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
¡Oye, Mira! Reflective Approaches in Contemporary Latin American Video Art
Friday, April 19-June 29, 2013
Walter and McBean Galleries
Invisible Merkin: Discretion and Ostentation
Monday, June 17-22, 2013
Diego Rivera Gallery
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 » Marjorie Vecchio
Friday, June 21, 2013
Lecture Hall
Curator Marjorie Vecchio will discuss her forthcoming book, The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border.
LEARN MORE » Remember
Monday, June 24-29, 2013
Diego Rivera Gallery
"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 » Ron Athey
Friday, June 28, 2013
Lecture Hall
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
Friday, July 19, 2013
Lecture Hall
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
Friday, July 26, 2013
Lecture Hall
Michael Arcega will discuss his interdisciplinary work informed by historic events, material significance, and the format of jokes.
LEARN MORE » Lucy Raven
Friday, August 2, 2013
Lecture Hall
Writer, editor, and artist Lucy Raven will discuss how her work explores the relationship between still photography and the moving image.
LEARN MORE » 27th Annual Art Criticism Conference
Tuesday, August 13-15, 2013
Lecture Hall
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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