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Saturday, 19 July—Sunday, 3 August 2008

An outstanding array of SFAI faculty members and alumni will exhibit work or otherwise participate in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ fifth triennial exhibition of local art, Bay Area Now 5 (BAN 5), which opens Saturday, 19 July, at 8:00pm and runs through 16 November 2008. SFAI faculty contributors include, from the Sculpture department, John Roloff (chair) and Ian McDonald (both of whom will be instrumental in launching SFAI’s new program in ceramics this fall); from the program in History and Theory of Contemporary Art, Jeannene Przyblyski (chair); from the New Genres department and City Studio, Julio César Morales; and from SFAI’s Division of Graduate Studies, Renée Green (dean). For a detailed look at all the exhibitions and programs, please click here.

Green will also be participating this summer and fall in two exhibitions in Europe: Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, taking place in the Trentino-South Tyrol region of Italy from 19 July to 2 November 2008; and Local Worlds: Spaces, Visibilities, and Transcultural Flows, taking place in Lagos, Portugal, through August 2008. For more information on Manifesta 7, please click here. For a description of Green’s project for Local Worlds, please click here.

SFAI School of Interdisciplinary Studies faculty member Henrik Lebuhn’s monograph Stadt in Bewegung: Mikrokonflikte um den öffentlichen Raum in Berlin und Los Angeles (City in Movement: Microconflicts over Public Space in Berlin and Los Angeles)—a comparative case study on the privatization of public space in Berlin and LA—has recently been published (in German). To view the cover and for more details (in German), please click here.

This fall, the School of Interdisciplinary Studies is offering a first-of-its-kind graduate-level seminar—Global Spectacle: Contemporary Art, Event Culture, and Urban Identities—that is open both to SFAI students and to graduate students from other institutions. The course will be led by SFAI Dean of Academic Affairs Okwui Enwezor, who is also the art director of the 7th Gwangju Biennial. For details about the course, please click here or go to www.sfai.edu/courseschedule and download a PDF of the Fall 2008 Course Schedule.

Alumnus Christian Schumann was interviewed in June on MyArtSpace.com. Topics include New Genres department chair Tony Labat and the importance, for art students, of interacting with their peers. To read the interview, please click here.

Currently on view in SFAI’s Walter and McBean Galleries (on the 800 Chestnut Street campus) is We Remember the Sun—a group exhibition that both investigates the myths and legends growing out of the global activist protests of the late 60s and asks whether aspects of the utopian vision of that momentous period have carried over into the present. Among the fifteen Bay Area artists who devise interconnected but individualized responses to this inquest are SFAI faculty members Jill Miller and John Roloff and SFAI alumni Deer Fang and Michael Zheng. On view through 13 September 2008 and curated by SFAI’s assistant curator Mary Ellyn Johnson, We Remember the Sun is part of the New Voices component of SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs (directed by Hou Hanru); New Voices encourages the self-organizational initiatives of younger curators and other activists by providing them spaces and strategies through which to present their projects. For details on the exhibition, please go to www.sfai.edu/current. For a sample of some of the work that appears in We Remember the Sun, please see SFAI’s online gallery here.

Organized by SFAI faculty member J. D. Beltran, the Summer 2008 Visiting Artists Lecture Series is designed to supplement SFAI’s Summer Low-residency MFA Program by giving graduate students exposure and access, on a weekly basis, to artists working in a wide variety of disciplines. Lectures take place, free and open to the public, Saturdays at 3:00pm at the Third Street Graduate Center. The two final lecturers are Gay Outlaw and Chris Sollars (see calendar below). For more information, please click here.

For more information about on-campus SFAI-sponsored events (most of which are free and open to the public), as well as information on local exhibitions that include SFAI faculty, alumni, and current students, see the calendar and the SFAI Artists Now on View in the Bay Area section below.


Saturday 7/19		Lecture: Gay Outlaw - Summer 2008 Visiting Artists Lecture Series - Lecture Hall - 2565 Third Street - 3:00pm - Free and open to the public


Tuesday 7/22		Exhibition: Deep Time, Vast Space (Meredith Tromble Group Show) - Diego Rivera Gallery - 800 Chestnut Street campus - Opening reception: 5:00 to 7:00pm - Artists’ talk: 4:30pm - Free and open to the public - On view from 21 July to 28 July


Saturday 7/26		Lecture: Chris Sollars - Summer 2008 Visiting Artists Lecture Series - Lecture Hall - 2565 Third Street - 3:00pm - Free and open to the public


Saturday 8/2		Exhibition: Dualities (MFA Group Show) - Swell Gallery - Third Street campus - Opening reception: 3:00 to 5:00pm - Free and open to the public - On view from 1 August to 6 August (Image: Shirley Hazlett, Inherited Tendencies, 2008. Acrylic on silk on synthetic paper, 48 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist.)


George Kuchar (and others) at San Jose ICA		SFAI Artists Now on View in the Bay Area Exhibitions that include SFAI faculty, alumni, or current students Eureka! (Group Show) – San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art Bay Area Now 5 (Group Show) – Yerba Buena Center for the Arts John Roloff – Walter and McBean Galleries Jill Miller – Walter and McBean Galleries Kiki: The Proof Is in the Pudding (Group Show) – Ratio 3 Timothy Berry – Palo Alto Art Center Lynn Hershman Leeson – San Jose Museum of Art Charles Hobson – Peterson Gallery (Stanford University) Ana Teresa Fernández – The Luggage Store Jennifer Merrill – Iceberger Gallery Chris Lux – Jancar Jones Gallery Eighteen Months (Group Show) – San Francisco Arts Commisssion Jacqueline Gordon – San Francisco Arts Commisssion Summer Reading (Group Show) – Hosfelt Gallery Insider/Outsider (Group Show) – Root Division Verda Alexander and Paul Kyle – Soap Gallery Ala Ebtekar – Pro Arts Gallery Deer Fang – Walter and McBean Galleries Michael Zheng – Walter and McBean Galleries Peter Max Lawrence and Charlene Tan – Million Fishes Arts Collective Julie McNiel – SFMOMA Artists Gallery David Gremard Romero – Bucheon Gallery Shirley Hazlett – The Grotto (Image: Still from Kuchar's Hold Me While I’m Naked, 1965. Color, sound, 16 mm, 15 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.) SFAI’s exhibitions and public programs—a component of which is the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series—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. The Distinguished Visiting Photography Fellowships are also funded by the Pilara Foundation. Additional funding for the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series has been provided by Bob and Betty Klausner. The Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship was established in 1998 by Richard Diebenkorn’s family. Together with studio space and housing at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the $25,000 fellowship makes it possible for the contemporary artist to whom it is awarded both to teach at SFAI and to pursue studio work of his or her own. The McBean Distinguished Lectureship is endowed by the McBean Family Foundation.