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September 24 - December 19, 2010

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San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

September 24 - December 19, 2010

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401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102
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Transplanted: Three Commissioned Projects by Bay Area Newcomers Image by Richard T. Walker
Opening Reception: Friday, September 24, 6 – 8pm The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Gallery is pleased to present Transplanted, featuring three large-scale commissioned projects by Bay Area newcomers Pawel Kruk, Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe and Richard T. Walker. How long do you have to live in the Bay Area to be considered a local artist? How quickly do new arrivals influence our cultural landscape and help establish defining regional aesthetics? How quickly does the Bay Area influence the artistic production of newcomers? These are a few of the underlying questions posed in Transplanted. For Transplanted, each of the exhibiting artists was asked to create new work that reflects on how living in the Bay Area has influenced their artistic practice. Kruk, a performance artist, Suarez-Wolfe, a sculptor, and Walker, a video artist, each arrived with extensive, international exhibition experience, and in the past three years have caught the attention of local critics, philanthropic organizations and major institutions (see bios below). Gallery Director and exhibition curator, Meg Shiffler, adds, “This is the final exhibition in the SFAC Gallery’s 40th Anniversary season, and we thought it was important to examine more closely what it means to live and create in a City where we have a significant population of artists living nomadically. Through the selection of newly transplanted artists who are committed to their lives in the Bay Area while remaining connected with their international network we can further the SFAC Gallery mission to promote a dialogue around how our local art production fits into an expansive, global contemporary art discourse.” --- Richard T. Walker "Attempting to Define Parameters of Need" Site-specific video installation SFAC Main Gallery 401 Van Ness Avenue (at McAllister), San Francisco, CA 94102 415.554.6080 Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm Richard T. Walker arrived in San Francisco from London in 2007 for a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts. After successive residencies at Kala Art Institute, Djerassi Artist Residency Program and Montalvo Art Center, Walker decided to make the Bay Area his home. In 2009 he received the coveted Artadia award, given to artists living in the Bay Area. He is currently a finalist for the 2010 SECA Award at SFMOMA. Walker exhibits internationally and is represented by Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles. --- Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe "Forward-Looking" Site-specific installation Grove Street Window Installation Site 155 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 Gallery Hours: Viewable 24/7 With a background in both architecture and visual art, Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe moved to the Bay Area from Los Angeles in 2007. Prior to his arrival, his works had been seen at ACE Gallery in LA and New York, and Blum & Poe in LA as well as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and High Desert Test Sites. From 2005-08 he co-edited the InterReview Journal, a publication on conceptual art. Recently Suarez-Wolfe has been awarded a commission from the SFAC Public Art Program, and is teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. --- Pawel Kruk "The Swimmer as Hero" Performance in which the artist will swim from Alcatraz to Aquatic Park while accompanied by the band Coconut. Date and Time TBA Aquatic Park, San Francisco, CA 890 Beach Street San Francisco, CA 94109 Kruk, a performance artist originally from Warsaw, Poland, spent a short time at the Headlands Center for the Arts in 2002, and then returned for a longer stay in 2007. In 2008 he was a resident at the Kala Center in Oakland, and then decided to make the Bay Area home. Kruk exhibits internationally and in 2003 was included in the Whitney’s major exhibition The American Effect. He had a critically acclaimed solo exhibition at San Francisco’s David Cunningham Projects in 2009 and is currently a finalist for the 2010 SECA Award at SFMOMA.