wednesday march 20 - friday march 29, 2013



 
// Congrats to the following CCA students and alum for being awarded Signal Fire Residencies: Abigail Clark (MFA 2013) and Rebecca Najdowski (MFA 2010): Afloat the Breaks Canoe Expedition, Missouri River, Montana; Cara Levine (MFA 2012): Outpost Residency, Mt. Hood, Oregon; Lindsey Lyons (MFA 2013) and Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum): Alpenglow Backpacking Expedition, Mt. Hood

// Kudos to Arash Fayez, Calder Yates, Sadie Harmon, Dit-Cilinn Sundqvist, David Olsson, Margo Wolowiec, Teresa Baker, Ji Eun Chun, Byron Peters, and Rachel Granofsky, finalists for the Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition!


// Anthony Huberman was named new director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

// March 25 - 29 SPRING BREAK!

// DFAS Spring Break hours: M-W 10am-8pm; TH, F 10am-6pm; S 12-5pm; SU 12-6pm



 
// Conrad Ruiz (MFA 2009) has work in the slide show section of the Wall Street Journal article The New High-Tech Patrons

// Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) had his work reviewed  on KQED for "Conversations 6" at SFAC
// The New York Times came up with the title Outside the Citadel, Social Practice Art is Intended to Nurture for their article on Social Practice, with a mention of CCA's program
// Southern Exposure's PARADE auction artwork is now online, featuring work by Zina Al-Shukri, Libby Black, Michelle Blade, Val Britton, Alika Cooper, Torreya Cummings, Linda Geary, Renee Gertler, Matthew Gordon, Julia Goodman, Pablo Guardiola, Angela Hennessy, Todd Hido, Sarah Hotchkiss, Justin Hurty, Jason Kaligiros, Bessma Khalaf, Christina La Sala, Justin Limoges, Nathan Lynch, Ranu Mukherjee, and too many more to list!
// Jack Miller (MFA '07) is the featured visual artist at MadSwirl.com, which has also published his Flash Fiction piece Happy As Is

 
WED 20 // OPENING // NARRATIVE INTER(ACTIONS) SYMPOSIUM Exhibition: "RAY'N-GAH: linked elegance" // 5:30 - 7:30 PM // Oliver Arts Center (OAK)
WED 20 // CCA Photo Dept Lecture // Gregory Halpern // 11 AM // Ralls 202 (OAK)
THU 21 // Lecture // Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series: Mildred Howard // 7:15 PM // Room GC4 (SF)
THU 21 // Infinite Screens talk // "Lost (and Found) in Translation" by Brook Hinton // 7:30 PM // Production Stage (SF)
FRI 22 // Tea Time Lecture Series: Rebecca Solnit // 3 - 4 PM // Room GC4

TUE 26 // Curator Walkthrough // "The Order of Things" with A. Will Brown (CURP alum) // 12:15 PM // Wattis Institute (SF)


WED 20 // Performance // "From Picture to Room" by Chris Fraser (MFA Faculty) // 7 - 9 PM // Kala Art Institute (2990 San Pablo Ave, BERK)
WED 20 // Artist Talk // Indoor Clouds, Google Street View and Dutch Masterworks" concerning "Conversations 6" with Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) // 6 - 7:30 PM // Koret Auditorium, SF Library, Main Branch

FRI 22 // Opening // "Parasitic, Mutualistic, Commensalistic Relationships" solo show by Amber Stucke (MFA alum) // 6 - 8 PM // Extension Gallery, Electric Works (SF)

FRI 22 // Opening // "White Boys" with work by Noah Krell, Jessica Ingram, Bayete Ross Smith (all MFA alums) curated by Hank Willis Thomas (MA/MFA alum) // 5:30 - 7:30 PM // Haveford College (PA)


SAT 23 // On View // "Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) // Smithsonian Portrait Gallery (DC)

SAT 23 // Closing // "Uncharted FormationsSite-Specific Art on Angel Island State Park, with work by Gina Acebo, Julie Feldman, Leora Lutz, Neil Rivas, Robert Gomez (all MFA '13)


SAT 23 // Auction // "PARADE" SOEX Fundraiser Auction 2013 // 6 - 11 PM // 3030 20th St, SF (tix required)
TUE 26 // Conversation + Dinner // Curator Holly Block // 6:30pm // Headlands Center for the Arts (Marin Headlands)
THU 28 // On View // "A Willing Transfer of Belief" with work by Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann (both MFA alums) // Johansson Projects (2300 Telegraph Ave, OAK)
FRI 29 // Opening // "Vision Quest" with work by Neil Rivas (MFA 2013) // 6 - 10 PM // Tempe Museum of Contemporary Art (AZ)


FRI 29 // On View // "In Cloud Country: Abstracting from nature - From John Constable to Rachel Whiteread" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) // Harewood Terrace Gallery (Leeds, England)


(4/1) Headlands Residency applications due in Grad Office before noon
(4/2) Mark Steinmetz Larry Sultan Lecture Series in Timken (SF)
(4/3) Tom Sachs at SFAI (RSVP required)
(4/4) Lecture by Dr. Donald Cosentino in Timken (SF)
(4/5) Jordan Reznick at Newspace Center for Photography 
(4/5) Opening reception for Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann at Johansson Projects
(4/7) CCA OPEN STUDIOS (SF)
(4/10) Jason Hanasik lecture
(4/12) All-College Honors applications due in Grad Office before 4pm
(4/12 - 4/14) Tammy Rae Carland at the Dallas Art Fair
(4/13) Painting Expanded Symposium (RSVP REQUIRED) (SF)
(4/13) Sadie Harmon and Lauren Marie Taylor's PLAySPACE program
(4/17) Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition opening reception (OAK)


"Futures" with work by Sara Dykstra (MFA '13) at Arc Gallery (Through March 23)
"Archipelago" solo show by Klea McKenna (MFA alum) at Smith Andersen North, San Anselmo, CA (through March 23)
"MOP CAP 2013 Shortlist Exhibition" with work by Arash Fayez (MFA '13) at Emirates Financial Towers, DIFC, Dubai, UAE (March 18 through March 23)


"The Order of Things: Cinematic Moments" at The Wattis curated by A. Will Brown (CURP '12), Wattis Institute, SF (through March 30) 
"Silhouette" with work by Natalia Nakazawa (MFA alum) at Blackburn 20|20 - EFA, NYC (through March 30)
"Concentrations" solo show by  Edward (Ted) Setina (MFA '14)  at Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (through March 30)
"By-Product Becomes Product" with work by Julia Goodman, Imin Yeh (both MFA alums), Russell Baldon, Barbara Holmes (both CCA faculty) at Intersection for the Arts, SF (through March 30)
"MFA Selections: A Salute to Bay Area Emerging Artists" with work by Llewelynn Fletcher (MFA alum) and others at diRosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa (through March 31)
"Emperor! Emperor! Emperor!" by Bailey Hikawa (CCA BFA) at Important Projects, OAK (through March 31)
"Space Time!" with work by Pablo Cristi, Sarah Hotchkiss, Julia Goodman, Shipping & Receiving (Torreya Cummings), Benjamin Vilmain, Hillary Wiedemann at the Sacramento Center for Contemporary Art (through March 31)

"Tear it Out" organized by Serena Cole (MFA alum and staff)  with work by many, many of your favorite CCA faculty, staff, alums and current students at Issues, OAK (through April 2)
"Wood Anniversary: Five Years of Signal Fire" with work by Rebecca Najdowski (MFA '10) at Art Gym, OR (through April 3)
"::Mariah Garnett :: Kevin Killian (MFA Writing faculty) :: Frank Smigiel ::" at 2nd Floor Projects, 3740 25th St, #205, SF (through April 3)
"Circles and Lines" solo show by Doron Fishman (MFA alum) at 101 California Street Lobby Exhibition Program, 101 California St, SF (through April 5)
"Wunderkammer: Miniatures and Curiosities" with work by Sune Woods (MFA alum) at Koplin Del Rio (through April 6)
"Weaving and Innovation: Digital Fibers Converse with Neural Networks" solo show by Lia Cook (MFA faculty) at Design Gallery, University of Wisconsin (Through April 6)

"More American Photographs" with work by Katy Grannan (MFA advisor), Stephen Shore, Alec Soth (both MFA Visiting Artists), Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) and others at the Wexner (through April 7)
"Supertwilight" with work by Matthew Kotzin and Calen Barca-Hall (both MFA '14) at Incline Gallery, SF (Through April 12)
"in defiance of being here" solo show by Richard T. Walker (MFA faculty) at Carroll / Fletcher, London, UK (through April 13)
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)
"Happiness is..." with work by Susan O'Malley, Lean Rosenberg, Christine Wong Yap (all MFA alums) at Montalvo Arts Center (through April 14)
"The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World" with work by Squeak Carnwath (MFA '77)  at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (through April14)
"Digital Jacquard: Mythologies" with work by Lia Cook (MFA faculty) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (through April 26)
"whites and linens" solo show by Stephen Beal (CCA President) at George Lawson Gallery, LA (through April 27)
"Early Works" with work by Jordan Reznick (VCS/MFA '13)  at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR (April 5 through April 28)
"The Art of Living Black" with work by John McCoy (MFA '14) at State Building (Through April 30)
"Social Fabric" with work by Bean Gilsdorf (MFA alum), Allison Smith, Stephanie Syjuco (both MFA faculty), and others at Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles (through May 5)
"Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime" solo show David Maisel (MFA alum and faculty) at CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO (through May 11)

"Intimate Immensity" by Val Britton (MFA '06) at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through May 18)

"A Willing Transfer of Belief" with work by Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann (both MFA alum) at Johansson Projects. OAK (through May 18)

"Morphologies" with work by Ana Labastida (MFA '13) // 7 - 10PM // Edo Salon, 601 Haight St, SF (through May)


"Question Bridge"  by Chris Johnson (MFA faculty), Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/VCS '04), Bayeté Ross Smith (MFA '04) and Kamal Sinclair at the Missouri History Museum (through June 16)

"Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) at Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, DC (through February 23, 2014)


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