MFA | Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

'Conflicting Tales'.
Saturday, September 5, 2009 - Sunday, December 13, 2009
Adam Adach, Monika Baer, Stephan Balkenhol, Rafal Bujnowski, Fiona Banner, Norbert Bisky, Fernando Bryce, Verne Dawson, Atul Dodiya, Dongwook Lee, Urs Fischer, Sabine Hornig, Hubbard / Birchler (MFA Photography Faculty), Tim Gardner, Douglas Kolk, Elke Krystufek, Nalini Malani, Muntean / Rosenblum, Anna Niesterowicz, Grayson Perry, Thomas Ochoa, Hans Op de Beeck, Jaume Plensa, Damien Roach, Julian Rosefeldt, Charles Sandison, Vittorio Santoro, Collier Schorr, Dennis Scholl, Steven Shearer, Fiete Stolte, Mathilde ter Heijne, Susan Turcot, Paul Winstanley, Zhou Jin Hua

The Burger Collection is going public with the group exhibition Conflicting Tales. The temporary exhibition will feature works by more than 30 artists from the collection and is curated by Daniel Kurjakovic, curator and head of program. It will take place in Berlin from September 5 through December 13, 2009 (opening: September 4, 2009).

Conflicting Tales is the first of four planned exhibitions from the holdings of the Burger Collection. The show focuses on the issue of subjectivity. Three further exhibitions in coming years will probe the issues of narration, historicity, and language as they play out in the Burger Collection. The concept for the presentation of the Burger Collection foresees changing sites around the world for the exhibitions.

The Burger Collection is a private collection of contemporary art. Monique Burger and her husband, who started collecting art in the early 1990s, placed a great deal of personal commitment into building up a collection of international artists. The collection currently contains more than 1000 works. It includes paintings, drawings, and photography as well as sculpture, new media, film, and video.

More information about the exhibition Conflicting Tales and the collection can be found here.

Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Conflicting Tales
Saturday, September 5, 2009 - Sunday, December 13, 2009

Jaishri Abichandani, Adam Adach, Monika Baer, Fiona Banner, Norbert Bisky, Fernando Bryce, Rafal Bujnowski, Verne Dawson, Wim Delvoye, Atul Dodiya, Urs Fischer, Tim Gardner, Gwon Osang, Sabine Hornig, Hubbard / Birchler (MFA Faculty), Bharti Kher, Douglas Kolk, Lee Dongwook, Nalini Malani, Hugo Markl, Olaf Metzel, Muntean / Rosenblum, Hans Op de Beeck, Grayson Perry, Jaume Plensa, Damien Roach, Julian Rosefeldt, Charles Sandison, Vittorio Santoro, Dennis Scholl, Collier Schorr, Steven Shearer, Fiete Stolte, Mathilde ter Heijne, Paul Winstanley, Zhang Dali.

Long Shot by William Lanson
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - Friday, January 29, 2010
Long Shot by William Lanson (MFA Alum)

Opening reception and pick-up basketball game:
September 12, 2009...2-6 PM...in The Lot

MAMA-SAN
Saturday, October 17, 2009 - Saturday, December 5, 2009
Judie Bamber / Robert Blanchon / Cirilo Domine / Cecilia Dougherty & Leslie Singer / Ashley Hunt / Catherine Lord / Kelly Marie Martin / Yong Soon Min / Nguyen Tan Hoang / Catherine Opie / Connie Samaras / Jeannie Simms / Laura Splan / Anne Walsh

From Young Chung, text about the show:

Oh mama-san, when did your name go AWOL?

The first time I heard your name, a customer from the neighborhood greeted my mother with your name on Broadway & 47th before the 1992 uprising. Without the tool of shared language, my mother simply smiled. Your name remains a bastardized residual trace of American military history gone AWOL. My mother provided services to the community while the customer supported my mother’s business with his patronage. When is your name a term of endearment, respect and gratitude while recognizing racial, gender and social difference?

Mama-san, your name is a double positive that compounds a general, respectful address with a Japanese honorific suffix. What was once spoken to give appreciation, your name continues to racialize and gender the bodies of working class men and women. Predictably, your name also improperly identifies a restaurant and even a type of chair. Without a proper noun, the commodification of our inhumanity displaces your dignity.

During my formative years at UC Irvine in the mid 90’s, my artistic outgrowths received nourishment from a cross-pollinating, inter-generational hotbed of multiple realities and truths, permitting me to share my own while respecting those of others. From this particular time and place, I have enlisted the help and support of mentors and peers to collectively re-imagine your name by expanding your description and occupation.

Mama-san, you are an artist, a teacher, a student, a colleague, a friend and the name of this show that I am dedicating to you. I would like to publicly acknowledge my gratitude by respectfully naming and thanking you with honor.

Thank you Judie-san, Robert-san, Cirilo-san, Cecilia-san & Leslie-san, Ashley-san, Catherine-san, Kelly-san, Yong Soon-san, Hoang-san, Cathy-san, Connie-san, Jeannie-san, Laura-san and Anne-san for your generosity, warmth and kindness - extensions of your politicized bodies of compassion and movement toward heartfelt change. Thank you for your allegiance with the struggles of others by building a community that protects and sustains our co-existence. Furthermore, thank you for being an artist’s artist.

Thank you to Eve-san and Lucas-san of Artist Curated Projects for inviting me to curate, Roger-san at Glendale College Art Gallery for hosting this show and Besser-san for standing by me while I revision your name.

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE'S 20th STREET GRAND OPENING EXHIBITION
Saturday, October 17, 2009 - Saturday, December 12, 2009
Featuring newly commissioned work by:

Ant Farm
Renee Gertler
Liz Glynn
Jonn Herschend
Whitney Lynn
Jay Nelson
Nonchalance
Lordy Rodriguez
Christine Wong Yap
SoEx's Youth Advisory Board

Bellwether is curated by Southern Exposure's artist-run Curatorial Committee
Southern Exposure proudly presents Bellwether, the inaugural exhibition in our new home on 20th Street in San Francisco's Mission District. Bellwether opens in conjunction with the Grand Opening celebration of SoEx's new 4,000 square foot building and 35th Anniversary of providing unwavering support for artists and youth.
The artists in Bellwether engage in multi-layered speculative projections on our ever shifting and uncertain future. Whether by indulging in their hopeful fantasies or examining their trepidation, the artists provide unique and perhaps unconventional tools and methodologies for envisioning and navigating the unknown. Through anticipation and fear, excitement and anxiety, prediction and instruction, the projects in this exhibition begin to give form to the haziness that lies ahead.
Bellwether includes a gallery exhibition, public art projects, an extensive public program series and catalog designed by MacFadden and Thorpe and published by Southern Exposure.

SoEx's gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday from 12 noon to 6 pm.

Exhibition: Michael Joo
Thursday, October 22, 2009 - Saturday, December 5, 2009

For the second time in P.S.1 history, the junior curatorial staff will produce and organize a large-scale group exhibition. Between Spaces will include film, installation, photography, and sculpture that address themes of nostalgia, a preoccupation with materiality, and the creation of illusionistic and psychological shifts in space. Playing the role of alchemist, each artist in Between Spaces will recast familiar materials and objects such as wood, paint, mirrors, moving blankets, Plexi-glass, Venetian blinds, and metal grating to make the ordinary strange.

Artists: David Altmejd, Martin Soto Climent, Alex Da Corte, Robert de Saint Phalle, Cheryl Donegan, Zak Kitnick, Sam Moyer, Heather Rowe, Melanie Schiff, Marc Swanson, and Penelope Umbrico

Dis/Believer: Intersections of Science and Religion in Contemporary Art
Monday, November 16, 2009 - Saturday, February 13, 2010
Dis/Believer presents the work of contemporary visual artists who engage in the relationship of science and religion. The concept is inspired by the ever-deepening controversies regarding the co-existence of scientific theory and a belief in the divine. The first visual arts exhibition to contribute to this global dialogue, Dis/Believer gives focus to artists who are increasingly exploring these issues and expanding the conversation in provocative and enlightening ways. Shown through diverse media, the disparate sub-themes range from evolution versus creationism and morality in medicine, to faith and technology and the sustainability of the planet.

Curated by Neysa Page-Lieberman.
Exhibition is held in conjunction with Critical Encounters: Fact & Faith

Artists Include: CarianaCarianne, Teresa Diehl, The Glue Society, Industry of the Ordinary, Kysa Johnson, Marci MacGuffie, Joe Meiser, Trong Nguyen, Joshua Thorson, Sandra Yagi

This conversation will consider how issues of Fact & Faith figure in both the making and perception of art. The discussion will relate to and open out from the work within the Dis/Believer exhibition to explore the shifting perceptions of religion and science, as well as how the intersection of religion, science and art provides opportunities to reshape their discrete categories.

Panelists include: Rev. Phil Blackwell, Chicago Temple; Matthew Friday, visual artist, faculty at Ohio University School of Art; Trong Nguyen, visual artist and curator, NYC; Lisa Schlesinger, Playwright, Dept of Fiction Writing, Columbia College; Robin Whatley, PhD, Dept of Science and Math, Columbia College. Co-Moderated by Tanner Smith, student, Film & Video, Columbia College and Lisa DiFranza, MA, Theology and the Arts, Andover Newton Theological School

Clifford Odet's "Paradise Lost"
Saturday, February 27, 2010 - Saturday, March 20, 2010
The American economy is on the edge of catastrophe and futures are at risk. The Gordon family, losing all they have worked for, strive to preserve their trust in each other and in the promise of their nation. Written by one of the greatest twentieth-century playwrights, Paradise Lost is a poetic, humane, and distinctly American drama that examines the impact of money and greed on family, business, and love.