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Wattis Institute: John Baldessari: Class Assignments, (Optional)
January 19–March 31, 2012
Wattis Institute, San Francisco campus
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Reception: Thur., Jan. 19, 6-8 p.m.
Hours: Tues.-Fri., noon–8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Info: 415.551.9210 or wattis.org
This exhibition pursues two of Baldessari's own concerns. The first is art making -- specifically his predilection for language's structure and arbitrary games, which have been a key element in his conceptual works of the 1970s, such as Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) from 1973. The second is pedagogical. For many decades Baldessari has been directly engaged with the education of artists. He has continued working with students for nearly three decades, most notably between 1970 and 1986 when he taught at Cal Arts. Many of the strategies Baldessari deploys in his own work -- experimentation, rule-based systems, and the defiance of arbitrarily imposed limits -- are akin to contemporary pedagogical methods.
The participating MFA students are:
Fatema Abdoolcarim
Zafer A. Aksit
Andrea Bacigalupo
Simone Bailey
Teresa Baker
Kate Bonner & Rebekah Goldstein
Maureen Burdock
Caroline Charuk
Ji Eun Chun
James Coquia
Kimberlee Cordova
Kimberlee Cordova & Elizabeth Moran
Melissa Dickenson
Jeremy Ehling
Elizabeth Eicher and Helene Schlumberger
Katelyn Eichwald
Jamie Emerick
Will Emmert
Arash Fayez
Rachel Granofsky
Larissa Greer
Seth Gutierrez
Sadie Harmon
Jaimie Healy
Helga Hizer
Megan Lavelle
Cara Levine
Heidi Lubin
Leora Lutz
Lindsey Lyons
Phillip Maisel
Marc Manning
Yan Yan Mao
Nicole Markoff
Bruna Massadas
Senalka McDonald
Zoe McCloskey
Em Meine
Elizabeth Moran
Christie Yuri Noh
Alison Padgett
Alison Padgett and Andrea Gonzalez
Christine Pan
Maya Pasternak
Byron Peters
Christine M. Peterson
Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed
Joshua Reinstein
Neil Rivas
Michael Rothfeld
Ann Schnake
Diana Stapleton
Lauren M. Taylor
Maria Torres
Meghan Urback
Ben Vilmain
Alex Wang
Heather Watson
Heather Watson and Katelyn Eichwald
Heather Watson and Janey Smith
Tali Weinberg
Ansley West
Jacob Wick
Calder Yates & Helga Hizer
Jake Ziemann
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy and Bill Timken. General support for the Wattis Institute provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, and the CCA Curator's Forum.
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