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Room 193, Fine Arts Building, SFSU
November 7 - November 7, 2013Info
Room 193, Fine Arts Building 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 Google Map »
Stephanie Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles of collected cultural objects, cumulative archives and temporary vending installations, often with an active public component that invites viewers to directly participate as producers or distributors. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, her projects leverage open-source systems, shareware logic and flows of capital, creating frictions between high ideals and everyday materials. She is collaborating with the FLACC Workplace for Visual Artists in Genk, Belgium, on a new body of works utilizing 3D scanning of Belgian and Congolese antiquities to produce hybrid ceramic objects addressing the legacy of colonialism, empire, and trade routes. Syjuco won a 2009 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award.
Born in the Philippines, Syjuco received her Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University and Bachelor of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been featured at MoMA/P.S.1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ZKM Center for Art and Technology in Germany, Z33 Space for Contemporary Art in Belgium, UniversalStudios Gallery in Beijing, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, among others. She will join University of California, Berkeley, in January as an assistant professor in sculpture.
Admission: Free