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Root Division
November 9 - November 30, 2016Info
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http://www.rootdivision.org/
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(415) 863-7668
Reception
November 12, 2016 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
This November, Root Division presents Pulling Threads, a conversation between Feminist art history and contemporary Bay Area women artists. Guest curated by Victoria Mara Heilweil, Pulling Threads showcases the lasting influence of the Feminist movement on the next generation of female artists through their contemporary exploration of craft, domestic space, motherhood, and the body. Nearly 45 years after Womanhouse, the issues raised by pioneering Feminist artists remain vital to contemporary discourse. Presented as a dialogue between past and present, the seventeen artists in this exhibition chose an inspirational historical Feminist artist whose work informs or resonates with their practice. In the gallery, didactics including art-historical information and statements about the influential artist’s practice will be shown alongside the contemporary work. This structure champions the pioneering Feminist artists while illustrating interesting visual and conceptual connections spanning several decades. Through a range of artistic practices, Pulling Threads aims to reclaim the title of “Feminist” and embrace its many meanings and processes. Utilizing iconography, materiality, and process, Pulling Threads calls attention to the gendered categorization of labor and domesticity, the spectacle and anti-spectacle of the female body, and its complicated relationship with identity. The opening reception of Pulling Threads will include performances by Sonya Philip, Christina Velazquez and an interactive installation by The Fortnight Collective. Participating Artists: Kathy Aoki Eliza Barrios Lauren Bartone Paz de la Calzada Laura Boles Faw Jenne Giles Victoria Mara Heilweil Jennie Lennick Lynne McCabe Ranu Mukherjee Sandra Ono Sonya Philip Lucy Puls Sarah Ratchye Claudia Tennyson Christina Velazquez The Fortnight Collective: Hannah Merriman, Stephanie Jucker, Paula Egan, Ellen Litwiller, Liza Yee, and Lauren Bartone Pulling Threads is free, open to the public, and includes a Creative Station - all ages art activities hosted in our classroom during the 2nd Saturday opening reception.
ABOUT ROOT DIVISION Root Division is a visual arts non-profit in San Francisco that connects creativity and community through a dynamic ecosystem of arts education, exhibitions, and studios. Root Division's mission is to empower artists, foster community service, inspire youth, and enrich the Bay Area through engagement in the visual arts. The organization is a launching pad for artists, a stepping-stone for educators and students, and a bridge for the general public to become involved in the arts. Root Division is supported in part by a plethora of individual donors and by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, San Francisco Arts Commission: Community Investments, Grants for the Arts, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, Drusie Davis Family Fund, Crescent Porter Hale Foundation, Bothin Foundation, Wattis Foundation, Bialkin Family Foundation, Fleishhacker Foundation, Salomon Family Foundation, Morton Foundation, Garver Family Foundation, A Better Place Foundation, the Young Family Trust, and Art4Moore.