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Jun 12, 2024 · 10. Bay Area Artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) Ruth Asawa in Her Studio, San Francisco, 1969. Source: Ruth Asawa’s website. Ruth Asawa was born in Southern California to Japanese parents. When she was a teenager, her entire family was sent to internment camps. After this painful experience, Asawa was able to pursue art at Black Mountain College ...
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Loie Hollowell, ‘Tick Tock Belly Clock’ Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis Sept. 25, 2022–May 8, 2023 This one-room exhibition at the Manetti Shrem by New York artist Loie Hollowellis a homecoming of sorts (Hollowell grew up in Woodland, just outside of Sacramento, and her father was a UC Davis professor). Hollowell’s paintings and drawings are ...
Xandra Ibarra in ‘Hella Feminist’ Oakland Museum of California July 29, 2022–Jan. 8, 2023 In one corner of OMCA’s Hella Feminist is a welcome surprise: a mini-retrospective for Oakland artist Xandra Ibarra, whose art and performance work regularly makes the rounds at national institutions, but is harder to see locally. (On that note, don’t miss the...
Candice Lin, ‘Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping’ Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive May 8–Nov. 27, 2022 In a downstairs gallery at BAMPFA, an indigo-dyed tent surrounded by guardian-like figures invited visitors to remove their shoes and lounge on a carpet alongside ceramic cats to watch an animation about another cat, a feral neighborho...
Jul 9, 2014 · Though just a sampling of the city’s artistic genius, this list of 15 San Francisco Artists Running the Bay Area Art Scene shows the range of creative minds making important and enthralling work ...
Jan 16, 2024 · After an uneven few years for the city, San Francisco’s art scene is experiencing something of a renaissance. The cost of living skyrocketed during the first and second tech booms in the 1980s and the 2000s, making the city feel inhospitable to many working artists. But in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city is revitalizing its legacy ...
Aug 25, 2023 · Jessica Silverman. Sold. In those 15 years, Silverman has evolved with the art scene in the Bay Area region to encompass emerging artists. This includes San Francisco resident Chelsea Ryoko Wong, whose painting of people in the desert in Joshua Tree, Hot Rocks on a Hot Day, hangs in “A Growing Season,” along with Oakland artist Rupy C. Tut ...
5 days ago · San Francisco, CA 94103 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the United States and a thriving cultural center for the Bay Area. Our remarkable collection of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design and media arts is housed in a LEED Gold-certified building designed by the global architects Snøhetta and Mario Botta.
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Jun 21, 2016 · Ted Pushinsky. Untitled (Haight Street), 1977. Mark Wolfe Contemporary. 1978, 1978. Mark Wolfe Contemporary. Pushinsky’s candid snapshots taken on the streets of San Francisco document 40 years of politics, fashion, and life in the city. His energetic freeze-frames can be traced to his early years photographing dance and boxing matches.
