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SAN FRANCISCO URBAN VISIONS PANEL
Cosponsored with California College of the Arts Graduate Fine Arts Program and Livable City
Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Timken Lecture Hall at California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco
Event is free of charge
Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert will lead a panel discussion addressing urban issues raised during interviews the artists conducted with Bay Area architects, urban planners and transportation engineers, each of whom were asked the question, "What would you do if you did'nt have to worry about budgets, bureaucracy, politics or physics?" The interviews inspired the artists to develop six imaginative and humorous poster designs for a future San Francisco, currently exhibited in the triangular kiosks on Market Street between Van Ness and the Embarcadero through March 13th, 2008.
In addtion to the artists, the panelists include:
-Peter Albert, Deputy Director of Planning, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
-John Peterson, Principal, Peterson Architects; founder and chair of Public Architecture
-Tom Radulovich, Executive Director, Livable City; member of Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board of Directors
-Seleta Reynolds, Fehr & Peers Associates, Transportation Consultants
Poster Exhibition
November 12,2007 to March 13, 2008 in the Market Street triangular kiosks between Van Ness and the Embarcadero.
The San Francisco Arts Commission's Art on Market Street Program's new Kiosk Poster Series by artists Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert features visions of a future San Francisco, including transportation improvements and other imaginative urban developments.
Free Catalogs!
In conjunction with the poster exhibition, a project catalog, including excerpts from the artist' interviews, the public panel and poster reproductions, will be available free of charge at the Arts Commission offices in March, 2008
Artists
Artists Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert asked Bay Area architects, city planners and transportation engineers, “What would you do if you didn’t have to worry about budgets, bureaucracy, politics, or physics?” Ideas from these conversations were then merged, developed and perhaps mildly exaggerated by the artists to create six imaginative poster designs for exhibition in the Market Street kiosks.
The six original poster designs include a Muni of tomorrow, expansive new wildlife refuge areas throughout San Francisco, suggestions for commuter friendly activities on dedicated BART cars, a farm in the Candlestick stadium, a new individual commuter line (literally) from the top of the Ferry Building in San Francisco to Oakland, and suggestions for removing or moving unpopular buildings following a public vote.
Packard Jennings and Steve Lambert, both together and individually, often collaborate with a wide range of people for their projects, which typically engage directly with audiences in public settings about social and political issues.
Packard Jennings, whose artworks have been exhibited both locally and internationally, has been Artist in Residence at Three Walls in Chicago; Cite Internationale des Arte, in Paris, France; and the Sanitary Land Fill Company in South San Francisco. In 2005 he received a Creative Work Fund Project Grant. In January of 2008, his artwork will be exhibited at the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, and in the Fall of 2008, at Analix-Forever Gallery in Geneva Switzerland. His website is http://centennialsociety.com/durham.html.
Steve Lambert, whose projects have been implemented locally and internationally, has received awards from Rhizone/The New Museum in New York, the Creative Work Fund in San Francisco, the California Arts Council, and Adbusters Media Foundation, among others. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Eyebeams Open R & D Lab in New York City, and is applying to convert the Mall of America to a wildlife refuge. His website is http://visitsteve.com.
The Art on Market Street Program brings contemporary art by Bay Area artists to San Francisco’s main thoroughfare.
The San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Street Program is funded in part by the San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency and CBS Outdoor.
Contact: Judy Moran, 415/252-2586