Way Bay 2 Gallery Guide
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Way Bay 2 June 13–September 2, 2018 BERKELEY ART MUSEUM PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE bampfa.org Gallery Guide
Way Bay 2 is the second iteration of an exhibition exploring the creative energies that have emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past two centuries. 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 2 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, Way Bay 2 is organized by Director and Chief and at others standing alone as resonant images of the Curator Lawrence Rinder, Film Curator Kathy Geritz, and Engagement Associate David Wilson, people and places of the Bay Area. with Curatorial Assistant Matthew Coleman and Assistant Film Archivist Jon Shibata. The In the museum’s entry corridor is an interactive postcard exhibition is made possible with lead support project consisting of poems by and about the Bay Area from Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman. Additional support is provided by Carla and by writers past and present, as well as an exploration David Crane; Penelope and Noel Nellis; Hanley of BAMPFA’s rich archival holdings of audio and visual Tzeho, Christopher Tzening, and Jonathan recordings of artists and filmmakers. Visitors may delve Tzechien Leung; Alexandra Bowes and Stephen more deeply into the archives in BAMPFA’s Film Library and Williamson; Rena Bransten; Gertrud V. Parker; Janie and Jeff Green; The Jay DeFeo Foundation; Study Center on the lower level, where an area is devoted an anonymous donor; Eliza Brown and Hal to Way Bay 2. Candee; Dudley and Michael Del Balso; Lorrie and Richard Greene; Arun and Rummi Sarin; Sotheby’s; Paul Templeton and Darrell Louie; Throughout the run of the exhibition, readings, and Ama Torrance and C.J. David Davies. performances, and workshops extend Way Bay 2’s exploration of Bay Area creative practice across diverse Acknowledgements media and disciplines. The curators are grateful for the generous support of many people who have contributed their time and expertise to creating this 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, Digital version available: Claire Astrow, and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo; bampfa.org/waybay-guide and the California Audiovisual Preservation Project. Curatorial interns Lian Ladia and Emet Levy contributed invaluable research support. Many thanks to project advisor Lyn Hejinian. 2
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See! I am dancing! On the rim of the world I am dancing! Ohlone song 3 CHRIS McCAW United States, born 1971 1 ANONYMOUS (CHALON/OHLONE) Sunburned GSP #488 Untitled, basketry tray, coiled (Sunset/Sunrise, Galbraith Lake, Alaska) n.d. 2011 Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley Acc.393 Four gelatin silver paper negatives Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Chalon is one of eight linguistic divisions Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2011.31.1.a-d of the Costanoan (or Ohlone) people, who are the original inhabitants of the Bay This four-part image was made by Area. Between 1795 and 1814, many of exposing gelatin silver negative paper the Chalon-speaking people were forcibly to direct sunlight. This process not only relocated to the area of Mission Soledad, captured a ghostly image of the Alaskan where they were made to work on the landscape but also resulted in the sun Mission’s farms and industries and denied burning a record of its trajectory directly the right to practice their culture. This tray into the paper. At this location, situated was made primarily for sifting acorn meal. north of the Arctic Circle, the summer sun never entirely sets but only skirts the horizon before arcing up again into the sky. 2 IRA NOWINSKI United States, born 1942 4 KARL KASTEN Pomo: Wanda Quitiquit, United States, born New Zealand, Ukiah 1916–2010 2009, printed 2010 A Marina Digital archival pigment print 1966 Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley BANC PIC 2006.079 Intaglio Gift of Karl and Georgette Kasten 2017.18.8 The territory of the Pomo people extends across Sonoma, Mendocino, and Lake In 1950, Karl Kasten founded the Counties, just north of San Francisco printmaking program at UC Berkeley, Bay. This is a portrait of the Pomo artist where he taught until 1983. His work Wanda Quitiquit who holds a small gourd was influenced by Hans Hofmann, with decorated with traditional Pomo designs. whom he studied in the summer of 1951 The photographer, Ira Nowinski, took at Hofmann’s school in Provincetown, nearly 5,000 images to document the Massachusetts. contemporary lives of California Native Americans. 3 3 3 3 8
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5 JOAN FINTON 7 EDWARD SILVERSTONE TAYLOR 9 LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI United States, born 1929 United States, unknown United States, born 1919 Dreamscape Sol Out of Chaos 2010 1958 2011 Monotype 16mm BAMPFA preservation print Lithograph Gift of Joan Finton Baumrind 2018.7.3 transferred to digital file; color, Gift of Kala Art Institute and Lawrence silent; 5 min. Ferlinghetti 2017.171.a Poet, printmaker, and founder of the Edward Silverstone Taylor’s little-known 6 GIUSEPPE CADENASSO legendary City Lights Books, Lawrence abstract films were made with his own United States, 1858–1918 Ferlinghetti made this multipart print at the Lucitron, an optical projector he developed Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. In this work, Sunset Scene with Trees that allowed him to create varied colors Ferlinghetti presents three images that and patterns. c. 1900 express aspects of his poem “Out of Chaos.” Pastel on cardboard Gift of Sheldon and Judy Greene 2016.49 8 CARINA BAUMANN Born into a farming family near Genoa, United States, born Switzerland, 1965 Italy, Giuseppe Cadenasso immigrated to California at the age of nine to live Untitled on his uncle’s vineyard in the Capay 2008-2009 Valley. As a young man he moved to Translucent white film San Francisco, where he performed on aluminum at the Tivoli Opera House and waited Purchase made possible by the Jan Boyce Fund tables at Coppa’s, the gathering place for Contemporary Art 2010.14 of the city’s bohemian community. His This self-portrait photograph of the artistic talents were discovered by the artist was taken using only moonlight painter Jules Tavernier, who saw the for illumination. young Cadenasso drawing portraits of the diners in chalk on the restaurant walls. As a professional artist, Cadenasso was known for his moody paintings of eucalyptus groves. He moved to Oakland in 1902, and from 1903 to 1917 was head of the art department at Mills College. 14 10 12 13 14 11
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10 JOHN ZURIER 12 SABURO HASEGAWA 13 DAVID WILSON United States, born 1956 United States, born Japan, 1906–1957 United States, born 1982 Fjall Distance Again 2011 1952 2012 oil on linen Hanging scroll; ink and color Charcoal on paper Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe on paper Collectors’ Circle purchase in honor of Anne Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2011.32 Gift of Nobuku and Joe Brotherton in McGrew: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, appreciation of James Cahill 1977.19 by exchange, with additional support from Nancy and George Leitmann, Jan and Tom 11 JESS Saburo Hasegawa was an influential Boyce, Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion United States, 1923–2004 figure in the Bay Area, though he lived Brenner, and Carla and David Crane 2012.21 here for only two years at the end of The Hero Describes Lineage This large-scale drawing of the East Bay’s his life. In his art, Hasegawa combined Wildcat Canyon was made by David Wilson 1955 elements of traditional Japanese culture over the course of many months. Each Oil on canvas with modern elements and techniques. day he would travel by bus and foot to the Gift of Fine Art Associates in honor of James Distance includes an image printed from same spot overlooking the canyon with Elliott; courtesy of Odyssia Skouras 2014.18.1 a tree stump onto which the artist carved a single piece of paper. The focus of each Jess trained as a chemist and worked an abstracted version of the Japanese drawing depended on Wilson’s ability to on plutonium production as part of the word gen, which means, roughly, “cloudy remember his work from the previous Manhattan Project during World War II. impenetrability.” Gen is also the second day. He only assembled the complete Concerned about the outcome of nuclear part of the compound word, yugen, work once he had finished each and every weapons proliferation, he abandoned his an essential term in the aesthetics of individual drawing. scientific career and turned to art, studying noh drama. This is the third in a trilogy of works first at UC Berkeley and then at the Distance was created in Japan but first made while sitting in this same location. California School of Fine Arts (now the San exhibited in San Francisco when the artist The site is of significance to the artist Francisco Art Institute). relocated to the Bay Area in 1954. because shortly after his father’s death This work reflects the influence of he spent nearly a year building a large his teachers, especially the Abstract structure in the canyon as a memorial. Expressionist painter Clyfford Still, and That structure, made of found branches captures Jess’s interest in what he called woven together, still exists in its decay in the “mythic landscape,” in which the one of the wooded areas pictured here. primordial energy of our chaotic origins begins to resolve into form and meaning. 14 NICOLE PHUNGRASAMEE FEIN United States, born 1974 Dawn 2003 345 torn paper circles and acupuncture needle Purchase made possible through funds provided by the Herringer Family Foundation 2003.27.2 D
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16 GREGORY ANTIPA 19 BRUCE CONNER and United States, born 1941 EDMUND SHEA Didinium vs. Paramecium United States, 1933–2008; United States, 1942–2004 1968, printed 2017 Archival pigment print on Epson Angel Legacy Fibre 1975 Gift of the artist 2017.40 Unique gelatin silver print Gregory Antipa’s photograph is a photogram composite of multiple images of a Partial gift of Richard Lorenz 1997.38 carnivorous Didinium ciliate attacking The ethereal figure in this work is the and consuming a paramecium. An early “shadow” of Bruce Conner, who stood example of a scanning electron micrograph in front of a sheet of sensitized paper of single-celled organisms, the images are as it was exposed to light. Conner was over 500 times life size. a prolific and wildly experimental artist whose work often touched on spiritual themes. His collaborator Edmund 17 JIM MELCHERT Shea was a photographer best known United States, born 1930 for his celebrity portraits including A picture postcard images for book and album covers for Richard Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, (mailed from Japan)... Fleetwood Mac, and Keith Jarrett. c. 1975 Graphite on paper Gift of the Naify Family
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20 TABITHA SOREN 21 PAUL SCHIEK 23 LUIS GUTIERREZ United States, born 1967 United States, born 1977 United States, born 1933 Truth-out.org/Ferguson similar to a baptism Art is a Mirror 2017 2007 Hanging on the Wall Archival pigment print Chromogenic print 2015 Gift of Jamie Lunder 2017.58 Collectors’ Circle purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Acrylic and ink on paper Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2010.10.2 Although it may first appear to be a Purchase made possible by the Norma manipulated digital image, Tabitha H. Schlesinger, Andrew and Paul Spiegel Fund 2017.89.1 Soren’s Truth-out.org/Ferguson is a straight photograph of an iPad tablet 22 IRA NOWINSKI screen, which displays an image of the United States, born 1942 24 CATHERINE WAGNER United States, born 1953 Ferguson, Missouri insurrection. The oily Bloody Island, Robinson smudges and smears of daily use partially Frankenstein III obscure the iconic image and suggest a Rancheria, Clear Lake meeting point of personal and political, 2007, printed 2011 2003 digital and analog. Digital color photograph Lambda print, edition 1/5 Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of General Acquisitions Fund purchase 2004.6.1 California, Berkeley BANC PIC 2006.079 This photograph documents a plaque at the site of the Bloody Island Massacre in 25 ROBERT GUTIERREZ Kelseyville near the shores of Clear Lake. United States, born Philippines, 1972 On May 15, 1850, a regiment of the United States Cavalry massacred up to 400 Pomo Valparaiso Indians (primarily elderly men, women, 2008 and children) in retaliation for the murder Acrylic ink on panel, diptych by two Pomo men of Andrew Kelsey and Purchase made possible by the Marcia Simon Charles Stone. Kelsey and Stone had for Weisman Foundation Fund 2010.15.a-b years kept hundreds of Pomo enslaved at their Clear Lake ranch. Their abuses of the Indians included kidnapping, starvation, physical brutality, rape, and forced labor. 21 27
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26 WILLIAM T. WILEY 28 SADIE BARNETTE United States, born 1937 United States, born 1984 The White Rhino Injured My Father’s FBI File: 1966 Government Employees Acrylic on canvas Installation Gift of Brenda Richardson, in honor of 2017 William T. Wiley 2001.19 5 archival pigment prints, edition In this prescient work, William Wiley paid of 5 homage to the white rhino, a species Purchase made possible through a gift from endangered due to poaching for the Wanda Kownacki 2018.21.1–5 animal’s coveted horn. In this image, the This work features reproductions of massive horn has been cut to a stump pages from the artist’s father’s FBI file, and appears to have been tied with a which she obtained through a Freedom of tourniquet, which nevertheless fails to Information Act request. Rodney Barnette staunch the bleeding. This painting has was a member of the Black Panther Party accrued even greater poignancy since the and, though he was never charged with death of the last male northern white any crime, he was under surveillance by rhinoceros on March 19, 2018. the FBI for years and his file ran more than 500 pages. The pages featured in this work deal specifically with the FBI’s successful 27 CHRIS JOHANSON effort to have Barnette fired from his job United States, born 1968 at the Post Office under the pretext of Untitled (Man with Knife) immorality, as he was living with a woman out of wedlock. 1998 The artist’s spray-painted pink marks House paint on wood are suggestive of graffiti tagging while Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe also alluding to her father’s historical Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2012.43.1 role as the first black owner of a gay bar, Eagle Creek Saloon, in San Francisco. In the artist’s words, “I tried to think about what would most offend J. Edgar Hoover and I figured it would be splashing the pages with pink.” 31 33 35 32 30 34
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I did go out to look 32 MARTIN WONG 35 WILLIAM KEITH United States, 1946–1999 United States, born Scotland, 1838–1911 at the moon Silence Woodland Scene Kevin Killian, from “Candyland III,” 1985 1982 c. 1900 Acrylic on canvas Oil on canvas 29 ZAROUHIE ABDALIAN Purchase made possible through a gift Gift of the American Trust Company 1939.1 of the Martin Wong Foundation and a United States, born 1982 bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by William Keith arrived in San Francisco exchange 2012.25 at the age of twenty and became well As a Demonstration known for his paintings of California’s Although not deaf, Martin Wong was 2013 natural landscape. He was a close friend fascinated by American Sign Language and Acrylic vacuum chamber, electric of the naturalist John Muir, with whom often included texts written in ASL hand bell, and steel he traveled in the Sierra Nevada and symbols in his paintings. In this work, the worked to create Yosemite National Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe hands spell out a poem: Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2013.32 Park. Keith came under the influence of Silence Swedenborgianism, which led him to of a warm embrace shift from realism to a more spiritually 30 GUY DIEHL W[h]ispers expressive style. In 1886, he moved to of anot[h]er place United States, born 1949 Berkeley, though he continued to commute Dronings each day by ferry to his studio in San Still Life with Modigliani of an afternoon Francisco. 1992 Sunlight Acrylic on canvas of an empty room Bequest of Anne L. McGrew 2012.36.2 36 SARGENT JOHNSON United States, 1888–1967 33 JOAN BROWN United States, 1938–1990 Owl 31 LINDA CONNOR Dog Watching Moon c. 1935 United States, born 1944 Jadeite stone 1960 Gift of Mrs. Ansley K. Salz 1965.32 The Patient One, Lamayuro Oil on canvas Sargent Johnson moved to San Francisco Monastery, Ladakh, India Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sinton 1969.17 1988 in 1915. He was of Swedish, Cherokee, and Gold-toned gelatin silver print on African-American descent, and much of his work represented aspects of African- printing-out paper 34 DAREN WILSON American identity. This work, however, Gift of Jane Reed 2017.108.3 United States, born 1979 captures the enigmatic nature of an owl, Objects After Morandi using forms suggestive of Cubism and other modern abstract styles. 2015 Glazed ceramic Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2015.59.1-5 This group of ceramic objects is based on still life compositions by the twentieth- century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi. 41 46 37
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44 seconds before sleep 39 RAYMOND SAUNDERS 42 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 37 RICHARD DIEBENKORN Anonymous gift honoring Brenda Richardson Wood, paper, fabric, metal, leather, and Peter Selz for their support of the Afro- twine United States, 1922–1993 American Acquisitions Committee, and Jesse Fisher and his security staff at the University Gift of Alfred Childs 1967.8 Studio Wall Art Museum 1988.1.1-2 1963 Oil on canvas 43 ALEXANDER KORI GIRARD and Gift of Richard and Phyllis Diebenkorn 40 LAWRENCE JORDAN OLIVER HALSMAN ROSENBERG 2015.20 United States, born 1934 United States, born 1979 This painting was made in Richard Our Lady of the Sphere United States, born 1975 Diebenkorn’s Berkeley studio on Adeline Ellora 2 (#22) Street near Stanford Avenue. The artist 1969 recalled this studio many years later: 16mm blowup to 35mm transferred 2009 It was a triangular room at the back of a to digital file; color, sound; 9 min. Mixed media on paper tavern. I could open a door and look right Courtesy of the artist Purchase made possible by the Friends down the bar at all the regulars. There was and Trustees Acquisitions Endowment Lawrence Jordan’s complex, magical Fund 2010.21.4 a lot of useless furniture built into the wall, collage animations, which largely draw on and when I pulled it off you could see many Victorian engravings to create dreamlike different overlapping layers of house paint. fantasies, film-poems, and allegories, have The effect was fascinating. 44 JUDITH SCOTT been compared to “a Joseph Cornell box United States, 1943–2005 come to life.” A central figure in the Bay Area film community since 1955, Jordan Untitled 38 HENRY ALEXANDER was one of the founding directors of the 2002 United States, 1860–1894 experimental film distributor Canyon Mixed media Teete’s House Cinema Cooperative and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute. Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe 1886 Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2011.19.2 Oil on canvas Bequest of Hannah N. Haviland 1921.1 41 LAURIE REID San Francisco native Henry Alexander United States, born 1964 45 FRED MARTIN United States, born 1927 studied painting at the Academy of Fine Up the stairs into Arts, Munich. He later returned to the This Is the House of Life Bay Area, where he specialized in painting the warm night highly detailed interiors such as Teete’s 2016 1958 House. The New York Herald described Oil on linen Distemper, watercolor, collage, Alexander as “one of the creators of the Purchase made possible through a gift of and pencil on paper modern school of art.” Much of his work Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, Bequest of Joseph M. Bransten 1980.12.4 California 2017.32 was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake This work on paper displays Fred Martin’s and fire. intense, almost mystical, passion for life and the spirit of regeneration. A phallic film projections
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form appears to push upward through 47 HARRY JACOBUS 48 OAKLAND TRIBUNE layers of symbol-filled soil, implanting United States, born 1927 a seed that bursts to life at the surface. Tribune-American Martin studied art at UC Berkeley and was Hellenic Blemishes Dream Picture director of the California School of Fine 1971 1924 Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) Oil and crayon on paper, 16mm film transferred to digital file; from 1965 to 1975. mounted on canvas black and white, silent; 7.5 min. Gift of William Roth 1982.1 The Oakland Tribune and American Theatre hosted a contest asking readers to submit 46 BRETT GOODROAD Harry Jacobus was a close friend of the painter Jess and the poet Robert Duncan, their dreams; the winner of the most United States, born 1979 with whom he founded San Francisco’s unusual dream would be made into a Burt or On the Mountain King Ubu Gallery in 1952. Jacobus shared photoplay. Mrs. L.L. Nicholson of Oakland One Line Grown with his friends an interest in classical had that honor. antiquity and Romanticism. Of Jacobus’s 2017 art, Duncan said, “it is an intimation of the Oil on canvas beauty around us as it is within us.” 49 LYNNE SACHS Purchase made possible through a gift of United States, born 1961 Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, California 2017.35 Drawn and Quartered This painting was inspired, in part, by 1987 the rugged Ventana Wilderness south of 16mm film transferred to digital file; Monterey, though the artist points to many color, silent; 4 min. other diverse references: Courtesy of the artist Burt or On the Mountain One Line Grown takes its title from my impression of Basil Lynne Sachs and her boyfriend at the time Bunting’s cadence and density. His poetry took turns filming each other on a rooftop also exemplifies something the painting at the San Francisco Art Institute using is attempting: lyricism through heavy her great uncle’s historic Double 8mm building. Blocks on top of one another. Filmo camera. The resulting footage was Filtering history, etc., feeling and specific then printed on 16mm so that four 8mm narratives. The “Burt” acts as the niceness, images are visible simultaneously. For the the nice people, everyone in the painting is filmmaker, “Within the parameters of the nice. Good people. The painting is the same image gestalt, we are dancing together size as Watteau’s Embarkation to Cythera. without ever touching. Our two bodies Watteau is a constant visual cue to which remain totally distinct and apart.” I return. His visual field is my own or it is a place where I feel the perfect balance of elegance and power. 50
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Your heart is fine feeling 52 IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM JOHN HARDING United States, 1883–1976 United States, born 1940 the widest possible empathy for the day and Coffee Gallery 54 San Francisco Airport 1960 Shuttle, 1995 (#4) its inhabitants Gelatin silver print 2008 Joanne Kyger, from “Your Heart is Fine,” 2000 Gift of Jan Leonard and Jerrold A. Peil Digital archival pigment print 1999.49.4 Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of The Coffee Gallery was a popular North California, Berkeley BANC PIC 2010.016 Beach hangout where writers such as 50 JUNE FELTER Bob Kaufman and Lawrence Ferlinghetti United States, born 1919 read their work and musicians such as 55 Oakland Airport, 2008 (#72) Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, and Janis Joplin Ed and Alice 2008 performed. The artist George Herms, 1962 Digital archival pigment print whose work appears elsewhere in this Oil on linen exhibition, worked as a janitor at the Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley BANC PIC 2010.016 Gift of Susan Felter 2018.6 Coffee Gallery the year Cunningham took June Felter contributed to the Bay Area this photograph. Figurative Movement, along with her 56 San Francisco, Twin Peaks, contemporaries David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, and Elmer Bischoff. 53 ACHILLES RIZZOLI 2009 (#24) This painting depicts the artist’s United States, 1896–1981 2009 husband’s parents relaxing at their home, Digital archival pigment print an old boarding house on Walnut Street Mrs. Geo. Powleson Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of in Berkeley that now houses the Osher Symbolically Portrayed/The California, Berkeley BANC PIC 2010.016 Lifelong Learning Institute. Mother Tower of Jewels 1935 57 Ink on rag paper San Francisco, Broadway & 51 MIKE BRODIE Columbus, 1981 (#27) Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe United States, born 1985 Apperson Hearst, by exchange, and partial gift 2008 5485 of the Ames Gallery 2017.9 Digital archival pigment print Achilles Rizzoli was an architectural Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of 2006-2009, printed 2012 draughtsman who applied his technical California, Berkeley BANC PIC 2010.016 Chromogenic print skills to highly personal, symbolic Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe drawings. This work represents an Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2012.22.2 acquaintance from his San Francisco Mike Brodie spent six years—starting neighborhood. As noted on the drawing, it when he was just eighteen— was made “in appreciation of her remark, photographing the lives of his friends ‘You are a jewel,’ uttered March 6, 1935.” and acquaintances. This powerful image As suggested by the text inscribed at depicts a young man being comforted after the top of the work (“Mother Tower of a diving accident. Jewels”), the fantastical building depicted was inspired by the 435-foot tall Tower of Jewels at the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition, which Rizzoli attended several times. 65 60
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Man is a false window through which his double walks to the truth Philip Lamantia, from “Man Is in Pain,” 1952
THOMAS HILL 63 DEBORAH PURETZ GROVE HADI TABATABAI United States, born England, 1829–1908 United States, born 1954 United States, born Iran, 1964
58 The Grizzly MMS Mono 48 66 Thread Drawing 2012-17 c. 1890 1998–2006 2012 Oil on wood panel Collaged monotype Thread and polymer varnish on Gift of the artist 2014.39.4 Fabriano Artistico (640 gsm) paper 59 The Wawona This collage combines imagery from prints c. 1890 made out of electronic engineering 67 Thread Drawing 2012-18 Oil on wood panel diagrams. 2012 Thread and polymer varnish on Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University Fabriano Artistico (640 gsm) paper of California, Berkeley BANC PIC 1971.012, 64 ED AULERICH-SUGAI 011-012—FR Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe United States, 1950–1994 Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2013.12.1-2 Cell 28 60 DONNA BROOKMAN 1988 68 DANIEL HIGGS AND United States, born 1949 Water-based media on paper KYLE RANSON Gift of Daniel R. Ostrow 2018.11 Palace of Memory V United States, born 1964; born 1969 Ed Aulerich-Sugai was a botanist inspired 2013 Morph Traits by diverse life forms and processes, Archival pigment print especially involving cells. This painting 2007-2010 Purchase made possible through a gift of represents a cell dividing through the Mixed media on paper Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe California 2016.167 process of mitosis. Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2010.39.0 These works are excerpted from a series JIM GOLDBERG of 44 drawings made in a collaborative 65 DAVID IRELAND United States, born 1953 exchange between Daniel Higgs and United States, 1930–2009 Kyle Ranson. For several years, these two 61 Linda Benko Untitled (Cement Painting) geographically separated artists mailed From Rich and Poor drawings back and forth, each one inspired c. 1975 by the one that came before. 1979 Cement on paper with wire mesh Gelatin silver print Gift of Marcia Tanner 2017.84 62 Gardiner Hempel From Rich and Poor 1980 Gelatin silver print
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She dances the city back into balance, 75 TALI WEINBERG United States, 1982 Every weekend she dances for the city Thought Patterns: To pay Kim Shuck, from “Unhomed,” c. 2015 attention is a political act 2013 69 NICK MAKANNA 72 EVELYN REYES Archival pigment print on kozo paper, edition 1/3 United States, born 1988 United States, born 1957 Purchase made possible by the Marcia Simon Rune XX Carrots Weisman Foundation Fund 2013.41 2017 2007 This work is from a series titled Thought Glazed and bisqued ceramic Oil pastel on paper Patterns, about which the artist has written: Gift of the artist, courtesy of Andres Guerrero Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe In this series, text becomes the threads Gallery 2017.90 Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2011.20.11 from which to generate woven structures. I use my knowledge of weaving and the Evelyn Reyes worked in San Francisco’s repetition of phrases across the page to studio for adult artists with developmental 70 MARLON MULLEN create resonating patterns. These lines disabilities, Creativity Explored, between United States, born 1963 of text are quotations excerpted from 2002 and 2017. conversations with women activists, artists, Untitled and scholars throughout the Bay Area. Conversations take place in people’s homes, 2005-2006 73 WILL YACKULIC Acrylic and gesso on canvas sometimes over a shared meal. This process United States, born 1975 continues to unfold slowly over time, as Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe each woman I speak to recommends several Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2011.21.2 Untitled others with whom I should speak next. 2004 Intimate exchanges about political action Mixed media on paper and daily life become the raw material for 71 JORDAN BELSON Gift of Roger Parodi 2017.6.2 the production of new systems—embodied United States, 1926-2011 on the page and in a social fabric. Bop Scotch 1952 74 CHRYSSA 76 PETER VOULKOS 16mm transferred to digital file; United States, born Greece, 1933–2013 United States, 1924–2002 color, sound; 3 min. Cycladic Book Courtesy of the Estate of Jordan Belson Untitled c. 1954–55 This early film by Jordan Belson animates Plaster 1988-1989 Bronze images of San Francisco pavements, Gift of Susan Meller 2016.175 sidewalks, and other surfaces. For film Gift of Penelope Cooper and Rena Rosenwasser historian William Moritz, it “seems to This early work by Chryssa was made at 1991.11.5 the California School of Fine Arts (now the reveal a hidden soul and life-force in Peter Voulkos, who founded the ceramics ‘inanimate’ objects.” San Francisco Art Institute) shortly after the artist emigrated to the United States program at UC Berkeley in 1959 and taught from Greece. at the university until 1985, is renowned for his raw, monumental works that merged Abstract Expressionist gesture with the medium of clay. In this work, his method of working in broad, pieced-together slabs is interpreted in bronze. 80 77 79 78 81
All people are our potential comrades in the struggle against this decrepit order of the world David Brazil, from “Our Community,” 2012
77 CHRISTOPHER GARRETT 79 RUTH-MARION BARUCH 81 ENRIQUE CHAGOYA United States, born 1972 United States, born Germany, 1922–1997 United States, born Mexico, 1953 Untitled Black Panther guards at Free Codex Cosmovisionarius 2004 Huey Rally, Bobby Hutton 2006 Graphite and colored pencil on Memorial Park, Oakland, CA Acrylic, water-based oil paint, paper Number 21 from the series pencil, solvent transfer, gesso, on 19th-century etchings Gift of Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion A Photo Essay on the Black Brenner 2014.64.6 Museum purchase: Bequest of Thérèse Panthers Bonney, class of 1916, by exchange 2006.62 August 25, 1968 (printed 2010) Enrique Chagoya has created more than a 78 MICHELLE VIGNES Gelatin silver print dozen codices, utilizing a form that derives United States, 1926–2012 Gift of The Pirkle Jones from the pre-Columbian illustrated texts Foundation 2012.35.48 created by the Mayan and Aztec people This is Indian Land (Alcatraz) Ruth-Marion Baruch studied with Ansel to describe their history, culture, and 1969 Adams, Dorothea Lange, Edward Weston, cosmology. Codex Cosmovisionarius focuses Gelatin silver print and Minor White at the California School on contemporary issues of globalism and Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art immigration. of California, Berkeley BANC PIC Institute). 2003.108:1306B-13—AX French-born photographer Michelle Vignes worked as Henri Cartier-Bresson’s assistant 80 CONRAD RUIZ before moving to the Bay Area in 1965. United States, born 1983 Between 1969 and 1971 she photographed the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz Overload Island. 2009 I went for the first time as a photojournalist Watercolor on canvas to document this event on Alcatraz. This Gift of the artist and Neil LeDoux 2009.36 was also the first time I realized that we all live on Indian land, and I was taken within the sacred hoop, what we call a circle. From this point, I followed the attempts by Indian people to show the reawakening of their pride, re-educating non-native Indians to these changes. 87 89 82 85 86 88 84 83
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82 GUY OVERFELT 85 OLIVER LEE JACKSON 88 MARGO HUMPHREY United States, born 1966 United States, born 1935 United States, born 1942 Burnout Drawing #19 Painting (6.4.83) James Brown’s Sounds 2000 1983 of Escape-Ism Rubber on Rives BFK oil on canvas 1972 Gift of Charles Linder 2001.3.9 Gift of Naomi and Robert Lauter 1992.10.2 Color lithograph Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the H. W. Anderson Charitable Foundation 1973.16 83 G.F. NESBITT & CO. 86 LARRY SULTAN United States, 1946–2009 Franklin Practicing Golf Swing 89 HELEN CLARK OLDFIELD c. 1859 From the series Pictures from United States, 1902–1981 Engraving, color, and letterpress on paper Home Floral Still Life Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University 1989 1937–1942 of California, Berkeley BANC PIC Chromogenic print Oil on board 1963.002:1556:103—A Gift of the artist 2002.23 Gift of Sheldon and Judy Greene 2016.55 This handbill, made to advertise the Born and raised in Santa Rosa, California, clipper ship Franklin, is of a type that Helen Clark Oldfield studied at the was widely circulated in the Port of California College of Arts and Crafts (now New York, luring men and women to 87 WILL ROGAN California College of the Arts) and the seek their fortunes in California. United States, born 1975 California School of Fine Arts (now San Untitled (scaffolding Francisco Art Institute), where she was collapsed during wind storm, exposed to European Modernism by her 84 MICHAEL JANG stranded worker) instructor and, later, husband Otis Oldfield. United States, born 1951 2000–2001 Golden Gate Bridge 50th Chromogenic print Anniversary Purchase made possible by a gift from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode 1987 Foundation 2002.9.1.1 Gelatin silver print Gift of Sandra Phillips 2018.12 92
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Riverrun Patti Smith 99 Untitled 1965 1979 1954 Redwood, pine, enamel Oil on canvas Watercolor and ink on paper Gift of the University Art Museum Gift of Linda Mac and Michael LaBash, Gift of Dan and Claire Carlevaro 2017.44.9 Council 1967.46 Inter-Relations 2018.16.1 Frank Moore, who was born with cerebral 100 Untitled palsy and was unable to walk or speak, was 1954 a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, actor, 96 TRAVIS COLLINSON Watercolor and ink on paper and musician. He played piano and sang in United States, born 1979 hardcore punk bands, performing in many Gift of Dan and Claire Carlevaro 2017.44.10 Pinkie was painted by shows at San Francisco’s famed Mabuhay Ruth Wall grew up an Indian reservation in Thomas Lawrence but what Gardens. This painting is a portrait of the Utah. She served in the Army during World poet and singer Patti Smith. War II and later attended the California if blue boy was a beat poet School of Fine Art (now the San Francisco (Paule) Art Institute) on the GI Bill. Between 1952 2013-–2014 and 1954, Wall lived in Paris, where she 98 KOTA EZAWA Acrylic on linen made these eccentric figure studies. United States, born Germany, 1969 Purchase made possible through a gift of the Paul L. Wattis Foundation 2014.5 The Simpson Verdict This is a portrait of the San Francisco 2002 101 BARRY McGEE gallerist Paule Anglim. Behind her are Digital file; color, sound; 3 min. United States, born 1966 works by Bay Area artists John Zurier, Courtesy of the artist. Museum purchase: Joan Brown, and Bruce Conner. Bequest of Thérèse Bonney, Class of 1916, by Untitled exchange 2005.2 2008 Kota Ezawa used drawing software to Ballpoint pen and acrylic on paper reconstruct the final moments of the O.J. Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Simpson murder trial, based on broadcast Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2008.16.a-m footage he bought on the Internet. In the late 1990s, Ezawa worked as a legal videographer, occasionally appearing in court to play back videos or record testimony. 102 106 101 104 105 107
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109 DIANE HALL AND LYN HEJINIAN 111 CHARLES ALBERT ROGERS 113 DAVID JOHNSON United States, born 1947; United States, United States, 1848–1918 United States, born 1926 born 1941 Chinese Carpenter at Work, Looking South on Fillmore The Eye of Enduring St. Louis Alley 1946 1995 1901 Digital print from gelatin silver print Oil on panel, glass, and wood Oil on board Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley BANC PIC 2017.001 Gift of the artists, courtesy of Haines Gallery Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, 1995.58.a-h University of California, Berkeley David Johnson was Ansel Adams’s first BANC PIC 2004.007:03—FR African American student. In contrast to 110 LINDA FLEMING Charles Rogers studied art in New York, Adams’s interest in the natural world, United States, born 1945 Rome, Paris, and Munich before arriving in Johnson turned his camera on the familiar San Francisco in 1877. He lost 150 paintings and local environs of San Francisco’s White Cave when his studio burned in the aftermath Fillmore District. Johnson’s images capture 2006 of the 1906 earthquake. this vital African American community Graphite on rag paper before it was dramatically altered by large- Purchase made possible through a gift of scale demolition and redevelopment in the Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, 112 MILDRED HOWARD 1950s. California 2018.20 United States, born 1945 This drawing combines a realistic La Verne & Mama Dear rendering of the mouth of a cave near 2004 Linda Fleming’s Colorado property with Mixed media on window a sinuous abstract form symbolizing a pattern of thought. The image was Gift of Paule Anglim 2014.28 inspired by the artist’s recollection of a The small window contains an image of Japanese poet and mystic who lived in Mable Howard, the artist’s mother, a civil the cave for a time and taught Fleming a rights activist and civic leader who was unique mode of singing meditation that he instrumental in convincing BART to run its called “free song,” which involved creating tracks underground in South Berkeley. Also vocalizations to match one’s inner being. in the image is the elder Howard’s friend La Verne (the girl with a dark-colored dress). La Verne did her undergraduate work at the California College of Arts and Crafts and received a graduate degree from UC Berkeley. Screens:
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114 WILLEM DE KOONING 116 CHICK STRAND 118 BARRY McGEE United States, born Netherlands, United States, 1931–2009 United States, born 1966 1904–1997 Waterfall Untitled Litho #2 (Waves #2) 1967 c. 2008 1960 16mm BAMPFA preservation print Acrylic on unstretched canvas, Lithograph transferred to digital file; color, grommets Gift of Professor and Mrs. Karl Kasten 1960.13 sound; 3 min. Gift of billy ocallaghan & mark gross 2014.60 The Abstract Expressionist painter Willem Restored by the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film de Kooning had never worked with a Archive and the Academy Film Archive with printing press before he accepted an support from the National Film Preservation 119 CONNIE GOLDMAN invitation from UC Berkeley professor Karl Foundation. United States, born 1958 Kasten to come to Berkeley to experiment Waterfall is a film poem composed almost Genea X with lithography. This is one of two prints entirely of found and stock footage that de Kooning made here, using a mop as a has been hand processed and solarized, 2017 tool to create a structured yet explosive and set to Japanese Koto music. Chick Oil on panel image. Strand, a key figure of the Bay Area Gift of the artist; courtesy of Chandra Cerrito experimental film scene that emerged Contemporary 2018.29 in the early 1960s, cofounded Canyon 115 CHRIS DUNCAN Cinema. United States, born 1974 120 LUCY PULS White Cinderblock United States, born 1955 117 FRANCES BUTLER 2015 United States, born 1940 Ultra Iterum (13-D-10) Direct sunlight and acrylic on 2013 canvas Bananaman in Switzerland Fabriano 640 gsm paper, pigment Purchase made possible with funds provided 1970–1971 prints, mica powder, matte medium by The Mark & Hilarie Moore Family Trust Silkscreen on cotton Gift of the artist 2018.13.2 2016.24 Gift of the artist 2018.3 This work is from a series in which Lucy Puls To create this image, Chris Duncan investigated the empty and distressed interior wrapped fabric around a cinderblock, spaces of foreclosed homes in California’s which he then placed on an Oakland Central Valley. The image is a combination of rooftop for six months. Exposure to a photographic detail of an interior wall with sunlight faded parts of the fabric, creating a tilted, rectilinear area composed of mica a quasi-photographic effect, although powder. In the words of the artist: none of the fabric was treated with photo The title Ultra Iterum is made up of the Latin emulsion. Duncan painted the central words: Ultra = beyond, further, on the other section of the sun-bleached fabric. side, more than, in addition, besides. And Iterum = again, a second time, for the second time. Ultra Iterum = more again. By this I mean it’s not over. If there is recovery in one place there is uncertainty somewhere else. 124
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129 CORNELIA SCHULZ 132 LUCILLE PARIS For Terry Cannon, who arranged for United States, born 1937 United States, 1928–2008 the slides to come into our collection, “Arledge’s slides, when illuminated, had an L 7 Green/Red/Rose/Ochre extraordinary three-dimensional quality 2016 1962 and produced an undulating, sparkling Oil on canvas stretched on wood Gouache on paper effect as the light source traveled through Gift of Cornelia Schulz and Patricia Gift of Lucille M. Paris 2005.10.13 the layers of gels sandwiched in glass. Sweetow Gallery 2018.40 The experience was akin to viewing a shimmering stained-glass window.” Because it was difficult to exhibit them in 133 NAOMIE KREMER public venues, Arledge documented them 130 TERRY FOX United States, born Israel, 1953 in several of her experimental films. United States, 1943–2008 Rudimentary Pixillation Untitled 1999 1967 Oil on linen 135 LINDA GEARY Ink on paper Gift of Modernism, Inc., San Francisco United States, born 1960 Purchased with the aid of funds from the 2004.35 National Endowment for the Arts 1972.99 Freeze Tag 2010 Oil on canvas 134 SARA KATHRYN ARLEDGE 131 SAM FRANCIS Collectors’ Circle purchase: Bequest of Phoebe United States, 1911–1998 Apperson Hearst by exchange, with additional United States, 1923–1994 support from Jane Lurie, Tecoah and Thomas A selection of glass slide Bruce 2012.19.1 Middle Blue, No. 5 transparencies 1960 1947-1950 Watercolor Glass slide transparencies Gift of Julian J. and Joachim Jean transferred to digital files; color, Aberbach 1965.38 silent; c. 10 min. Although this watercolor was made in Bern, While teaching at California College of Switzerland, a decade after Sam Francis Arts and Crafts (now California College left the Bay Area, it shows the influence of of the Arts) between 1947 and 1950, Sara his teachers at the California School of Fine Kathryn Arledge began using scientific Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), glass slides as her artistic medium. She including Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still. created abstract patterns by cutting up Francis was first inspired to study art by the colored stage-light gelatins, baking them painter David Park, who brought original in the oven, then scratching and drawing works by MirÓ, Picasso, and Klee to the on the resulting surface with tools ranging hospital where Francis was recovering from from toothpicks to Sharpie pens. The an Army flying accident. After recuperating transparencies were exhibited using a from his spinal injury, Francis enrolled at UC magic lantern slide projector. Berkeley to study painting. 146
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148 on floor the Headlands Center for the Arts in 153 MINYONG JANG and John Sloan. Her later work, such as No. Sausalito and the Kala Art Institute in South Korea, born 1968 23, is a dramatic contrast to the Romantic Berkeley. During his time here, Rattke figurative style of her Ashcan School produced a 36-page screen-printed The Dark Room forebears. Here she focuses on the optical book from which these pages are 2001 effects of color and brushstroke, creating a excerpted. In the words of the artist: 16mm film transferred to digital file; sensation of warm, glowing energy. The book is to pay homage, in a very color, silent; 4 min. open and subjective way, to a number Courtesy of the artist of San Francisco sub-cultural histories 156 ELISABETH SUNDAY This haunting and beautiful film was shot and characters that have resonated with United States, born 1958 me over the years. It is not to be a purely at San Francisco’s Camera Obscura, located nostalgic look at the city but rather an on the lower level of the Cliff House at Man in Bloom attempt to link past strategies to current Land’s End. 1989 realities. The past can be a guide within Gold-toned gelatin silver print the contemporary cultural and political Anonymous gift in honor of Lawrence Rinder maze and can contain inspiration and 154 SUZANNE PERKINS 1996.13 sustainability for dealing with current United States, born 1937 struggles and dilemmas. In the late 1980s, Oakland artist Elisabeth Phosphene Sunday spent several months living with, 1972 and photographing, the Efe people in 151 SASHA KELLEY Acrylic on canvas Congo’s Ituri Forest. United States, born 1990 Purchase made possible through a gift of Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, Transit Eyes California 2017.66 157 DAN MILLER 2012, printed 2017 Suzanne Perkins learned Josef Albers’s color United States, born 1961 Archival Piezography pigment print theory in classes at Yale University in the Untitled Purchase made possible through the David early 1960s. After she moved to Berkeley 2013 Robinson Photography Fund 2017.65 in 1967 she began painting mandala-like, Ink on paper Sasha Kelley is an Oakland-based optically dynamic images using a spray photographer whose work celebrates gun and a specially designed turntable that Purchase made possible by the Jan Boyce Fund for Contemporary Art 2013.38 spiritual transcendence and the everyday allowed her to paint in concentric circles. sublime. Perkins was closely involved with the Bay Area avant-garde film scene and contributed one of her paintings to the production of 158 KIM ANNO 152 SYLVIA FEIN Jordan Belson’s 1972 film Light. United States, born 1958 United States, born 1919 Niagara Crucial Eye 155 RUTH ARMER 2013 2011 United States, 1896–1977 Oil and inkjet on aluminum Egg tempera Gift of Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, No. 23 Monterey, California 2013.78 Purchase made possible through gifts from Andrew Teufel and Judith DeVito, with 1971 Kim Anno’s image evokes the sublime power additional funds provided by Glenn and April Oil on canvas of Niagara Falls while suggesting the layers Bucksbaum 2014.6 Gift of John M. Bransten, Robert J. Bransten, of human interference and control that have James D. Hart, and Ruth McDougall 1971.66 transformed this natural wonder. San Francisco native Ruth Armer studied art in New York City between 1915 and 1919 with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Max Weber, 159
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159 XARA THUSTRA 160 EMMA MICHALITSCHKE recession, they chose to build their homes United States, born 1976 United States, born Germany, 1864–1925 from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs, and hunt, gather, or This is what we are for and Yosemite Landscape grow their own food. this is what we’ll get 1913 All the people in my photographs are 2002 Oil on canvas working to maintain a self-sufficient Latex enamel on plywood Gift of Emma Michalitschke 1919.2.8 lifestyle, but no one I found lives in complete isolation from the mainstream. Museum purchase 2015.41 Emma Michalitschke studied at the San Many have websites that they update For the past twenty years, Xara Thustra’s Francisco Art Association School of Design. using laptop computers, and cell phones art has been inseparable from the Bay Following the 1906 earthquake, she moved that they charge on car batteries or solar Area social justice struggle and community to Berkeley, where she lived and painted panels. They do not wholly reject the empowerment movements. Her work has until her death in 1925. modern world. Instead, they step away included agitprop street art, performance, from it and choose the parts that they and filmmaking. This mural, which want to bring with them. references the 9/11 attacks, was first shown 161 LUCAS FOGLIA in the 2002 Bay Area Now exhibition at United States, born 1983 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. 162 UNKNOWN ARTIST Creek, Kevin’s Land, Virginia From the series The Cliff House and Seal A Natural Order Rocks, San Francisco 2009 c. 1875 Chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Reverse painting on glass, mixed Archive paper, edition 1/3 media Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of Purchase made possible by the Marcia Simon California, Berkeley BANC PIC 1970.012—FR Weisman Foundation Fund 2013.36.2 Regarding the series A Natural Order, the artist wrote: From 2006 through 2010, I traveled throughout the southeastern United States befriending, photographing, and interviewing a network of people who left cities and suburbs to live off the grid. Motivated by environmental concerns, religious beliefs or the global economic W
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163 KAY SEKIMACHI 165 CHIURA OBATA 166 MARY IJICHI United States, born 1926 United States, born Japan, 1885–1975 United States, born 1952 Homage to A.M. Before the Rain, Mono Lake Draw #18 2011 From World Landscape Series: 2016 Linen, painted warp and weft, America Acrylic and pencil on Mylar textile dye, and permanent marker Purchase made possible through a gift of 1930 Purchase made possible through a gift Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Monterey, of Barbara N. and William G. Hyland, Color woodcut California 2016.120 Monterey, California 2017.36 Collection of the University of California, Berkeley UC.1031.a This work is an homage to the painter Agnes Martin, whose signature style Chiura Obata emigrated from Japan to 167 ARI MARCOPOULOS incorporating parallel horizontal lines was the United States in 1903 at the age of United States, born Netherlands, 1957 originally inspired by the threads on her seventeen. In 1928 he returned to Japan, friend Lenore Tawney’s loom. In this work, where he produced a portfolio of thirty-five Jackass Sekimachi reintroduces Martin’s abstract woodblock prints of scenes in California 2008, printed 2009 motif to the medium of weaving. landscapes. Pigment print Upon returning to the Bay Area to teach Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe at UC Berkeley, Obata ran an art supply Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2009.29 shop on Telegraph Avenue with his wife. 164 LESLIE SHOWS In 1942 he, like many Japanese Americans United States, born 1977 at the time, was interned at the Tanforan, Face K2 and later Topaz, detention centers. At both of these locations, Obata helped create art 2012 schools serving hundreds of detainees. Ink, acrylic, Plexiglas, Mylar, canvas, crushed glass, metal filings, and engraving on aluminum Museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange 2013.17 This seemingly abstract composition is derived from a scanned image of one face of a pyrite crystal. 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, Warner Jepson and Ruth Asawa Sacred Heart of Jesus Betty Estersohn, Joan Valdes) I17 (Ruth 1) 1965 with Mary Winder Baker, Debra 1974 16mm film transferred to digital file; Rapoport, and Susan Wick ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to color, sound; 5.5 min. digital file; color, silent; 41 min. Baker/Rapoport/Wick Courtesy of Elon Bartlett Courtesy of the Estate of Warner Jepson and 1977 the Estate of Ruth Asawa Scott Bartlett ½-inch open-reel video transferred to digital file; black and white, sound; 14.5 min. Stefan Kürten Making Offon Courtesy of the artists 1980 MATRIX 131 16mm film transferred to digital file; First Generation (Dede Tisone, Interview with Lawrence Rinder color, sound; 10.5 min. Betty Estersohn, Joan Valdes) 1989 Courtesy of Elon Bartlett Audiocassette transferred to digital file; Jasmine Nash: Black Dance 28 min. George Bolling 1977 La Mamelle Phase ½-inch open-reel video transferred to digital file; black and white, sound; 27 min. 1970s In Review (aired January 5, 1980) Betacam SP preservation video transferred Courtesy of the artists 1980 to digital file; black and white, sound; ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to 6.5 min. Rupert Garcia, Enrique Chagoya, digital file; color, sound; 30 min. Nathan Oliveira Courtesy of Nancy Frank and Darlene Tong Cahuilla Bird Singers In the Light of Goya From Lewis de Soto / MATRIX 144 Q&A at the University Art Museum Ginny Lloyd 1991 1996 Color Xerography Evening Audiocassette transferred to digital file; Audiocassette transferred to digital file; Magazine excerpt 31 min. 32 min. 1980 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to Peter d’Agostino Peter Gessner and David L. Brown digital file; color, sound; 1.5 min. The Walk Series: roof walk Making Waves: Sailing with the Courtesy of the artist 1973 Bay Area Peace Navy Betacam SP preservation video transferred to 1987 Deborah Mangum digital file; black and white, sound; 27 min. ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to Six Phrases in Real Time
Courtesy of the artist digital file; color, sound; 20 min. 1978 Courtesy of Peter Gessner ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to Cecilia Dougherty digital file; color, sound; 13 min. Anna Halprin and Seth Hill Gay Tape: Butch and Femme Courtesy of the artist Right On (Ceremony of Us) 1985 National Center for Experiments in ½-inch VHS master transferred to 1969 digital file; color, sound; 29 min. Betacam SP preservation video transferred Television (NCET) Courtesy of the artist to digital file; black and white, sound; KQED tape #8013. Experimental 30 min. Project Sampler Cecilia Dougherty Courtesy of Jim Newman 1968 Betacam SP preservation video transferred Leslie John Held Jr. 1998 to digital file; black and white, sound; Betacam SP video transferred to digital file; The Vanishing World of 59 min. black and white and color, sound; 11 min. Correspondence Courtesy of the artists Courtesy of the artist 1984 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to Manuel Neri Felix Feist, Jr. digital file; color, sound; 21 min. On Painting: The Work of Elmer California Election News Courtesy of the artist Bischoff and Joan Brown no. 1 and no. 2 Talk at the University Art Museum 1934 1992 16mm film transferred to digital file; Audiocassette transferred to digital file; black and white, sound; 12.5 min. 31 min. Newsreel Terry Riley and Arlo Acton TVTV and Ant Farm Los Siete Music with Balls Nitrous Newsweek: Ant Farm and 1969 1969 the Last Days of Vinyl Pillow 16mm film transferred to digital file; Betacam SP preservation video transferred 1970s black and white, sound; 33 min. to digital file; color, sound; 23 min. ½-inch open-reel video transferred to Courtesy of California Newsreel Courtesy of Jim Newman digital file; black and white, sound; 33 min. Courtesy of the artists Jani Novak Loren Sears Boku-maru Variations Loops Unknown artist 1975 1968 Panama-Pacific Exposition ½-inch open-reel video transferred to Betacam SP preservation video transferred at San Francisco, Cal. digital file; black and white, sound; to digital file; color, sound; 5.5 min. 1915 112 min. Courtesy of the artist 16mm film transferred to digital file; black and white (tinted), silent; 18 min. Optic Nerve Sidra Stich, Todd Gitlin, Anais Nin Diane Johnson, Greil Marcus, Video Free America 1971 Angela Davis Video Free America 1970–1983 ½-inch open-reel video transferred to Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization 1983 digital file; black and white, sound; 56 min. in Modern Art, the ’50s & ’60s Betacam SP preservation video transferred Courtesy of the artists Morning Symposium at the to digital file; black and white and color, sound; 43 min. Optic Nerve University Art Museum Courtesy of Skip Sweeney Art Works 1987 1975 Audiocassette transferred to digital file; 2-inch quad video transferred to digital 160 min. file; black and white and color, sound; 31 min. Skip Sweeney Courtesy of the artists Illuminatin’ Sweeney 1975 Optic Nerve Betacam SP preservation video transferred Harvey Milk Interview to digital file; color, sound; 30 min. at Castro Camera Courtesy of the artist 1978 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to Edward Silverstone Taylor digital file; color, sound; 61 min. Street Fair 1959 Courtesy of the artists 1959 16mm film transferred to digital file; Optic Nerve color, silent; 6 min. Jerry Brown Talks to Whales TVTV 1977 ¾-inch U-matic video transferred to Living Space Composite #2 digital file; color, sound; 45 min. 1970 Courtesy of the artists ½-inch open-reel video transferred to digital file; black and white, sound; 27 min. Optic Nerve Courtesy of the artists Pushed Out for Profit TVTV 1978 2-inch quad video transferred to New Games digital file; color, sound; 29 min. 1973 Courtesy of the artists ½-inch open-reel video transferred to digital file; black and white, sound; 15 min. Courtesy of the artists Way Bay 2 program series 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.
Personal Flag Generator Workshop Kevin Killian, “Candy Land III” Saturday / 6.2.18 / 1:00 Jack Spicer, “Stinson”
Dig, Sift, Soak: Clay as a Pigment with Mutual Stores Cedar Sigo, “Mount Analog for Jared Stanley” Friday / 6.15.18 / 6:00 Philip Lamantia, “Animal Snared in His Revery”
Laura Moriarty, “Glass Action” Black Life: Will Alexander Jerry Estrin, excerpt from “The Park” Saturday / 7.7.18 / 6:00
Brent Cunningham, “Back on Earth” Black Life: Spiritual Technologies Project Leslie Scalapino, excerpt from Orchid Jetsam Friday / 7.13.18 / 6:00 Damon Potter, “untitled” Monuments and Ruins: Sculpture workshop with Bo Huston, “Remember Me” Maryam Jousif and Nick Makanna Sunday / 7.15.18 / 2:00 Rae Armantrout, “Evidence” Joanne Kyger, “Night Palace” Seeing & Reading: Graphic Design Workshop with Mary Banas Ryanaustin Dennis, “Plywood” Saturday / 7.21.18 / 1:00–4:30 Bob Kaufman, excerpt from Golden Sardine
Gloria Frym, excerpt from Mind Over 1+1=11: Risograph Workshop with Tim Belonax Matter: A Tribute to Poetry Saturday / 8.4.18 / 12:00–3:00 David Meltzer, excerpt from Two-Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook Black Life: Brontez Purnell Friday / 8.17.18 / 6:00 Kit Robinson, “RASPBERRIES IN JANUARY” Joanne Kyger, “Your Heart Is Fine”
Feral Fabric with Amanda Walters and Paulina Berczynski Chris Carlsson, excerpt from “When Punk Mattered: Sunday / 8.26.18 / 12:00 At the Dawn of the Neoliberal City” Harold Gilliam, excerpt from Wavy Gravy The Natural World of San Francisco Sunday / 9.2.18 / 2:00 Aaron Shurin, “Song” Barbara Guest, excerpt from Forces of Imagination
Namwali Serpell, “Company” Lucia Berlin, excerpt from “Let Me See you Smile”
Alli Warren, excerpt from I love it Though Pat Parker, excerpt from Movement in Black
Kim Shuck, “Unhomed” Mary TallMountain, excerpt from “The Last Wolf”
Bob Perelman, “Folk Wisdom” Jack Spicer, excerpt from “Phonemics” Aja Couchois Duncan, “Class” Lyn Hejinian, excerpt from The Book of a Thousand Eyes Beth Murray, excerpt from The Island Leslie Scalapino, excerpt from “This eating and walking at the same time is associated all right” Steffi Drewes, “for the fact finders” Joanne Kyger, “untitled” Carol Tarlen, excerpt from “Mission Poet Dee Dee Kramer, “á la carte economy” Andrew Joron, “A = A” Banned By State Department” Philip Lamantia, “Man Is in Pain” Alan Bernheimer, “Twilight of the Trilobites” Wendy Trevino “Revolutionary Letter” Jack London, excerpt from “Confession” Karen Brodine, excerpt from “Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking” David Brazil, “Our Community” Bob Kaufman, “Abomunist Manifesto” Norma Cole, “Planetude for Etel Adnan” Robert Duncan, excerpt from “Upon Taking Hold” Michael Palmer, “Storm” George Oppen, excerpt from “Of Being Numerous” Denise Newman, “A Wreck: the Caldecott” Philip Whalen, “Giant Sequoias” Gillian Hamel, “O” Leslie Scalapino, excerpt from The Front Matter, Dead Souls Juliana Spahr, “untitled” Lester Rowntree, excerpt from Hardy Californians: Beth Custer, excerpt from “Crux of Murder” A Woman’s Life with Native Plants Shirley Jackson, excerpt from The Haunting of Hill House
Brandon Brown, excerpt from Things To Do In Berkeley Gillian Conoley, “Peace” Stacy Doris, excerpt from Fledge: A Phenomenology of Spirit Denise Levertov, excerpt from Jacob’s Ladder
Lindsay Chloe Choi, “untitled” Jennifer S. Cheng, excerpt from HOUSE A Josephine Miles, “Berg” Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, excerpt from Dictee
Mary Burger, “His Wrist” Fred Turner, excerpt from Counterculture to Cyberculture Leslie Scalapino, excerpt from That They Were at the Beach Ken Kesey, excerpt from “Ken Kesey Was a Successful Dope Fiend” Rusty Morrison, excerpt from “understory” Barbara Guest, excerpt from “Imagined Room” Cathy Arellano, “My Pendleton, My Love” Leslie Feinberg, excerpt from Stone Butch Blues Jocelyn Saidenberg, “October” Beth Murray, “Home” Syd Staiti, excerpt from The Undying Present Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, excerpt from Dictee Garrett Caples, “For David Meltzer for Julie Rogers” David Meltzer, excerpt from “California Dreamin’” Stephanie Young, excerpt from Pet Sounds Joanne Kyger, excerpt from Trip out and fall back Micah Ballard, “Way Bay” John Wieners, “Keep It” Reid Gómez, excerpt from California Wasn’t Good For Us Randy Shilts, excerpt from And the Band Played Claire Marie Stancek, excerpt from Oil Spell On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic Pat Parker, “Between the Light” Tongo Eisen-Martin, excerpt from “Faceless” Gabrielle Daniels, excerpt from “Proving Impermanence” Bob Kaufman, excerpt from “Jail Poems” Bob Kaufman, excerpt from “Bagel Shop Jazz” Jean Day, excerpt from Low Life Jack Spicer, “For Huntz” Truong Tran, excerpt from The Book of Others Sara Larsen, excerpt from Merry Hell William Dickey, “Happiness” Lenore Kandel, “Phoenix Song”
Ismail Muhammad, “How White?” Luisah Teish, “untitled” June Jordan, excerpt from “In Memoriam: Veve Amasa Clark, “untitled” Martin Luther King, Jr.” Karen Seneferu, “untitled” Hazel White, excerpt from Walk for two: In the J. California Cooper, excerpt from Some Love, ecotone of language, landscape, nonviolence Some Pain, Sometime: Stories Merce Cunningham, excerpt from “Craneway Event 2008 with Tacita Dean” Rob Halperin, “NEAR GROWING SWELLS OF CASCADIAN DOOM ARISES THIS MELODIOUS SURGE” Tanea Lunsford Lynx, “Mothers II” Frances Jaffer, “Gecko” Maya Angelou, “To a Man” Viet Le, “Heal / Heel” Emily Wolahan, Study for Cleaning Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, excerpt from Zen Mind, Beginner’s Jack Spicer, excerpt from “Dear Lorca” Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Nicole Trigg, “untitled” Janice Lobo Sapigao, excerpt from “My family came Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, excerpt from Dictee to America” Justin Chin, excerpt from “Grave” Jacq Greyja, “untitled” kari edwards, excerpt from Bharat jiva Barrett Watten, “5 Stanzas from Plan B” Bill Berkson, “Space Dream” Pam Martin, “Pivot” Jack Spicer, excerpt from “Imaginary Elegies”
Christopher J. Adamson, “untitled” The following artists contributed image-based Thom Gunn, excerpt from “Tom-Dobbin: Centaur Poems” works to the postcard print series: Margaret Tedesco, Rashad Pridgen, Jenifer Wofford, Mg Roberts, excerpt from Fatfall Eliza Barrios, Lordy Rodriguez, England Hidalgo, Dominic Gertrude Stein, excerpt from Tender Buttons Mangila, Barbara Jane Reyes, Rupert Garcia, Enrique Chagoya, Moira Roth, Nancy Hom, Jason Bayani, Trinh T. Robert Glück, excerpt from Communal Nude Minh Ha, Gina Osterloh, Jerome Reyes, Michael Warr Bo Huston, excerpt from Horse and Other Stories
Brenda Hillman, “Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways” Barbara Guest, “The Brown Vest”
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” FRONT COVER: Rosie Lee Tompkins: Untitled, 1987; mixed media; 100 1 × 70 1 (irregular) in.; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; museum purchase: Bequest of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, by exchange, 2009.18.
BACK COVER: Minyong Jang: Still from The Dark Room, 2001; 16mm film transferred to digital file; color, silent; 4 min; courtesy of the artist. Way Bay 2 June 13–September 2, 2018 BERKELEY ART MUSEUM PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE bampfa.org