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Previous Shows Gallery Map (pdf) "Richard Kamler: A Retrospective" (www.richardkamler.org) includes early sketchbooks, installation works, drawings and photographic documentation that trace his career using art as a catalyst for social change.
Iconic pieces from each decade will be on display, among them selections from "Impact Drawings," Events "Out of the Holocaust: Drawings Four Decades of Art Activism and Environments," and SFMOMA- A fishbowl conversation moderated by sponsored "The Desert Project" Richard Kamler with Tom Ferentz, Judith (1970s); "Maximum Security 1-8: Selby Lang, Peter Selz and Scott Installations" and "El Greco" Tsuchitani (see full description below). (1980s); "Table of Voices" and Fri, Jan 27, 7-9 pm "Bison Project" (1990s); and Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission (at "Seeing Peace" and "Las Mujeres 5th Street) de Juarez" (2000s). To create these Richard Kamler and Robert Atkins in works, Richard Kamler has collaborated with individuals and Conversation groups as far reaching as death row Thurs, Feb 2 and Wed, Feb 8, 2:30-3:30 inmates, interfaith communities and pm the United Nations. McLaren 250, USF (at Clayton) Opening Reception and Birthday Throughout his career, Kamler has Celebration maintained his strong belief that "art Thurs, Feb 2, 4-6 pm can make the world a better Thacher Gallery place….art is an agent for social Meet the Artist change…our fuel and our glue." Saturdays, Feb 4, 11, 18 and 25, 11 am Beginning in 1981, Kamler spent to 1 pm two years as Artist-in-Residence in Thacher Gallery San Quentin Prison. Through his close examination of the penal system, he created the central works of his career: the "Table of Voices," a sound installation giving voice to both victims and perpetrators that was instrumental in developing a victim/offender reconciliation program at the San Francisco County Jail and the "Waiting Room" in Huntsville, Texas. Human rights continues to be a central theme of his work.
Kamler's art has been exhibited in a range of venues, from Alcatraz Island to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, from the East Jerusalem Cultural Center to San Francisco Bay, from the Bischoff Gallery in Cologne, Germany to the grounds of the San Francisco County Jail and the Art Space in New York. Kamler has received a NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, several CA Arts Council Artist Residencies, a California Fellowship, an artist fellowship from the George Soros Foundation and the Adaline Kent Award from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a M. Arch from UC Berkeley and is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. From 1963 to 1965, he was an apprentice to Frederick Kiesler, the visionary painter, sculptor and architect.
About "Four Decades of Art Activism"
How can art be a catalyst for social change? Join Bay Area artists in a fishbowl conversation titled “Four Decades of Art Activism” on Friday, January 27, 7-9 p.m., Intersection for the Arts, 925 Mission, San Francisco. Free and open to the public.
Five Bay Area artists, scholars and activists whose careers cross several generations, disciplines and social concerns will present their projects and strategies for engaging the community. The conversation will then open to the audience. Moderated by artist and human rights activist, Richard Kamler, this fishbowl event, "Four Decades of Art Activism," will include:
Tom Ferentz (Photographer, Founder, Sixth Street Photography Workshop)
Judith Selby Lang (Eco-artist, Beach Plastic project)
Peter Selz (Founding Director, Berkeley Art Museum and Prof. Emeritus, Art History, UC Berkeley)
Scott Tsuchitani (Interdisciplinary artist, SF Asian Art Museum interventions)
Richard Kamler, moderator, is best known for his art addressing the US penal system, including "Table of Voices," a sound installation giving voice to both victims and perpetrators, that was instrumental in developing a victim/offender reconciliation program at the San Francisco County Jail. Recently, he collaborated with international artists and the United Nations to create "Seeing Peace."
Tom Ferentz founded Sixth Street Photography Workshop in 1991, an innovative program that shares the art and skills of photography with adults living in poverty.
Through the Plastic Project, multimedia artist Judith Selby Lang, explores the global impact of detritus and the unfathomable depths of the ocean to raise a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas.
Peter Selz, art historian and former curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA in New York, is the author of among other things, The Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond (2005).
Scott Tsuchitani is an interdisciplinary visual artist and documentary filmmaker whose controversial interventions of the Asian Art Museum’s publicity have questioned the ways in which cultural stereotypes are used to draw audiences to the museum. He will be presenting at this spring USF’s Davies Forum on Nation, Citizenship and Identities in the U.S. and Japan.
Join these dynamic arts activists to discuss real examples of how art can make the world a better place.
Links:
Conversations with Richard Kamler and Richard Whitaker for "Works and Conversations" KQED's Spark on Richard Kamler Richard Kamler and art of change and possibility. San Francisco Chronicle Show highlights SF artist's work with inmates. San Francisco Examiner Artbusiness.com
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