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At SFAI, faculty and staff members are artists too! Faculty and staff shows are a great way for students to connect to the wider community of SFAI-affiliated artists across the globe. Here’s a glimpse of what SFAI faculty and staff are up to this month:

Exhibitions: 

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: 

Charlie Byrne — Manager, Digital Imaging + Photography Studio

Through August 25, see Charlie’s work in the Division of Labor (Group Exhibition) at Minnesota Street Project Gallery in San Francisco. 

Ivan Iannoli — Faculty | Photography

Stop by the SFAI alumni-founded gallery Bass & Reiner before September 29th to see Ivan Iannoli’s solo exhibition, Exhibition in Three Parts, Parts 2 and 3.  

Cait Peterson + Hadar Kleiman — SFAI Admissions 

Come to the SFAI alumni-founded gallery Root Division by August 11th to see the work of SFAI Alumni Cait Peterson and Hadar Kleiman in Funk Ain't Dead (Group Exhibition). 

Christopher Squier — Exhibitions + Public Programs Coordinator

See SFAI alum Christopher Squier’s work in the group exhibition As/If, on view through September 23rd at Provisional Gallery. 

Taravat Talepasand — Faculty | Painting

Come to SFAI alumni-founded gallery Evergold Projects by August 11th to see the work of SFAI’s current Painting department chair in The Internet Archives 2018 Artist in Residency Exhibition. 

Lindsey White — Faculty | Photography

Now through August 26th, you can catch the work of Photography department chair Lindsey White in Academic Practice: Bay Now Photography Now (Group Exhibition), on view at Stanford University’s Coulter Art Gallery. 

LOS ANGELES: 

Taravat Talepasand — Faculty | Painting

If you can’t make it to her show in San Francisco, you can also catch Taravat’s work in the LACMA show, In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, until September 9th. 

SAN DIEGO:

Whitney Lynn — Faculty | New Genres

If you find yourself in the San Diego International Airport, be sure to look for Whitney Lynn’s Not Seeing Is A Flower, on view through March, 2019.

NEW YORK CITY: 

Maria Elena González — Faculty | Sculpture and New Genres

If you’re in New York City, check out Maria Elena González’s work in the group exhibition, Vis-à-Vis, on view at Hirschl & Adler Gallery through August 25th, or in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, on view at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery through September 23rd.

MONTPELLIER, FRANCE:

Niki Korth — Manager of Graduate Administration

Now through August 26th, SFAI alum Niki Korth’s work can be seen at Montpellier’s La Panacée Centre d'art Contemporain in Talk Show Festival (The Big Conversation Space). 

ISLE OF WIGHT, UK:

Jeremy Morgan — Faculty | Painting

Through August 12th, Jeremy Morgan will be showing his work in a solo exhibition at the Art House Life Gallery in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. The show is called MATTER, TIME AND PLACE. 

Awards and Interviews:

Miah Jeffra — Faculty | Liberal Arts

This month, SFAI professor Miah Jeffra was awarded the Atticus Review 2018 Flash Creative Nonfiction Prize, and the Ragdale Fellowship for Nonfiction. He will attend the Ragdale Residency in Chicago to complete more creative nonfiction work! 

Meredith Tromble — Faculty | Interdisciplinary Studies

Hear Easyl founder Andrew Herman interview Meredith Tromble in Art19′s State of the Art Podcast Interview: AI and Art. 

Postcommodity, a collective comprised of Kade L. Twist and SFAI Art + Technology  Chair Cristóbal Martínez, has been awarded the 2018 Carnegie International Fine Prize! 

Founded in 1896, Carnegie International is the second-oldest Contemporary Art exhibition in the world and has made Pittsburgh a hub for the contemporary art scene and artists alike. It takes place at the Carnegie Museum of Art every 3-5 years, and includes works from prominent current contemporary artists and collectives. This year, the indigenous collective Postcommodity contributed an enormous installation made of coal, white glass, and rusted steel harvested from local factories and mines entitled From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home. 

The piece consumes the first floor of CMoA’s Hall of Sculpture, commanding the viewer’s attention on the industrial landscape of Pittsburgh. Shards of glass, coal, and industrial steel are organized in patterns reminiscent of indigenous sand paintings, connecting Postcommodity directly to the marginalized labor force upon which Pittsburgh’s steel industry was built. Pointedly referring to the history of colonized peoples whose labor was used to build the individual wealth that later funds art institutions such as the Carnegie Museum of Art.

According to Martínez, this work aims to rectify the romanization of these narratives by reincorporating the complexity of its colonial past. From Smoke and Tangled Waters We Carried Fire Home brings to life the story of black labor unions born from these shards and empowered through music; a poetic take on a difficult history. Keeping in tune with the contemporary use of the space, jazz musicians will draw from the piece in their scores expanding the viewer’s experience from one that is merely visual to one that is environmental. During its lifetime at Carnegie, the piece will become a new foundation to rebuild this historical fantasy of an industrial America. 

In addition to the major accomplishment of winning the globally-recognized Fine Prize, Postcommodity provided SFAI students with the opportunity to participate in Carnegie International. Their interactive work will be shown in November at CMoA’s University Night with Postcommodity. Cristóbal Martínez and Kade Twist of Postcommodity will speak about their work, and the challenges of communicating complex stories through visual language. Doors will be open to university students, faculty and staff. 

Underground film legend George Kuchar taught film at SFAI from 1971 to 2011. Here’s a candid interview as published in our 1979–81 catalog.

Why are you making movies? Anybody can make a movie.

Don't ever let a filthy rumor like that get around, or phonies like myself will be out of a teaching job!

Why do you use such a fantastic cast?

I use people because it's less time consuming than animating paper cutouts.

How did your film career really start?

It started by me and my brother being taken to movies by our mom. She's responsible for my career.

My dad gave me and Mike, my brother, a weekly allowance. He was our first producer, as we bought film with that allowance.

The Bronx was our movie lot and, frankly, it is unequaled for its incredible variety of terrain—in that one borough you can recreate jungles, forests, oceans, moun­tains, prairies, cities, arctic wastes, and At­lantean empires. It's full of photogenic yentas and beatific Babas. The guys were all John Travoltas or Arnold Stangs. Sun­sets were very vivid with all the smog and crap like that.

Sewers backed up frequently creating vast pools in which to mirror the landscape.The abundance of potato knishes guaran­teed voluptuous starlets, and pimples caused by atmospheric irritants added splashes of color to every face. The prox­imity to other New York boroughs guaran­teed a vast assortment of new faces, which meant that if you were making a movie about radioactive mutants you'd never be at a loss for actors.

How is your work received? Is there any difference between audience reaction in San Francisco, New York, or Europe?

My work is received okay. I find my audiences, and they find me. I like meeting them in dinky chambers behind store fronts. I enjoy stapling up a sheet of butcher paper in a college lecture hall so that the movies can have some sort of screen to be projected on. I like meeting kind people I never knew existed. I wish the rotten people would drop dead.

In San Francisco, they come out of the fog to see my stuff. In New York, they come out of the woodwork. In Europe...well, what else is new?

The Cinematheque recently screened your new films “Symphony for a Sinner,” “Forever and Always,” and “Mon­greloid.” Tell us something about one or all of them, or one of the others, or how they all relate.

“Symphony for a Sinner” is made in the classroom and can be looked upon as a big lesson. Each sequence is a verbal and visual lecture...filmmaking gib­berish. It is also a sort of college yearbook as it records the people in our class at the time, plus their friends, and anyone else who happened to be passing by.

“Forever and Always” is a baby I gave birth to at home. Most of the people in it were students of mine and so I guess it can be considered a homework assignment.

The “Mongreloid” documents my relation­ship with my dog, and parts of it were shot by an ex-student of mine. So I guess you can look at it as him getting his revenge since I was photographed in my own habitat, which makes me automatically look like an idiot.

What inspires your films?

God is dead and the devil is big box office these days. It was hard to be inspired by the Divine anyway. Especially when, as a youth, you had to sit through such massive biblical movies like “The Story of Esther” and “The Big Fisherman.” In such movies—no matter how horrible it sounds—I used to look for­ward to the crucifixion scene. Back then the special effects people would get to work and turn on the wind machines, clouds would boil, Hollywood lightning would crackle, and pagan temples would split open at the seams disgorging vomiting sin­ners! I guess all these planetary and meteorological pyrotechnics meant God to me, and I welcomed their climactic ar­rival when the bearded actors made their temporary exits. 

All I really remember about “The Story of Esther” was that Peggy Wood was in it...and maybe Yvonne De Carlo, or was it Debra Paget? In any case, Peggy Wood used to be in “I Remember Mama,” a TV show I watched when I was a kid. I remember years later how shocked I was that she should appear at the Academy Awards presentation in a plung­ing neckline. It was a disgrace to mothers everywhere...and to God. But, Divine Wrath did not intercede: the walls of the crowded theatre didn't split asunder sending forth a crushing stampede of painted harlots and effeminate men to trample the sin out of she who flaunts her nakedness in God's very face! The injustice of it all. 

I then realized that these were films not inspired by the Divine, and I looked elsewhere for the truth.

I found it in the films of Mamie Van Doren and John Drew Barrymore, Jr. Pictures such as “High School Confidential” and “Legion of the Zombies.” Sure, she was cheap and bleached her hair, but I knew she was deep inside.

These people and these films became my Divine inspiration in the world of cinema.

These movie goddesses served well the actors who became their screen lovers. Men such as Tom Conway and William Campbell. Men, who no matter how humiliating the script and production val­ues, managed to add dignity and virility to the one-dimensional characters. In an era of stereoscopic cinema and the emergence of elongated rectangular screens, these people persevered in the black and white box format—while color and cinemascope smeared Robert Wagner and Terry Moore wall to wall.

I like a little black and white box because I realize all too well that we all wind up in an elongated box...in the end. One with brass handles and shining white satin. We wind up in that elongated box all painted up, perfumed, and powdered like a Percy Westmore creation.

George Kuchar was a member of the filmmak­ing faculty at SFAI. He has exhibited his works at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, American Independent Film Exhibition, London, and the Archives of the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, among others. Kuchar was selected for American representation at the 7th Rotterdam International Film Festi­val, Holland, in 1978. 

Faculty + Staff News June 2019

This month see the work of 28 faculty members in SFAI’s Faculty Exhibition, More Than 700 Years, on view at both SFAI campuses through September 1. 

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA:

Rhiannon Alpers — Faculty | Printmaking 

Through September 2 you can see Rhiannon Alper’s handbound books on view at the SF Public Library’s Skylight Gallery in Hand Bookbinders of California 47.

Clark Buckner — Faculty | Liberal Arts Check out Clark Buckner’s curatorial work in  Lost Holidays, on view June 22–August 10 at Telematic. 

Charles Hobson — Professor Emeritus | Printmaking See Charles Hobson’s work at the Legion of Honor in Small Inventions: The Artist’s Books of Charles Hobson, on view through July 14.

Kate Rhoades — Faculty | New Genres Kate Rhoades’ work is currently on view at bust stops on Market Street between the Embarcadero and 8th St in San Francisco as part of the Art on Market Poster Series. 

Lindsey White — Faculty + Department Chair | Photography Photography Chair Lindsey White’s work in on view at SF City Hall’s North Light Court and Ground Floor through March 13, 2020 as part of Brian Belott’s RHODASCOPE: Scribbles, Smears, and the Universal Language of Children According to Rhoda Kellogg. 

Wanxin Zhang — Faculty | Sculpture/Ceramics See Wanxin Zhang’s work at the Museum of Craft and Design in Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey through July 14.

WILMINGTON, DE:

Maria Elena González — Faculty + Sculpture/Ceramics Department Chair | Sculpture/Ceramics/New Genres If you find yourself in Delaware this summer, check out Maria Elena Gonzalez’s work in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, on view at the Delaware Art Museum, on view through September 8.

CHICAGO, IL:

Maria Elena González — Faculty + Sculpture/Ceramics Department Chair | Sculpture/Ceramics/New Genres If you’re in Chicago, see Maria Elena González’s work in the group exhibition About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art, on view through July 20 at Wrightwood 659.

MIAMI, FL:

James Claussen — Faculty | Printmaking James Claussen’s Headed for an Accumulated Comfort lithograph is on view in the group exhibition Observing Life: Intersections Among Art, medicine, and Health at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. 

CHINA:

Zeina Barakeh — Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs See Zeina’s work in Silent Narratives, on view at MOCA Yinchuan through August 17. 

Jeremy Morgan — Faculty | Painting Jeremy Morgan and Ming Ren are showing work in East Wind from the West at the Fanyuan Art Gallery in Beijing through July 2. 

IMAGE CREDITS:

(1) Caitlin Mitchell-Dayton, Stone Awards, 2013/14, Oil on linen, 72 x 96 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.

At SFAI, faculty and staff members are artists too! Faculty and staff shows are a great way for students to connect with the wider community of SFAI-affiliated artists across the globe. Here’s a glimpse of what SFAI faculty and staff are up to this month:

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA:

Johnna Arnold — Faculty | Photography See Johnna Arnold’s work in her solo exhibition at Sarah Shepard Gallery in Larkspur, CA, entitled From Inside This Earth, on view through June 1.

Clark Buckner — Faculty | Liberal Arts Check out Clark Buckner’s curatorial work at Telematic in If AI Were Cephalopod, featuring 0rphan Drift (Ranu Mukherjee and Maggie Roberts), on view through June 8.

Charles Hobson — Professor Emeritus | Printmaking See Charles Hobson’s work at the Legion of Honor in Small Inventions: The Artist’s Books of Charles Hobson, on view through July 14.

Frances McCormack — Professor Emeritus | Painting See Frances McCormack’s work in the group exhibition Sonoma Modern | Contemporary, on view through June 16 at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.

Kal Spelletich — Faculty | Sculpture/Ceramics Book an appointment to see Kal Spelletich’s work in Molecular Vibrations of the Radiant Body, on view through May 31 at the Recology SF Transfer Station.

Taravat Talepasand — Faculty + Interim Painting Department Chair | Painting See Taravat Talepasand’s work in the group exhibition EPOCH, on view through May 31 at Gallery 16.

Lindsey White — Faculty + Photography Department Chair | Photography On view at Casemore Kirkeby through May 26, see Lindsey White’s work in the group exhibition Handless Operative.

Wanxin Zhang — Faculty | Sculpture/Ceramics See Wanxin Zhang’s work at the Museum of Craft and Design in Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey through July 14.

CHICAGO, IL:

Maria Elena González — Faculty + Sculpture/Ceramics Department Chair | Sculpture/Ceramics/New Genres If you’re in Chicago, see Maria Elena González’s work in the group exhibition About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art, on view through July 20 at Wrightwood 659.

OTHER FUN STUFF:

Miah Jeffra — Faculty | Liberal Arts Get your copy of Foglifter—a magazine co-founded by Miah Jeffra and nominated for the Outstanding Literary LGBTQ Anthology at the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony.

Danielle Lawrence — Faculty | Painting + Drawing Congratulations to Danielle Lawrence, who was selected for the 2019 Golden Foundation Artists in Residence Program in New Berlin, NY.

IMAGE CREDITS:

(1) Taravat Talepasand, White Div I, II, III (installation view), 2019; featured in the exhibition EPOCH, Gallery 16, San Francisco.

(2) Lindsey White, Man Plow, 2019, Archival pigment; featured in the exhibition Handless Operative at Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco.

At SFAI, faculty and staff members are artists too! Faculty and staff shows are a great way for students to connect with the wider community of SFAI-affiliated artists across the globe. Here’s a glimpse of what SFAI faculty and staff are up to this month:

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA:

Rhiannon Alpers — Faculty | Printmaking

Illustrious bookmaker Rhiannon Alpers will be showing work at Long Live the Book! Contemporary Bookbinding as Art and Craft through May 4 at the American Bookbinders Museum.  

Johnna Arnold — Faculty | Photography

See Johnna Arnold’s work in her solo exhibition at Sarah Shepard Gallery in Larkspur, CA, entitled From Inside This Earth, on view through June 1. 

Clark Buckner — Faculty | Sculpture + MFA Programs

Check out Clark’s curatorial work at Telematic in Thundercoat (Film/Exhibition by Bonanza LLC), on view through April 27.

Charles Hobson — Professor Emeritus | Printmaking

See SFAI Professor Emeritus Charles Hobson’s work on view at the Legion of Honor in Small Inventions: The Artist’s Books of Charles Hobson. The exhibition will run through July 14.

Mads Lynnerup — Faculty | New Genres

See Introspections, the series of five short videos satirizing key moments in the history of American TV and social media curated by video and performance artist Mads Lynnerup, through May 4 at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.

Frances McCormack — Faculty | Painting

See Frances McCormack’s work in the group exhibition Sonoma Modern | Contemporary, on view through June 16 at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. 

Taravat Talepasand — Faculty | Painting

You can see Taravat’s work on view at Gallery 16 in EPOCH, on view through May 31.

Wanxin Zhang — Instructor | Sculpture

See Wanxin Zhang’s work at the Museum of Craft and Design in Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey through July 14.

Lindsey White — Faculty | Photography

On view at Casemore Kirkeby through May 26, see Lindsey White’s work in the group exhibition Handless Operative. 

SCOTTSDALE, AZ:

Mads Lynnerup — Faculty | New Genres

See Mads Lynnerup’s work in Now Playing: Video 1999–2019, on view at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art through May 12.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN:

John Roloff — Faculty | Sculpture

View John Roloff’s work in Two Sites with a Similar Problem: Neil Forrest and John Roloff, on view through May 6 at the Architecture Library at the University of Minnesota. 

PORTLAND, ME:

Maria Elena González — Faculty | Sculpture + New Genres

If you’re in Portland, check out Maria Elena González’s work in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, on view at the Portland Museum of Art through May 5.

OTHER FUN STUFF:

Miah Jeffra — Faculty | Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts faculty Miah Jeffra published a piece entitled “Babies” for the Spring 2019 Issue of The North American Review. Also, his magazine Foglifter was nominated for Outstanding Literary Anthology during the 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards. 

IMAGES:

(1) Dewey Crumpler, A Celebration of Black and Tan Fantasy mural, 1984; 762 Fulton Street (at Webster Street), San Francisco, CA. Photo by Jonathan Curiel. 

At SFAI, faculty and staff members are artists too! Faculty and staff shows are a great way for students to connect with the wider community of SFAI-affiliated artists across the globe. Here’s a glimpse of what SFAI faculty and staff are up to this month:

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA:

Rhiannon Alpers — Faculty | Printmaking

Illustrious bookmaker Rhiannon Alpers will be showing work at Long Live the Book! Contemporary Bookbinding as Art and Craft through May 4 at the American Bookbinders Museum.  

Clark Buckner — Faculty | Sculpture + MFA Programs

Check out Clark’s curatorial work at Telematic in Black Cherry Locusts with Sterile Fudge Swirl (Porpetine Charity Heartscape), on view through March 23.

Art Hazelwood — Faculty | Printmaking

See the work of San Francisco Poster Syndicate! Silkscreen political posters by more than 30 local artists-activists at the Immigration Emergency: In Defense and Defiance Exhibition through April 21 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. 

Charles Hobson — Professor Emeritus | Printmaking

See SFAI Professor Emeritus Charles Hobson’s work on view at the Legion of Honor in Small Inventions: The Artist’s Books of Charles Hobson. The exhibition will run through July 14.

Kerry Laitala — Faculty | Film

Experimental video artist Kerry Laitala will be showing her work at the Ambient Dew Point Group Exhibition, on view through April 5, at the Art Ark Gallery, San Jose. Performances on March 22, from 7pm to 9pm. 

Mads Lynnerup — Faculty | New Genres

See Introspections, the series of five short videos satirizing key moments in the history of American TV and social media curated by video and performance artist Mads Lynnerup, through May 4 at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.

Taravat Talepasand — Faculty | Painting

You can see Taravat’s work on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts alongside the work of SFAI alumni as part of Bay Area Now 8 (Survey Exhibition), on view through March 24.

Wanxin Zhang — Instructor | Sculpture

See Wanxin Zhang’s work in Richard Shaw and Wanxin Zhang, on view at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art from January 19–April 7. You can also see Wanxin Zhang’s work at the Museum of Craft and Design in Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey through July 14. 

Jordan Reznick — Faculty | Photography

On view at the Hubbell Street Galleries, through March 22, see Transecologies, the collaborative exhibition that brings together the work of three transgender artists — Craig Calderwood, Nicki Green and Jordan Reznick — with trans scholar Mat Fournier, and traverses themes related to transecologies.

PALM DESERT, CA:

Cristóbal Martínez — Instructor | Art & Technology Department Chair 

If you’re in Southern California, check out the Postcommodity: It Exists in Many Forms, on view through April 21, at Miles C. Bates House in Palm Desert.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ:

Mads Lynnerup — Faculty | New Genres

See Mads Lynnerup’s work in Now Playing: Video 1999–2019, on view at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art through May 12.

LEWISTON, ME:

Timothy Berry — Chair | Printmaking

View Timothy Berry’s work in Anthropocenic: Art about the Natural World in the Human Era (Group Exhibition), on view at Bates College Museum of Art through March 23.

PORTLAND, ME:

Maria Elena González — Faculty | Sculpture + New Genres

If you’re in Portland, check out Maria Elena González’s work in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, on view at the Portland Museum of Art through May 5.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK:

Mads Lynnerup — Faculty | New Genres

If you find yourself in Denmark this month, see Mads Lynnerup’s work in the FOKUS 2019 festival, on view at Nikolaj Kunsthal and at various institutions throughout the Copenhagen Cultural District through March 31.

HALLE, GERMANY:

Robin Balliger — Associate Professor | Liberal Arts Department Chair

Robin Balliger will be holding a presentation on: "Painting Over Precarity: Community Public Art and the Optics of Dispossession, Gentrification, and Governance in West Oakland, CA" @ Urban Precarity Workshop. March 27 through 29, at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

OTHER FUN STUFF:

Miah Jeffra — Faculty | Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts faculty Miah Jeffra published a piece entitled “Babies” for the Spring 2019 Issue of The North American Review.

IMAGES: 

(1) Web Image for Postcommodity’s It Exists in Many Forms exhibition, Palm Desert, 2019. 

(2) Nicki Green, Morel Figure with Prosthesis, 2017. Glazed earthenware and felt. 37" x 22" x 21". Web image for Transecologies exhibition, San Francisco, 2019. 

At SFAI, faculty and staff members are artists too! Faculty and staff shows are a great way for students to connect with the wider community of SFAI-affiliated artists across the globe. Here’s a glimpse of what SFAI faculty and staff are up to this month:

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA:

Rhiannon Alpers — Faculty | Printmaking

Illustrious bookmaker Rhiannon Alpers will be showing work at Long Live the Book! Contemporary Bookbinding as Art and Craft through May 4 at the American Bookbinders Museum.  

Clark Buckner — Faculty | Sculpture + MFA Programs

Check out Clark’s curatorial work at Telematic in Black Cherry Locusts with Sterile Fudge Swirl (Porpetine Charity Heartscape), on view through March 16. 

Maria Elena González — Faculty | Sculpture + New Genres

On view at Mills College Art Museum in Oakland January 23–March 17, see the culmination of ten year’s of Maria Elena González’s work in the solo exhibition Tree Talk.

Charles Hobson — Professor Emeritus | Printmaking

See SFAI Professor Emeritus Charles Hobson’s work on view at the Legion of Honor in Small Inventions: The Artist’s Books of Charles Hobson. The exhibition will run through June 30. 

Mads Lynnerup — Faculty | New Genres

See Introspections, the series of five short videos satirizing key moments in the history of American TV and social media curated by video and performance artist Mads Lynnerup, through May 4 at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts. 

Cait Petersen (MFA 2016)—Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions +Kat Trataris (MFA 2016)—Manager of Exhibitions, Public Programs & Partnerships

Come see the work of SFAI alumni-turned-staff in Incline Gallery’s group exhibition, The UnMonumental, on view January 25th–March 1st.

Taravat Talepasand — Faculty | Painting

You can see Taravat’s work on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts alongside the work of SFAI alumni as part of Bay Area Now 8 (Survey Exhibition), on view through March.

Wanxin Zhang — Instructor | Sculpture

See Wanxin Zhang’s work in Richard Shaw and Wanxin Zhang, on view at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art from January 19–April 7. 

SCOTTSDALE, AZ:

Mads Lynnerup — Faculty | New Genres

See Mads Lynnerup’s work in Now Playing: Video 1999–2019, on view at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary art through May 19. 

SAN DIEGO, CA:

Whitney Lynn — Faculty | New Genres

If you find yourself in the San Diego International Airport, be sure to look for Whitney Lynn’s Not Seeing Is A Flower, on view through March, 2019.

LEWISTON, ME:

Timothy Berry — Chair | Printmaking

View Timothy Berry’s work in Anthropocenic: Art about the Natural World in the Human Era (Group Exhibition), on view at Bates College Museum of Art through March 23.

PORTLAND, OR:

Maria Elena González — Faculty | Sculpture + New Genres

If you’re in Portland, check out Maria Elena González’s work in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, on view at the Portland Museum of Art through May 5.

FORT COLLINS, CO:

J. John Priola — Director | Low-Residency MFA Program

From January 31 to February 23, you can catch J. John Priola’s work on view at The Center for Fine Art Photography in the group exhibition, Contemporary Portraiture.

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK:

Mads Lynnerup — Faculty | New Genres

If you find yourself in Denmark this winter, see Mads Lynnerup’s work in the FOKUS 2019 festival, on view at Nikolaj Kunsthal and at various institutions throughout the Copenhagen Cultural District through March 31. 

IMAGES:

1. Whitney Lynn, Not Seeing is a Flower, 2019. Installation at the San Diego International Airport.