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Droste Effect | Jun 13, 2019
Bulletin #19. Flow Out by Collective Çukurcuma, Funa Ye and the Istanbul Queer Art Collective Read Collective Çukurcuma included video works of Funa Ye and the Istanbul Queer Art Collective as part …
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Alessandra Saviotti | Mar 16, 2016
I usually go running at Stern Grove, a park very popular among San Francisco’s music lovers because of its yearly free music festival. Every time I pass by the natural amphitheater, I don’t feel I …
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Alessandra Saviotti | Feb 4, 2016
Do Epic Shit. This statement was written on a huge black advertising board in downtown San Francisco last February. At a first sight it made me smile, then it started to make me …
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Catherine Nueva España | Feb 25, 2015
Photography gets a fresh look at The Return to Reason, a successful first-time collaboration between Gallery Wendi Norris and Pier 24’s Allie Haeusslein, with works by Stephen Gill, Yamini Nayar, Chloe Sells, Lorenzo Vitturi, and …
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Catherine Nueva España | Dec 12, 2014
Alien She includes the articulate, heartfelt, sometimes angry and frequently humorous markers of a pre-internet age: young cinéastes’ chain letters in Miranda July’s Big Miss Moviola; tear-off tab flyers leading to critical texts in Stephanie …
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Catherine Nueva España | Aug 7, 2014
The curator Jessica Silverman was inspired by Daniel Spoerri’s 1961 documentary novel/map An Anecdoted Topography of Chance, suggesting that “chance is not random, but shaped by ritual and repetition.” This group show, with Bruce Nauman, …
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Catherine Nueva España | Jul 15, 2014
Christine Elfman is a practitioner and teacher of photography, and her technical rigor is evident: images and diptychs convey both the essential and the ephemeral. In Looking Back, the play of light/shadow, background/foreground, and immediacy/mystery …
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Catherine Nueva España | Apr 23, 2014
Ana Teresa Fernández, who was born in Mexico, has since been living and educated in the United States, and has thoroughly explored, in this and many other series, the border between United States and Mexico …
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Catherine Nueva España | Apr 16, 2014
Lake Michigan, the vast subject of Louise LeBourgeois’ painting series Toward Horizon, is the second largest lake in the United States, with such a large surface area that it often feels like open water, with …
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Olivia Fales | Apr 1, 2014
For a museum that’s closed for construction, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has been very active. Their tagline says it all: “We’ve temporarily moved…everywhere.” One recent weekend SFMoMA was, indeed, all over San Francisco. …
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Catherine Nueva España | Mar 24, 2014
Public Intimacy is a well-curated series of works that have some specter of defiance about them. There is also the sense that both public and private intimacies are being watched, on one end by curious …
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Catherine Nueva España | Feb 21, 2014
Jessica Silverman Gallery, which has had a strong focus on conceptual art since its opening in 2008, is an ideal space for the work of local Bay Area artist Tammy Rae Carland. Live from Somewhere, …
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