Virginia OvertonFebruary 3 – April 29, 2017 View Gallery The Disagreeable Object, takes its title from Alberto Giacometti’s surrealist sculpture, The Disagreeable Object, 1931. A defying sculptural attempt against artistic categorization, poised between movement and rest, between art and non-art, The Disagreeable Object is a rebellious and humorously unappealing object. Its vulgar shape is embodied in a form that…
Booth A16, Pier 70January 13 – 15, 2017 The 500 Capp Street Foundation participates in the UNTITLED, Art Fair in San Francisco featuring: The premiere of David Ireland’s Schemes (1988) The 500 Capp Street Foundation is pleased to present, for the first time, Schemes, a series of nine works on paper by David Ireland. The original works on paper,…
Thursday, December 29, 2016 A fantastic night that features: VivvyAnne ForeverMORE, Vain Hein, Qween, Silk Worm, and Meredeath Live show by the Bay Area’s most experimental Drag Queens with lip-syncs inspired by the work of David Ireland. A “DUMB BALL” where the drag queens hit the David Ireland House-as-runway and werk, werk, werked it out! Featured…
Margaret Tedesco: Punctuation from the ArchiveThursday, December 15, 2016 How does an archive begin—is it an active decision to become a keeper of collective memory? Since the 1980’s artist and curator Margaret Tedesco has been developing an extensive archive of ephemera, zines, books, works on paper and objects, with particular interest in poetry, performance and queer…
Lawrence Rinder on Theresa Hak Kyung ChaThursday, November 17, 2016 Lawrence Rinder, Director and Chief Curator of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, has curated and written extensively about the work of Korean-American avant-garde artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, who engaged with notions of identity and displacement. She created a small but mature body…
Bob Nickas:100 Paintings / 100 Years (1915–2015)Thursday, November 3, 2016 New York based curator, author, and critic Bob Nickas has been writing about art since 1984 and is widely considered among the boldest and most influential voices in the field. He established index magazine in 1996 with artist Peter Halley and has organized exhibitions of work by…