Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017
Gallery Talks, Lectures & Discussions 2017
January 20–December 9, 2017
- Upcoming
Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Events
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Saturday, December 9, 3:30 PMGallery Talk by David Call: Martin Wong and ASL
Artist Call shares insights into the distinctive presence of American Sign Language in Martin Wong’s work.
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Sunday, December 3, 2 PMDiscussion: The Global Lives Project
Global Lives founder David Evan Harris, filmmakers Naomi Ture and Daniel Chein, and webmaster Benn Meyers (Shishin Junsei) present video clips and offer their perspectives on the project.
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Saturday, December 2, 1 PMLecture by Jordan Stein: Miyoko Ito: Painting as Place
Guest curator Stein explores Miyoko Ito’s life and work and presents excerpts from a rare video interview with the artist.
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Wednesday, November 29, 6 PMKarabo Poppy Moletsane and Ashara Ekundayo in Conversation
Moletsane talks about her new Art Wall project with cultural strategist and curator Ekundayo.
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Saturday, November 11, 1 PMRoundtable Discussion: Martin Wong in New York
Follow Martin Wong from the Bay Area to New York City’s Lower East Side in this discussion with Sean Corcoran, Yasmin Ramirez, Barry Blinderman, and Jane Dickson.
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Saturday, November 4, 1 PMLecture by Patricia Berger: A Crisis of Faith: Chen Hongshou’s Buddhist Paintings
Art historian Berger explores Chen Hongshou’s enigmatic Buddhist paintings, which offer a glimpse into a cataclysmic moment in Chinese history. Followed by a discussion with Robert Sharf.
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Saturday, October 28, 1 PMShi-yee Liu and Tamara Bentley on Chen Hongshou
Two scholars present talks illuminating different periods in the work of Chen Hongshou.
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Thursday, October 26, 12 PMCurator's Talk: Julia White on Chen Hongshou
The curator of BAMPFA’s Chen Hongshou exhibition offers insights into the artist’s mindset as the world around him dissolved into chaos.
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Wednesday, October 25, 12 PMArtist’s Talk: Veronica De Jesus
De Jesus highlights some individuals from her collection of memorial portraits.
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Saturday, October 7, 1 PMRoundtable Discussion: Martin Wong in San Francisco
This program explores both the formative and the final years of Martin Wong, who began and ended his career in California. With Mark Dean Johnson, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sergio Bessa, Marci Kwon, and Charlie Ahearn.
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Saturday, September 30, 1 PMPanel Discussion: The Art and Activism of Gordon Parks
This panel offers an appreciation of the influential photographer Gordon Parks and a critical examination of the processes that shaped his first Life magazine photo-essay. With Makeda Best, Tina Sacks, and Ken Light; moderated by Leigh Raiford.
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Thursday, September 28, 12 PMCurator's Talk: Russell Lord on Gordon Parks
The curator of Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument offers critical insights into Parks’s first photo-essay for Life magazine.
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Wednesday, September 27, 6 PMCurator’s Talk: Jordan Stein on Miyoko Ito
Join the exhibition curator for a talk about Miyoko Ito’s singular and compelling form of abstraction.
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Thursday, September 21, 1 PMCurator’s Talk: Constance Lewallen on Martin Wong
Lewallen discusses the life and work of Martin Wong—his identity, his milieu, and his passions.
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Saturday, September 16, 1:30 PMBetween Surrealism and Abstraction: New Perspectives on the Enigmatic Art of Charles Howard
Explore Charles Howard’s arresting art in this fresh, wide-ranging look at the themes and changing contexts of his work as he navigated among figurative, Surrealist, and abstract currents. With Apsara DiQuinzio, Douglas Dreishpoon, Lauren Kroiz, and Jeff Gunderson; moderated by Alexander Nemerov.
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Wednesday, September 13, 6 PMArtist's Talk: Lawrence Weiner
The artist discusses his current project for BAMPFA's Art Wall and his engagement with the natural landscape, his connection to the Bay Area, and the significance of language in his work. Watch the video.
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Monday, September 11, 6:30 PMArtist's Talk: JJ PEET
The artist talks about his project THE VACANT AMERICAN and what he calls the “Vast Void of image making.”
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Saturday, July 8, 1:30 PMLecture by Robert Del Bontà: Picturing Music: Ragamala Painting
The curator of Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures explores the intersection of Indian painting and music.
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Wednesday, June 28, 6 PMCancelled—Artist’s Talk: Ugo Rondinone
The artist behind the world just makes me laugh talks about themes of wonder, sadness, and the sublime in his work.
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Wednesday, August 30, 12:15 PM
Gallery Talk: Apsara DiQuinzio on Charles Howard
Explore painter Charles Howard’s enigmatic work with the exhibition curator.
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Saturday, June 10, 1:30 PMCarol Christ and David Neidorf in Conversation
UC Berkeley’s new chancellor and the president of Deep Springs College come together for a discussion of timely issues in undergraduate education.
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Saturday, May 20, 2 PMAnalog Light Show Gathering
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the psychedelic art of the light show at this gathering of members of original performance groups as well as recent innovators.
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Wednesday, May 17, 6 PMMFA Artists’ Talk
Meet the 2017 graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program as they talk about their recent work.
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Saturday, May 13, 1 PMHippie Modernism Forum: Creative Communes
Could rural communes be the template for a new geography of creativity? Ramón Sender Barayón, Erin Elder, and Fritz Haeg discuss the question along with moderator Greg Castillo.
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Wednesday, May 3, 12:15 PMArtist’s Talk: Sam Contis
MATRIX artist Contis talks about her photographs and shifting notions of place, identity, and gender in the American West.
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Monday, May 1, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: The Future of Media in the Trump Era, with Dave Pell and Guests
Pell is a writer, angel investor, and founder of NextDraft, a curated compilation of daily news and analysis.
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Wednesday, April 26, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Go Big or Go Home, with Amy Critchett and Mark Pauline
Hear from Pauline, founder of Survival Research Labs, and his wife, Critchett, the founder of Art+Audience and executive producer of Leo Villareal’s public work, including The Bay Lights.
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Wednesday, April 26, 12:15 PMArtist’s Talk: Irwin Kremen
MATRIX artist Kremen offers insights into his exquisite small collages.
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Monday, April 24, 2017Arts + Design Mondays: Radio, Podcast, and Contemporary Cultural Criticism, with John Horn, Glynn Washington, and Chloe Veltman
Horn is host of KPCC’s The Frame. Washington is host and executive producer of Snap Judgment on NPR. Veltmanis an arts and culture editor at KQED.
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Wednesday, April 19, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: San Francisco Search and Destroy with V. Vale
Punk perspectives from V. Vale, a San Francisco cultural historian, writer, and keyboard player, and the founder of Search & Destroy and RE/SEARCH.
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Monday, April 17, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: Cultural Criticism in the Age of YouTube, with Tiffany Shlain and Rolla Selbak
Emmy-nominated filmmaker Shlain is founder of the Webby Awards and cofounder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Selbak is a filmmaker whose credits include the film Three Veils and the Web series Kiss Her I’m Famous. Moderated by George Strompolos.
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Saturday, April 15, 1 PMHippie Modernism Forum: Fluid Identities
Fayette Hauser, Lauren Onkey, and Brontez Purnell talk about how reinventions of identity—reflected in rock music, performance art, and other flamboyant forms of expression—propelled the counterculture movement. Moderated by Juana María Rodríguez.
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Wednesday, April 12, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Diggers, Communes, and Counterculture and the Death of Hope with Peter Coyote
Get an inside view on the counterculture from Coyote, an acclaimed actor, Emmy Award–winning narrator of documentary films, and author.
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Friday, April 7, 6 PMBlack Life: Lynice Pinkard
Join pastor, author, and community activist Pinkard for a lecture and conversation about historical and cultural moments that form a “usable past” for New World Africans.
Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
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Wednesday, April 5, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Art/Politics/Aesthetics (notes from the field) with Stephanie Syjuco
Syjuco, Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Oakland-based artist, speaks about her work and its intersection with politics.
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CancelledCANCELLED: Arts + Design Mondays: Mediating Reality: The New Role of Visual Journalism, with Richard Koci Hernandez
The previously scheduled lecture by Richard Koci Hernandez has been cancelled. We regret any inconvenience or disappointment.
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Saturday, April 1, 1 PMSOLD OUT: Michael Pollan and Simon Sadler in Conversation
Journalist and best-selling author Pollan and architectural and urban historian Sadler talk about the history and use of psychedelics in therapeutic, philosophical, and cultural contexts.
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Wednesday, March 22, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Ana Mendieta: Decolonialized Feminist and Artist with Laura Pérez
Pérez, an associate professor of ethnic studies and core faculty in performance studies at UC Berkeley, delves into the issues raised by Mendieta’s work and life.
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Monday, March 20, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: Designing Spatiality for New Media Art, with Andrew and Deborah Rappaport
Andrew and Deborah Rappaport founded the Minnesota Street Project to offer affordable and economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists, and related nonprofits.
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Wednesday, March 15California Countercultures: Poetry and Protest with Ishmael Reed
Find the intersections between art and politics with Reed, a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, songwriter, public media commentator, lecturer, and publisher.
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Monday, March 13, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: Art, Activism, and Freedom in the American Carceral State, with jackie sumell
New Orleans–based multidisciplinary artist and activist sumell reflects on her service with prisoners indefinitely held in solitary confinement, drawing from the teachings of the Black Panthers, Herman Wallace, and Albert Woodfox.
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Saturday, March 11, 1 PMHippie Modernism Forum: Liberated Territories
Anthony Raynsford, Bonnie Ora Sherk, and Lisa Uddin explore the radical geographies of counterculture politics in a discussion moderated by Sean Burns.
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Wednesday, March 8, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Experimental Art and Subjectile Space with Dena Beard
Explore avant-garde art practices with Beard, executive director of The Lab and former assistant curator at BAMPFA.
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Wednesday, March 8, 6 PMArtist’s Talk: Erica Deeman
Join the artist of Silhouettes to explore the legacy of the portrait, physiognomy, and people’s desire to read the face.
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Monday, March 6, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini, with Tanya Zimbardo
Zimbardo is assistant curator of media arts at SFMOMA.
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Sunday, March 5, 2 PMLarry Miller: Blueprint for Counter Education
Miller, author of Blueprint for Counter Education, explores objects and publications that informed his defining work of Vietnam War–era radical pedagogy.
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Wednesday, March 1, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Pynchon’s Paranoid California with Michael Cohen
Cohen, an associate teaching professor in the African American studies department at UC Berkeley, talks about writer Thomas Pynchon, whose work embodies the radical challenge of the California counterculture.
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Monday, February 27, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: Technology, Race, Popular Culture: Jenna Wortham and Nadia Ellis in Conversation
Wortham writes about technology and culture for the New York Times. Ellis, associate professor of English at UC Berkeley, specializes in African diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures.
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Wednesday, February 22, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Hippie Modernism with Greg Castillo
Castillo, associate professor of architecture at UC Berkeley and guest curator of Hippie Modernism, maps the exhibition’s alternative cultural geographies.
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Wednesday, February 15, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Civil Rights Movement Photography and Its Legacies, with Leigh Raiford
Raiford, associate professor of African American studies at UC Berkeley, considers the role that photography played in the civil rights movement.
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Monday, February 13, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: Body, Intellect, Resistance: Mark Greif and Linda Williams in Conversation
Greif covers popular culture and political thought for the journal n+1, which he cofounded. Williams is professor emerita of rhetoric and film and media at UC Berkeley, and the author of noted works of feminist film scholarship.
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Saturday, February 11, 1 PMHippie Modernism Forum: Counterculture / Cyberculture
The first of four Hippie Modernism forums exploring the contemporary relevance of the Bay Area hippie legacy. With guests Lee Felsenstein, Fred Turner, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and moderator Greg Niemeyer.
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Wednesday, February 8, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: North Beach Beat Generation with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman
Two luminaries of the Bay Area poetry scene come together to reflect on the Beat culture that flourished in San Francisco’s North Beach.
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Wednesday, February 8, 1:30 PMGallery Talk with Curator Greg Castillo
Guest curator Greg Castillo introduces the themes of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia and talks about some of the works on view in the exhibition.
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Monday, February 6, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: Collecting the Uncollectible: Pamela and Richard Kramlich in Conversation with Lawrence Rinder
The Kramlichs are noted collectors who established the New Art Trust to advance the media arts through the support of research and scholarship in the field. Rinder is director of BAMPFA.
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Wednesday, February 1, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: On the Left Edge: California's Renegade Tradition with Iain Boal
Explore the Left Coast with Boal, a social historian of science and technics and one of the founders of the Retort Collective, an association of radical writers, teachers, artists, and activists.
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Monday, January 30, 6:30 PMArts + Design Mondays: Gender, Identity, Memoir: Judith Butler and Maggie Nelson in Conversation
Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Nelson, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and poetry and directs the creative writing program at California Institute of the Arts.
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Saturday, January 28, 1 PMThe Films of Ana Mendieta: Panel Discussion
B. Ruby Rich, Karen Fiss, Laura Pérez, and Raquel Cecilia discuss the filmworks of Ana Mendieta, on view in Covered in Time and History.
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Wednesday, January 25, 12 PMCalifornia Countercultures: Beat Notes: From the Rat Bastards to the Mission School with Natasha Boas
Boas kicks off our spring Big Ideas lecture series with a look at the modernist avant-gardes that influenced the California counterculture of the sixties.
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Friday, January 20, 3 PMCodex: Embodied Language and the Form of the Book
An illustrated talk about the role of the book as a work of art in contemporary practice with Peter Rutledge Koch.