Sentences with phrase «bay area art»

Bischoff taught drawing and painting at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) starting in 1946 and was a central figure in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene until his death in 1991.

The current exhibition, «Way Bay,» at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) puts together an exposition of diverse works of Bay Area art, film and poetry spanning 200 years of creativity.

While this season San Francisco's art museums are hosting many significant exhibitions (click here for museum highlights), Bay Area art galleries are offering shows by innovative, contemporary artists that promise to not disappoint.

Create The Berkeley Art Museum discovered startling gems - fully deserving of museum exposure - in the output of three Bay Area art programs for people with developmental disabilities.

Discovering Hesse's work over the next few months at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will be a rare pleasure for members of the Bay Area art audience who are willing to leave their preconceptions at the door.

The Bay Area art public got to study Richter's art closely when the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art hosted «Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting» in 2002.

SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS 2003 Commonwealth Club of California: Bay Area Art Scene; Featuring Doug Hall, Matthew Higgs, Arnold J. Kemp, Heather Marx, and Themis Michos

The show offers Bay Area art lovers who might have heard of Crown Point but not realized its cultural weight to see its achievements for themselves.

Happy New Year from the Bay Area Art Grind!

For Bay Area art enthusiasts, this is a landmark exhibition, pairing an Oakland based artist and gallery together, underscoring the unbridled potential of a new generation that will continue to make the San Francisco Bay Area a destination, and origin, of fresh, accessible, and beautiful art.

One betrayal of this attitude can be found frequency of punning in Bay Area art, particularly in the constant playfulness of the two local superstars, William Wylie and Robert Arneson, whose titles are always puns and whose work itself is often a visual pun.

Bay Area art collector David Jones contributes posters by Wallace Berman and Michael McClure, as well as a flyer from King Ubu gallery, located just down the street at 3119 Fillmore, providing additional context to the period covered.

The anodyne nature of most Bay Area art is powerfully countered by Conner's 1963 «Couch.»

A fascinating though largely overlooked figure in Bay Area art history, Worden's work was widely collected in his day.

Hillinger founded the Bay Area Women Artists» Legacy Project to highlight women's contributions to Bay Area art.

Over empanadas in The Mission, I sat down with Oakland based visual and performance artist Bessma Khalaf to talk about immigrating from Iraq, burning things, and Bay Area art.

Later, the Bay Area art movement would be heavily influenced by the counterculture movement in the 1960s, and art produced during this time reflected the political environment.

UC Davis is widely acknowledged as a wellspring of invention and instruction in the visual arts, a central player in Bay Area art history, particularly in the 1960s and»70s.

Bay Area art history still predisposes people to see mere flippancy in works by David Ireland such as a sheet of paper coated with cement, or a stretched canvas bathed unceremoniously in cement and yellow enamel.

He has orchestrated Britain's first ever group exhibition of postwar San Francisco Bay Area art: «The Bay Area School: Californian Artists from the 1940s, 1950s & 1960s.»

Currently I have two drawings in the SFMOMA's «Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards» through April 3.

An active figure in the Bay Area art scene for over forty years, Petersen has taught generations of artists not only painting but also printmaking and photography.

Pro Arts Project Space presents Musical Chairs by Warith Taha that incorporates assemblage - altered chairs to explore the gentrification process and its impact on the Bay Area art scene, local artists, and long - time residents.

The one area where the museum's collection is both deep and broad is in post-war Bay Area art.

The program allows insight into review processes, while encouraging artists to think critically about their own work within the scope of Bay Area art.

Taira was a rising star in the Bay Area art scene who was interned during World War 2 and who went on to paint joyful works for the rest of his life.

For the 2010 SECA award cycle, the museum considered more than 250 artists working in a broad range of media who were nominated by Bay Area art professionals, including curators, professors, gallery owners, critics, SECA members, and former recipients of the SECA Art Award.

Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Although part of the Bay Area art scene, it is interesting to note that Smith was included in the inaugural show at the Ferus Gallery in 1957!

Pro Arts Project Space presents Musical Chairs, a community - based project led by artist Warith Taha that incorporates assemblage - altered chairs to explore the gentrification process and its impact on the Bay Area art scene, local artists, and native residents.

Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards; 2010 SECA Art Award: Works in many media.

Benezra talks about presenting a «balanced menu» of exhibitions, representing Bay Area art as well as reaching out nationally and internationally — to Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America — and finding the right mix of challenging work and art that's accessible to a wide audience.

Listings for artists» opportunities provided on this website do not constitute an endorsement by Bay Area Art Grind.

Bay Area art scholar and independent curator Lizzetta Le Falle - Collins said the developers have plenty of experts to choose from locally in lieu of going to Gates and Golden.

We are excited to see what next year's installment of this special Bay Area art and design fair will bring.

He has a strong sense of Bay Area art traditions — his father is a second - generation Abstract Expressionist painter who taught art at De Anza High School in Richmond — as well being interested in a wide range of modern and contemporary artists from many countries.

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Revel in even more special event access, such as day trips to Bay Area art collections, a selected Curators» Circle event, a complimentary exhibition catalogue each year, and more.

Timed to coincide with the two major international fairs, Fog Design + Art, and Untitled, San Francisco, which will be held over the same weekend, The East Cut Art Fair will feature contemporary art that has been curated by four Bay Area art galleries, all under one roof.

Although the Cantor Center will be a major presence on the Bay Area art scene, it is primarily a teaching museum.

The paintings shown at Green Fine Arts date back as far as 1947 (Kuhlman Abstract # 11) and are important links in the history of Bay Area art.

Hassel Smith, a major figure in Bay Area art whose expressionist abstractions and figurative paintings were admired for their improvisational zeal, potency and humor, has died at age 91.

This 30 - minute documentary, produced by Elizabeth Sher, provides a unique and candid view of a vibrant artist whose contributions to Bay Area art extend beyond her work and include the many artists she taught during her 36 years as professor of sculpture at the California College of Arts (CCA).

[5] This exhibitions recontextualization of contemporary Bay Area art (by featured people of color and women), and showcased some of the following artists; Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Rolando Castellon, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Frank Day, Rupert Garcia, Mike Henderson, Oliver Jackson, Frank LaPena, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Ralph Maradiaga, José Montoya, Manuel Neri, Mary Lovelace O'Neil, Darryl Sapien, Raymond Saunders, James Suzuki, Horace Washington, Al Wong, René Yañez, Leo Valledor, and many more.

The Asian Art Museum's series of contemporary Bay Area art concludes with «Proximities 3: Import / Export,» a show examining the complex relationship between Asia and the foreign market it supplies.

Among the strengths of the collection are historical Bay Area art; second - generation minimalism; photography; representational painting; and emerging California artists.

The response to our presentation of works by David Ireland, a major figure of the Bay Area art community, was overwhelming — and Frieze served as the perfect platform to introduce this artist's work to new audiences and re-engage with long - time supporters.»

When Stephen Wirtz Gallery, a mainstay of the Bay Area art community for decades, shuttered its doors in August 2014, it seemed an elegiac answer to the question of whether once - bohemian San Francisco was losing its soul.

A series of illuminating conversations with writers, scholars, curators, and historians will explore how Bay Area art has cross-pollinated with music, poetry, performance, film, and activism, placing artistic practice into the broader context of the region's unique social and cultural history.

When I moved here, I spent a lot of time talking to people around town, just asking the question, «From your perspective, how does the Wattis fit into the ecosystem of the Bay Area art scene?