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MIKE HENDERSON: CHICKEN FINGERS, 1976-1980

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Haines Gallery presents Chicken Fingers, 1976-1980, a solo exhibition of work by Mike Henderson at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC). Chicken Fingers offers unprecedented opportunities for viewers to experience the rarely seen, early-career works of acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and blues musician Mike Henderson.

Chicken Fingers is on view at the Haines Gallery in Building C from January 14, 2023 through March 25, 2023, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, January 21, 2023, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and features a performance by Cabin Fever with John Rogstad, Jon Otis, and Mike Henderson.

Two exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlight different aspects of the artist's groundbreaking practice: Chicken Fingers, 1976-1980, Henderson's 15th solo show at Haines Gallery, focuses on the mixed media, Afrofuturist canvases that redefined the artist's practice as he left behind the figurative paintings of his early career. Before the Fire, 1965-1985, organized by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, presents the seminal, politically charged paintings and films created in the years immediately following Henderson's move to San Francisco, considered within 20 years of Henderson's creative development.

These exhibitions are complemented by a screening of Henderson's 16mm films at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles; the launch of the artist's first major monograph from the University Of California (UC) Press; and the artist's presentation at FOG Design+Art in San Francisco. Together, these exhibitions and events illuminate the work of an artist with a singular creative vision, whose creative output from this time provides vital insight about pivotal moments in American history.

In the aftermath of the 1960s, Henderson began experimenting with new materials and approaches to painting. The result was a creative epiphany that redefined the artist's practice and produced some of the most accomplished works in Henderson's 50-year career.

Leaving behind the explicitly political, figurative style that had defined the previous decade, by the mid-1970s, the artist was conjuring ethereal, otherworldly spaces filled with promise, mystery, and hope. Chicken Fingers highlights this important moment in Henderson's creative evolution, with a suite of mixed-media works on canvas. Named for a key work from this period, the exhibition's title suggests a slippery world just within our grasp: Shaped, painted, and burnt pieces of canvas, fabric from vintage clothes, and even an old wallet are incorporated into fully resolved constellations in which lunar spheres often float above a distant horizon. A group of corresponding works on paper use architectural forms to evoke interstitial spaces -- arched doorways and balustrades opening onto multicolored skies.

Bringing together these works for the first time since their creation, Chicken Fingers offers a revelatory look at an artist at the height of his creative powers, reflecting both Henderson's personal journey and his place in the culture at large.


RELATED SOLO EXHIBITION
Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis
January 30 to June 25, 2023

Public Opening Celebration: Sunday, January 29, 2023, 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Haines Gallery presents Chicken Fingers, 1976-1980, a solo exhibition of work by Mike Henderson at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC). Chicken Fingers offers unprecedented opportunities for viewers to experience the rarely seen, early-career works of acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and blues musician Mike Henderson.

Chicken Fingers is on view at the Haines Gallery in Building C from January 14, 2023 through March 25, 2023, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The opening reception takes place on Saturday, January 21, 2023, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and features a performance by Cabin Fever with John Rogstad, Jon Otis, and Mike Henderson.

Two exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area highlight different aspects of the artist's groundbreaking practice: Chicken Fingers, 1976-1980, Henderson's 15th solo show at Haines Gallery, focuses on the mixed media, Afrofuturist canvases that redefined the artist's practice as he left behind the figurative paintings of his early career. Before the Fire, 1965-1985, organized by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, presents the seminal, politically charged paintings and films created in the years immediately following Henderson's move to San Francisco, considered within 20 years of Henderson's creative development.

These exhibitions are complemented by a screening of Henderson's 16mm films at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles; the launch of the artist's first major monograph from the University Of California (UC) Press; and the artist's presentation at FOG Design+Art in San Francisco. Together, these exhibitions and events illuminate the work of an artist with a singular creative vision, whose creative output from this time provides vital insight about pivotal moments in American history.

In the aftermath of the 1960s, Henderson began experimenting with new materials and approaches to painting. The result was a creative epiphany that redefined the artist's practice and produced some of the most accomplished works in Henderson's 50-year career.

Leaving behind the explicitly political, figurative style that had defined the previous decade, by the mid-1970s, the artist was conjuring ethereal, otherworldly spaces filled with promise, mystery, and hope. Chicken Fingers highlights this important moment in Henderson's creative evolution, with a suite of mixed-media works on canvas. Named for a key work from this period, the exhibition's title suggests a slippery world just within our grasp: Shaped, painted, and burnt pieces of canvas, fabric from vintage clothes, and even an old wallet are incorporated into fully resolved constellations in which lunar spheres often float above a distant horizon. A group of corresponding works on paper use architectural forms to evoke interstitial spaces -- arched doorways and balustrades opening onto multicolored skies.

Bringing together these works for the first time since their creation, Chicken Fingers offers a revelatory look at an artist at the height of his creative powers, reflecting both Henderson's personal journey and his place in the culture at large.


RELATED SOLO EXHIBITION
Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985
Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis
January 30 to June 25, 2023

Public Opening Celebration: Sunday, January 29, 2023, 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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