Opening Reception - Jamil Hellu: Together & Natalie Krick: Rhymes of Confusion
Thursday, February 27, 2020
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
SF Camerawork
1011 Market Street, San Francisco, United States (map)
Please join us in the gallery on Thursday, February 27th for an artist talk with current exhibiting artists Jamil Hellu and Natalie Krick, and SF Camerawork founder and current SFMOMA exhibiting artist Hal Fischer. Moderated by Executive Director Heather Snider, the discussion will address each artist’s deconstruction of traditional portraiture and examine photography’s unique role in defining queer and feminist identity from the 1970s to the current moment.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Hal Fischer, Street Fashion: Uniform, 1977
Over a career spanning four decades, Hal Fischer has been an artist, art critic, and museum professional. In 1975, Hal Fischer moved to San Francisco and became involved in the Bay Area’s conceptual photography movement. Fischer’s ground-breaking series Gay Semiotics, brought these theories to bear on gay culture in San Francisco’s Castro and Haight-Ashbury districts. Hal Fischer was also heavily involved in the early foundations of SF Camerawork. In 1977 Hal Fischer gained non profit status for SF Camerawork and assembled SF Camerawork’s first volunteer board. His work is currently on view at SFMOMA as part of the exhibition Thought Pieces, which reunites the work of 1970s San Francisco conceptual photographers Lew Thomas, Donna-Lee Phillips and Hal Fischer. Read more here
“As an immigrant, my coming of age meant a fragmented life. I was never Filipina enough while struggling to assimilate,”; shares Michelle Alcedo. “As an older femme dyke, I find power in my queerness and feel a sense of belonging. I am free to integrate all that I’m I meant to be.” from Jamil Hellu’s Hues Project
Jamil Hellu is a visual artist whose work deals with issues of identity relating to race, queer sexuality, and gender. His work was recently included in Bay Area Now 8 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; and Sense of Self at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. He is the recipient of the San Francisco Art Commission’s Individual Artist Grant (2019/2020), Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Project Grant (2020), and the Fleishhacker Foundation’s Eureka Fellowship Award (2018). Hellu studied at Cabrillo College (1999), the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA 2003), and Stanford University (MFA 2010). He teaches photography in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. An exhibition of his work, Jamil Hellu: Together, is on view at SF Camerawork through March 14th.
Read more here.
Natalie Krick, Blonde Blowout, 2019
Natalie Krick holds a BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago. She has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Aperture Foundation in New York, the Museum of Sex in New York and Blue Sky Gallery in Portland. She was awarded the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2017 and was a recipient of an Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in 2015. An exhibition of her work, Natalie Krick: Rhymes of Confusion, is on view at SF Camerawork through March 14th.
Read more here.
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