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Gallery 16

November 16 - November 16, 2012

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501 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94107
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An evening with Bill Berkson, Renny Pritikin and Martin McMurray
Gallery 16 is honored to present a remarkable evening of conversation between Bill Berkson, Renny Pritikin and Martin McMurray. Bill Berkson is an American poet, critic and teacher, who has been active in the art and literary worlds for fifty years. He has written eighteen books and pamphlets of poetry. Berkson taught literature and art history at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1984 to 2008. His friendships and collaborations throughout his extraordinary life are legendary. He has worked with and befriended a who's who of artistic and literary giants including Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Fairfield Porter, Frank O’Hara, Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg and Alex Katz. Martin McMurray is a painter who's work has been featured in "Historical Consciousness: the 2006 California Biennale" at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, and in exhibitions at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada. He has had other solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York and Galerie Nouvelle Images, The Hague, Netherlands. He is a recipient of a 2009 Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation. McMurray lives and works in Berkeley, California. Renny Pritikin has held three positions in arts organizations in Northern California over the past thirty years. For more than a decade he was director of New Langton Arts in San Francisco, an alternative space that specialized in new and experimental work in visual art, performance, new music, and literature. He was chief curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, following that was director and curator of the Nelson Gallery and Fine Art Collection at the University of California, Davis.