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ALMA MATTER EXHIBITION at HUBBELL STREET GALLERIES

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ALMA MATTER EXHIBITION (2016 Alumni Exhibition)

Hubbell Street Galleries

November 8 – November 19, 2016

CCA’s Exhibitions program presents Alma Mater, an exhibition that showcases work by recent alumni from across the college’s four divisions: Fine Arts, Design, Architecture, and Humanities & Sciences, presented in its new Hubbell Street Galleries.

Alma Mater specifically focuses on a small selection of alumni who graduated within the last 10 years and who have been proactive in shaping the growing presence of a robust and revitalized art scene in the Bay Area.

The exhibition highlights a diverse array of practices developed by these former students and layers the influence that CCA alumni are having on the Bay Area community into a collection of discrete but unified voices

Artists featured in exhibition include:
Emilie Alongi // Manuel Angeja // Jennifer Banta // Alex Bargas // Jesus Barraza // Joseph Becker // Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo // Tania Butterworth // Margherita Buzzi // Ethan Caflisch // Michele Carlson // Carville Annex // Megan Cerminaro // Abby Chen // Megan Chunn // Trent Davis Bailey // Morgan De Lorenzo // Arash Fayez // Brooke Francesi // Kathryn Gentzke // Zach Gibson // Rebekah Goldstein // Laurin Guthrie // Bryndis Hafthorsdottir // Annie Hagar // Adam Henderson // Jennifer Hennesy // Graham Holoch // Amina Horozic // Sarah Hotchkiss // Anesta Iwan // Victoria Jang // Mark Johnsen // Nick Johnson-Lee // Wioleta Kaminska // Kindah Khalidy // Nicole Lavelle // Charles Lee // Liz Lessig // Bo Luengsuraswat // Phillip Maisel // Make.Do. Collective // Ben Marlowe // Bruna Massadas // Em Meine // Travis Meinolf // Amaryllis Moleski // Erica Molesworth // Channing Morgan // Bonny Nahmias // Will Newton // Susan O’Malley // Zach Ozma // Ali Padgett // Larry Peifer // Tyler Pew // George Pfau // Minnie Phan // Ben Quinn // Heidi Rabben // Adrienne Skye Roberts // Mike Rothfeld // Dorothy Santos // Erik Scollon // Janey Smith // Speaking Tributaries // Superduperstudio // Lauren Szabo // Matthew Tedford // Sarah Thibault // Angel Rafael Vasquez-Conepcion // Tyler Skeleton Wallraven // Bret Walters // We Are Will Brown // Guilietta Wertz-Best // Micah Wood // Zoe Yuan // + more

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TERRI FRIEDMAN (CCA FACULTY) ART WALL AT BAMPFA

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TERRI FRIEDMAN (CCA Faculty: Senior Adjunct – Sculpture / Painting / Grad) Yarn Painting, 2016 commissioned work now on display

August 25 2016 – February 12 2017

Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

The second work in BAMPFA’s new Art Wall series of commissioned temporary works is a monumental weaving by East Bay artist Terri Friedman (CCA Faculty: Senior Adjunct – Sculpture / Painting / Grad). Here, the artist describes her recent embrace of weaving as a means to extend her exploration of painting:Weaving color. Yarn as paint. For years I have investigated painting through everyday materials: kinetic sculpture, installation, painted pours. And that is exactly how I approach the loom. Expanding material limits, diving into color, redefining landscapes, interested in invention and innovation yet borrowing from tradition.

In 2013 I visited the Miró Foundation in Barcelona. A mural-sized tapestry designed by Miró and woven by the artist Josep Royo inspired me to learn to weave. I like the very basic and straightforward technology of a loom. It is ageless. The loom is my tool to invent something unfamiliar. With each piece I begin to understand the limits of the loom and the potential. No forgiveness, no overpainting, no going back. Though like painting, I am making marks, lines, and saturating with color. The work is very mathematical, but there is also an element of chance. No matter how I map them out ahead of time, the unexpected is a given.o

I have no desire for order or perfection. Raw, chunky fringe and loose threads, holes and gaps, texture, kaleidoscopic, optimistic, and sensual. Chromophilia, a love of color. Color is emotion. Color has the potential to uplift, destroy, calm, energize, make you anxious. It is potent like a drug. I am hoping that the work resides on that edge between control and out of control, and somewhere in your body, there is a somatic response

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/program/art-wall-terri-friedman

 

@ CCA HUBBELL STREET GALLERY 2 | IN TRANSIT

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IN TRANSIT

Charmaine Koh, Sarah Lesnikoski, Michelle Brandemuehl, Yee Li, Shaghayegh Cypous, Kristen Wong, Kirsten Brehmer, Michael Gordeon, Arti Struyansky

October 25th – October 27th 2016

CCA Hubbell Street Gallery, 161 Hubbell St, Gallery 2, San Francisco

Exhibition of new works by CCA MFA Majors created during CCA Faculty Linda Geary’s New York Studio Class

MARIA PORGES (CCA FACULTY) SOLO EXHIBITION @ TI115

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Storytelling: a small retrospective survey of monotypes (1995-2000)

TI115, Treasure Island

November 13th 2016 – January 15th 2017

Maria Porges (CCA Faculty) solo show ‘Storytelling’ at TI 155, the JonesBecker new project space on Treasure Island opens on November 13th, from 3-6pm

‘Storytelling’ features ten selected individual monotypes created from 1995-2000 which explore the relationship of image and text, a lifelong fascination of the artist. Exhibition opens on November 13th, 3-6pm!

http://jonesbecker.com/

@ CASEMORE KIRKEBY: VIVIANE SASSEN, ELSPETH DIEDERIX

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VIVIANE SASSEN, ELSPETH DIEDERIX

Casemore Kirkeby 1275 Minnesota Street, #102, San Francisco, CA 94107

November 4th – December 22nd, 2016
Opening: Friday, November 4th, 6-8pm

Casemore Kirkeby is pleased to present Viviane Sassen Pikin Slee & Elspeth Diederix In These Shadows, an exhibition of photographic works by two Dutch artists and longtime friends who live and work in Amsterdam. 

Viviane Sassen and Elspeth Diederix first met in an art class as teenagers and have remained close friends throughout their adult lives. While they each came to photography by different routes, both cite their childhood experiences as Europeans living in Africa as formative to their sensibilities, and both create images that challenge the tendency to quickly categorize and make sense of what we see, especially when confronting a photograph. Instead they invite us into worlds that demand a sustained attentiveness, where novelty and surprise are fully integrated into the surroundings and textures of the everyday, and images and objects resonate with their own strange authority. They also privilege the highly personal and subjective view as the most open-ended approach to their material; whether working at home or abroad, both artists are fine-tuned to the experience of displacement, of finding the familiar in the foreign and vice versa, and create a generous space for what lies between.
http://casemorekirkeby.com/exhibition/viviane-sassen-elspeth-diederix/

Closing Oct. 14 @Rayko Photo Center: Victoria Heilweil: No Child Left Behind

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Victoria Heilweil 

No Child Left Behind

Curated by: Ann Jastrab

Rayko Photo Center

428 Third St San Francisco, CA 94107

 

September 14th – October 14th

Opening:  September 14th 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Victoria Heilweil has been devoted to a project that is very personal for her. Turning her camera away from her home, she has put her energy into a documentary series that is important not just for her, but for many. For the past 20 years Heilweil has been an educator and she currently has a child in a San Francisco public school.  The artist had become angry, frustrated and incredulous at how teachers are portrayed in the media; and that they are blamed and vilified for our mounting issues in education.  To quote Heilweil, “My first hand experience of being excessively micro managed when I was an instructor at a certain college, and shock at how little funds my daughter’s classroom was given for yearly supplies, motivated me to start photographing. “San Francisco is facing a substantial teacher shortage.  A few months ago the Sunday Chronicle featured a cover story about how teachers are being priced out of the Bay Area, and that in nearly all other districts are paid more than in our city.  Yet despite this, all the educators Heilweil met were sincere and incredibly committed to their jobs. They really embody the idea of “No Child Left Behind”(not just the name of President Bush’s legislative act, but also the title of Heilweil’s long term project). The teachers were unwilling to let kids slip through the cracks and fought for them to succeed. They love their jobs and are inspiring and inspired.Victoria Mara Heilweil believes strongly in the importance and power of education.  “No Child Left Behind”celebrates K-12 educators, showing them with compassion and grace in order to pay respect to the selfless people that do such an important and overlooked job. Her project is a love letter to teachers: her heroes.This work will be on view at Rayko Photo Center from September 14th – October 14th with an opening reception on September 14th, from 6-8pm, shortly after school begins this fall. A perfect time to celebrate these educators!There will also be a screening of “Oyler,” a documentary film by Amy Scott about a Cincinnati public school fighting poverty in its Urban Appalachian neighborhood, on October 13th at 7pm at RayKo. Not to be missed!

http://www.raykophoto.com

Closing Oct. 10 @ Cantor Arts Center: Showing Off: Identity and Display in Asian Costume

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Showing Off: Identity and Display in Asian Costume

Cantor Arts Center

Stanford University 328 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305-5060

October 14th, 2015 – October 10th

Fashion is a form of language. What we wear broadcasts critical information about us and serves as a visible indicator of social rank, profession, ethnicity, or status. This exhibition of Asian textiles and other works from the Cantor’s collection demonstrates how costume and objects of personal adornment functioned as a method of identification and display from the late 18th century to today. Ranging from Qing court costumes to Indonesian textiles, the selection on view spotlights visual symbols while showcasing rarely displayed garments.

http://museum.stanford.edu/ 

Closing Oct. 9 @de Young Museum: Ed Ruscha: Ed Ruscha and the Great American West

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Ed Ruscha and the Great American West

de Young Museum

Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco, CA 94118

July 16th – October 9th


Ed Ruscha and the Great American West includes 99 works that reveal the artist’s engagement with the American West and its starring role in our national mythology. This exclusive exhibition has been organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and celebrates the career of one of the world’s most influential and critically acclaimed artists.In 1956, at the age of 18, Ed Ruscha left his home in Oklahoma and drove a 1950 Ford sedan to Los Angeles, where he hoped to attend art school. His trip roughly followed the fabled Route 66 through the Southwest, which featured many of the sights—auto repair shops, billboards, and long stretches of roadway punctuated by telephone poles—that would provide him with artistic subjects for decades to come.Nine sections reveal Ruscha’s fascination with the evolving landscape and iconic character of the “Great American West” in symbolic, evocative, and ironic renditions. These include works that depict gasoline stations, long an important element of Ruscha’s work, as well as others that comment on Los Angeles and the film industry, such as his famous “Technicolor” images of the Hollywood sign. The exhibition also includes works in which a word or phrase is the sole subject, often depicted in a variety of forms that simulate poured liquids, cut ribbons, or spray paint. Ruscha continues to work steadily at the age of 78, and this exhibition includes prints made as recently as 2015. He maintains a studio in the California desert and makes regular road trips through the spare and evocative landscapes that first inspired him as a young man. Ruscha has now worked in California for more than 50 years, and this exhibition celebrates his long commitment to exploring the American west as both romantic concept and modern reality.

http://deyoung.famsf.org/

@Hosfelt Gallery: Liliana Porter Actualidades / Breaking News – Oct. 15-Nov. 23

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Liliana Porter

Actualidades / Breaking News

Hosfelt Gallery

260 Utah Street San Francisco, CA 94103

October 15th – November 23rd

Opening:  October 15th 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Argentinian artist Liliana Porter is a master at distilling life and art to simple profundities through humorous juxtapositions of incongruous objects.  For her first exhibition at the gallery in four years, Porter premieres a new video, Actualidades/Breaking News.  In addition to the video, the exhibition showcases a full range of new work, including paintings, sculptural objects, installations, works on paper, and photographs, each challenging the proposition that time is linear and reality graspable.

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