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Justin Hoover
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Transcending Alterity
by Kara Q. Smith
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dale Hoyt, Tony Labat at SOMArts
December 9th, 2010 - January 28th, 2011
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12/13/10
In the corner of the gallery, there are cats. I personally don’t think you can go wrong with cat art. Sold! But the sketches of cats by Dale Hoyt and Steve Thurston, upon closer inspection, are disturbing (albeit pleasantly). Inspired by CC, the world’s first cloned cat, these felines have unrecognizable configurations, sutured heads and incomplete anatomies. On a nearby monitor, Hoyt is in the middle of his performance piece, Transgenic Hairshirt, 2001, making a shirt... [more]
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Chinatown storefront satellite installations
by Patricia Wakida
Tamara Albaitis, Nancy Chan, Anita Wen-Shin Chang, Julie Chang, Thomas Chang, Sergio de la Torre, Cui Fei, Khiang H. Hei, Justin Hoover, Bu Hua, Arthur Huang, Suzanne Husky, Larry Lee, Sean Marc Lee, Liting Liang, Lucy Kalyani Lin, Ken Lo, Fang Lu, Maleonn, David Yun & Michelle Yun, Elizabeth Moy, Ming Mur-Ray, Tucker Nichols, Nadim Sabella, Zachary Royer Scholz, Indigo Som, Charlene Tan, Patrick Tsai, Imin Yeh, Xudong Yu at Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
May 1st, 2009 - August 23rd, 2009
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6/8/09
Chinatown is a flurry of storefronts and enterprising hawkers selling imported goods out of the box, right there on the sidewalk. As a satellite of the exhibition, Present TENSE Biennial – Chinese Character-, presented by the Chinese Culture Center on Kearny Street, nine storefront windows facing the bustling streets of Chinatown contain artist installations. The installations themselves are curious— Imin Yeh’s random household objects wrapped in patterned cloth, which quietly comm... [more]
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CantoSF
by Katie Farrell
JD Beltran, Deer Fang, Justin Hoover, Misako Inaoka, David O. Johnson, Guy Overfelt, Jon Phillips, Lin Fang Suo, Zhou Tao, Kathrine Worel, Huang Xiaopeng at Mission 17
February 13th, 2009 - March 31st, 2009
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2/23/09
The most successful work in Cantocore: Free on Board not only investigates the nuanced layers of trade and culture between Guangzhou and San Francisco, but also incorporates translation/mis-translation, authenticity/reproduction, and the copy-of-a-copy-of-a-translation spirit.
Cantocore: Import/Export (2008) was originally curated for Ping Pong Space, a large warehouse space in Guangzhou, China. Curators Justin Hoover, Fang Lu, and Jon Phillips invited six San Francisco-based artis... [more]
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Book Under Fire
by Natalie Hegert
Guillermo Bert, Sandow Birk, Jonathan Burstein, Enrique Chagoya, Alejandra Chaverri, Louis Delgado, Brian Dettmer, Emory Douglas, Terri Garland, Beth Grossman, Art Hazelwood, Justin Hoover, Woody Johnson, Barbra Kossy, Mary Laird, Wendy Miller, Elyse Pignolet, Nigel Poor, Favianna Rodriguez, Roberto Rovira, Jos Sances, Liz Sher, Anne Hicks Siberell, Livia Stein, Hadi Tabatabai, Tim Tate, Nancy Worthington at San Francisco Center for the Book
August 15th, 2008 - November 26th, 2008
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8/22/08
The Bay Area is the leading producer of one-of-a-kind artist books in the world, and no better place to experience this local specialty than the San Francisco Center for the Book. On view right now is an exhibit dedicated to the ongoing struggle against censorship in literature. Each artist was invited to create work dedicated to the long list of books which have been censored at one time or another. Most of these censored books you would recognize as the classics, those pieces of literature wh... [more]
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