016 for the three residencies taking place in January, March, and May of 2017.  The first + ONE Resident Artist will be selected from the Bay Area. 

The + ONE Residency is designed for visual artists of all media who would like the opportunity to work within a collective art making space to further develop their artistic practice.  Each resident artist will be awarded twenty-four-hour access to a small portion of the ONE + ONE + TWO shared studio space for thirty days.  The + ONEResident Artist will be granted a $300 stipend, a solo exhibition at the end of the 30 day term, and a print catalogue of the works created during the residency.  Each resident artist will be asked to participate in the bi-monthly ONE + TWO Critique Group as a panel discussion leader.

http://www.oneplusoneplustwo.com/o-n-e-r-e-s-i-d-e-n-c-y

ROBIN KANDEL: THE 45TH PARALLEL

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ROBIN KANDEL: THE 45TH PARALLEL

545 4th Street, San Francisco

October 13 – November 11, 2016

“This work is about a specific place and any place. It’s about midpoints, landmarks, road trips, road maps, and long stretches that take us somewhere and elsewhere”. — Robin Kandel

True to her previous explorations, Kandel consistently examines and dissects our notions of distance and location. Her practice remains deliberately slow and meditative, creating a fluid rhythm of straight lines that layer to bring about a kinetic yet minimal optical effect. Showing over 20 new works, ranging in size, Kandel employs acrylic paints and graphite on various materials such as vintage maps and wood panels.

This series of work relates to Kandel’s primary school memories of first thinking about distance and location while making paper globes in geography class. She revisited the experience recently when she came face to face with the 45th Parallel while stopping through Traverse City, Michigan. For Kandel, something that only existed conceptually, became real—points on a map are every bit as abstract as they are concrete, embodying meaning as well as information.

http://www.asgallery.com/Exhibition%20Pages/ASG-Kandel2016.php

FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR

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flowers in your hair, curated by night gallery

fusedspace, 1401 16th Street, San Francisco

October 28 – December 16, 2016

Night Gallery is pleased to announce Flowers in Your Hair, a curated group exhibition at FUSED, San Francisco, which will include the work of Katherine Bradford, Josh Callaghan, Alex Chaves, Mira Dancy, Jules de Balincourt, Awol Erizku, David Hockney, Jake Kean Mayman, David Korty, Anne Libby, Tal R, Melanie Schiff, Claire Tabouret, and Barak Zemer. The exhibition will be Night Gallery’s first collaboration with Jessica Silverman and FUSED. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 28, from 6 – 8pm.

Portraiture and floral motifs characterize the works included in Flowers in Your Hair. Implicit to portraiture is an acknowledgement that the image at hand was a moment frozen, and therefore that time has since passed. Flowers, with their even briefer lifetimes, speak to this inevitability perhaps even more strongly. Scott McKenzie sang about a dreamy vision of San Francisco in 1967, a city resplendent with gentle people covered in flowers, reveling in endless summer, never mind the August marine layer. If summertime is a love-in, autumn is a buzzing phone, and the vibration only gets stranger from here.

 

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