wednesday january 23 - friday february 1, 2013

 

// Take a look at the Uprise Art blog's Q&A with Nick Meyer (MFA alum)

 

// Kenneth Baker covered exhibitions by two MFA alums, Lindsey White and Taha Belal, in the same blog post

// (MFA alum) Anthony Marcellini's exhibition at the Wilkinson Gallery got a nice mention in Artform's Critic's Picks for London

 

WED 23 // Opening // "Reflection 100" with work by Curtis H. Arima, Marilyn da Silva, Angela Hennessy (all MFA advisors) and others // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Oliver Art Center (OAK)

WED 23 // Opening // Staff Art Exhibition // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Isabelle Percy West Gallery (OAK)

THU 24 // SPRING GRAD SYMPOSIUM // "Narrative (Inter)Actions" faculty roundtable with Kim Anno, Brook Hinton, Andrew Lyndon, Kristian Simsarian, Steve Diller, Cheryl Dunye, Tania Hammidi // 7PM // Timken (SF)

MON 28 // DESIGN + CRAFT LECTURE SERIES // Simon Starling // 7PM // Nahl Hall (OAK)

TUE 29 // INFINITE SCREENS LECTURE SERIES // "Orphan Morphin'" by Craig Baldwin // 7:30PM // Wattis Galleries (360 Kansas, SF)

WED 30 // Open Critique // With guests Leigh Markopoulos, Josh Faught (both MFA faculty) and Claudia Altman-Seigel // 6 - 8PM // Drawing Room (SF)

ON VIEW // 2013 MexiCali Biennial, including work by Natalia Anciso, Frederick Alvarado (both MFA alums) // Vincent Price Art Museum (1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, CA)
 
ON VIEW // "Continuations: Processing War and Trauma" with work by Natalia Anciso, Bessma Khalaf, Wafaa Yasin (all MFA alums) // Asian Resource Gallery (310 8th St, OAK)

FRI 25 // Artist Talk // Sean McFarland (MFA alum) with James Henkel // 7:30PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut, SF)

FRI 25, SAT 26 // Opening // "Rag Sorters and Star Gazers" by Julia Goodman (MFA alum) // FRI 5-9PM, SAT 1-3PM // San Francisco Dump (503 Tunnel Ave, SF) 

FRI 25 // Opening // "Even a Perfect Crime Leaves a Trace" solo show by Anthony Marcellini (MFA alum) // 6 - 9PM // Goteborgs Konsthall (Gotaplatsen, SE-412 56, Goteborg)

FRI 25 // Artist Talk // "Allegories and Metaphors" by Paul Kos // 4:30PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut St, SF)

FRI 25 // Opening // "Happiness is..." with work by Susan O'Malley, Lean Rosenberg, Christine Wong Yap (all MFA alums) // 7 - 9:30PM // Montalvo Arts Center (15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga)

FRI 25 // Opening // "Other People's Property" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Fritzgerald Gallery, Haverford College)

SAT 26 // Opening // "MAS ATTACK" with work by Rema Ghuloum (MFA alum) and others // 6 - 11PM // LA Mart (1933 S Broadway, Los Angeles)

TUE 29 // Panel Discussion // Julia Goodman (MFA alum) // 7PM // San Francisco Dump (401 Tunnel Avenue, SF)

WED 30 // Performance // "Jean Genet in the Aunque" by Amanda Curreri (MFA alum) // 7PM // Romer Young Gallery (1240 22nd St, SF)

THU 31 // Opening // "That's what I figure" with work by Elisheva Biernoff (MFA alum) and others // 5 - 7PM // Kondos Gallery (3835 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento)

FRI 1 // Opening // "The Death of Rave" with work by Orphan Drift (MFA faculty Ranu Mukherjee) // noon - 8PM // Kunstquartier Studio (1 Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin)

FRI 1 // Opening // "And the Crowd Had Rushed Together, Trying to Keep Warm" solo show by Alicia Escott (MFA alum) // 6 - 9PM // interface gallery (486 49th St, OAK)

FRI 1 // Lecture // "Racing to Catch Up" by Dan Cameron // 4:30PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut St, SF)

(2/2 Sara Dykstra at Arc Gallery

(2/2) Post Production workshop (SF)

(2/2) Elisheva Biernoff at Eli Ridgway

(2/6) Julia Goodman, Scott Oliver, Imin Yeh, Russell Baldon, Barbara Holmes at Intersection 

(2/6) Leslie Shows talk (SF)

(2/6) Jemima Wyman talk

(2/7) Carol Koffel, Erik Scollon talk in Treadwell (OAK)

(2/9) Cinematography workshop (SF)

(2/11) Julia Goodman at Z-Space

(2/12) Brook Hinton talk at Wattis (SF)

(2/13) Elisheva Biernoff talk

(2/15-22) Susanne Cockrell's Field & Kitchen Workshop

(2/15) Jason Hanasik at SF Arts Commission Gallery

(2/16) Serena Cole's magazine show at Issues

(2/18) Jamaica Kincaid lecture (see Classifieds for free tix)

(2/18 - 3/8) Second Year Final Reviews

(2/20) Brett Reichman talk

(2/20) Desiree Holman talk

(2/21) Narrative (Inter)actions: DJ Spooky (SF)

(2/27) Jordan Kantor talk

(2/27) Shih-Chieh Huang talk

(2/28) Narrative (Inter)actions: Juvenal Acosta

(3/1) Barclay Simpson Award applications due

(3/8) MFA Thesis website content due

"Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture" with work by Jordan Kantor (MFA faculty) and others at Salina Art Center, Kansas

"Painting Between the Lines" with work by Jordan Kantor (MFA faculty) and others at Williams College Museum of Art (through June 9)

"Irrational Exuberance (Asst. Colors)" solo show by Christine Wong Yap (MFA alum) at Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK (through February 16)
 

"Matter of Fact" solo show by Lindsey White (MFA alum) at Eli Ridgway (through January 26)

"Obsolete Californians" with work by Justin Limoges (WATTIS), Maria Porges (MFA faculty), Christine Wong Yap (MFA alum), Neil Rivas (MFA '13) at Shipping & Receiving Storefront Lab

Jordan Kantor (MFA faculty) solo show at Ratio 3

"The Aunque" solo show by Amanda Curreri (MFA alum) at Romer Young Gallery 

"In the Event of My Death" with work by Elizabeth Dorbad (MFA alum), Justin Limoges (WATTIS), and others at Unspeakable Projects

"The Bensons: A Show of Art by Two Bensons" with work by Mark Benson (MFA alum) at Royal Nonesuch Gallery

"Uncharted Formations: Site-Specific Art on Angel Island" with work by Gina Acebo, Julie Feldman, Leora Lutz, Neil Rivas, Robert Gomez (all MFA '13) and others at Angel Island State Park (through January 26)
"The Aunque" solo show by Amanda Curreri (MFA alum) at Romer Young Gallery (through February 16)

"BACON WONDERS" with work by Ann Schnake (MFA Alum) at Sacred Wheel (through February 1)

 "Pointless Show" with work by Arash Fayez and Christie Noh (both MFA ´13) at Kearny Street Workshop Office Space Gallery (through February)

"Les référents" with work by Anthony Marcellini (MFA Alum) Galerie Édouard-Manet (through January 26)

Interview(s)" collaboration between Herman Chong and Anthony Marcellini (MFA alum) (through January 27)

"Fore" with work by Toyin Odutola (MFA '12)  at Studio Museum Harlem (through March 10)

"The Continental Interior" solo show by Val Britton (MFA '06)  at San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries (through January 26)

"Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art" group show with work by Kristina Podesva (MFA faculty) and others (through February 2013)

"Fore" with work by Toyin Odutola (MFA '12) and others at Studio Museum Harlem (through March 10)

 Jeanne Finley (MFA faculty), Anthony Discenza (MFA faculty/alum), Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum), Carlos Ramirez (MFA alum) at Palo Alto Arts Center (through April 14)