Rehistoricizing The Time Around Abstract Expressionism » News http://rehistoricizing.org in The San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s-1960s Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:53:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Rehistoricizing Exhibition at the Luggage Store Gallery, June 4 – July 31, 2010 http://rehistoricizing.org/865/ http://rehistoricizing.org/865/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:49:47 +0000 admin http://rehistoricizing.org/?p=865 Main Gallery Facing west 160x160 Rehistoricizing Exhibition at the Luggage Store Gallery, June 4 July 31, 2010

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Click on thumbnails below to initiate gallery Leo Valledor, For Mary, 1958, Ink and pencil drawing, 26 3/4" x 23", Courtesy of Mary Villa Leo Valledor, Becoming, 1961, Acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24" Luis Cervantes, Untitled, 1961, Oil on canvas, 25" x 25" Manuel Neri, Plaster portrait of Mary Julia, 2010, Sculpture, Variable dimensions Nell Sinton, Spain, 1958, Oil on canvas, 18" x 40", Courtesy of Braunstein Quay Gallery Patricio Moreno Toro Sung Woo Chun, Mandala #4, 1961, Oil on canvas, 56 1/2 x 52", Courtesy of Marian Hoey Susan Cervantes, Cross rose, 1984, Acrylic on canvas, 17 1/2" x 14 1/2" Allan Gordon, Vanitas pastry box, 2010, Mixed media, Variable dimensions Allan Gordon, Untitled, 1961, Oil on canvas, 29" x 40" Bob Howard, Portrait of Adeline Kent, 1950, Metal sculpture Carlos Loarca, Smiling young Mayan, 1995, Acrylic on canvas, 92" x 58" Carlos Villa, Untitled robe, 1972, Fabric & feathers, 80" x 52", Courtesy of Erin Goodwin Guerrero Carlos Villa, Artist feet, 1972, Feather, methyl cellulose, Variable dimensions Carlos Villa, Artist feet, 1972, Feather, methyl cellulose, Variable dimensions Esteban Villa, Homefront Homeboy, SIlkscreen on paper, 2003 Esteban Villa, Ruben's Graffiti, SIlkscreen on paper, 2003 Frank La Pena, Winter night, 1971, Mixed media, 12 3/4" x 9" Jimi Suzuki, Blue is the Hero, Mixed media sculpture, Courtesy of Bill Berkson Jose Ramon Lerma, 4 Ways, Mixed media, 24" x 17" Luis Cervantes, Untitled, 1961, Oil on canvas, 25" x 25" Mary Lovelace O'neal, Untitled, 2003, Oil on canvas, 7' x 5' Ruth Asawa, Untitled, 1947-1999 Sonia Gechtoff, Anna Karenina, 1955, Oil on canvas, 60" x 48" Win Ng, Verticle Slab, 1963, Ceramic sculpture, Variable dimensions Bernice Bing, The Mayacamas #3, 1963, Oil on canvas, 35 1/2" x 33 1/2" Bernice Bing, Abstract Calligraphy, 1987, Mixed media, 35" x 24" Carlos Villa, Drawing on self portrait, 1969, Altered black and white photograph, 29" x 23" Cornelia Schulz, Untitled, 1975, Collage, 29" x 23" Deborah Remington, Mojo, 1961, Oil on canvas, 35 1/2" x 33 1/2" Dewey Crumpler, 'Drawing up' & 'Down', Both 2003, Both foam core, Both 29 1/4" x 40 1/4" Gary Woo, Untitled, 1993, Watercolor, 27 1/4" x 20" George Miyasaki, Oil on canvas, 1970's Gerorge Miyasaki, Between accident and existence, 2010, Colograph and mixed media, 22 3/4" x 22 3/4" Jay De Feo, Untitled, 1976, Drawing on paper Jay De Feo, Untitled, 1974, Drawing on paper, 10 1/2" x 8 1/2" Jim Marshall, Miles Davis, 1971, Black and white photograph, 16" x 20" Jim Marshall, Monk, 1967, Color photograph, 11" x 8" Joan Brown, Painting of Manuel Neri, 1973, 24" x 22" Joe Overstreet, Peach Street, 1973, Acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20" Jose Lerma, Abstracted #3, 1953, India ink and crayon, 23 x 17 Jose Montoya, El Pachuco, 1978, Screenprint, 37 1/2" x 19 1/2" Jose Montoya, El Machine, 1978, Screenprint 15/20, 32 3/4" x 22 3/4"

]]> http://rehistoricizing.org/865/feed/ 0 Symposium September 10-12 at San Francisco Art Institute: Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the Bay Area http://rehistoricizing.org/september-10-12-at-san-francisco-art-institute-rehistoricizing-abstract-expressionism-in-the-bay-area/ http://rehistoricizing.org/september-10-12-at-san-francisco-art-institute-rehistoricizing-abstract-expressionism-in-the-bay-area/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:37:08 +0000 admin http://rehistoricizing.org/?p=756 The Rehistoricizing Exhibition at the Luggage Store gallery presented the work of women artists and artists of color from varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds who worked in a ”pre post –race” environment, an era in which the artist hero was almost always a white male, in particular among abstract expressionists. Classic examples are Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko, all white men whose appeal was based as much on talent as a cult of personality. How did artists who did not fit the white male old survive in this milieu and make the work they were compelled to make? How can we learn from their experiences?

More importantly, how do their experiences translate in a world that is supposedly “post – race” and “post – feminism”? The theories of physical anthropology that were used to separate gender and races have been completely refuted and even the genetic basis of race is on shaky ground. But has the scientific evidence really led to changes in discourse? IN 2010 we are in an inconsistent environment in which the ideology lags behind the scientific evidence.

How does an artist proceed in this world of conflicting messages, where old ideas persist but are submerged below a polished surface of equality? How does the experience of this “post – race” world compare to that of the “pre – post race world?

REHISTORICIZING ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY

AREA: 1950’s – 1960’s: Women Artists and Artists of color

September 10th, 2010   -    September 11th, 2010

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

Friday, September 10th- 7:00 pm

Welcoming  Remarks
Jeannene Przyblyski, Academic Dean

Roy Eisenhardt
President, San Francisco Art Institute

Carlos Villa
Artist, Curator of Exhibition and
Associate Professor of Painting

Keynote Address
Dr Amalia Mesa Bains

Respondents
Allen Gordon

Professor Mark Johnson

George Miyasaki

1 pm, Post-race discussion

Moderator

D. Scott Miller

Bay Area Writer, Poet, Visual Artist, Teacher and curator

Respondents
Weston Takeshi Teruya
Visual Artist, Researcher and Facilitator of Community and Youth Arts Projects: www.westonteruya.com
Claire Light
“Gen X” arts administrator in the Bay Area Asian American Community
Yarrow Slaps
Performer, Rapper, Download ‘I am the Sun’
Sandman
Performer, Rapper, http://sandman.bandcamp
Special appearance by guest DJ

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]]> http://rehistoricizing.org/september-10-12-at-san-francisco-art-institute-rehistoricizing-abstract-expressionism-in-the-bay-area/feed/ 0 Rehistoricizing Exhibition reviewed in San Francisco Examiner http://rehistoricizing.org/rehistoricizing-exhibition-reviewed-in-san-francisco-examiner/ http://rehistoricizing.org/rehistoricizing-exhibition-reviewed-in-san-francisco-examiner/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:03:17 +0000 admin http://rehistoricizing.org/?p=750 New view of Bay Area abstractionism
By: Murray Paskin
Special to The Examiner
July 8, 2010

“On view at the Luggage Store Gallery through July, “Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1950s-1960s” attempts to compensate for the fact that some artists, due to their race or gender, weren’t given the recognition they deserved at the movement’s height on the West Coast.

To correct the injustice, curator Carlos Villa has assembled an exhibition of 33 works by male and female artists of color.

The exhibition is outstanding, even though the works vary in quality, nature and scale.

The show’s excellence is in how the pieces collectively exemplify an understanding and variety of abstract form and juxtapositions, reaching out to the viewer with an unusual display of creativity…”

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