By: Kyrie Sismaet By: Kyrie Sismaet | June 30, 2022 | Culture, Art, Events, Local,
Aside from the long-awaited Obama Portraits recently arriving to the DeYoung Museum, summer has always been an opportune time in the Bay Area for museum visits. Whether as an engaging date idea or family outing, a trip to any of our fabulously immersive galleries is the perfect way to not only cool off from the sweltering heat, but also to become educated on something new and thought-provoking.
Below is a list of a few of the most anticipated exhibits premiering this July all around the Bay Area, so that you can plan ahead on when to visit one, or all!
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This intriguing gallery by Paul Kariouk and Mabel O. Wilson in the SFMOMA will utilize architecture to observe themes of stability and security in the context of migration, disruption, and transitions. Here the definitions and aesthetics of a domestic "home" are deconstructed and challenged when viewing such structures and building materials from nomadic and unconventional life perspectives.
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The wonderful Museum of the African Diaspora will host this solo exhibition from Richard-Jonathan Nelson on their second floor salon, which interlaces the Black body and craft to depict western culture's speculative future.
As the second feature within the museum's 2022-2023 Emerging Artists Program, this creative gallery will ingeniously convey the Black Diaspora and the western trajectory of Black body politics through textile mediums of weaving, embroidery, and quilting, all of which already have their complex cultural roots to Black identity and the American Low country.
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Faith Ringgold's trailblazing vision of amplifying justice, equity and political strife of the Black struggle through experimental story quilts will be available to be fully appreciated this summer at the DeYoung. Ringgold's gallery will comprehensively encompass fifty years of her legendary artworks, which powerfully depicts the civil rights era, her own personal narratives, and collective histories of the American experience to both unify and invoke social change.
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Down in Palo Alto's exquisitely palatial Cantor Center will be the playful, yet poignant face sculptures of famed Californian artist and powerful San Francisco arts advocate Ruth Asawa. Experience Asawa's legacy and challenges as an Asian American artist and champion of artistic advocacy with her face sculptures, which will be the first time they are shown in their entirety ever at any public institution.
This is a significant historic moment that adds to Asawa's long list of accolades, such as her iconic assistance in establishing the San Francisco School of the Arts, now renamed after her.
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Lastly, further south in San Jose's gorgeous Museum of Art will be Brett Weston, a collection of the photographer's bold, high-contrast compositions of western landscapes done in strikingly abstract perspectives. As a pioneering artist of the early twentieth century, Weston was truly dedicated to his craft, which is recognizable from its uniquely experimental process and evocative imagery that challenges other natural photography.
Here's to an edifying summer of seeing them all!
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