SF Camerawork Special Friends
In-person Tour of McEvoy Foundation’s “Image Gardeners” Exhibition
With artists Marcel Pardo Ariza
and Chanell Stone
Thursday, April 21, 2022
noon - 1:30 PM PDT
McEvoy Foundation
(1150 25th Street, Building B, SF, CA 94107)
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Marcel Pardo Ariza, Self-Portrait, 2021
SF Camerawork invites you to an in-person tour for SFC special friends and upper-level donors of the McEvoy Foundation exhibition, Image Gardeners. The exhibition includes Marcel Pardo Ariza and Chanell Stone, artists that SFC has featured in the past. SF Camerawork makes it a point to continue to update our members and donors on past exhibiting artists’ success. Image Gardeners assembles eight decades of portrait photography by women and non-binary makers who reflect, reframe, and resist dominant conventions of representation.
The exhibition includes newly commissioned projects by Marcel Pardo Ariza and Chanell Stone that respectively reflect on the transition of becoming with trans kin and resisting the erasure of Black histories and bodies. This walkthrough offers the unique opportunity to engage directly with the artists and grow our understanding of their work. The tour will be led by McEvoy Arts’ exhibitions and public programs curator and curator of the exhibition, Sara Wessen Chang, and includes special guests Marcel Pardo Ariza and Chanell Stone, who will each speak about their work in the exhibition.
Marcel Pardo Ariza is a trans non-binary visual artist who was a juror for SF Camerawork’s FORECAST 2021, and photographer Chanell Stone is an SF Camerawork FORECAST 2019 artist.
ABOUT IMAGE GARDENERS
Image Gardeners (on view at McEvoy Foundation, January 14 - April 30, 2022) assembles eight decades of portrait photography by women and non-binary makers who reflect, reframe, and resist dominant conventions of representation. In opposition to Susan Sontag’s theory that photography is a ”voracious way of seeing,” an image gardener employs photographic seeing as a means of cultivation, preservation, and collaboration.
Image courtesy of the artist
ABOUT MARCEL PARDO ARIZA
Marcel Pardo Ariza (b. 1991, Bogotá, Colombia) is a trans visual artist and curator that explores the relationship of representation, kinship and queerness through constructed photographs, color sets and installations. Their practices celebrate the so-called erroneous, navigate intergenerational connection, and question arbitrary paradigms while pushing against the boundaries of photography. Their work has recently been exhibited at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Richmond Art Museum; San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Palm Springs Art Museum; and the Institute of Contemporary Art San José. Ariza is a former member of the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure, a co-founder of Art Handlxrs, and a studio member at Minnesota Street Project.
Image courtesy of the artist
ABOUT CHANELL STONE
Chanell Stone is an artist living and working between Oakland and Southern California. Through self-portraiture, collage and poetry Stone investigates the Black body’s intersectional states of being and connection to the natural world. Her practice negotiates potentialities for reconciliation and reprieve by upending historical and ancestral memories within the American landscape.
Stone earned her BFA in photography from the California College of the Arts in 2019 and is currently a MFA Candidate at the University of California San Diego (2024). She has exhibited in galleries across the United States and internationally. Her solo exhibition Natura Negra appeared at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco in 2019-20 and she was a shortlisted finalist for the 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award. W Magazine listed Stone as one of “8 Young Photographers to follow in 2020," and in 2019 her work was included in the Aperture Summer Open. More recently, Stone’s work has been displayed at the Museo Cabanas in Guadalajara and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. Stone has been featured in several publications including The New York Times, NPR, California Sunday, Pop Up Magazine and Vogue.
Chanell Stone, untitled (Georgia), 2021
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