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Way Bay January 17–June 3, 2018 BERKELEY ART MUSEUM PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE bampfa.org Gallery Guide

Way Bay Way Bay explores the creative energies that have emerged from the Bay Area over the past two hundred years. The exhibition features nearly two hundred works by Bay Area artists, filmmakers and others who have engaged with the region’s geographic, social, and cultural landscape. In contrast to a conventional historical survey, Way Bay has been organized to suggest poetic currents and connections among works from disparate times, cultures, and communities. The exhibition draws exclusively from the rich collections of BAMPFA, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and the Bancroft Library.

The gallery portion of the exhibition is divided into sections with titles borrowed from poems by Bay Area writers. Each section includes work from a broad range of periods, styles, and media. Films and videos share the space with paintings, photographs, sculptures, and works in other media, at times fitting into the poetically themed sections, and at others standing alone as resonant images of the Way Bay is organized by Director and Chief people and places of the Bay Area. Curator Lawrence Rinder, Film Curator Kathy Geritz, and Engagement Associate David Wilson, with Curatorial Assistant Matthew Coleman In the museum’s entry corridor is an interactive postcard and Assistant Film Archivist Jon Shibata. The project consisting of poems by and about the Bay Area exhibition is made possible with lead support by writers past and present, as well as an exploration from Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman. of BAMPFA’s rich archival holdings of audio and visual Additional support is provided by Alexandra Bowes and Stephen Williamson, Rena Bransten, recordings of artists and filmmakers. Visitors may delve Gertrud V. Parker, Janie and Jeff Green, The more deeply into the archives in BAMPFA’s Film Library and Jay DeFeo Foundation, an anonymous donor, Study Center on the lower level, where an area is devoted Dudley and Michael Del Balso, Lorrie and Richard Greene, Arun and Rummi Sarin, Sotheby’s, and to Way Bay. Ama Torrance and C.J. David Davies. Throughout the run of the exhibition, readings, Acknowledgements performances, and workshops extend Way Bay’s The curators are grateful for the generous exploration of Bay Area creative practice across diverse support of many people who have contributed their time and expertise to creating this media and disciplines. exhibition: Elaine C. Tennant, Jack von Euw, Lorna Kirwan, and Christine A. Hult-Lewis at the Bancroft Library; Benjamin Porter and Ira Jacknis at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology; Malcolm Margolin; Art Lab staff Alayna Tinney, Claire Astrow, and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo; and the California Audiovisual Preservation Project. Curatorial interns Lian Ladia and Emet Levy contributed invaluable research support. Many thanks to project advisor Lyn Hejinian. 1

See! I am dancing! On the rim of the world I am dancing! Ohlone song

1 ANONYMOUS 2 CHRIS DUNCAN (CHALON/OHLONE) , born 1974 Untitled, basketry tray, coiled Untitled (33) n.d. 2007 Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, India ink, paint, gouache, wood University of California, Berkeley Acc.393 putty, marker, graphite, color pencil Chalon is one of eight linguistic divisions on wood panel of the Costanoan (or Ohlone) people, who Gift of Elaine Gans in honor of Dr. Herschel are the original inhabitants of the Bay B. Chipp, professor emeritus 2017.74.2 Area. Between 1795 and 1814, many of the Chalon-speaking people were forcibly 3 ELISABETH SUNDAY relocated to the area of Mission Soledad, United States, born 1958 where they were made to work on the Mission’s farms and industries and denied Anima 4: Tuareg Woman the right to practice their culture. This tray Anima 9: Tuareg Woman was made primarily for sifting acorn meal. Anima 12: Tuareg Woman 2008-2009 Archival pigment print on rag paper, edition 2/10 Gift of Klaus Wirsing 2013.75.1.d, i, l

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When the brightening came, only the darkest survived Namwali Serpell, from “Company” (covering Company by Samuel Beckett), 2017

5 CARLETON E. WATKINS 7 GRANVILLE REDMOND She filmed Riverbody at SFAI, where many United States, 1829–1916 United States, 1871–1935 students, faculty, and administrators agreed to participate—Fred Martin, then View from the university Night Marsh Scene the director of the school, makes an ground [sic] at Berkeley: the c. 1903 appearance, as do filmmakers Freude and Golden Gate (in the distance) Oil on canvas board Scott Bartlett, John Knoop, and Robert 1874 Gift of Sheldon and Judy Greene 2016.56 Nelson, then chair of the film department. Albumen photograph Granville Redmond became deaf at the 9 CARINA BAUMANN Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University age of three following a bout of scarlet United States, born Switzerland, 1965 of California, Berkeley UARC PIC 03:226a—FR fever. He attended the California School UC Berkeley was chartered in 1868. The for the Deaf and Blind (now the Clark Untitled University operated in Oakland until 1873, Kerr Campus of UC Berkeley). In 1893, 2008-2009 when it moved to its current site. Carleton Redmond won a scholarship to study art Translucent white film Watkins’s photograph was taken just a in Paris, where he roomed with another on aluminum Berkeley native, the sculptor Douglas year after the campus was inaugurated Purchase made possible by the Jan Boyce Fund and shows the recently completed North Tilden. When Redmond returned to for Contemporary Art 2010.14 and South Halls, in what was then a largely California, he settled in where This self-portrait photograph of the treeless landscape. he befriended . Chaplin was inspired by Redmond’s use of American artist was taken using only moonlight for 6 RICHARD MISRACH Sign Language, and gave the artist parts in illumination. several of his films, including . United States, born 1949 10 LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Untitled (Sandstorm) 8 ALICE ANNE PARKER (SEVERSON) United States, born 1919 1976 United States, born 1939 Out of Chaos Split-toned gelatin silver print Riverbody 2011 Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Lithograph Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2013.4.2 1970 16mm BAMPFA preservation print Gift of Kala Art Institute and Lawrence transferred to digital file; black and Ferlinghetti 2017.171.a white, sound; 6 min. Poet, printmaker, and founder of the Courtesy of the artist legendary City Lights Books, Lawrence Ferlinghetti made this multipart print at the Alice Anne Parker, then known as Anne Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. In this work, Severson, began teaching at the San Ferlinghetti presents three images that Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) in 1966, express aspects of his poem “Out of Chaos.” making her first film in 1969. In 1970 she had the idea of making “a movie that was a continuous dissolve of nude bodies.” C

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11 JESS 12 SABURO HASEGAWA 13 JENNIE SMITH United States, 1923–2004 United States, born Japan, 1906–1957 United States, born 1981 The Hero Describes Lineage Distance Untitled (1997) 1955 1952 2012 Oil on canvas Hanging scroll; ink and color on Graphite and watercolor on paper Gift of Fine Art Associates in honor of James paper Gift of Rena Bransten 2013.52 Elliott; courtesy of Odyssia Skouras 2014.18.1 Gift of Nobuku and Joe Brotherton in Jennie Smith’s monumental drawing is appreciation of James Cahill 1977.19 Jess trained as a chemist and worked inspired by the Great Pacific Garbage Patch on plutonium production as part of the Saburo Hasegawa was an influential (also known as the Pacific trash vortex), a Manhattan Project during World War II. figure in the Bay Area, though he lived miasma of degraded plastic and chemical Concerned about the outcome of nuclear here for only two years at the end of sludge that has coalesced in the middle of weapons proliferation, he abandoned his his life. In his art, Hasegawa combined the Pacific Ocean. scientific career and turned to art, studying elements of traditional Japanese culture first at UC Berkeley and then at the with modern elements and techniques. 14 HASSEL SMITH California School of Fine Arts (now the San Distance includes an image printed from United States, 1915–2007 Francisco Art Institute). a tree stump onto which the artist carved This work reflects the influence of an abstracted version of the Japanese Untitled his teachers, especially the Abstract word gen, which means, roughly, “cloudy 1952 Expressionist painter , and impenetrability.” Gen is also the second Oil on canvas captures Jess’s interest in what he called part of the compound word, yugen, Gift of William Roth 1986.1 the “mythic landscape,” in which the an essential term in the aesthetics of primordial energy of our chaotic origins noh drama. Between 1945 and 1951, Hassel Smith begins to resolve into form and meaning. Distance was created in Japan but first taught at the California School of Fine exhibited in San Francisco when the artist Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) relocated to the Bay Area in 1954. alongside Ansel Adams, Clyfford Still, , , and Clay Edgar Spohn, among others. In 1952 he was included in the inaugural exhibition at the legendary King Ubu Gallery in North Beach. D

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15 TODD HIDO 18 JIM MELCHERT United States, born 1968 United States, born 1930 Untitled A picture postcard 1951 from the series House (mailed from Japan)... Hunting c. 1975 Graphite on paper 1997 Chromogenic print Gift of the Naify Family Purchase made possible by a gift 1995.46.494.2 from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation 1998.8 19 CLIFF HENGST United States, born 1962 16 LÉONIE GUYER United States, born 1955 Paintouts Untitled, MHK-3 2009 Gouache on newsprint 2008 Graphite and gouache on Indian Gift of Chris Perez 2010.26.a-f paper Gift of the artist 2011.13 20 SEAN MCFARLAND United States, born 1976 17 AL WONG Wall of Plants United States, born 1939 2010 Square Burn Chromogenic print 2017 Purchase made possible by the Marcia Simon Weisman Foundation Paper with burn marks Fund 2011.7 Purchase made possible through the Boyce Family Endowment Fund 2017.67 E

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Each exhalation, the birth of another century, its violent form Aja Couchois Duncan, from “Class,” 2016

21 TABITHA SOREN 23 PAUL SCHIEK 26 CATHERINE WAGNER United States, born 1967 United States, born 1977 United States, born 1953 Truth-out.org/Ferguson similar to a baptism Frankenstein III 2017 2007 2003 Archival pigment print Chromogenic print Lambda print, edition 1/5 Gift of Jamie Lunder 2017.58 Collectors’ Circle purchase: Bequest of Phoebe General Acquisitions Fund purchase 2004.6.1 Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2010.10.2 Although it may first appear to be a manipulated digital image, Tabitha 27 IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM Soren’s Truth-out.org/Ferguson is a 24 LUIS GUTIERREZ United States, 1883–1976 straight photograph of an iPad tablet United States, born 1933 Jack Campbell’s Dog screen, which displays an image of the Art is a Mirror Ferguson, Missouri insurrection. The oily 1965 smudges and smears of daily use partially Hanging on the Wall Gelatin silver print obscure the iconic image and suggest a 2015 Gift of Gryffyd and Janet Partridge, c/o meeting point of personal and political, Acrylic and ink on paper Richard Lorenz and the Imogen Cunningham Trust 1996.18.1 digital and analog. 2017.89.1

22 ED AULERICH-SUGAI 25 DOROTHEA LANGE 28 TRAVIS COLLINSON United States, 1950–1994 United States, born 1979 United States, 1895–1965 Ghosts and Demons Tomato Picker, Fall Forward 1989 Coachella Valley 2009-2010 Mixed media on paper, diptych Chalk and graphite on paper 1935 Gift of Daniel R. Ostrow 2017.91.1 Gelatin silver print Purchase made possible by the Jan Boyce Fund for Contemporary Art 2010.9 Diagnosed with HIV, Ed Aulerich-Sugai Gift of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd 1996.47.4 represented his struggle against AIDS with figures borrowed from Japanese and In 1935, Berkeley photographer Dorothea 29 D-L ALVAREZ Chinese mythology. In this work, a horde Lange was among several noted United States, born 1965 photographers, including of malevolent spirits is repulsed by the Information—Action demon vanquisher Shoki. and Gordon Parks, working for the Farm Security Administration to document the 2013 plight of agricultural works across the Color pencil and ink on paper United States during the Great Depression. Collectors’ Circle purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2013.14 D-L Alvarez’s drawing is done in a style intended to suggest the degraded, high- contrast appearance of a photocopy. The subject of this work is the Viennese “Actionist” Otto Muehl, who abandoned 30 23 35

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easel painting in the early 1960s for an 32 RUTH-MARION BARUCH 35 CHRIS JOHANSON expanded, performance-based artistic United States, born Germany, 1922–1997 United States, born 1968 practice. Black Panther guards at Free Untitled (Man with Knife) 30 TREVOR PAGLEN Huey Rally, Bobby Hutton 1998 United States, born 1974 Memorial Park, Oakland, CA House paint on wood Number 21 from the series Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Four Geostationary Satellites Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2012.43.1 Above the Sierra Nevada A Photo Essay on the Black Panthers 2007 36 NAYLAND BLAKE August 25, 1968 (printed 2010) C-print United States, born 1960 Purchase made possible through the Friends Gelatin silver print and Trustees Acquisitions Endowment Gift of The Pirkle Jones Foundation 2012.35.48 Untitled (Miracled Birds) Fund 2009.2 Ruth-Marion Baruch studied with Ansel 1989 This photograph at first appears to be Adams, Dorothea Lange, Edward Weston, Mixed media in wood and glass simply a picture of the night sky above the and Minor White at the California School case Sierra Nevada. The title, however, informs of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Gift of Roselyne and Richard Swig 1989.6 us that the image includes evidence of four Institute). The “miracled birds” mentioned in the geostationary satellites. Trevor Paglen’s title of this work refer to hallucinations work draws on traditional artistic genres 33 PIRKLE JONES of winged creatures experienced by to reveal the surprising, and at times United States, 1914–2009 Daniel Paul Schreber, a late-nineteenth- frightening, ways our world has changed century German judge who chronicled his to accommodate the new realities of high- Figures in the rain, experience of delusional paranoia in the tech surveillance and control. San Francisco influential book Memoirs of My Nervous 1955 (printed 1968) 31 THEODORE POLOS Illness (1903). According to the artist, the Selenium toned gelatin silver print work is intended “to duplicate the sense United States, born Greece, 1901–1976 Gift of The Pirkle Jones Foundation 2012.35.13 of displacement, volatility, and confusion” Street Fight Pirkle Jones worked for six years as experienced by the troubled jurist. 1939 Ansel Adams’s assistant. He was later Lithograph married to the photographer Marion-Ruth WPA Federal Art Project; transferred from UC Baruch, with whom he collaborated on a Berkeley Art Department 1943.21 photographic study of the Black Panther Party. Despite its generic title, Theodore Polos’s lithograph likely depicts a skirmish 34 ROBERT GUTIERREZ between police and strikers during the bloody 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike, United States, born Philippines, 1972 during which more than 100,000 workers Valparaiso took to the streets of Seattle, Portland, 2008 San Francisco, and Oakland. Polos was Acrylic ink on panel, diptych employed between 1937 and 1940 by the WPA’s Federal Art Project, a relief Purchase made possible by the Marcia Simon Weisman Foundation Fund 2010.15.a-b effort to support artists during the Great Depression. 40

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I did go out to look at the moon Obata returned to the Bay Area to teach at UC Berkeley, and ran an art supply shop Kevin Killian, from “Candyland III,” 1985 on Telegraph Avenue with his wife. In 1942 he, like many Japanese Americans at the time, was interned at the Tanforan, and 37 ZAROUHIE ABDALIAN 40 JOAN BROWN later Topaz, detention centers. At both of United States, born 1982 United States, 1938–1990 these locations, Obata helped create art schools serving hundreds of detainees. As a Demonstration Dog Watching Moon 2013 1960 43 WILLIAM KEITH Acrylic vacuum chamber, electric Oil on canvas United States, born Scotland, 1838–1911 bell, and steel Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sinton 1969.17 Woodland Scene Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2013.32 41 ANNE BRIGMAN c. 1900 United States, 1869–1950 Oil on canvas 38 MASAKO MIKI Gift of the American Trust Company 1939.1 Japan, born 1973 Lachrymaea William Keith arrived in San Francisco Falling 1924 at the age of twenty and became well Photograph 2016 known for his paintings of California’s Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of Watercolor on pastel paper natural landscape. He was a close friend California, Berkeley BANC PIC 19xx.333—AX of the naturalist John Muir, with whom Purchase made possible through a gift of he traveled in the Sierra Nevada and Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, Anne Brigman was the only West Coast California 2017.10 photographer to be included in Alfred worked to create Yosemite National Stieglitz’s New York-based Photo-Secession Park. Keith came under the influence of 39 MARTIN WONG group, which numbered among its Swedenborgianism, which led him to United States, 1946–1999 members Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon shift from realism to a more spiritually Coburn, and Clarence White. expressive style. In 1886, he moved to Silence Berkeley, though he continued to commute 1982 42 CHIURA OBATA each day by ferry to his studio in San Acrylic on canvas United States, born Japan, 1885–1975 Francisco Purchase made possible through a gift Death’s Grave Pass, of the Martin Wong Foundation and a 44 SARGENT JOHNSON bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by High Sierra, U.S.A. United States, 1888–1967 exchange 2012.25 From World Landscape Series: Owl Although not deaf, Martin Wong was America fascinated by American Sign Language and 1930 c. 1935 often included texts written in ASL hand Color woodcut Jadeite stone symbols in his paintings. In this work, the Collection of the University of California, Gift of Mrs. Ansley K. Salz 1965.32 hands spell out a poem: Berkeley UC.1026.a Sargent Johnson moved to San Francisco Silence Chiura Obata emigrated from Japan to in 1915. He was of Swedish, Cherokee, and of a warm embrace the United States in 1903 at the age of African-American descent, and much of W[h]ispers seventeen. In 1927, he spent the summer his work represented aspects of African- of anot[h]er place sketching and painting in the High Sierra American identity. This work, however, Dronings with UC Berkeley professor of art Worth captures the enigmatic nature of an owl, of an afternoon Ryder. The following year he returned to using forms suggestive of Cubism and Sunlight Japan, where he produced a portfolio of 35 other modern abstract styles. of an empty room woodblock prints of scenes in California landscapes. 49 52 45

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seconds before sleep 47 RAYMOND SAUNDERS 50 GEORGE HERMS United States, born 1934 United States, born 1935 seem all tangled up Passages: East, West II All I Wanna Do Is Steffi Drewes, “from for the fact finders,” 2017 1987 Swing n’ Nail Mixed media on canvas and door 1961 45 RICHARD DIEBENKORN Anonymous gift honoring Brenda Richardson Wood, paper, fabric, metal, leather, United States, 1922–1993 and Peter Selz for their support of the Afro- twine American Acquisitions Committee, and Jesse Studio Wall Fisher and his security staff at the University Gift of Alfred Childs 1967.8 Art Museum 1988.1.1-2 1963 51 ALEXANDER KORI GIRARD AND Oil on canvas 48 JAMES BROUGHTON OLIVER HALSMAN ROSENBERG Gift of Richard and Phyllis Diebenkorn United States, 1913–1999 United States, born 1979 2015.20 United States, born 1975 This painting was made in Richard The Bed Diebenkorn’s Berkeley studio on Adeline 1968 Ellora 2 (#22) Street near Stanford Avenue. The artist 16mm BAMPFA preservation print 2009 recalled this studio many years later: “It transferred to digital file; color, Mixed media on paper was a triangular room at the back of a sound; 19 min. Purchase made possible by the Friends tavern. I could open a door and look right Courtesy of Joel Singer and Trustees Acquisitions Endowment down the bar at all the regulars. There Fund 2010.21.4 This playful film captures a diverse array of was a lot of useless furniture built into the characters, most of them naked, frolicking wall, and when I pulled it off you could see 52 BRETT GOODROAD on and around a bed that arrives magically many different overlapping layers of house United States, born 1979 in the middle of a sunny meadow at Druid paint. The effect was fascinating.” Heights on Mount Tamalpais. Among the Burt or On the Mountain performers are the photographer Imogen 46 HENRY ALEXANDER One Line Grown Cunningham, the Zen philosopher Alan United States, 1860–1894 2017 Watts, members of Anna Halprin’s dance Oil on canvas Teete’s House company, and the filmmaker/poet himself, who noted, “I wanted to show as directly Purchase made possible through a gift of 1886 Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, as possible my vision of the flowing river Oil on canvas California 2017.35 of existence.” The music was composed by Bequest of Hannah N. Haviland 1921.1 Warner Jepson. This painting was inspired, in part, by San Francisco native Henry Alexander the rugged Ventana Wilderness south of studied painting at the Academy of Fine 49 LAURIE REID Monterey, though the artist points to many Arts, Munich. He later returned to the United States, born 1964 other diverse references: Bay Area, where he specialized in painting “Burt or On the Mountain Line Grown highly detailed interiors such as Teete’s Up the stairs into takes its title from my impression of Basil House. The New York Herald described the warm night Bunting’s cadence and density. His poetry Alexander as, “one of the creators of the 2016 also exemplifies something the painting modern school of art.” Much of his work Oil on linen is attempting: lyricism through heavy was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake Purchase made possible through a gift of building. Blocks on top of one another. and fire. Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, Filtering history, etc., feeling and specific California 2017.32 narratives. The “Burt” acts as the niceness, the nice people, everyone in the painting is nice. Good people. The painting is the film projections

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same size as Watteau’s Embarkation to 55 HARRY JACOBUS 57 ENVIRONMENTAL SIMULATION Cythera. Watteau is a constant visual cue United States, born 1927 LABORATORY, UCB to which I return. His visual field is my own or it is a place where I feel the perfect Hellenic Blemishes Simulated Marin Tour balance of elegance and power.” 1971 1973 Oil and crayon on paper, 16mm film transferred to digital file; 53 JUDITH SCOTT mounted on canvas color, silent; 10 min. United States, 1943–2005 Gift of William Roth 1982.1 Courtesy of Peter Bosselmann Untitled Harry Jacobus was a close friend of the This simulated tour of Marin was made at 2002 painter Jess and the poet Robert Duncan, UC Berkeley’s Environmental Simulation Mixed media with whom he founded San Francisco’s Laboratory. Peter Bosselmann, professor King Ubu Gallery in 1952. Jacobus shared of urban design and director of ESL Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2011.19.2 with his friends an interest in Classical beginning in 1983, describes how it was antiquity and Romanticism. Of Jacobus’s made: art, Duncan said, “it is an intimation of the “In 1973 a film was made on a model 54 FRED MARTIN beauty around us as it is within us.” United States, born 1927 stage that realistically simulated a drive through Terra Linda in San Rafael. The film 56 OAKLAND TRIBUNE This Is the House of Life was made as part of a validation study to 1958 Tribune-American test how model simulation could aid the Distemper, watercolor, collage, Dream Picture decision making process in the approval and pencil on paper of large planning and engineering 1924 projects. A computer-guided camera Bequest of Joseph M. Bransten 1980.12.4 16mm film transferred to digital file; mounted on a moving crane traveled at This work on paper displays Fred Martin’s black and white, silent; 7.5 min. eye level through a model landscape and intense, almost mystical, passion for life The Oakland Tribune and American Theatre recorded, on 16mm film, the experience of and the spirit of regeneration. A phallic hosted a contest asking readers to submit a twenty-minute drive. form appears to push upward through their dreams; the winner of the most “The filmmaker was John Dykstra, layers of symbol-filled soil, implanting unusual dream would be made into a assisted by Jerry Jeffries. Both were at the a seed that bursts to life at the surface. photoplay. Mrs. L.L. Nicholson of Oakland beginning of their careers that led them Martin studied art at UC Berkeley and was had that honor. later to Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & director of the California School of Fine Magic. Also involved in the experiment Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) were Karl Mellander, an optical engineer from 1965 to 1975. who designed the lens, and Allan Feuer, who designed the computerized control system that allowed for movement along x-y-z axes, pitch, yaw, and roll. Donald Appleyard and Kenneth Craik supervised the team as faculty members. Funding came from the National Science Foundation.” 58 62

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Your heart is fine feeling the widest possible empathy for the day and its inhabitants Joanne Kyger, from “Your Heart is Fine,” 2000

58 LUCAS FOGLIA 60 IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM 62 INGEBORG GERDES United States, born 1983 United States, 1883–1976 United States, born Germany, 1938 Andrew and Taurin Drinking Coffee Gallery Couple, Golden Gate Fields Raw Goat’s Milk, Tennessee, 1960 2013 from A Natural Order Gelatin silver print Archival pigment print 2009 Gift of Jan Leonard and Jerrold A. Peil Gift of the artist 2017.88.1 C-print on Fuji Crystal Archive 1999.49.4 paper, edition 2/3 The Coffee Gallery was a famous North 63 DESIREE HOLMAN Purchase made possible by the Marcia Simon Beach hangout where writers such as United States, born 1974 Weisman Foundation Fund 2013.36.1 Bob Kaufman and Lawrence Ferlinghetti read their work and musicians such as Milkies 59 JOANNE LEONARD Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, and Janis Joplin 2009 United States, born 1940 performed. The artist George Herms, Color pencil on archival paper whose work appears elsewhere in this Gift of Celeste and Anthony Meier, Jr. 2017.78 Untitled exhibition, worked as a janitor at the Desiree Holman’s drawing of a mother 1977 Coffee Gallery the year Cunningham took nursing an infant was inspired by the Gelatin silver print this photograph. recent phenomenon of ultra-lifelike Gift of the artist 2017.77.31 61 CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL baby dolls, sometimes called “reborns.” Joanne Leonard’s work from the 1960s United States, born 1974 Holman made her own versions of these and 1970s focused on domestic settings uncanny faux children and then staged and the residents of West Oakland and Landscape compositions that recall art historical Berkeley. 1997 (printed 2013) precedents, from the Christian Madonna Epson Ultrachrome HDR on Canson and Child to the intimate portraits of the Platine rag paper, edition 2/5 Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2013.39.2.1-70 This is an excerpt from a series of seventy photographs taken surreptitiously of men cruising in San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park. 66 70 73

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Man is a false window 73 TOM MARIONI United States, born 1937 through which his double walks to the truth Religious Picture Philip Lamantia, from “Man Is in Pain,” 1952 1977 Soft-ground etching on drypoint THOMAS HILL 69 BILL OWENS Gift of Byron R. Meyer 1978.8 United States, born England, 1829–1908 United States, born 1938 Untitled (Men HADI TABATABAI 64 The Grizzly United States, born Iran, 1964 with Cockatiels) c. 1890 Oil on wood panel 1979 74 Thread Drawing 2012-17 Chromogenic print 2012 65 The Wawona Gift of the artist 1996.3 Thread and polymer varnish on c. 1890 These two men answered an ad that Bill Fabriano Artistico (640 gsm) paper Oil on wood panel Owens, who was looking for subjects to photograph, placed in the newspaper. 75 Thread Drawing 2012-18 Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley BANC PIC 1971.012, 2012 011-012—FR 70 GOTTARDO PIAZZONI Thread and polymer varnish on United States, born Switzerland, Fabriano Artistico (640 gsm) paper 66 DONNA BROOKMAN 1872–1945 Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2013.12.1-2 United States, born 1949 The End of Life Palace of Memory V (Mountain Pass) 76 DANIEL HIGGS AND 2013 1909 KYLE RANSON Archival pigment print Oil on linen United States, born 1964; born 1969 Purchase made possible through a gift of Gift of Helen and Ansley K. Salz 1987.8.4 Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, Morph Traits California 2016.167 2007-2010 ANNE MCGUIRE Mixed media on paper United States, born 1965 JIM GOLDBERG Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe United States, born 1953 71 Dark Universe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2010.39.0 67 Linda Benko 2016 This is an excerpt from a series of 44 Watercolor and pencil on paper drawings made in a collaborative exchange From Rich and Poor between Daniel Higgs and Kyle Ranson. 1979 72 Bright Universe For several years, these two geographically Gelatin silver print 2016 separated artists mailed drawings back Watercolor and pencil on paper 68 Gardiner Hempel and forth, each one inspired by the one Purchase made possible through a gift of that came before. From Rich and Poor Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, 1980 California 2016.122.a-b Gelatin silver print The drawing Dark Universe is based on a photograph of open star cluster NGC 7380, Collectors’ Circle purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2010.11.1-2 popularly known as the Wizard Nebula. Bright Universe is the artist’s invention, a means to “find balance with the dark.” 81

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She dances the city back into balance, Every weekend she dances for the city Kim Shuck, from “Unhomed,” c. 2015

77 NICK MAKANNA 79 CHRIS MARKER 82 CHRYSSA United States, born 1988 France, 1921–2012 United States, born Greece, 1933–2013 Rune XX Junkopia Cycladic Book 2017 1981 c. 1954–55 Glazed and bisqued ceramic 35mm film transferred to digital file; Plaster Gift of the artist, courtesy of Andres Guerrero color, sound; 6 min. Gift of Susan Meller 2016.175 Gallery 2017.90 Courtesy of the Criterion Collection This early work by Chryssa was made at and Tom Luddy 78 LEE MULLICAN the California School of Fine Arts (now the While on one of his visits to the Bay Area, San Francisco Art Institute) shortly after United States, 1919–1998 Chris Marker took a break from shooting the artist emigrated to the United States Fable Vertigo locations for his legendary essay from Greece. film, Sans Soleil, to film the Emeryville 1951 mudflats, which at that time were Oil on canvas 83 SAHAR KHOURY dotted with sculptures constructed from United States, born 1973 Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe materials washed up from the Bay. This Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2012.16 film was codirected by Frank Simeone and Untitled In 1951, Lee Mullican, along with Gordon John Chapman. 2017 Onslow Ford and Wolfgang Paalen, Newspaper-mâché, steel participated in the exhibition Dynaton at 80 WILL YACKULIC Gift of the artist 2017.76 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. United States, born 1975 This exhibition, organized by the museum’s founding director, Grace McCann Morley, Untitled 84 PETER VOULKOS presented a significant postwar artistic 2004 United States, 1924–2002 development that combined elements Mixed media on paper Untitled of Surrealism with references to Native Gift of Roger Parodi 2017.6.2 1988-1989 American art and culture. Bronze 81 EVELYN REYES Gift of Penelope Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser United States, born 1957 1991.11.5 Carrots Peter Voulkos, who founded the ceramics 2007 program at UC Berkeley in 1959 and taught Oil pastel on paper at the university until 1985, is renowned for Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe his raw, monumental works that merged Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2011.20.11 Abstract Expressionist gesture with the medium of clay. In this work, his method of Evelyn Reyes worked in San Francisco’s working in broad, pieced-together slabs is studio for adult artists with developmental interpreted in bronze. disabilities, Creativity Explored, between 2002 and 2017. 85 85

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All people are our potential comrades in the struggle against this decrepit order of the world David Brazil, from “Our Community,” 2012

85 DAVID CANNON DASHIELL 86 LUDWIG CHORIS 88 SUZANNE LACY AND United States, born Japan, 1952–1993 Russia, 1795–1828 KATHLEEN CHANG Study for Queer Mysteries Voyage pittoresque United States, born 1945; United States, 1950–1996 1992 autour du monde Graphite on paper 1821-23 Angel Island Times Past Gift of the Peter Norton Family 1993.44.1 Book 1978 These drawings are studies for a room-size Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of Newsprint, performance document installation that explores queer sexuality California, Berkeley BANC G420.K84.C6 1822 from The Life and Times of through the framework of the Dionysiac Donaldina Cameron murals of the Villa of the Mysteries 87 LUDWIG CHORIS Museum purchase: Bequest of Thérèse at Pompeii. David Cannon Dashiell’s Russia, 1795–1828 Bonney, class of 1916, by exchange 1995.22.5 reinterpretation of these murals shifts the This broadsheet features stories of identities of the Classical characters to Five portraits of Asian Pacific women who arrived in San groupings of Edwardian dandies and sci-fi California Indians Francisco by various means—Chinese women. The burn marks are the result of a 1822 women smuggled into the country, fire that consumed the artist’s apartment. Hand-colored lithograph Japanese war brides—with historical The year after he made these drawings, Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University images of these women. It was distributed Dashiell died from the effects of AIDS. of California, Berkeley BANC PIC to audiences that participated in a daylong In the words of writer Alison Mairi 1963.002:0365—B excursion to Angel Island in San Francisco Syme, “Taking the idea of Pompeii In 1816, the twenty-one-year-old German- Bay. As the ferry carrying the audience and the Mysteries frieze in particular Ukrainian artist Ludwig Choris spent one approached the dock, a schooner sailed as the symbolic bedrock of Western month in the San Francisco Bay drawing past with Suzanne Lacy and Kathleen psychoanalysis and psychosexual the landscape and the area’s Ohlone Chang in period costumes. The artists identity, Dashiell’s work constitutes inhabitants. He had come as part of Otto docked and followed the audience to the an archaeological exploration of the von Kotzebue’s Russian expedition in top of the hill, where they related opposing formation of individual and group search of a northeast passage through narratives of Asian women’s immigration, identities. Employing a system of visual- the Bering Sea. Choris’s drawings were with Lacy playing the part of a zealous verbal punning akin to Freudian dream subsequently published in books and as social reformer and Chang performing as logic, Dashiell’s alternative archaeology hand-colored lithographic prints. At the her husband’s real ancestor, indicting the both recovers and remakes a monument time of Choris’s visit, there are estimated cultural erasure and economic exploitation to queer identities and communities, past, to have been at least ten thousand people that awaited female migrants. present, and future.” of various Ohlone-speaking tribes living The performance was produced by The in the area between the San Francisco Bay Floating Museum, a project of Bay Area and Monterey. artist Lynn Hershman Leeson between 1975 and 1978. The Floating Museum was an early, unprecedented, artist-curated model for exhibiting public and site-specific art. 89 ROMARE BEARDEN 91 NELLIE KING SOLOMON United States, 1911–1988 United States, born 1971 Study for Berkeley— In Pursuit of the Blob The City and Its People 2016 1973 Ink, gesso, and stickers on Mylar Collage on board Gift of John and Natasha Boas Art Fund Gift of Dr. and Mrs. David Dragutsky 1974.1 2017.70.a-c Romare Bearden’s mural, Berkeley—The In Pursuit of the Blob is an allegorical City and Its People, hung in the Berkeley study of ambition, success, and failure Council Chambers for thirty years before in the art world. being moved to storage in 2003. The mural was Bearden’s first public art commission.

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Joanne Kyger was a renowned poet who 100 HELEN CLARK OLDFIELD 103 RICHARD KAMLER lived and worked in Bolinas and was United States, 1902–1981 United States, 1935–2017 associated with the Beat movement and San Francisco Renaissance. Descartes Floral Still Life Rapture was made during a residency at 1937–1942 2008 KQED’s innovative National Center for Oil on board Prismacolor, oil pastel, and Experiments in Television (NCET), which Gift of Sheldon and Judy Greene 2016.55 charcoal on paper allowed artists of all types to explore Born and raised in Santa Rosa, California, Gift of the artist 2016.174.1 the new medium of video. In it, she Helen Clark Oldfield studied at the is seen reading her poem “Descartes California College of Arts and Crafts (now 104 JOSEPH I. WHITTLE and the Splendor of. A Real Drama of California College of the Arts) and the England, 1825–1920s Everyday Life. In Six Parts” accompanied California School of Fine Arts (now San by video feedback that was developed in Francisco Art Institute), where she was San Francisco Bay collaboration with Robert Zagone, Loren exposed to European Modernism by her with Alcatraz and Sears, Walt Bjerke, and Brice Howard. instructor and, later, husband Otis Oldfield. Steamship Princess 98 MIKE BRODIE c. 1860 101 KATHERINE SHERWOOD United States, born 1985 Oil on canvas United States, born 1952 Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, 3018 Sallos II UnIversity of California, Berkeley 2006–2009, printed 2012 BANC PIC 1963.002:1352—FR 2000 Chromogenic print Mixed media on canvas 105 IRENE PIJOAN Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2012.22.1 Purchase made possible through funds United States, born Switzerland, provided by the Acquisitions Committee Fund 1953–2004 From the age of eighteen, Mike Brodie and Joan Roebuck 2003.16 lived for six years with a community of UC Berkeley Professor of Art Katherine Kick Count Chart freight-hopping youths, documenting their Sherwood suffered a massive cerebral 1994 life on the trains with a camera given to hemorrhage in 1997. Her subsequent work Mixed media on paper him by a friend. incorporated highly magnified imagery of Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe blood vessels with arcane symbols, such as Apperson Hearst, by exchange 1995.67.b 99 MARGO HUMPHREY the Sallos seal, which represents a “Duke United States, born 1942 This monumental work is one section of a of Hell” who is identified as a pacifist and three-part piece that represents stages of James Brown’s Sounds believed to cause men and women to fall childbirth. of Escape-Ism in love. 1972 102 MARY BELKNAP Color lithograph United States, born 1944 Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the H. Untitled W. Anderson Charitable Foundation 1973.16 c. 2008 Sharpie marker and felt tip pen on paper Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2011.20 108

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106 JEREMY ANDERSON 109 CLAY EDGAR SPOHN United States, 1921–1982 United States, 1898–1977 Riverrun Greek Legend 1965 1937 Redwood, pine, enamel Lithograph Gift of the University Art Museum WPA Federal Art Project; transferred from Council 1967.46 UC Berkeley Art Department 1943.29 Clay Edgar Spohn attended UC Berkeley 107 JUDITH BELZER before moving to Paris to study with United States, born 1956 Fernand Léger at the Académie Moderne. In 1926, he returned to the Bay Area where Half Empty Half Full #7 he was employed by the Works Progress 2017 Administration to paint murals at sites Oil on canvas such as Los Gatos High School and the Gift of Alix and David Becker 2017.13 Montebello Post Office. He was a close friend of Alexander Calder, to whom 108 CATHERINE OPIE he suggested adding movement to his sculptures. United States, born 1961 Jerome Caja 110 FRANKLIN WILLIAMS 1993 United States, born 1940 Chromogenic print Untitled Gift of Los Angeles City Councilman 1968 Joel Wachs in honor of In A Different Light 1995.72 Acrylic, yarn, glitter, plastic tubing on canvas The subject of this portrait, Jerome Caja, Gift of the University Art Museum Council in was a fixture of San Francisco’s radical memory of Abigail Folger 1970.26 queer art and performance scene in the 1990s. 111 BARRY MCGEE United States, born 1966 Untitled 2008 Ballpoint pen and acrylic on paper Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2008.16.a-m 112 115 117 114 111 116

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119 DAVID HUFFMAN 120 CAROLE DOYLE PEEL 122 CHARLES ALBERT ROGERS United States, born 1963 United States, 1934–2016 United States, 1848–1918 Hunter Gatherer Chardin and Paris Chinese Carpenter at Work, 2007 2003 St. Louis Alley Mixed media on paper Graphite on paper 1901 Gift of Dominique Lévy 2012.34 Gift of the Estate of Carole Doyle Peel Oil on board 2017.25.2 The son of a Black Panther activist, David Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, Huffman extends the social-justice Carole Doyle Peel received her MA from University of California, Berkeley BANC PIC 2004.007:03—FR struggle into the realm of science fiction. UC Berkeley in 1964 and went on to teach In works such as Hunter Gatherer, the artist at the University from 1964 to 1968, Charles Rogers studied art in New York, explores alternate and future scenarios in then at the California College of Arts and Rome, Paris, and Munich before arriving in which cohorts of “traumanauts” wander Crafts (now California College of the Arts) San Francisco in 1877. He lost 150 paintings a landscape of broken monuments and for forty-six years, from 1968 to 2014. In when his studio burned in the aftermath dreams. In the words of Huffman, “The works such as Chardin and Paris, Peel of the 1906 earthquake. traumanauts are the psychological layers multiple dimensions of reality and personalities coming from the rupture of representation. slavery for Africans. I would label them a TRAUMAnaut, rather than an astronaut, 121 SONYA RAPOPORT because of this traumatic rupture of United States, 1923-2015 existence. From being captured, brought to Survey Chart #19 America and parts of Europe, as workers, as slaves, there’s a cultural identity that’s 1971 been decimated. The traumanauts are Gouache and graphite on found constantly looking for a location, for survey chart home.” Gift of the Estate of Sonya Rapoport 2017.50.2 Sonya Rapoport was one of the first women, in 1949, to receive an MA in painting from UC Berkeley. Survey Chart #19 was made using a found survey chart that documented the topography in the area of the Snake River where dams were under construction in the early twentieth century. Rapoport overlaid this rigorously measured engineering document with washes of ink that are suggestive of a more intuitive mode of thinking and understanding. film projections

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125 JOE OVERSTREET board of directors, Douglas MacAgy, 129 FRANCES BUTLER United States, born 1933 a Canadian art historian and curator United States, born 1940 who had been McCray’s colleague at Untitled the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. The Peachskin Preface 1971 Under McCray’s and MacAgy’s influence, to the Pillowbook Watercolor on paper a number of key faculty hires were made, 1970 Purchased with the aid of funds from the including , Clyfford Still, and Ink on cotton, polyester batting National Endowment for the Arts 1972.81 David Park. From 1947 to 1985, McCray Gift of Rita Robilliard 2017.93.1 Berkeley native Joe Overstreet played served on the faculty of UC Berkeley’s an active role in the North Beach scene Department of Art Practice. 130 TERRY FOX of the 1950s before moving to New York United States, 1943–2008 127 FLETCHER BENTON City in 1957. There he became a regular at the legendary Cedar Tavern, the nightly United States, born 1931 The Triptych of Crosses hangout of artists such as Willem de 1984 and Beep Formed by Mirroring the Kooning, Hale Woodruff, Philip Guston, 34 Turns of the Labyrinth 1968 Jackson Pollock, and Romare Bearden. Plexiglas, aluminum, and electric of Chartres Between 1970 and 1974, Overstreet taught motor 1973 at California State University, Hayward Pencil on paper (now California State University, East Bay). Gift of Fletcher Benton 1968.38 Overstreet’s art encompasses both abstract Purchased with the aid of funds provided by 128 ERNIE GEHR the National Endowment for the Arts and the and representational styles. This work is an University Art Museum Council 1980.11.e interpretation of the red, black, and green United States, born 1941 flag designed in 1920 by the United Negro Side/Walk/Shuttle 131 BEN PETERSON Improvement Association to represent pan-Africanism. 1991 United States, born 1977 16mm film transferred to digital file; Ship’s Wake 126 JAMES MCCRAY color, sound; 41 min. 2011 United States, 1912–1993 Courtesy of the artist Ink and graphite on paper Ernie Gehr was on the faculty of the CXXXV Gift in memory of Ajene Moss 2017.95 San Francisco Art Institute from 1988 to 1966 2006, and also taught at UC Berkeley. Acrylic on canvas As he recalls, “The initial inspiration for Gift of James McCray 1968.35 the film was an outdoor glass elevator A graduate of UC Berkeley, James McCray and the visual, spatial, and gravitational played a pivotal role in the Bay Area art possibilities it presented me with. The scene. In the early 1940s the board of work was also informed by an interest in directors of the California School of Fine panoramas, the urban landscape, as well Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) as the topography of San Francisco. Finally, asked him to help introduce a new, the shape and character of the work was Modernist spirit into what had become a tempered by reflections upon a lifetime of generally conservative, academic program. displacement, moving from place to place Cray brought on a new member of the and haunted by recurring memories of other places I once passed through.” 135 138

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141 JAY DEFEO 144 NELL SINTON extraordinary three-dimensional quality United States, 1929–1989 United States, 1910–1997 and produced an undulating, sparkling effect as the light source traveled through Untitled, Paris Untitled the layers of gels sandwiched in glass. 1951 20th century The experience was akin to viewing a Ink and gouache on paper Drawing and collage on paper shimmering stained-glass window.” Purchase made possible by the Norma H. Gift of Nancy and Joachim Bechtle 2010.24 Because it was difficult to exhibit them in Schlesinger, Andrew and Paul Spiegel Fund public venues, Arledge documented them and the General Acquisition Fund 1997.29 145 JUDITH FOOSANER in several of her experimental films. United States, born 1940 142 KENJILO NANAO 147 WALLY HEDRICK United States, born Japan, 1929-2013 Soft Touch #3 United States, 1923–2003 Boxes in Terra Rose III 2003 Napalm Sundae Graphite on paper 2009 1965 Gift of Robert Blomberg, Berkeley, Oil and silver leaf on canvas California 2016.168 Lithography on canvas with Gift of Gail Chapel Nanao 2016.17 polyurethane Kenjilo Nanao aimed in his work to 146 SARA KATHRYN ARLEDGE Purchase made possible by the Friends and balance pure abstraction and metaphor (or Trustees Acquisition Endowment Fund, the United States, 1911–1998 Boyce Family Endowment Fund, a bequest of meaning) in a “state of elegant confusion.” Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange, the Nanao, who emigrated from Japan in 1960, A selection of glass slide Schlesinger-Spiegel Fund, and a partial gift of lived in Berkeley and taught for many transparencies Charles Linder 2017.94 years at Hayward State University (now 1947-1950 Wally Hedrick served in the Korean War California State University, East Bay). Glass slide transparencies before settling in San Francisco, where transferred to digital files, stage- he became a central figure of the Beat 143 RUTH WALL light gelatins, Sharpie pens; color, Generation. Hedrick was cofounder of United States, 1917–2010 silent; c. 10 min. the Six Gallery, for which he invited Allen Ginsberg to organize the legendary 1955 Untitled While teaching at California College of reading that featured Philip Lamantia, Arts and Crafts (now California College c. 1955 Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip of the Arts) between 1947 and 1950, Sara Silkscreen, edition of 6 Whalen, and Ginsburg himself reading Kathryn Arledge began using scientific Gift of Dan and Claire Carlevaro 2017.44.6 Howl. Napalm Sundae is an early example glass slides as her artistic medium. She of Hedrick’s art in protest of the war in In 1952, while studying art under the GI created abstract patterns by cutting up Vietnam. When he made this piece he Bill, Ruth Wall spent many hours in the colored stage-light gelatins, baking them was living with the artist Jay DeFeo, who print studio at the California School of the in the oven, then scratching and drawing finished her legendary, mystical painting Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) on the resulting surface with tools ranging The Rose in the same year. making prints that recall, in their bold from toothpicks to Sharpie pens. The gestures and strong contrasts, the Abstract transparencies were exhibited using a Expressionist paintings of her teachers and magic lantern slide projector. contemporaries. Wall lived and worked For Terry Cannon, who arranged for in the North Beach neighborhood of San the slides to come into our collection, Francisco for more than fifty years, and “Arledge’s slides, when illuminated, had an rarely showed her art in public. 149 148 152 153 151 150

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148 ERICA DEEMAN 150 AUGUSTO FERRÁN 153 TAUBA AUERBACH United States, born 1977 Spain, 1813–1879 United States, born 1981 Marvin Vista de San Francisco Plate Distortion I 2015 [View of the Bay from hills above 2011 Digital chromogenic print San Francisco] Color aquatint etching, AP X, Gift of the artist 2017.49 1850 edition of 35 Marvin is from Deeman’s recent portrait Oil on canvas Purchase made possible through a gift from Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, series Brown, for which she photographed Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University California 2014.4 male friends and acquaintances against a of California, Berkeley BANC PIC backdrop representing her own skin color 1963.002:1357—FR as a gesture of both solidarity and contrast. This early San Francisco landscape captures the glowing light of the Bay 149 RUTH ARMER Area’s unique atmosphere. Augusto United States, 1896–1977 Ferrán was from the Spanish island of Mallorca. After spending two years in No. 23 San Francisco and the Gold Country of 1971 the Sierra Nevada, Ferrán moved to Cuba Oil on canvas to teach at the art academy in Havana. Gift of John M. Bransten, Robert J. Bransten, James D. Hart, and Ruth McDougall 1971.66 RUTH LASKEY San Francisco native Ruth Armer studied United States, born 1975 art in New York City between 1915 and 1919 with George Bellows, Robert Henri, 151 Twill Series Max Weber, and John Sloan. Her later (Bright Yellow/Tangerine) work, such as No. 23, is a dramatic 2008 contrast to the Romantic figurative style Hand-dyed, hand-woven linen of her Ashcan School forebears. Here she focuses on the optical effects of color and 152 Twill Series brushstroke, creating a sensation of warm, (Forest Green/Electric Blue) glowing energy. 2008 Hand-dyed, hand-woven linen

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154 DAVID PARK 156 ANNA VON MERTENS 159 BENIAMINO BUFANO United States, 1911–1960 United States, born 1973 United States, born Italy, 1890–1970 Untitled Bacchus’s Aura, The Chinese Philosopher (formerly Berkeley Scroll) after Caravaggio 1920-1927 1960 2009 Glazed terracotta Felt pen on paper Hand-dyed, hand-stitched cotton Gift of Betty Hamilton Shurtleff in memory of Fred S. Bruckman, M.D. 1991.2 Gift of Mrs. Benjamin H. Lehman 1961.5 Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2012.5 In the late 1940s, David Park taught An immigrant from Italy, Beniamino painting alongside Hassell Smith, Elmer In her Portraits series, Anna von Mertens Bufano initially moved to San Francisco Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn at the created images of auras inspired by to assist the sculptor Paul Manship on California School of Fine Arts (now the characters in well-known paintings, in this a project for the 1915 Panama-Pacific San Francisco Art Institute). These artists case Caravaggio’s Bacchus. Exposition. In 1920, he traveled to China to shared an Abstract Expressionist style until study terracotta and glazing techniques. 1950, when Park abandoned abstraction in 157 XYLOR JANE Later in his career he focused on public art favor of a very personal and direct mode of United States, born 1963 commissions, many of which can still be seen throughout the Bay Area. figurative representation. His revolutionary Pequod shift inaugurated what came to be known 160 BRUCE BAILLIE as the Bay Area Figurative movement. 2005 In 1955, Park was hired to teach at UC Ink on paper United States, born 1931 Berkeley. This thirty-foot long scroll was Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe All My Life made in Park’s final year, while he was Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2010.18 1966 convalescing from back surgery and shortly Xylor Jane’s work combines an interest 16mm film transferred to digital file; before he was diagnosed with the cancer in the rational, ordering systems of color, sound; 3 min. that would end his life. The scroll combines mathematics and geometry with imagery from his Boston childhood with expressions of sublime beauty. She calls Courtesy of the artist scenes from the Berkeley campus. her art a “mental space . . . no place, no Bruce Baillie cofounded Canyon Cinema, person, no thing. It’s just there.” initially screening films in his backyard 155 LUCILLE PARIS just over the hills in rural Canyon. Canyon United States, 1928–2008 158 SASHA KELLEY Cinema became a leading distributor United States, born 1990 of artist-made films, and the film series Orange I continues to this day under the auspices 1983 Transit Eyes of the San Francisco Cinematheque. watercolor on paper 2012, printed 2017 Described by Baillie as his tribute to “the Gift of the artist 1999.7.2 Archival Piezography pigment print quality of the light for three summer days” Lucille Paris studied at UC Berkeley in Purchase made possible through the C. David in Mendocino, this short film consists Robinson Fund for Photography 2017.65 the early 1950s and attended the master of one roll of film, shot in one take, and printmaker Stanley Hayter’s Atelier 17. Sasha Kelley is an Oakland-based lasting the duration of the song “All My photographer whose work celebrates Life” sung by Ella Fitzgerald. spiritual transcendence and the everyday sublime. 161 SUZANNE PERKINS 163 MIKE KUCHAR United States, born 1937 United States, born 1942 Phosphene Faery Tale 1972 1980 Acrylic on canvas Felt pen and ink on paper Purchase made possible through a gift of Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2012.15 California 2017.66 Mike Kuchar is an experimental filmmaker Suzanne Perkins learned Josef Albers’s whose 1965 film Sins of the Fleshapoids is a color theory in classes at cult classic. He has also worked for decades in the early 1960s. After she moved to as an illustrator and artist of gay erotica. Berkeley in 1967 she began painting Many of his drawings depict a humorous, mandala-like, optically dynamic images idealized vision of gay sexuality and using a spray gun and a specially designed romance. turntable that allowed her to paint in concentric circles. Perkins was closely 164 DAN MILLER involved with the Bay Area avant-garde United States, born 1961 film scene and contributed one of her paintings to the production of Jordan Untitled Belson’s 1972 film Light. 2013 Ink on paper 162 BRUCE CONNER Purchase made possible by the Jan Boyce Fund United States, 1933–2008 for Contemporary Art 2013.38 Inkblot Drawing (December 19, 1991) 165 KIM ANNO United States, born 1958 1991 Pen and ink on paper Niagara Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe 2013 Apperson Hearst, by exchange 1995.66 Oil and inkjet on aluminum Gift of Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, California 2013.78 Kim Anno’s image evokes the sublime power of Niagara Falls while suggesting the layers of human interference and control that have transformed this natural wonder. 166

Smoke that we might find each other in the near future. Smoke to come down to the bonfire. Smoke that we are going to be ok But there is no telling yet if that is true Juliana Spahr, from “October,” 2017

166 XARA THUSTRA 167 EMMA MICHALITSCHKE United States, born 1976 United States, born Germany, 1864–1925 This is what we are for and Yosemite Landscape this is what we’ll get 1913 2002 Oil on canvas Latex enamel on plywood Gift of Emma Michalitschke 1919.2.8 Museum purchase 2015.41 Emma Michalitschke studied at the San For the past twenty years, Xara Thustra’s Francisco Art Association School of Design. art has been inseparable from the Bay Following the 1906 earthquake, she moved Area social justice struggle and community to Berkeley, where she lived and painted empowerment movements. Her work has until her death in 1925. included agitprop street art, performance, and filmmaking. This mural, which 168 UNKNOWN ARTIST references the 9/11 attacks, was first shown The Cliff House and Seal in the 2002 Bay Area Now exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Rocks, San Francisco c. 1875 Reverse painting on glass, mixed media Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley BANC PIC 1970.012—FR W

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169 VICTOR COBO 171 YUH-SHIOH WONG 174 MARY IJICHI United States, born 1971 United States, born Taiwan, 1977 United States, born 1952 Baby Dale Panther Meadows, Draw #18 2003, printed 2017 Mt. Shasta 2016 Archival Piezography pigment print 2016 Acrylic and pencil on Mylar Gift of the artist 2017.87 Acrylic on canvas Purchase made possible through a gift of Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, Gift of the artist 2017.29.1 Victor Cobo took this photograph while California 2016.120 on assignment with The San Jose Mercury News. As the artist describes, “Somewhere 172 NORMA COLE 175 LUKE BUTLER in downtown San Jose, the body of an United States, born Canada, 1945 infant had been found not breathing. The United States, born 1971 mystery of it was that nobody claimed to be Untitled The End XXIII her parents, and the community where the From the Tahiti series 2016 baby was found felt so bad about it, that 1988 Acrylic on canvas they called the baby, [sic] Dale, and gave her Oil stick on paper a proper burial. The policeman that found Courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gift of the artist 2015.26.2 and Sarah Thornton 2016.12 the baby from an anonymous phone call tossed a flower onto her grave . . . I’ll never forget that assignment as long as I live.” 173 WYNN BULLOCK United States, 1902–1975 170 KAY SEKIMACHI Color Light Abstraction 1024 United States, born 1926 1965 Homage to A.M. Archival pigment print 2011 Bullock Family Photography LLC 2017.92.1 Linen, painted warp and weft, Between 1959 and 1965, Wynn Bullock textile dye, and permanent marker created a series of photographs he Purchase made possible through a gift called “Color Light Abstractions.” Bullock of Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, commented, “Light to me is perhaps the Monterey, California 2017.36 most profound truth in the universe. My This work is an homage to the painter thinking has been deeply affected by the Agnes Martin, whose signature style belief that everything is some form of comprising parallel horizontal lines was radiant energy.” originally inspired by the threads on her friend Lenore Tawney’s loom. In this work, Sekimachi reintroduces Martin’s abstract motif to the medium of weaving. The following video materials were selected from the BAMPFA archive and compiled as a digital gallery. View this collection at bampfa.org/waybay

Freude First Generation (Dede Tisone, Deborah Mangum Sacred Heart of Jesus Betty Estersohn, Joan Valdes) Six Phrases in Real Time 1965 Jasmine Nash: Black Dance 1978 16mm film transferred to digital file; 1977 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to color, sound; 5.5 min. ½-inch open-reel video transferred to digital file; color, sound; 13 min. Courtesy of Elon Bartlett digital file; black and white, sound; 27 min. Courtesy of the artist Courtesy of the artists Scott Bartlett National Center for Experiments in Making Offon Peter Gessner and David L. Brown Television (NCET) 1980 Making Waves: Sailing with the KQED tape #8013. Experimental 16mm film transferred to digital file; Bay Area Peace Navy Project Sampler color, sound; 10.5 min. 1987 1968 Courtesy of Elon Bartlett ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to Betacam SP preservation video transferred digital file; color, sound; 20 min. to digital file; black and white, sound; George Bolling Courtesy of Peter Gessner 59 min. Phase Courtesy of the artists 1970s Anna Halprin and Seth Hill Betacam SP preservation video transferred Right On (Ceremony of Us) Newsreel to digital file; black and white, sound; 1969 Los Siete 6.5 min. Betacam SP preservation video transferred 1969 to digital file; black and white, sound; 16mm film transferred to digital file; Cecilia Dougherty 30 min. black and white, sound; 33 min. Gay Tape: Butch and Femme Courtesy of Jim Newman Courtesy of California Newsreel 1985 ½-inch VHS master transferred to John Held Jr. Jani Novak digital file; color, sound; 29 min. The Vanishing World of Boku-maru Variations Courtesy of the artist Correspondence 1975 ½-inch open-reel video transferred to Cecilia Dougherty 1984 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to digital file; black and white, sound; 112 Leslie digital file; color, sound; 21 min. min. 1998 Courtesy of the artist Betacam SP video transferred to digital file; Optic Nerve black and white and color, sound; 11 min. Warner Jepson and Ruth Asawa Anais Nin Courtesy of the artist I17 (Ruth 1) 1971 ½-inch open-reel video transferred to Felix Feist, Jr. 1974 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to digital file; black and white, sound; 56 min. California Election News digital file; color, silent; 41 min. Courtesy of the artists no. 1 and no. 2 Courtesy of the Estate of Warner Jepson and 1934 the Estate of Ruth Asawa Optic Nerve 16mm film transferred to digital file; Art Works black and white, sound; 12.5 min. La Mamelle 1975 In Review (aired January 5, 1980) 2-inch quad video transferred to digital First Generation (Dede Tisone, 1980 file; black and white and color, sound; Betty Estersohn, Joan Valdes) ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to 31 min. with Mary Winder Baker, Debra digital file; color, sound; 30 min. Courtesy of the artists Rapoport, and Susan Wick Courtesy of Nancy Frank and Darlene Tong Optic Nerve Baker/Rapoport/Wick Ginny Lloyd Harvey Milk Interview 1977 ½-inch open-reel video transferred to Color Xerography Evening at Castro Camera digital file; black and white, sound; Magazine excerpt 1978 14.5 min. 1980 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to Courtesy of the artists ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to digital file; color, sound; 61 min. digital file; color, sound; 1.5 min. Courtesy of the artists Courtesy of the artist Optic Nerve TVTV Jerry Brown Talks to Whales Living Space Composite #2 1977 1970 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to ½-inch open-reel video transferred to digital file; color, sound; 45 min. digital file; black and white, sound; 27 min. Courtesy of the artists Courtesy of the artists

Optic Nerve TVTV Pushed Out for Profit New Games 1978 1973 2-inch quad video transferred to ½-inch open-reel video transferred to digital file; color, sound; 29 min. digital file; black and white, sound; 15 min. Courtesy of the artists Courtesy of the artists

Terry Riley and Arlo Acton TVTV Music with Balls Nitrous Newsweek: Ant Farm and 1969 the Last Days of Vinyl Pillow Betacam SP preservation video transferred 1970s to digital file; color, sound; 23 min. ½-inch open-reel video transferred to Courtesy of Jim Newman digital file; black and white, sound; 33 min. Courtesy of the artists Loren Sears Unknown artist Loops 1968 Panama-Pacific Exposition Betacam SP preservation video transferred at San Francisco, Cal. to digital file; color, sound; 5.5 min. 1915 Courtesy of the artist 16mm film transferred to digital file; black and white (tinted), silent; 18 min. Skip Sweeney Video Free America Illuminatin’ Sweeney Video Free America 1970–1983 1975 1983 Betacam SP preservation video transferred Betacam SP preservation video transferred to digital file; color, sound; 30 min. to digital file; black and white and color, Courtesy of the artist sound; 43 min. Edward Silverstone Taylor Courtesy of Skip Sweeney Street Fair 1959 1959 16mm film transferred to digital file; color, silent; 6 min. Way Bay program series

Way Bay Poetry Assembly Friday / 1.19.18 / 6:00 Duane Deterville: The Future Blackwards: Afrifuturism and Black Visual Culture Saturday / 1.27.18 / 6:00 Cardboard Sculpture with Grace Rosario Perkins Sunday / 2.4.18 / 2:00 Fabric Marker Jam with Chulita Vinyl Club and Creative Growth Friday / 2.9.18 / 6:00 San Quentin Prison Studio Mail Art Exchange Sunday / 2.18.18 / 11:00–7:00 Vogue Dance Class with Sir JoQ Friday / 2.23.18 / 6:00 Ritual Noise: LEXAGON, Titania Kumeh, Earthbound Saturday / 2.24.18 / 7:00 Riso Printing with Unity Press Sunday / 3.4.18 / 3:00 Kearny Street Workshop: Evolving Legacy Saturday / 3.17.18 / 2:00 Spectrum Summit / House of Malico Friday / 3.23.18 / 6:00 Awon Ohun Omnira Saturday / 3.24.18 / 6:00 Printed Textiles with Sierra Reading Sunday / 3.25.18 / 2:00 Embroidery Lab with Caroline Hayes Charuk Sunday / 4.1.18 / 2:00 Invitation to a Lost World: 5,000 Years of Art from the Bay Area Shell Mounds Saturday / 4.7.18 / 2:00 Zoé Samudzi, Ed Ntiri & Malika Crutchfield Saturday / 4.14.18 / 6:00 Enrique Chagoya and Rupert Garcia on Political Art Friday / 4.20.18 / 6:00 Carlos Villa’s Worlds in Collision Saturday / 4.21.18 / 2:00 Way Bay Vogue Ball Saturday / 4.28.18 / 5:30 Lil B Saturday / 5.5.18 / 4:00 Volti Vocal Ensemble Sunday / 5.6.18 / 4:00 Benjamin Michel Saturday / 5.26.18 / 6:00 On the occasion of Way Bay, we invited Bay Area writers to select a piece of their own writing and a piece by a deceased Bay Area personal literary hero. Their selections were printed on postcards in the BAMPFA Art Lab, and are included in the exhibition.

Selections are listed in the order they were received.

Kevin Killian, “Candy Land III” Aja Couchois Duncan, “Class” Jack Spicer, “Stinson” Beth Murray, excerpt from The Island

Cedar Sigo, “Mount Analog for Jared Stanley” Steffi Drewes, “for the fact finders” Philip Lamantia, “Animal Snared in His Revery” Joanne Kyger, “untitled”

Laura Moriarty, “Glass Action” Andrew Joron, “A = A” Jerry Estrin, excerpt from “The Park” Philip Lamantia, “Man Is in Pain”

Brent Cunningham, “Back on Earth” Wendy Trevino “Revolutionary Letter” Leslie Scalapino, excerpt from Orchid Jetsam Karen Brodine, excerpt from “Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking” Damon Potter, “untitled” Bo Huston, “Remember Me” Norma Cole, “Planetude for Etel Adnan” Robert Duncan, excerpt from “Upon Taking Hold” Rae Armantrout, “Evidence” Joanne Kyger, “Night Palace” Denise Newman, “A Wreck: the Caldecott” Philip Whalen, “Giant Sequoias” Ryanaustin Dennis, “Plywood” Bob Kaufman, excerpt from Golden Sardine Juliana Spahr, “untitled” Lester Rowntree, excerpt from Hardy Californians: Gloria Frym, excerpt from Mind Over A Woman’s Life with Native Plants Matter: A Tribute to Poetry David Meltzer, excerpt from Two-Way Brandon Brown, excerpt from Things To Do In Berkeley Mirror: A Poetry Notebook Stacy Doris, excerpt from Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit

Kit Robinson, “RASPBERRIES IN JANUARY” Lindsay Chloe Choi, “untitled” Joanne Kyger, “Your Heart Is Fine” Josephine Miles, “Berg”

Chris Carlsson, excerpt from “When Punk Mattered: Mary Burger, “His Wrist” At the Dawn of the Neoliberal City” Leslie Scalapino, excerpt from That They Were at the Beach Harold Gilliam, excerpt from The Natural World of San Francisco Rusty Morrison, excerpt from “understory” Barbara Guest, excerpt from “Imagined Room” Aaron Shurin, “Song” Barbara Guest, excerpt from Forces of Imagination Jocelyn Saidenberg, “October” Beth Murray, “Home” Namwali Serpell, “Company” Lucia Berlin, excerpt from “Let Me See you Smile” Garrett Caples, “For David Meltzer for Julie Rogers” David Meltzer, excerpt from “California Dreamin’” Alli Warren, excerpt from I love it Though Pat Parker, excerpt from Movement in Black Micah Ballard, “Way Bay” John Wieners, “Keep It” Kim Shuck, “Unhomed” Mary TallMountain, excerpt from “The Last Wolf” Claire Marie Stancek, excerpt from Oil Spell Pat Parker, “Between the Light” Bob Perelman, “Folk Wisdom” Jack Spicer, excerpt from “Phonemics” Gabrielle Daniels, excerpt from “Proving Impermanence” Bob Kaufman, excerpt from “Bagel Shop Jazz” Lyn Hejinian, excerpt from The Book of a Thousand Eyes Tongo Eisen-Martin, excerpt from “Faceless” Leslie Scalapino, excerpt from “This eating and Bob Kaufman, excerpt from “Jail Poems” walking at the same time is associated all right” Jean Day, excerpt from Low Life Carol Tarlen, excerpt from “Mission Poet Jack Spicer, “For Huntz” Dee Dee Kramer, “á la carte economy” Banned By State Department” Truong Tran, excerpt from The Book of Others William Dickey, “Happiness” Alan Bernheimer, “Twilight of the Trilobites” Jack London, excerpt from “Confession” Ismail Muhammad, “How White?” June Jordan, excerpt from “In Memoriam: David Brazil, “Our Community” Martin Luther King, Jr.” Bob Kaufman, “Abomunist Manifesto” Hazel White, excerpt from Walk for two: In the Michael Palmer, “Storm” ecotone of language, landscape, nonviolence George Oppen, excerpt from “Of Being Numerous” Merce Cunningham, excerpt from “Craneway Event 2008 with Tacita Dean” Gillian Hamel, “O” Leslie Scalapino, excerpt from The Front Matter, Dead Souls Tanea Lunsford Lynx, “Mothers II” Maya Angelou, “To a Man” Beth Custer, excerpt from “Crux of Murder” Shirley Jackson, excerpt from The Haunting of Hill House Emily Wolahan, Study for Cleaning Jack Spicer, excerpt from “Dear Lorca” Gillian Conoley, “Peace” Denise Levertov, excerpt from Jacob’s Ladder Nicole Trigg, “untitled” Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, excerpt from Dictee Jennifer S. Cheng, excerpt from HOUSE A Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, excerpt from Dictee Jacq Greyja, “untitled” kari edwards, excerpt from Bharat jiva Fred Turner, excerpt from Counterculture to Cyberculture Ken Kesey, excerpt from “Ken Kesey Was a Successful Pam Martin, “Pivot” Dope Fiend” Jack Spicer, excerpt from “Imaginary Elegies”

Cathy Arellano, “My Pendleton, My Love” Christopher J. Adamson, “untitled” Leslie Feinberg, excerpt from Stone Butch Blues Thom Gunn, excerpt from “Tom-Dobbin: Centaur Poems”

Syd Staiti, excerpt from The Undying Present Mg Roberts, excerpt from Fatfall Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, excerpt from Dictee Gertrude Stein, excerpt from Tender Buttons

Stephanie Young, excerpt from Pet Sounds Robert Glück, excerpt from Communal Nude Joanne Kyger, excerpt from Trip out and fall back Bo Huston, excerpt from Horse and Other Stories

Reid Gómez, excerpt from California Wasn’t Good For Us Brenda Hillman, “Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways” Randy Shilts, excerpt from And the Band Played Barbara Guest, “The Brown Vest” On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Carmen Gimenez Smith, “Bay Bridge Abstraction” Gloria Anzaldua, excerpt from “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers”

Josiah Alderete, “untitled” Bob Kaufman, “untitled”

Sara Larsen, excerpt from Merry Hell Lenore Kandel, “Phoenix Song”

Luisah Teish, “untitled” Veve Amasa Clark, “untitled”

Karen Seneferu, “untitled” J. California Cooper, excerpt from Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories

Rob Halperin, “NEAR GROWING SWELLS OF CASCADIAN DOOM ARISES THIS MELODIOUS SURGE” Frances Jaffer, “Gecko”

Viet Le, “Heal / Heel” Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, excerpt from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Janice Lobo Sapigao, excerpt from “My family came to America” Justin Chin, excerpt from “Grave”

Barrett Watten, “5 Stanzas from Plan B” Bill Berkson, “Space Dream”

The following artists contributed image-based works to the postcard print series: Margaret Tedesco, Rashad Pridgen, Jenifer Wofford, Eliza Barrios, Lordy Rodriguez, England Hidalgo, Dominic Mangila, Barbara Jane Reyes, Rupert Garcia, Enrique Chagoya, Moira Roth, Nancy Hom, Jason Bayani, Trinh T. Minh Ha, Gina Osterloh, Jerome Reyes, Michael Warr

FRONT AND BACK COVERS: A Trip Down Market Street, 1906 Way Bay January 17–June 3, 2018 BERKELEY ART MUSEUM PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE bampfa.org