A new exhibition at the Museum of Craft and Design offers a snapshot of the current moment in Bay Area art.
It’s no secret that the Bay Area is a difficult place to make a living, especially as an artist. Affordable housing and studio space are scarce. Funding for the arts is spare, with many local artists working full-time jobs in addition to making their work.
But the anti-establishment — and often anti-capitalist — sentiments, at times related to the global art market, permeated work here as well. When New York went abstract, in the 1950s, for instance, the Bay Area figurative movement doubled down on representational painting. In “Palms in the Fog,” a zine-length poem by Leila Weefur & Margaret Tedesco, Weefur posits, “If ever you’ve felt like you don’t belong, you never have.” In the text accompanying his whimsical textile sculptures, Alexander Hernandez wonders if San Francisco loves him as much as he loves it. It can be difficult to feel that way when the material conditions of life in The City seem to insist that there isn’t space for you.
Is SF the worst-run city in America? New ranking argues it is The City's score was dragged down by its budget spending per capita Other works directly reference other Bay Area art movements. Ala Ebtekar’s “Luminous Ground” is a series of cyanotype photographic prints made on ceramic tiles, themselves made from California soil — a nod to the Bay Area’s illustrious history of photographic and ceramic arts.
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