Of Dreams and Reality @ Berkeley Art Center

Of Dreams and Reality
Curated by Ann Jastrab

September 15 – October 25, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15, 6-8pm
Closing Program: Saturday, Oct 13, 4-6 pm

1275 Walnut Street Berkeley, CA 94709 (map)

Photo by Steve Goldband and Ellen Konar

I will have one image from my new series Rapid Express in this group show. This is the premier exhibition for this new series and I’m very excited to have it out in the world.

BAPC and Berkeley Art Center will be participating in the inaugural year of the Bay Area Month of Photography. Curator Ann Jastrab is Editor In Chief at All About Photo. She was the gallery director for Rayko Photo in San Francisco for ten years. Ann has curated many exhibitions for RayKo as well as for the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Artspan, SFAI, the Center for Fine Art Photography, and other national and international venues outside of San Francisco. She has reviewed portfolios at festivals and competitions around the world.

About the Puerto Rico fundraiser:
This exhibit poster, signed by Frank Espada, is related to his most renowned body of work The Puerto Rican Diaspora.  It can be won in the raffle at the opening reception on Saturday, September 15. Proceeds benefit Foundation for Puerto Rico. 

See more at:

• Facebook event: closing event 10/13
• Facebook event: opening party
• Facebook: BAPC page preview of my image
• SFBayMOP: the “month of photography” website
• BAPC

AnthropoScene @ Arc Studios & Gallery

Exhibition: January 27 – February 17, 2018
Opening Reception: January 27, 7 pm – 9 pm

Closing Reception: Saturday, February 17, 1 pm – 3 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, February 17, 2pm 

Location:  ARC Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA (map)

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays 1-6 pm and Saturdays 12-3 pm

I will have some large horizontal panoramas in this BAPC show at ARC.

Featured artists: Rose Borden, Adrienne Defendi, Anthony Delgado, Dan Fenstermacher, Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, Ralf Hillebrand, Ken Hoffman, Thomas Lavin, Ari Salomon, Angelika Schilli, Cindy Stokes, Denise Tarantino, Nick Winkworth

The changes made to the natural landscape by Homo Sapiens are the subjects of many socially engaged photographers these days. Richard Misrach and Edward Burtynsky, for example, find visual beauty and power in the industrial culture, while depicting as well their effects on and sometimes damage to the environment. If we are now used to seeing all human land use as insidious capitalism run amok, nineteenth-century landscape photographers like Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge, who worked for corporate interests and wealthy patrons a century ago in an age of industrial expansion, were neutral in tone, documenting both the grandeur of nature and what they saw than as the indomitable genius of human will and creativity. Something of this ambivalent tone pervades as well the 1970s New Topographics movement of Lewis Baltz and others, which documented the “man-altered landscape” with the ironic humor and cool observation appropriate to the era of Pop and Minimalism. The typological studies by Bernd and Hilla Becher of blast furnaces and other industrial architecture have a compelling beauty despite the strict functionality (with slight variations) of their similar designs.

Curator: DeWitt Cheng

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• Read more on the ARC website
• RSVP optional on the Facebook event page
• More images on BAPC.photo

48 Pillars @ ARC

Exhibition: February 24 – April 14, 2018

Opening Reception:
Saturday, February 24th, 7-9pm

Artists Talk and Closing Reception:
April 14th, 12-3pm

Location:  ARC Gallery, 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA (map)

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays 1-6PM and Saturdays 12-3PM (and by appointment)

I will have two specially mounted vertical panoramas in this visually stunning exhibition. I won’t be at the opening but look forward to seeing everyone at the closing reception and artist talk.

Featured artists: Carlos Cartagena, Paula Dupois Dupuis, Holly Downing, Georgianne Fastaio, Rebecca Fox, Laura Hapka, Patter Hellstrom, Ester Hernandez, Howard Hersh, Isis Tatiana Hockenos, Vincent Jackson, Ivy Jacobsen, Carole Jeung, Kevin Keul, Joseph Kowalczyk, Katja Leibenath, Paul Morin, Stephen Namara, Hadley Radt, Lucky Rapp, Fernando Reyes, Cindy Shih, Ursula X. Young.

48 Pillars was inspired by a chance encounter at Flax with a close-out sale of deep vertical panels, 48” x 12” x 1 5/8”. 24 local Bay Area artists will produce two pieces each on these identically sized panels that will exactly ring the gallery — 48 works total.
This is the second exhibition at Arc Gallery that is essentially a “structural constraint” show. The other exhibition is our iconic annual, end of summer exhibition, FourSquared. In both exhibitions, the artists are unconstrained in subject matter except to the extent that works need to be a series; but they are constrained in format. The panoramic installation of the columns are visually stunning.

Michael Yochum, Curator

Making of a Beautiful Bridge @ Photo Yokohama

February 27 – March 4 (10:30am – 6:30pm daily)
Location: “Gallery M” at Minatomirai Station (map) (Yokohama, Japan)

I will be showing some panoramic images in this large group exhibition. I am excited to have my first exhibition of prints in Japan – after many years shooting the Japanese cItyscape.

I will also participate in a BAPC group exhibition, Places Of Change that will be part of this event. The larger exhibition is called Making of a Beautiful Bridge and is organized by SAMURAI FOTO which is a member-based photo collective that is partnering with BAPC. 

Other participants from BAPC include Rose Borden, Adrienne Defendi, Steve Goldband & Ellen Konar, and Ken Hoffman.

Other participants from  SAMURAI FOTO include Yoshida Shigeru, Everett Brown and many others.

Making of a Beautiful Bridge is part of the annual Photo Yokohama Festival in Yokohama, Japan. Up to 40,000 people attend for this week of exhibitions, conferences and other events.

Video Tour:

Sukkah Studio @ The Contemporary Jewish Museum

Please join me at the “Sukkah Studio” in the lobby of the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Monday, October 9th from 11am-5pm. I will be the visiting artist for the day showing my work and teaching visitors how to take panoramic photos–and how to think about the unique aspects of the panoramic format.

Sukkot is the week-long Jewish harvest festival—the museum is re-inventing the idea of the Sukkah as a place for artists. From October 5-10, one artist will inhabit the Sukkah Studio each day.

 Visiting the Sukkah Studio is free; you can find it in the Museum lobby common area.

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736 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94103 (map)

• CJM Sukkah Studio info page
• Facebook event page
• CJM calendar link for October 9th – with “add to calendar”

Press coverage:

• Jweekly: Sukkot ends: The rites and meals are over, but the gates never close (PDF) 
• sfexaminer.com 

Portfolio Walk @Photolucida Portland Art Museum

Thursday, April 20th 6-9pm (I WILL PRESENT MY WORK IN GROUP 3 FROM 8-9PM)
Portland Art Museum (Sunken Ballroom)
1219 SW Park Ave., Portland, OR, (map)

The Portfolio Walk

As a participating photographer of Photolucida, I will be included in the Portfolio Walk on the Thursday evening of the Reviews at the Portland Art Museum. Each photographer will have a table to display their prints and materials. The three-hour event is split into three sessions. Photographers are each given one hour to display their work.

This is a very busy and crowded event, free and open to the public.

See more photography in one night than most people see in a lifetime! The Portfolio Walk is a showcase of all the artists participating in Photolucida’s Portfolio Review event. Over the course of the evening, 160 photographers from all over the country and world will display their portfolios for all to see. The photographers are talented contemporary artists with fresh new voices. It’s a great chance to see modern photography at its finest. Meet the artists, see the prints, ask questions, get inspired!

SFMOMA Artists Gallery Benefit Sale 2017

The big yearly art sale at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery:

A special online sale to benefit the SFMOMA Artists Gallery in Fort Mason Center. The event will run from Monday, April 3 through Friday, April 14. Proceeds benefit the participating artists, the Artists Gallery, and SFMOMA’s exhibitions and programs.

View Ari’s artwork on the projects page.

SFMOMA members receive discounts on original art up to 50% off! Proceeds benefit the participating artists, the Artists Gallery, and SFMOMA’s exhibitions and education programs.

more details coming soon.