Nathaniel Dorsky, Vincent Fecteau and Andrew Masullo will be represented in the 2012 WHITNEY BIENNIAL


Anne Appleby (1996 SECA Art Award) , John Beech (1992 SECA Art Award), Nayland Blake (1990 SECA Art Award)

Terry Fox (1971 SECA Vernal Equinox Special Award), Barry McGee (1996 SECA Art Award), Gay Outlaw (1998 SECA Art Award), Rigo 23 (1998 SECA Art Award), Larry Thomas (1984 SECA Art Award)

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents: Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards

in conjunction with 2010 SECA Art Award: Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, Kamau Amu Patton

December 09, 2011 - April 03, 2012


Terry Allen, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Terry Fox, Charles Garabedian, Lynn Hershman, Randy Hussong, David Ireland, Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Tom Marioni, Jim Melchert, Tony Oursler

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981

October 1, 2011 -February 13, 2012

As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, MOCA will present Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981, on view at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA from October 1, 2011, through February 13, 2012. Featuring works by more than 130 artists, this exhibition is a comprehensive survey that examines the exceptional diversity of art practices in California during the mid- to late 1970s.


Terry Fox, Lynn Hershman, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni, Jim Melchert

State Of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970

Oct 9, 2011 - Jan 22, 2012

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, co-organized by Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) and UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), is a comprehensive exhibition that focuses on Conceptual art and related new genres in both Northern and Southern California during this pivotal period in contemporary art. Featuring more than 150 works of art, the exhibition includes installations, photographs, works on paper, videos and films, artists’ books, extensive performance documentation, and other ephemera. This includes newly discovered work as well as materials culled from archives that have rarely been viewed.


Robert Bechtle, Nayland Blake, Louise Bougeois, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Vincent Fecteau, David Ireland, Jess, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni, Rigo 23, John Roloff, Dean Smith, Carrie Mae Weems

featured in UC Press publication, "MATRIX/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art"




Terry Allen

Ghost Ship Rodez, Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen's theatrical performance about the life of Antonin Artaud

April 6-8, 2012

Z Space at Theater Artaud in San Francisco


Horse Head Theatre Co spearheads a Kickstarter campaign to realize Terry Allen’s haunting concept album, Juarez, from 1975 as a theatrical production to be performed at the Horse Head Theatre in Houston, Texas.

For more information and to donate, click here


Record release, Ocober 2011: TERRY ALLEN LIVE at AL'S GRAND HOTEL (May 7, 1971), 33 1/3 LP, Orion Road Records, limited edition release in conjunction with State of Mind/New California Art Circa 1970 and Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA


Terry Allen, Book published by Univ. of Texas Press with texts by Dave Hickey & essays by Marcia Tucker & Michael Ventura, 312 pgs, Spring 2010


Ghost Ship Rodez, CD release of theater performance, Spring 2010


Anne Appleby

Ulrich Project Series: Anne Appleby

September 10 - November 27, 2011
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University: Amsden Gallery


John Beech

ERETAI: John Beech, Lael Marshall, David Rabinowitch, Michael Voss

January 12 - March 28, 2012

Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA


Combining the verbal talent of Edward Albee with the vision of John Beech

Publication: The East Hampton Press & The Southampton Press


Nayland Blake

Interview with Nayland Blake by Renny Pritikin for Art Practical


Louise Bourgeois

San Francisco Chronicle review, May 29, 2010


Louise Bourgeois dies at 98


Joan Brown

This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown

San Jose Museum of Art

October 14, 2011 - March 11, 2012


John Buck

John Buck: Iconography

Retrospective Exhibition from the collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation

Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, Nov 3 - Feb 28, 2010

Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, July 15 - January 9, 2011

Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA, March 12 - May 15, 2011


Bull.Miletic

"Bull.Miletic: Mise en abyme” solo show at Gallery Paule Anglim review by Glen Helfand in the printed issue of March 2011 Artforum. Click here for pdf


Deborah Butterfield

Essence: The Horses of Deborah Butterfield

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI

January 27 - April 29, 2012


Deborah Butterfield

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

Oct 2010- April 2011


Robert Gordon book is now in paperback- Released March 2010


James Castle

James Castle, Show and Store, Curated by Lynne Cooke
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

May 18 – September 5, 2011


Video tour of the James Castle, Show and Store exhibition at Museo Reina Sofia narrated by Lynne Cook


Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner's punk photography and photo collages will be featured in the exhibition "Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver opening March 30, 2012


Bruce Conner’s 1980 SECA Film as Art Award-winning film VALSE TRISTE, will be screened in conjunction with the Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards in Luminaries: SECA Film Awards on Thursday, January 19, 2012.


Falling Leaves: An Anonymous Memorial

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

August 30 - September 24, 2011


Bruce Conner: An Anonymous Memorial

American University, Washington DC

September 3 - December 14, 2011 (Reception on September 17)


Bruce Conner. The 70s (Painting / Drawing / Film)

KUNSTHALLE wien, hall 2

October 8, 2010 - January 30, 2011


Nathaniel Dorsky

Seeing and Awakening: New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky

Monday, April 16, 2012

REDCAT Theatre, Los Angeles


James Drake

Salon of a Thousand Souls

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe

Oct 28, 2011 - Apr 15, 2012


Ala Ebtekar

Elsewhen

The Third Line Dubai/UAE
January 18 – March 8, 2012


Dec 23, 2011 - Aun Gallery Tehran/Iran


The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM - Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany


West End?, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel


MY SUPER HERO: NEW CONTEMPORARY ART FROM IRAN

My Super Hero will open simultaneously in Tehran at Aaran Gallery and in Los Angeles at Morono Kiang Gallery

March 5, 2011 - April 30, 2011


Los Angeles Times Review of My Super Hero


Terry Fox

Terry Fox, The Labyrinth Scored for Eleven Different Cats

LP Release on Choose Records


Mildred Howard

Parenthetically Speaking: It's Only a Figure of Speech

Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

July 2, 2011 – April 29, 2012


Mildred Howard at Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington

Review by Richard Speer


Palo Alto Art Center Presents New Installation by Mildred Howard Opening Sept. 10 at King Plaza in Palo Alto 


YouTube Video of Mildred Howard talking about her work at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA here


Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Mildred Howard honored by the City of Berkeley, declaring March 29 to forever be known as Mildred Howard Day.


Summer 2012. Frame/Refrain commissioned by the SF Redevelopment Agency will open. Lead Artist: Mildred Howard with Walter Hood 


Memory Garden, Phase I, reconstruction and restoration

di Rosa Preserve


Tony Labat

Tony Labat will be included in the 11th Havana Biennial, Artistic Practices and Social Imaginaries

Havana Cuba

May 11 - June 11 2012


Lynn Hershman Leeson

Winter 2011, Lynn Hershman's work received a major acknowledgement from New York MoMA with the recent accession of over 30 works from her 1970's series "Roberta Breitmore." The museum also acquired Four feature-length films


Lynn Hershman Leeson: Investigations

Katherine E. Nash Gallery; Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota

October 27 through December 3, 2011

    Public Lecture by the artist: Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:00 – 6:00 pm

    Public Reception for the artist: Thursday, November 17, 2011, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

    Film Program: !Women Art Revolution, November 18–20, 2011, Walker Art Center


Agitating for Artists, New York Press


Enhancing the Image of Feminist Art, New York Times


!W.A.R.: Fighting the Politics of Exclusion by Documenting a History of Women's Art (and Much More), Huffington Post


Pop Matters Review of Women Art Revolution - The Feminist Art Movement in the United States


Film Threat Review of Women Art Revolution - The Feminist Art Movement in the United States


Women Art Revolution- The Feminist Art Movement in the United States. A documentary directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson


Toronto International Film Festival, Women Art Revolution- The Feminist Art Movement in the United States


The d.velop digital art award [ddaa] 2010/11 Recipient

    http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39202

    http://www.art-in-berlin.de/incbmeld.php?id=1930&-lynn-hershman-leeson

    http://www.kunstmarkt.de/pagesmag/kunst/_id215627-/news_detail.html?_q=

    http://www.artmagazine.cc/content49124.html

    http://artnews.conteart.com/artnews/lynn-hershman-leeson-receives-the-2010-d-velop-digital-art-award/

    http://www.chinaartnetworks.com/news/show_news.php?id=6419

    http://www.artforum.com/news/mode=international&week=201028


Barry McGee

Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Leave It Alone & Together At Last

Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA

June 19 - August 1, 2010


10th edition of the Biennale de Lyon

The Spectacle of the Everyday

September 16, 2009 - January 3, 2010


Tony Oursler

Open Obscura at PAC Milan (Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea) Milan curated by Gianni Mercurio and Demetrio Paparoni

This exhibition includes a survey of installation highlights from the past ten years along with internet-based and musical projects.

A book will also be published alongside the exhibition, published by 24 Ore Cultura

March 18th - June 12th 2011


Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, opening November 22, 2010

*This show will travel to Sao Paolo and a third, TBA location in 2011

http://www.oifuturo.org.br/site#/


AroS, Aarhus, opening March 5th, 2011

http://www.aros.dk


JGM Galerie, Paris, opening January 17th, 2011

http://www.jgmgalerie.com/


Gay Outlaw

Bay area's rising star explores what we see, how we see it

By Victoria Dalkey


Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas

The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento

April 5 – May 15, 2011


Clare Rojas

Listen to the new Peggy Honeywell 7 song album release here.


Rigo 23

PROEZA - an Autonomous Space Program - is an interdisciplinary collaboration with weavers, seamstresses, painters, carpenters, cultural activists and organizers from Southern Chiapas, México spear-headed by Rigo 23. For more information and to DONATE, click here


Rigo 23: Autonomous Space Program

REDCAT, Los Angeles

Sunday, April 22, 2012 to Sunday, June 17, 2012

Opening reception: Saturday, April 21, 6-9pm


Dean Smith

Stored Energy, Interview with Dean Smith by Bruno Fazzolari


Mark Sheinkman and Dean Smith

Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

March 19 - April 30, 20011


Frances Stark

Frances Stark: the whole of all the parts as well as the parts of all the parts

September 14 – December 11, 2011


Canan Tolon

Canan Tolon's extraordinary grass and mirrors installation is featured in "Twelve of Twelve" at Berlin's Tanas gallery:

ZWÖLF IM ZWÖLFTEN

Tanas Gallery, Heidestraße 50, BERLIN

December 10, 2011 - March 3,2012


John Zurier

John Zurier's work has been selected for the SAO PAOLO BIENNIAL, opening September 2012

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