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Public Theater #3: What Do Blindmen Dream?
In Public Theater #3: What do Blind Men Dream, Fox arranged for two blind street musicians who sang at the same downtown San Francisco corner every evening to appear instead at the corner of Union and Buchanan Streets and mailed invitations to the…
Yellow Duck and Tonka Beans
This performance was done in a small room illuminated only by the glow from the spiral coil of a hot plate. For a period of one hour, Nina Wise spun in circles with small battery powered lights attached to her wrists as I walked in large circles…
Push Wall
AV: What would you see as your earliest body work?
TF: The Push Wall piece. It was like having a dialogue with the wall, exchanging energy with it. I pushed as hard as I could for about eight or nine minutes, until I was too tired to push anymore. I…
Exhibition: Sound Sculpture As
I invited nine sculptors to make sound works for my show, which took place on April 10, 1970. Each artist produced sounds by manipulating a material. Terry Fox hit a bowl of water against against the floor and made a sound like bong. Paul Kos trained…
Exhibition: The Return of Abstract Expressionism
When Jackson Pollock and Morris Louis let the paint leave their hands, gravity formed the shape of the stain on the raw canvas. This exhibition of abstract expressionism is a direct extension of the painting of the ‘50s; the action is the same…
Exhibition:The Eighties
In response to this new zeitgeist, Berkeley Art Museum curators Brenda Richardson and Susan Rannells presented The Eighties in 1970, soon after the museum moved into its new building. Richardson and Rannells asked a group of artists to address in…
Exhibition: 16 Rose Street
A building in San Francisco leased by Reese Palley Gallery and given over as studio space to artists such as Sam Richardson, Terry Fox, James Pennuto, Howard Fried, Barney Bailey, and Alex Lambie (Loeffler and Tong 1980: 54)
Reese Palley’s…
Exhibition: All Night Sculpture
In ’73 there was a show at MOCA called All Night Sculptures, probably the most interesting show that happened there. It was very serious. Nine artists designed work for all night viewing: installations that had something to do with nighttime or…
Exhibition: South of the Slot
South of the Slot was a group show that took place in San Francisco during the months of October and November in 1974. It was a show that was organized by a group of artists as a much needed forum for a particular kind of work.
Organised around a…