Untitled (balloons)/Tom Loughlin

Every spring art schools around the Bay have final shows to highlight the work of the year’s graduating Masters of Fine Arts (in visual arts). If you live here, you know there are a LOT of Masters and a lot of art projects. In San Francisco alone there are shows for the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University, not to mention Mills across the Bay in Oakland and don’t forget Stanford and Berkeley.

This means a lot of work, a lot of artist statements and a whole lot of nervous grads entering a pretty competitive job market. KQED Pop had the chance to head to the Old Mint where SFAI’s final show, Currency, is being held from May 15 to 19. While the grads installed their work, we walked around and talked to some of them about why they make art and why we should care. Spoiler: we were impressed and we are hard to impress. Watch the video below and regain a bit of hope for the future of art in America.

See the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1yGAJXw1myE

Come and watch my latest video and many more at The Contemporary Jewish Museum.

Friday the 17th 1-5pm.

In conjunction with the Contemporary Jewish Museum, SFAI presents a screening of works by graduating Master of Fine Arts students who excel in the moving image field. Steeped in an avant-garde tradition, SFAI’s MFA program encourages conceptual experimentation and fosters an independent spirit in both thinking and making. Across works in film, video, and performance documentation, the featured artists open our eyes to new modes of understanding from within the temporal-visual plane.

Join us as we introduce a new generation of moving image artists to the Bay Area! This event is FREE and open to the public.

Featured artists:
Zach R. Alspaugh
Pabi Chulo
Amber Crabbe
U. V. Dogan
Catherine Lynn Eller
Heejin Jang
Cheng Jiang
Li Le
Xing Liu (King)
Qi Luo
Tony Maridakis
Andréanne Michon
Ouater Sand
Javid Soriano
Jill Taffet
Miao Tian
Lindsay Tully

See the complete program at: http://www.sfai.edu/event/currency-moving-image

Come to my MFA exhibition:

Opening reception: Friday, May 17, 7–9 pm
Exhibition hours: 11 am–6 pm daily
Free & Open to the Public

Learn more: www.sfai.edu/Currency

The San Francisco Art Institute is proud to present CURRENCY, a showcase of provocative new work from nearly 100 emerging artists.

At a time in our society when many are reflecting upon national economic conditions, this exhibition at The Old Mint offers a unique opportunity for SFAI’s artists to juxtapose contemporary expression with a stunning National Historic Landmark that was central to the country’s economic development.

SFAI’s 2013 MFA graduates—working in painting, photography, printmaking, film, sculpture, installation, digital media, performance, and across media—will present work that embraces the Institute’s signature spirit of experimentation and conceptual risk-taking. The result of an intense period of collaboration, critical engagement, and artistic development, the work reflects both current dialogues in contemporary art and strong individual points of view. In addition, many artists have created site-specific pieces that respond to the history, character, and physical spaces of The Old Mint.

SFAI has been at the vanguard of contemporary art for more than 140 years. CURRENCY invites curators, collectors, critics, family, friends, and the general public to discover the next generation of pioneering artists from this celebrated institution.

Just before the opening at San Luis Obispo Art Museum.

I was so lucky to be selected for a show at San Luis Obispo Art Museum. At the opening the 5th of April the curator and jury member Steven Biller announced the 5 best pieces of the show. Me and  ”Money or Nothing” was so lucky to win the first prize and $500

The show will run untill the 21th of May.

“Body Rhetoric” is an exhibition dealing with the philosophical issues of the human form and the affect of the human body as a vehicle for narrative in the 21st century. Artists Lynn Colingham, Pabi and Chason Huggins explore and expose issues of bodily function, human anatomy, social and physical gestures, as well as constituents of morality, sexuality and pleasure through painting, video and performance. Both humorous and anxious, the works evoke a projection of personal interests, desires, investments and phobias from the viewer.

Show Opening: Tuesday, March 5th at 5pm
At The Diego Rivera Gallery
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA

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Eleven artists present work created in response to a recent trip to Havana, Cuba.

Shift your perspective. Come see fascinating interpretations of time spent in a country rich with history and culture, yet largely unknown to the American audience.

Opening reception: March 1st, 7pm
Additional gallery hours: Saturdays, March 1-31st, 12-3pm

Artists:
Sheeka Arbuthnot
Madeline Brown
Pabi Chulo
Elizabeth Cunningham
Marcella Davis
Tina Dillman
Laura Kim
Celia Lara
Milos Maiorana
Yasu Sakamoto
Cat U-Thasoonthorn

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Root Division presents the MFA Now 2013 Slide Slam, featuring presentations by 12 current MFA candidates in seven Bay Area programs.

MFA Now began in 2012 in efforts to create dialogue and community between the Bay Area schools that are listed in a US News and World Report survey from 2012, as part of the top one hundred MFA Programs in Visual Arts in the country: California College of the Arts, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. This year’s presentation includes a comprehensive archive catalogue, juried exhibition, and slide slam.

The Slide Slam offers another opportunity for professional development in which emerging artists gain exposure and meet and interact with audiences. It also allows for the community to gain further insight into the work of up and coming local artists.

SLIDE SLAM PRESENTING ARTISTS:

Brittney Cathey-Adams
Pabi Chulo
Arash Fayez
Helga Hizer
Xiaotong Jiang
Amelia Konow
Carmen Lang
Keegan Lutrell
Em Meine
Cate Nelson
Aimee Santos
Sieglinde Van Damme

Interview for the magazine Contemporary and Modern Art;

-a conversation between Pabi Chulo and curator Sheeka Arbuthnot.

Happy New Year!

http://contemporaryandmodernart.blogspot.dk/2012/12/science-skin-and-dna-pabi-chulo-in.html

- 1. december 2012 kl. 11.00