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
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
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
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
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
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)
October 8, 2010 - January 30, 2011
Nathaniel Dorsky
Seeing and Awakening: New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky
James Drake
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Ala Ebtekar
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
Mildred Howard
Parenthetically Speaking: It's Only a Figure of Speech
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
Mildred Howard at Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington
Review by Richard Speer
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
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
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://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
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
JGM Galerie, Paris, opening January 17th, 2011
Gay Outlaw
Bay area's rising star explores what we see, how we see it
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
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
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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