To the PointEnrique Chagoya: His New Paintings, Aliens Sans Frontièresis an artist’s slide talk by San Francisco-based artist Enrique Chagoya highlights his works on the historic collisions between Western and Indigenous cultures.Bay Area artist Enrique Chagoya will speak about his recent work, which focuses on immigration and colonialism. He relies on two ideas—“reverse anthropology” and “reverse modernism”—which are intended to force his audience rethink the way they see the world.Enrique Chagoya, a highly accomplished and revered artist, creates art that challenges stereotypes and established history, turning conventional attitudes upside down. Drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the late 70’s, and in Europe in the late 90’s, he juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols in order to address the cultural clash between the United States, Latin America and the world. He His use of familiar pop icons creates friendly points of entry to help rethink complex issues.
Betti-Sue Hertz is program director at To The Point. She is currently an independent curator, university lecturer and writer. She was director of visual arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2008-2015) where she curated Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa (2014); Dissident Futures (2013) and Nayland Blake: Free!Love!Tool!Box! (2012), among many others; and curator of contemporary art at the San Diego Museum of Art (2000-2008). Recent projects include solo exhibitions of work by Pia Camil, Marc Johnson, and Tacita Dean (2016-2018) at the UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Coming up - Saturday, March 9, 2019A lecture by Berkeley-based art historian Lisa E. Bloom on Contemporary Art about Climate Change in the Polar Regions.TO THE POINTTo The Point is a series of public programs—panel discussions, artist talks, lectures, conversations, performances and films—designed to stimulate dialogue and exchange about art and contemporary topics, in Hunters Point and Bayview neighborhoods. To The Point programs are organized by Betti-Sue Hertz, Program Director, with support from The Point in memory of Jacques Terzian. The Point is a family business devoted to providing affordable studios to artists since 1984. All programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information email: [email protected] or call: 415.822.9675Website: thepointart.com/tothepoint
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Betti-Sue Hertz is program director at To The Point. She is currently an independent curator, university lecturer and writer. She was director of visual arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2008-2015) where she curated Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa (2014); Dissident Futures (2013) and Nayland Blake: Free!Love!Tool!Box! (2012), among many others; and curator of contemporary art at the San Diego Museum of Art (2000-2008). Recent projects include solo exhibitions of work by Pia Camil, Marc Johnson, and Tacita Dean (2016-2018) at the UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Coming up - Saturday, March 9, 2019A lecture by Berkeley-based art historian Lisa E. Bloom on Contemporary Art about Climate Change in the Polar Regions.TO THE POINTTo The Point is a series of public programs—panel discussions, artist talks, lectures, conversations, performances and films—designed to stimulate dialogue and exchange about art and contemporary topics, in Hunters Point and Bayview neighborhoods. To The Point programs are organized by Betti-Sue Hertz, Program Director, with support from The Point in memory of Jacques Terzian. The Point is a family business devoted to providing affordable studios to artists since 1984. All programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information email: [email protected] or call: 415.822.9675Website: thepointart.com/tothepoint
To the PointEnrique Chagoya: His New Paintings, Aliens Sans Frontièresis an artist’s slide talk by San Francisco-based artist Enrique Chagoya highlights his works on the historic collisions between Western and Indigenous cultures.Bay Area artist Enrique Chagoya will speak about his recent work, which focuses on immigration and colonialism. He relies on two ideas—“reverse anthropology” and “reverse modernism”—which are intended to force his audience rethink the way they see the world.Enrique Chagoya, a highly accomplished and revered artist, creates art that challenges stereotypes and established history, turning conventional attitudes upside down. Drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the late 70’s, and in Europe in the late 90’s, he juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols in order to address the cultural clash between the United States, Latin America and the world. He His use of familiar pop icons creates friendly points of entry to help rethink complex issues.
Betti-Sue Hertz is program director at To The Point. She is currently an independent curator, university lecturer and writer. She was director of visual arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2008-2015) where she curated Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa (2014); Dissident Futures (2013) and Nayland Blake: Free!Love!Tool!Box! (2012), among many others; and curator of contemporary art at the San Diego Museum of Art (2000-2008). Recent projects include solo exhibitions of work by Pia Camil, Marc Johnson, and Tacita Dean (2016-2018) at the UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Coming up - Saturday, March 9, 2019A lecture by Berkeley-based art historian Lisa E. Bloom on Contemporary Art about Climate Change in the Polar Regions.TO THE POINTTo The Point is a series of public programs—panel discussions, artist talks, lectures, conversations, performances and films—designed to stimulate dialogue and exchange about art and contemporary topics, in Hunters Point and Bayview neighborhoods. To The Point programs are organized by Betti-Sue Hertz, Program Director, with support from The Point in memory of Jacques Terzian. The Point is a family business devoted to providing affordable studios to artists since 1984. All programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information email: [email protected] or call: 415.822.9675Website: thepointart.com/tothepoint
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Betti-Sue Hertz is program director at To The Point. She is currently an independent curator, university lecturer and writer. She was director of visual arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2008-2015) where she curated Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa (2014); Dissident Futures (2013) and Nayland Blake: Free!Love!Tool!Box! (2012), among many others; and curator of contemporary art at the San Diego Museum of Art (2000-2008). Recent projects include solo exhibitions of work by Pia Camil, Marc Johnson, and Tacita Dean (2016-2018) at the UC Davis Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Coming up - Saturday, March 9, 2019A lecture by Berkeley-based art historian Lisa E. Bloom on Contemporary Art about Climate Change in the Polar Regions.TO THE POINTTo The Point is a series of public programs—panel discussions, artist talks, lectures, conversations, performances and films—designed to stimulate dialogue and exchange about art and contemporary topics, in Hunters Point and Bayview neighborhoods. To The Point programs are organized by Betti-Sue Hertz, Program Director, with support from The Point in memory of Jacques Terzian. The Point is a family business devoted to providing affordable studios to artists since 1984. All programs are free of charge and open to the public. For more information email: [email protected] or call: 415.822.9675Website: thepointart.com/tothepoint
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