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Strangers in a Strange Land
White powdery footprints, detailed with an intricate Persian flower motif, mark the way up Intersection's black stairs and into the gallery, which has been transformed into a liminal locale - a traditional Iranian coffee - house spattered with hip-hop paraphernalia. More
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The Brutality of the Everyday
Beautiful Ugly Violence, Margaret Harrison's newest body of work, is the result of her recent residence and collaboration with Intersection for the Arts and is on display through May 8. A pioneer of British feminism, Margaret Harrison's first solo exhibit in 1971 was shut down by British police who deemed the work, particularly an image of Hugh Hefner as a near-nude Playboy bunny girl, "offensive". Her work has continued with a fierce (and, obviously, often funny) feminist critique ever since. More
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Profile of a local artist
Kimberly Austin is one of San Francisco's undiscovered treasures. Although her art resides in important international public and private collections - including Germany's Gelsenkirchen Museum, the Levinthal collection, Deloitte &
Touche, and that of Jane's Addiction founder Perry Farrell - and she shows regularly at San Francisco's Braunstein Quay Gallery and Cologne's Galerie Sieppel, the 38-year-old Austin remains relatively unknown. What makes her lack
of large-scale recognition all the more puzzling is that her photography-based work is among the most ethereally beautiful... More
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A Little Something for Everyone
Every year the gallery at San Francisco State University organizes and mounts four exhibitions. This season's offering is the Stillwell Student Show, a selection of 60 undergraduate art student works chosen through a jury process by the Exhibition Design students. The work of nine graduate students as well as a display of personal effects of the show's namesake, Leo Stillwel More
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By Greg Youmans
Situated in a cubicle and two shared conference rooms on the 17th floor of a Financial District skyscraper, the office/gallery is not the flashiest exhibition space in San Francisco-though it may rank among the city's most philosophically rigorous. More
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By Charyn Pfeuffer
Victor Cartagena's exhibition Media Punishment is the artist's reaction to the ongoing national debate about capital punishment and the recent media frenzy on the issue via the trial and execution of Timothy McVeigh. More
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By Rachel Churner
Over the past six weeks, we've become accustomed to the visual drone of the TV, always tuned to CNN, MSNBC, Peter Jennings on ABC. We leave the TV on just in case, so that we know if another anthrax exposure is confirmed, another suspect is arrested, another threat is made. The sound is kept low or muted, so that we can go on with our days "uninterrupted" because all that's really needed are the images from this new shining roommate. More
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By Sarah Lidgus
Even after living for only six months in San Francisco, the mere utterance of the words "dot" and "com" still trigger an wave of nausea within, accompanied by flashing neon warning signs pleading with me to run far, far away not from the modern ghost town of abandoned live/work SOMA lofts, but from the inevitable "screw those yuppies" diatribe. Residents of the Bay Area may be the largest concentrated population to understand the ugly effects of a shotgun marriage between the dot coms and the electronic-everything craze. The result, however, is that a lot of time and energy has been spent picking at the dot com scab and then complaining... More
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By Maya Kroth
Housed in a cozy gallery in downtown Oakland, "That Girl!" showcases the work of the Bay Area's finest up-and-coming female artists. Works by Lisa Solomon, Jungsun Kim, Stella Lai, and Simone Shubuck and Katherine Aoki adorn the walls of Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery in a show that proves that feminism has truly come a long way, baby. More
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By Kira Garcia
I learned a couple of lessons about visiting galleries during a recent trip to Southern Exposure. First, it's difficult to maintain a kind of pensive, art-watching, gallery face while ducking a model train doing acrobatics on a flying track just above your head. And second, there are some things you just can't fake. More
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