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Chinese Culture Center presents:
Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art
Exhibit Oct. 23, 2008 - Jan. 3, 2009, Tue-Sat, 10-4; Opening reception Thursday, Oct 23, 6:30pm, San Francisco
The public is invited to attend the opening of the Chinese Culture Center's new exhibition, Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art, organized by guest curator and scholar Margo Machida.
Icons of Presence highlights the substantial role of printmaking and graphics as a powerful means of social expression for Asian American visual culture. It showcases both graphic art and posters from the landmark decades of the 1970s and '80s, and more recent work by Jim Dong, Nancy Hom, and Leland Wong, who played a pivotal role in the San Francisco Bay area's Asian American arts movement. Putting the work of these three Chinese American artists in a wider context, the exhibition and its accompanying catalog also emphasize the range of influences that have shaped their art and cultural activism.
Icons of Presence is conceived as a counterpart to Asian/ American/ Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970. This national historical survey exhibition of Asian American art, with significant West Coast representation, is on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco from October 25, 2008 - January 18, 2009. Since the de Young show does not extend through the '70s or beyond - the period that witnessed the rise of the Asian American movement and cultural politics - Icons of Presence foregrounds the activist turn in Asian American visual art. By focusing on the work of these three individuals, Icons of Presence provides a slice of a larger history in American art that is both national and international in scope, to which these still-active Chinese American artists bring their own distinctive perspectives.
Icons of Presence is on view to the public from October 23, 2008 to January 3, 2009. Opening reception: Oct. 23, 2008 at 6:30 PM
DATE/TIME:
Exhibit Oct. 23, 2008 - Jan. 3, 2009, Tue-Sat, 10-4; Opening reception Thursday, Oct 23, 6:30pm
LOCATION:
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA, 94108
415-986-1822
http://www.c-c-c.org
COST/REGISTRATION:
Free.
MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.c-c-c.org
Email: info@c-c-c.org
Phone: 415-986-1822
About Chinese Culture Center:
The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco is a major community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 to foster the understanding and appreciation of Chinese and Chinese American art, history, and culture in the United States.
