wednesday july 31 - friday august 2, 2013

 

// CCA's Apple Store is now up on the website!

// Check out (MFA faculty) Jim Goldberg's collaboration with Barry McGee for VICE

// The International Center for Photography has published a limited edition zine of (MFA faculty) Jim Goldberg's photos, for sale HERE

// Alika Cooper (MFA alum) was interviewed in Flash Art International no. 291

// A review of (MFA alum) Dina Danish's current show in Amsterdam was posted recently on ahramonline

// Interesting article about artists moving to Vallejo, featuring Thomas Wojak (MFA faculty)

// Totally can't wait to see "Fruitvale Station." Listen to (MFA faculty) Chris Johnson's radio interview about the film.

// A video by Neil Rivas (MFA alum) was featured in a recent article about police brutality in the Huffington Post

// (MFA alum) Phil Maisel's installation at ATA was reviewed in SFAQ

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THU 1 // Opening Performance // "Double Portrait" by Raphael Noz (MFA alum) //8PM // San Diego Museum of Art (1450 El Prado, San Diego)

THU 1 // Opening // "Sausalito Contemporary Art Festival" Group Show with Andrew Agutos (BFA Alum) and others // Sanyok Gallery (819 Bridgeway, Sausalito)

FRI 2 // Artist Talk // Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) and Apsara DiQuinzio in conversation // 7PM // Berkeley Art Museum (2625 Durant Ave, Berkeley)

FRI 2 // Opening // "Fuck It" with work by Andrea Roberts (MFA '14) and others // 7 - 10PM // Whitdel Arts (1250 Hubbard St, Detroit)

SAT 3 // Opening // "Scouting Oakland" with work by Megan Atherton (MFA '14) and others // 6 - 9PM // Compound Gallery (1167 65th St, OAK)

(8/3) Neil Rivas, Sita Kuratomi Bhamik, Maria Guadalupe, Alex Hernandez, Monique D. Lopez, Bruna Massadas, ManYee Lam at Cultural Alliance of Long Beach

(8/7) Pablo Cristi at the Smithsonian

(8/9) Neil Rivas at Galeria de la Raza

(8/9) Justin Hoover and Chris Treggiari, curated by Nicole Markoff, at 18 Reasons

(8/17, 18) Neil Rivas at Museum of Latin American Art

"Rijswijk Textile Biennale" with work by Lia Cook (MFA faculty) and Anna Von Mertens (MFA alum) at Rijswijk Museum (through October 27)

"Practicing to Pretend" with Kate Bonner, Rebekah Goldstein (both MFA alums) and others, curated by Melissa Dickenson and William Emmert (both MFA alums) at Alter Space (through August 17)

"Sleazy Cheesy Cheap and Easy" solo show by Joshua Reinstein (MFA alum) at the Alter Space Peephole Gallery (through August 17)

"The Farming of Scars and Stains" solo show by Maja Ruznic (MFA alum) at the Smoking Nun Gallery (through August 17)

"American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime" solo show by David Maisel (MFA faculty) at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (through September 1)

Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others at the Museum of Modern Art, städtische museen Freiburg, Germany (through September 8)

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

friday july 19 - friday july 26, 2013

 

// Congrats to Tammy Rae Carland (MFA faculty) and Cybele Lyle (BFA alum), recipients of the 2013 Kala Fellowship Awards! And honorable mentions to Llewellyn Fletcher, Bessma Khalaf, and Hillary Weidemann (all MFA alums)

// Kudos to Liz Moran (MFA/MA '14), SF Camerwork's "Jury's Choice". Wenxin Zhang, Jason Kalogiros, and Klea McKenna (all MFA alums) are "Jury's Selection"s.

// There's a nice feature on Toyin Odutola (MFA alum) up on CCA's site at the moment

// (MFA faculty) Allison Smith's show at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art was reviewed in the New York Times

 

// Not much of anything at all...

ON VIEW // "Practicing to Pretend" with work by Kate Bonner (MFA alum) // Alter Space (1158 Howard St, SF)

ON VIEW // "Summer Group Show" with work by Sara Dykstra (MFA alum) and others // Paul Mahder Gallery (3378 Sacramento St, SF)

ON VIEW // "Breaking Ground" with work by Raymond Saunders (BFA faculty), Maria Porges (MFA faculty) and others // San Jose Museum of Art

ON VIEW // "We Had Nothing To Do And We Did It." with work by Tammy Rae Carland (MFA faculty), Susan O'Malley (MFA alum), and others // Adobe Books (3130 24th St, SF)

ON VIEW // "Labour and Wait" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) and others // Santa Barbara Museum of Art

ON VIEW // "Cover to Cover" with work by Wenxin Zhang, Torin Stephens, Jason Kalogiros, Klea McKenna (all MFA alums), Liz Moran (MFA/MA '14) and others // SF Camerawork (1011 Market St, SF)

FRI 19 // Performance // "Performance/Romance Study #1" with participation from Ali Naschke-Messing (MFA alum) // 8:30PM // Boston ICA (100 Northern Avenue, Boston)

FRI 19 // Opening // "Artists on Artworks series: Photography and the Civil War" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) // Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, NYC)

SAT 20 // Opening // "A Brief History of Nowhere" with work by Mark Taylor (MFA alum) and others // 12:30 - 3PM // NIAD Annex Space (441 23rd St, Richmond)

SAT 20 // Event // "Linear Destruction" with participation from Nicole Markoff (MFA alum) // 12 - 4PM // FLAX (1699 Market St, SF)

SUN 21 // Headlands Open House, with participation from Andrea Bacigalupo, Teresa Baker, Liam Everett, Floris Schonfeld (all MFA alums), Christina Seely (MFA advisor), and others // 12-5PM // Headlands Center for the Arts (944 Simmons Road, Sausalito)

THU 25 // Opening // "Seeing with Closed Eyes" solo show by Jessica Rosen (MFA alum) // 6:30 - 9PM // Ozaneaux Art Space (515 West 20th St, NYC)

FRI 26 // Opening // "An exhibition which comes and goes as it pleases" with work by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor) and others // 7 - 10PM // Et al. (620 Kearny St, SF)

(7/27) SOEX Swim Club meeting with Eric Scollon

(8/1) Raphael Noz at San Diego Museum of Art

(8/1) Mark Taylor at Sebastopol Center for the Arts

(8/2) Zarouhie Abdalian at Berkeley Art Museum

(8/2) Melissa Wyman at Steynberg Gallery

(8/10) Melissa Wyman at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

(8/30 - 9/2) Headlands Deep Craft workshop with Lawrence Labianca and others

friday july 12 - friday july 19, 2013

 

// Slow news week...

 

NADA

ON VIEW // "Electronic Pacific" with work by Guillermo Galindo, Lynn Marie Kirby (both MFA faculty) and others // SOMARTS (934 Brannan St, SF)

ON VIEW // "Question Bridge: Black Males" by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum), Chris Johnson (MFA faculty), Bayete Ross Smith (MFA alum), Kamal Sinclair // Jack Shainman Gallery (513 W 20th St, NYC)

ON VIEW // "Goddess Clap Back: Hip-Hop Feminism in Art" with work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) and others // CUE (137 W 25th St, NYC)

FRI 12 // "Making Places" with work by Linda Fleming (MFA faculty) and Michael Moore // 6:30 - 8PM // CCA Munoz Waxman Galleries (1050 Old Pecos Trail, Sante Fe, NM)

FRI 12 // Opening // "Volcano Watchers" solo show by Klea McKenna (MFA alum) // 7 - 9PM // The Lab (2948 16th St, SF) 

FRI 12 // Opening // "The Big Show" with work by Adair Stephens (MFA alum) and others // 6:30 - 8:30PM // Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX)

SAT 13 // ADOBE BOOKS GRAND OPENING // 7 - 11PM // The New Adobe Books (3130 24th St, SF)

SAT 13 // Performance // "Empathy Corporation" with participation from Piero Passacantando and Forrest Lewinger (both MFA alums) and others // 3 - 6PM // EFA Project Space (323 W 39th St, NYC) 

WED 17 // Opening // "Within and Beyond the Frame" with work by Noah Krell (MFA alum) and others // 8PM // Bar Lubitsch (7702 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA)

THU 18 // Opening // "Video Studio: Long Takes" with work by Simone Bailey (MFA/MA alum) and Janaye Brown // Studio Museum in Harlem (144 W (MFA 125th St, NYC)

THU 18 // Opening // "Where We End and the Ether Beings" with work by Kim Bennett (MFA alum) and Amelia Konow, curated by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor; MFA alum) // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Stephen Wirtz Gallery (49 Geary, SF)

FRI 19 // Performance // "Performance/Romance Study #1" with participation from Ali Naschke-Messing (MFA alum) // 8:30PM // Boston ICA (100 Northern Avenue, Boston)

FRI 19 // Artist talk // SFAI Summer Lecture Series: Leslie Shows // 6:30PM // SFAI (800 Chestnut St)

(7/20) Allison Smith at Haines Gallery

(7/20) Noah Krell at Pioneer Works

(7/22 - 26) performance composition workshop with Mary Armentrout 

(7/25) SOEX Swim Club meeting with Eric Scollon

(7/25) Noah Krell on Stephanie Syjuco's CHATFACE

(7/26) Laurie Reid at Et Al

(7/26) SFAI Summer Lecture Series: Michael Arcega

(7/27) SOEX Swim Club meeting with Eric Scollon

(8/1) Raphael Noz at San Diego Museum of Art

(8/2) Zarouhie Abdalian at Berkeley Art Museum

(8/30 - 9/2) Headlands Deep Craft workshop with Lawrence Labianca and others

wednesday july 3 - friday july 12, 2013

 

// Congrats to Piero Passacantando (MFA alum) on his Flux Factory residency!

// And big congrats to a whole slew of alums at the Headlands: Teresa Baker (MFA '13) on her Tournesol Award, Liam Everett (MFA '12) on his 2013 Artist-In-Residency and 2013-14 Affiliate Artist Residency, Andrea Bacigalupo (MFA '12) on her '13/'14 Affiliate Artist Residency! And Floris Schonfeld (MFA '14) is there as a Graduate Fellow, too

 

ZIP

ON VIEW // "Young Fresh Different 4" with work by Simone Bailey (MFA/MA alum) // CDA Projects (Istiklal Cad. Misir Apt 163, Istanbul)

THU 4 // "POV Realities Revisited Part 3" with work by Arash Fayez (MFA '13) and others // Cropabox (Gent, Belgium)

FRI 5 // Opening // "Navigating the New" with work by Anna Simson, Katie Dorame (both MFA alums) // 6 - 8PM // Pro Arts Gallery (150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, OAK)

SAT 6 // Opening // "Open Fields" by Mark Benson (MFA alum) for Eli Ridgway Gallery Hallway Project // 4 - 7PM // Eli Ridgway Gallery (172 Minna St, SF)

SAT 6 // Opening // "Summer Show" with work by Zachary Royer Scholz (MFA/MA alum), Lindsey White (MFA faculty/alum), Sean McFarland (MFA alum), Chris Duncan (BFA alum) // 4 - 7PM // Eli Ridgway Gallery (172 Minna St, SF)

SAT 6 // Opening // "Clay and Glass Invitational of Contemporary Clay and Glass" with work by Marnia Johnston (MFA alum) // 5 - 7PM // Healdsburg Center for the Arts

SUN 7 // Opening // "Stack" solo show by Phillip Maisel (MFA '13) // 2 - 5PM // Right Window (992 Valenica, SF)

SUN 7 // On View // Klea Mckenna (MFA alum) // Eugean Gallery (116-7 Cheongdam-dong Gangnam-gu, Seoul)

MON 8 // "Intra-action: Multispecies becomings in the Anthropocene" with work by Marnia Johnston (MFA alum) // 6 - 8PM // MOP Projects (2/39 Abercrombie St, Chippendale NSW, Australia)

WED 10 // "Character Profile" with work by Arash Fayez (MFA alum) and others // 7 - 10PM // Root Division (3175 17th St, SF)

THU 11 // Performance // "Free: Two Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Color Visions of Freedom" with work by Anna Martine Whitehead (MFA alum) and others // 7:30PM // African American Arts and Culture Complex (726 Fulston St, SF)

THU 11 // Opening // "One-of-a-Kind" with work by Klea McKenna (MFA alum) and others // 6 - 8PM // Rayko Photo Center (428 Third St, SF)

THU 11 // Opening // "Journey Forth: Contemporary Landscape Between Technology and Tradition" with work by Val Britton (MFA alum), Mary Anne Kluth (BFA alum) and others // 5 - 8PM // Gallery Wendi Norris (161 Jessie St, SF)

FRI 12 // "Making Places" with work by Linda Fleming (MFA faculty) and Michael Moore // 6:30 - 8PM // CCA Munoz Waxman Galleries (1050 Old Pecos Trail, Sante Fe, NM)

FRI 12 // Opening // "Volcano Watchers" solo show by Klea McKenna (MFA alum) // 7 - 9PM // The Lab (2948 16th St, SF) 

FRI 12 // Opening // "The Big Show" with work by Adair Stephens (MFA alum) and others // 6:30 - 8:30PM // Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX)

(7/13) Adobe Books grand opening!

(7/13, 19) Piero Passacantando and Forrest Lewinger at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

(7/18) Simone Bailey at Studio Museum in Harlem

(7/20) Allison Smith at Haines Gallery

(7/22 - 26) performance composition workshop with Mary Armentrout (MORE INFO)

(8/1) Raphael Noz at San Diego Museum of Art

(8/2) Zarouhie Abdalian at Berkeley Art Museum

(8/30 - 9/2) Headlands Deep Craft workshop with Lawrence Labianca and others

"American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime" solo show by David Maisel (MFA faculty) at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (through September 1)

"Four Tet" with work by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor) and others at JiM Contemporani, Barcelona

Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others at the Museum of Modern Art, städtische museen Freiburg, Germany (through September 8)

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