SFAI Fall 2010 Lecture Series

Visiting Artists and Scholars

San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI)
Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St Campus
San Francisco CA 94133
Free and Open to the Public

http://www.sfai.ed

Robert Farris Thompson in conversation with Tim Whiten
Wednesday, September 22, 7:30 pm

Robert Farris Thompson is America’s most prominent scholar of African and Afro-American art and music. He has designed and organized five major exhibitions on this subject; African and Afro-American Art: The Transatlantic Tradition, Black Gods and Kings, African Art in Motion, and The Four Moments of the Sun.

Tim Whiten has been creating work of conceptual depth and outstanding power since the 1970’s. He has exhibited his work in major exhibitions of drawing and sculpture throughout North America and Asia, and is represented in numerous private, corporate and public collections.

Taravat Talepasand
Monday, October 11, 7:30 pm
2010 Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship

Combining elements of traditional Eastern and Western art forms, Taravat Talepasand explores conflicting Iranian and American mores. While maintaining classical styles, she updates the imagery by depicting modern characters.

Lisa Sanditz
Monday, October 18, 7:30 pm
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Painting Fellowship

Lisa Sanditz’s paintings combine desolate scenes and brilliant colors, capturing, as she describes it, “the ways the marketplace and the wilderness intersect, overlap, and inform each other.” Lisa Sanditz has had solo exhibitions at CRG Gallery, New York; Rodolphe Janssen Gallery; ACME Los Angeles; Kemper Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; and many others.

Adrian Paci
Wednesday, October 27, 7:30 pm
Visiting Artist

Adrian Paci creates artwork that addresses shifting regimes and cultural flux. Paci works with video, photography, and sculpture to examine the desolation of displacement and to commemorate both the traditions and the struggles of his country.

Jim Shaw
Monday, November 1, 7:30 pm
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Painting Fellowship

Jim Shaw works in a variety of media merging pop cultural sources with psychological charges, unadulterated dreams, rock and roll, horror film, theology, and autobiography.

Andrea Zittel
Monday, November 8, 7:30 pm
Ann Chamberlain Distinguished Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies

Andrea Zittel combines her work as an artist, designer, engineer, consultant, and advocate with the practices under her corporate identity, A-Z Administrative Services. Zittel has had a number of solo exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Edward Dimendberg
Wednesday, November 17, 7:30 pm
“Why Architecture Needs Cinema: The Case for diller scofidio + renfro”

Focusing on public space projects such as Facsimile and Jump Cuts by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, UC Irvine Film and Media Studies Professor Edward Dimendberg will argue that a crucial task for contemporary culture is the invention of new forms of windows—hybrids of traditional architecture and media art—adequate to contemporary technology and experiences of time and space.

Guillermo Santamarina
Thursday, November 18, 7:30 pm
Visiting Curator

In conjunction with the opening for the Disponible exhibition in the Walter and McBean Galleries, curator Guillermo Santamarina will lecture on the current contemporary art scene in Mexico City. He is the Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MuAC) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Wangechi Mutu
Monday, December 6, 7:30 pm
Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Painting Fellowship

Wangechi Mutu uses collage as a means of both physically and conceptually bringing layered depth to her work. Using images cut from fashion magazines, National Geographic, and books about African art, Mutu pieces together figures which are both elegant and perverse.

Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St Campus
San Francisco CA 94133
Free and Open to the Public

http://www.sfai.ed

For more information about the Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, please go to: http://www.sfai.edu/vas or call 415 749 4563.