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Mike Henderson, The Shape of Things, 1981, 16mm transferred to video, b&w color, sound, 8 min.
Mike Henderson: The Shape of Things
First Friday, May 1, 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, May 2, 1 to 5 p.m. Organized by Tanya Zimbardo, Krowswork's third guest resident in 2015. Mike Henderson, "The Shape of Things," 1981, 16mm transferred to video, b&w / color, sound, 8 min. camera: Mike Henderson, Michael Rudnick, courtesy the artist Mike Henderson, renowned East Bay painter, filmmaker and blues musician, made over two dozen short 16mm films in the 1970s and 1980s. This presentation highlights "The Shape of Things" (1981), Henderson's DIY performance in the studio and filmic meditation on artistic success and failure. Mike Henderson’s short experimental films have recently been the subject of a major preservation project by the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles, led by Mark Toscano. Henderson’s moving-image work has been highlighted at such venues as the Indiana University at Bloomington; Cinema Project, Portland; Exploratorium's Cinema Arts program; Los Angeles Film Forum at LA MOCA; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; No Nothing Cinema; Canyon Cinema; San Francisco Art Institute; SFMOMA; Phoenix Art Museum; Crocker Art Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, among others. Born in Marshall, Missouri, Henderson moved to California to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, the first racially integrated art school in the United States, where he received his BFA (1969) and MFA (1970). He was hired shortly thereafter to teach filmmaking at the University of California, Davis, where he currently is professor emeritus of the Fine Arts Department (he served as a professor there from 1970 to 2012). Henderson lives and works in San Leandro.
