秋天的艺术计划承诺包装,solo exhibitions of acclaimed local, American and international artists as well as two triennial celebrations of Bay Area art.
Among the global highlights are two solo shows featuring Japan’s leading artists, the U.S. solo show debut of a famed Portuguese artist and a midcareer survey of an acclaimed Indigenous Canadian artist.
On the home front, a local photographer, a Berkeley Chicano pioneer and an Oakland artist in his breakout year are also the subjects of shows.
‘RetroBlakesberg: The Music Never Stopped’
Bay Area photographer Jay Blakesberg’s work is the subject of this solo exhibition that explores iconic moments in music history, with a focus on the Bay Area’s rich rock ’n’ roll scene. The exhibition features more than 200 photographs and ephemera from 1978 to 2008, including images of the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Neil Young, Soundgarden and others.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday-Sunday. Through Jan. 28. $14-16. Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission St., S.F. 415-655-7800.www.thecjm.org
‘Ana Jotta: Never the Less’
Portuguese artist Ana Jotta will be the subject of her first solo exhibition in the U.S. at the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts. The show will focus on drawing as a primary element of Jotta’s practice and how it informs other areas in her work. The exhibition will feature work from the mid-1990s to now, including a series of new wall drawings specifically for the show.
Noon-6 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday. Sept. 7-Nov. 11. Free. CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 360 Kansas St., S.F. 415-355-9670.www.wattis.org
‘Takashi Murakami: Unfamiliar People — Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego’
Takashi Murakami, the globally popular Japanese artist known for blending the traditional and contemporary aesthetics of his country, is the subject of his first solo exhibition in the Bay Area. “Unfamiliar People — Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego,” will feature more than 75 works of painting, works on paper and sculpture (including a dozen that have never been exhibited) spanning the 1990s through the present.
1-8 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Monday. Sept. 15-Feb. 12. $35 for “Takashi Murakami,” $20 general. Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., S.F. 415-581-3500.www.asianart.org
‘Morris Hirshfield: Rediscovered’
This first-ever retrospective of self-taught artist Morris Hirshfield comes to the Cantor Arts Center from the American Folk Art Museum in New York. The Polish-born Hirshfield achieved international recognition in the 1940s for his paintings, more than 40 of which will be on view, including “Girl With Flowers,” “Stage Beauties” and “Inseparable Friends.”
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday. Sept. 6-Jan. 21. Free. Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Palo Alto. 650-723-4177.www.museum.stanford.edu
‘Ghost Land’
Los Angeles artist Patrick Martinez will examine the changing urban landscape, including lost and destroyed landmarks, through several large-scale works using a variety of materials associated with city life including distressed stucco, spray paint, window security bars, vinyl signage and ceramic tile. “Ghost Land” will also include a wall installation of Martinez’s popular neon works, a newly commissioned sculptural installation and a re-imagining of a mural by the Chicano artist collective East Los Streetscapers that was destroyed in the 1980s.
12-5 p.m. Wednesday; 12-7 p.m. Thursday-Friday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Sept. 23-Jan. 7. Free. Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, 901 Minnesota St., S.F. 415-226-9250.www.icasf.org
The de Young Open
The second triennial of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s open submission exhibition will feature jury-selected works by artists from the nine Bay Area counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma. As in 2020, paintings, photographs, works on paper, sculpture and other media will be shown in an abundant salon presentation with some works for sale by the artists.
9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. Sept. 30-Jan. 7. $15-$30. De Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F. 415-750-3600.www.famsf.org
‘Deborah Butterfield: P.S. These Are Not horses’
It’s a homecoming for contemporary sculptor Deborah Butterfield (well-known for her found material equine sculptures) as the UC Davis graduate gets her first exhibition following her Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center at the university’s Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. The show will bring together key works, ranging from Butterfield’s most recent wildfire sculptures to rarely exhibited works of ceramics she made 50 years ago while a student at UC Davis.
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Monday; 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Oct. 1-June 24. Free. Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis. 254 Old Davis Road, Davis. 530-752-8500.manettishremmuseum.ucdavis.edu
‘Bay Area Now 9’
The ninth iteration of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ triennial exhibition highlighting Bay Area artists seeks to spotlight what 30 local artists are making, thinking and dreaming about right now. Among the new works featured in “Bay Area Now 9” are Indira Allegra’s interactive installation “Texere” on the Mission Street plaza, a vinyl installation by Masako Miki of fantastical creatures dancing across YBCA’s Grand Forum Building and Leila Weefur’s “The Chapel,” which will turn the building’s glass passageway into a subversive, religious-themed celebration of the transgender community that can be seen from both inside and outside the building.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday; 11 a.m.-8 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month. Oct. 6- May 5. $9. Free admission Wednesdays and second Sundays of the month. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., S.F. 415-978-2700.www.ybca.org
‘Por El Pueblo: The Legacy and Influence of Malaquías Montoya’
Berkeley artist and activist Malaquías Montoya is one of the giants of the Chicano art movement of the 1960s and ’70s, known for his posters, graphic prints and murals that highlighted the political and social issues of the community. The exhibition will feature photographs, historical and familial ephemera, early works by Montoya, and contemporary artworks by Julio Salgado, Elyse Doyle-Martinez, Leslie Lopez, Israel Campos and Arely Hernández, all artists who have been inspired by Montoya’s legacy.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday. Oct. 6-June 30. Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak St., Oakland. 510-318-8400.www.museumca.org
‘Venus Blues’
As Oakland artist Adrian L. Burrell continues to rise in the international art world, Bay Area audiences have a chance to experience his multimedia practice. “Venus Blues” will examine themes of race, class, history and matriarchy and feature site-specific installations, portraits of Burrell’s “Venus” figures and the latest iteration of Burrell’s ongoing film project, “The Saints Step in Kongo Time,” in Minnesota Street Foundation’s screening gallery.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, Oct. 7-Nov. 18. Free. Minnesota Street Project Foundation, 1201 Minnesota St., S.F.https://minnesotastreetproject.org
‘Duane Linklater: Mymothersside’
Omaskeko Ininiwak artist Duane Linklater is well-known for his large-scale, three-dimensional works that investigate the relationship between museums’ physical, institutional structures and Indigenous culture. This midcareer survey will feature painting, sculpture, video works and large-scale structures made with teepee poles that further explore that tension along with more personal references to the artist’s own family and culture.
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, Oct. 7-Feb. 25. $10-14. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St., Berkeley. 510-642-0808.www.bampfa.org
‘Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love’
Famed Japanese artistYayoi Kusama, dubbed “the princess of polka dots” due to her signature motif, will be the subject of her first solo Northern California exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show, overseen by assistant curator of media arts Tanya Zimbardo, will feature several of Kusama’s famedInfinity Roommirrored installations including her latest work, “Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love.”
1-8 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday-Monday. Oct. 14-Sept. 7, 2024. $19-$25. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., S.F. 415-357-4000.www.sfmoma.org
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