Two performers wearing video camera headmounts assembled a thirty-two foot tall double helix ladder suspended on a floor to ceiling armature of tightened ropes. Inside a cylindrical plastic curtain each performer ascended his red or green ladder as…
Nancy Rubins constructed a twenty-five-foot high metal sculpture consisting of sections of vintage automobile trailers suspended from a metal frame. (Pritkin and Searcy 1983: 62)
Deftly intercutting illusion and reality, Game of the Week is an affectionate look at America's obsession with baseball. As artist-in-residence with the San Francisco Giants, Doug Hall lived out a life-long fantasy of playing Major League baseball.…
Beginning at 8:00 PM OCTOBER 27 1978 at the San Francisco Art Institute 800 Chestnut Richard Irwin will perform an action taking place in SFAI TOWER. The entire action may be witnessed LIVE via Video on a monitor located inside STUDIO 10 (inside…
The week of 3-7 August, I served cappuccino and expresso (sic) to visitors to the Hansen Fuller Gallery. I did this during gallery hours, 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., for an entire week, serving more than 300 cups of coffee. The gallery made no…
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…
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…
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…
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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.