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40+ Years of Richard Shaw’s Students and Friendship Park: Video by Nathaniel KleinPost an Event »

Worth Ryder Art Gallery

April 5 - April 29, 2012

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University of California, Berkeley 116 Kroeber Hall Berkeley, CA 94720
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40+ Years of Richard Shaw’s Students and Friendship Park: Video by Nathaniel Klein Image: Richard Shaw in collaboration with Martha Shaw, Shells and Fortune Jar, 2007.
Opening Thursday, April 5, 4-7 PM 40+ YEARS OF RICHARD SHAW'S STUDENTS is an exhibition in honor of Richard Shaw's 40+ years of teaching at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute, open to all of Richard's former students and assistants. Small works (and small egos) welcome. The reception will celebrate Richard on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of Art Practice. In addition to his influence on generations of students, Shaw is one of the most respected and collected artists in contemporary ceramics. FRIENDSHIP PARK: A VIDEO BY NATHANIEL KLEIN is an experimental video and art show exploring the U.S./Mexico border as it is situated temporally, spatially and psychically. Focusing on three primary sites: the San Ysidro border checkpoint, the “Friendship Park” monument that marks the starting point of the U.S./Mexico border, and the Sonoran Desert, Nathaniel Klein’s work draws on the writings of Gloria Anzaldua on the concept of a political border as both a physical and psychic space. He uses Anzaldua’s theories as a base for investigating how the histories of the U.S./Mexico border are embodied by the people who pass through it, and by various sites along its path. Also inspired by the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, who centralizes questions of subjectivity, framing, language and translation, Klein applies Trinh’s conceptual framework and explores the relationship between the stories and rhetoric used to describe geographical borders, and how both have shifted and/or remained stagnant over time.