Contributors
Writers
- Aaron Harbour
- Adrienne Skye Roberts
- Aimee Le Duc
- Alyse Mason Brill
- Anne Colvin
- Anthony Marcellini
- Art Practical Editors
- Bad at Sports
- Bean Gilsdorf
- Bill Berkson
- Blair Schulman
- Blanka Earhart
- Brady Welch
- Brandon Brown
- Brent Foster Jones
- Brian Andrews
- Bruno Fazzolari
- Carol Anne McChrystal
- Catherine McChrystal
- Chelsea Wong
- Cherie Louise Turner
- Christian L. Frock
- Christina Linden
- Christine Kesler
- Christine Wong Yap
- Constance Lewallen
- crystal am nelson
- Daily Serving
- Danielle Sommer
- Dena Beard
- Dominic Willsdon
- Elizabeth Johnson
- Ellen Tani
- Elysa Lozano
- Elyse Mallouk
- Gabriela Salgado
- Genevieve Quick
- Gibson Cuyler
- Glen Helfand
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña
- Gwen Allen
- Hou Hanru
- Jake Longstreth
- Jarrett Earnest
- Jeanne Gerrity
- Jessica Brier
- John Zarobell
- Kara Q. Smith
- Kate Mattingly
- Keturah Cummings
- Lani Asher
- Larissa Archer
- Laura Cassidy
- Lea Feinstein
- Leigh Markopoulos
- Lia Wilson
- Liena Vayzman
- Liz Glass
- Marc Weidenbaum
- Marcella Faustini
- Mark Van Proyen
- Marta Martinez
- Mary Anne Kluth
- Matt Stromberg
- Matt Sussman
- Matthew David Rana
- Matthew Harrison Tedford
- Megan McMillan
- Megan Wilson
- Melissa E. Feldman
- Melony Bravmann
- Mia Kirsi Stageberg
- Michele Carlson
- Patricia Maloney
- Patrick Gillespie
- Rachel Adams
- Randall Miller
- Rebecca Blocksome
- Renny Pritikin
- Sarah Hotchkiss
- Shannon Jackson
- Shotgun Reviews
- Sita K. Bhaumik
- Spencer Young
- Stephanie Baker
- Terri Cohn
- Tess Thackara
- Theo Konrad Auer
- Tom Comitta
- Twilight Greenaway
- Valerie Imus
- Victoria Gannon
- Zachary Royer Scholz
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Aaron Harbour
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Aaron Harbour is a cultural producer curating, writing, DJing, and occasionally art making out of Oakland. He is the co-editor of the Bay Area edition of Art Cards. He works in collaboration with Jackie Im, most frequently at MacArthur B Arthur Gallery in Oakland. He runs an art critique blog on Facebook and has a long work in the upcoming issue of DRIFT magazine. He has performed his music and/or DJed at various venues throughout the Bay Area such as the Berkeley Art Museum, Mighty, Club 6, LiPo Lounge, and Southern Exposure. He received some modicum of education at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Adrienne Skye Roberts
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Adrienne Skye Roberts is an independent curator, writer and educator. Her work examines the intersections between public art and urban politics with an emphasis on community-based projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts and a BA in Art and Feminist Studies from UC Santa Cruz.
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Aimee Le Duc
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Aimee Le Duc received her MA in Visual Criticism from California College of the Arts in 2003 and her MFA degree in their Creative Writing program in 2004. She is currently the Gallery Manager at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, and was the Associate Director of Southern Exposure, San Francisco from 2006 to 2008. Her critical writing appears in publications including Sculpture, Contemporary Arts Quarterly, the Journal for Aesthetics and Protest, Artweek, and Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts.
Before attending CCA, she worked in Salt Lake City as the Assistant Visual Arts Coordinator for the Utah Arts Council, managing various statewide juried exhibitions and facilitating a career resource center for artists.
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Alyse Mason Brill
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Alyse Mason Brill is the Shotgun Review Editor for Art Practical and an entrepreneur living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned an AM in English Literature from the University of Chicago and a BA with honors from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Anne Colvin
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Anne Colvin is, in the words of Chuck Mobley, "San Francisco's favorite Scottish artist." Anne has recently shown at David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco; Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York; Post, LA and Artistspace, London, amongst others. Recent curatorial projects include TART, which was invited to participate in X-Initiative's No Soul For Sale festival of independents, New York; "The Colony Room" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club" at New Langton. Upcoming shows include "Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection" at SFMOMA and "Chain Reaction 11" at SFAC Gallery. She will be programmer-in-residence at the UC Berkeley Art Museum from February to June 2010.
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Anthony Marcellini
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Anthony Marcellini is an artist and writer. His practice is based around examining the politics of the creative act. From 2004-2007 Anthony was the Curatorial Assistant at the non-profit gallery Art in General. He received his MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts in 2009. He is currently teaching and researching through the Independent Study program at Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Art Practical Editors
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Art Practical is edited by Alyse Mason Brill, Victoria Gannon, Patricia Maloney, Catherine McChrystal, Morgan Peirce, Matt Sussman, Matthew Harrison Tedford, and Tess Thackara. Kara Q. Smith is our editorial assistant, and Liz Glass is our editorial intern.
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- A Closer Look at Daily Serving
- Conversation about Invisible Relics
- Conversation with San Francisco Arts Quarterly
- Critical Sources, Part I
- Critical Sources, Part II
- Fast. Slow. Loud. Soft. Freak-Out: Joshua Churchill and Chris Duncan in conversation
- In and Out of Context
- In and Out of Context Bios
- Interview with Terri Cohn
- Introduction to the Features
- Loosed of Limits and Imaginary Lines
- Manifest 770
- Pastures
- Portals
- R. H. Quaytman
- Stick Like Glue
- Year Two in Review: Editors Choice
- Year in Review: Editors’ Choice
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Bad at Sports
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Bad At Sports is a weekly podcast about contemporary art. Founded in 2005, the series focuses on presenting the practices of artists, curators, critics, dealers, various other arts professionals through an online audio format.
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- Interview with Aaron GM and Ginger Wolfe-Suarez
- Interview with Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
- Interview with Carolee Schneeman
- Interview with Emily Roysdon
- Interview with James Voorhies
- Interview with Jim Campbell
- Interview with Jonn Herschend
- Interview with Julie Ault
- Interview with Julio Cesar Morales
- Interview with Kodwo Eshun of the Otolith Group
- Interview with Mads Lynnerup
- Interview with Martha Wilson
- Interview with Michelle Blade
- Interview with Natasha Wheat
- Interview with Pablo Helguera
- Interview with Steven Leiber
- Interview with Tammy Rae Carland
- Interview with the Present Group
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Bean Gilsdorf
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Bean Gilsdorf lives in San Francisco. Her critical writing has appeared in print and online publications such as Daily Serving, Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture, and Fiberarts Magazine. She holds graduate degrees in linguistics and cognitive science, and recently completed the MFA program at the California College of the Arts. Gilsdorf is a 2011-2012 Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito.
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- 18 Reasons: A Conversation with Rosie Branson Gill and Leah Rosenberg
- Best Of: Bean Gilsdorf
- From Krakow: Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt. What comes Next?
- History’s Shadow
- Inside us all there is a part that would like to burn down our own house
- Interview with Glenn Adamson
- Landscape Update
- Lending Library
- Pitcher Collection
- Profile: Ethan Rose
- Profile: Kadist Magazine Residency
- Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective
- Shadow
- This Is a Picture of Me
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Bill Berkson
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Bill Berkson is a poet, art critic, editor, and curator who has been active in the art and poetry worlds for five decades. He is the author of eighteen books and pamphlets of poetry, including most recently Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems, Gloria (with etchings by Alex Katz), Goods and Services, and Lady Air, as well as an epistolary collaboration by Bernadette Mayer entitled What's Your Idea of a Good Time? He is a corresponding editor for Art in America, and his criticism has appeared there and in Artforum and other journals. A collection of his essays, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings, appeared in 2004, Sudden Address: Selected Lectures in 2007, and a new collection of art writings For the Ordinary Artist will appear later this year, as will Not an Exit, a suite of poems with drawings by Léonie Guyer. He was Distinguished Paul Mellon Fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for 2006 and was awarded the 2008 Goldie for Literature from the Bay Guardian and the 2010 Balcones Prize for Poetry. Berkson taught literature and art history at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1984 to 2008.
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Blair Schulman
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Blair Schulman is Editor of Cupcakes in Regalia, a site devoted to commentary of Kansas City-area art and artists, and Associate Editor of Art Tattler. His writing has also been published in Ceramics: Arts & Perception, Juxtapoz, the Kansas City Star, fluent-collaborative, and was a long-time contributor to Review magazine.
Schulman is a 2012 Fellow in the Oklahoma Art Writing and Curatorial program, presented by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC). The Fellowship is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc., and the Oklahoma Arts Council.Articles
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Blanka Earhart
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Blanka Earhart is a cultural producer based in Los Angeles, California. She’s an internationally exhibited artist and writer, occasionally teaching and speaking on art and visual culture. Her work and writing oscillates around issues concerning the perception and role of self vis-a-vis technology, social media, and contemporary art and culture. Blanka received her MFA from the department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of the University Fellowship in the Graduate School at Northwestern University in 2001 and 2002.
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Brady Welch
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Brady Welch is a freelance writer and editor based in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in 032c, DailyServing, and other publications.
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- Ai Weiwei
- As Yet Untitled: Artists & Writers in Collaboration
- Conrad Ruiz: Cold, Hard and Wet
- From New York: Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools
- From the Collection of Randi and Bob Fisher
- In Country: Soldiers’ Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
- Punk Passage
- The Extreme Animals Sit-Down: Music is a Question with No Answer
- The Magnificent Seven: Harrell Fletcher
- Untitled Landscapes (California)
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Brandon Brown
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Brandon Brown is from Kansas City, Missouri. He has two forthcoming books: The Persians By Aeschylus (Displaced Press) and The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus (Krupskaya). A large selection from Catullus appears in the most recent issue of Postmodern Culture. Other work has recently appeared in Peacock, Try!, and Art Practical. He is currently part of the retinue blogging for Open Space, the blog of the SFMOMA, and occasionally considers the vicissitudes of contemporary r&b at http://brandonbrown.blogspot.com.
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Brent Foster Jones
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Brent Foster Jones previously taught at California College of the Arts and currently lives in New York.
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Brian Andrews
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Brian Andrews is a contemporary artist, critic, and educator in San Francisco. His work employs a range of technologies in photography, video, and taxidermy in order to confront the viewer with images that reside on the uncanny line between the living and the automaton. Understanding art-making as a communicative exercise, Brian Andrews also records on contemporary art as the west coast producer for Bad at Sports Contemporary Art Podcast. His critical writings can be found in Artnet, Shotgun Review, and Beautiful/Decay Magazine, as well as numerous exhibition catalogs.
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- (((Ω.))) and Half Truths and Outright Lies
- Best Of: Brian Andrews
- Double Bind
- Get Your Ass to Mars
- Jigsawmentallama
- Marco Breuer: Line of Sight
- OPENwater
- Open Engagement: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse
- Siege
- The Undivided Mind
- The Undivided Mind
- This Means Something
- Two Anniversaries
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Bruno Fazzolari
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Bruno Fazzolari is an artist and critic. He has shown with Feature, Inc., Gallery Paule Anglim, and Michael Kohn Gallery, and has been included in shows at the M.H. de Young Museum and the Katonah Museum of Art. His work has received attention in Artforum, Art in America, Art Papers, The New Yorker, the San Francisco Chronicle, Artweek and New York Times. He earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 after graduating from U.C. Berkeley in Comparative Literature with a focus on critical studies, French and Ancient Greek.
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Carol Anne McChrystal
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Carol Anne McChrystal is MRScarruthers in the collaborative project Nightmare City. She is the author of "Cliffs Notes on Art School Rhetoric," "You Have No Power You Have No Power," and the Hex Pox Rut Rot serial publication. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2006.
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- Afterglow in Divided Space
- Bell, Book, and Candle
- From Chicago: Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
- From Portland With Love
- Justin Beal, Lena Daly, Kate Owens
- KYO FORTUNE (6000) TELLER LIVE W/ 6000 NEW APPS AND LIVE CDMA DRUG LAB
- Self Expression Night: Complicity, Resistance, and the Touchy-Feely in Bay Area Performance Art
- The Immortal
- The Secret Welcome of Space and it’s Prehistoric Future
- The Slacker, the Protestor, Cosmic Gestation, and Me
- in a world where you are possible
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Catherine McChrystal
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Catherine McChrystal is an editor and writer living in San Francisco, serving as Editor-in-Chief for Art Practical and managing issue production. She received her MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Chicago and holds undergraduate degrees in Classical Civilization and English Literature from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Chelsea Wong
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Chelsea Wong is a visual artist, illustrator, and printmaker. She has shown in galleries across the United States and has exhibited internationally in Europe and Asia. She is interested in DIY publishing and has created many small editions of books and zines.
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Cherie Louise Turner
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Originally from Goleta, California, Cherie Louise Turner is a Bay Area–based freelance writer and nonfiction book copyeditor. Her writing has appeared online at Art in America and Visual Art Source, and in art, ltd., ArtNewsletter, ArtNews, and Tahoe Quarterly, among other publications. A former nationally competitive bicycle racer on the track and road, Turner is currently training for ultra marathon distance trail runs. She also is an avid traveler.
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Christian L. Frock
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Christian L. Frock is an independent curator and writer. Invisible Venue, the alternative enterprise that she founded and has directed since 2005, collaborates with artists to present art in unexpected settings. Frock's creative practice interrogates the intersection of art, daily life and popular culture through the presentation of and examination of public art and interventions, site-specific installations, happenings and events, avant-garde publications, artist multiples, and alternative spaces.
Frock holds a Master’s degree in curatorial practice from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her writing has been featured in Fillip Review and art ltd, online on Stretcher and Shotgun Review, and in several exhibition catalogues. She is a recent recipient of an Arts Writers Workshop Fellowship granted through a partnership between the International Association of Art Critics and Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant program. Critical assessments of her work have appeared in Artillery, San Francisco Chronicle, and Camerawork Journal, among other publications.
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- Best Of: Christian L. Frock
- From New York: The Creative Time Summit
- In Defense of Food: Recent Explorations in Contemporary Art
- Merch Art and African American Quilts
- Notes on Alternative Autonomy
- Secondary Protest Strategies (for Ai Weiwei)
- The Bitter Valise
- The Elephant in the Room: Reframing Past and Present Histories
- Visible Alternatives, Part 1
- Visible Alternatives, Part 2
- Visible Alternatives, Part 3
- Visible Alternatives, Part 4
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Christina Linden
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Christina Linden is a freelance curator based in Oakland, California. Her primary curatorial interests include commissioned projects and undertakings that re-examine assumptions about audience and production.
Linden has spent the past year working as curatorial fellow at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, after completing her Master’s Degree at the same institution in May of 2009. Major projects undertaken while at CCS included work on the exhibition Philippe Parreno, as well as on the accompanying catalog; Ilana Halperin’s At What Moment Does Limestone Become Marble (An Evening Exhibition to Kaaterskill Falls); work on Lisi Raskin's road trip/residency Mobile Observation (Transmitting and Receiving) Station; and an exhibition and printed booklet with artist Amy Patton entitled About the Object, which was also re-presented at Ramapo College in November of 2010.
Linden completed her Bachelor’s Degree in art history at New York University in 2001, and worked at galleries, museums, and non-profit art spaces in New York, Berlin, rural Thailand, and San Francisco before enrolling at Bard. She has published writing in ARTLIES, Art Practical, Art Voices, might be good, Paletten, PROVENCE magazine, Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, an artist’s book by Max Goldfarb entitled Deep Cycle, and the catalog bitter, black thoughts for Amy Patton’s 2010 exhibition at the Blaffer Gallery in Houston, Texas.
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Christine Kesler
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Christine Kesler is a Bay Area artist and writer, interested in abstraction as a means of interrogating semiotics and their ambiguities. Her work explores the poetic and the ephemeral qualities present in the physical environment. She holds a Masters degree in Painting from California College of the Arts.
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Christine Wong Yap
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Christine Wong Yap is a visual artist who explores optimism and pessimism. Her writing is inspired by thingness, complicity, phenomenology and how the work of art mediates a relationship between artist and viewer. Based in Oakland, she holds a BFA and an MFA from CCA. She blogs indiscriminately at blog.christinewongyap.com.
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- Best Of: Christine Wong Yap
- From New York: A Bell For Every Minute
- From New York: Curtain Call
- From New York: Infinite Line
- From New York: Recipes For An Encounter
- From New York: Usable Pasts
- From the Bronx: This Side of Paradise
- Inventory
- Jars Filmed Inside
- Portrait of an Artist, Wily and Engaged
- Residency Projects II
- Should I Stay or Should I Go?
- They Knew What They Wanted
- Under Destruction I & II
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Constance Lewallen
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Constance Lewallen was born and raised in New York City. She received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and her MA from California State University, San Diego. Lewallen was Matrix curator at the University Art Museum, Berkeley (now the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive) from 1980 to 88, Senior Curator there from 1998 to 2007, and currently the BAM's Adjunct Curator. As Senior Curator, she curated many major exhibitions, among them: Joe Brainard, A Retrospective (2001), Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982) (2001), Everything Matters: Paul Kos, a Retrospective (2003), Ant Farm (1968-1978) (2004), and A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s (2007). All of these exhibitions toured nationally and internationally and were accompanied by catalogues. Her exhibition, Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or the Art of Give and Take was presented at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in fall 2009. She is currently West Coast Field Editor for caa.reviews (College Art Association's online review site).
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crystal am nelson
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crystal am nelson is an artist, writer, and designer based in San Francisco. She has contributed to Identity Theory and the African American National Biography, a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press, which was published in 2008.
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Daily Serving
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This list shows all the contributions that originally appeared on Daily Serving, the international forum for visual arts, and a partner of Art Practical.
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- Better a Live Ass Than a Dead Lion
- From Berlin: Cady Noland / Santiago Sierra
- From Beverly Hills: Mike Kelley
- From Hartford: Matrix 162: Shaun Gladwell
- From Los Angeles: David Noonan
- From Los Angeles: Eva Hesse: Spectres 1960
- From Los Angeles: Some Boxes and Two Photographs About America
- From Los Angeles: They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures
- From New York: Lynda Benglis
- From New York: Michaela Eichwald
- From New York: The Whitney Biennial 2012
- From Nottingham: Huang Yong Ping
- From São Paulo: Handle with Care
- God’s Eye View
- Interviews from the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts
- Mark Bradford
- Mother and Child
- Ride Into the Sun
- Run Off
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Danielle Sommer
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Danielle Sommer is a writer, artist, and producer. Her writing has been featured by KQED, KPCC, Art Practical, and Landfill Quarterly. She currently writes the column #Hashtags: Viral Thoughts on Arts, Politics, and Culture, for the online arts website DailyServing, where she is the editor for the Western US. You can find her on Facebook and Twitter.
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Dena Beard
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As MATRIX Curatorial Assistant, Dena Beard supports the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art, a pioneering series of project exhibitions with contemporary artists. She assists with all curatorial activities, including research, writing, and the production of new works. Prior to joining the staff at BAM/PFA, Dena was Curatorial/Development Associate for the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, an alternative art space that presented 16-18 exhibitions annually. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an M.A. in Art History, Theory, and Criticism.
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Dominic Willsdon
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Dominic Willsdon is the Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has taught at the Royal College of Art, California College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a former editor of the Journal of Visual Culture and co-editor of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics. In 2010, he was the inaugural Kress Fellow in Museum Education at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
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Elizabeth Johnson
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Elizabeth Johnson collects images of the figure and landscapes, culling photos into categories: athletes kissing trophies, athletes flying through the air, people suffering, land formations, politicians’ expressions, businessmen gesticulating, transportation, natural disasters, and travel destinations. She combines fragments of visual information in an imaginary three-dimensional space, composing previously unrelated elements in a way that simulates story telling; yet without a particular story to tell.
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Ellen Tani
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Ellen Tani, a graduate student at Stanford University, is the 2011 recipient of the inaugural ACAC Writing Fellowship. Her affiliation with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford has shaped her research significantly, which focuses on modern and contemporary art and race theory in postwar America. She was the 2008 Curatorial Initiative Fellow at D.C. Arts Center in Washington, D.C., and has held internships at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Ellen holds a BA from Dartmouth College and is pursuing her PhD in Art History from Stanford University.
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Elysa Lozano
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Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design and Goldsmiths College, Elysa Lozano’s art practice emulates a not-for-profit, called Autonomous Organization, which has produced proposals for Socialist colonies in a high-rise building in Houston, Texas, re-branded an exhibition space in London as a construction site, and created a web archive of project space survival strategies.
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Elyse Mallouk
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Elyse Mallouk is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Her writing considers the social aspect of aesthetic experiences, and focuses on the role of art in imagining our relationships to one another. Recent studio projects include Landfill and Notes for an Open Score, a material investigation of a small selection of pop love songs that takes ubiquitous ways of expressing connection—ones repeatedly claimed and dedicated on late night radio—and directs them instead toward elusiveness through a systematic removal of information. She holds an MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts.
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- Aesthetic Events in Occupation
- Allen Ruppersberg
- Beg/Borrow/Steal
- Best Of: Elyse Mallouk
- From Los Angeles: Critical Campout
- From Los Angeles: Yoshua Okón
- Health of the Hive
- How to Survive
- Interview with Eve Sussman
- Landfill Part 3: Landfill Quarterly
- Landfill: Part 1
- Landfill: Part 2
- Landfill: Part 4
- Lending Library
- On Being Blue
- Re: Taste
- SC13
- The Dragon in the Room: Art, Eating, and the Aesthetics of Mission Chinese Food
- Theory of a Family
- Zachary Royer Scholz: Tape, Paint, Repaint
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Gabriela Salgado
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Gabriela Salgado is an Argentine-born curator based in London, UK. Since obtaining an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, she has worked independently in the UK and Latin America. She has curated a large number of exhibitions and has organised international workshops and residencies programmes in the UK, Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia and Spain. She was curator of the Collection of Latin American Art at Essex University, UECLAA (1999-2005) and curator of Public Programmes at Tate Modern (2006-2011). In 2009 she co-curated the 2nd Biennale of Thessaloniki in Greece, PRAXIS: Art in Times of Uncertainty. She currently works independently as a curator and consultant in Europe and Latin America and continues to contribute articles and essays to art publications and to participate in international conferences and symposia.
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Genevieve Quick
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Genevieve Quick received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BA in political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Quick has shown her work in galleries in the Bay Area, contributed writings to Shotgun Review and The Present Group. She is the co-curator of the traveling exhibition “Gold Rush: Artist as Prospector”.
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- Article X
- Best Of: Genevieve Quick
- Cyanotypes
- Everything Must Go
- Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870
- Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870
- Get Your Ass to Mars
- Heterotopias/ MATRIX 238
- New Work: Mika Rottenberg
- Photo/Synthesis
- Retro-Tech
- Some of My Equals
- Think Art - Act Science
- Tissues and Trench Coats
- Unhuman
- Wonder Box
- Zoologische Gärten
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Gibson Cuyler
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Gibson Cuyler worked as commercial artist and art director for a number of years in New York's fashion world and studied at The New School for Social Research there. He has exhibited his art at White Columns in New York, and Space 1026 in Philadelphia, as well as numerous Bay Area galleries. An Oakland-based musician and artist, Cuyler is interested in the places where art, fashion, and music intersect, overlap, and collide.
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Glen Helfand
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Glen Helfand is a writer, educator, and curator who contributes to Artforum and other publications; he teaches in the graduate fine arts programs at California College of the Arts and Mills College. He is Coordinator of Public Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute, and is currently organizing a group exhibition for Park Life in San Francisco to open October 2010.
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist and writer based in San Francisco, where he is artistic director of La Pocha Nostra, an international collective of artists, curators, and intellectuals. A native of Mexico City, Gómez-Peña’s pioneering work in performance, video, radio, installation, poetry, journalism, and cultural theory explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, "extreme culture," and new technologies. Critics have described his live work as “Chicano cyber-punk performances.” Gómez-Peña is a MacArthur fellow, an American Book Award recipient, a regular contributor to National Public Radio, a writer for newspapers and magazines in the United States and Mexico, and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT). His performance, installation, and video work has been presented at over seven hundred venues across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Australia, Russia, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, and Argentina. Most recently, he has presented work at Tate Modern (London), the House of World Cultures (Berlin), MACBA (Barcelona), The Chopo Museum (Mexico City), the Encuentro Hemisférico (Lima, Rio de Janeiro, and New York), and the Habana Bienale.
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Gwen Allen
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Gwen Allen is an Assistant Professor of Art History at San Francisco State University, where she specializes in modern and contemporary art, art criticism, and visual culture. She has published in Artforum, Art Journal, Bookforum, Umbrella, Performance Research, and Art New England. She is the author of Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art (MIT Press, 2011).
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Hou Hanru
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Hou Hanru is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of the Exhibitions and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art Institute. A prolific writer and curator, Hou is a consultant for several cultural institutions internationally and a correspondent for various journals on contemporary art. Hou curated the 10th International Istanbul Biennial in 2007 and the 10th Lyon Biennial in 2009. He is one of the first curators and thinkers to examine postmodern issues of nomadic identity, hybridity, globalized mobility and artists living in the diaspora.
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Jake Longstreth
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Jake Longstreth is a New York–based artist. He received his MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco. His recent exhibitions include Group Show, EgoPark Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2008; "Real" Space, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH, 2007; and Wabi Ranch, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco. A recipient of the 2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a 2007 Artist in Residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, Longstreth has been featured in Art in America, Artforum, Artweek, and San Francisco Chronicle.
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Jarrett Earnest
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Jarrett Earnest is an artist and writer from The South, currently living in San Francisco. Some of his current projects focus on A.N. Whitehead, Marcel Proust, and Dolly Parton in a hot tub - and the future of art more broadly.
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Jeanne Gerrity
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Jeanne Gerrity is the Associate Director of Southern Exposure, as well as an independent curator and writer. She has curated numerous group shows of emerging artists at non-profit spaces around New York City, including Beauty Underfoot at Smack Mellon and Sound Off at the Rotunda Gallery. She has written for Art Papers magazine and the website Rhizome among other publications.
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Jessica Brier
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Jessica Brier is a Bay Area-based curator and writer, currently working at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her writing has appeared in art on paper magazine, Curating Now, published by the California College of the Art's Curatorial Practice program; Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert's Death and Taxes: Fourth Quarterly Report; Golden Guns; and onStretcher.org. She holds a BA from New York University and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.
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- Chain Reaction 11
- Degausser
- Eva Hesse: Studiowork
- Forms and Inflections
- Hard Edges for Hard Times
- Hard Edges for Hard Times
- Hauntology
- Kansas City, Here I Come
- Morphology
- Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners
- On Kawara: Pure Consciousness at 19 Kindergartens
- Residency Projects II
- Ruth Laskey/ Lee Lozano: Notebooks 1967-70
- The Cheese Stands Alone (Part 2): Art, Humor, and the Rest of the World
- The Cheese Stands Alone: The Trouble with Funny Art
- The Hermit’s Revenge Fantasy
- We Have as Much Time as it Takes
- the whole of all the parts as well as the part of all the parts
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John Zarobell
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John Zarobell is Assistant Professor of International Studies and Program Chair of European Studies at the University of San Francisco. Formerly, he held the positions of assistant curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and associate curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Curating exhibitions has allowed him to engage with artists as diverse as Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch, Edouard Manet, and Kerry James Marshall. He is a regular contributor to the web-based journal Art Practical and he has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and has published in Art History, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, and the Berkeley Review of Latin-American Studies. His book, Empire of Landscape, was published in 2010. It concerns the intersection of colonial politics and landscape art in nineteenth-century France.
Zarobell holds a BA in Studio Art from Hampshire College and earned his MA and PhD in History of Art from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at California College of the Arts, Berkeley, Stanford University, Tulane University, and the University of San Francisco.
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- Activities and Vocabulary, Discussing and Sharing Art Projects At Large
- Activities and Vocabulary, Discussing and Sharing Art Projects At Large
- DEFEO
- Fred Wilson
- From Mexico City: Zona Maco México Arte Contemporáneo
- Galleons and Globalization: California Mission Arts and the Pacific Rim
- Hiding in Plain Sight
- Huckleberry Finn
- Manifest 770
- Pissarro’s People
- San Francisco’s Indian Autumn
- The Exploding Company Man and Other Abstractions
- The Visionary Art of Morris Graves
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Kara Q. Smith
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Kara Q. Smith is an independent writer, curator and whiskey drinker living in San Francisco. She currently serves as editorial assistant for Art Practical, where she also contributes writing. She also contributes regularly to the online magazine ArtSlant and is one of the recent recipients of SOMArts Cultural Center's Commons Curatorial Residency, along with co-curator Laura Poppiti, for their July 2012 exhibition Performing Community. Kara holds a BA in Art History from Birmingham-Southern College and an MA in Urban Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute.
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Kate Mattingly
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Kate Mattingly is a doctoral student in Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds an MFA in Dance from New York University and a BA in Architecture History and Theory from Princeton University, and has been published as a dance critic in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Dance magazine, and The Washington Post among other publications.
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Keturah Cummings
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Keturah Cummings is one half of the collaborative project Nightmare City. She is the author of the zine series Where and co-author of Bigtime: Nightmare City Thinks You Suck, On the Road with Nightmare City, and Sssux to be Usss.
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Lani Asher
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Lani Asher lives and works in San Francisco. She makes mixed media collages and has taught for many Bay Area non-profits. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has studied at the College of Creative Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, New York University, and the Visual Studies Workshop.
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- !Women Art Revolution
- From Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial 2010
- From Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial 2010
- In Case You Missed It: Miranda Putman and Susan Preston
- Mirror 5
- Reflections: Small Scale Works/ Manifold
- The Great Contemporary Art Bubble
- The Lords of the Samurai/ Lord It’s The Samurai
- Train of Thought
- Wider Views of Urban San Francisco
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Larissa Archer
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Larissa Archer is a writer and theatre worker living in San Francisco.
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Laura Cassidy
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Born and raised in the Bay Area, Laura Cassidy has been adamant about supporting the local arts community. She earned her M.A. with Excellence in Scholarship from the San Francisco Art Institute, she has assisted with developing exhibitions and public programs at the de Young Museum and Montalvo Arts Center, and now she is working towards a Ph.D. at Stanford University studying contemporary art, culture, and science with an emphasis on interdisciplinary exhibitions.
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- Best Of: Laura Cassidy
- Dad and Mom, Don’t Worry About Us, We Are All Well
- HERE.
- Lapidary Terrarium
- Plastic Life
- Presidio Habitats
- Reflected on Air
- SENSEable Cities: Exploring Urban Futures
- Second Look: Article X
- The 17th Biennale of Sydney
- The Curse of Dimensionality
- The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area
- Tony May: Old Technology
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Lea Feinstein
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Lea Feinstein is a Bay Area artist and writer who regularly contributes to ARTnews. In 2005-06 she was the chief art critic for SFWeekly. She has just completed a chapter on Edvard Munch in Oslo for ART+TRAVEL, a new series of guides for Museyon.
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- Afterlife
- From New York: Kiki Smith: Sojourn
- Greenhouse Britain and the Force Majeure
- Hanna Hannah: Frames of War
- Idle/Idol
- In Case You Missed It: Teresita Fernández
- James Castle: A Retrospective
- Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective
- Selected Paintings and A Wall of Paintings
- They Knew What They Wanted
- Wordsmith: The Art of the Review
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Leigh Markopoulos
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Leigh Markopoulos is Chair of the Curatorial Practice MA Program at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She has curated and organized numerous exhibitions and has also worked on many writing and editorial projects, including most recently contributing the catalogue essay for a show by Igor Eskinja.
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Lia Wilson
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Lia Wilson is a writer and arts education administrator living and working in San Francisco. She holds an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts and a BFA in Printmaking from the College of Santa Fe.
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Liena Vayzman
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Liena Vayzman's work combines scholarship, art, and activism. She earned a PhD in the History of Art at Yale University and has written on Richard Prince, Alice Austen, Maya Deren, and the Société Anonyme. Vayzman's work had been exhibited at Glassbox, Paris; Duchess Anne Hotel, Nantes; Root Division, RayKo and ATA, San Francisco; Wartburg College Art Gallery, Iowa; the Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival; Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Georgia; and Grunert Gasser, New York. She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, the New School, and San Jose State University. She currently serves as Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate with the Yale Women Faculty Forum.
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Liz Glass
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Liz Glass is a writer and curator interested in performance, media, craft, avant-gardism, and liminality. She has her Master's in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts, where she ran the PLAySPACE Gallery and worked on exhibitions at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
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Marc Weidenbaum
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Marc Weidenbaum founded the website Disquiet.com in 1996. It focuses on the intersection of sound, art, and technology. He has written for Nature, the website of The Atlantic, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox.org, Stereophile, Down Beat, and numerous other publications. He has commissioned and curated sound/music projects that have featured original works by Kate Carr, Marcus Fischer, Marielle Jakobsons, John Kannenberg, Tom Moody, Steve Roden, Scanner, Roddy Shrock, Robert Thomas, Pedro Tudela, and Stephen Vitiello, among many others. He moderates the Disquiet Junto group at Soundcloud.com; there, dozens of musicians respond to weekly Oulipo-style restrictive compositional projects. He’s a founding partner at i/olian, developing software projects that explore opportunities to play with sound.
He also has extensive background in comics. He gave Adrian Tomine his first professional work while Tomine was still in high school. He was editor-in-chief of the American edition of the most popular manga magazine in Japan, Shonen Jump. Comics he has edited have appeared in books by Jessica Abel, Justin Green, Carol Swain, and Tomine, among others.
Weidenbaum lives in San Francisco in a neighborhood whose soundmarks include Tuesday noon civic alarms, as well as seasonal foghorns from the nearby bay. He also resides at twitter.com/disquiet.
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Marcella Faustini
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marcella faustini is a san francisco-based artist and curator. originally from brazil but now neither from here nor there, she currently also finds herself counting walls at noma gallery.
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Mark Van Proyen
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Mark Van Proyen is an artist and art critic who is based in northern California. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America, and has also published in Art News, Art Issues, Artweek, ArtNet, Bad Subjects, and Square Cylinder. in 2006, Art Criticism dedicated an entire volume to his Administrativism and Its Discontents (Volume 21, Number 2), published by the Department of Art, State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is also an associate professor in the painting department and in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, and is coordinator of that school's annual Art Criticism conference.
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Marta Martinez
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Marta Martinez is a Mellon Mays Fellow. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in Latin American studies and a concentration in anthropology. Since returning to her native San Francisco, she has worked for several nonprofits, started her own massage business, and made a short documentary with the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project. Her interests are in identity politics and community formation. She is currently pursuing a masters of arts in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts.
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Mary Anne Kluth
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Mary Anne Kluth is a painter and writer who lives and works in San Francisco. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has written for Artweek and online at Shotgun Review, amongst others. She has recently shown at MISSION17 and Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco.
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- Best Of: Mary Anne Kluth
- Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt: Conceptual Color in Print
- Flannel and Fur
- From Tokyo: Pipilotti Rist and Phantom Limb
- In Case You Missed It: Circumspect
- In Case You Missed It: Land Use
- In Case You Missed It: Some Math
- Isn’t It Obvious
- Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage
- Light Making Motion: Works on Paper and in Light
- Lightspace
- Nothing Lasts Forever
- Situation Critical
- The Joy of C-prints
- The Lesser Light
- The Life of the Object
- You Would If You Loved Me
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Matt Stromberg
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Matt Stromberg is a freelance writer based in San Francisco. He has previously contributed to Todo Monthly and LA Artland (Black Dog, 2005).
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- Bob Newland and the People’s Biennial
- DEFEO
- Diamond Rings
- From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine’s Gray Column
- Funny Face, I Love You
- Idyll
- Implied
- Jim Campbell: New Work
- Kamau Amu Patton
- Moving Violations
- The Effect Effect
- The Marvelous Museum: A Project by Mark Dion
- We Bought The Seagram Building
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Matt Sussman
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Matt Sussman is an Oakland-based writer and Associate Editor of Art Practical. A regular contributor to the SF Bay Guardian, Matt's writing has also appeared in Art in America, The Wire, Flavorpill and KQED Arts. He also works at the Bay Area Video Coalition.
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Matthew David Rana
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Matthew Rana is an artist and writer living and working in Göteborg, Sweden, where he is a visiting lecturer in Art and Cultural Theory at Valand School of Fine Arts. He is a contributor to Art Agenda, Frieze and Paletten magazines, and a new essay on object-oriented approaches to social practice will appear in the revised and expanded edition of What We Want is Free, published by SUNY Press. His first book of poetry, The Essayist, is forthcoming from Beta-Local.
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- Against Exchange
- ILLUMInations
- Its Own Nothingness
- Notes Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Social Practice
- Script for a Dead Comedian (1962-2010)
- Social Work: Politics, Police, and the Law in Art, Part 1
- Social Work: Politics, Police, and the Law in Art, Part 2
- Social Work: Politics, Police, and the Law in Art, Part 3
- Social Work: Politics, Police, and the Law in Art, Part 4
- The Circuit and the Singularity
- The Circuit and the Singularity
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Matthew Harrison Tedford
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Matthew Harrison Tedford is a pan-Californian writer and editor. In addition to serving as the features editor for Art Practical, Matthew has edited the monographs Stella Zhang: 0-Viewpoint, White Ink: Zheng Chongbin, and the English portion of the bilingual book 性别身份一日谈/Gender Identity Symposium. His writing and interviews have appeared in Art Practical, the Huffington Post, Poor Taste Magazine, Daily Serving, and Bad at Sports. Matthew holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts.
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- ASCII History of Moving Images
- ASCII History of Moving Images
- Best Of: Matthew Harrison Tedford
- From New York: Feng Mengbo
- Huckleberry Finn
- I WISH I COULD TALK
- Interview with Abby Chen
- Introduction: Art qua Politics
- La Llorona Unfabled: Stories to (Re)tell To Little Girls
- Pop-Up Magazine Issue 4
- Roots in the Air, Branches Below
- The Museum of Conceptual Art: A Prolegomena to Hip
- Triple Candie
- Wrapping Traditions: Korean Textiles Now
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Megan McMillan
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Megan McMillan is the Editorial Assistant for Art Practical.
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Megan Wilson
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Megan Wilson grew up in Montana. She received her BFA from the University of Oregon in 1992 and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997. Her work has been exhibited nationally in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and Los Angeles; and internationally in Tokyo, Japan; Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Paris, France; Jaipur, India, and Manila Philippines. In 2000 she co-founded the on-line publication www. Stretcher.org. She is based in San Francisco.
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Melissa E. Feldman
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Bay-Area based since 2003, Melissa E. Feldman is an independent curator, art historian, and writer who regularly contributes to Art in America and Frieze. Her exhibition Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art is travelling to the gallery at CSU-Sacramento in December 2011. In the 1990s she was a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
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Melony Bravmann
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Melony Bravmann is an artist who reflects upon themes of preciousness, perfection, impermanence, and balance through a process of construction, destruction, negation, and repair. Her writing provides an opportunity to engage deeply with the work of other artists and develop disciplined analysis on par with the artwork she reviews. Melony has written previously for Art Practical’s Shotgun Review. She received her BFA and MFA in Painting from CCA.
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Mia Kirsi Stageberg
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Mia Kirsi Stageberg is a Norwegian-American fiction writer who first published with the New Directions annuals of the 1960s and '70s. Based in San Francisco, she has worked as an art writer, editor, oral historian, researcher, nonprofit fundraiser and cloth sculptress. To order Mia Kirsi Stageberg’s fiction, e-mail her directly at miastageberg@gmail.com or contact Silver Bay Books, 1280 Laguna Street, Suite 4K, San Francisco, CA 94115, 415-821-4708.
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Michele Carlson
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Michele Carlson is a practicing artist, writer, and educator whose interdisciplinary research investigates the intersections of history and memory, loss, race, gender, transnational adoption, racial melancholia, and popular culture. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area where she completed an MFA in Printmaking and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts.
Carlson’s visual work has been exhibited nationally at venues, including Patricia Sweetow Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco and the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Recently, her writing has been published in Art in America, Art Practical, and several exhibition catalog essays. She has developed and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to Asian American Studies, Visual and Critical Studies, Art History and Visual Arts at the University of California—Davis, California College of the Arts, and several other Bay Area colleges.
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Patricia Maloney
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Patricia Maloney is a curator and writer living and working in Berkeley, CA. In addition to her role as Director for Art Practical, she works with the alternative exhibition space Ampersand International Arts, is a contributing writer to Artforum.com and a frequent commentator on the weekly contemporary art podcast Bad at Sports. She holds her MA in Theory and History of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute.
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- 2010: The 2010 Whitney Biennial
- A Conversation about “What Keeps Mankind Alive”
- Architecture of Narrative
- Corrected Slogans
- Groundswell
- Interview with Allison Smith
- Interview with Rineke Dijkstra
- Looking for Roberta Breitmore
- Making Events of Objects: [2nd floor projects], Glass, house, and THE THING Quarterly
- Martha Wilson
- Profile: Gene Youngblood
- Shadowshop
- Stay Home
- Teach 4 Amerika
- The First Year
- The Second Year
- Underground Resistance: Subterranean Gallery
- When Lives Become Form
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Patrick Gillespie
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Patrick Gillespie received his BFA from the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis and his MFA from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He spent two years studying traditional Chinese painting in China, six months in Syria studying Arabic and lecturing on the intersections of contemporary art and protest, and a month in the Arctic researching rapid social and climate change as a member of the spurse collective.
Spurse is a research and design collaborative that catalyzes critical issues into collective action, comprised of researchers from multiple disciplines geographically distributedacross the U.S. Patrick has been a core participant of spurse since 2005, working on numerous projects in the U.S. and Canada. Gillespie's relationship to Kansas developed over a three-year period while working on a spurse exhibition at Grand Arts, which opened February 2009, titled “Deep Time/Rapid Time.” The exhibition included collaborations with the Land Institute, the Linda Hall Library Rare Books Collection, paleontologist Glen Rocker, a summer intensive at KCAI on Clothing and Architecture Design, and many, many others.
Gillespie is currently based in San Francisco and has multiple art/curatorial projects running throughout the Bay Area.
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Rachel Adams
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Rachel Adams is a second-year graduate student in the Exhibition and Museum Studies Program at the San Francisco Art Institute. She hails from the East Coast by way of Chicago where she graduated from the School of the Art Institute and founded the apartment project space Lloyd Dobler in 2006. She rides her bike, as well as enjoys drinking beer and talking about art with Brian Andrews.
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Randall Miller
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Randall Miller is a figurative painter and artist who explores aspects of failure and un-wellness in the mundane world. In 2009 he received his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Randall is currently a resident artist at Root Division and is co-curator of Winter Salon at Micaela Gallery. He lives and works in San Francisco.
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- From Chicago: Ain’t No Reason to Hang My Head
- From Chicago: Mouthing (The Sentient Limb)
- From Chicago: Painthing On the Möve
- From Chicago: Stan Shellabarger
- From Chicago: USSA 2012: The Orphanage Project
- From Santa Fe: Amy Cutler
- From Santa Fe: Mountains
- From Santa Fe: Past as Presence
- From Santa Fe: The Dissolve
- From Taos: Stone Lithography
- I Wanna Be Adored
- Still at large STOP Last seen at Mira Mesa Chilis STOP
- Young Africans from Southern Rhodesia in “The Anniversary Show”
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Rebecca Blocksome
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Rebecca Blocksome is the Andrew W. Mellon coordinator of academic programs at the Spencer Museum of Art and a first-year MFA candidate in expanded media at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. She grew up on a farm in the wilds of western Kansas, where she learned a great deal about the complex relationships between humans and animals in balanced ecosystems. Blocksome has also lived in Slovenia, Hungary, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have greatly influenced her thinking about the critical role of place in social and cultural dynamics. She holds an MS in philosophy and theory of visual culture from the University of Primorska Faculty of Humanities in Koper, Slovenia.
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Renny Pritikin
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Renny Pritikin is the director of the Richard Nelson Gallery at UC Davis. Prior to that he was the founding chief curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1992 until 2004. Since 2009 he has written catalogue essays about Cornelia Schulz (for Patricia Sweetow Gallery); Dave Lane, and Merch Art: The Banka/Gordon Collection, (for the Nelson); Julia Couzens (for the CSU Stanislaus gallery); and in 2010, John Bankston (Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham AL); Tony May (for San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art); and Trimpin (upcoming book from Marquand Press).
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- A Personal Meditation on the occasion of “What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect”
- AWAY
- Bellwether
- Best Of: Renny Pritikin
- Collecting Memories
- Dress Codes: the Third ICP Triennial
- Hauntology
- Illegitimate Business
- Interview with Nayland Blake
- Interview with Paul DeMarinis
- John Bankston, New Works
- Raven Rainbow
- Summer/Selections
- You Can’t Make Art by Making Art: Artists Reflect on the Legacy of David Ireland
- short sharp notes, rolling or churring whistles, clear phrases
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Sarah Hotchkiss
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Sarah Hotchkiss is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in group shows in the greater New York and San Francisco areas, including Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, Sight School, and MacArthur b arthur. She received her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts in 2011 and has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She contributes regularly to the KQED arts blog.
Originally from Southern California, Hotchkiss spent six years on the East Coast before moving to San Francisco. The view from the top of Bernal Heights trumps any neighborhood vista she has previously enjoyed, hands down.
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Shannon Jackson
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Shannon Jackson is Chancellor's Professor and Director of the Arts Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics. In addition to numerous essays, other publications include Professing Performance (2004) and Lines of Activity (2000).
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Shotgun Reviews
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Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where the broader community is invited to contribute reviews and commentary. They are short format pieces (250-400 words) that, as the name implies, offer quick and timely responses to an exhibition or event. Here is the list of Shotgun Reviews contributed by our readers.
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- 0-Viewpoint
- 4x4
- A Child’s View from Gaza
- A New American Picture
- A Tree for Roxy Paine
- Afterimage
- Anri Sala at the 29th São Paolo Biennial and Inhotim
- Are We There Yet? 5000 Years of Answering Questions with Questions
- Art at the Dump: Twenty Years of the Artist in Residence Program at Recology
- Better a Live Ass Than a Dead Lion
- Boulevard
- Brent Green, Perpetual and furious refrain/ MATRIX 232
- California Continued: New Approaches in West Coast Photography
- Conviction and Emotion: The Art of Luis Gutierrez from the 1970s to Now
- Corpo/Ilicito: The Post Human Society 6.9
- Cure (orange, cherry, and grape)
- Dedication
- Deities, Demons, and Dudes with ’Staches
- Deletions
- E is for Everyone: Celebrating Sister Corita
- Emancipated Hearts and First Exposures
- Emergency Screening: A Fire in My Belly
- Enter Slowly,
- Entropic Growth
- Ever After
- Ever After
- Exploded Views
- FREE 2011
- Fabricated Reality
- Francesca Woodman
- From Los Angeles: Doin’ It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building
- From Los Angeles: Selections from Pacific Standard Time
- From Los Angeles: Twice Told
- From New York: Fort at Lime Point
- Geography of Transterritories
- God Only Knows Who the Audience Is
- High Life
- Hot Tub Dialogues
- IMMATERIAL
- In the Currents
- Inside White
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Janus
- John Cage
- Jordan Kantor
- Koi
- Lane Arthur in The Women
- Lazy World of Ideas
- Let’s Talk of a System
- Let’s Change
- Line of Sight
- Lunch Break
- Maintenance Art
- Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
- Manufactured Organic: Exploring the Environmental Implications of Art
- Mark Bradford
- Mark Bradford
- Masque
- Masque
- Matter and Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler
- More Glitter—Less Bitter
- New Works by Kimetha Vanderveen
- Next Deadline for Shotguns: May 22, 2012
- Noise Study 001
- Notes In/troducing Englyph
- Oceans and Campfires
- Parables – Pavilion of Bangladesh
- Paralela // 2010: A Contemplação do Mundo
- Portals
- Presidio Habitats
- Proliferations
- Pure Paper
- Quantum Jitters
- Response to Social Work, Part 2: Interview with HUSH
- Retro-Tech
- Richard Baker
- Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
- SC13: With Love, From Mabel
- SC13: With Love, From Mabel
- San Francisco 1964
- San Francisco Then
- Scent of Mystery
- Scott Greene: Capitulare de Vita
- Sitting In A Circle
- Skull of Santo Guerro (III)
- Slideways
- Somewhere
- SpaceBi
- Study for Self-Portrait in Parts
- Tale Spin
- Tall Trees
- The 29th São Paulo Biennial
- The Candy Store
- The Dripstone Sings to the Choir and Flood
- The Institute Drawing
- The World Series
- Universal Remote
- Until Today: Spectres for the International Hotel
- Valencia Street Posts
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Sita K. Bhaumik
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Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an artist, writer, and art editor for Hyphen magazine.
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Spencer Young
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Spencer Young is a writer living in San Francisco. He contributes art writing for the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
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Stephanie Baker
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Stephanie Baker is a 2009-2010 recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity grant and one of Jack Hirschman's chosen "Poets 11" during his tenure as San Francisco Poet Laureate. She studies with current SF Poet Laureate Diane DiPrima as well as co-hosts and co-produces The Organic Word Literary Series at Mission Pie, which takes place the second Tuesday of each month from 5-7 pm.
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Terri Cohn
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Terri Cohn is a writer, curator, and art historian. She was a contributing editor to Artweek magazine for twenty years, and has contributed to five books, dozens of exhibition catalogs, and numerous journals. A curator for more than thirty years, she currently works as an independent curator in addition to sitting on the faculty of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her book Pairing of Polarities: The Art and Life of Sonya Rapoport (Heyday Press) will be released in June 2012.
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Tess Thackara
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Tess Thackara is a writer, editor, non-profit worker, producer, and lover of the arts. A UK native, Tess now lives and works in San Francisco. She is a senior editor for Art Practical, a publication to which she regularly contributes writing. She also contributes to BOMB Magazine, among other publications, and recently produced a short film about the artists Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, One Plastic Beach. She holds a BA in English Literature from Trinity College, Dublin and contributed research to Dave Eggers’s creative nonfiction work, Zeitoun.
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Theo Konrad Auer
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A contributor to Oakbook, Theo Konrad Auer also holds the the odd honor of being been published in two different publications whose titles have something to with fecal matter: FecalFace.com and the sadly defunct local poetry magazine ASSPANTS. A born and raised Oaklander, Auer has been involved in the local arts community in one way or another, mostly writing about it, since high school. In college, he ran an acclaimed live poetry series with poet and black panther Lee Williams at a space which is now occupied by Dwayne Wiggins' Java House. Nowadays, he writes poetry and covers the local art community on the web and in magazines, including in Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose Magazine and SWEETART Magazine.
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Tom Comitta
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Tom Comitta is a writer and editor (of Shiterature) whose work has appeared in elimae, Try, New American Writing and is forthcoming in VOLT.
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Twilight Greenaway
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Twilight Greenaway writes a weekly electronic newsletter about food, farming, and sustainability for the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), and contributes regularly to websites such as Civil Eats, GOOD, and the Bold Italic.
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Valerie Imus
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Valerie Imus is an Oakland-based artist, curator, and project manager. As a collaborative member of the team Citizens Laboratory, she recently produced April Ful's Night at the Oakland Museum of California. Her recent curatorial projects include OPENwater—a collaboration with OPENrestaurant—and exhibitions at Southern Exposure, where she is a member of the Curatorial Committee, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where she worked for many years as Exhibitions Manager. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Victoria Gannon
Bio
Victoria Gannon lives and writes in Oakland, California. She has a degree in English from Mt. Holyoke College and received her master's degree in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts in 2008. Her thesis focused on the cultural geography of informal day laborer hiring sites. In 2000, while studying nonfiction writing at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, she wrote a documentary on flea market vendors. Recently, she has written for KQED, CCA's Center for Art and Public Life, Camerawork: A Journal, and The Rumpus, among other publications. Interests include geography, sentence structure, art, dysfunctional relationships, and swimming. Her favorite writer is Wendell Berry. Victoria Gannon is the Copy Chief for Art Practical.
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Zachary Royer Scholz
Bio
Zachary Royer Scholz is a San Francisco artist who has written for Shotgun Review, Blink, Whitefish Review, and authored several monograph and catalog essays. His artwork explores overlooked intersections of material and meaning within pre-existing objects, sites, and cultural structures. His writing seeks to foster rigorous engagement with cultural products and experiences.
Articles
- Alchemy
- Arthur Allan
- Best Of: Zachary Royer Scholz
- Crestmont at Coral
- Front + Center: Weather Streams
- Here Be Dragons: Mapping Information and Imagination
- Jordan Kantor
- Looking Through Trees
- San Francisco and the Art World of Tomorrow, Part 1
- San Francisco and the Art World of Tomorrow, Part 2
- San Francisco and the Art World of Tomorrow, Part 3
- The Blue Planet
- The Cremaster Cycle plus De Lama Lâmina
- We They, We They
