Engineer's Daughter

a trapped in your mind feeling

I'm so pleased to be involved with this most excellent show, on display in two galleries in Oakland in April.  I hope to see you at the opening April 5 (my birthday week too)!

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suzanne lacy

Suzanne Lacy: The Crystal Quilt, documentation from which was on display at Tate Modern last year

Suzanne Lacy: Storying Rape, included in the Liverpool Biennial 2012

Suzanne Lacy & Leslie Labowitz-Starus: In Mourning and In Rage, part of the group show No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar at Blum & Poe Los Angeles

Suzanne Lacy had quite a 2012.  In addition to the above exhibitions she was interviewed in Art in America, Frieze, and Art Journal (in which she and Andrea Bowers discoursed on the topic of "Necessary Collaborations in Feminist Art").  She also gave talks about her practice at the Hayward Gallery, Tate Modern, the International Conference on the Arts in Society, and the Creative Time Summit.  Lacy has been an inspiration to me ever since I read her collected writings Leaving Art, and I particularly like the questions she challenges herself with as she creates her work (found on a project page on the Creative Time site):

What is the relationship of “service” to “activism,” and of both to “art practice”? Are artists limited by their allegiance to a professional community and its standards and methodologies? How is my work linked to local service practices and global activisms? Who do we work for, toward what ends, and what acts are most effective toward those ends?

See also:

• Suzanne Lacy
• "The Suzanne Lacy Network" in Art in America
• Interview in Frieze
• Presentation with Code Pink's Jodie Evans at the 2012 Creative Time Summit

agenda 03.06.13

Thursday, March 7:

• Opening Reception: "D & D" - A Dungeons and Dragons themed group show at Mission: Comics & Art
• While, at last - Opening Reception at Ramon's Tailor
• Mon$ta (Green Ova), Mtns, Laughters, Believe, Sophie Ginou at Moco Gallery
• ¡¡¡Chicha Whomp!!! at Showdown
• Teo González: Recent Paintings at Brian Gross Fine Art
• Jon Weiss at Roll Up Gallery / Public Works
• For the Birds at Creativity Explored
• Passion Pit, Matt & Kim, Icona Pop at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
• Parenthetical Girls at the Starry Plough

Friday, March 8:

• Creative Growth at Park Life
• Ask the Dust - Drawings by Joey Alone and Deuce 7 at Needles and Pens
• Overturn the Artifice at SOMArts
• Conversations with Artists: Francesco Spagnolo on Traditional Judaica and the Art of Kehinde Wiley at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
• Surrounded by Soundscapes: Charles Amirkhanian, Bernie Krause, Walter Murch at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Graham Gillmore: Submersions at Gallery 16
• No Way Back with Optimo, Solar, Conor at Monarch

Saturday, March 9:

• The Night Light 1 Year Anniversary Party
• Super Sale and Swap at Pushbike Cycling Apparel
• The Act of Loving You CD Release, Fundraiser + (hopefully) Concert
• Conversation Continuum - A Benefit Show for Martina }{ Johnston
• Thank You For Your Waiting at Swarm Gallery
• Koban, Lie, Melting Wreck at MOCO Gallery
• Paris Is Burning, A Celebration w/ Latrice Royale & Peaches Christ at the Castro Theatre
• AB/NORMAL: 3 Bay Area Emerging Artists at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art

Sunday, March 10:

• Unnatural Ways, Lisa Mezzacappa, Gentleman Surfer at Bar 355
• The Exploratorium's On the Move: Road Show/Street Fest
• The Fellowship by Ignacio Zulueta: Second Sunday Readings at The Garage
• Alicia Keys, Miguel at the Oracle Arena

Monday, March 11:

• Music for Adobe Books at Public Works
• Lecture: Benedetta Tagliabue, EMBT at California College of the Arts
• Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents: Wu Tsang at 102 Wurster Hall
• Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad at The Fillmore

Wednesday, March 13:

• Lecture by Doug Rickard at the San Francisco Art Institute

sprezzatura

Carnaval, San Francisco.  May 28, 2006.

down to earth

When the Center for Land Use Interpretation announces a bus trip I jump, and this time I took my dad (the engineer of whom I am the daughter) along with me too.  CLUI's current exhibit is called Down to Earth: Experimental Aircraft Crash Sites of the Mojave, and the trip took us out to select sites around Edwards Air Force Base with two expert aerospace archaeologists, Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore, as our guides.  Along the way they and CLUI director Matthew Coolidge commented on numerous points of interest and told the stories of the pilots, almost none of whom were able to eject from their doomed aircraft in time.  At the first site we visited when I looked down and saw the shrapnel still scattered across the dirt decades after the crash it was sobering to say the least.  As always with CLUI the whole journey left my head brimming with new information, in this instance about a little-known part of history.  I have great respect for those pilots and for the work Merlin and Moore continue to do too.  Plus it was just wonderful to spend a day in my favorite desert with my dad, right back where my family had seen Space Shuttle Columbia land at Edwards in 1983.

See also:

• My photos
• Dad's photos
• CLUI
• X-Plane Crashes by Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore

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