Artists’ Showcase
Hosted on Minnesota Street Project Adjacent

Watch Live!
Thursday, September, 17th,
4:00 - 5:30 PM PDT
at Minnesota Street Project Adjacent.

San Francisco Camerawork presented the Artists’ Showcase, a conversation between artist Adrian L. Burrell and art scholar Benjamin Jones. Joined by several participating auction artists, Burrell and Jones will discused the work donated for the SF Camerawork Benefit Auction: See How Beautiful I Am, featuring over 60 artists around the world. The evening generate a powerful conversation around creative practice, vision, and activism.

This event is produced in partnership with Minnesota Street Project, and was hosted on Minnesota Street Project Adjacent.

Adrian Burrell (Host & Artist)
Adrian L. Burrell is a multidisciplinary storyteller who uses film, photography, and site-specific installation to shape culture and evoke conversation on issues of race, class, gender, and intergenerational dynamics. Burrell’s multimedia installation Mama’s Babies explores Black matriarchy in America and won the 2019 SF Camerawork Juror’s Choice Award and the SFAI John Collier Award.

Burrell grew up in Oakland, California. He has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Burrell earned a BFA in film from the San Francisco Art Institute, is a United States Marine Corps veteran, and is currently earning his MFA from Stanford’s Department of Art & Art history.

Benjamin L. Jones (Artist & Scholar)
Benjamin L. Jones is a PhD student Northwestern University’s Department of Art History. He researches the speculative analysis and praxis of oppressed people. His art-historical interests include contemporary intersections of art and power, futurism, and Black radical visual culture and performance. Funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Mellon foundation, his work engages critical ethnic studies, critical pedagogical practices, and feminist mobilizations of onto-epistemology and quantum mechanics.

A practicing artist, Jones graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a B.A. in the History and Theory of Contemporary Art (highest honors). He is currently working on two projects tentatively titled: What We Fin’na Do: Preface to a 5,000 Year Almanac, and What We Cain’t Do: The Pedagogy and Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, and Dewey Crumpler.

Minnesota Street Project Adjacent
Minnesota Street Project Adjacent is a space where art happens online. Collaborating with galleries, creators, and partners around the world, Adjacent showcases virtual exhibitions, talks, live performances, and more.

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