Visitors enjoy the 2011 MFA Graduate Exhibition at the Winery SF on Treasure Island.

Events

Why Don't You Talk to Me (?)
Monday, February 13-24, 2012
Swell Gallery

Why Don’t You Talk to Me (?) is an exploration of the failed communication intrinsic to relationships.

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Any Body Out There
Sunday, February 19-25, 2012
Diego Rivera Gallery

This exhibition consists of three artists who explore the issues of reflexivity in performance-based video involving the female body.

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Linda Connor
Friday, February 24, 2012
Lecture Hall

Linda Connor has had a long and distinguished career in photography and has traveled extensively to produce her work, including to India, Turkey, Peru, Iceland, Southeast Asia, and the Southwest of the United States. Since the late 1960s, she has been teaching in the Photography department at the San Francisco Art Institute, and exhibiting, publishing, and teaching nationally and internationally.

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SFAI Regional Open House - Los Angeles
Saturday, February 25-25, 2012

Prospective undergraduate/graduate students and their families are invited to SFAI's Regional Open House in Los Angeles.

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Vaughan/Hunter: Grey[____]
Monday, February 27-March 9, 2012
Swell Gallery

Vaughan/Hunter: Grey[____] is an immersive experience combining sculpture, video, and sound.

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Terry Zwigoff
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Lecture Hall

Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker best know for his films Crumb (1994) and Ghost World (2001).

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Gavin Butt
Friday, March 2, 2012
Lecture Hall

Gavin Butt is the author of Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World 1948–1963, and editor of After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance

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Ink Age
Sunday, March 4-10, 2012
Diego Rivera Gallery

The three featured artists explore ink as an interesting medium on painting and photography. 

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Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Lecture Hall

For over twenty years, Emmy award-winning directors/producers Dan Geller and Danya Goldfine have jointly created critically-acclaimed multi-character documentary narratives that braid their character’s individual personal stories to form a larger portrait of the human experience.

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Living in Studio Kuchar
Thursday, March 8-April 20, 2012
Walter and McBean Galleries

Living in Studio Kuchar highlights the inimitable genius of late independent film legend and SFAI faculty member George Kuchar.

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SFAI Celebrates the Life and Work of George Kuchar

Coinciding with the opening of the Walter and McBean Galleries' exhibition Living in Studio Kuchar, this program will feature film screenings and other events throughout the SFAI campus. 

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R.H. Quaytman
Lecture Hall

Over the last decade Quaytman’s practice has encompassed various roles, including artist, writer, and curator.

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Jake Fernandez
Friday, March 23, 2012
Lecture Hall

Time, perception, chance, arbitrary selection, and fixed frameworks are fundamental elements in Jake Fernandez’s work in photography, collage, sculpture, film, and painting. 

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Radhika Subramaniam in conversation with Benjamin Grant
Lecture Hall

Radhika Subramaniam is the Director and Chief Curator of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design.

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Jim Isermann
Lecture Hall

Jim Isermann's artistic output chronicles the conflation of post-war industrial design and fine art through popular culture.

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Michelle Handelman
Friday, March 30, 2012
Lecture Hall

Michelle Handelman is a New York artist who makes confrontational works that explore the sublime in its various forms of excess and nothingness.

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Nato Thompson
Lecture Hall

In this talk, curator Nato Thompson pulls from his recently published book, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production (Melville House, 2012), to discuss the work of some of the most interesting artists and activists working today. 

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Wayne Koestenbaum
Lecture Hall

Poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum discusses his latest book, The Anatomy of Harpo Marx (UC Press, 2012), a luxuriant, detailed play-by-play account of Harpo Marx's physical movements as captured on screen. 

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Carroll Ballard
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Lecture Hall

Carroll Ballard’s feature directorial debut was The Black Stallion (1979), an adaptation from the novel of the same name by Walter Farley.

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Bevin Kelley (Blevin Blectum)
Friday, April 20, 2012
Lecture Hall

Bevin Kelley is an electronic music/multimedia composer-performer. She is half of the e-music duo Blectum from Blechdom with Kristin Erickson, and was one quarter of the audio-video band Sagan. She is also a participant in Activating the Medium, an annual showcase for innovative sound artists.

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Thomas Eggerer
Lecture Hall

Thomas Eggerer was born in Munich, Germany and studied painting at the Art Academy in Munich, and was a member of the artists' collective Group Material.

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