Untitled (San Francisco)

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In her masterpiece 8 Possible Beginnings or The Creation of African-America , Walker unravels just that, the story of struggle, oppression, escape and the complexities of power dynamics in the history following slave trade in America...

In 1940 Rivera came to San Francisco for what would be his last mural project in the city, Pan-American Unity ...

Untitled is a work on paper by Martin Kippenberger comprised of several seemingly disparate elements: cut-out images of a group of dancers, a japanese ceramic vase, and a pair of legs, are all combined with gestural, hand-drawn traces and additional elements such as a candy wrapper from a hotel in Monte Carlo and a statistical form from a federal government office in Wiesbaden, Germany...

Glenn Ligon’s diptych, Condition Repor t is comprised of two side-by-side prints...

South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race....

Bruce Conner is best known for his experimental films, but throughout his career he also worked with pen, ink, and paper to create drawings ranging from psychedelic patterns to repetitious inkblot compositions...

Malani draws upon her personal experience of the violent legacy of colonialism and de-colonization in India in this personal narrative that was shown as a colossal six channel video installation at dOCUMENTA (13), but is here adapted to single channel...

Glenn Ligon’s diptych, Condition Repor t is comprised of two side-by-side prints...

South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race....

Bowers’ Radical Hospitality (2015) is a sculptural contradiction: its red and blue neon letters proclaim the words of the title, signaling openness and generosity, while the barbed wires that encircle the words give another message entirely...

New Town Ghost (2005) is one of Lim’s trio of large-scale video installations...

Through her support of the movement’s founder, George Maciunas, collector Jean Brown came to be known as the “den mother of Fluxus.”...

Cinematic Harvests film screening Date: Thursday, August 25 at 6 pm (with food served before the screening at 6:30 pm) Location: 41 Ross, 41 Ross Alley, San Francisco, CA 94108 Free admission Join artist and filmmaker Connie Zheng (b...

A painting reminiscent of a certain “naive primitivism,” Untitled (the way in is the way out) is representative of McCarthy’s work...

Selected Scripture is a series of silkscreen prints that Hong Hao has been working on since the 1980s...

Catherine Opie’s candid photograph Cathy (bed Self-portrait) (1987) shows the artist atop a bed wearing a negligee and a dildo; the latter is attached to a whip that she holds in her teeth...

To make his series Shadows (1980), Gaines subjected 20 potted plants to a uniform procedure...

In this work, a woman sits on a couch with her shirt pulled up to expose her pierced nipples, which are connected by a chain...

In No Title (Blue Chapel) Therrien has reduced the image of a chapel to a polygon...

Towhead n’Ganga, enclosed in darkness, lorded over by the sexualized folded high priestless form reflects many of Kelley’s works, in both its compositional and semantic qualities...

Over the month of March, Bay Area artist Alicia McCarthy has been weaving a wall painting in Kadist’s office space...

Jeamin Cha joins KADIST San Francisco for a four-month residency to expand on her research on contemporary forms of depression and its societal causes...

For the final event in our three part Summer music series, we’ve invited DJ Young Neil (artist Tim Lee) to San Francisco to set up a whiskey bar and DJ a three-hour set of Rap music to both celebrate our season, and to thank all our friends and neighbors who have helped make it possible...

Lin Yilin: A Golden Journey presents the artist Lin Yilin’s interactions with the city of San Francisco and the local arts community during his residency at Kadist Art Foundation...