friday august 31 - friday, september 7

FRIDAY AUGUST 31 - FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Here's what MFA faculty, students, alums & friends are up to this week...

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Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards: Fatema Abdoolcarim, Teresa Baker, Dan Battle, Ji Eun Chun. Amber Fawn Keig, Jesus Landin-Torrez III, Yan Yan Mao, David Olsson (all MFA 2013), Liz Moran (MA/MFA 2014)!

More media coverage for (MFA '13) Neil Rivas's "Illegal Super Heroes" series: Latina Magazine, Immigration Compliance Group, Laughing Squid, Nuovo TV, ArtsHub (Australia), Comics Alliance...

TUE 4: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

WED 5 // Opening // "17th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition" with work by Sarah Jones (MFA '14) // 5:30 - 7:30 // West Gallery (OAK)

FRI 7 // OPEN SESSION // Dialogues & Practices incoming student slideshow // 12 - 3 PM // Timken Hall (SF)
FRI 7 // ALL GRAD BBQ // 5:30 - 8:30 // Hooper 3 Courtyard (SF)

FRI 7 // Opening // "Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition" // 6:30 - 9PM // SOMARTS (934 Brannan St, SF)

FRI 31 // Opening // "Carbon 13" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) // 6 - 8pm // Ballroom Marfa (108 East San Antonio St, Marfa, TX)

SAT 1 // Opening // "Get the Flu" solo show by Mark Benson (MFA alum)  // 6 - 10pm // Evergold Gallery (441 O'Farrell St, SF)   [register for your limited edition flu shot!]

SAT 1, 2 // Performance // "The Speed and Eagerness of Meaning (Longer Longing Version) by Richard Walker (MFA faculty) // 3PM // SFMOMA (151 Third St, SF)

FRI 7 // Opening // Malak Helmy (MFA alum) in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

FRI 7 // Opening // "Coming Up Roses" solo show by Sarah Thibault (MFA alum) // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Mark Wolfe Contemporary (1 Sutter St, SF)

FRI 7 // Opening //  "Capoeira: Roots, Myths and Legends" public art installation by Anna Ludwig (MFA '10) // 6:30-9:30PM (artist talk 7PM // Capoeira Mandinga Academy (4137 Piedmont Avenue, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "Phantasmagoria" with work by Rachel Dawson, Amy Keefer (both MFA alums) // 6 - 9PM // Make Hang Gallery (450 Green St, SF)

FRI 7 // Closing // "Residency 3: Amanda Curreri" (MFA alum) // 7 - 10PM // Royal Nonesuch Gallery (4231 Telegraph Ave, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "In Stasis" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum), curated by Jackie Im (CURP alum) // 7 - 10PM // MacArthur B. Arthur (4030 MLK Way, OAK)

(9/8) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Favorite Goods in LA

(9/8) Allison Smith (MFA faculty) at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College

(9/11) Dawoud Bey Talk, Timken (SF)

(9/12) CCA Faculty Exhibition (OAK)

(9/12) Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) at Zero1 Biennial

(9/13) Amber Stuck (MFA alum) at Caine Schulte Contemporary Art

(9/13) Wattis Presents: When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes

(9/14) ADD/DROP DEADLINE

(9/14) Imin Yeh at Zero1 Biennial

(9/14) Serena Cole (MFA alum) solo show at Soo Visual Arts Center

(9/15) Sara Thacher (MFA alum) at Zero1 Biennial (SJ)

(9/15) Headlands Center for the Arts 30th Anniversary in SF

(9/15) Ranu Mukherjee (MFA Faculty) screenings at Zero1Biennial (SJ)

(9/18 - 10/7) VIP Vernissage Art Fair in NYC

(9/19) Painting/Drawing Lecture Series: Andrew Masullo (SF)

(9/19) Design and Craft Lecture Series: Maria Elena Buszek (OAK)

(9/20) Graduate Lecture Series: Matthew E. May (SF)

(9/21) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at CCA Derry in Northern Ireland

(9/23) Sita Bhaumik (MFA/MA alum) workshop at the Women's Building

(9/27 - 28) Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) performance at Blackwood Gallery, Ontario

(9/27) We're All Here Because We're Not All There: Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award opening at the Oliver (OAK)

A selection of work by students, faculty and alumni currently on view... "17th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition" at the West Gallery, OAK (through September 5) "Telling Fortunes" show by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) at San Jose Museum of Art (through January 13)  "Refuse, Residues and the Useless" solo show by James Coquia (MFA alum) at Old Crow Tattoo (through September 9) "dOCUMENTA(13)" with participation by Amy Balkin, Shaun O'Dell (both MFA faculty) and Elizabeth Dorbad, Ann Schnake, Ruth Robbins (all MFA alums) (through September 16) "Rock Paper Scissors" with work by Raphael Noz (MFA alum) at Coagula Curatorial (through September 1) "Strange Fruit" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Five Corners" with work by Evan Ellsworth Jourden, Matt Gordon (both MFA alums) and others at 2nd Floor Projects (through September 12) "I'm So Goth - I am Dead!" curated by Bob Linder and Julio César Morales (both MFA advisors) with work by Andrea Bacigalupo, Bessma Khalaf, Jonathan Runcio (all MFA alums) and Enrique Chagoya, Jason Jagel (both MFA advisors) and Desiree Holman (MFA faculty) at Queen's Nails Annex (through September 15) "Corner of the World" with work by Elizabeth Moran (MFA/MA '14) and Margo Woloweic (MFA '13), curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (CURP alum) at Macarthur B. Arthur (through September 2) "Searose Garden" solo show by Kathleen Clausen (MFA alum) at Ramon's Tailor (through September 15) "dOCUMENTA (13)" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Mueuem Fridericianum (through September 16) Jessica Skloven (MFA alum) solo show "Recent Works" at Z Space (through October 14)  "Beauty" with work by Fatema Abdoolcarim, Leora Lutz, Neil Rivas (all MFA '13), Ann Schnake, Jake Ziemann, Jeanine Scarboro, Johanna Friedman (all MFA '12) and Christopher Nickel (CCA staff) at Berkeley Art Center (through September 9) "Residency Projects" with work by Michele Carlson (MFA faculty) at Kala Institute (through September 15) "MATRIX 243" solo show by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) at Berkeley Art Museum (through October 7) "Movement in Many Parts" with work by Kim Anno, Sanjit Sethi (MFA faculty) Mik Gaspay, Susan Chen (MFA alums), curated by Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum) at the Asian Resource Center Gallery (through September 28) "Rendez-vous 12" with work by Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) at South African National Gallery (through October 14) "At the Edge" with works by Sean McFarland, Jamie Vasta, Anna Von Mertens (all MFA alums) and Jay Nelson (BFA alum) at Berkeley Art Museum (through December 23) "Strange Fruit" solo work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Wall of Sound" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (through September 8) "Salon No 9" with work by Alika Cooper (MFA alum) at MArine Art Salon, LA (through September 15) "Return to Rattlesnake Mountain" with work by Brindalyn Webster (MFA alum) at Maxon Mills (Wassaic, NY) (weekends through September 2) "Chico & Chang" group show with work by Pablo Cristi (MFA alum), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through September 16) "Anomalous Perspectives: The 2011 Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award Exhibition" with work by Sarrita Hunn (MFA alum) at Sheldon Art Galleries (through September 15) "Mind the System, Find the Gap" group show with work by Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty), z33 (through September 30) "International Orange" group show with work by Doug Hall (MFA advisor), Allison Smith and Stephanie Syjuco (both MFA faculty), Fort Point National Historic Site (through September 3) "David Maisel: History's Shadow" at Keck Center (through October 5) Paintings and wall installation by Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) at State Bird Provisions (ongoing)