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About the Exhibition About the Artists Exhibition Organizers and Sponsors Bridge 75th Anniversary

The opened on May 27, 1937. In 2012, organizations throughout the Bay Area are celebrating Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Anandamayi Arnold was born Andy Freeberg was born in Allison Smith was born in International is organized by the FOR-SITE Foundation—a the bridge’s 75th anniversary with an array of public Bridge, International Orange —named in honor of the in in 1975. Based New York in 1958. An artist Manassas, Virginia, in 1972. nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation, understanding, and events, including the Golden Gate Festival on the San unique paint color of the span—offers fresh perspectives in Berkeley, , she is and photojournalist based in Based in Oakland, she creates presentation of art about place—in partnership with the Golden Gate Francisco waterfront on Sunday, May 27, and 75 Tributes to on an enduring landmark. The exhibition presents new regularly commissioned to San Francisco, he develops work works on paper, sculpture, and National Parks Conservancy and the National Park Service. the Bridge, a yearlong series of community-based cultural works of art responding to the bridge as icon, historic create objects and costumes that ironically challenges the collaborative events that invite for-site.org | parksconservancy.org | nps.gov programs. Information: goldengatebridge75.org from crepe paper. 6 fine art world. 5 audience participation. 2 4 structure, and conceptual inspiration. Exhibition Sponsors Towers Lead Corporate Sponsor Fort Point National Historic Site

2 The 16 contributing artists approach the bridge with Doug Hall was born in San Abelardo Morell was born in Roger Evans and Aey Phanachet Bank of the West

1 Fort Point was constructed between 1853 and 1861 to 0 diverse and distinctively individual aesthetics, materials, Francisco in 1944. His diverse Havana, Cuba, in 1948 and is Piers In-Kind Contributions 2 protect San Francisco Bay from attack by foreign powers.

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2 it is now managed by the National Park Service. Information: others document the everyday details that bring it down Bedford, Massachusetts, in Cheshire, England, in 1956. Manila, the Philippines, in 1974, City Park Heath Ceramics y David and Carla Crane Philanthropic Fund InFocus nps.gov/fopo a to human scale.

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Exhibition Map Kate Pocrass Allison Smith David Liittschwager Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood Abelardo Morell 1 Average—The Golden Gate Edition 4 Trench Art 7 One Cubic Foot: Life Under the 11 Encrustations 15 Vertigo Golden Gate Bridge Pocrass offers a free special edition of her magazine Smith curated this exhibit of trench art, a type of folk Dion and Sherwood conduct what Dion calls “fantastical Morell creates unique, dynamic views of the Golden Average . She worked with National Park Service and art created in the context of war. Both this display and Continuing his One Cubic Foot series, which observes the archaeology,” envisioning the kinds of artifacts that one Gate Bridge by means of the camera obscura—a Golden Gate Transportation District staff and visitors to Fort Point Bunting (2) relate to Smith’s larger project density and diversity of life that exists within a 12-inch might find at Fort Point if it had been inundated by the centuries-old technique that uses a tiny opening in a produce a playful field guide exploring the bridge and Arts & Skills Service , which attempts to bridge the gap cube of soil, air, or sea, Liittschwager photographed sea long ago. Their installation presents sculptural wall to project images of the outside world into a its surroundings. Rather than focusing on the structure’s between civilians and military personnel through arts organisms found in seawater collected directly below the versions of everyday items made to look as though they darkened room. Bringing images of the bridge inside official history or architectural features, the publication and crafts workshops. bridge. His pictures capture often overlooked details of had spent a century underwater. These ordinary objects the fort, Morell creates a magical sense of experiencing Third Tier brings to light the quiet details and human stories of the stunningly varied ecosystem that is San Francisco Bay. become hybrids of the natural and the human-made, two perspectives at once. A selection of tent camera daily life at and around the bridge. marvelous artifacts of the historical imagination. photographs (14) complements the installation. Andy Freeberg 5 Gatekeepers Doug Hall Allison Smith 8 Chrysopylae Courtney Lain Camille Utterback Freeberg’s photographs portray individuals whose 2 Fort Point Bunting 12 Sea Vision T.V. 16 Span personal histories intersect in various ways with the Hall’s immersive two-screen video installation challenges Smith has created 75 swags of bunting to adorn the history of the bridge, as well as workers for whom it the familiar picture-postcard vision of the Golden Gate Working under the name Lady Sea and the Golden Ocean Utterback’s dynamically generated installation reveals railings around the fort’s courtyard. Replacing the is a daily backdrop on the job. Freeberg’s images are with a pair of contrasting perspectives. Emphasizing the Orchestra, composer Lain and an 11-piece orchestra offer the ways in which the Bay and the Golden Gate have traditional color scheme with a gradation from presented alongside historic portraits of lighthouse monumentality of not only the Golden Gate Bridge, but a musical interpretation of the bridge, its history, and the changed—and continue to change—over time. On an international orange to , the installation keepers, military nurses, and others, creating a also the massive container ships that pass beneath it, the surrounding aquatic environment. Lain’s score array of monitors arranged in a curving pattern that shifts the significance of bunting, moving from multilayered tribute to the men and women whose installation reveals the bridge as part of an environment accompanies archival footage of the construction of the roughly mimics the shape of the Golden Gate’s shores, patriotism and celebration toward a gesture of stories have become part of the larger story of this that is at once natural and human-made. bridge and the 1937 opening festivities, screened on a animated renderings of flow patterns visualize the daily Second Tier communication and urgency. In conjunction with this iconic place. specially designed vintage-style TV set. and historical shifts in the Bay’s shoreline, sea floor, and installation, Smith offers a display of trench art (4). water currents. Cornelia Parker Anandamayi Arnold 9 Reveille Stephanie Syjuco Jeannene Przyblyski 6 Fiesta Queens 13 The International Orange Commemorative Bill Fontana Parker’s sculpture is titled Reveille (French for “wake up”) 3 K-BRIDGE Store (A Proposition) 17 Acoustical Visions of the Arnold celebrates the bridge’s 75th anniversary with a after the bugle call historically used to awaken troops. Golden Gate Bridge Przyblyski’s virtual radio station presents an expansive nod to the Golden Gate Bridge Fiesta that marked the With its pair of bugles—one intact, the other flattened, Syjuco’s installation playfully questions the notion of the array of sounds and stories suggested by the bridge— bridge’s opening in 1937. Arnold has fashioned seven rendering it useless for its traditional purpose—the piece souvenir shop, where merchandise is meant to evoke, or In Fontana’s interpretation, the bridge becomes less a some true, some too good to be true. Three series of vibrant crepe paper costumes in the style of the “Fiesta poignantly comments on the history of Fort Point, a even replace, the experience of visiting a place. The “sight” than a site defined by sound. His installation programs evoke crossing over, under, across, and up the Queens” who presided over the opening festivities. Six military site that was never called into action. “store” is stocked with an array of wares, all saturated in features sounds captured by sensors on various parts of bridge; capture conversations with scholars, artists, of the dresses represent the six counties that supported the famous color of the bridge, but nothing is for sale. the bridge and Fort Point, transmitted live to the bridge workers, and others; and broadcast the voices of the building of the bridge; the seventh pays tribute to Instead, visitors can take home a free postcard, a reminder exhibition space, along with video recorded in the area Pae White young people from San Francisco and Oakland. the bridge itself. that there are many experiences money can’t buy. over Memorial Day weekend. By focusing attention on First Tier 10 muhf -uh l Programs also available at international-orange.org. auditory experiences, Fontana’s installation suggests White’s work attempts to capture the elusiveness of fog, new ways of understanding the spaces around us. Abelardo Morell weaving this ephemeral atmospheric phenomenon—an 14 Tent Camera Photographs iconic condition at the Golden Gate—into a monumental tapestry. Exploring the nature of photographic images as Made with a tent camera, a portable form of camera well as the natural environment that surrounds the obscura, Morell’s photographs of the Golden Gate bridge, the digitally woven tapestry is a study in material superimpose landscape views onto the land itself. Hear from the artists in their own words: international-orange.org and immateriality. Presented in conjunction with Morell’s Vertigo (15).