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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
Students from CCA's Graduate Program in Fine Arts will exhibit works that they created based on Baldessari's teaching notes from his time as a professor at California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). The original course was titled Cal Arts Post Studio Art: Class Assignments (optional), 1970. Based on his class notes, students will, for instance, be instructed to "imitate Baldessari in actions and speech. Video," "Disguise an object to look like another object," or "Develop a visual code. Give it to another student to crack."
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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Lecture by Christine Hill
Presented as part of the Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture SeriesWednesday, February 15, 2012, 7–9 pm
When Christine Hill presented her Volksboutique in Kassel, Germany as part of Documenta X, she had already begun to develop a form of art practice that reflected on the condition of being an artist. Hill’s reappraisal of the artist’s role was based on a variety of other minor parts she adopted (she is listed in the Documenta catalogue as a masseuse, a concessions girl, a rock singer, a shoe shiner, a striptease dancer). Each new temporary identity is a service provider through which Hill investigates their potential as an art presence – an exploratory ground upon which Volksboutique was founded as a site where she could ‘deal with service, interaction, the portrayal and assumption of roles, the generation of conversation between individuals and the information therein.
Working out of the legacies of the ‘Happenings’ environment and its theatricality, Pop Art’s commodification of the art object and its space of consumption, and Joseph Beuys’ unification of art and life through his model of'social sculpture', Hill exceeds each. In the process she proposes new roles for viewers (as consumers, tourists, members of a television audience), redefines exhibition spaces (as stores, studios, catwalks) and reinvents a mobile artistic identity (whether as a show host, store owner or tour guide).
Hill has exhibited and lectured widely. Recent solo exhibitions include Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; Galerie EIGEN+ART, Berlin; the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig; the MigrosMuseum in Zurich and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. She was included in documenta X in 1997, and has participated in numerous international group exhibitions. Her work has been reviewed extensively in publications such as Artforum, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Art in America and in significant international publications. The Volksboutique Style Manual is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Volksboutique project Minutes was included in the 2007 Venice Biennale under the curation of Robert Storr. A forthcoming review of Volksboutique sculptural work will be shown at the New Museum in Weimar, Germany in April 2012.
Brought to you by the Social Practice Workshop
Categories: Fine Arts Graduate Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series Graduate Studies Lecture Series
Epiphanies in the Dark: Anne Colvin
Presented by Grad Fine Arts Satellite Lecture SeriesThursday, February 16, 2012, 6:30–9:30 pm
Graduate Center, San Francisco campus
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Anne Colvin weaves together fragments from her video work--ripped apart film, dance and sound footage altered and transformed to create existential filmic experiences -- with spoken word and music into a collage of quiet and intense moments. Epiphanies in the Dark is a playlist, a performance, a meditation and an event. It includes amongst others her newest piece Miss Calpurnia, The Audition which was recently included in Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection at SFMOMA and The Kids Play Russian from her fictional dance company Vladimar and Rosa.
Colvin will read Pasolini's Triumph of the Night, LA-based poet Stuart Krimko's The Forged Coupon (from a chapbook collaboration with Colvin) and her own Purple Stains the Heart. These words will be punctuated by strains of Steve Reich's It's Gonna Rain (Part11)', Go Away by The Raincoats and Bert Jansch's Angie.
Colvin is a Scottish artist based in San Francisco who works with the moving image and also explores the space between publishing and performance. Colvin's work has been shown internationally in museums, galleries and biennales such as SFMOMA, Gavin Brown's Enterprise (NYC), Mare Street Biennale (London), Matt's Gallery, London and Lowsalt Gallery (Glasgow).
Her curatorial and publishing projects have been presented at Berkeley Art Museum, NY Art Book fair (in conjunction with White Columns), Poetic Research Bureau (LA), Frieze Art Fair (with Owl Books), New Langton Arts (San Francisco) and at her own project space TART which she ran from 2004-2008. TART is included in Maurizio Cattelan's Charley Independents book No Soul for Sale.
Colvin has written for Frieze and Art Practical and is the Bay Area contributor for London-based moving image organization LUX. She is currently working on a piece inspired by Margaret Tait, the internationally renowned Scottish film-maker and poet and on a set for Valdimar and Rosa's new production Charlotte and Her Boyfriend.
Anne brings a great sense of hybrid artistic performance to any space...
– Rudolf Frieling, Media Curator, SFMOMA
Categories: Fine Arts Graduate Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series Graduate Studies Lecture Series
Lecture by Stephen Shore
Presented as part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist ProgramThursday, February 23, 2012, 7–9 pm
Phillis Wattis Theater | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) | 151 Third Street | San Francisco CA
Free and open to the public
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis
More info: cbradley@cca.edu
Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty years. He was the second living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has also had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. Books of his photographs include Uncommon Places; Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973 - 1993; The Velvet Years, Andy Warhol's Factory, 1965 – 1967; Essex County; American Surfaces; Stephen Shore, a career survey in Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists Series; A Road Trip Journal; and, most recently, The Hudson Valley. Finally there is The Nature of Photographs, a book in which he explores how photographs function visually.
Shore's work is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers, Berlin and London. Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College in New York State, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.
This lecture series is presented in part by Pier 24 Photography and SFMOMA
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Lecture by Jason Fulford
Presented as part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist ProgramFriday, March 2, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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"Sometimes if you see something so completely unremarkable, it’s heartbreaking. I don’t know why. Sometimes if you see something so totally ridiculous and straightforward, it’s also heartbreaking. It gives you this weird feeling where your eyes swell up and you can’t decide whether to laugh or cry."
-Jason Fulford, 2005
Jason Fulford has been depicting "the simultaneous feeling of sad and funny" throughout his career. Born in Atlanta, GA, and now living in Scranton, PA, Fulford has a BA from Pratt Institute in New York. His work has been exhibited in New York, Seattle, Copenhagen, Budapest, Atlanta and Kansas City, and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Life, Newsweek, Suddeutche Zeitung, among many more.
His photographs have also graced the covers of books published by virtually every major publishing house - which is entirely fitting, as Fulford is co-founder of a book imprint himself (J&L Books, Inc., established 2001). A graphic designer and freelance commercial photographer as well as an artist, Fulford is the author of three books, the new Raising Frogs for $ $ $ (2011), published by The Ice Plant, following Sunbird (2000) and Crushed (2003).
This lecture series is presented in part by Pier 24 Photography
Categories: Fine Arts Graduate Studies Lecture Series Photography
Ecopoesis: Spring Graduate Studies Symposium
March 7–9, 2012
San Francisco campus
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Info: ecopoesis@cca.edu
Artists, filmmakers, writers, and scientists come together to explore frontline concerns around climate, biodiversity, and spatial expressions through film screenings, lectures, performances, and an expo of speculative + practical designs + art. The collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship with ideas of nature and to offer fresh understandings of the places we live + research + create around + in. This symposium is a collaborative effort of the graduate programs in Design and Fine Arts, with a sponsored reading in Graduate Writing.
More info will be posted as it becomes available!
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Graduate Open Studios
Sunday, April 1, 2012, 12–5 pm
San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.551.9214 or gradoffice@cca.edu
CCA graduate students in Architecture, Curatorial Practice, Design, and Fine Arts open their studios to the public. Please note this event takes place on the same day as the Senior Painting Exhibition.
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Lecture by LaToya Ruby Frazier
Presented as part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist ProgramTuesday, April 10, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Free and open to the public
More info: cbradley@cca.edu
LaToya Ruby Frazier's work in photography and video has employed such themes as the body and landscape, familial and communal history, private and public space, and human complexity. Frazier's nine-year artistic collaboration with her family has been featured by The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and The Village Voice.
Her work has been exhibited in New York City at P.S.1 MoMA's Greater New York, the New Museum of Contemporary Art's Younger Than Jesus and at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Higher Pictures Gallery. Frazier's work was featured in the 2011 International Incheon Women Artists' Biennial in Korea, and will be included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
Frazier was recently awarded a 2012 Creative Capital Grant for Visual Arts. She is a featured artist on the new Art 21 online documentary series New York Close Up. Frazier received her BFA in applied media arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in photography from Syracuse University. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Art Omi, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
For more on LaToya Ruby Frazier, visit www.latoyarubyfrazier.com.
This series is presented in party by Pier 24 Photograhy
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Graduate Program in Fine Arts Virtual Information Session
Thursday, April 12, 2012, 6–7 pmCan’t make it to campus for a visit but want to learn more about the Graduate Program in Fine Arts at CCA? A virtual information session may be just the thing you need!
What the session covers:
• Program highlights
• Curriculum
• Campus facilities available to graduate students
• Financial aid resources
• Application process and requirements
There will be a variety of sessions each month from January through May and will be lead by the Director of Graduate Admissions. To find the date and time that’s right for you, check out our events calendar.
Meeting with us online lets us connect with you, anywhere, in real time. Here's all you'll need:
• A computer or wireless device with an Internet connection
• An audio connection - either through your computer or phone
• A webcam (optional)
RSVP is required.
A link with a log-in and password to the Virtual Information Session will be sent to the email address indicated on the RSVP one day before the session.
Categories: Fine Arts Graduate Admissions
25th Annual Barclay Simpson Award Exhibition
April 17–28, 2012Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center, Oakland campus
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Reception: Wed., Apr. 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Hours: Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (Wed. open until 7 p.m.); Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Info: 415.551.9214 or cbradley@cca.edu
A juried exhibition of award-winning artworks by students in the Graduate Program in Fine Arts.
Categories: Fine Arts Graduate Studies Public Calendar