On January 27th, 2021, Friends Indeed is pleased to host a talk by Aleesa Alexander, co-Director of the Asian American Art Initiative and Curator of American Art at the Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University; Patrick Flores, Director of the Philippine Contemporary Art Network and Artistic Director of the 2019 Singapore Biennale; and Philip Tinari, Director, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing on the legacy of Bay Area artist Carlos Villa (1936-2013). The artist has an exhibition on view at Friends Indeed (Chinatown) from January 14 - March 19, 2021. Villa will have a career-retrospective in August 2021 at the Asian Art Museum. Asia Society Northern California is our promotional partner for this event.

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Patty Chang participates in a group show MY BODY, MY RULES at Pérez Art Museum Miami.

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L.A.–based artist Patty Chang works in performance, video, writing, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the New Museum, New York; BAK, Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands; Fri Art Fribourg, Switzerland; Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, England; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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Artist Eamon Ore-Giron will present a selection of film clips, artist videos, and footage documenting different indigenous and folkloric performances that have influenced his practice. Amongst them, he will feature “Crudo” by Miguel Angel Ríos, and Miguel Calderon’s “Camaleón” and “Inverted Star.”

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Carl Cheng participates in a group show Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Switzerland.

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Join artist Patty Chang in a special conversation with Astrida Neimanis, author of Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology, marking the opening of Patty Chang’s exhibition Milk Debt at 18th Street Arts Center. Neimanis and Chang will discuss confluences in their respective practices in the shadow of both a global pandemic and climate catastrophe. Their conversation charts a route through messy questions of toxic embodiment, mothers and their labors, environmental justice, and the banality of planetary collapse. How, they wonder, might the shifting scale of our fears can teach us something about what matters?

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Join 8-bridges for a lively Zoom discussion with the directors of three Bay Area institutions: Julie Rodrigues Widholm (the new Director of Berkeley Art Museum), Alison Gass (the new Director of ICA San Jose) and Jay Xu (Director of Asian Art Museum since 2008). Chaired by art sociologist Sarah Thornton, the session will discuss curatorial agendas and building bridges between audiences.

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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.

Love,

Patricia

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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.

**Tuesday, September 15 @ 2PM PST / 5PM EST Register for the Virtual Talk**

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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.

All 26 Vogues Unite for the First Time Ever on the Hope Issue.

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.

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The Sacred Synthesis of Eamon Ore-Giron
by Natasha Boas

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.

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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.