2022 ARCHIVE
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KIJA LUCAS: A Taxonomy of Belonging
Gallery Exhibition: September 17 - December 23, 2022
Location: SF Camerawork, Fort Mason Center, Building A, San Francisco, CA, 94123
A Taxonomy of Belonging includes work from Lucas’ nine-year project In Search of Home, and consists of photographs of plant clippings, rocks, and other objects that explore the emigration patterns of her family, and Carl Linnaeus’ racial taxonomy. This body of work questions how the scientific frameworks society has inherited from Linnaeus misrepresents Othered communities, while specifically addressing the invention of race in his taxonomy of man. This racist categorization of human beings perpetuates stereotypes and continues to be used widely today. Lucas challenges the frameworks of scientific categorization and the resulting implications of belonging found within the language of “native” and “non-native” plant species. With these works, the artist interrogates how we choose what is considered “natural,” “beautiful,” and “useful.”
This exhibition was generously supported by individual donors
Michelle Branch & Dale Cook and Dave Elfving, as well as
the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Aimée Beaubien: Matter in the Hothouse
Gallery Exhibition: May 12 - July 9, 2022
Location: Minnesota Street Project, Gallery #106, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Aimee Beaubien’s dynamic installation combined cut and woven photographs of plants, plant materials, and mixed media additions hung from the ceiling in strips and waves that the viewer was invited to carefully traverse. Bold leaf shapes and twisting ribbons of photos entwine, cluster and creep. Photographed plants, interlaced vines, and woven topographies merge into fields of color and pattern and back again - expanding the ever more complicated sensations of reading a photograph and experiencing nature. The winner of SF Camerawork's 2020 Exhibition Award, Aimée Beaubien was selected from a pool of over 200 applicants.
The Exhibition was generously supported by Michelle Branch and Dale Cook, the Delabos-Yamrus Fund, Philip Sager, M.D., and individual members of SF Camerawork
Marna Clarke, Changing a Lightbulb, 2019, archival digital print, courtesy and copyright of the artist.
Marna Clarke: Time As We Know It
ONLINE EXHIBITION: March 1 - May 31, 2022
ONLINE ARTIST TALK WITH MARNA CLARKE
Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 6:00 - 7:00 PM PDT
In a time when society seems to prioritize youth and physical beauty and secretly manifests ageism in the job market, older adults are often rendered invisible. Yet, today, there are more than 46 million people who are 65 and older living in the U.S., a number that will grow to almost 90 million by 2050. Marna Clarke’s brave and revealing series, Time As We Know It, which she began around the time of her 70th birthday in 2010, charts the figural transformation of the aging human body, while also documenting the tender relationship between partners who found each other late in life.
Press Release
”SF Camerawork - Marna Clarke: Time As We Know It,” The Eye of Photography, February 21, 2022