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-GRAVITY AND GRACE at Et al. Gallery, SF
June 7 - July 20, 2024-ARTIST TALK
Friday, June 28, 2024 | 6PMAn excerpt from the exhibition text written by my dear friend Eliza Swann..
“In Danielle’s hands, materials are swept up in waves, grated over sand and shell, and flung into a sea that blurs forms. Danielle de-creates dimensions, stripping both the work and the viewer from their assumed shape and function so that everything folds inward and blooms outward in one frame.
Simone Weil, the French philosopher and mystic whose writing gives Danielle’s show its title, posited the concept of "decreation," the act of evacuating the “self” to make space for the divine. Simone Weil's theory of “decreation” proposes that through acts of self-emptying, we can find liberation from the constraints of individualism and materialism, opening ourselves to the quantum array of possibilities within the unformed.”
LOCATION & HOURS
2831A Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Wednesday - Saturday, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. and by appointmentContact
Aaron Harbour, Co-founder and Co-director | aaron@etaletc.com
Jackie Im, Co-founder and Co-director | jackie@etaletc.com
p. 510.561.5302
*RECENT PAST*An exceptionally gifted educator, Hung Liu (1948-2021) was a vibrant and vital part of the artist community in the Bay Area and beyond. Just before her untimely death in 2021, Liu began conversations with MCAM to curate an exhibition showcasing the work of an amazing group of women artists that she taught and mentored during her tenure as a professor in the Mills College Art Department.
Look Up to the Sky, Hung Liu's Legacy of Mentoring Women Artists is the realization of that idea and features the work of Hung Liu alongside former students Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Nicole Fein, Danielle Lawrence, Monica Lundy, Nancy Mintz, Sandra Ono, Susan Preston, Mel Prest, Rachelle Reichert, Yoshiko Shimano, Gina Tuzzi, Lien Truong, and Bambi Waterman.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS-OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, January 20, 2024 | 4:00-6:00 PM-2024 JANE GREEN ENDOWED LECTURE IN ART HISTORY
Saturday, February 24, 2024 | 3:00-5:00 PMBefore the conversation, join MCAM Director Stephanie Hanor at 2:00pm for a curator-led tour of the exhibition.
In conjunction with the special exhibition Look Up to the Sky, Hung Liu’s Legacy of Mentoring Women Artists, this year's Jane Green Endowed Lecture in Art History features a conversation with three artists mentored by Hung Liu (1948-2021), acclaimed Chinese American artist and beloved professor of art at Mills College. Dorothy Moss, founding director of the Hung Liu Estate, will moderate the conversation among artists Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, and Mel Prest, former students of Hung Liu and alumnae of the Mills College MFA Program in Studio Art.
Reception immediately to follow at the Reinhardt Alumnae House.
-CURATOR-LED TOUR
Saturday, March 23, 2024 | 3:00-4:00 PM
Join MCAM Director Stephanie Hanor for a curator-led tour of Look Up to the Sky.
-Feminist Art History Conference at American University, Washington, DCMy work will be presented alongside research about Hung Liu as a part of a panel on 'Mentorship: Leading by Example' by Liz Kim, Ph.D. Lecturer, Art History at Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Feminist Art History Conference
American University, Washington, DC
September 29 – October 1, 2023
'Mentorship: Leading by Example' is presented in Session 6 - 2–2:50pm
Information and tickets: www.american.edu/cas/art-history/fahc/
-MILLS COLLEGE ART MUSEUM has acquired Uh Huh Her for their permanent collection."Lawrence's work, Uh Huh Her, is an homage to musician PJ Harvey and the power of the female voice." -Dr. Stephanie Hanor
