Photographer Bill Owens, whose work is featured in the current exhibition Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks, will speak at the San Jose Museum of Art on Thursday, September 15, 2011, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks is on view through February 5, 2012. The exhibition comprises 40 photographs recently given to the Museum by Shimshak and Marion Brenner. Included are photographs from Owens’ “Suburbia” and “Working” series, many of which depict the Bay Area in the 1970s. Born in San Jose in 1938, Bill Owens was raised on the outskirts of Sacramento. He took up photography after studying auto mechanics at California State University and serving in the Peace Corps. A photojournalist for the Independent newspaper in Livermore, Owens spent weekends documenting his surroundings and his friends and neighbors. These images were published in his seminal series, “Suburbia” (1972), and its sequel “Our Kind of People.”
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
The San Jose Museum of Art is located at 110 South Market Street in downtown San Jose, California. The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and open evenings on the third Thursday of each month. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens, and free to members and children under 6. For more information, call 408-271-6840 or visit www.SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.
SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Ft. Mason: Heather Wilcoxon, Kirk Crippens
Both Heather Wilcoxon and Kirk Crippens process contemporary anxieties (looming economic and environmental disasters) in distinct ways in their work.
This show will present Wilcoxon's recent paintings and drawings referencing the Fukushima nuclear disaster as well as calamities that hit closer to home such as the health care crisis. Crippens's works depict the mass shuttering of American auto dealerships since 2009; the rarely-seen inner workings of Walmart; and the non-events of May 21, 2011, which some predicted would be end of the world.
Through October.
http://www.sfmoma.org/visit/artists_gallery
http://www.heatherwilcoxon.com/
http://www.kirkcrippens.com/
Nieto Fine Arts - Handelman continues the Bay Area figurative tradition exemplified by Oliveria through his ethereal figures set against a background of glowing color.
65 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94102 · 415.393.4511
http://nietofineart.com/artists/ed-handelman/
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