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One of the most influential artists of our time, Cindy Sherman creates provocative artworks that explore wide-ranging issues of identity and representation. Working as her own model, she deftly transforms her appearance using wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props to create intriguing tableaux and characters inspired by movies, TV, magazines, and art history. This major retrospective brings...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:45 PM

Exploring the ambiguous line between fine arts and performing arts, this thematic exhibition presents works in various media from the past three decades that respond to and embrace theatricality in contemporary art practice. Works include Janet Cardiff's The Telephone Call, a participatory project in which visitors can check out a video camera and follow a self-guided narrative through the museum; Guy B...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:45 PM

In the early 1920s, Paul Klee and Josef Albers met in Weimar, Germany, where they would become co-directors of the Bauhaus glass workshop. This exhibition of paintings and works on paper explores a rarely acknowledged dialogue between the artists that began early in Albers's career and continued well after Klee's death in 1940. Source: http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/454#ixzz1zwxJMh76 San F...   [more]

A BOOK RELEASE PARTY AND EXHIBITION A photograph projects on the screen and the students speak. They have their stories to tell. They speak of what they see and what they do not see, what they imagine, and what they know. These conversations echo diverse backgrounds and voices, yet are spoken as one.This is the extraordinary collection of photographs spanning 10 years by students from the Out of...   [more]

Opening: October 4th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

No portrait can match the verisimilitude of a clone, the ultimate artistic achievement. Though conventional genetic cloning is problematic, recently biologists have learned that the genes you inherit don't determine who you become. What matters is which genes are expressed, and gene expression depends on your environment. By replicating environmental factors from diet to pollutants, Jonathon Keats is...   [more]

Opening: October 11th, 2012   5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

When Illustration chair and Distinguished Professor Dugald Stermer passed away in December 2011, the CCA community experienced a monumental loss. The life and work of Stermer, our “beloved cowboy” chair of the Illustration Program, will be celebrated October 1-12, with the memorial exhibition Drawing the Line. The exhibition will be on view in the alcove of the Nave on CCA’s main San Francisco...   [more]

Opening: October 12th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Mike Shine is a Bay Area artist who creates paintings, installations and performances that involve the viewer as participant. His influences have been described as “Nordic mythology, Teutonic philosophy, Kubrick, PT Barnum, Absinthe, and his wife.”  At the center of his installations stands Pyotr Flotsam, the dark, enigmatic, Mephistophelean ringleader, who seems to be collecting souls in exch...   [more]

Opening: September 21st, 2012   5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

The paintings for the exhibition, “Shimmer,” were created over the past several years, each stripe and dot meticulously rendered by hand in multiple layers of paint on panel. Due to the juxtaposition of minute changes in hue and value over the painted surfaces, the picture planes appear to vibrate. Waverings, absences, and misalignments in the mark-making contribute to an optical effect, while the simple...   [more]

Opening: September 8th, 2012   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery is pleased to exhibit recent monoprints by renowned San Francisco artist Gustavo Ramos Rivera. This body of work was produced in the Summer of 2011 at the Thomas Blaes Atelier in Bern, Switzerland. Gustavo Ramos Rivera is an abstract painter, sculptor and print-maker whose work is known nationally for its intense emotional content and its unique, personal symbolism. Rive...   [more]

Full Spectrum is the Museum’s signature fundraising event of the year and a gala like no other. It features an auction that brings you an amazing opportunity to acquire works by extraordinary Bay Area artists, many of whom are recognized nationally and are represented proudly in the Museum’s permanent collection. In advance of the gala on October 13, visitors may preview the auction lots in a...   [more]

Art from Little-Known Region of Africa on View at Stanford Stanford, Calif. — “Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley” opens May 16 at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University. Presenting more than 150 objects drawn from international collections, the exhibition gives a comprehensive view of the arts from along the river that flows across the center of Nigeria, joining the...   [more]

Opening: May 16th, 2012   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

The year 2012 marks a milestone for Crown Point Press, Chuck Close and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Press, recognized for its importance as a print workshop specializing in etching, celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding by Kathan Brown in 1962. Chuck Close made his first print, the landmark mezzotint Keith, at the press 10 years later in 1972, breaking artistic ground for the ph...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   9:30 AM - 5:15 PM

San Francisco, April 2012—One of the art world’s most notorious relationships comes alive with Man Ray | Lee Miller: Partners in Surrealism on view July 14–October 14, 2012 in the Rosekrans Galleries at the Legion of Honor. The exhibition consists of approximately 115 photographs, paintings, drawings and manuscripts that explore the creative interaction between Man Ray and Lee Miller, two...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   9:30 AM - 5:15 PM

In 1940, art director and fashion illustrator René Bouché (1905-1963) left war-torn Paris for New York and became a regular contributor to Vogue magazine. In 1945, Vogue commissioned who was an art director and fashion illustrator in Paris before World War II, was commissioned Bouché to cover the first post-war couture shows in Paris. The trip to Europe was traumatic for the artist, who discovered a...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   9:30 AM - 5:15 PM

Since its inception in September 2011, the Occupy Movement has generated both praise and condemnation. A direct response to the financial instability, subprime mortgage crisis and the decline of trust in the government’s ability to effectively address the problems in the labor market, it continues to resonate in the American consciousness. In response to the significant output of art and documentation...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

With Market Fitness, artists Christian Nagler and Azin Seraj bring together two seemingly distant topics of conversation in popular culture: the demystification of the financial system and the importance of individual exercise routines.  Space is limited in these classes. Register for your spot today!   [more]

Opening: October 16th, 2012   7:30 PM - 9:00 PM