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Guided tour of Eva Hesse: Studiowork at 12:15 p.m.
Visit the BAM Galleries to see:
Emily Roysdon: If I Don’t Move Can You Hear Me? / MATRIX 235
Through March 6
Artist and writer Emily Roysdon’s work explores the intersection of social, political, and aesthetic space. Roysdon’s MATRIX project, produced largely on-site in Berkeley, consists of photographic work that engages with the limits, framing, and representation of movement(s), both bodily movement and social/political movements. As part of her collaborative practice, Roysdon has invited other writers to consider the project’s vocabulary of use, regulation, structure, and frame in a publication that accompanies the exhibition.
Himalayan Pilgrimage: Journey to the Land of Snows
Through April 3
Explore the journey of Buddhism across several centuries and from India into Tibet through exceptionally beautiful objects of sculpture and painting dating from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries.
Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000
The Timeline
Through April 3
With the publication of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000, BAM/PFA presents the first comprehensive overview of Bay Area avant-garde film and video. The book is accompanied by an exhibition featuring posters, flyers, and rare ephemera; a film and video series bringing artists to Berkeley to screen their work at the PFA Theater; and a series of special Radical L@TE programs.
Eva Hesse: Studiowork
Through April 10
Like other artists of the 1960s, sculptor Eva Hesse (1936–1970) pushed the conceptual and technical limits of art. Organized by the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, this exhibition presents rarely seen small-scale works, many from BAM/PFA’s own collection, that illuminate Hesse’s studio practice and capture moments of experimentation.
Indeterminate Stillness: Looking at Whistler
Through April 17
This exhibition, celebrating Sharon and Barclay Simpson’s gift to BAM/PFA of sixty-two prints by James McNeill Whistler, looks at how Whistler subordinated Realism to the Modernist concerns of design, color, and tonal variation.
Abstract Now and Then
Abstract Now, Through June 26
Abstract Then, Through May 8
This exhibition in two parts draws on BAM/PFA’s rich permanent collection to present an overview of abstraction from the 1940s to 2010, including Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, as well as works that exemplify how a new generation of artists is extending, reinterpreting, and challenging the legacy of these pivotal movements.
Echoes of the Past: Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting
Through June
This selection of new acquisitions highlights the ink painters of the Ming and Qing dynasties whose work was inspired by the artists of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Nature into Action: Hans Hofmann
Through June
Drawn from BAM/PFA’s extensive Hans Hofmann collection, this installation reveals the relationship between nature as source and action as method in the great abstract painter’s work.
Thom Faulders: BAMscape
Through May 2012
How often do you get a chance to sit, lounge, or study on a work of art? BAMscape invites you to interact with art—and with the museum—in unexpected ways.
