Davina Semo | 2019 SECA Art Award Finalist
Congratulations to Davina Semo, who was named one of the 2019 SECA Art Award finalists! The awards are the Bay Area region’s most prestigious recognition for emerging artists. Click here to read more.
Judy Chicago | Take Your Sons to “Judy Chicago: A Reckoning” | Miami New Times
“Take Your Sons to ‘Judy Chicago: A Reckoning'”
Written by: Taylor Estape
November 29, 2018
Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago’s Survey in Miami Shows off the Many Twists of Her Fascinating Career | Artsy
“Judy Chicago’s Survey in Miami Shows off the Many Twists of Her Fascinating Career”
Written by: Alina Cohen
December 5, 2018
Judy Chicago | Feminist Artist Judy Chicago Is Finally Gaining Attention for More Than Just ‘The Dinner Party.’ Will Her Market Follow? | Artnet
“Feminist Artist Judy Chicago Is Finally Gaining Attention for More Than Just ‘The Dinner Party.’ Will Her Market Follow?”
Written by: Eileen Kinsella
December 3, 2018
Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago’s career and journey into the art-historical canon celebrated in new show | The Art Newspaper
“Judy Chicago’s career and journey into the art-historical canon celebrated in new show”
Written by: Margaret Carrigan
December 4, 2018
Judy Chicago | Miami Show Explores the Evolution of Judy Chicago | The New York Times
“Miami Show Explores the Evolution of Judy Chicago”
Written by: Farah Nayeri
November 30, 2018
Judy Chicago | Flash Art feature
Articles by Géraldine Gourbe, Viki D. Thompson Wylder, William J. Simmons, and Stephanie Seidel
November 2018-January 2019 issue
Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago on how she liberated herself from minimalism & the patriarchy | Dazed
“Judy Chicago on how she liberated herself from minimalism & the patriarchy”
Written by Miss Rosen
November 19, 2018
Judy Chicago | Radical Artist Judy Chicago on Pyrotechnics and Toxic Masculinity | AnOther Magazine
“Radical Artist Judy Chicago on Pyrotechnics and Toxic Masculinity”
Written by Hannah Tilden
November 27, 2018
Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago Is Going to Set Off Feminist Fireworks During Art Basel Miami Beach | Vulture
“Judy Chicago Is Going to Set Off Feminist Fireworks During Art Basel Miami Beach”
Written by Carl Swanson
November 19, 2018
Sean Raspet | 7×7 Beijing | Rhizome
Sean Raspet will participate in Rhizome’s 7×7 edition in Beijing. This is the first China-based edition of the celebrated platform that pairs visionaries from the fields of art and technology, inviting them to create new projects through short-term, one-on-one collaborations.
For more information, click here.
Matthew Angelo Harrison | 30 Under 30 | Forbes
Congratulations to Matthew Angelo Harrison who was selected as a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 in the category of Art & Style! Check him out through the link.
Hayal Pozanti in conversation with Holly Shen
Saturday, November 10 at 3:00pm at 488 Ellis Street
On the occasion of Hayal Pozanti’s solo exhibition “Murmurs of Earth,” please join us for a conversation between the artist and Holly Shen, Deputy Director of the San Jose Museum of Art. The discussion will explore Pozanti’s “Murmurs of Earth” exhibition, focusing on the style and content of her recent figurative imagery. It will also trace the evolution of her abstract “Instant Paradise” alphabet within the long history of human communication as well as the expansion of this lexicon into sculptural form.
Hayal Pozanti (b. 1983, Istanbul, Turkey) has a BA from Sabanci University and a MFA from Yale University. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Broad Art Museum in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the San Jose Museum of Art and JP Morgan. Pozanti has enjoyed many solo exhibitions, including one at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut. Her work was been featured in group shows at the Kitchen (New York), MCA Santa Barbara (CA), Cornell Fine Arts Museum (FL), Sabanci Museum (Istanbul) and Prospect 3 for the New Orleans Biennial and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In 2017, she presented a monumental digital video installation, titled “Relentless Tenderness,” at the new World Trade Center for Public Art Fund. Pozanti lives and works in Los Angeles. “Murmurs of Earth” is her third exhibition in San Francisco with Jessica Silverman Gallery.
Holly Shen comes to the Bay Area from the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where she produced exhibitions, public programming, and performances, and oversaw all visual arts activity. In 2018, Shen was named a Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow, as part of 92nd Street Y’s Women in Power Fellowship program. Shen has also been a faculty member at Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, in the graduate program for Art Market Studies. Previous positions include serving as curator for the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Ambulatory Care division; curatorial liaison for Artsy; and registrar at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she first started her career. She holds a BA in art history from Georgetown University and an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
Woody De Othello Believes in the Secret Life of Objects | KQED Arts
“Woody De Othello Believes in the Secret Life of Objects”
Written by Sarah Hotchkiss
October 16, 2018
Judy Chicago, Nicole Wermers, Tammy Rae Carland | The Wing SF
Three Jessica Silverman Gallery artists are featured at the new The Wing San Francisco space: Judy Chicago, Nicole Wermers, and Tammy Rae Carland.
For more information, click here.
Jessica Silverman Gallery | Jessica Silverman’s Secret to 10 Years of Success as a Gallerist? Hustle Harder | Artsy
“Jessica Silverman’s Secret to 10 Years of Success as a Gallerist? Hustle Harder”
Written by Anna Louie Sussman
September 13, 2018
Woody De Othello | Critic’s Pick | Artforum
“Critic’s Pick”
Written by Jeanne Gerrity
October 11, 2018
Artist Talk: Matthew Angelo Harrison in conversation with Candace Keller | In the Field with Matthew Angelo Harrison | Michigan State University Broad
Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 7PM at Michigan State University Broad Art Museum
This conversation will explore the questions posed by our latest Field Station artist, Matthew Angelo Harrison, about the nature of identity and “abstracted ancestries.” Harrison is a Detroit-based artist who creates otherworldly sculptures that combine traces of ethnographic research, science fiction, and industrial design. Harrison will be joined by Candace Keller, Associate Professor of African Art, Art History and Visual Culture at MSU.
For more information, click here.
Isaac Julien | Strata, Rocks, Dust & Stars | York Art Gallery
Strata, Rocks, Dust & Stars
September 28 – November 15, 2018.
Isaac Julien Studio is proud to announce the UK premiere of the ten-screen installation of Stones Against Diamonds which was first shown in 2015 at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel and Miami Basel as part of Rolls Royce Art Program.
Shown at the York Art Gallery
For more information, click here.
Isaac Julien | Catastrophe and the Power of Art | Mori Art Museum
Catastrophe and the Power of Art
October 6, 2018 – January 20, 2019
Isaac Julien’s three-screen installation of Playtime (2014) will be on show as part of Catastrophe and the Power of Art at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo this Autumn.
Shown at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
For more information, click here.
Isaac Julien | Looking for Langston | Columbus Museum of Art
Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston
October 5, 2018 – February 3, 2019
In conjunction with I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100, this exhibition presents Isaac Julien’s landmark 1989 film Looking for Langston alongside a selection of related photographic works.
For more information, click here.
Nicole Wermers | Here’s the Artist List for the 2018 Athens Biennale | ARTnews
“Here’s the Artist List for the 2018 Athens Biennale”
Written by Claire Selvin
October 1, 2018
Judy Chicago | What Judy Chicago’s Work Reveals about Toxic Masculinity | Artsy
“What Judy Chicago’s Work Reveals about Toxic Masculinity”
Written by Jonathan Katz
October 4, 2018
Woody De Othello | Hope, danger, humor coexist in exhibit spotlighting top SF Bay Area artists | East Bay Times
“Hope, danger, humor coexist in exhibit spotlighting top SF Bay Area artists”
Written by Lou Fancher
September 20, 2018
Woody De Othello | Woody De Othello’s clay bodies at Jessica Silverman | SF Chronicle
“Woody De Othello’s clay bodies at Jessica Silverman”
Written by Charles Desmarais
September 18, 2018
Hayal Pozanti | Proof of Work | Schinkel Pavillion
Proof of Work
September 8 – December 21, 2018
Curated by Simon Denny in dialogue with Distributed Gallery, Harm van den Dorpel, Sarah Hamerman and Sam Hart, Kei Kreutler, Aude Launay and Anna-Lisa Scherfose
Shown at the Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, Germany
For more information, click here.
Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago on Life and Rebirth After ‘The Dinner Party’ | The Observer
“Judy Chicago on Life and Rebirth After ‘The Dinner Party’”
Written by Jordan Riefe
August 23, 2018
Judy Chicago | An Actual Dinner Party Inspired by Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” | The New Yorker
“An Actual Dinner Party Inspired by Judy Chicago’s ‘The Dinner Party'”
Written by Jiayang Fan
August 21, 2018
Woody De Othello | Bay Area Now 8 | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Bay Area Now 8
September 07, 2018 — March 24, 2019
The only survey exhibition of its kind in Northern California, the Yerba Buena Center for the Art’s signature triennial BAY AREA NOW returns in its eighth manifestation as a key component of YBCA’s 25th anniversary season.
For more information, visit here.
Matthew Angelo Harrison | Field Station | Michigan State University Broad
Matthew Angelo Harrison: Field Station
October 13 – November 25, 2018
Field Station is an annual cycle of projects that features work by artists at different moments in their careers. With a particular focus on new terrain, the series emphasizes the importance of research by offering a space for artists to develop ideas that may be in the early stages of conception or articulation
For more information, visit here.
Judy Chicago | EXPO Chicago Names Artists Participating in 2018 Edition of Override: A Billboard Project | ARTFORUM
“EXPO Chicago Names Artists Participating in 2018 Edition of Override: A Billboard Project”
August 16, 2018
Jessica Silverman Gallery | Ten Years and Counting: Jessica Silverman Gallery | Eyes Toward the Dove
“Ten Years and Counting: Jessica Silverman Gallery”
Written by Katy Diamond Hamer
August 17, 2018
Susanne M. Winterling | Toxic Environments, Sensitivities, and Planetary Times: Susanne M. Winterling | Mousse Magazine
“Toxic Environments, Sensitivities, and Planetary Times: Susanne M. Winterling”
Written by Sara R. Yazdani
August 2018
Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago Responds to Criticisms About the “Dinner Party” | Hyperallergic
“Judy Chicago Responds to Criticisms About the ‘Dinner Party'”
Written by Jasmine Weber
August 13, 2018
Davina Semo | A Sparse Exhibition for a Crowded City at SOMArts | KQED Arts
“A Sparse Exhibition for a Crowded City at SOMArts”
Written by Sarah Hotchkiss
July 31, 2018
Sean Raspet | Olfactory Suggestion | Rhizome
“Olfactory Suggestion: On Sean Raspet’s smell-based work”
By Alexander Iadarola
Aug 02, 2018
Sean Raspet | On Making Things Nobody Asked For | The Creative Independent
“On Making Things Nobody Asked For”
Written by Lily Bartle and Elliott Radner
May 18, 2018
Davina Semo | These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Sculpture Forward | Artsy
“These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Sculpture Forward”
Written by Tess Thackara
July 30, 2018
Anna Martine Whitehead Performance
July 28 at 12pm
Jessica Silverman Gallery
Please join us on Saturday, July 28 at 12pm for Future Supper, a performance and casual gathering with Anna Martine Whitehead.
Click here for more information on the event.
Judy Chicago | In a Nutshell: 5 Facts on Judy Chicago | TheArtGorgeous
“In a Nutshell: 5 Facts on Judy Chicago”
Written by Katya Lopatko
July 16, 2018
Panel discussion: Kinship, Affinities, Correspondences
July 21 at 3:30pm
Jessica Silverman Gallery
On the occasion of our summer exhibition “Kinship: Celebrating 10 Years of Jessica Silverman Gallery,” please join us for a conversation with artists participating in the exhibition—Luke Butler, Heather Rasmussen and Hank Willis Thomas. Moderated by James Voorhies, Chair of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts, the discussion will focus on topics close to the curatorial theme of the exhibition, including examining the complexities of familial relationships and economies of friendship within the arts community.
Click here for more information on the event.
fused | A Sunny Summer Group Show, With a ‘Twist’ | KQED
“A Sunny Summer Group Show, With a ‘Twist'”
Written by Sarah Hotchkiss
July 10, 2018
John Houck | A Cookbook of Artists’ Creative Summer Desserts | The New York Times
“A Cookbook of Artists’ Creative Summer Desserts”
Written by Julia Sherman
June 22, 2018
Jessica Silverman Gallery joins the ADAA
We are thrilled to announce that we are one of the newest members of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). The gallery is celebrating its 10th anniversary this summer, so the timing of this recognition by the ADAA is perfect. We are delighted to be a member of group of dealers who believe in the importance of ethics and aspire to museum quality art.
Click here to view our profile.
John Houck | Made in L.A. | The Hammer Museum
Made in L.A. The Hammer Museum Biennial
June 3-September 2, 2018
Made in L.A. 2018 is the latest iteration of the Hammer’s acclaimed biennial exhibition, showcasing artists from the greater Los Angeles area.
For more information, visit here.
Woody De Othello | Artist Focus | FRONT International
Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City
Shown at the Akron Museum of Art
July 14 – September 30, 2018
For more information, visit here.
Nicole Wermers | Dime-Store Alchemy | The FLAG Art Foundation
Dime-Store Alchemy
June 5 – August 17, 2018
Curated by Jonathan Rider
The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Dime-Store Alchemy from June 5-August 17, 2018, on its 9th floor. The exhibition features 24 contemporary artists who elevate everyday objects through the framing devices of cabinets, shelves, and containers. Contextualized within the broader legacy of artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) and his celebrated box constructions, this selection of artworks, and their safeguarded contents, addresses issues of identity, value, memory, and time.
For more information, visit here.
Matthew Angelo Harrison | I Was Raised on the Internet | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
I Was Raised on the Internet
June 23 – Oct 14, 2018
I Was Raised on the Internet documents a specific moment in time, beginning with 1998 and extending to the present, and focuses on the shifts that have occurred since the millennium. The nearly 100 works in the exhibition span photography, painting, sculpture, film, and video, as well as emerging technologies and interactive elements, which include interactive computer works and virtual reality. Among these are new adaptations of major bodies of work, as well as new commissions from some of the most significant artists working with these ideas today.
For more information, visit here.
Judy Chicago | A Reckoning | Institute of Contemporary Art Miami
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami presents “Judy Chicago: A Reckoning”, a major survey of works by the pioneering feminist artist. This exhibition highlights Chicago’s iconographic transition from abstraction to figuration, and explores the ways in which the artist’s strong feminist voice transforms our understanding of modernism and its traditions.
On view Dec 4, 2018 – Apr 14, 2019
For more information, visit here.
Woody De Othello | Funky Ceramics Are Everywhere. Including in Galleries | The New York Times
“Funky Ceramics Are Everywhere. Including in Galleries”
Written by Kate Guadagnino
June 4, 2018
Judy Chicago | Awarded one of 2018 TIME 100
Congratulations to Judy Chicago, who is one of the 2018 #TIME100. Says Jill Soloway: “Her moment is finally here again, and everyone can see she is our legacy.” Read the rest of Soloway’s words about the artist here.
Artist Talk: Judy Chicago presents the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Lecture at Anderson Collection at Stanford University
April 23, at 6:30pm
Bing Concert Hall
Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans five decades. Her influence both within and beyond the art community is attested to by her inclusion in hundreds of publications throughout the world. Her art has been frequently exhibited in the United States as well as in Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. In addition, a number of the books she has authored have been published in foreign editions, bringing her art and philosophy to readers worldwide. She is represented in the Bay Area by Jessica Silverman Gallery.
The McMurtry Lecture is presented this year in partnership with Stanford Live.
No tickets are required and seating is first come first served.
Matthew Angelo Harrison | Matthew Angelo Harrison’s “Prototype of Dark Silhouettes” | Art-Agenda
“Matthew Angelo Harrison’s “Prototype of Dark Silhouettes”
Written by Jeanne Gerrity
April 13, 2018
Nicole Wermers | Privacy as Privilege: An Interview with Nicole Wermers | Berlin Art Link
“Privacy as Privilege: An Interview with Nicole Wermers”
Written by Emily McDermott
March 23, 2018
Matthew Angelo Harrison | Critics’ Pick | Artforum
“Critics’ Pick”
Written by Glen Helfand
April 10, 2018
Abstracted Ancestries: Matthew Angelo Harrison in conversation with Amanda Hunt
On the occasion of Matthew Angelo Harrison’s solo exhibition “Prototype of Dark Silhouettes,” please join us for a conversation between the artist and Amanda Hunt, Director of Education and Public Programs at MOCA LA. The discussion will explore themes such as ritual, materiality, and language within a context of constructions of race and identity.
Matthew Angelo Harrison (b. 1989, Detroit, MI) completed his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Harrison has had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in 2016 and Atlanta Contemporary in 2017. He currently has six works in the New Museum Triennial and had five pieces in “The Everywhere Studio,” the inaugural group show at the ICA Miami. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Jewish Museum in New York (2016) and Studio Museum in Harlem (2017). Harrison will be featured in MCA Chicago’s group show, “I Was Raised on the Internet,” which opens on June 23, 2018. Harrison lives and works in Detroit.
Amanda Hunt is Director of Education and Public Programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and co-curator of the 2019 Desert X Biennial in Palm Springs. Past appointments include Associate Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and Curator at LAXART, Los Angeles, where she helped coordinate the 2012 Pacific Standard Time Public Art and Performance Festival for The Getty Research Institute, and “Made in L. A. 2012,” the Hammer Museum’s first Los Angeles biennial. At the Studio Museum, Hunt produced exhibitions including “A Constellation, Black Cowboy,” and in 2016 commissioned “inHarlem: Kevin Beasley, Simone Leigh, Kori Newkirk, Rudy Shepherd,” a public sculpture initiative in partnership with the New York City Parks Department. She obtained her masters in curatorial practice from California College of the Arts.
Saturday, April 14 at 3:00pm at 488 Ellis Street
Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago Is Releasing a Line of Plates Inspired by Her Classic Feminist Work ‘The Dinner Party’ | Artnet News
“Judy Chicago Is Releasing a Line of Plates Inspired by Her Classic Feminist Work ‘The Dinner Party’”
Written by Sarah Cascone
April 4, 2018
Judy Chicago | This epic, 40-year-old feminist art piece that we’re still learning from today | PBS News Hour
“This epic, 40-year-old feminist art piece that we’re still learning from today”
Written by Jennifer Hijazi
March 20, 2018
Matthew Angelo Harrison | African spirits suspended in resin, culture at SF art gallery | San Francisco Chronicle
“African spirits suspended in resin, culture at SF art gallery”
Written by Charles Desmarais
March 16, 2018
Nicole Wermers | Women Between Buildings | Kunstverein Hamburg
With “Women Between Buildings,” the Kunstverein in Hamburg presents the first survey exhibition of Nicole Wermers in Germany. The show features pieces from the past ten years, including Untitled Chairs of the exhibition “Infrastruktur” which was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2015, as well as two new sculptures created especially for the Kunstverein. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication published with Compagnia and Motto Books.
On view March 3 – May 6
Artist Talk: Nicole Wermers in conversation with Bettina Steinbrügge, Saturday, March 3, 3pm
Isaac Julien | The Rebellion of Moving Image | MOCA Taipei
The nine-screen installation of Ten Thousand Waves continues its world tour and opens on Saturday March 3rd as part of the exhibition “Rebellion of Moving Image” at MOCA Taipei in Taiwan, curated by Huang Hsiang-Ning.
Special event: artist talk with Isaac Julien on Saturday 3rd March, 10:30am-midday at MOCA Taipei.
Matt Lipps | Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography | The Getty Center
Matt Lipps will be included in “Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography” at The Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Interaction with paper plays an integral role in the practice of many photographers working today. Some create paper models with images gleaned from current events, popular magazines, or the internet for the express purpose of photographing them. Others cut, layer, fold, and/or assemble representational photographs to introduce tactile or narrative elements. Along with Lipps, the exhibition features works by Thomas Demand, Christiane Feser, Daniel Gordon, Soo Kim, and Christopher Russell.
Isaac Julien | ‘It’s another watershed moment for history of queer rights’ | The Guardian
“Isaac Julien: ‘It’s another watershed moment for history of queer rights'”
Written by Glenn Dunks
February 16, 2018
Sean Raspet | 2017 Tiffany Foundation Grant Recipient
Congratulations to Sean Raspet, who is one of 2017’s Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation recipients. Raspet receives an unrestricted grants of $20,000 as part of its biennial awards program.
Matthew Angelo Harrison | Future Greats: Matthew Angelo Harrison, selected by Cécile B. Evans | ArtReview
“Future Greats: Matthew Angelo Harrison, selected by Cécile B. Evans”
Written by Cécile B. Evans
January/February 2018
Judy Chicago | The Making of Judy Chicago’s Feminist Masterpiece, The Dinner Party | Artsy
“The Making of Judy Chicago’s Feminist Masterpiece, The Dinner Party”
Written by Alexxa Gotthardt
February 7, 2018
Judy Chicago | Judy Chicago, the Godmother | T Magazine
“Judy Chicago, the Godmother”
Written by Sasha Weiss
February 11, 2018
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Judy Chicago | Roots of the ‘Dinner Party’: History in the Making | The New Yorker
“Roots of the ‘Dinner Party’: History in the Making”
February 2018
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Isaac Julien | Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Congratulations to Isaac Julien who was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) on Thursday February 1, 2018 by the Prince of Wales during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace! Back in SF, Julien’s exhibition “Playtime” is up at Fort Mason through February 11.
Jessica Silverman Gallery | San Francisco Has Replaced L.A. as the West Coast Capital of the Art World | Garage
“San Francisco Has Replaced L.A. as the West Coast Capital of the Art World”
Written by Michael Wilson
January 26, 2018
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Jessica Silverman Gallery | The Art Lover’s To-Do This January | 7×7
“The Art Lover’s To-Do This January”
Written by Anna Volpicelli
January 8, 2018
Matthew Angelo Harrison | From the Personal to the Political, 19 Artists to Watch Next Year | The New York Times
“From the Personal to the Political, 19 Artists to Watch Next Year”
Written by Holland Cotter
December 27, 2017
