PAST EXHIBITIONS 2000–2009
ARCHIVE HIGHLIGHTS
In 2009’s Visual Arts Lyric Escape: Paintings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, visitors saw the ways in which the legendary poet used paint instead of words to convey messages of fascination and mischievousness. Most of these expressive paintings were created in the 2000s and reveal the deep commitment by one of the great artists of our century to explore the human condition.
2000
Small is Beautiful: Annual Members Showcase, January 9 – February 12
Mel Adamson & Lucy Snow: Winners of 1999 Members Showcase, February 23 – April 1
8th Annual Youth Arts Festival, April 12 – June 1
16th Annual National Juried Exhibition (juried by Clara Kim, San Francisco Art Institute), July 16 – August 26
Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White World, September 10 – October 12
Against All Odds: Ingenuity, Talent & Disability, November 19 – December 16
2001
Annual Members Showcase, January 1 – February 3
Water From Your Spring: Composer Ann Millikan & Painter Selena Engelhart, February 11 – February 17
Nylan Jeung & David Lippenberger: Winners of 2000 Members Showcase, March 4 – April 7
Facecards: 9th Annual Youth Arts Festival, April 18 – May 12
Watershed: Our Most Precious Resource, Barbara Adair, Lee Michael Altman, Spencer Chen, Nikki B. Davis, Danae Mattes, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Anne Subercaseaux, Brian Tripp & George Blake, May 20 – July 14
18th Annual National Juried Exhibition (juried by Rupert Jenkins, curator, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery), July 22 – August 31
The Whole World's Watching: Peace & Social Justice Movements of the 1960s & 1970s: Jeffrey Blankfort, Nacio Jan Brown, Cathy Cade, Bob Fitch, Robert Hsiang, Ken Light, Richard Misrach, Ronald J. Riesterer, Stephen Shames, Ted Streshinsky, Michelle Vignes, and Douglas Watcher, September 16 – December 16
2002
Sylvia Sussman & Sibila Savage: Winners of 2001 Members Showcase, February 24 – April 13
10th Annual Youth Arts Festival, April 24 – May 24
Eyes Unclouded: nora chipaumire & Alex Potts, June 1 – June 15
2003
Annual Members Showcase, January 12 – February 16
Katherine Westerhout: Winner of 2002 Members Showcase, February 17 – April 6
Unbound & Under Covers: Experience in Visual Writing, Betsy Davids, Dale Going & Marie Carbone, Susan E. King , Lisa Kokin, Jaime Robles, Teague Soderman, Indigo Som, Meredith Stricker, June 8 – July 27
20th Annual National Juried Exhibition (juried by Marian Parmenter), August 6 – September 13
One Struggle, Two Communities: Late 20th Century Political Posters of Havana, Cuba & the San Francisco Bay Area, September 28 – December 13
2004
12th Annual Youth Arts Festival, March 3 – April 3
Winners of 2003 Members Showcase: Karin Lusnak, Michelle Mansour, Doris Mitsch, April 25 – June 5
Sacred Spaces, Seyed Alavi, Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman, Taraneh Hemami, Rene Yung, Rhoda London, June 27 – August 7
21st Annual National Juried Exhibition (juried by Heidi Zuckerman), August 15 – September 18
2005
Annual Members Showcase, January 18 – February 18
Space is the Place: Sarah Cain, Christian Maychack, Alicia McCarthy, Kamau Amu Patton, April 10 – May 15
From Isolation to Connection: Artists Living with Psychiatric Disability, May 22 – July 1
Members Showcase Winners, June 4—July 15
22nd Annual National Juried Exhibition, July 29 – September 1
Pleasure: New Works by Susan Danis, September 11 – October 15
International Small Film Festival, October 20 – October 29
Justice Matters: Artists Consider Palestine, November 6 – December 17
2006
Super Heroes: Youth Arts Festival Celebrating BHS Advanced Placement Artists and the Arts & Humanities Academy, March 8 – April 1
Berkeley Treasures, April 9 – May 20
Annual National Juried Exhibition (juried by Paule Anglim and Mildred Howard), July 23 – August 26
Annual Small Film Festival, curated by Richard Whittaker and Dickson Schneider, September 6 – September 10
The Whole World's Watching: Peace & Social Justice Movements of the 1960s & 1970s, curated by Robbin Henderson, September 24 – October 10
Annual Members Showcase, November 1 – December 21
2007
Interventions, January 7 – February 10
Constructions, March 18 – April 14
Youth Arts Festival, March 21 – April 15
Bridge to Sakai: Toyoaki Ikushima, Shozaburo Kawai, Yoshiyuki Kitada, Setsuko Kondo, Hotei Nagata, Kazuaki Nobata, Atsuko Sakai, Yoko Yasumatsu, July 11 – August 18
National Juried Exhibition, August 26 – September 22
International Small Film Festival, September 26 – September 30
Berkeley Treasures: Three Generations of Printmakers, Emmanuel Montoya, Miriam Stahl, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, October 7 – December 2
Annual Members Showcase, December 9, 2007 – January 13, 2008
2008
Youth Arts Festival, January 30 – March 9
Loom & Lathe: The Art of Kay Sekimachi & Bob Stocksdale, March 16 – April 27
Home Ec: Sarah Applebaum, Elide Endreson, Sherry Koyama, Christina La Sala, Julia Petho, Allen Stickel, May 4 – June 22
25th Annual National Juried Exhibition (juried by Catharine Clark of Catharine Clark Gallery and JoAnne Northrup, senior curator, San Jose Museum of Art), August 26 – November 22
International Small Film Festival, October 22 – October 26
Loss: Works from the Bay Area Photographers' Collective, November 2 – December 7
Annual Members Showcase, December 14, 2008 – January 25, 2009
2009
Youth Arts Festival, February 1 – March 29
Print & Poster Benefit & Exhibition, April 5 – April 12
Visual Arts Lyric Escape: Paintings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, April 15 – May 10
Co-Motion: Video Installation by Cheryl Calleri & Thekla Hammond, May 17 – June 7
Perceive & Connect: Katie Baum, Jeanine Briggs & Indira Martina Moore, June 14 – July 26
Juried @ BAC: Works on Paper (juried by Rene de Guzman and Kater Eilertsen), August 2 – September 20
Metaphysical Abstraction: Contemporary Approaches to Spiritual Content, Jamie Brunson, Freddy Chandra, David Ivan Clark, Lori del Mar, David O. Johnson, David King, Keira Kotler, Michelle Mansour, Jenn Shifflet, Hadi Tabatabai, Alex Zecca, October 1 – November 29
The Whole World’s Watching examined a rich history of social movements in documentary photography. Distinguished photographers illuminated the rise of the Black Panthers, the Free Speech and anti-war movements, feminism, disability rights, environmental activism, the struggle for gay rights, and the cultural milieu which formed and informed them.
nora chipaumire & ALEX POTTS worked collaboratively to create a multifaceted performance environment with Eyes Unclouded in 2002. The artists used multiple disciplines as vessels to explore new ground in dance, music, projected moving image, sculpture, and spoken word.
One Struggle, Two Communities featured 60 post-revolutionary Cuban posters with examples of work by Bay Area artists, including ENRIQUE CHAGOYA, EMORY DOUGLAS, JUAN FENTES, RUPERT GARCIA, NANCY HOM, MALAQUIAS MONTOYA, JANE NORLING, and JOS SANCES. The exhibit was curated by LINCOLN CUSHING, author of Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art. Pictured: Downsize Gazpacho by Enrique Chagoya.
Unbound & Under Covers featured writers who work with visual media and visual artists for whom the written word is an essential part of their work. Pictured: JAIME ROBLES, Nine Poems on the Death of My Mother, 2003.
In Pleasure, new work by SUSAN DANIS challenged the emotional detachment of much contemporary art. The East Bay sculptor, an inveterate scavenger, delves into “the collective unconscious made manifest” to populate and nourish her teeming imagination. Discarded materials take on new life as suggestive curiosa; kitsch is transformed into treasure. Secret affinities between the cultural and the natural emerge and guide Danis's creative process. Pictured: La Femme en Rose, 2005.
Co-motion, a video installation by CHERYL CALLERI and THEKLA HAMMOND, was about movement — both the movement we see in our everyday lives and the unseen movement that exists on a subatomic level. Original percussion soundtrack by ARMANDA MAFUFO.