Way Bay 2 Gallery Guide

Way Bay 2 Gallery Guide Please do not remove from the gallery Way Bay 2 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 1 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 6 4 5 7 9 9 9 When the brightening came, only the darkest survived Namwali Serpell, from “Company” (covering Company by Samuel Beckett), 2017 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 on floor 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.

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