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Room 193, Fine Arts Building, SFSU
September 17 - September 17, 2015Info
Room 193, Fine Arts Building 1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 Google Map »
Solar Burn: Mescaline by Gail Wight. 2011. Burned vellum. 18 inches by 15 inches.
The second annual SF State lecture, named in memory of Art Professor Steve Wilson, features Gail Wight. She will discuss "In the Belly of Time." Gail Wight works primarily in sculpture, video, interactive media and print. She attempts to construct biological allegories that tease out the impacts of life sciences on the living: human, animal and other. The interplay between art and biology, theories of evolution, cognition and the animal state-of-being are themes that have, over the last two decades, become central to her art. She has taught in the Art Practice program at Stanford University since 2003, focusing on experimental media. Wight’s exhibition record includes nearly two dozen solo exhibitions throughout North America and Great Britain, and her work has been collected by numerous institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University and Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporaneo, Spain. Among her many artist residencies are Australia’s Symbiotica, Art and Archaeology at Stonehenge, the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio and San Francisco’s Exploratorium. Her work is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. Steve Wilson was a prolific artist, educator, author and researcher and among the first to chronicle those who successfully bridged art, science and technology. A governing board member of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology for decades, he was widely respected for his innovative drive and intellectual curiosity. His books include “Art and Science Now” (Thames and Hudson, 2010) and “Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology” (The MIT Press, 2003). He died in 2011 after 29 years as the head of Conceptual and Information Arts at SF State.