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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: 1975-76 Art Institute Annual
The San Francisco Art Institute had an annual exhibition every year that was important to the community because artists curated it. It was called the Art Institute Annual, and it was usually a month-long exhibition. In 1976 it was literally an…
Exhibition: Participationkinetics
For his first one person show, Kos placed seven thousand pounds of ice in front of the gallery entrance. The Fire Department declared it a hazard and broke it up to melt it faster. (Anonymous 1971: 6)
Picture this: over a two-hour span on a hot…
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: Young Bay Area Sculptors
No description available.
Curator(s): Not known.
Participants: Howard Fried, John Woodall, Stan Askew, Richard Berger, John C Fernie, Robert Kinmont, Karen Kline, Phil Pasquini, Elliot Ross, Mike Stevens, Gigi Vandernoot.
Exhibition: Performances by Six Artists
No description available.
Curator(s): Not known.
Participants: Howard Fried, Jim Melchert, Bill Morrison, Tyrus Gerlach, Marc Thorpe, William Wiley.
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: Performance Festival 1973
No description available.
Curator(s): San Francisco Art Institute Museum Techniques Class
Participants: Richard Alpert, Stephen Laub, Jim Melchert, Linda Montano, Bonnie Sherk.