SELECTED EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC PROJECTS
October 2016
Organized by CCA Center for Art + Public Life
Featuring works by Claudia Bernardi, Greacian Goeke, Vernon Keeve III, Tyler Pew, Eduardo Pineda, Ashley Saks & Radka Pulliam
Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
March 11 - August 14, 2016
Who is an activist? What role does art play in social change? Performance, visual art, and technology offer a new kind of toolkit for today’s activism, allowing for a broad range of participation in changemaking. At the same time, social media offers an unprecedented platform for increased visibility and public dialog. Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area explores these possibilities through the recent work of artists, activists, and technologists addressing the most pressing issues of our time.
Guest curator Christian L. Frock provides an expansive look at artworks, media projects, and ephemera from tactical interventions, as well as several new sites pecific commissions.
Featuring 3.9 Art Collective, Indira Allegra, AntiEviction Mapping Project, Bay Area Society for Art & Activism, Cat Brooks with Black Lives Matter | Anti PoliceTerror Project, CultureStrike, Dignidad Rebelde, Leslie Dreyer, the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History, Jeremy Mende, Tucker Nichols, Oree Originol, PERSIA featuring Daddie$ Pla$tik, Pitch Interactive, Adrienne Skye Roberts, Favianna Rodriguez, Ruby Mountain, and Stamen.
A full-color publication features new essays by Jeff Chang, Christian L. Frock, and Rebecca Solnit.
Selected press: East Bay Express, KTVU News, SF Weekly, Art Practical, Juxtapoz, KALW, KQED, Center for Asian American Media
[Image: Site-specific mural commission by artist Favianna Rodriguez, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Photo: Tommy Lau]
Public Works: Artists' Interventions 1970s - Now
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September 16 - December 13, 2015
Curated by Christian L. Frock and Tanya Zimbardo
Organized by the Mills College Art Museum, Public Works examines strategies of public practice by women artists from the 1970s to the present. The exhibition presents photography, prints, audio, video, and installations from a number of important historical and contemporary projects that explore the inherent politics and social
conditions of creating art in public space.
Public Works moves beyond traditional views of public art as monumental and/or permanent artworks and instead focuses on often small but powerful temporary artistic interventions online and in the urban environment. Through various tactics, Public Works explores themes of public space, public expression, public action, public platforms, and public life through the evolving lens of participatory projects, socially engaged performance and political action, among other media.
Featuring works by Amy Balkin, Tania Bruguera, Candy Chang, Minerva Cuevas, Agnes Denes, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Karen Finley, Coco Fusco, Guerrilla Girls, Sharon Hayes, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Jenny Holzer, Emily Jacir, Suzanne Lacy, Marie Lorenz, Susan
O’Malley, Adrian Piper, Laurie Jo Reynolds | Tamms Year Ten, Favianna Rodriguez, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Stephanie Syjuco, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Off-site commissions by Constance Hockaday and Jenifer K. Wofford, organized in collaboration with Southern Exposure.
Featuring a full-color publication with an introduction by Mills College Art Museum Director Stephanie Hanor, PhD, essays by curators Christian L. Frock and Tanya Zimbardo, and conversations and texts from María del Carmen Carrión, Courtney Fink, Leila Grothe, Valerie Imus, and Meredith Johnson.
Selected press: Artforum, College Art Association, East Bay Express, KALW, KQED, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle
Three Site-Specific Installations by Elaine Buckholtz, Floor Vahn, and Christine Wong Yap
Selected dates and times: June 5 - 26, 2010
Locations: Mills Hall (c. 1871), Mills College; Pardee Home Museum (c. 1868); Camron-Stanford House (c. 1876) -- Oakland, CA
The Mills College Art Museum is pleased to announce Here and Now, a series of site-specific installations in three historic Oakland buildings dating from the early inception of the State of California. Each site provides a relatively unchanged visual benchmark for the architecture of its period, with respective histories that reflect the early radical politics of the Bay Area. The participating artists have been commissioned to create new works that investigate the various inherent legacies of these locations. Here and Now is curated by Christian L. Frock presents Invisible Venue and is organized by the Mills College Art Museum.
Selected press: Oakland Tribune
Invisible Venue collaborates with artists to present art in public spaces, online and in the built environment. Founded by Christian L. Frock as a DIY independent curatorial enterprise and primarily active 2005 - 2015, Invisible Venue has presented the work of more than fifty artists, including web-based projects, site-specific commissions, published works, performances, interventions, and public events. Ephemera from various projects are collected by a number of public institutions, including the Nuestra Herencia Collection at Kansas City Museum, San Francisco Main Public Library Special Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Research Library, University Visual Collections Permanent Art Collection at Indiana State University, and the University of Maine's Intermedia Program, Artists' Book Collection.
View more details on www.invisiblevenue.com.
[Image: Jose Faus, "Token Conversations," 2013]
