Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night

Exhibitions

Conjuring Power: Roots & Futures of Queer & Trans Movements

In collaboration with the GLBT Historical Society

A multimedia exhibition exploring the resilient beauty, cultural richness, and fierce resistance of Bay Area queer and trans communities.

Exhibitions

Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night

The artist’s first solo exhibition in the Bay Area.

Exhibitions

GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain

Both visually captivating and subtly unsettling, GaHee Park’s paintings are enigmas of suggestive surrealism.

Films

And Life Goes On

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Abbas Kiarostami’s “And Life Goes On” (1992) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Watercolor Flower Paintings

Express yourself through watercolor by painting a collaborative flower still life.

Films

We Can Love It Together: Creativity Explored Short Film Fest

Co-presented by Creativity Explored & YBCA

An evening of short animations and films made by Creativity Explored artists over the last two decades.

Films

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Tsai Ming-liang’s “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” (2003) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Clay Sea Creatures

Learn how to form fantastical clay sea creature sculptures inspired by the exhibition “GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain.”

Performances

Cindy

Join San Francisco indie-pop quartet Cindy for an intimate in-gallery performance inside the exhibition “GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain.”

Films

Querelle

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Querelle (1982) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Surreal Portrait Collage

Draw from imagination to compose a surreal portrait collage inspired by “GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain.”

Films

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Albert Lewin’s “Pandora and the Flying Dutchman” (1951) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Dreamlike Diorama

Construct your own dreamlike world through a creative shadowbox diorama.

Films

Trouble in Paradise

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Ernst Lubitsch’s “Trouble in Paradise” (1932) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: Still Life Watercolor Painting

Create a watercolor painting through observation of still life objects.

Workshops

Pressing Matters: Hands-on Printmaking with Creativity Explored

Co-presented by Creativity Explored & YBCA

A hands-on, family-friendly activity for the public with Creativity Explored artists and staff demonstrating the basics of printmaking.

Films

Yourself and Yours

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Hong Sang-soo’s “Yourself and Yours” (2016) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Free Art Workshop: 3D Paper Flowers

Incorporate dimensionality into your colorful flower creation.

Films

A New Leaf

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Elaine May’s “A New Leaf” (1971) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

The Music Room

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Satyajit Ray’s “The Music Room (Jalsaghar)” (1958) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Workshops

Making Faces: A Puppet Crafting Workshop with Creativity Explored

Co-presented by Creativity Explored & YBCA

Join Creativity Explored artists for a hands-on, drop-in workshop to build your very own hand or stick puppet.

Films

The Ceremony

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See Nagisa Ōshima’s “The Ceremony” (1971) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Films

Silent Shorts Program

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

This program of silent shorts features three multi-hyphenate artists-filmmakers-performers influential to GaHee Park’s work.

Films

The Red Shoes

Co-Presented by GaHee Park, Michael Vass & YBCA

See “The Red Shoes” (1948) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.

Public Programs

Progressive Art Studio Models: A Lecture By Cléa Massiani

Co-presented by Creativity Explored & YBCA

A lecture on Progress Art Studios (PAS); radical spaces that support artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities while disrupting normative assumptions about art, labor, and value.

Public Art

Dream

Ana Teresa Fernández

A public art installation commissioned by YBCA and co-sponsored by San Francisco Public Works.

Public Art

SoMa Mahal Kita (SoMa I Love You)

Ciriaco Sayoc

A message of love for the SoMa neighborhood and community, inspired by weaving practices in the Phillipines and the colors of the Filipino flag.

Public Art

We fly for a liberated we, we rooted in flight

Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

A public artwork inviting passerbyers to join in the journey of collective flight