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To Do List: December

Nov 30, 2022 In: To Do List Tags: 500 Capp, Binta Ayofemi, Cathy Lu, Cristine Blanco, Da-Seul Lee, De Young Museum, Ektor Garcia, Emma Logan, Eunbi Kwon, Go-Eun Im, Gregory Rick, Heesoo Kwon, JongHeon Bae, Jota Mombaça, Kadist SF, Lhola Amira, Marcelo Pardo Ariza, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Nayoungim & Gregory Maass, Rebecca Camacho Presents, SFAC Gallery, SFMOMA, Sherwin Rio, Sun Park By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Ektor Garcia “Untitled (butterfly stack)” 2021, cast bronze, copper wire. Image courtesy of Rebecca Camacho Presents.

Ongoing to December 17 – Ektor Garcia: Rehacer at Rebecca Camacho Presents: Mexico City based Ektor Garcia takes inspiration from traditional Mexican craftspeople and the crocheting practice of his grandmother. Garcia’s works suggest an embedded past and future in each object. Simultaneously raw yet refined, Garcia mines personal and cultural histories, refracting this inheritance with a potent mixture of irreverence and a deep respect for all people using their hands to create objects of beauty and resourcefulness. The artist’s fluid transition through seemingly disparate materials only echoes his nomadic process, one defined by constant movement from place to place, his hands however remaining fixed in eternal activity, wrapping wire, smoothing clay or weaving fibers. Eschewing the idea of finality, garcia’s sculptures hover in time, snapshots of a moment, prone to alteration at a later date depending on the artist’s whims.

A Study for ‘In Place of Light,’ Sherwin Rio, 2022, digital image. Image courtesy of 500 Capp Street.

December 3 to February 25 – Sherwin Rio: As Above, So Below at 500 Capp Street: Sherwin Rio is an interdisciplinary artist working in San Francisco who makes site-specific and research-based work in sculpture, installation, video, performance, and audio. For his exhibition at 500 Capp Street, Rio is inspired by David Ireland’s affinity for enclosure, particularly his deep interest in the House’s basement, a space he called “The Grotto” where he sourced dirt for his work and spent many hours in solitude. Framed by David Ireland’s dual relationship to architecture above and below, Rio is creating works that provide alternative, inverse ways of experiencing a house—indebted to the past, the unseen, and the underground. For tours of the exhibition, please reserve tickets here.

Heesoo Kwan “Mago Leymusoom” (still) 2022. Image courtesy of SFAC Gallery. Image courtesy of SFAC Gallery.

December 9 to February 11 – Sowing Worlds at SFAC Main Gallery: The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Main Gallery, in partnership with Alternative Space LOOP in Seoul, present Sowing Worlds, an international group exhibition featuring works by five artists based in the Bay Area alongside five artists based in South Korea. The effects of climate change have become ever clearer: massive wildfires, record breaking temperatures, floods, increasingly powerful storms, droughts and other calamities are taking place all over the world. The exhibition brings together artists who are thinking expansively and critically about living with climate change. The works in the exhibition explore sustainable agriculture, the intertwining legacies of colonialism and its effects on the land, and ancestral connection to a place in flux. Featuring work by Binta Ayofemi, Cristine Blanco, Heesoo Kwon, Emma Logan, Sun Park, Eunbi Kwon, Nayoungim & Gregory Maass, JongHeon Bae, Da-Seul Lee, and Go-Eun Im and was curated by Jackie Im, Sun Mi Lee, and Ji Yoon Yang.

Installation View of “The Sinking Ship/Prosperity” by Jota Mombaça. Image courtesy of KADIST SF

Ongoing to January 28 – Jota Mombaça: The Sinking Ship/Prosperity at KADIST SF: Jota Mombaça is the current artist in residence at KADIST SF. While in residence, Mombaça plans to visit the Port of San Francisco, study shipwreck records at the Maritime Research Center archives, and take a diving lesson on how to sink. These activities are part of a body of research the artist refers to as The Sinking Ship/Prosperity which considers speculative memory, the dynamics of excess, and grieving time, among other water-related subjects. This exhibition continues a cycle of work that Mombaça began earlier this year: in the tired watering (2022) and expands on and makes material connections to this body of performance works.

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 6–7:30 pm: Performance by Jota Mombaça and debut of waterwill (2022)

Top Row: Cathy Lu, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Marcelo Pardo Ariza. Bottom Row: Binta Ayofemi, Gregory Rick. Images courtesy of SFMOMA.

December 17 to May 29 – 2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition at SFMOMA: Since 1967, the SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Art Award has honored more than seventy Bay Area artists, supporting them at early stages in their careers. The award distinguishes Bay Area artists whose work has not, at the time of nomination, been accorded substantial recognition from a major institution. The 2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition celebrates Bay Area artists Binta Ayofemi, Maria A. Guzmán Capron, Cathy Lu, Marcel Pardo Ariza and Gregory Rick.

Lhola Amira “IRMANDADE: The Shape of Water in Pindorama” (detail), 2018. Image courtesy of the de Young Museum.

December 17 to December 3, 2023 – Lhola Amira: Facing the Future at the De Young Museum: This exhibit launches a new program of special exhibitions that will interpret the African art collection as a living and evolving practice through the lens of contemporary art. This solo exhibition features the newly created, site-specific spiritual portal Philisa: Zinza Mphefumlo Wami (2022). Philisa are unique portals, sacred spaces for the cleansing of wounds, honoring ancestors, and fostering connection. Visitors are invited to enter this sacred grove with support for whatever may unfold.

To Do List: November

Oct 31, 2022 In: To Do List Uncategorized Tags: Anderson Collection, Asian Art Museum, Chris Johanson, Fraenkel Gallery, Haines Gallery, Kongkee, Marco Castillo, Richard Learoyd, Stephanie Syjuco By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Stephanie Syjuco “Cargo Cults: Head Bundle (Small)” 2016, pigmented inkjet print. Image courtesy the Anderson Collection.

Ongoing to March 5 – Stephanie Syjuco: White Balance/Color Cast at Anderson Collection at Stanford University: White Balance/Color Cast derives from Syjuco’s established interest in photographic standards of imaging, color calibration charts, and photography’s suggestive powers. The commonly used term, white balance, refers to the process of removing an image’s color cast, shifting the image to what could be considered a more “neutral” or accurate representation. In Syjuco’s case, she uses these traditional imaging terms to question how photography and imaging standards—such as the quest for “correct” color—reflect deep seated biases, positioning whiteness as its center.

Thursday, November 3, 6:00 pm – Stephanie Syjuco in Conversation with Kim Beil: Syjuco will discuss her exhibition on view, her artistic process, and how her work addresses belonging, racialization, difference, and visibility. Kim Beil is the Associate Director of ITALIC (Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture) program at Stanford and an art historian who specializes in the history of photography. Reserve tickets here.

Chris Johanson “Untitled” 2022, acrylic and household paint on canvas. Image courtesy of Altman Siegel Gallery.

November 3 to December 17 – Chris Johanson at Altman Siegel: Contemplating the cycle of life, and of the material possessions we accumulate, Johanson’s focus on repurposing found objects has deepened. Trading wood substrates for canvases constructed with found stretcher bars and recycled drop cloths, materials more resistant to paint than commercial canvas, Johanson has intentionally slowed down his process, using painting as a means of mindfulness and meditation. In slowing down, Johanson has eschewed text and figuration for thoughtful abstraction, utilizing form, color, and movement to reflect on themes of bereavement, connection, and impermanence. His swirling color fields, each shade unique, create peaceful rhythms, underscoring the artist’s exploration of artmaking as a healing, therapeutic process.

Kongkee “The Tears” 2020 animation still. Image courtesy of Asian Art Museum.

November 18 – Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk at the Asian Art Museum: Kongkee, an award-winning animation director and visual artist, takes you back to the future in an odyssey 2,000 years in the making. Explore an immersive animated futurist fantasy — part comic book, part motion picture — making its North American debut. Kongkee’s Warring States Cyberpunk traces the legendary Chinese poet Qu Yuan’s soul on a journey from the ancient Chu Kingdom to an imagined 21st century Asia of cyborgs, electro rock, and surprising romantic reunions.

Marco Castillo “Familia Castillo Valdes” 2022 mahogany. Image courtesy of Haines Gallery.

November 5 to January 7 – Marco Castillo: Parlor Games at Haines Gallery: Castillo’s ongoing investigation into the visual lexicon of post-Revolutionary Cuba sees him embodying a fictional designer from this time. Colorful works on paper from his Libreta de notas (Notebooks) series showcase these experiments in abstraction, each synthesizing the period’s aesthetic modes. At the center of the exhibition is Familia Castillo Valdes (2022), a multipart mahogany sculpture from Castillo’s latest series Juego de sala, which engages with forms and materials from Cuban modernism while examining the consequences of the revolution on domestic life.

Richard Learoyd “Mirror, Eye, Candle, Lemon” 2021 unique Ilfochrome photograph. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

Ongoing to December 23 – Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery: Learoyd’s recent work deepens his exploration of classical themes, using exacting techniques to create pictorially lush, one-of-a-kind photographs. The exhibition features approximately twenty works— nudes, still lifes, and portraits—made over the last three years using the artist’s room-sized camera obscura in London. His meticulous process uses cumbersome technology to make rich, grainless images that are painterly in their nuanced attention to pose, detail, tone, and texture.

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