Artist lecture with Roger Ballen
Join us on Wednesday, April 12, in the Stauffacher Theatre on the SFCC campus for an artist lecture with Roger Ballen. This event is free and open to the public.
Join us on Wednesday, April 12, in the Stauffacher Theatre on the SFCC campus for an artist lecture with Roger Ballen. This event is free and open to the public.
Featuring recently acquired paintings, prints, fiber art, ceramics, and photography by artists who include Alexis Rockman, Peter Pincus, Misty Gamble, Peter Voulkos, and Tom Huck.
Sherry Leedy’s pastel drawings of domestic still lifes are reflections of her skilled handling of form, pattern, color, light, rhythm, and line. Loaded with personal meaning, the drawings also tell a visual story about the beauty and depth of life that abounds in the world around her.
In her installation titled collectively Leaving Alone, Anne Austin Pearce links five separate artworks through a blending of literature, ecology, and aesthetics. Pearce, who maintains a studio in Kansas City, is well regarded for her ink and acrylic paintings that feature layered, biomorphic forms and dazzling, saturated color. Her overlapping abstract shapes, resembling psychedelic amoebas, ...
Pearce’s installation titled “Leaving Alone” links five separate artworks through a blending of poetry, nature, and art. The exhibition introduces a large, free-form mural inspired by the myth of Icarcus. Other components are influenced by authors Margaret Atwood and Virginia Woolf. Each work or group of works probes a different branch of the overarching story, ...
Kara Walker creates challenging artwork that confronts the legacy of slavery in American culture. Since the late 1990s, she has been creating satirically subversive renditions of the pre-Civil-War South that challenge viewers to wrestle with lingering racial and gender stereotypes, caricatures, and myths. Walker is especially renowned for her large-scale, cut-paper silhouettes and narrative tableaus. ...