Do Not Enter (Angus's Room), detail Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz

Wednesday, August 25, 12:15-1:15pm, Bring your own lunch
Artists Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz in conversation with Douglass Bailey of SFSU’s Anthropology Department.

Please note: Seats are limited to 30 and are available by reservation. Please RSVP to the SFAC Gallery (415-554-6080 or sfac.gallery@sfgov.org) no later than 24 hours prior to the event date.

SFAC Main Gallery at 401 Van Ness at McAllister inside the Veteran’s Building

This conversation will question what “evidence” is as it pertains to objects that help inform history or reflect humanity. We will also consider observations of value associated with objects, and how that relationship is formed and maintained through time. Curated and moderated by Gallery Assistant Shannon Green, these conversations will introduce the artists’ work in the exhibition and the guests’ demarcation of time in their own professions. As the events unfurl, the discussion will be opened up for audience participation. The aim of this programming is to make the art of Now and When and ideas of time more accessible and meaningful.

Gay Outlaw is an artist who has been exhibiting her work in San Francisco since the early 1990’s and has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the University of California at Long Beach, Mills College Art Museum, and the San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art. She has also produced significant work in printmaking, working in photogravure and later producing a group of prints inspired by Brassey’s Book of Camouflage. Typically creating sculpture from photos she takes, her work is a play and consideration of materiality and form. Gay and her husband, fine wood worker Bob Schmitz, collaborated on Do Not Enter (Angus’s Room), a multimedia, kinetic sculpture in Now and When that attempts to capture the essence of their nine year old son’s room at this point in time. http://www.gayoutlaw.com/

Douglass Bailey is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at SFSU. His research and teaching interests range widely. Currently his work focuses on the archaeology of art and visual culture; He has been studying topics as diverse as prehistoric anthropomorphic figurines, Surrealist periodicals, and early 20th century photography. He has a long-running interest is the prehistory of Eastern Europe and is published widely on Neolithic architecture, landscape, and the body. Currently he is co-PI of the Southern Romania Archaeological Project, a long-running, excavation and survey carried out in collaboration with colleagues in Bucureşti and Alexandria, Romania. His more recent work celebrates the complexities of representation, material culture and the role of the human senses in understanding. http://bss.sfsu.edu/anthro/baileypage.html