wednesday august 15 - thursday august 23, 2012

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 15 - THURSDAY  AUGUST 23, 2012

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

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// Kelly Lynn Jones (MFA alum) of Little Paper Planes has a guest post on the Design for Mankind blog about camping in California

// An article about Neil Rivas (MFA '13) and his superheros-as-immigrants project is up on the ArtInfo website

// A nice profile of Bean Gilsdorf (MFA alum) just popped up on the CCA site today

WED 15 // Screening // "TRAPS" with work by Rob Fatal and Noah Krell (both MFA alums) // ?pm // Space 1026 (1026 Arch Street, Philadelphia)

THU 16 // Conference // "SFAI Annual Art Criticism Conference", keynote speaker Lane Relyea // // 7:30 - 9pm // SFAI (800 Chestnut Street, SF) RSVP

FRI 17 // Event // "FUCK PUTIN LIFESTYLE EVENT" // thrown by overca$h // 9:ish pm // 60 Hamilton Place #Y, Oakland RSVP

SAT 18 // Opening // "dOCUMENTA(13)" with participation by Amy Balkin, Shaun O'Dell (both MFA faculty) and Elizabeth Dorbad, Ann Schnake, Ruth Robbins (all MFA alums) // Kassel, GERMANY

SAT 18 // Opening // "Refuse, Residues and the Useless" solo show by James Coquia (MFA alum) // 8:00pm // Old Crow Tattoo (362 Grand Ave, OAK)

SAT 18 // Opening // "Telling Fortunes" show by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) // San Jose Museum of Art (110 South Market Street, San Jose)

MON 20 // Meeting // "Arts Town Hall 2012" with San Francisco Board of Supes candidates // 5:30 - 7:30pm // Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (700 Howard Street, SF) RSVP

THU 23 - 26 // Performance // Stage Presence Performance Series: "The Visitor Owl" by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) and Kevin Killian (MFA advisor) with by Benjamin Vilmain (MFA /12) // 7:30pm // SFMOMA (151 Third Street, SF) TICKETS

(8/25) Carl Auge (MFA alum) at chashama 461 Gallery in NYC

(8/25) Mark Benson (MFA alum) at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City

(8/25) Carl Auge (MFA alum) opening at 461 Gallery, NYC

(8/28) Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) solo show at San Jose State University

(8/31) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Ballroom Marfa

(9/1) Mark Benson (MFA alum) solo show at Ever Gold  [register for your limited edition flu shot!] 

(9/7) Malak Helmy (MFA alum) in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

(9/7) Sarah Thibault (MFA alum) at Mark Wolfe Contemporary

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

(9/12) CCA Faculty Exhibition (OAK)

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

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

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

(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) Barclay Simpson Award Retrospective Exhibition opening

(10/7) Spectrum 2012 VIP Salon

(10/20) Cara Levine (MFA '12) in ArtSpace, New Haven

(10/21) Spectrum Annual GALA

(11/8) Toyin Odutola (MFA '12) at the Studio Museum in Harlem

A selection of work by students, faculty and alumni currently on view... "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) "Sharp Pop, Dull Break" solo show by Rebekah Goldstein (MFA alum) at The Wall Gallery (through August 29) "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) "I (Heart) Data Mining" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Kadist Foundation (through August 31) 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) "Fuzzy Logic" solo show by Sarrita Hunn (MFA alum) with work by Gareth Spor, Nightmare City (Carol Anne McChrystal + Keturah Cummings) (all MFA alums) at Good Citizen Gallery (through August 18) "Underneath It All: Desire, power, memory and lingerie" with work by Amanda N. Simons (MFA/MA '14) at Textile Center (through August 25) "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) "Believe It" solo work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA alum) at the Savannah College of Art and Design Pinnacle Gallery (through August 24) "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) George Pfau (MFA alum) residency at Royal Nonesuch Gallery (4231 Telegraph, OAK) "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) "Stretch & Expose" with work by Aaron Terry (MFA faculty), Angus Haller, Jonathan Runcio, Mark Taylor, Erin Allen (all MFA alums) at San Francisco City Hall (through August 27) "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)