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January 22 - May 7, 2016Info
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http://www.sfacgallery.org/
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(415) 554-6080
Reception
January 22, 2016 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Tsherin Sherpa, Fifty Four Views of Wisdom and Compassion, 2014.
Bring it Home: (Re)Locating Cultural Legacy Through the Body, curated by SFAC Galleries Director Meg Shiffler and independent curator Kevin B. Chen, presents work from artists representing diverse Bay Area communities, and centers thematically on how these artists grapple with cultural identity and its relationship to the human condition.
Bring it Home features work by both established and emerging Bay Area artists including Zeina Barakeh, Jeremiah Barber, Vic De La Rosa, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dana Harel, Carolyn Janssen, Summer Mei Ling Lee, Ranu Mukherjee, Ramekon O’Arwisters, and Tsherin Sherpa. Working in media ranging from painting to digital photography, video to textiles, performance to sculpture, the artists attempt to reconcile and bridge differences—such as past and present, historical and contemporary, Eastern and Western, traditional customs and modern conventions, religious and secular—and the ongoing search for grounding and a sense of home, these artists make culture and history highly personal by presenting the body (and often their own body) as a site of inscription and fractured performances.