December 9, 2010 – January 28, 2011 • NOTE: The gallery is closed December 24-January 3
SOMArts Cultural Center, Main Gallery • 934 Brannan Street (between 8th and 9th Streets) SF 94103
It’s All a Blur • Curated by Justin Hoover, Presented by SOMArts Cultural Center
No charge for gallery admission
Gallery hours – Tues-Fri: Noon to 7:00 p.m. • Saturday: Noon to 5:00 p.m.
SOMArts Cultural Center presents It’s All A Blur, a major touring exhibition about levels of empowerment and enfranchisement in the American West and the current status of the American Dream. This exhibition includes paintings, photography, installation art, video, audio and performance art. Conceived by SOMArts curator and gallery director Justin Hoover, It’s All A Blur will premiere at the SOMArts Main Gallery before traveling to the Contemporary Art Center Las Vegas, the Sierra Arts Foundation in Reno, Nevada, and the Feldman Gallery at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where it will appear in conjunction with the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, 2011.
It’s All A Blur focuses on three local masters, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Dale Hoyt and Tony Labat. Additional collaborators include David Lawrence, Steve Thurston, and the international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra featuring core members Michelle Ceballos (Phoenix/Bogota), Guillermo Galindo (San Francisco/Mexico city), Guillermo Gómez-Peña (San Francisco/Mexico City), Roberto Sifuentes (Chicago) and associates Dani d’Emilia (Brazil), EJ Hill (Chicago), Saul Garcia Lopez (Toronto/Mexico City), Erica Mott (Chicago). Natalie Brewster Nguyen (Tucson), and John Zibell (Davis/NYC).
Other artworks on display include a retrospective look at important, eye-catching and impactful videos by Hoyt, including Clinic, Transgenic Hairshirt and Don’t Be Cruel, as well as a significant collection of the Kitten Kollaboration drawings by Hoyt and Thurston dating from 1970 to the present. Labat’s new work includes:
• Blanket Policy (1988), a never-before-seen large-scale sculptural tent made from paintings purchased at Goodwill
• Leisure (2000), a twelve foot tall custom-made barbecue.
In the SOMArts Video Annex, Guillermo Gómez-Peña presents a newly commissioned tryptich displayed as a three channel video installation with sound.
Corpo/Ilicito • 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011
$10 in advance; $12 at the door. Tickets available in advance at http://pocha.eventbrite.com/
Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s Pocha Nostra to perform • 5 stages with simultaneous performances with three generations of La Pocha Nostra • DJ Guillermo Galindo (AKA GalinDog) • Food presented by various food trucks. • Beverage bar.
For more information, call 415/863-1414 extension 110 or go to http://www.somarts.org