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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Censorship in the Arts:
A Trend or Just a Passing Fad
Panel Discussion

Saturday, February 26, 2:30pm


at the Performance Art Institute


Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
NADINE GORDIMER, 1990

Saturday, February 26, 2011, 2:30 p.m.
Performance Art Institute
575 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

A program of two sessions, two moderators and seven panelists.

The Performance Art Institute in partnership with the First Amendment Project is proud to present Censorship in the Arts: A Trend or Just a Passing Fad, a public forum. Please join our panelists in a discussion about the rise of censorship and the renewed threats to abolish funding to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).


The urgency to engage the public in a debate about censorship started in earnest with the controversy surrounding the removal of the video, A Fire in My Belly from the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. The interest in freedom of speech and expression has spread and intensified beyond our shores in the wake of WikiLeaks, the house arrest and studio demolition of the Ai Wei Wei, and the spread of revolutionary fever sweeping the Middle East.


The forum sponsored by PAI and FAP is designed to delve into these concerns, inform the public about the recent censoring activities and address the threats that call for the termination of the NEA. Late January, 165 conservative members of Congress representing the Republican Study Committee called for termination of the NEA. When a similar battle was fought, the NEA's budget was cut by 39% and led to the end of awarding grants to individual artists.


The moderators will steer the debates in their respective sessions towards an exploration of issues that stem from the Smithsonian caving in to political pressure and discuss questions such as "What is the underlying objection to A Fire in my Belly? "Are we on the verge of seeing the comeback of culture wars in this country? Are museums appropriate forums for engaging in civic debates? Do curators and artists have an obligation to test the limits of fundamental civil liberties? What effects does self-censorship have on museum integrity? Is self-censorship ever justified? How resilient is the First Amendment? How did the First Amendment fare in the past? What encouragement do we draw from past landmark cases involving the First Amendment (Ulysses, Tropic of Cancer, Howl and more)? How real are the threats of eliminating the NEA, NEH, and PBS? What lessons can we draw from the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy and the uproar over NEA funding in 1989? And what about censorship in China? Why should we be concerned?


These are serious questions and disturbing trends that have a chilling effect throughout the art community in the Bay Area and beyond and; thus, require our engagement. This event is free and open to the public.

The slate of the two panels includes:

Ray Beldner, conceptual artist


Allan deSouza, artist and Associate Professor, Chair of New Genres at San Francisco Art Institute, who co-created an installation with Yong Song Min for the 2008 Guangzhou Triennale, which was subsequently censored by the museum with no explanation given.


Kenneth Foster, Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts


David Greene, Executive Director of the First Amendment Project and professor of constitutional law at University of San Francisco


Art Hazelwood, artist, impresario and instigator, who integrates his art practice with curating and political activism


Justin Hoover, Curator and Gallery Director, SOMArts Cultural Center


Dr. Paul Karlstrom, former director of the American Archives of the Smithsonian on the West Coast and art historian


Jeff Kelley, Moderator of Session Two is the former curator of contemporary art of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.


Laura Sydell, NPR correspondent who reports frequently on currents events in China


Jan Wurm, Moderator of Session One is a practicing artist and art educator


Participating and sponsoring organizations are:
Arc Gallery and Studios
California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA) is the sponsoring organization of the traveling show, Banned and Recovered: Artists Intervention
Di Rosa, Napa, CA
Intersection for the Arts
SOMArts Cultural Center
The First Amendment Project
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts


Contact Information for this event:

Hanna Regev (Tel: 415-566-7515)

Heather Smith (Tel: 415-501-0575

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Symposium VIII: "Art Inside Out"


This symposium is the 8th in the annual series presented by the UC Berkeley Art Alumni Group: conversations with artists, gallerists, curators, and writers about surviving in today’s art world with improvisations, adaptations, and possibilities. This year’s symposium will be held in 102 Wurster on the UC Berkeley campus.
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UC Berkeley Alumni Shows (June-October 2010)

Thomas Akawie and Dean Smith

UC Berkeley graduates showing work in a group exhibition called Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space at the Wiegand Gallery in Belmont, CA. The show extends from September 23 to October 30.


Eve Aschheim

Exhibited at the Galleri Magnus Aklundh in Malmo, Sweden. April 23 - May 29. Eve teaches in the Creative and Performing Art Center at Princeton.



Christopher Brown

Former UC Berkeley faculty member exhibiting solo show A Gardener’s Notebook at the John Berggruen Gallery from September 9 to October 30.


Wayne Campbell

Earned MFA at UC Berkeley in 1969. The artist has a show entitled Dreaming on Pillow Mountain from September 15 to October 29 at the Galeria Esther Montoriol in Barcelona. Campbell currently divides his time between New York and Barcelona.


Victor Cohen-Stuart

Earned MFA in 1972. The artist is showing new paintings at Slate Contemporary Art and Design Gallery in Oakland from September 3 to October 16.


Edythe Bresnahan

Exhibited work in Perspectives 2010, at the Stremmel Gallery in Reno, Nevada and at the Triangle Gallery in San Francisco


Donna Brookman

Had a solo exhibition at Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles opening on June 5, 2010 thru July 3, 2010


Carol Ladewig

Has work in On View: New Work from Kala, continuously features works on paper by artists affiliated with Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA and at Bocanova, in Jack London Square, Oakland, CA.


Charles Lindar

Received MFA in 1997. The artist released his book Good Cop/Bad Cop and held a show of photographs with the same name in July at the Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco. His gallery, LINCART, participated in new San Francisco Art Fair, at Fort Mason, May 20 thru May 23.


Marvin Lipovsky

Former Faculty has work in Gifted Hands: The Fine Art of Craft at The Hearst Art Gallery, the Museum of Saint Mary’s College of California


Shirin Neshat

Directed a film, "Women Without Men". She co-wrote the screenplay with her husband. "This visually transfixing film, which originated as a video installation, has the feel of an exhibition of Ms. Neshat's work whose figures have stirred to life to play out a tragic feminist allegory."


Carla Paganelli

Alumna of 1996, Paganelli is showing works in a show titled Survey, held at the Edward Jones Office of Larry Kolka & Kevin Hills in Walnut Creek beginning October 21.


Brett Reichman

Former chair of and associate professor in the Painting department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Earned BFA at Carnegie Mellon University and MFA from UC Berkeley. Reichman had a solo show entitled Simulations at the Paule Anglim Gallery in San Francisco in September 2010.


Katherine Sherwood

Senior member of the Art Practice Department. Showed a new body of work, Healers from the Yelling Clinic, at the Paule Anglim Gallery from September 1 to September 25.


Mark Thompson

Was one of 14 sculptors and architects included in the First Site-based Art Exhibition Conceived for a National Park, which opened yesterday at the Presidio in SF. It will run until May 15, 2011.


Jo Whaley

Exhibited her work at the Photo-Eye booth at Art Chicago 2010.


Norton Wisdom

One of the twenty artists who meet for conversation once a week at the Café Van Kleef in Oakland. The City College Art Gallery in San Francisco will be showing their work from September 29 the October 28.


John Zurier

Has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.



Ceramics Annual of America

Held at Fort Mason from September 10-12 featured a monumental wall sculpture that Harold Paris (former professor) had made shortly after arriving at Cal in 1961. Other UC artists whose work was shown were Marilyn Levine (former professor, 1976-80), Jim Melchert (professor emeritus), Nancy Selvin (B.A. and M.A. in ceramics), Richard Shaw (current professor), Patrick Siler (M.F.A 1963), and Peter Voulkos (former professor, 1959-85 and founder of the art ceramics department).

Friday, October 1, 2010

Oral History Project video!


Sonya Rapoport and Fred Martin interviewed for posterity!  You could learn a lot from these amazing artists. check it out.



UC Berkeley Oral History Project video featuring Sonya Rapoport and Fred Martin, interviewed by Richard Candida Smith. Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library of UC Berkeley. 
© Copyright 2010 UC Regents

Monday, July 5, 2010

Digital Mudra Extended

You really have to check out Sonya Rapoport's blog. Her latest this is just so right on.  This piece investigates the relationships between the expressive hand gestures employed by public and political personalities, and those of Indian Kathakali dancers.

Here is an example:





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Keep in touch! what are you doing?

Monday, March 22, 2010

Website Updates!

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Friday, January 8, 2010

Alumni News 2009 Roundup!

Some news from our talented alumni near and far:

Barbara Rogers "Traces 7" oil on canvas 36" x 48"

Barbara Rogers' show "Garden Archeology" was at Gerbert Gallery in June (see photo above) Robin (Fales) Repp BA '70 showed at the Huntington Beach Art Center last April, and had a one person exhibition of infrared photography at JWA Community Focus Gallery. Dennis Potter wrote us from Hsinchu, Taiwan where he is teaching high school and no doubt steering his students toward art.
“Uncertain Riches”, the gorgeous solo exhibition by Stephanie Peek MFA ‘96 showed at Triangle Gallery through October. Pat Adams exhibited her work at Bigtown Gallery in Vermont, alongside colleagues and friends in the "Masterworks" show.
Lynne Rutter re-launched her website in July, after several years of not doing it. Bill Dane has just enlarged his website, with lots of new work posted via Flickr.
And check out the awesome new website of Peter C. Roell BA 1969, MA 1971.
Andie Thrams still doesn't have a website, but you really should sign up for her email list so you can learn about her workshops, such as the upcoming Surface Design & Accordion Books class at San Francisco Center for the Book. Sandy Eastoak also has a great newsletter "Fish Rap" and you can sign up for it on her website.
Barbara Morris had several showings in the Marin area in 2009, and more are coming up! Check her website for the latest!



Nemo Gould created more kinetic sculpture and just plain fun at the 2009 Maker Faire. See a preview of his new coffee table book at Blurb.com now available for purchase! (YouTube Video above is Nemo's "Aztech" sculpture. ) Elaine Duncan's book "Feathered Space" is now available at amazon.com

Kara Maria had a solo show in June called "Inviting the Storm" at b. sakata garo, Sacramento. Stephen Laub was chosen by Donald Sultan for a show at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton last Spring in a group show called "Mixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End."
Sonya Rapoport's recent artwork: "Manhood Manifesto" in the WikipediaArt Remix Project in the Padiglione Internet (Internet Pavilion) was included at the Venice Biennale through November 2009.
Michael McCollum has moved to Damariscotta, Maine, and recently produces a series of still-lifes called "I Vasi di Fiori." Pauletta Chanco is currently showing at the SFMoMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason. Visit Ciel Bergman at her new studio on Lena St in Santa Fe, NM.
Bill Teeple's gallery in Fairfield, Iowa has evolved into a non-profit called ICON:Iowa Contemprary Art. Mark Johnson curated a very cool exhibition in October at San Francisco State called "Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art"

Lorene Anderson: Belt(way) acrylic, mica, casein, ink on canvas, 34 x 40"

Lorene Anderson showed her recent work at the room for painting room for paper gallery in San Francisco in August.
We are still waiting for Emily Duffy to post a picture of her 1984 Nissan Sentra painted a la Mondrian on her website, but she's got a nice artblog here full of other interesting things. Patrick Siler recently completed a mural covering the entire side of a downtown building in Pullman, WA. Last May Dorothy Robinson opened a solo show at the Slate Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.


Facebook Members: look for Cal Art Alumni discussion group as well as UC Berkeley Art Practice Events group (sorry there is no permalink for these)

October's Symposium on photography was a rousing success with many alumni and students in attendance. Nancy Genn hosted a small gathering of alumni and emeritus faculty at her home on a beautiful clear evening in December.

and with that we wind up the year... and look forward to 2010, and hearing from you.

Have a show, event, or announcement to make, please contact us!



Sunday, July 19, 2009

7th Annual Symposium October 17, 2009

It’s All About the Image
7th Annual Art Alumni Symposium, October 17, 2009


Don Worth, “Self-Portrait, Mount Tamalpais”, 1969


Saturday, October 17, 9am to 4pm

160 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley
The symposium is free and open to the public.

Lunch will be available: $10.00 in Garron Reading Room

The seventh annual U.C. Art Alumni Symposium “It’s All About the Image” will explore the changing nature and use of photographic images from the sixties to now. Discussions will range from the groups f64 and Visual Dialogue Foundation to the current digital world and the use of photographic images across media.
Participants include: Lauren Davies, Robert Hartman, Taro Hattori, George Lawson, Darwin Marable, Gay Outlaw, John Spence Weir, Hertha D Sweet Wong, and Katherine Westerhout.

Your 2009 Symposium Committee: Carol Ladewig, Chair; Edythe Bresnahan; Marion Gray; Raymond Holbert; and Darwin Marable

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Jo Whaley at MoPA

Jo Whaley MFA '80 has a show on at Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
her solo exhibit is entitled The Theater of Insects and runs May 16 to September 27, 2009.
Those in Northern California can check out the show at the Sonoma County Museum
this fall-
October 2009-January 2010

Her lovely book,
The Theater of Insects, is now published by Chronicle Books with photographs by Jo Whaley, essays by Debra Klotchko and Linda Wiener.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Congratulations to the Class of 2009!

The Art Alumni Welcome our newest alumni artists! Congratulations!
If this looks like a lot of people- it IS! this is one of the largest classes in the department's history.



Bachelor Degrees:
Amber Alexander, Jonothan Felipe Araquistain, Panthea Barheri, Stephanie Lane Barringer, Cheryl Susanne Bently, Paul Matthew Braun, Nicole Marie Brown, Lauren Olivia Burke, Deanna Bustamante, Emmalee Ann Carroll, Kin-Hoi Chan, Lucilla Chan, Winnie Shih-Wen Chao, Crystal Chen, Grace Chow, Nichola Frank Cienfuegos (Phi Beta Kappa ), Georgia Neill Clark, Nhung Thi Dao, Shanna Lanajo Darett, Ashley Lauren Davidson, Andrea Lynn Delany, Meredeth Nicole DuVardo, Tania Erdmann, Vincent Espinoza, Mani Farr, Elizabeth Anne Fenwick, Zachary Fleming-Boyles, Emily Salzman Frost, Alysse Nicole Gallo, Obadiah Nehemiah Hampton, Kristin Dennise Harris, Hectoe Omar Hernandez, Thatcher Barwick Hillegas, Kyoko Hirota (Phi Beta Kappa ), Shannon Leigh Holloway, Jonothan Martin Hubbard, Nathan Huebert, Clare Estelle Hutchinson, Daien Johanson, Marguerite Kalhor, Mickey Kay, Katherine Kazlauskas, Patch Kientz, Sarah Jin Kim, Harumi Klaiber, Angela Raelene Knowles, Ping Kuang, Zachary Laher, Brittany Jean Law, Agnes Hyen-Jeong Lee, Jiayi Liang, Jeannie Lin, Shou June Lin, Nicholas Locicero, Brendean Kelly Luce, Elaine Ly, Sinead Madden, Katherine Madrigal, Jon Rico Marcelli, Jason Mark, Robert Vincent McClusky, Scott McInnis, Nahae Moon, Tina Maria Moreno, Stephanie Asika Moir, Dominic Hoang Nguyen (Phi Beta Kappa ), Veronica Lynn Nisperos, Krystal Chinyere Nzoiwu, Jae Lauren Payne, Heather Nicole Pedroza, John Lloyd Pinches, Rosa Maria Poggesi, Hillary Pollack, Ellen Price, Christine Rasmussen, Aileen Buko-Paz Ritchie, Melodee Selise Robinson, Angelica Abigail Rodriguez, Morgan Rubin, Jon Richard Running, Lillian Bella Sabersky, Elisa Linda Saether (Phi Beta Kappa), Toshiko Chun Yee Shek, Richard Maxfield Segnitz (Phi Beta Kappa), Maya Swanson, Sunaina Hussainali Talbani, Caitlin Marie Thompson, Zachary Andrew Tomaszewski (Phi Beta Kappa), Leann Elizabeth Toomey, Elzabeth Tracey, Justine Louise Travers, Galen Jude Travis, Lila Tretikov, Minisha Trivedi, Carolyn Joy Tuchel, Cesar Valdez, Jasmine Vasquez, Stephanie Michele Villegas, Niles Edward Ward, Megan Allred Weirich, David Fisk Whitaker, Stacy Wilkinson, Evelyn May Williamson, Libby Winsor, Lisa Robin Wong, Joni Michiko Yamashiro, Mani Yahyavi, Jing Jenny Zhang, Cassandra Lynn Zwart.

MFA Graduates:
Ginger Wolfe-Suarez , Sara Bright awarded Calder Hayer/Tevis Jacobs/BAM Council Founders Prize, Laura Greig recipient of the J. Ruth Kelsey traveling merit award, Farley Gwazda , Aaron Maietta-deHaven awarded the Headlands Center for the Arts- One Year Residency for 2009-10, Lydia Greer recipient of the Harry Ford Lord Award.

A Departmental Citation was awarded to Angela Knowles, the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Award was given to Dominic Nguyen, the Wendy Sussman Prize in Painting was awarded to Brittany Law, and David Whitaker was the recipient of this year's Art Alumni Award for the Leadership in the Art Community.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Sonya Rapoport: "(in)AUTHENTIC : War, Woman, Jew"

Sonya Rapoport will be exhibiting her net artwork "(in)AUTHENTIC : War, Woman, Jew" at the University of Wisconsin's upcoming Conney Conference, "Performing Histories, Inscribing Jewishness" to be held April 22-24, 2009.

A brief synopsis of the project from an interview with Sonya Rapoport:

It was probably in 1999 that I was introduced to French feminist Luce Irigaray's critical writings. They inspired me to consider the female as a displaced person. My previous art projects had come from the perspective of masculine emulation of feminine attributes.

For my new adventure I copied excerpts of Irigaray's criticism of the Freudian castration dogma, a psychoanalytic theory that presumes the female to be an aborted male. I then contrived a dialogic exchange between Irigaray and Freud by transferring the Freudian quotations that Irigaray had used in her chapters and gave Freud back his own voice, free from Irigaray's sentences .The text had been extracted from Luce Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman. During the same time period I was reading Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew. I roguishly threw him into the contentious pool as the third author to participate in the discussion. Other than both books having French origin, they are very different.

About eight years later, I returned to the work to incorporate the material into a more complex net artwork. On the worktable before me lay a collage of printed text that was comprised of ten sets of a terse interchange among the three authors.

I had tried to keep the original sentences intact with minimal editing while at the same time I was selecting passages for their logical associations between woman and Jew. I had intuitively extracted a common denominator of displacement/outsider. A year or so later, after I had accrued an array of images that related to the concept of (in)AUTHENTIC, electronic artist Robert Edgar and I collaborated to create an interactive website that builds itself while you watch it. Thus it was fashioned into one of Edgar's Memory Theatres. Memory Theatres were first formulated in the sixteenth century by Giulio Camillo as a way to sense the structure of the cosmos through painting, text, and architecture. Robert Edgar composed the first implementation of a memory theatre on a computer in the mid-1980s on an Apple //. We selected and categorized images, texts and vocalizations, and loaded them into the engine of the memory theatre. The text is read in English by German and French natives.

Freud's view of the female as a masochistic castrated male triggered in me a recognition of the association of gender displacement and the "in-authentic woman." Jean-Paul Sartre's "in-authentic Jew" in his book Anti-Semite and Jew, claims that the in-authentic Jew's self-hatred stems from anti-Semitism and circularly, the in-authentic Jew is a rationale for anti-Semitism.

Robert Edgar and I introduced into the web piece an animated military tank for navigating through the contentious material landscape. The tank robot evolves as a physical and psychological intermediary. The aggressive intent of the piece and the phallic symbol of the tank play the gender counterpart to the female. It seemed appropriate to use the tanks' functions as thematic headings for each of the ten sets of topical discourse.

The concept of theatre on the website (in) AUTHENTIC takes on two meanings: in one sense it is a theatre of memory; in another sense it is a theatre of war. Within these coextensive theatres, the army tank moves between what is authentic and what is inauthentic as found in the aggressive environments of Sonya Rapoport's personal cosmology of gender, race, science, and mythology. The ten given fields of tank function, and their representations are presented under the headings Shift, Hidden, (Un)seen, Masochism, Impenetrability, Duality, Phallic, Gouge, Despoil, and Cover- words culled from excerpts of the disparate texts by Freud, Irigaray, and Sartre. These categories are further linked with associated images of outsiders, outcasts, and plights of women from Guinea, Iraq, India, Darfur, Bosnia, and the United States. Nigerian hairstyle codes, Jungian symbology, and mitochondrial mitigations further enhance visual and symbolic associations.

Expanding upon the theme's message the Nigerian hair-styles are imposed on the women's portraits. Because the mitochondrion is inherited exclusively through the female it represents the scientific aspect to the work. Alchemical imagery is interwoven conceptually and visually with mitochondrial processes.

(The exhibition will present a video of the unfolding net artwork).

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

2009 Juried Photography shows

Louis De Luco "Store Fronts"

Louis DeLuco
BA '74, has been selected for the a great number of juried photography exhibits this year:

Annual Bay Area Juried Exhibition Falkirk Cultural Center. Exhibition Dates: March 27 - May 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, March 27, 5:30 -7:30 pm . Address: 1408 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, CA.

36th National Juried Photography Exhibition Larson Gallery, Yakima Community College, Yakima, WA. April 3 - May 2, 2009.

Mind's Eye The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. May 29 - June 20, 2009.
See the selected works here: Mind's Eye

The Halpert Biennial '09, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone NC,
May 1 - August 29, 2009.




as well as the recent:

Depth of Perception, 4th National Juried Photography Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, Jan 31 - Mar 1, 2009
Juror: Linda Connor, San Francisco Art Institute


Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland Juried Annual 2009
Selections by Ali Subotnick, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
February 17 - March 22
selected artists:
Stephen Albair, Peter Andrea, Alexis Babayan, Jenny E. Balisle, Robert
Blackburn, Louis DeLuco, Pamela Merory Dernham, Adam Friedman, Richard
Gilles, Julia Goodman, Ira Hawkins, John Hundt, Harley Jensen, Bill
Lo, Seth Lower, Mary Alison Lucas, Katie McCann, Jill McLennan, Emily
McLeod, Glenna Mills, Kate Moore, Mary Mortimer, Laura Sackett, Sanjit
Sethi, Amy Todd, Susan Tuttle, Holly Wach, Jan Watten, Susan Wolf.

Friday, February 13, 2009

"Translation" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Translation
by Molly Springfield
February 13 - March 21, 2009

Steven Wolf Fine Arts
49 Geary Street, # 411
San Francisco
(415) 263-3677

On February 13, Molly Springfield will debut her own "translation," entirely in the form of drawings, of the first chapter of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, pieced together from every English translation of the novel.

Opening: Friday, February 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Saturday, February 14, 2:00 to 3:30 pm


The project consists of 28 individual drawings of photocopies of sequential pages from the first chapter of the book. This patchwork results in the repetition and omission of text from page to page, resolving into an incomplete and not-fully-readable rendition of the original.

On February 14, join the artist, Joshua Landy (professor of French and co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford University) and Kriston Capps (critic and reporter for the Guardian, Art Papers, and Art in America, among other publications), for a panel discussion.

more at Moly Sringfield's website