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06.18.08


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  • San Francisco Art Institute: We Remember the Sun - Exhibition of Work by Fifteen Bay Area Artists.

    Artists: Amy Balkin, L. M. Bogad, Andrea Bowers, Deer Fang, David Gurman, Taraneh Hemami, David Maisel, Jill Miller, Shaun O¹Dell, Julia Page, Praba Pilar, John Roloff, Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, Jon Winet, Michael Zheng.

    Comment by AB: A critical, analytical, and somewhat nostalgic simultaneous look-back and update on the social, cultural, and political turmoil of the late 1960's (epitomized by May 1968 in particular) assesses the repercussions 40 years hence (aka today). As queried in the babble-rich briefing, "How, if at all, has the utopian vision, the countercultural zeitgeist, that suffused both local and global realms of progressive thought and action in the late 60s carried over and across to 2008?" And so there's various artistic postulating going on as to what exactly happened, how it all shakes out, or whether anything ever really happened at all, and lastly but not leastly, they bring the deal around to "contemporary art practice" in California today. So there you go.

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    Police & dance girls dueling videos (Deer Fang).

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    Art (David Maisel, I think).

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    Potomac vs Tigris art (David Gurman).

    Catherine Dudley art

    Military-industrial rubbings (Amy Balkin).

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    Watercolor art (Pamela Wilson-Ryckman).

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    Pamela Wilson-Ryckman watercolor closer.

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    AIDS Memorial Quilt art-umentary (Andrea Bowers).

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    AIDS Memorial Quilt art-umentary (Andrea Bowers).

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    Art (Michael Zheng - aft; John Roloff, I think - fore.

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    Beaded "Most Wanted" curtain (Taraneh Hemami).

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    Art (Shaun O'Dell).

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    Michael Zheng performs every ten minutes.

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    Video art.

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    Aerial.

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