The sixth edition of YBCA's signature triennial exhibition, Bay Area Now, a roundup of exemplary talent across an array of disciplines, continues with a visual arts exhibition showcasing 18 artists and artist collectives. Included is photography by Tammy Rae Carland and Sean McFarland; paintings by David Huffman and Robert Minervini; video works by Ranu Mukherjee and Richard T. Walker; sculptures by Mauricio Ancalmo, Suzanne Husky, Allison Smith, and Weston Teruya; conceptual work by Amy Balkin and Tony Labat; installations by Chris Fraser, Brion Nuda Rosch, Chris Sollars, and Rio Babe International; and textiles by Ben Venom.
For BAN6, Sollars presents Hairy, an installation that utilizes the artist’s own hair as a starting point to address issues related to history, cultural identity and memory, with historical reference to practices of the 19th century in which locks of hair were kept to memorialize loved ones. Join Sollars in conversation with Jennifer A. González, associate professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz, as they discuss the cultural and artistic issues of hair. essays and reviews have appeared in Frieze, World Art, Diacritics, Art Journal, Bomb, numerous exhibition catalogs, and anthologies, her new book published by MIT press is Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art. Please note: this program is presented in place of the previously announced "Beard Conspiracy."
Streetwalkers, a gritty portrait of sex-for-pay in the Tenderloin, originally made for local television, is a remarkable, sobering portrait of a still-troubled neighborhood. The film mixes interviews with hookers, judges, detectives, local officials, and a pimp with a paper bag on his head. (1968, 45 min, 16mm). Preceded by His Father’s Call Girl, an anonymous, almost-hard masterpiece of scuzz, shot in a real adult bookstore on Sixth Street (c. 1968).
Jul 9, 2011 – Sep 25, 2011Main GalleriesVisual Arts
Aug 11, 2011 6:00pm – 8:00pm