WDNSDY OCTBR 4 - FRDY OCTBR 12, 2012

 

// Please join us in welcoming Jessica Skloven (MFA '08) to her new position as Grad Fine Arts Program Coordinator!

 

// Glen Helfand (MFA faculty) was joined in conversation with Margaret Tedesco (MFA advisor) on KUSF IN EXILE

// Check out these fab photos of "We're All Here Because We're Not All There" currently on view in the Oliver. And here's a pdf of the accompanying catalog for your perusal. Want more? Recollections and reminiscences from past Barclay Simpson winners are collected here.

 

// Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) caught some genuine moments in a recent photoshoot for BloombergBusinessweek

// Photo District News ran a piece on Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) on Jim Goldberg (MFA faculty)

THU 4 // Ceramics Lecture Series // Brad Miller // 7:15pm // Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center (OAK)

THU 4 // Artist talk // Phil Jimenez, presented by MFA in Comics // 7PM // Timken (SF)

FRI 5 // American English Speech Workshop for non-native English Speakers // 10 - 11:30am // GC4 (SF)  RSVP

FRI 5 // Photography Lecture Series // Mikhael Subotzky // 11AM // Ralls 202 (OAK)

FRI 5 - SUN 7 // Society for Photographic Education West Regional Conference (OAK)  MORE INFO 

SUN 7 // Alameda Antiques Market // 11AM - 3PM // pick ups at SF and OAK // RSVP

TUE 9 // Opening // Group exhibition with work by Mario Miron (CCA BFA) and others // Bruce Galleries (SF)

TUE 9 // IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Awards Team Presentations with participation from Jesus Landin-Torrez, Teresa Baker, Floris Schonfeld, Heidi Lubin, Neil Rivas (all MFA '13), Roberto Gomez (MFA/MA '13) // 7PM // Timken Hall (SF)

WED 10 // Photography Lecture Series // Susan Meiselas // 11AM // Ralls Painting Studio (OAK)

WED 10 // Opening // "Knots: Textile Topologies" Textiles Program exhibition // 5:30 - 7:30PM // College Avenue Galleries (OAK)

WED 10 // Notes from the Studio // Matt Borruso (MFA advisor) //  PLAySPACE (SF)

WED 10 // Wattis Small Talks //  Andrew Weiner // 7PM // Wattis Galleries (SF)

THU 11 // National Coming Out Day Mixer // 12 - 1PM // Macky Lawn (OAK)

THU 11 // National Coming Out Day Mixer // 3 - 4PM // Nave (SF)

THU 11 // Grad Lecture Series // Leila Chirayath Janah // 7PM // Timken Hall (SF)

THU 11 // PLAySPACE Committee Meeting (open to all!) // 7:15 - 8PM // Curatorial Practice Room, Hooper 1 (SF)

 

THU 4 // Opening // "Keeping Time" with work by Carol Ladewig, Leah Rosenberg, Ansley West (all MFA alums) and Christina Seely (CCA faculty) // 6 - 8PM // Kala Art Institute (1060 Heinz Ave, Berkeley)

THU 4 // Artist talk // "Precarious Performance" with presenter Jennifer Devere Brody and discussant Shannon Jackson // 4:30 - 6:30PM // Dwinelle Hall 370 (UC Berkeley)

FRI 5 // Screening // "Mommy is Coming" by Cheryl Dunye (MFA faculty) // 11PM // Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (Alamo Drafthouse Ritz)

FRI 5 // ART MURMUR Opening // New ceramic work by Carmen Lang (MFA´13) // 6 - 10PM // Roscoe Ceramic Gallery 473 25TH St, OAK)

FRI 5 // Opening + Artist Talk // Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) // 5 - 8PM Burlington City Arts (135 Church St, VT)

FRI 5 // Opening // "The Desert of the Real Itself" with work by Christine M. Peterson (MFA '12), curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (CURP '12) // 7 - 10PM // MacArthur B. Arthur (4030 MLK Jr. Way, Oakland)

FRI 5 // On View // "Making A Scene" featuring (MFA alum) Torreya Cumming's Strange Familiars (or Non-Daguerreian Anti-Portrait Studio for Local Types), (MFA alum) Bessma Khalaf's Invisible Thief, and (MFA faculty) The Center for Tactical Magic's Bank Heist Contest // MORE INFO

SAT 6 // Opening // "Winds Ground Hollow" solo show by Kathryn Spence (MFA advisor) // "Paintings" solo show by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor) // 4 - 6PM // Stephen Wirtz Gallery (49 Geary, SF)

SAT 6 // Grand Opening // work by Jeanne Finley (MFA faculty), Anthony Discenza (MFA faculty/alum), Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum), Carlos Ramirez (MFA alum) // 11 - 5PM // Palo Alto Arts Center (1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto) 

SAT 6 // Screening // "Looking for Jiro" by Tina Takemoto (MFA faculty) // 9PM // Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, Austin)

SAT 6, SAT 13, SUN 14 // Performance // "I Paint You. You Paint Me." by Piero Passacantando (MFA alum) // 10AM - 6PM // Art in Odd Places (Union Square, NYC)

SAT 6 // ROOF + RENT RAISER // 9PM - !!! // WILL BROWN (3041 24TH ST, SF)

MON 8 // Artist Talk // Mungo Thompson // 7PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut St, SF)

TUE 9 // Glen Helfand's Physical Exhibitions Class Presents // Christian Nagler's "Market Fitness: Economics" // 6PM // Sports Basement (1590 Bryant Street, SF)

TUE 9 // Opening // "Upbraid" solo show by Alika Cooper (MFA alum) // 10PM // Night Gallery (204 S Ave 19, LA)

WED 10 // Salon // Guerrilla Cafe: Together We Can Defeat Capitalism (TWCDC) // 12 - 5PM // Walter and McBean Galleries (SFAI, 800 Chestnut, SF)

FRI 12 // "Creative Time Summit 2012: Confronting Inequity" with participation from Julian Myers (MFA faculty), Renny Pritiken (CURP faculty), Elizabeth Thomas (MFA advisor), Neil Rivas (MFA '13) // 7AM - 4PM // Arts Research Center (201 Dwinelle Annex, UC Berkeley)  MORE INFO

(10/13) Painting Department Workshop "Experimental Watercolor" with Serena Cole (MFA alum)

(10/13) Kristin Neidlinger (MFA DESIGN alum) at FUTUROTEXTILES3

(10/14) EXPLORING THE SEASONAL COLOR+TASTE PALETTE workshop at PERMACOUTURE INSTITUTE

(10/14) PLAySPACE Financial District walking tour

(10/15) Jacques Tati's Playtime at SFAI

(10/16) Henry Witecki (MFA/MA '13) talk at Berkeley Center for New Media

(10/16) Christian Nagler's "Market Fitness: Foreign Exchange" at SFAI Cafe

(10/17) Lisa Lapinksi Satellite Talk

(10/17) Wattis Small Talks: Will Rogan

(10/17) Jayson Musson talk at SFAI

(10/17) Notes from the Studio: Mel Davis in PLAySPACE

(10/18) Hank Willis Thomas (MA/MFA alum) at Jack Shainmain Gallery

(10/19) Cara Levine (MFA Alum) at Make Hang SF

(10/20) Phillip Maisel, killer banshee, Tom Comitta, Ann Schnake, Laura Sackett, Tony Discenza, Travis Meinolf at The Emerald Tablet

(10/20) Nicole Markoff (MFA Alum) at Neon Raspberry Gallery

(10/21) CCA Alumni Surfrider Foundation Beach Cleanup (RSVP)

(10/22) Sue Williams talk at SFAI

 (10/23) Zoe Strauss Larry Sultan Talk 

(10/24) Wattis Small Talks: Zarouhie Abdalian

(10/24) Gabriel Craig Design & Craft Talk

(10/25) David L. Eng Grad Lecture Series Talk 

(10/26) Notes from the Studio: Bryan Keith Thomas (MFA advisor) in PLAySPACE

(10/27) Sune Woods (MFA alum) at Koplin Del Rio

(10/27) Floris Schonfeld (MFA '13) at Objectif (Belgium)

(10/27) Readings by Nicole Markoff (MFA Alum) at Neon Raspberry Gallery

(10/27) Painting Department Workshop "Spontaneous Critique" with Mel Davis

(10/27) Blue Trail Design Jam

(10/29) Michael Robinson talk at SFAI

 (10/30) Ceramics Alumni Potluck 

(10/30) Claire Fontaine and Hal Foster Grad Lecture Series talk 

(10/31) Wattis Small Talks: Glen Helfand (MFA faculty)

(10/31) Notes from the Studio: Serena Cole Halloween Special in PLAySPACE

A selection of work by students, faculty and alumni currently on view... "New York Studio: Contemporary Dialogues Around Painting" with work by Eric Dyer, Jeremy Ehling, Jaimie Healy, Megan Lavelle, Nan Peletz (all MFA'13), and Linda Geary (MFA faculty) at West Gallery, OAK (through October 7)  "We're All Here Because We're Not All There" Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award with work by Anthony Discenza, Josh Greene, Todd Hido, David Huffman, Lawrence LaBianca, Scott Oliver (all MFA faculty/alums), Dina Danish, Bill Durgin, Patricia Esquivias, Harrell Fletcher, Llewellyn Fletcher, Mik Gaspay, Hannah Ireland, Katie Lewis, Travis Joseph Meinolf, Linn Myers, Patricia Olynyk, Conrad Ruiz, Gabrielle Teschner, Hank Willis Thomas and Imin Yeh (all MFA alums) // Oliver Arts Center (OAK) (through October 27)

"Liminalscape Study: SOMArts + Environs" with work by Heidi Lubin (MFA´13) at RAMP Gallery, SOMArts (through Ocotber 15) "Color as Space, as Sense" paintings by Linda Geary (faculty) and Danielle Lawrence, 2nd Floor Projects (through October 31) "When Attitudes Become Forms Become Attitudes" with work by Hank Willis Thomas, Natasha Wheat, Zarouhie Abdalian (all MFA alums) and others at the Wattis Gallery (through December 1) "Temporary Structures" curated by Glen Helfand (MFA faculty) with work by Jonathan Runcio (MFA alum) and others, SFAI (through December 15) "Espirito Alegre" solo show by Yoshimoto Saito (MFA '97) at Goodwin Fine Art, Denver (through October 6) "Blown Out" with work by Bryson Gill (BFA alum) at Mollusk Surf Shop (through October 14) "Piece Offering" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) at Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (through October 5) "Telling Fortunes" by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) at San Jose Museum of Art (through January 1 "MATRIX 243" solo show by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) at Berkeley Art Museum (through October 7) "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) "International Orange" group show with work by Doug Hall, Allison Smith and Stephanie Syjuco (all MFA faculty), Fort Point National Historic Site (through October 28) "David Maisel: History's Shadow" at Keck Center (through October 5) "Coming Up Roses" solo show by Sarah Thibault (MFA alum) at Mark Wolfe Contemporary (through October 27)

  

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