If I had it to do over again, I would assign other stages of mourning to the scripted five steps of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Perhaps the leap between depression and acceptance seemed too big a gulf to bridge. Between them, I would add in no fixed order: repositioning, integrating, shapeshifting, imagination, enchantment, trance, transmogrification, invocation, mystification, and bewilderment. When the time comes, because I am sure it will, I'll test them out, and let you know how it goes.
Founded by a committee including Altman Siegel, Fraenkel Gallery, Friends Indeed, Gagosian, Jessica Silverman, Pace Palo Alto, Ratio 3, and art-market operatives Sophia Kinell and Sarah Wendell Sherrill, 8-bridges will offer monthly rotating exhibitions by Bay Area galleries.
The Artist will have a solo show at Friends Indeed opening November 2020, ahead of her first museum solo exhibition co-organized by the Walker Art Center and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.
Friends Indeed Gallery is pleased to present A-Z: Artists at Large, a new global talk series focused on contemporary Asian art and its diasporas. CLICK HERE to view the entire talk.
Our first conversation will take place on Tuesday, September 1st at 5PM PST / 8PM EST / 8AM GMT ahead of the closing for Stephanie H. Shih's exhibition Same Same with Perrotin the day after. Same Same includes two new bodies of work from an ongoing series about shared nostalgia and the Asian American pantry. The artist will be in conversation with Aleesa Alexander, Assistant Curator of American Art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, and Soleil Ho, former host of the award winning podcast Racist Sandwich, current host of Extra Spicy, and food critic for the SF Chronicle.
Patty Chang is featured in the Summer 2020 issue of X-TRA. The artist will have a solo exhibition at the gallery from October 1 - November 6, 2020, curated by Nancy Lim, Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA.
To launch Eamon Ore-Giron's show with Friends Indeed, the artist will be in conversation with Diana Nawi, co-Artistic Director of Prospect.5 Biennial in New Orleans. Click here to RSVP.
In the Stanford tradition of providing a home for art and artists who advance dialogue on contemporary issues, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University will welcome visual artist Eamon Ore-Giron to campus for the 2020-2021 Presidential Residency on the Future of the Arts.
The residency will culminate in an exhibition of Ore-Giron’s work in spring 2021, giving new context to objects already on view at the Anderson Collection.
A show contemplating the limitations of consciousness.
Featuring Tauba Auerbach and Hiro Kone, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Donna Haraway, Michael Jang, David Kasprzak, Nion McEvoy Jr., Eamon Ore-Giron, Gala Porras-Kim, Jesse Schlesinger, Gabriel Sierra, Smashing Pumpkins, Bradley Ward, and David Weiss.
Image: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autoconcanción A, 2016. Collage. Framed Dimensions: 23 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (59.7 x 74.9 x 3.8 cm) Image Dimensions: 19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches (49.5 x 64.8 cm)
Join us for the opening celebration of Oversharing. The exhibition is on view from September 13–October 25, 2019 from Wed–Fri, 11am–4pm and by appointment. This is the inaugural show at Friends Indeed Gallery.
