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16/6/2004

Two exhibitions and a forum

SFAI Lecture Hall, San Francisco

WALTER GALLERIES | RICHARD BERGER: THE THIRD TIME I SAW PHYLLIS SHE EXPLODED
The 2004 Adaline Kent Award Exhibition

The San Francisco Art Institute is proud to present an exhibition of works by esteemed faculty member Richard Berger, the 2004 recipient of the prestigious Adaline Kent Award. Titled The Third Time I Saw Phyllis She Exploded, the exhibition is on view in the Walter Galleries June 18 - July 31, with a special preview reception Thursday, June 17, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm. The exhibition features kinetic sculptural works created by the artist since 1990 and is accompanied by a thirty-two page catalogue. The Adaline Kent Award is given annually by the San Francisco Art Institute Artists Committee to recognize a distinguished California artist.

For over thirty years, Richard Berger has dedicated himself to making sculpture that invokes and embodies the tension between ideal forms and the details of daily experience. He utilizes Plexiglas, simple machines, light, and type script to create works in which cyclical movement, luminescence, and language interrelate through transparent shapes and shadow.

The most recent works in the exhibition were inspired by a trip Berger made to India during the summer of 2001. Konark (2003), named after an Indian temple complex dedicated to the sun, and Lotus (2004), an object that moves toward light, are both composed as large wall mounted rotating wheels in which overlapping cycles of smaller discs unite to create sculptured mechanical tableaux of words, shapes, and light that invoke the karmic wheel. In Konark the cycles of rotating words on the wheels intersect as they are projected onto the wall behind. As the shadow words intersect, they create new and unpredictable phrases, enacting the cyclical script of life. At the same time the words individually re-circulate on their separate wheels, like endlessly repeated mantras, their day to day meaning slightly peeled away, and slightly heightened.

June 17- July 31, 2004
Reception: June 17, 5:30-7:30 pm

Walter Galleries
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA
(415)749-4563

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MCBEAN PROJECT SPACE | CLARE ROJAS
The 2004 Tournesol Award Exhibition

The San Francisco Art Institute is proud to present the first annual Tournesol Award Exhibition, featuring the inaugural winner of the award, Clare Rojas. On view from June 18 through July 31, Clare Rojas' exhibition in the San Francisco Art Institute's McBean Project Space is an installation of her artistic production of the past year and new work created on site including gouache murals, paintings framed by hand-made quilts, and a stage set on which she performs her own country western and folk-inspired songs in her alternate persona, Peggy Honeywell.

Painter, filmmaker, and musician Clare E. Rojas is interested primarily in landscapes. Throughout her work she develops a personal, esoteric folklore with repeating characters that interact and travel through landscapes and environments. These whimsical, dreamlike panel paintings and drawings are rendered in a sweet and innocent manner, yet possess a fairy tale-like darkness lurking just beneath the surface. In Rojas's world, unexpected meetings between little girls and androgynous characters, monsters, and personified animals occur in surreal lands dotted with misplaced trees and flowers. The songs that Peggy Honeywell writes and performs are inextricably linked to the paintings: the rambling lyrics are sweet and melodic, yet melancholic, a corollary text and soundtrack that complement Rojas' unique visual vocabulary.

The Tournesol Award is the Headlands Center for the Arts new award designed for emerging artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Established by an anonymous donor to recognize one emerging painter each year, the award provides the chosen artist with a $10,000 cash stipend, a studio residency for one year at Headlands Center for the Arts (HCA), and a solo exhibition at a Bay Area venue.

Image: Clare Rojas, Bird Woman (detail)

June 17- July 31, 2004
Reception: June 17, 5:30-7:30 pm

800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA
(415)749-4563

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GLOBAL PRIORITY
A Forum on Globalization featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Ph.D


Antonio Muntadas, Paul O'Neil

Please join us for a forum on Globalization featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Ph.D, Eddie Yuen, Gordon Knox and moderator and SFAI Faculty Robin Balliger, Ph.D. This forum takes place in the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and launches the opening reception for Global Priority, a multimedia exhibition of works by 63 artists from 33 countries.

Admission is $3 for the general public. SFAI students, staff, and faculty are admitted free.

Immanuel Wallerstein, Ph.D is Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, and permanent invited researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. He is the author of over 25 books and former President of the International Sociological Association.

Eddie Yuen is a co-editor of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches From a Global Movement and The Battle of Seattle: The New Challenge to Capitalist Globalization.

Gordon Knox is co-curator of Global Priority, along with Heng-Gil Han of the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. He is currently the Artist Residency Director at the Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts in Saratoga, CA. He was Director of Production for the American Pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale and is a founding member of Nomads + Residents, a forum for visitors in the arts.

Robin Balliger, Ph.D obtained her doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University and is currently Resident Faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute. She teaches on globalization and expressive culture at the San Francisco Art Institute and her publications include "The Sounds of Resistance" from The Global Resistance Reader (forthcoming).

June 17, 2004
6-8 pm, Forum; 8-9:30 pm Opening

San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco

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