February and March ‘10 at the Gallery
February 5, 2010
proudly presents
A Celebration of all Women
and a tribute to
WOMENS MONTH
February 12 – March 28, 2010
Opening Reception: February 12, Friday, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
For Colored Girls only
Aa celebration of women from all color, size, age, gender, local and international as a form of politics/non-politics & as a body of thought. Erasing the indistinct lines of class, gender and geography, and celebrating even the contradicting facets of womanhood.
Group Exhibition Featuring : Addiam Tsehaye, Angela Angel & Robin David, Angela Silva, Ashley Eberlien, Atiba Sylvia Thomas, Barbara Aliza, Bethanie Hines, Clarisse Fulgado, Constance Terrel, Dimeng X. Brehmer, Elizabeth Carter, Hiroko To, Jeannie Dragon, Kameelah J. Rasheed, Katie Richardson, Kim Mason, Latisha Baker,Letitia Ntofon, Lisa Jean DeSoto, Maash Pascal, Maggie Yee, Marguerite Browne, Marilyn Lacy, Melissa Kreisa & Marilyn Lacey, Michele de Mendaire, Mildred Thompson, Favianna Rodriguez, Mina Marquette, Nicole Hsiang, Orlonda Uffre, Paula Craig Steel, Rosalyn Parhams, Rozita S. Folgeman, Sally Moore, Saska Smith, Shirlee Perlow, Susan Mathews, Talita Suassuna Brandao, Tomeekha Pitre, Jessica Seran,Viva H.VanAssen, Zahava Sherrez
Performances
March 6, 13, 20, 27, Saturdays from 3-6pm. $5-10 sliding scale donation
Music performances, dance, monologues, with an all-women repertoire in celebration of Women’s month.
Poetry
March 7,14,21,and 28, Sundays from 3-6pm. $5-10 sliding scale donation
With Nancy Hom, Marijo, Avotcja, Genny Lim, Phavia Kujichgulia, Wordslanger, Chinaka Hodge, Talia Taylor, hosted by Tureeda Mikell.
In Celebration of
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Art of Revolution
A Poetry Anthology
February 20 & 21, Sat & Sun, 3-6pm. $5-10 sliding scale donation
Featuring poets Tureeda Mikell as the storyteller, Michael Lange as Malcolm X, Dough Howerton performing readings from “Firing Banks and Moving Targets”, and Charles Dubois performing the “History of the Black Panther Party”.
Unchanged Memoirs
Film Screening & Discussion
February 13, Saturday.
3:00-4:30 pm, Film Screening (running time: 75 min.)
5:00-6:00 pm, Film Discussion with Zakiya Folami Jendayi”Unchanged Memoirs” a 74 minute documentary presenting dramatic selections from the extensive Slave Narrative Collection through on-camera readings by over a dozen actors, interspersed with archival photographs, music, film and period images. A film discussion with Zakiya Folami Jendayi also follows.
Joyce Gordon
Joyce Gordon Gallery
http://www.joycegordongallery.com
Amor Fati, A Group Exhibition
January 6, 2010
proudly presents
January 8 – February 8, 2010
Opening Reception: January 8, 2010, Friday, 6pm-9pm
Kwatro-Kantos
(England Hidalgo, Marcius Noceda,
Carlo Ricafort, Mel Vera Cruz)
with
Malaquias Montoya
Miju (Michele Muennig & Juan Carlos Quintana)
Favianna Rodriguez
Carlos Villa
Parallel to turmoil, history and progress – is a creative process of color,
narrative and subjectivity. This is when an artist comes in to deliberate,
paint, and tell stories of justice, torment, truth or even chaos – to the
devotion to ” what is “. Curated by Lian Ladia.
Joyce Gordon
Lecture Presentation by Duane Deterville
January 6, 2010
Joyce Gordon Gallery Artist Lecture Series proudly presents
Afriscape Cartography: Mapping Black Visual Culture
with Duane Deterville
Duane Deterville is a visual artist, writer and scholar of visual culture. His area of expertise is African and Afridiasporic visual culture. Deterville is co-founder of Sankofa Cultural Institute. He has produced three symposiums on Jazz: Jazz in the Black Aesthetic in 2001, Bird, Bop, Black Art and Beyond in 2006 and the Sacred Jazz Symposium in 2007. He is co-author of the book, “Black Artists in Oakland,” Currently he is a featured columnist for the SFMOMA online publication, “open Space.” He holds a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts in Masters in Visual and Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts.
The lecture series is an introduction to the Black Aesthetic in Visual Culture. This series of presentations will be of interest to creative artists, writers, curators, art collectors and those interested in new ways of seeing the Black experience. Artists will be interested in Deterville’s presentation of artistic strategies for visual culture. Writers will be interested in this overview of a burgeoning new field of study that can inform their writing practice. Curators will be interested in the manner in which visual culture informs the politics of display in relationship to the Black experience and art collectors will discover new concerns for developing their collections.
The four part lecture series will be on January 9, 16, 23, and 30 (Saturdays) from 3-5pm.
The talks are rsvp and each event is $5-10 sliding scale donation.
For more info, e-mail jvbgg@sbclgobal.net
PART 1 Mapping the Black Aesthetic in Visual Culture
This presentation will be an introduction to the field of Visual Culture and how it relates specifically to the Black experience. The politics of representation in visual fields that range from visual art, paintings, sculpture, architecture, film, museum, galleries and other forms of curatorial display. The presentation will include visual examples as Deterville presents his analysis and include a question and answer session.
January 16, Saturday, 3-5pm, $5-10
PART 2 Drawing Down Ancestors: Defining the Afriscape Through Ground Drawings and Street Altars
With this presentation Deterville will apply the ideas of Visual Culture analysis to contemporary events in Oakland (the murder of Casper Banjo and Oscar Grant by police) and expand them to rest of the world where people of African descent have a cultural presence. By examining the street altars that are created by Black folks in Oakland, Deterville will connect these ancestor veneration practices to spiritual practices on the African continent and in its Diaspora. Those spaces of African cultural presence he calls “the Afriscape.”
PART 3 Jazz and Visual Culture
Artists from Mondrian and Matisse to Basquiat and Bearden have used jazz music as a creative well to draw images from. Jazz as an aesthetic used for visualization has been examined many times by culture critics, however with this visual and oral presentation, Deterville will explore the interdisciplinary intersection between visuality and jazz improvisation. The visual artwork of jazz musicians will be explored as well as the concerns for jazz music in the work of visual artists.
January 30, Saturday, 3-5pm, $5-10
PART 4 Afrifuturism and Black Visual Culture
Afrifuturism is Deterville’s preferred spelling of what culture critic Mark Dery called “afro-futurism.” Afrifururism in the creation of speculative futures based in the Black experience and advanced technology. Most people experience this phenonmenon through Black scence fiction. Deterville will explore Afrifuturism both in the realm of sci-fi and music with an emphasis on Black visual culture and art. With this presenation Deterville details how afrifuturism stems from Pan Africanist ideas and how its powers is in its ability to envision new autonomous African and Afri-diasporic socieities.
The talks are rsvp and each event is $5-10 sliding scale donation.
For more info, e-mail jvbgg@sbclgobal.net
