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CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY HAPPENS HERE. This fall, artists and curators from around the world animate art history and lead adventures into new territories of contemporary art—from an underwater studio to the far edges of exhibitionmaking. SFAI’s exhibitions and public programs provide direct access to artists and practices that advance our culture. We welcome you to join these conversations. SFAI’s programming is always moving forward. Join the mailing list to receive monthly updates about lectures, special events, and exhibitions: SFAI.EDU/EVENTMAIL
SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs are made possible by the generosity of donors and sponsors. Major support is provided by Grants for the Arts. Program support is provided by the Harker Fund of The San Francisco Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The Phoebe Snow Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, Kadist Art Foundation, The Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Fort Point Beer Company, Gregory Goode Photography, Meyer Sound, The Lucas Family Foundation, and Thomas J. Fogarty, MD. Ongoing support is provided by the McBean Distinguished Lecture and Residency Fund, The Buck Fund, and the Visiting Artists Fund of the SFAI Endowment.
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WALTER AND McBEAN GALLERIES FREE & OPEN TO ALL Gallery Hours Tuesday 11 am – 7 pm
Diego Rivera Gallery Every Day 9 am – 7 pm
Wednesday – Saturday 11 am – 6 pm
The Walter and McBean Galleries, established in 1969, present exhibitions at the forefront of contemporary art practice. The gallery serves as a laboratory for innovative and adventurous projects and commissions new work from emerging and established artists. Both galleries open late on lecture nights.
ALEJANDRO ALMANZA PEREDA: Everything but the kitchen sank Walter and McBean Galleries Through October 3
Diego Rivera Gallery Through December 12
Apples sink, yet the pear floats. Unmoored by gravity, and saturated with life, a deck of cards performs an impossible coup, ascending beyond the frame. Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s underwater still lifes are governed by a singular, uncanny logic—they exceed human vanity to achieve a buoyant life for objects.
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Almanza’s exhibition in the Walter and McBean Galleries comprises two parts—both above and below the water. In July and August, the gallery functioned as an active studio, and water tank, for experimentation and the production of new work. In September, and for the duration of the exhibition, the resulting photographs and video will be presented. Meanwhile, in SFAI’s Diego Rivera Gallery, we have been looking at Diego Rivera’s ass for 84 years. Of course, this was the artist’s intention. Rivera’s iconic work The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931) offers an epic image of the (re)construction of San Francisco, depicting laborers and fresco painters alongside the patron, and, on the scaffold, and closest to our eye—the artist’s high-waisted rear.
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For Almanza, Rivera is a catalyst for the ongoing instrumentalization of Latin American identity and artistic practice. The curious history of Rivera’s SFAI fresco and its magnetism for tourists has long spurred interventions by artists. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, it was curtained off, and a provisional wall was constructed to obscure—it’s not known exactly what—yet it was perhaps a moment in which the tyrannies of McCarthyism and Abstract Expressionism entwined. From Almanza’s perspective, if Rivera is a limiting screen through which we understand Latin American art, this is an opportunity to add a new screen. Almanza’s scaffold of fluorescent fixtures, Change the world or go home, doubles the structure of the fresco, shifts Rivera to the middle ground, and troubles the light sensor of the tourist’s camera. Beyond this light frame, another narrative of historical imbalance, artistic legacy, and the imperious Rivera achieves focus. Everything but the kitchen sank is organized by San Francisco Art Institute and curated by Hesse McGraw, vice president for exhibitions and public programs. Almanza is the 2015 recipient of The Harker Award for Interdisciplinary Studies, which supports artists in residence at San Francisco Art Institute. The Harker Award was established through a generous bequest by artist and SFAI faculty member Ann Chamberlain and is administered by the San Francisco Foundation. The works for Everything but the kitchen sank were produced while in residence at SFAI.
About the Artist Alejandro Almanza Pereda lives and works in Mexico City. He produces sculptures, photos, videos, public projects, and installations that highlight our emotional relationships with objects through works that appear unstable, immaterial, or on the cusp of disaster. Event Reception Friday, September 11, 7 – 9 pm Walter and McBean Galleries + Diego Rivera Gallery sfai.edu/alejandroalmanza
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LESLIE SHOWS Emanuel Walter Gallery November 7 – December 12, 2015
Leslie Shows (BFA, 1999) recently spoke of a desire to “make work that is so secret from myself that I would be seduced into making it.” In a series of sculptural paintings commissioned for this exhibition, Shows’ striking materials—engraved aluminum, synthetic rubber, cut Plexiglas, silk, and digitally printed sand—appear as just-formed thoughts. Shows’ new works further dissolve previous imagery akin to abstractions of pyrite, or glaciers, to crawl out of, and back into, the landscape. Her works vary in scale, from picture-sized to roomscale installations, and shiver in light. They evoke the unknown, and are particularly unknowable. Even as they slip from your grasp, one is compelled to learn their vocabulary. Yet the paintings don’t arrive at an end—they are rather happening to themselves, and becoming together. The same could be said of our Earth, and human complicity within it, and Shows’ work effectively shifts geologic timescales to a sensuous, urgent state. Curated by Hesse McGraw, vice president for exhibitions and public programs. About the Artist Leslie Shows received her BFA from SFAI in 1999, and her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2006. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; Haines Gallery and Jack Hanley Gallery, both in San Francisco; and in group shows at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. About the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Painting Fellowship The Clive Foundation Fellowship supports visiting artists working at the leading edge of contemporary painting practices. The Fellowship offers student-artists opportunities for deep engagement with internationally recognized painters. During the 2015–2016 academic year, four artists will work directly with student-artists through critiques, discussion, workshops, public lectures, and this exhibition.
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Events Reception Saturday, November 7, 7 – 9 pm Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Tuesday, December 1, 7 pm sfai.edu/leslieshows
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G.H. ROTHE: SEVEN PAINTINGS Atholl McBean Gallery November 7– December 12, 2015
Following G.H. Rothe’s death in 2007, the artist’s son Peter Rothe discovered a cache of paintings far afield from the artist’s known oeuvre. Seven Paintings is the first-ever public presentation of works that were hidden since their creation in 1987. Rothe’s exquisitely lucent tempera works are stunning and frank pictures of sex between aging couples. The tightly framed, small-scale works explore moments of sensuality and pleasure at an age often perceived to exceed the prime for physical intimacy. Seven Paintings present ecstasy cascading through myriad triggers—the pure color of radiant jewels, sheer and slumping flesh, euphoric expression, un-gendered faces, the unexpected eroticism of geriatric bodies, and Rothe’s virtuosic layering of paint. Rothe’s remarkably successful and mainstream commercial art practice focused on highly detailed mezzotints of surreal landscapes, intricately rendered horses, and graceful dancers. These works were often produced in large editions, and amounted to a career in which Rothe sold over 30,000 works. Curated by Hesse McGraw, vice president for exhibitions and public programs. About the Artist G.H. Rothe (1935–2007) was born in Beuthen, Germany (ceded to Poland in 1945) and grew up in Wiedenbrück, Germany. Following early training in drawing and goldsmithery, Rothe studied painting at Pforzheim Academy of Design, Germany, where she was awarded the Villa Romana Prize, which enabled her to live and work in Florence for a year. Rothe travelled extensively and resided in New York and later in Carmel, California. SFAI thanks Peter Rothe and Bonnie Levinson for their support of this exhibition.
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GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS SFAI is proud to announce three graduate and post-graduate fellowships. The annual fellowships amplify the graduate student experience by providing opportunities for fellows to gain professional practice as curators, scholars, and art administrators.
EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS FELLOW Begins September 2015
The Exhibitions and Public Programs Fellowship is a two-year award to an entering MA student-scholar in History and Theory of Contemporary Art or Exhibition and Museum Studies. The fellowship offers in-depth experience working alongside SFAI’s Exhibitions and Public Programs staff to deliver exhibitions, artist commissions, public events, publications, and educational initiatives. Lauren Licata is the inaugural Exhibitions and Public Programs Fellow.
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SFAI + KADIST FELLOW Begins September 2015
In partnership with Kadist Art Foundation, SFAI will annually award a nine-month curatorial fellowship to a graduating MA or MFA student. The inaugural fellow, Christopher Squier (MFA, 2014), will provide integral support to artist-in-residence Mariana Castillo Deball and both organizations, leading to a Spring 2016 commission of new work and a group exhibition curated by Deball. The annual award provides a pivotal platform for ambitious young curators in the crucial transition between their graduation and the launch of a curatorial career.
SFAI + EXETER FELLOW September 2014 – May 2016
Natasha White is the two-year Research Fellow in support of SiteWorks: San Francisco Performance 1969–85. SiteWorks will engage with the history of conceptual and performance art in the Bay Area through an online archive, a book forthcoming with Manchester University Press, and other events. SiteWorks is led by Nick Kaye (University of Exeter) in collaboration with Betti-Sue Hertz (Headlands Center for the Arts). sfai.edu/graduatefellowships
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VISITING ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES (VAS) FREE & OPEN TO ALL SFAI Lecture Hall | 800 Chestnut Street | New Time: 7 pm on Tuesdays
The Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series (VAS) provides a forum for engagement and dialogue with major figures in international contemporary art and culture. Through lectures, screenings, and performances, the series creates intimate connections between SFAI and the public, and invites individuals to contribute to the spirit of curiosity that drives the SFAI community. Space is limited; online RSVP recommended: sfai.edu/vas SFAI SOCIAL HOUR Join the SFAI community for informal social gatherings prior to each VAS lecture. SFAI Café | 6 – 7 pm For more information about SFAI’s visiting artists and to browse images of their work, visit: sfai.edu/vas
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KAREN FINLEY 25th Anniversary Edition Book Release of Shock Treatment Tuesday, September 15
Karen Finley (MFA, 1981) is an artist and author notorious for her dramatic role in Jesse Helms’ breakdown on the Senate floor, which ignited the Culture Wars. Even as Finley’s wedge in the puritanical hypocrisy of American life continues to echo today, she will revisit her seminal book Shock Treatment (1990) and share how she “found the joy” in art after her eight-year Supreme Court case against the NEA. Finley’s recent work includes Broken Negative, where she reframes her infamous chocolate performance; and Sext Me if You Can, a collection of sext-inspired portraits. Presented in partnership with City Lights Books.
LEIGH LEDARE Tuesday, September 22
Leigh Ledare’s artistic methodology is both conceptual and performative. His work maps socio-psychological relations inscribed within photography, language, and public and private social constructions. Straddling the trouble-making potential of photography, and real-life yet hard-to-fathom scenarios, he pries open the space of what culturally resists discussion, how we circulate ourselves as images, and the roles we ask art to play. His projects have included an extended exploration of the erotic life of his mother; Double Bind, for which the artist photographed his ex-wife over a four-day stay at a remote cabin, and subsequently arranged for her new husband to perform a repetition of this trip; and images of Ledare, directed by women to whose personal advertisements he responded. It’s all too bare, honest, and uneasy to look away.
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PETER PLAGENS Painting: In a 21st-Century Niche Tuesday, September 29
Peter Plagens’s abstractions celebrate playfulness and reject the idea of impurity while navigating the concept of good-looking art. Plagens has shown with the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, and was the art critic for Newsweek (1989–2003). He is the author of Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast (1945–1970), Moonlight Blues: An Artist’s Art Criticism, The Art Critic (2012), and Bruce Nauman: The True Artist (2014). He currently writes the bi-weekly art review for The Wall Street Journal.
RON NAGLE Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Painting Fellow Tuesday, October 6
It’s about time Ron Nagle was invited back to SFAI, which was last blessed with his presence in his landmark 1978 Adaline Kent Award exhibition. Nagle taught at SFAI until the same year, when in his words, “I was kicked out because they called me a shoemaker!” He then taught at Mills College for 32 years and consistently produced achingly beautiful, compact, and acidly potent sculptures of cultish status that have recently taken venues such as the Venice Biennale and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Los Angeles, by a trenchant storm.
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PHILIPPE RAHM Tuesday, October 13
Philippe Rahm is an architect based in Paris, who has received international recognition in the context of sustainability. Rahm’s work uniquely extends architecture’s ability to generate physiological and meteorological impacts. His places shift inhabitants’ mood, construct uncanny climates, or torque one’s perception of the body in space. Rahm is currently a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and he represented Switzerland at the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale. Presented in partnership with swissnex San Francisco.
NARCISSISTER Tuesday, October 20
Narcissister’s performances blow up the patriarchal bridge between the simultaneous objectification and policing of female bodies. A fearless persona whose many reference points span contemporary dance to porn, through works such as as a reverse striptease in which clothing emerges from “her” body, Narcissister just as frequently breaks open popular forums. TMZ melted down over Narcissister as Marilyn Manson’s crotchless companion, she received an all-thumbs-up rave on America’s Got Talent, and The Huffington Post hailed her masked activist as the first Topless Feminist Superhero.
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MARIANA CASTILLO DEBALL SFAI + Kadist Artist in Residence Tuesday, October 27
Mariana Castillo Deball is the inaugural artist in residence of the SFAI + Kadist Fellowship—an annual fellowship award and project that will result in a solo commission and a group exhibition curated by Deball. Mariana Castillo Deball explores the role objects play in our understanding of identity and history through work in installation, photography, drawing, and sculpture. She has participated in significant international survey exhibitions including the 8th Berlin Biennale; Documenta 13, 54th Venice Biennale, 29th Bienal de São Paulo, and Manifesta 7. She is the recipient of the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Zürich Art Prize, ars viva Prize, and the Prix de Rome.
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WILLIAM CORDOVA ephemeral monuments Tuesday, November 17
William Cordova, current artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, will address the idea of “ephemeral monuments”—a presence constructed through absence, but also through form, function, and necessity. Cordova asks: How does evidence of our past construct our future? Recent solo exhibitions include smoke signals: viviendo pa’ la ciudad at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Presented in partnership with Headlands Center for the Arts.
LESLIE SHOWS Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Painting Fellow Tuesday, December 1
Leslie Shows’ expansive and cryptic paintings connect geologic timescales with urgent and intense imagery. A 2015 Clive Foundation Fellow, Shows is presenting newly commissioned works in a solo exhibition at SFAI’s Emanuel Walter Gallery from November 7– December 12. The Los Angeles–based artist is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Artadia Award and the SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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GRADUATE LECTURE SERIES (GLS) FREE & OPEN TO ALL SFAI Lecture Hall | 800 Chestnut Street | 4:30 pm on Fridays
The Graduate Lecture Series enables students and the general public to engage with emerging and established artists, curators, critics, and historians from local and international art communities.
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DAVID GETSY Abstraction and the Problem of Representation in Transgender and Queer Contemporary Art Friday, September 25
David Getsy is the Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History and Interim Dean of Graduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He writes about art’s histories of the human form and its alternatives. His forthcoming book for the Whitechapel Gallery’s Documents of Contemporary Art book series is an anthology of artists’ writings on queer practices (MIT Press, 2016).
EMILY MAST Everything Nothing Something Always Friday, October 2
Emily Mast primarily makes performances and installations that incorporate bodies, movement, sound, and light as live sculptural material. Her work consists of collaborative practices that celebrate their ambiguous position between art, theater, performance, and poetry. Recent projects include a solo exhibition at La Ferme du Buisson in Noisiel, France, and presentations at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hammer Museum's biennial Made in L.A.
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MARIA ELENA GONZร LEZ Anatomy of a Tree Friday, October 9
Maria Elena Gonzรกlez is best known for her sculptural installations that are architecturally as well as personally informed. Her reappropriations of architectural symbols, and blueprints, allude to the political, cultural, and emotional coding of physical space. Her work is included in public and private collections throughout the world, and has been exhibited in major museums and galleries in the United States, Switzerland, and Cuba, where she was born.
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RONAK K. KAPADIA Warm Data: US Military Detention and the Evidence of Things Not Seen Friday, October 23
Ronak K. Kapadia is an interdisciplinary cultural theorist of race, sex, and empire in the 20th- and early-21st-century United States. He is assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and affiliated faculty in Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His forthcoming book, Shadow Atlas: US Global Counterinsurgencies and the Sensorial Life of Empire, examines contemporary South Asian, Muslim, and Arab American art practices and their critical intersections with the logics and tactics of US counterinsurgency warfare.
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ZAROUHIE ABDALIAN Site and Its Periphery Friday, October 30
Zarouhie Abdalian’s sculptures and installations respond to the specific attributes of a given location, architectural setting, or social landscape. Often occurring at the threshold of perceptibility, these installations are meant to prompt a reevaluation of an existing physical site, or of the spatio-temporal constraints under which the art object is nominated as such. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Altman Siegel, San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum; and Dillard University Art Gallery, New Orleans.
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NATE PAGE From Drawing to This Friday, November 6
Within Nate Page’s practice, architecture is used as a rubric for altering the viewers’ perceptions of the space they inhabit. While many of Page’s interventions happen within a formal art-viewing context, his disruptions sometimes spill out into his everyday life, as in the project #nodoors, in which Page removed the two front doors from his Toyota Corolla and tracked responses on Instagram for four months.
SARAH THORNTON Exploring Artistic Credibility and Self-Belief: A Conversation with Claire Daigle Friday, November 13
Sarah Thornton is a writer and sociologist of culture. She is the author of Seven Days in the Art World (2008), an international bestseller available in 18 languages, and 33 Artists in 3 Acts, which goes behind the scenes with a superb cast of living artists—from global superstars to unheralded teachers—to investigate how artists play their game, maintain self-belief, and command credibility.
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SFAI CONCENTRATE UNCOMMON ART FESTIVAL + SALE FREE & OPEN TO ALL Saturday, November 14 – Sunday, November 15 | 800 Chestnut Street
Come to SFAI for concentrated art, adventurous crafts, enlivening conversation, abundant local food and beer, and to celebrate living and rediscovered artists—all set against the backdrop of SFAI’s iconic Chestnut Street campus. Saturday night opens with a first-look at the expansive, salon-style art sale, plus the opening reception of a juried alumni exhibition in the Diego Rivera Gallery. Sunday boasts a full day of family-friendly events, art for sale, performances, and alumni connections. Saturday, November 14, 6 – 8 pm »» STUDENT ART SHOW + SALE KICKOFF »» ALUMNI EXHIBITION OPENING »» PERFORMANCES + ART HAPPENINGS Sunday, November 15, 1 – 6 pm »» ART FOR SALE BY 200+ STUDENT-ARTISTS »» PERFORMANCES + INSTALLATIONS + EXCURSIONS »» ART-INFLECTED ACTIVITIES FOR ALL AGES »» FOOD, BEER, LEMONADES, + MUCH MORE Concentrate on the schedule. Events are added by the minute: sfai.edu/concentrate Save the Dates Alumni Day @ SFAI Concentrate Saturday, November 14 – Sunday, November 15 Alumni near and far—return to campus for a weekend of SFAI revelry, art, and conversations. Rediscover hidden histories, see old friends, connect with faculty, and find out what’s happening on campus. Stay Connected: sfai.edu/alumni Call for Submissions SFAI’s juried alumni exhibition will be on view in the Diego Rivera Gallery November 10–15. Opens the night of November 14. Apply by October 1. More details at: sfai.edu/concentrate and sfai.edu/alumni
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PHOTOALLIANCE SFAI Lecture Hall | 800 Chestnut Street | 7:30 pm $10 public | $5 for students with ID | Free for SFAI students
PhotoAlliance, an affiliate program of SFAI, presents lectures by nationally and internationally recognized photographers. photoalliance.org Friday, September 18
Friday, November, 6
Chris McCaw Introductory presentation by Rachel Philips
Beth Moon Introductory presentation by Amanda Marchand
Friday, October 9
Friday, December 4
Patricia Lagarde and Luis Palacios
Gregory Halpern Introductory presentation by Daniel Postaer
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CINE | CLUB Fridays at 7 pm
Cine | Club Art & Film offers free screenings of classic films followed by discussion. Cine | Club is curated specifically for high school audiences and is open to all Bay Area students, their parents, and guests. Cine | Club promotes the power of film to stimulate curiosity, excite imagination, and expand one’s perspective on the world. Each screening includes a classic cartoon, a short film, a student film from the San Francisco Art & Film workshop, and the feature of the evening. Refreshments are served at 7 pm and the program begins at 7:30 pm.
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Blade Runner (1982, UK/USA) Directed by Ridley Scott
This Is England (2006, UK) Directed by Shane Meadows
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Amarcord (1973, Italy) Directed by Federico Fellini
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, USA) Directed by Wes Anderson
October 2
Mommy (2014, Canada) Directed by Xavier Dolan October 16
The Last Picture Show (1971, USA) Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
December 11
Notorious (1946, USA) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock December 18
Some Like It Hot (1959, USA) Directed by Billy Wilder
October 23
Il Posto (1961, Italy) Directed by Ernano Olmni
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PUBLIC EDUCATION SFAI’s Public Education program offers areas of study that span the breadth of contemporary art—from traditional techniques in drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and sculpture to radical experiences, off-kilter journeys, collaborative public projects, and educational experiments. Become part of SFAI’s diverse community of artists and scholars through noncredit intensive, evening, or weekend courses. No matter your experience level, there’s a unique course to expand your skills and interests. Ages 17+ Register online for a fall course: sfai.edu/publiceducation Tuition starts at $275. Courses run September through early December.
YOUNG ARTIST PROGRAM (YAP) At SFAI, young artists join a community of creative individuals who create new ways of looking at and living in the world. YAP is the perfect place to get your hands dirty, learn creative techniques, and express yourself. Courses take place in SFAI’s historic studios and are led by dedicated artists and teachers. School-Year Program: High-school students join us on Saturdays to prepare for a lifetime in the arts. Check the website for Fall 2015 course descriptions, faculty biographies, and to register: sfai.edu/yap
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CITY STUDIO San Francisco Art Institute’s award-winning City Studio program offers underserved youth high-quality arts education in their own neighborhoods throughout the Bay Area. Through a rigorous, interdisciplinary curriculum developed and taught by professional artists, youth are mentored in a long-term, year-round program that builds their skills in making and thinking, and fosters passion for the creative arts. Get involved: sfai.edu/citystudio
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Image Credits Front Cover: Narcissister Untitled (Cracked Mask), 2013 Digital print Courtesy of the artist Interior Cover: Leigh Ledare Let the Good Times Roll. 1 Blond, 53 yrs old, curvey, buxom, slim, clean, petite. No diseases or drugs. Seeking healthy, honest, reliable, financially secure younger man for discreet sensual fun. Ext#1084, 2008 Courtesy of the artist WALTER AND McBEAN GALLERIES Alejandro Almanza Pereda Installation view: Change the world or go home, 2009-2015 Diego Rivera, The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City, 1931 Photo by Gregory Goode Courtesy of the artist and SFAI Leslie Shows Coupler, 2014 Ink, acrylic, Plexiglas, synthetic rubber, wood, and aluminum 42 x 33 inches Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco G.H. Rothe Untitled, 1987 Tempera on paper 18 x 16 inches, framed Courtesy of the Estate of G.H. Rothe GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS Mariana Castillo Deball Who will measure the space, who will tell me the time?, 2015 Installation view (detail), Contemporary Art Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico Courtesy of the artist VISITING ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES (VAS) Karen Finley Don't Hang the Angels (performance documentation, St Mark’s Church, New York), 1985 Photographed by Dona Ann McAdams Courtesy of the artist Leigh Ledare Me and Mom in Photobooth, 2008 Unique silver gelatin print photo booth strips 7.75 x 6 inches Courtesy of the artist
Ron Nagle Sebaceous Sister, 2014 Mixed media Courtesy of the artist Philippe Rahm Spectral Light, 2015 Video still, Artemide Showroom Corso Monforte, Milan Courtesy of the artist and Artemide, Milan Narcissister Untitled Self-Portrait (Black Tape), 2012 Courtesy of the artist Mariana Castillo DeBall The noticed one, confusing itself with the many, 2010 Photographic print; edition of 5 Courtesy of the artist and Wien Lukatsch, Berlin William Cordova Lando, landu (yawar mallku) (installation view), 2011–2015 840 x 600 x 216 inches Wood from Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Peru, Algeria Courtesy of La Conservera, Murcia, Spain, and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York Leslie Shows Regolith 1 & Regolith 2/3, 2014 Sand, ink, acrylic, paper, metal leaf, canvas, and rust on aluminum 90 x 130 inches Courtesy of the artist and Haines Gallery, San Francisco GRADUATE LECTURE SERIES (GLS) David Getsy Becoming an Image, Performance Still no. 2 (Montreal), 2013 Photographed by Heather Cassils and Alejandro Santiago Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York © Heather Cassils, 2015 Emily Mast The Stage is a Cage, 2015 Performance documentation Photographed by Emily Mast Maria Elena González Skowhegan Birch #1, 2012 Video still 6:42 minutes Courtesy of the artist Ronak K. Kapadia The Trespassers, 2010–2011 Video still, installation with HD projections, 4-channel sound Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation Courtesy of the artist
Peter Plagens Untitled, 2014 Mixed media on canvas 72 x 66 inches Courtesy of the artist
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Zarouhie Abdalian a caveat, a decoy, 2014 Installation view of window at Berlin Biennale; sound and owl decoy Dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco Nate Page Couchbleachers (installation view, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland), 2011 Couches and wood 144 x 288 x 144 inches Courtesy of the artist Sarah Thornton 33 Artists in 3 Acts, 2014 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. SFAI CONCENTRATE UNCOMMON ART FESTIVAL + SALE SFAI Concentrate 2014 Photographed by Shane O'Neill PHOTOALLIANCE Chris McCaw Sunburned GSP #765 (Pacific Ocean), 2014 Unique gelatin silver paper negative 20 x 24 inches Courtesy of the artist CINE | CLUB The Uncertainty Salon, 2015 Photographed by Shane O'Neill PUBLIC EDUCATION Drawing critique Photographed by Colin Liang PreCollege student and faculty in SFAI’s Real Life Comics workshop, 2015 Photographed by Colin Liang
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