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Lecture by Farshid Moussavi
Architecture Lecture SeriesMonday, February 13, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Farshid Moussavi is an internationally acclaimed architect and professor of architecture at Harvard University. As founder and principal of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), she works on a wide range of prestigious international projects integrating architecture, urbanism, and landscape design, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and the Quran Museum in Tehran. Before FMA, Moussavi was coprincipal of Foreign Office Architects (FOA), whose projects include the Carabanchel housing scheme in Spain, the redevelopment of Birmingham New Street Station in the United Kingdom, and the award-winning design of the Yokohama International Ferry Terminal in Japan. Moussavi is also the author of the books The Function of Ornament and The Function of Form.
The 2011-12 Architecture Lecture Series is funded by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund; InterContinental San Francisco; Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc.; Jensen Architects; John Marx / Form4; McCall Design Group; Perkins + Will; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP; SmithGroup; WRNS Studio; WSP Flack + Kurtz; ARCH Art and Drafting Supply; BraytonHughes Design Studios; FME Architecture and Design; Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects; Long & Levit LLP; SRG Partnership; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander | Auerbach Glasow French; BAR Architects; Dome Construction Corporation; Donald MacDonald Architects; J.H. Fitzmaurice Construction; ProPM, Inc.; TANNERHECHT Architecture; and Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects.
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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.
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Lecture by Hayal Pozanti
Presented as part of the Painting Lecture SeriesWednesday, February 15, 2012, 7:15–8:45 pm
Graduate Center, San Francisco campus
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Room GC 4
Free and open to the public
More info: Serena Cole, 415.551.9230, scole@cca.edu
Hayal Pozanti (b. 1983) is a native of Istanbul who received her MFA from Yale University in 2011. Her practice encompasses painting, sculpture, collage, and digital animation. She has exhibited internationally, including New York, San Francisco, Istanbul, and Berlin. Pozanti lives and works in New York.
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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
Ceramics Alumni Night Part 8: Kim Tucker (1996), Curtis Arima (1998), Anja Ulfeldt (2002)
Ceramics Lecture SeriesThursday, February 16, 2012, 7:15–9:15 pm
Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center, Oakland campus
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Three Ceramics alumni -- Kim Tucker (1996) Curtis Arima (1998), and Anja Ulfeldt (2002) -- show slides and discuss their careers and life after art school.
Kim Tucker's work is a rogue's gallery of characters who appear to be personal symbols that are having trouble staying in their own skin. Her tribe of subjects has been described as the ugly, the fat, the weepy, and the physically deformed. Her personal animal kingdom include skunks, opossums, snails with loudmouth ghosts, and reckless sweethearts. The figures struggle to fully express their thoughts, and thus are alternately empowered and made vulnerable. Oddball monsters and awkward lovers expose their humanness, their emotional turmoil, and their faults. Tucker's drawings and sculptures have been exhibited constantly in the Los Angeles area, including a one person show at L2 Kontemporary Gallery last May.
Curtis Arima is a metalsmith raised in the Bay Area. He is best known for his unique 3D surface treatment of acrylic wash on metal, which brings heightened surrealism to his work. His work ranges from organic forms, using the language of gardening as a metaphor for self and society, to formal explorations in sculptural objects, functional pottery, and jewelry. His work has been exhibited nationally, and recently at Gallery Flux in San Francisco; Yaw Gallery in New York; the Richmond Art Center; the National Japanese American Historical Society; the Oakland Museum of California Collectors' Gallery; and the Virginia Breier Gallery in San Francisco.
Anja Ulfeldt's work references the life sciences and the human body through mechanical action and movement, drawing comparisons between the ways living organisms and machines operate. Like living cells, her installations use light, air, water, and electricity to become functional and interactive. Her work often involves the sensation of touch and the element of surprise. It can be playful, alarming, and sensual all at once. She intends to blur the line between life and something that mimics life through interaction, growth, movement, or decay. She lives in San Francisco and is also a photographer and the director of the Basement Gallery in Oakland.
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Lecture by Fo Wilson
Design and Craft Lecture SeriesWednesday, February 22, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.703.9563 or designandcraft@cca.edu
Fo Wilson uses the language of furniture to investigate ideas around identity and culture, and to re-present histories that counter dominant Western historical narratives. She is an educator, curator, writer, and maker of objects, spaces, places, and ideas. She advocates a progressive agenda for the future of craft and design, maintaining that makers and designers must not only keep pace with the digital age, but also take part in inventing it. Wilson is currently an assistant professor at Columbia College in Chicago. She holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in art history, theory, and criticism. Prior to her graduate studies she ran her own graphic design consultancy with offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her furniture-based work has been exhibited nationally, and her design work is in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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Lecture by Johanna Grawunder
Interior Design Lecture SeriesWednesday, February 22, 2012, 7–9 pm
Florence and Leo B. Helzel Boardroom, San Francisco campus
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The noted designer-artist-architect Johanna Grawunder graduated in architecture in 1983 from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo after attending her final year of studies at its campus in Florence, Italy. She now maintains offices in both Milan and San Francisco. In addition to her work in architecture, she is perhaps most acclaimed for her visionary work in lighting and furniture design, having created collections that embody both limited-edition and one-off studio pieces as well as industrial collaborations with such noted Italian firms as Flos, Boffi, and Salviatti.
Her work has been consistently shown over the years by a large number of important galleries in Europe and the United States, including Gallery Mourmans in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and the Design Gallery Milano in Milan.
Generous support for CCA public programs in San Francisco has been provided by Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.
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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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Reading by Denise Newman
HearSay Reading SeriesTuesday, February 28, 2012, 7:30–9:30 pm
Nahl Hall, Oakland campus
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Denise Newman is the author of three poetry collections. The most recent one is The New Make Believe published in 2010 by the Post-Apollo Press. She is the translator of two novels by the Danish poet Inger Christensen, and the most recent one, Azorno, was published by New Directions in 2009. She has been involved in numerous collaborations, including several choral works with the composer Kui Dong.
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Lecture by Thomas Feichtner
Interior Design Lecture SeriesThursday, March 1, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Thomas Feichtner is a professor for product design at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Germany. He lives and works in Vienna. After attending school in Düsseldorf, Germany, he earned a degree at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria, Feichtner initially designed industrial goods and numerous products for the Austrian sports industry. He also worked in the area of visual communications for the likes of Swarovski Optik, Adidas Eyewear, and the British-Israeli designer Ron Arad. His later work focused on artistic aspects and took a more experimental approach. In search of an independent mode of operation that went beyond globalization and mass production, he designed products for such traditional crafters as J&L Lobmeyr, Neue Wiener Werkstätten, Wiener Silber Manufactur, Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur and Stamm, and realized freelance projects in cooperation with Vitra and FSB. He has exhibited internationally at the Triennale di Milano, the National Gallery in Prague, the Biennial of Industrial Design in Ljubljana, the Design Center Stuttgart, Gansevoort Gallery in New York, Design Week in Tokyo, and the Museum for Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna.
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