Tag: Fraenkel Gallery

To Do List: May

Apr 26, 2018 In: To Do List Tags: Adrian Rosenfeld, BAMPFA, Dionne Lee, Doug Hall, Embark Gallery, Emil Lukas, Emily Budd, Fort Mason, Fraenkel Gallery, George Bures Miller, Hosfelt Gallery, Janet Cardiff, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Neil Mendoza, Ragnar Kjartansson, Recology San Francisco, Rena Bransten Gallery, Richard- Jonathon Nelson, Robert Koch Gallery, SFAI, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Wyatt Kahn By: Kerri Hurtado, Curator

Wyatt Kahn, “Untitled”, 2017. Image courtesy of Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery.

Ongoing to June 16- Wyatt Kahn at Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery: Kahn pushes the boundaries between painting, sculpture, drawing and print-making in his latest body of work, which functions as a sort of musing on life in the studio and the weight of art history. Kahn constructs paintings from hand-cut panels individually wrapped in materials like raw linen and milled lead. He employs this process with a series of forms abstracted from the world around him, while simultaneously narrowing in on a group of figurative elements – a pair of glasses, a telephone, a hand, a foot, a tube of paint – that relate to his studio practice. Kahn has developed a distinct vocabulary in merging representation and abstraction, often times with an anthropomorphic and humorous gesture, that is in full range for this exhibition. Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery is located at 1150 25th Street.

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, (left) “The Poetry Machine”, 2017. (right) FOREST (for a thousand years…), installation view, 2012. Images courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery and UCSC.

May 3 to July 5- Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Poetry Machine and Other Works at Fraenkel Gallery: The exhibition, consisting of multiple installations, features Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s interactive tribute to Leonard Cohen. The Poetry Machine is made from a vintage organ, a collection of speakers and recordings of Cohen reciting dozens of poems from his Book of Longing, many of which have never been publicly released. Road Trip is an installation of slides made by Bures Miller’s grandfather in the 1950s, during a drive from Vancouver to New York City. Projected from a computer controlled carousel onto a standing screen, the slides show mostly empty landscapes, their color often changed by time. Accompanying them is a two-speaker recording of Cardiff and Bures Miller. In Sad Waltz and the Dancer who couldn’t dance, a robotically controlled marionette appears to play piano while a long-haired puppet dances erratically to music by Armenian composer Edward Mirzoyan. Fraenkel gallery is located at 49 Geary Street, 4th Floor.

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 3, 5:30- 7:30pm

Ongoing to June 30- Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller also have an audio installation, titled “FOREST (for a thousand years…)”, on view in the redwood grove of UC Santa Cruz’s Arboretum and Botanic Garden. UC Santa Cruz’s Arboretum and Botanic Garden is located at 1156 High Street in Santa Cruz.

Doug Hall, “Still from Song of Ourselves (After Walt Whitman)”, 2018. Image courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery.

May 5 to June 16- Doug Hall: Song of Ourselves (After Walt Whitman) at Rena Bransten Gallery: The two-channel site specific video installation situates a video of high school students reciting Whitman’s text with a projection that washes across the gallery walls. Following the 2016 election Hall felt that “something ugly and malevolent slithered out of the dark recesses of the American psyche. In the shadow of this misanthropy it is easy to lose sight of the alternative, democratic ideals that this country was founded on, ideals that, while not fully realized, were passionately expressed most clearly and beautifully by Walt Whitman in Song of Myself from his epic poem Leaves of Grass.” The exhibition proposes that a humanist tradition can provide an antidote to the venom seeping into the American conscience. This work brings forth the positive spirit that resides within Whitman’s words. By assembling a group of diverse students reading selections from the poem, the ‘I’ of the poem becomes not the voice of the single, male poet but the voice of us all, summoning the poem’s original, inclusive intent. Rena Bransten Gallery is located at 1275 Minnesota Street.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 5, 5- 7pm

(left) Dionne Lee, “collage_1- of yard or field or hand or concern and promise”, 2018. (right) Richard-Jonathan Nelson, “Rnelsonprint: In a verdant eddy, I remembered I lost you”, 2018. Images courtesy of Embark Gallery.

May 5 to June 2- Deep Horizon: Richard- Jonathan Nelson and Dionne Lee at Embark Gallery: In the exhibition, Dionne Lee and Richard-Jonathan Nelson investigate the complex relationship between Blackness and nature. Considering histories of violence, the African diaspora, and the perceptions and realities of identity, Lee and Nelson explore the anxieties and trauma associated with the American landscape, and navigate us towards a deeper understanding of who is allowed to benefit from natural environments. The artists stake a claim to the solitude of nature and its potential as a tool for liberation, while acknowledging that at the same time, being alone and Black in the woods means, historically and quite literally, to be at risk for danger. Through video, photography, and installation, this exhibition provides a new cartography for the safe travel of Black bodies through the terrain of modern wilderness. Embark gallery is located at 2 Marina Blvd., Building B (3rd floor), Suite 330.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 5, 4- 7pm

Emil Lukas, “water ball #1567”, 2017. Image courtesy of Hosfelt Gallery.

May 5 to June 16- Emil Lukas: Twin Orbit at Hosfelt Gallery: Labor-intensive and experimental, playful and poetic, surprising and delightful, Lukas’ sculptures and sculptural paintings grow out of investigations into gravity, perspective, mathematics, color theory and the properties of light. Lukas’ round “paintings” are parabolic bowls with tens of thousands of colored threads stretched across them. The works manipulate our sense of space and definition of color. Chunky, plaster works composed of honeycombs of multi-colored pixels create optically vibrating fields, their convex surfaces disrupting our perception of depth. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a monumental, pixilated, aluminum lens that both restricts and restructures our line of sight. This exhibition is an examination of seeing, where optics is a metaphor for the human ability to derive insight from abstract concepts. Hosfelt Gallery is located at 260 Utah Street.

Announcement cards.

2018 MFA Thesis Exhibitions: The MFA Thesis Exhibitions of the Bay Area art schools concludes the graduate students’ two years of work and marks their transition to the public stage in a professional gallery setting. Throughout their time in school, the artists have expanded the possibilities of contemporary practice. The exhibition is a result of their learning and experimentation across media, their exploration of social, political, and cultural issues as well as personal inquiry. San Francisco Art Institute, UC Berkeley and Stanford all have their exhibitions opening in May:

SFAI: May 10- 17

Opening Reception: Friday, May 11, 7-9pm
The exhibition is located at SFAI’s Fort Mason Campus, 2 Marina Blvd, Pier 2

UC Berkeley: May 11- June 17

Opening Reception and artist talk: Friday, May 11, 6pm
The exhibition is located at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street in Berkeley

Stanford: May 15- June 17

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17, 5-7 pm
The exhibition is located at the Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, 419 Lasuen Mall in Stanford

(left) Emily Budd, “Artifictions”. (right) Neil Mendoza, “Pretty Rubbish”. Images courtesy of Recology San Francisco.

May 18 to 19- Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Exhibition: Work by Neil Mendoza and Emily Budd at Recology Art Studio: The exhibition, of current artist-in-residence Neil Mendoza and CCA student artist Emily Budd, will be the culmination of four months of work by the artists who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse of material. Neil Mendoza’s series, Pretty Rubbish brings a variety of common objects to life using scavenged motors, computers, and other e-waste in combination with his own custom-written software. Themes of absurdity, humor, and the surreal are explored in kinetic sculptures and installations that function with a seeming effortlessness that belies the technical skills required for their creation. Emily Budd’s series, Artifictions uses contemporary trash to make objects suggestive of artifacts, gems, or geological forms. Describing her work as “future archaeology,” Budd imagines how our 21st century discards will manifest as a record of our times. Recology Art Studio is located at 401 Tunnel Avenue.

Reception: Friday, May 18, 5 -8pm
Reception: Saturday, May 19, 1- 3pm
Additional viewing hours: Tuesday, May 22, 5- 7pm with gallery walk-through with artists at 6pm

To Do List: February

Jan 30, 2015 In: To Do List Tags: Alec Soth, Arin Rungjang, Benoît Maire, Camille Henrot, Cantor Arts Center, Fraenkel Gallery, Gohar Dashti, Headlands Center for the Arts, Imin Yeh, Kiria Koula, Lonnie van Brummelen, Maria Thereza Alvez, Marshall Elliott, Randy Colosky, Rirkrit Tiravanija, SFAI, Shirin Neshat, Siebren de Haan, Tanya Habjouqa, YBCA By: ArtSource Inc.

Marshall Elliott 'Dust to Dust', Randy Colosky ' and Imin Yeh

Marshall Elliott ‘Dust to Dust’, Randy Colosky ‘Ghost in the Machine’ and Imin Yeh ‘Radiator’.

Ongoing – February 22nd, (Im)Material exhibition at the Headlands Center for the Arts: Guest curated by Kevin B. Chen this exhibit includes 18 artists whose work surveys the slippery line that divides the known/unknown, tangible/intangible and terrestrial/extramundane. Exhibition hours are Sunday – Thursday Noon – 5pm. The Headlands Center for the Arts is located in Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands.

Alec Soth, ‘Miss Model Contestants’, 2012 Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

February 5th – April 4th, Alec Soth: Songbook at Fraenkel Gallery: Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. From 2012 to 2014 Soth traveled the United States looking for signs of social life in our era of virtual social networks. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From upstate New York to Silicon Valley, he attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and family gatherings. In this exhibition of approximately 20 photographs, Soth has stripped the pictures of their news context in order to highlight the longing for connection at their root. There will be a book signing with the artist at the opening reception on Thursday, February 5th from 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street, 4th floor.

Details of work in ‘The Way Things Go’: Top – Arin Rungjang ‘Golden Teardrop’ installation and video still, Center – Maria Thereza Alvez ‘ Wake in Guangzhou: The History of Earth’ and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Bottom – Camille Henrot ‘Living Underwater’ and Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan ‘Monument of Sugar’. Images courtesy of YBCA.

February 13th – May 24th, A Special Curatorial Project with Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Way Things Go, Various public programs: Rirkrit Tiravanija is an international artist whose installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element in his work. For this exhibition, Tiravanija invited 12 artists from Asia and Europe, as well as from the San Francisco Bay Area, to contribute works related to the circulation and anthropology of seeds, plants, food, recipes, and related materials of kitchen culture that have circulated across regions and time. In conjunction with this exhibit, various public programs—including lectures at UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Art Institute, and Headlands Center for the Arts, where Tiravanija is a 2015 Artist in Residence—will accompany the exhibition. Following are the events:

Friday, February 13th: Opening Night Party – The Way Things Go, 8pm at YBCA. Featuring 12 artists working in mixed-media installations, film, video and archive-oriented art. Purchase tickets here.

Friday, February 20th: Artist Lecture – Fear Eats the Soul, 7 pm at SFAI. Tiravanija speaks about his work. Free, rsvp here.

Sunday, February 22nd: Artist Dinner – Local Source, 6:30 pm at Headland Center for the Arts. Share a meal and conversation orchestrated by Tiravanija. Purchase tickets here.

Monday, February 23rd: Artist Lecture – The Way Things Go, 7:30 pm at the David Brower Center, Berkeley. Tiravanija will speak about the principles and ideas that underscore the exhibition. Free, rsvp here.

Benoit Maire's exhibition and bookstore. Images courtesy of Kiria Koula.

Benoît Maire’s exhibition and bookstore. Images courtesy of Kiria Koula.

Ongoing – March 7th, Benoît Maire Exhibition & Bookstore at Kiria Koula: Kiria Koula is a gallery and bookstore located in the Mission District. The gallery exhibition program features new work by national and international emerging and mid-career artists and provides them with a platform for discussions around it. The bookstore program highlights the artist’s role as researcher and thinker, rather than exclusively a producer of objects. French artist Benoît Maire is currently featured in both the exhibition space and the bookstore. His practice revolves around the interaction of objects, images, words and philosophical ideas and how they might co-exist and transform over time. His process is one of collage, montage and assemblage. In 2008 he started writing a manual of aesthetics where images, objects and writing are combined to bring forth some contemporary issues on the subject. Kiria Koula is open Wednesday – Saturday, 11 am – 6pm and is located at 3148 22nd Street.

Gohar Dashti ‘Untitled #5 from the series Today’s Life and War’, Shirin Neshat ‘Roja’, and Tanya Habjouqa ‘Untitled from the series Women of Gaza’. Images courtesy of the Cantor Arts Center.

Ongoing – May 4th, She Who Tells A Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University: Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this exhibition presents the pioneering work of 12 leading women photographers from Iran and the Arab world. These photographers have tackled the very notion of representation with passion and power, questioning tradition and challenging perceptions of Middle Eastern identity. The work provides insights into political and social issues, including questions of personal identity and exploring the complex political and social landscapes of their home regions in images of great sophistication, expressiveness, and beauty. Related programs with this exhibition include:

Thursday, March 5th, 12:15 pm: Gallery Talk – Dr. Attiya Ahmad, Stanford Humanities Center Fellow and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the George Washington University, provides a unique perspective on the exhibition’s photographs through the lenses of gender, feminist studies, and her scholarship on the Middle East. Located in the Pigott Family Gallery

Thursday, March 19th, 5:30 pm: Artist Panel – Three of the artists discuss their work: Boushra Almutawakel (born 1969 in Yemen, resides in Yemen and France); Tanya Habjouqa (born 1975 in Jordan, resides in East Jerusalem); and Rania Matar (born 1964 in Lebanon, resides in the U.S.). Located in the Cantor Auditorium.

Thursday, April 30th, 5:30 pm – Reframe Iran profiles 40 Iranian artists through text, photographs, and immersive video. Located in the Cantor Auditorium.

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