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Location Archive: California

Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer @ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Thought Pieces: 1970s Photographs by Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips, and Hal Fischer January 4–August 9, 2020 “In the early 1970s, Lew Thomas set out to disrupt photography in San Francisco. Tired of the mystical thinking and emotionalism that he felt had dominated work produced in the region since the 1940s, Thomas pursued a practice grounded
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Location: California, San Francisco, United States Type: Exhibition

Darryl J. Curran @ dnj Gallery
“The Path of Darryl Curran”: From the 1960’s – the Present January 11th – February 29th, 2020 Opening reception: Saturday, January 11th, 4-6PM “Darryl J. Curran is one of the major conceptualists of Southern California photography, and this exhibition recognizes his place at the forefront of the movement. He introduced the word conceptualism to our
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Location: California, Santa Monica, United States Type: Exhibition

Stephen Berkman @ Contemporary Jewish Museum
Stephen Berkman: Predicting the Past: Zohar Studios, The Lost Years Mar 12, 2020–Aug 23, 2020 “Los Angeles-based artist Stephen Berkman’s immersive photography installation is a tribute to Shimmel Zohar, a mythical nineteenth-century Jewish immigrant photographer, founder of Zohar Studios. The exhibition includes over thirty photographs, several large installations, a cabinet of curiosities, and a large
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Location: California, San Francisco, United States Type: Exhibition

Thomas Joshua Cooper @ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
Thomas Joshua Cooper: The Capes of California 24 October 2019 – 19 January 2020 ‘California is nearly 910 miles long and home to fourteen sea-coastal counties, each with sea points or a cape. Between Thanksgiving and the winter solstice 2018, Catherine Mooney and I drove nearly 3,000 miles to nd these sites. I made pictures
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Location: California, Los Angeles, United States Type: Exhibition

SINZIANA VELICESCU @ Ventura College’s New Media Gallery
SINZIANA VELICESCU: A TREE GROWS IN OCTOBER 24 – NOVEMBER 26, 2019 RECEPTION OCTOBER 24, 6:30-8:00 PM “Velicescu’s project contrasts sparse flora against typical scenes of Southern California urban architecture. These images create an aesthetic both beautifully designed and with subjects comically and tragically at odds with one another.” Ventura College (New Media Gallery) 4667
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Location: California, United States, Ventura Type: Exhibition

Amir Zaki: Empty Vessel @ Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College
Amir Zaki: Empty Vessel Sept. 19-Dec. 5 Empty Vessel is an ambitious exhibition that features a new body of work by Amir Zaki that creates a tension between the fragility of broken ceramic vessels and the solidity of quintessential, California, concrete skateparks. It is accompanied by Zaki’s first internationally distributed monograph, published by Merrell Publishers.
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Location: California, United States Type: Exhibition

Maureen J Haldeman @ Fabrik Projects Gallery
Maureen J Haldeman September 7—October 12, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, 6-9pm “In an era of digital manipulation, filters and color saturation, Maureen J Haldeman embraces the traditions of monochrome photography. In these artworks Haldeman reflects upon a classic era of photography when black-and-white dominated – evoking the work of artists such as
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Location: California, Los Angeles, United States Type: Exhibition

Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes @ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes July 20–December 1, 2019 “There’s no success like failure; artists know that better than anyone. Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes explores how photographic techniques such as double exposure, lens flare, and motion blur, deemed errors by one generation of photographers, became interesting aesthetic intentions by the
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Location: California, San Francisco, United States Type: Exhibition

Mitch Dobrowner @ Kopeikin Gallery
Mitch Dobrowner: Still Earth September 7th – October 19th Reception for the Artist Saturday, September 7th from 6 – 8 pm. “Inspired early on by Minor White and Ansel Adams, Mitch Dobrowner began photographing as a teen. His first experience with storms occurred years later when, out of curiosity, he visited an area known as
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Location: California, Los Angeles, United States Type: Black and White, Exhibition, Landscapes

Ryan Linke @ dnj Gallery
Ryan Linke “Aquatic Figments” September 14th – October 26th, 2019 Opening reception: Saturday, September 14th, 7-10pm His large-scale, wood panels merge colorful, photographic images with the pigment and texture of a base material. An example of such combination is “Infinite Horizons,” which especially illustrates the cross of colors between the image and the wood. Linke’s
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Location: California, Santa Monica, United States Type: Exhibition
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