SFAI / INFORM November 17, 2007 - San Francisco Art Institute

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Saturday, 17 November—Sunday, 2 December 2007

On Thursday, 29 November, at the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City, alumnus Ben Wood’s animated video Las paredes oyen (The Walls Have Ears), which details the destruction, in 1933, of Diego Rivera’s Rockefeller Center mural, Man at the Crossroads, will be screened as part of an exhibition—Gráfico/Hipergráfico—in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Rivera’s death (the exhibition is on view through 24 February 2008). The project is based on a parallel work Wood devised in 2002 for the Rivera mural on SFAI’s 800 Chestnut Street campus, The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City. Wood’s project is one of a number of upcoming or continuing collaborations between the SFAI community and a variety of arts-education institutions across Mexico.

On Sunday, 18 November, the national premiere of PBS’s “Paradox,” part of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-first Century series, will feature Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (in the Bay Area, the program will premiere on KQED on Wednesday, 21 November at 11:00pm on channel 9). Allora & Calzadilla are likely to discuss, among other things, the trilogy of site-specific sound-focused installations that Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech) consummates. On view—free and open to the public—through Saturday, 15 December in the Walter and McBean Galleries (on the 800 Chestnut Street campus) and curated by Hou Hanru, the exhibition is also currently a Critic’s Pick on Artforum.com.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced in October that SFAI would be among a select group of college and university art museums across the US chosen to receive, for their permanent collections, approximately 100 original Warhol Polaroid photographs and 50 gelatin silver prints. To read the full story, click here.

Congratulations to alumnus Jim Goldberg for being awarded the 2007 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award for his project The New Europeans. The award carries a cash stipend of €30,000 (approximately $42,500). Congratulations are also in order to Michael Arcega, Colter Jacobsen, and Jenifer Wofford for giving SFAI a clean sweep of the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s 2007 Visual Art Goldies. Together with alumni Adriane Colburn, Kota Ezawa, Leslie Shows, and faculty member Amy Ellingson, Wofford was also chosen to receive a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. The awards are for the 2008–2010 cycle and carry a stipend of $25,000.

SFAI’s Seventh Annual Winter Art Sale, sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and InSight, will be held on Saturday, 8 December from 10:00am to 1:00pm on the 800 Chestnut Street campus. The sale presents an opportunity for currently enrolled degree-seeking students at SFAI to show and sell their work to the public. Proceeds support the education of SFAI artists. For specifics, click here.

See the calendar below for on-campus events (most of which are open to the public)—in particular, talks in both the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lectures Series and the Graduate Lecture Series, Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking & Action.

Upcoming in early December:

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Choi Jeong-Hwa


Monday 11/19		Julie Mehretu - Fall 2007 Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture - Lecture Hall - 800 Chestnut Street campus - 7:30pm - Free and open to the public (Image: Mehretu, Diffraction, 2005. Color sugar-lift auatint with aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, and hard-ground etching on gampi paper chine colle, 35.5 x 46.75 in. Edition 35. Courtesy of Crown Point Press, San Francisco.)


Tuesday 11/20		Robyn Engel, Adam Friedman, Mai Ryuno - Diego Rivera Gallery - 800 Chestnut Street campus - Opening reception: 5:00 to 7:30pm - Artists' talk: 4:30pm - Free and open to the public - On view from 19 November to 24 November (Image: Engel, Interference, 2007. Paper, photographs, acrylic, and masking tape, 38 x 46 in.)


Also on Tuesday 11/20		Film Salon - Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit—Redupers by Helke Sander - Lecture Hall - 800 Chestnut Street campus - 7:30pm - Free and open to the public (Image: Still from Sander's Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit—Redupers, 1977.)


Tuesday 11/27		Naciem Nikkhah (Group Show) - Diego Rivera Gallery - 800 Chestnut Street campus - Opening reception: 5:00 to 7:30pm - Artists' talk: 4:30pm - Free and open to the public - On view from 26 November to 1 December


Also on Tuesday 11/27		Film Salon - Messages by Guy Sherwin and Anything Else and/or Nothing At All by Steven Roden - Lecture Hall - 800 Chestnut Street campus - 7:30pm - Free and open to the public (Image: Still from Roden's Anything Else and/or Nothing At All, 2006.)


Friday 11/30		Florian Hecker and Chris Watson - Acoustic Landscapes and Noise - Spheres of Interest Lecture - Lecture Hall - 800 Chestnut Street campus - 5:00pm - Free and open to the public


Internal Exile (Group Show) at SomArts Gallery		SFAI Artists Now on View in the Bay Area Exhibitions that include SFAI faculty, alumni, or current students Internal Exile (Group Show) – SomArts Gallery Jill Miller – 2nd Floor Projects Tony Labat – Gallery Paule Anglim and Queen’s Nails Annex Lisa Blatt and Nina Zurier – House of Hengst Michael Arcega – de Young Holiday Group Show – Evolving Art Gallery Grounded? (Group Show) – Southern Exposure The Camo Show (Group Show) – San Marco Gallery Rex Ray – Gallery 16 Anniversary/Benefit (Group Show) – Park Life Priyanka Gupta – Market Street Gallery Haden Nicholl – Little Tree Gallery Kira Inglis – Michael Rosenthal Contemporary Arts Glenn Hirsh and Pamela Lanza – SomArts Julio César Morales – John Berggruen Gallery Jo-ey Tang – Front Gallery Chris Komater – Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art Michael Arcega and Ala Ebtekar – Berkeley Art Museum (Image: America Meredith, Squawkies, 2007. Acrylic, gel medium, and security stickers on masonite, 14 x 11 in.) SFAI’s public programs are supported in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and the Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund. The Distinguished Visiting Painting Fellowships are also funded by the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation. Additional funding is provided by InSight. Through educational activities, community outreach, volunteer opportunities, and social programming, InSight’s mission is to advance the visibility and promote the success of SFAI within the Bay Area community and beyond. Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech) is sponsored by the Franco Soffiantino Gallery in Turin, Italy, and is presented in collaboration with the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and the Moore Space in Miami. It is also presented concurrently with the exhibition Apocalypse Now: The Theater of War, co-curated by Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla, and Jens Hoffmann at CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco, on view from 30 November 2007 to 26 January 2008.