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27/08/2023

Interdisciplinary social practice artists Sean Fader and Maureen Towey have unveiled the design for 'Q***r American Memorials,' a nationwide project which aims to unearth erased q***r histories and reclaim q***r spaces lost to hate. Inspired by the Stumbling Stones in Germany and the Stonewall riots, it is an evolution of Fader’s 'Insufficient Memory'—an interactive Google Earth map which allows you to engage with a digital memorial to LGBTQ+ lives. In 2018, Fader began combing through historical archives to compile a database of every LGBTQ+ person who was murdered in a hate crime in the United States while the Hate Crimes Prevention Act was being debated from 1999 to 2000. The artists have spent the past year working in partnership with MASS Design Group’s the Public Memory and Memorials Lab to develop physical memorials to mark these locations. They now will be working with local communities and organizations to create a constellation of memorials in cities across the U.S..

06/10/2022

SIGN UP NOW for the
"On the Horizon: Bucket Brigade"
Sunday, October 9 at 11:30am
San Francisco's Mission St. from the Embarcadero to 3rd St.

Join us in San Francisco this Sunday, October 9 at 11:30am in San Francisco as we carry ocean water from the Embarcadero waterfront to Mission St. in the historic SF tradition of bucket brigades as part of Ana Teresa Fernández’ "On the Horizon." This participatory art activation connects local communities to the sea and moves them to an empathic and proactive approach to address rising sea levels.

"On The Horizon" will be at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for The New York Times York Times event, ‘A New Climate: Can Technology and Art Inspire Change in a Warming World?’

We must all carry the water.

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Join us as we carry ocean water from the Embarcadero waterfront to Mission St. in the historic SF tradition of bucket brigades.

30/06/2022

'The Devil Finds Work,' a solo exhibition of new work by multimedia artist Rodney Ewing—who was recently awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant—opens at Minnesota Street Project in San Francisco, Saturday, July 9 with a reception from 3-5pm at Rena Bransten Gallery, where he is now represented.

Through installations, sculpture, and works on paper, Ewing presents stories of survival of the Black body in America, and examines the continued struggle for autonomy over physical, mental, and spiritual safety in the face of racially motivated violence.

Read more here: https://mailchi.mp/akart/rodney-ewing-mapping-the-sublime-at-the-brand-opens-april-2-this-tender-fragile-thing-at-jack-shainman-gallery-the-school-through-april-665635?e=e28caa14ed

27/04/2022

Opening this Thursday in NYC, 'Gloria Kisch: As Above, So Is Below' at Salon 94 at 1 Freeman Alley, with a reception from 6-8pm.

"Salon 94 Design presents functional sculpture, totemic mobiles/bells and floral wall works by the late Gloria Kisch (b. 1941 – d. 2014). Over a prolific career spanning five decades in three artworld hotbeds—Venice, CA, SoHo and The Hamptons, NY—Kisch developed a delightful yet rigorous body of work encompassing early minimalist paintings on canvas, large scale public art installations, and later floral sculptures, mobiles and furniture works – for which she is mostly known.

Born 1941 in New York City to German immigrants, Kisch earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence and later married and had two children. In the early 1960s, Kisch uprooted her family to enroll at Otis Art Institute where she studied alongside Bas Jan Ader and Barry Le Va. Kisch joined an intimate circle of feminist and post-minimalist artists living and working in Venice Beach, CA. In 1973 she participated in the inaugural exhibition at Womanspace, Judy Chicago’s cooperative-run feminist gallery, which later became the Women’s Building. Kisch’s career blossomed with landmark exhibitions alongside Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Kenneth Price and Richard Diebenkorn, impressive solo presentations in museums, and large public art commissions when she transitioned from painting to sculpture...."
..read more here: https://mailchi.mp/salon94/gloria-kisch-asabove-soisbelow...

26/04/2022

Curated by the brilliant Candace Huey of Re.riddle, this Saturday, April 30 from 3-10pm, Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative (CMAC)'s inaugural event Neon Was Never Brighter: A Glimpse Into the Future' will be held throughout San Francisco's Chinatown. To kick-off APA Heritage Month, this free, multi-sensorial outdoor experience will showcase art activations created from diverse media such as performance, sculpture, interactive sound, site-specific installation, film, music, fashion, augmented reality, scent and dance. The festival happily coincides with the popular NoodleFest, with 29 participating merchants from North Beach and Chinatown lining Grant Ave. and Vallejo St—making it a full day of food, music and art.

Visit on Instagram or the Neon Was Never Brighter website for complete details.

NEON WAS NEVER BRIGHTER:A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE 霓虹閃爍愛華埠: 展望未来 Chinatown Media & Arts Collaborative (CMAC) is proud to present its inaugural event, Neon Was Never Brighter: A Glimpse Into the Future, the first ever contemporary art festival in San Francisco’s Chinatown. To k...

07/01/2022

Rodney Ewing's site-specific wall installation 'Extinguishing Sweetness as a Threat (Elijah McClain),' will be on view at Jack Shainman Gallery: The School in 'This Tender, Fragile Thing,' opening January 15 (11am-6pm) and running through April 30, 2022.

Black Panther memorabilia from the gallery's collection will serve as touchstones throughout the presentation of works by Ewing and other notable artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Hank Willis Thomas, Kwame Brathwaite, Gordon Parks, Kerry James Marshall, Theaster Gates, Barkley L. Hendricks, Nick Cave, Radcliffe Bailey and Nina Chanel Abney among others, to open up dialogue between the cultural movements of the 1960s and contemporary artists carrying forward that spirit today.

Jack Shainman Gallery
The School
25 Broad Street
Kinderhook, NY 12106

Open Saturdays 11am-6pm or by appointment: 518.758.1628

Rodney Ewing Art Installation at Jack Shainman Gallery Location The School. January 2022.

17/11/2021

RODNEY EWING NEWS // Group Shows Opening This Friday at NARS Foundation NY + 3.9 Collective at San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries // Fountainhead Arts Miami // San Francisco Arts Commission + Demil Art Fund Grants

MORE HERE: https://mailchi.mp/71cbff5b515f/rodney-ewing-group-shows-opening-this-friday-nars-ny-39-collective-at-sfac-galleries-fountainhead-residency-miami-sfac-demil-grants-665333?e=e28caa14ed

29/07/2021

Artist opportunities and upcoming deadlines in August + September... compiled by the amazing Creative Capital.

Every month, Creative Capital compiles a list of residencies, grant, and award opportunities as part of our commitment to sharing resources and opportunities for artists working in all creative disciplines. These opportunities have deadlines in June and July, 2021.

24/07/2021

Afrofuturist installation artist Nyame O. Brown's large-scale blackboard painting 'What's Your Black?' will be featured in 'Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism' at the Oakland Museum of California, opening August 7, 2021 and on view through February 27, 2022.

Brown—working in the media of painting, drawing, cut paper, blackboards, augmented reality, gaming, and fashion—addresses the Black imagination as a site for new ways to perceive the Diaspora as trans-Atlantic, psychic, and imagined—not just through unity and similarity, but by looking at the dynamics of difference. His blackboard paintings, envisioned as tools to combat racial oppression, use a cultural production of the Black community to offer a space to create a new Black mythology. Building narratives like scaffolding around art historical references, hip hop, and personal history, he draws on these precedents as a fluid source of reference, rather than a fixed and linear projection. He challenges traditional representation and subverts it for a richer surreal language found in folklore and African American hyperbole. His depictions provide different ways to access African American culture through an approach that seeks social transformation and community revolution.

The exhibition explores Afrofuturism as a strategy that imagines the world through a Black cultural lens and strives for a more just present and future. Curated by OMCA Curator Rhonda Pagnozzi and Consulting Curator Essence Harden, the exhibition celebrates Black imagination and includes the work of over 50 artists—including Wangechi Mutu, David Huffman, and Chelle Barbour, among others—historians, musicians, and collaborators. The show highlights the key role that the fantasy and science fiction of Afrofuturism has, as a strategy for Black community building by envisioning the African Diaspora and Black culture as central in a technically-advanced and culturally rich civilization.

LOCATION + HOURS
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street, at 10th Street
Oakland, CA 94607
Friday through Sunday 11am-5pm; Tickets available here.

MORE INFO: https://mailchi.mp/akart/apharvwdnq-665161?e=f576f8ccd5@

28/05/2021

Honored to have been part of this conversation organized by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco with the brilliant Bettina Oberli and Jale Yoldas.

09/03/2021

BBC News visits with Bahar Behbahani at her studio in NY.

Behbahani, an Iranian artist living in New York, began her artistic career with painting, and later turned to video, and multi-media work. Her recent series contain aerial images of the earth, traditional drawings, and maps of Iranian gardens. Elements of Iranian architecture play a central role in his designs and even urban sculptures.

Behbahani shares: "I see the garden as a place of resistance, and the plant as a parallel way of living. In 2012, I began a series entitled 'Persian Gardens' that drew upon my personal history to present a collective history of Iran. Reinvigorating Persian gardens has become an intellectual quest as I have searched through a complex historical maze to understand the pragmatic and spiritual significance of these gardens.

Over the past several years, I have composed numerous projects with the Persian garden as a figurative and metaphoric template for the examination of personal, social, cultural, and environmental issues. A transplanted artist, I am finding much to discover in the social history of plants, the connection of body memory to climate exile, and the politics of water rights."

بهار بهبهانی، هنرمند ایرانی ساکن نیویورک، کار هنری را با نقاشی شروع کرد و در ادامه به خلق چیدمان، ویدیو‌آرت و فیلم رو آورد. نقاشی‌های بهبهانی اغلب تصویرهایی ...

06/03/2021

Opening TOMORROW, Rodney Ewing's 'Broken Shadows' is on view at the SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 'Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis' through the Fall of 2021.

Ewing's ongoing series began during San Francisco’s 2020 mandatory shelter-in-place order, and broadly references the positives and negatives of the silkscreens he uses to create much of his work. The impetus of the project was to keep busy.

Ewing describes, "I told myself that I would create a new work every one and a half days to stabilize my art practice during quarantine. Eventually, Broken Shadows evolved into a project that allowed me to reuse my large archive of silkscreens to continue the conversations about diaspora, place, and identity—ideas that are central in my practice. The central challenge in this project is using my older work to create images that speak to the immediacy of 2020's racially fraught atmosphere. The re-use of material mirrors the cyclical nature of history; the resulting works are one-of-a-kind images that layer the past with the present to remind us of their inextricable link."

READ MORE: https://mailchi.mp/ece98a504fcb/apharvwdnq-664945?e=e28caa14ed

02/03/2021

CALL FOR ARTISTS: March 1 – May 31, 2021

The Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) has launched a new artist opportunity with 'Call & Response: Craft as a Tool for Activism, a nationwide juried exhibition and artist marketplace.

The winning piece will receive a grand prize of $1,000, the runner-up will receive $500, and the third place will receive $250. Online Exhibition Opens: July 30, 2021

Online Exhibition Opens: July 30, 2021 Artist Call for Entry: March 1–May 31, 2021 The Museum of Craft and Design (MCD) has launched a new artist opportunity with Call & Response: Craft as a Tool for Activism, a nationwide juried exhibition and artist marketplace. Working alongside the Museum of C...