Champagne and Curator Talks - FIRST THURSDAY of each month
Doors open at 4:30pm: Preview the show and enjoy a glass of champagne
Curator Talk starts promptly at 5:00pm - doors will be closed after the talk begins
Doors open when the discuss has ended - 5:30pm for the traditional FIRST THURSDAY OPENING
What Goes Around April 29 to May 31, 2008
A selected visual component of the San Francisco International Arts Festival
As the title suggests, there is a cyclical rhythm to our existence, a nod to the notion that history repeats. One path to understanding the development of a global society, then, is through past experiences of time, place and cultural standpoints that meet in the present.
In keeping with the San Francisco International Arts Festival’s annual theme: ‘The Truth in Knowing/Now,’ we evaluate the complexity of our impact – as individuals, as collectivities, as artists - on the development of an emerging global world. This involves a continuous re-evaluation of how personal value systems and identity are influenced by technology, mass media, social conventions and political policies. These variegated referents influence our individual framework of pre-suppositions (so called ‘life lessons’) that define individual ‘truths’. Based on individual choices informed by personal ‘truths’ or ‘knowing,’ our ability (or willingness) to adapt to or affect the forces directing cultural change on a global scale is also how we locate the ‘threads’ that connect us.
The intent of the ‘What Goes Around’ exhibit is to instigate dialogue amongst artists and between artists and viewers that, ultimately, presents diverse ideas about what is involved in the development of a global society and culture. Based on the precept that we can predict the future by looking through the lens of the present to examine lessons learned, 'Time' is the overarching conceptual thread used to anchor the far-ranging responses elicited by this exhibit.
April 29 to May 31, 2008 Reception: Thursday, May 1, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Champagne Preview & Curator Talk 4:30 - 5:30pm
Virtual World Reception:Global reception in the digital realm for ‘What Goes Around’
hosted by George Aguilar through SecondLife.com.
Phone: 415-673-3080
Website: www.artworksf.com
In Perspective: Thursday, May 15, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Artists and jurors present an evening of casual discussion about the exhibited work. This event invites the public to come together and engage in conversations about the global significance and impact that art has on culture.
Artist Tasting: Thursday, May 29, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Bring a bottle of wine to share and compare with your fellow artists. (sorry, white wine only-building regulations) Mix, mingle and have fun.
Featuring work by Judy Johnson-Williams and Alexander Polzin
Selected Artists:
Annekarin Glass
Ben Fash
Bruce Hopkins
Caren Lorber
Charlotte Kay
Chester Elmore
Christine Cianci
Daniel Rose
David Boudreau
Fitz Maurice
Gianluca Franzese
Irene Hendrick
Jacob Kaminker
Karen Gutfreund
Kiran Kumari
Les Phillips
Lois Llewellyn
Mary Lou D’Auray
Natasha Dikareva
Olaina Silva
Steven Gray
