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17/9/2002

2002 Fall Lectures

San Francisco Art Institute - SFAI, San Francisco

2002 Fall Lectures
At the San Francisco Art Institute


Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 7:30 pm
Michael Kenna
Born in England, Michael Kenna now resides and works in San Francisco. He has exhibited internationally and published widely. He is best known for his eloquently made night and landscape photography from every corner of the world including Japan, England, France, Russia, Easter Island and his daughter's kindergarten.
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SFAI 2002 Fall Lecture Series
"Consistently the best public lecture series in the visual arts."
--David Bonetti, San Francisco Chronicle

Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 7:30 pm
Anya Gallaccio, 1871 Fellow and artist in residence
Anya Gallaccio is this year's 1871 Fellow and artist-in-residence, part of an exchange program with the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. Gallaccio is known for using organic materials such as fruit, flowers, ice, and chocolate that decay or disintegrate while on display. Her ephemeral installations, made as a response to a specific site, imbue the physical properties of the space with a sense of change. Gallaccio is careful to discard all the material related to an installation once it has closed and resists photographic documentation; in this sense her work is anti-monumental, unconcerned with a legacy outside the memories of those who witnessed it. Anya Gallaccio lives in London, England, where she was born in 1963. Educated at the Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmith's College at the University of London, she is among England's most sought-after artists of the "Thatcher's Children" generation. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented throughout the United States and Europe, including Lehmann Maupin, New York; Karsten Schubert Gallery in London; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles; and Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich. Gallaccio was included in the Walker Art Center's Brilliant! show that traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston in 1996, inSITE94 in San Diego and Tijuana; and The British Art Show 4, organized by the Hayward Gallery in 1996.

Monday, October 14, 2002, 7:30 pm
Tom Marioni
"Conceptual art," Tom Marioni writes, is "idea-oriented situations not directed at the production of static objects." Since his first conceptual action in 1969, Marioni has extended and expanded traditional art approaches in unprecedented ways, paying attention to forms that take place in the mind of the viewer, through sound, and through social situations, to name a few. His 1970 piece called The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art has become legendary. Also in 1970, Marioni founded one of the first alternative art spaces in the United States, the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) as "a large-scale social work of art." Until it closed in 1984, Marioni directed MOCA and at the same time continued to pursue his individual work as an artist, including performance, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Marioni has had solo exhibitions in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Warsaw, Basel, Osaka and elsewhere.

Monday, October 28, 2002, 7:30 pm
Daniel Joseph Martinez
Presented in conjunction with SF Camerawork, Daniel Joseph Martinez has worked in installation, performance and public art, and also as a writer and curator. He currently finds himself "cycling back" to the medium of photography, which has been the basis for his two latest projects, The Deception of Perfection series and More Human than Human. Though visually disparate, all of the work presented uses the body as the locus for a dialogue on the psycho-social dynamics of identity within public and private space, while examining the role of photography in representations of reality. In each, the photograph remains as residue of both public and private actions, thoughts, beliefs, desires and fears. For his forthcoming SF Camerawork exhibition Without Anesthesia, Martinez will present selections from More Human Than Human and new animatronic sculptures. The animatronic sculptures were created as Martinez's contribution to the 2002 Lima Bienal. Without Anesthesia: Recent Work by Daniel Joseph Martinez will be on view October 29 - November 30, 2002 at SF Camerawork, San Francisco.

Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 7:30 pm
Stephen Westfall
Since the early 1990's Stephen Westfall's paintings have been defined by his loyalty to color and the grid. He paints arrangements of vertical and horizontal lines that shift at the points of contact, and constructs subtly unstable networks against differently colored fields. Westfall has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. His work can be found in several public collections including the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Munson Proctor-Williams Institute, Utica, and the University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara. He was visiting chair in art and art history at Colgate University in the fall of 2000. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts and at the graduate program at Bard College, and also is an art critic and contributing writer to Art in America, Arts, and Flash Art.

Wednesday, November 20, 2002, 7:30 pm
Ron Padgett
Presented in conjunction with the Poetry Center, SFSU, American poet Ron Padgett is one of the wittiest, most innovative poets currently writing. His poetry runs the gamut from popular humor to intellectual elegance and wild ricochets of the imagination. He is the author of You Never Know (Coffeehouse Press, 2002), Poems I Guess I Wrote (2001), New & Selected Poems (1995), and other collections. He has also published a volume of selected prose entitled Blood Work (1993), and translations of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems (1992), among others. For his translations Padgett has received an award from the American Academy of Art and Letters. He was the editor-in-chief of World Poets, a three-volume reference book (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000). For twenty years Padgett was the publications director of Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He lives in New York City.

Wednesday, December 2, 2002, 7:30 pm
Anne M. Wagner
The topic for Anne M. Wagner's lecture is "Splitting and Doubling: Architecture and the Body of Sculpture, circa 1970." She will discuss Claes Oldenburg, Gordon Matta-Clark and others whose sculptural methods intersect with architecture. Professor of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, Wagner has focused primarily on issues of gender and visual address in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. Her recent essays include studies of Andy Warhol's Race Riot and Rosemarie Trockel's drawings. Her first book Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire appeared in 1986, and her next, Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner and O'Keeffe, in 1996. Her latest, Brave New Womb: Modernist Maternity and British Sculpture, is due in 2003.
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Photo Alliance Lectures
The Art Institute is proud to host a new lecture series produced by Photo Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary photography.

Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 7:30 pm
Michael Kenna
Born in England, Michael Kenna now resides and works in San Francisco. He has exhibited internationally and published widely. He is best known for his eloquently made night and landscape photography from every corner of the world including Japan, England, France, Russia, Easter Island and his daughter's kindergarten.

Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 7:30 pm
Fazal Sheikh
Fazal Sheikh was born in New York City and is a graduate of Princeton University. His work features portraiture in Africa and most recently Afghanistan. He has published several books including A Sense of Common Ground. He has received Fulbright and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and numerous other awards. He is presently living in Zurich, Switzerland. His recent book A Camel in the Sun was commissioned in part by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.

Friday, November 8, 2002, 7:30 pm
Adam Fuss
Adam Fuss is best known for his camera-less images. Born in London and currently living and working in New York City, he will be featured in a one-person show at the Fraenkel Gallery, opening November 7th. He has been recently working on a set of daguerreotypes.

Saturday, November 9, 2002, 1 - 5 pm
The Book of 101 Books: Photographic Books of the 20th and 21st Centuries
With Andrew Roth, Jeffrey Fraenkel, and Robin Hurley
This event, featuring a dialogue between three fine art photography book publishers, will include slide presentations, book signings, and a panel discussion on photography books in the 20th and 21st centuries. Andrew Roth, the publisher of The Book of 101 Books, is co-owner of Roth Horowitz Gallery, which specializes in vintage and contemporary photography and rare photographic books. Jeffery Fraenkel is the owner of Fraenkel Gallery, an exhibitor of photography and work across media, and a publisher fine art photography monographs, catalogues and books. Robin Hurley is the editor of St. Ann's Press, in Los Angeles, publishers of fine art photography and art books.

December 4, 2002, 7:30 pm
Elinor Carucci
Born in Israel, Elinor Carucci received her BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions at such venues as Photographers' Gallery, London and Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York. This year she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and has published her first monograph. Closer, published by Chronicle Books, is a collection of extraordinarily intimate photographs of her family that she has been working on for almost a decade.

Time: 7:30 pm, unless otherwise noted

Admission: $6 general; $4 members, alumni, seniors, students, and disabled; SFAI students free
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SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE GALLERIES, VISITING ARTISTS, AND PROGRAMS
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