The Art Openings, Shows, & Festivals In SF
By Tiffany Yau
Come to your Census: Who Counts in America?
https://ybca.org/event/come-to-your-census-who-counts-in-america/
YBCA
March 27 – July 31
In the next four months, the 2020 Census will be open and the results will determine the allocation of federal funding and political representation for the next decade of our community—from affordable housing and transportation to education and arts funding. This exhibition Come to Your Census: Who Counts in America? is a free art and civic experience that examines the issues around the 2020 Census and its direct impact on each individual living in America. With artworks and activations by over twenty-five Bay Area artists, the work investigates identity, public life, and belonging to educate and inspire the Bay Area’s diverse communities about what’s at stake in this critical population count.
Play by Robert Xavier Burden
https://heronarts.com/exhibition/play
Heron Arts
Opening Saturday, February 29 – April 26, 2020
Best known for his giant paintings of Star Wars and Batman figures, SF-based artist Robert Burden introduces a new series of wildlife paintings. Burden’s work indulges a childhood fixation on animals with super-human characteristics found in films and TV, and serves as a reflection on the plastic culture that is killing them, taking into question our toxic relationship with nature. Learn more about the artist and his work here.
Incline Gallery x an.ä.log Gallery
https://inclinegallerysf.com/upcoming-shows-2/
Friday, March 13th, 2020
an.ä.log Gallery @24th @analog.gallery.sf
Join us in celebrating 9 years of Incline Gallery! Featuring artists in the OG SF community to showcase in this Anniversary Group Show, the Valencia Street-based gallery goes off site to celebrate the decade. Check out this show at an.ä.log Gallery to continue to support Incline to thrive as one of the few alternative art spaces left in San Francisco.
Light Field
https://www.thelab.org/projects/2020/3/13/light-field
The Lab
Fri, Mar 13 – Sun, Mar 15, 2020
Don’t miss this three-day festival bringing an international exhibition of artists experimenting with moving image on film. This film festival highlights work by local and international filmmakers, showcasing the best of experimental film. The festival is curated by an artist-led collective Samuel Breslin, Emily Chao, Zachary Epcar, Trisha Low, tooth, Syd Staiti, and Patricia Ledesma Villon.
ArtSpan Benefit Art Auction
Saturday, March 21
https://artspan.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/ArtSpanBenefitArtAuction2020/BuyTickets/tabid/1116442/Default.aspx
Support SF’s creative community while building out your art collection! This event will help support ArtSpan’s city-wide programming and close in on the final $500,000 needed to open our new home: the ArtSpan Onondaga Art Center. Our creative hub will serve artists and residents for years to come with art studios, a meeting space, a resource center, classrooms, and a gallery. Grab a drink, bid on art, and build support for SF’s art community.
Algorithmic Art Assembly
March 27 – 29
https://grayarea.org/event/algorithmic-art-assembly-2020/
While algorithms run everything from our feeds to music recommendations, artists are subverting them to create art and music. Algorithmic Art Assembly is a two day art and music festival, showcasing a diverse range of artists using algorithmic tools and processes in their work. Don’t miss live performances by Richard Devine, Myriam Bleau, and LA-based band YACHT, and Holly Herndon the week following, bringing together artists to create experimental sound.
Dawoud Bey
An American Project
February 15–May 25, 2020
https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/dawoud-bey-an-american-project/
Since the beginning of his career, Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953) has used his camera to depict communities and histories that have largely remained underrepresented or even unseen. This full-scale retrospective highlights the artist’s commitment over the course of his four-decade career to portraying the black subject and African-American history in a manner that is at once direct and poetic, and immediate and symbolic. The exhibition includes his tender and perceptive early portraits of Harlem residents, large-scale color Polaroids, and a series of collaborative word and image portraits of high school students, among others.
