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Luggage
Store
Gallery
1007 Market
Street
San Francisco, CA
94103
Telephone: (415)
255-5971
WEbsite:
www.luggagestoregallery.org
For
further information contact:
Carlos Villa, Telephone; 415. 771-7020
Curator and Associate Professor in Painting Department at the San Francisco Art Institute,
Darryl Smith, Co Artistic Director, luggage store,
SF
415.
724
4444...
FOR
IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
VISUAL
EXHIBITION
300
DPIS available upon
request.
WHAT: Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s-1960s
DATES
June 4 , 2010 THRU July 31,
2010
opening
reception
Friday, June 4,
2010
Time
6pm - 9
pm
Place
Luggage Store
Gallery
1007 Market Street
(@6th)
San Francisco,
94103
Telephone
415 255
5971
Website
www.luggagestoregallery.org
www.rehistoricizing.com
HOURS
Wednesday-Saturday
12-5pm and by
appointment
Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area,
1950s-1960s, an
exhibition curated by Carlos Villa and sponsored and presented by the Luggage
Store gallery, highlights the work of women artists and artists of
color.
Carlos Villa, Associate Professor in the Painting Department has curated
an thoroughlly engaging exhibition that reflects upon archival and oral history
of women artists and artists of color working in the Bay Area from 1950-1969.
The
exhibition is accompanied by a web project that creates and contextualizes an
archive of women artists and artists of color who were undervalued because of
the public and personal hegemonic social and aesthetic scrutiny at that time.
The archive
will be located in the Anne Bremer Memorial Library at the San Francisco Art
Institute and on the internet at www.rehistoricizing.org. (The website provides
visitors with the opportunity to view not only biographical information about
the many artists featured in this project, but it will also post images of
their artwork. The website is an ongoing work in progress as additional
information is received and
added.)
Over
35 Bay Area artists featured in the exhibition include locally and
internationally recognized artists
including:
Nell
Sinton, Barbara Rogers, Bernice Bing, Deborah Remington, Mary [UTF-8?]O’Neal,
Cornelia Schulz, Ruth Asawa, Dewey Crumpler, George Miyasaki, Jose Montoya, Luis
Cervantes, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Bob Colescott, Joe
Overstreet, Allan Gordon, Arthur Okamura, Sung Woo Chun, Wing Ng, Leo Valledor,
Patricio Toro, Gustavo Rivera, Carlos Villa, Carlos Loarca, Jose Lerma, Frank La
Pena, Jimmy Suzuki, and Jim Marshall.
The Luggage Store gallery is an artist-run multidisciplinary arts
organization founded in 1987. Its mission is to build community by organizing
multidisciplinary arts programming accessible to and reflective of the Bay
Area's residents. The programs are designed to broaden social and aesthetic
networks and to encourage the flow of images and ideas between the diverse
cultural communities that cross paths in the gallerery's dynamic downtown San Francisco neighborhood. The Luggage
Store's programming includes exhibitions, performing
arts events, arts education and
public art programs designed to amplify the
voices of the region's diverse artists and residents.
Symposium: Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area,
1950s-1960
September 10- September 12,
2010
San
Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA
94133
The
Symposium taking place in September 2010 will be an opportunity for San
Francisco Art Institute and the San Francisco Bay Area art community at large to
learn more about the exhibition, archive and oral histories. It will also
provide an unrealized occasion for community engagement with these marginalized
and undervalued artists and their varied histories. A catalogue of the
exhibition and symposium will be compiled to provide a tangible, historical
record of this
work.
San Francisco Art
Institute
was founded in 1871 and is one of the oldest and most prestigious schools of
higher education in contemporary art in the United States. The school boasts an
illustrious list of alumni in all of its disciplines and has consistently kept
to its core philosophy of creating programs where creativity and critical
thinking are fostered in an open, innovative, and interdisciplinary environment.
The San Francisco Art
Institute focuses on educating artists who will become the creative
leaders of their
generation.
This
exhibition was generously funded by San Francisco Art Commision/Cultural Equity
Fund; Grants for the Arts of the Hotel Fund, and was made possible with funding
from California Arts Council and The San Francisco
Foundation.
300 dpi images available upon
request
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