Title: The Dust Never Settles: Four Visual Art Projects Responding to the Centennial of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
Dates: June 15 - August 26, 2006
Location: San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (main gallery), 401 Van Ness Ave., SF, CA
Artists: Patricia Diart, Kate Pocrass, Margaret Tedesco, Claudia Tennyson
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents The Dust Never Settles, an exhibition of four visual art projects by San Francisco-based artists exploring the 1906 earthquake from a contemporary perspective. The SFAC Gallery is excited to be the only local art space addressing the centennial of the earthquake with newly commissioned works of art rather than historic ephemera. Located in various physical and virtual sites, the projects pose such questions as: What would it be like to live through another disaster of that magnitude, and are we prepared for such a happening? What does it mean when we try to piece together the past through archival material? When confronted with the prospect of losing everything, what really matters?
Note: The projects in the exhibition are so extensive that I have provided links rather than lengthy descriptions.
Patricia Diart: Rate of Transfer
(residency, site-specific performative installation)
Kate Pocrass: That Which I Refuse to Leave Behind
(40 downtown kiosk posters & blog)
Margaret Tedesco: Nineteen hundred o six - two thousand o six
(artist-made books displayed at the SFAC Gallery and the SF Public Library)
Claudia Tennyson: Surroundings
(exhibition and film)
