Jackie Im is an independent curator, writer and artist living and working in Oakland, CA. She has curated exhibitions at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA; the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Liminal Space, Oakland, CA; S.H.E.D. Projects, Oakland, CA; Pro Arts, Oakland, CA; MacArthur B Arthur, Oakland, CA; and Queens Nails, San Francisco, CA. She has assisted on exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA; Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and the Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute. She received her BA in Art History from Mills College and her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. She is currently the editor of Art Cards San Francisco and co-director and curator of Et al., a gallery in San Francisco.
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First-Person Plural
Dates:
Fri Aug 05, 2011 19:00 - Sun Aug 28, 2011
Location:
Oakland,
California
United States of America
United States of America
First-Person Plural
Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour
August 5th – 298h, 2011
Reception Friday, August 5th, 7-10 pm
MacArthur B Arthur is pleased to announce First-Person Plural, a group show featuring work by Joel Dean, Dana Hemenway and Sasha Krieger. Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour.
First-Person Plural features new work by Joel Dean, Dana Hemenway, and Sasha Krieger, three artists with widely varying practices. Each artist was invited to produce and show new solo work and subsequently asked to create additional works that will operate as reactions or responses to the other artists. What they have chosen to produce in regards to each other’s work will have come about as a result of communication between the three, coupled with efforts to become familiar with one another’s practices, and to respond with a piece that will avoid overt framing or interpretation. These responsory works will provide or point to some method for navigating conceptually between discrete methodologies and concepts, re-framing the gallery as a site for critically aware dialogue, versus its usual mode as a venue for the presentation of disconnected individual vision.
Though externally disparate, the three artists in First-Person Plural share a depth of inquiry into the act of producing and exhibition work. Joel Dean’s paintings, plainly produced with a minimum of handcraft are a resultant of explorations of the structure of painting - the various decisions such as what and how to paint - providing an impossible but intriguing subject for signification in his simple canvases. Dana Hemenway’s sculptural constructions examine the matter of sculpture and exhibition spaces via subtle co-option of materials such as gallery walls, nails, and paper into surprising juxtapositions and role-reversals. Sasha Krieger’s interdisciplinary work highlights her own artistic doubts and the seemingly impossible task of “originality” via an examination of reference and response.
Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour
August 5th – 298h, 2011
Reception Friday, August 5th, 7-10 pm
MacArthur B Arthur is pleased to announce First-Person Plural, a group show featuring work by Joel Dean, Dana Hemenway and Sasha Krieger. Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour.
First-Person Plural features new work by Joel Dean, Dana Hemenway, and Sasha Krieger, three artists with widely varying practices. Each artist was invited to produce and show new solo work and subsequently asked to create additional works that will operate as reactions or responses to the other artists. What they have chosen to produce in regards to each other’s work will have come about as a result of communication between the three, coupled with efforts to become familiar with one another’s practices, and to respond with a piece that will avoid overt framing or interpretation. These responsory works will provide or point to some method for navigating conceptually between discrete methodologies and concepts, re-framing the gallery as a site for critically aware dialogue, versus its usual mode as a venue for the presentation of disconnected individual vision.
Though externally disparate, the three artists in First-Person Plural share a depth of inquiry into the act of producing and exhibition work. Joel Dean’s paintings, plainly produced with a minimum of handcraft are a resultant of explorations of the structure of painting - the various decisions such as what and how to paint - providing an impossible but intriguing subject for signification in his simple canvases. Dana Hemenway’s sculptural constructions examine the matter of sculpture and exhibition spaces via subtle co-option of materials such as gallery walls, nails, and paper into surprising juxtapositions and role-reversals. Sasha Krieger’s interdisciplinary work highlights her own artistic doubts and the seemingly impossible task of “originality” via an examination of reference and response.
Procedural
Dates:
Fri May 06, 2011 07:00 - Sun May 29, 2011
Location:
Oakland,
California
United States of America
United States of America
Procedural
Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour
May 6th – 29th, 2011
Reception Friday, May 6th, 7-10 pm
MacArthur B Arthur is pleased to announce Procedural, a group show featuring work by Miguel Calderón, Chris Cobb, Anthony Discenza, Maggie Haas, Kelly Lynn Jones, Mads Lynnerup, Julio César Morales, Marco Rios, Trevor Shimzu, Chris Sollars, Charlene Tan, Kara Tanaka, and Christine Wong Yap.
Procedural is an exhibition of instruction-based works. Thirteen artists were invited to create new pieces in the form of instructions to be performed and fabricated by the curators, Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour. The resulting works are both products of the artists’ hand and their conceptualizing process, as well as representing the series of decisions made during production, in this case by Im and Harbour. The visible hand of the curators in each work directly implicates the curator as not just a supervisor but also as a collaborator. Procedural reflects on and questions the importance of the individual artists’ hand versus concept and explores artwork as a collaboration between artists, curators, fabricators, and audience.
Curated by Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour
May 6th – 29th, 2011
Reception Friday, May 6th, 7-10 pm
MacArthur B Arthur is pleased to announce Procedural, a group show featuring work by Miguel Calderón, Chris Cobb, Anthony Discenza, Maggie Haas, Kelly Lynn Jones, Mads Lynnerup, Julio César Morales, Marco Rios, Trevor Shimzu, Chris Sollars, Charlene Tan, Kara Tanaka, and Christine Wong Yap.
Procedural is an exhibition of instruction-based works. Thirteen artists were invited to create new pieces in the form of instructions to be performed and fabricated by the curators, Jackie Im and Aaron Harbour. The resulting works are both products of the artists’ hand and their conceptualizing process, as well as representing the series of decisions made during production, in this case by Im and Harbour. The visible hand of the curators in each work directly implicates the curator as not just a supervisor but also as a collaborator. Procedural reflects on and questions the importance of the individual artists’ hand versus concept and explores artwork as a collaboration between artists, curators, fabricators, and audience.
