Views and Voices

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This new audio series is designed to bring you closer to individual people behind BAMPFA and individual works from our art and film collections.

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Fred Wilson: Wanderer, 2003; painted wood and printed paper; 54 1/2 x 15 1/4 x 22 3/4 in.; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; purchase made possible by the Acquisitions Committee Fund, General Acquisitions Fund, and Norma H. Schlesinger, Andrew and Paul Spiegel Fund. 2004.7.

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Views and Voices: Constance Lewallen on Paul Kos’s Equilibre II

BAMPFA Adjunct Curator Constance Lewallen considers a favorite work by Bay Area artist Paul Kos, the sculptural balancing act Equilibre II.
Views and Voices: Sandra Phillips on Lee Friedlander’s New Mexico

BAMPFA Adjunct Senior Curator for Photography Sandra Phillips closely observes Lee Friedlander’s photograph New Mexico (2000), whose stunning composition she sees as “miraculously conceived in the moment,” finding levels of meaning in the evocatively empty street scene.
Views and Voices: Lucia Momoh on a Portrait of Sojourner Truth

BAMPFA Curatorial Assistant Lucia Olubunmi Momoh discusses a carte de visite of American civil rights icon Sojourner Truth.
Views and Voices: Delphine Sims on James Oliver Mitchell’s Portrait of Diane di Prima

Delphine Sims, a PhD candidate in UC Berkeley’s History of Art Department, reflects on local photographer James Oliver Mitchell’s multivalent portrait of Beat-era poet Diane di Prima.
Views and Voices: Saffron Sener on Hans Hofmann’s And out of the Caves . . .

BAMPFA Student Committee Co-chair Saffron Sener looks at Hans Hofmann’s painting And out of the Caves the Night Threw a Handful of Pale Tumbling Pigeons in the Light through the lens of its title, a line from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus.
Views and Voices: Ramón de Santiago on Ecce Homo (Behold the Man)

Ramón de Santiago, a PhD candidate in UC Berkeley's Department of History of Art, leads us through scenes depicted in BAMPFA's magnificent fifteenth-century Flemish tapestry, Ecce Homo.
Views and Voices: Claire Frost on Eva Hesse’s Test Pieces

BAMPFA Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost discusses one of Eva Hesse’s intriguing Test Pieces in this recorded talk.
Views and Voices: Claire Ittner on Romare Bearden

Claire Ittner, a doctoral candidate in UC Berkeley's History of Art Department, explores Romare Bearden's collage Berkeley: A City and Its People.
Views and Voices: Rachael Dickson on Hyun-Sook Song’s Four Brushtrokes Over Figure

BAMPFA Associate Director of Administration Rachael Dickson shares her responses to the painting Four Brushtrokes Over Figure by Hyun-Sook Song.
Views and Voices: Jamie Danis on Fred Wilson’s Wanderer

Recent UC Berkeley graduate Jamie Danis offers timely insights into Fred Wilson’s powerful and provocative artwork titled Wanderer (2003).
Views and Voices: Lynne Kimura on the Bodhisattva Manjusri

BAMPFA Collections Engagement Associate and Academic Liaison Lynne Kimura discusses a Chinese painting of the Bodhisattva Manjusri.
Views and Voices: Sherry Goodman on Ad Reinhardt’s Abstract Painting

BAMPFA Director of Education and Academic Relations Sherry Goodman discusses Ad Reinhardt's all-black painting.

Views and Voices

Personal Perspectives on the Collection

Ongoing

At a time of distance, this new audio series is designed to bring you closer to the individual people behind BAMPFA and individual works from our art and film collections. We’ve invited staff and students with ties to BAMPFA to select a favorite piece and talk about what makes it compelling or important to them. Our curators, educators, projectionists, publicist, and others will offer perspectives that vary according to their professional roles and personal affinities. We hope these individual commentaries will eventually add up to a collection of their own.

Views and Voices

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