Sensacional/Videos/ East Side
Sat, Nov 18 thru
Sun, Dec 31 2006
YBCA Galleries
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Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics
Nov 18, 2006–Mar 4, 2007
First Floor Galleries
Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics celebrates the vernacular design of the comic books, flyers, posters and signs common in Mexico, where a rough, idiosyncratic beauty arises from a mom-and-pop street economy. The artisans are the sign-painting, lithographic tradespeople who work off the high-art grid, and serve as de facto ad agencies for auto repair shops, food vendors, and wrestling events. Though these artists may not concern themselves with visual art trends, their work has enormous significance: in public environments increasingly monopolized by corporate controlled and mechanically produced imagery, these artists assert a brilliant graphic design presence that’s hand-made, individualistic, and defiantly human. Organized by Trilce Ediciones, an independent publishing house based in Mexico City.
Sensacional! Mexican Street Graphics is sponsored by:
Promotional Support provided by La Peña.
Underplayed: A Mix-Tape of Music-Based Videos
Nov 18, 2006–Mar 4, 2007
First Floor Galleries
A companion exhibition to Sensacional! explores the intersection between fine art, pop culture and the DIY explosion. For years visual artists and musicians have collaborated to produce album covers and concert posters. But the music video has spawned a whole new art practice that finds artists collaborating with musicians in entirely new ways. This video project co-curated by Julio Morales and Berin Golonu takes a look at artists who incorporate music with their imagery or who use the music video itself, as a form for creative expression. The exhibition showcases this international phenomenon with a special focus on Mexico City-based artists such as Miguel Calderon, Juan-Luna Avin along with others from around the world including Josh Lazcano, Jeroen Offerman and Eamon Ore-Giron.
Oakland: East Side Story
Oct 20 – Dec 31, 2006
Terrace Galleries
Artists today have an endless variety of materials at their disposal. As new technologies are developed and the world grows smaller, art is increasingly the result of a collision between natural, commercial and found materials. The artists in this show live and work amidst Oakland’s vibrant history, culture, politics and communities—its beauty, its stories, its decay and neglect. The City and its drastic divisions provide not just constant inspiration, but also literal source material for the artists who call it home. Curated by the founders of artist-run venues such as Mama Buzz, Ego Park, Lobot Gallery, and The Black New World performance space and gallery, East Side Story showcases artworks “made out of Oakland” and the communities that create them.
View interviews by featured artist in the Oakland: East Side Story exhibition.
YBCA Exhibitions 06-07 is made possible in part by:
AT&T; Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan and Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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