San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
t: 415.554.6080
f: 415.554.6093
www.sfartscommission.org/gallery
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents:
It’s About Time!
Two thought provoking Public Programs for Now & When that engage exhibiting artists and special guests in dialogue about art and time…
These two public programs partner artists from the SFAC Gallery exhibition, Now and When and members of our community who approach the subject of time in distinct and meaningful ways. 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. And to have some fun! Seats are limited to 30 for each event 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.
Tick-Tock: Linear and Visceral Expressions of Time
Jeannene Przyblyski of The Bureau of Urban Secrets
in conversation with Alexander Rose of The Long Now Foundation.
Wednesday, August 18, 6:30 - 8:00pm, talk and short reception following
SFAC Main Gallery at 401 Van Ness at McAllister inside the Veteran’s Building
This conversation will juxtapose a linear approach to time with a not so linear approach. Participants will talk about moments as an events and the culmination of events as a single moment.
Jeannene Przyblyski is an artist and also the Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs and Chair of the History and Theory of Contemporary Art program in the School for Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is also the Executive Director of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets - an urban and visual arts think tank that promotes art and political intervention in city life. For Now & When the Bureau created podcasts that document the sites of eight instances of encapsulated history, sealed as sound an image, at eight different moments from 1776 to the present (the Bureau modestly acknowledges its well-established expertise in time travel). These time capsules may be accessed through the SFAC Gallery web site: www.sfartscommission.org/gallery/2010/bureau.
Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation (established in 1996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years) and the Project Manager for the 10,000 year clock. He has facilitated numerous projects including the 10,000 year clock, seminars about Long Term Thinking and the Rosetta Project. He has also been an artist in residence at Silicon Graphics Inc., a project manager for Shamrock Communications, and a founding partner of Inertia Labs. http://www.longnow.org/
The Art of Passing Time:
Artists Gay Outlaw and Bob Schmitz in conversation with
Douglass Bailey of SFSU’s Anthropology Department
Wednesday, August 25, 12:15-1:15pm, Bring your own lunch
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.
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 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
Media contacts:
Meg Shiffler, 415.252.2568 or meg.shiffler@sfgov.org
Aimee Le Duc: 415.554.6080 or aimee.leduc@sfgov.org
Photographs available upon request.
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About the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Located in the heart of San Francisco’s Civic Center, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery makes contemporary art accessible to broad audiences through curated exhibitions that both reflect our regional diversity and position Bay Area visual art production within an international contemporary art landscape. By commissioning new works, collaborating with arts and community organizations and supporting artist’s projects, the SFAC Gallery’s programs provide new and challenging opportunities for contemporary art to engage with a civic dialogue. The SFAC Gallery was founded in 1970 and is the exhibitions program of the San Francisco Arts Commission, the arts agency of the City and County of San Francisco.
About the San Francisco Arts Commission
The San Francisco Arts Commission is the City agency that champions the arts in San Francisco. We believe that a creative cultural environment is essential to the City’s well-being. Our programs integrate the arts into all aspects of City life. The Commission was established by charter in 1932 (Charter sections 5.103 and 16.106).
