This special exhibition brings together a selection of artists from Latin America who use video as a tool of reflection and contemplation, exploring relationships of identity to site, history, and memory.
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Visitors enjoy the 2011 MFA Graduate Exhibition at the Winery SF on Treasure Island.
Events
Relative to the duality presented in Gustave Courbet's work L'Origine du Monde (The Origin of the World), Invisible Merkin: Discretion and Ostentation presents the flirtation between the literal and coded: figure vs. landscape.
LEARN MORE »Curator Marjorie Vecchio will discuss her forthcoming book, The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border.
LEARN MORE »"Remember" explores what it means to encounter not only historical events but also the imagined narratives, memories, and the haunting of the archive that emerges from personal and political histories. This show is curated by Noemi Szyller and features the work of Andrew Voogel, Irene Carvajal, and Dara Rosenwasser.
LEARN MORE »Artist and writer Ron Athey will discuss his artistic career, which explores challenging subjects like the relationships between desire, sexuality, trauma, and ecstatic experience.
LEARN MORE »Leslie Shows will talk about her layered works that address landscape depiction, scale, and the illusionistic and representational capacities of materials.
LEARN MORE »Michael Arcega will discuss his interdisciplinary work informed by historic events, material significance, and the format of jokes.
LEARN MORE »Writer, editor, and artist Lucy Raven will discuss how her work explores the relationship between still photography and the moving image.
LEARN MORE »SFAI’s Art Criticism Conference introduces participants to the contemporary practice of writing about art in its many poetic and professional functions, while acquainting them with art-historical practice. The 2013 Art Criticism Conference is coordinated by Mark Van Proyen, art critic and Associate Professor in SFAI’s Painting Department.
The conference consists of a week-long seminar for enrolled students, as well as the following free, public events held in the SFAI lecture hall at 800 Chestnut Street.
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