German-Japanese American artist Kota Ezawa looks to the news, popular culture, art history, and cinema to source material for his work, which explores how recording technologies mediate our understanding of current events and images. Beginning with his 2002 video The Simpson Verdict, in which the artist used digital drawing software to animate footage of the O.J. Simpson trial, Ezawa has received critical acclaim for his videos, lightboxes, and works on paper that distill found imagery into his characteristic pared-down style. Ezawa joins Hirshhorn associate curator Marina Isgro to discuss his process of translating iconic media moments into opportunities for reconsideration and reflection.

Catharine Clark Gallery’s online debut of Nina Katchadourian’s "Orientation Video" (2020) tells the compelling and complex story of the artist’s 45-year engagement with the book Survive the Savage Sea, the true story of the Robertsons, a family of farmers in England who sold all their possessions to buy a sailboat, with the intent of sailing around the world for several years. In June 1972, the Robertsons lost their sailboat in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean when a pod of Orca smashed the hull, leaving the four adults and two children adrift for 38 days; Katchadourian’s "Orientation Video" tells the family’s story, as well as the artist’s own creative response to the book’s core themes of isolation, uncertainty, and survival.

Multidisciplinary artist Nina Katchadourian walks through her solo exhibition To Feel Something That Was Not of Our World via Zoom with special guest Douglas Robertson, the oldest son of the shipwrecked Robertson family featured in the true-life story Survive the Savage Sea (1973). E-mail Anton Stuebner, Director, for advance registration.

On the occasion of the opening of Ross Simonini's first US solo show at Et al., we are hosting a talk between Simonini and Et al. co-director Aaron Harbour in which they will speak about repetition, language, the subconscious, refusal, the miracle of soil, and more, or maybe less.

In conjunction with 4x8-bridges, Haines Gallery presents an exclusive online screening of Kota Ezawa's 2004 animated video, Lennon Sontag Beuys. Lennon Sontag Beuys is based on existing footage of impassioned public speeches addressing notions of peaceful protest.

A virtual roundtable presentation with four artists from Oakland’s artist-run Mercury 20 Gallery. Kathleen King, Chris Komater, Mary Curtis Ratcliff and Johanna Poethig introduce themselves, present a sampling of their work, and talk about inspiration, process, and connection.

Mercury 20 Gallery artist Christine Meuris is your guide on a virtual walkthrough of our annual, holiday-season group show, this year titled 2020 RE:VISION. The gallery is filled with work that researches questions arising from tumultuous change and responds to this year’s simultaneous feelings of doom and liberation, collapse and possibility.

San Francisco based sculptor Charlie Leese and New York based multi-disciplinary artist Ellie Hunter will discuss their studio practices and whatever else comes to mind.

Crown Point Press presents a short video of the artist John Chiara walking through the current winter group show "Grounded." He discusses his approach to creating the color photogravure print Quintara at 14th, 2016 and he also responds to three other works in the exhibition.

In a talk organized for 4x8-bridges, Giuseppe Penone and Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, will discuss the artist’s practice, which is deeply engaged with nature and time, as well as his outdoor installation in Fort Mason’s Great Meadow, overlooking San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. Register for event […]

We invite you to explore 4×8-bridges “Missions and Ambitions” Talks, a series of livestreamed conversations with Bay Area art-world movers and shakers across two sessions. Part 1 will feature Glen Helfand, curator and Associate Professor at CCA San Francisco and adjunct professor at Mills College, Oakland, in conversation with: Claudia Altman-Siegel, Altman Siegel; Aimee Friberg, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions; Kelly Huang, KCH Advisory; Karen Jenkins Johnson, Jenkins Johnson Gallery; and Jessica Silverman, Jessica Silverman.

Artists Masako Miki, Marcus Leslie Singleton, and Amy Lincoln each make work addressing the social issues and perspective of our times. Join the artists in a Instagram live conversation with CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions director Aimee Friberg about each artists practice. Join us @cultexhibitions at 4 pm PST on January 26.

A poetry reading and conversation with award-winning American poet, memoirist, and educator Reginald Dwayne Betts. Betts uses poetry and literature to speak to the failures of the current criminal justice system and to create ideas for change.

Join us for an online tour of South East North West: New Works from the Collection, led by Rory Padeken, curator at San José Museum of Art.

Rachel Federman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at The Morgan Library and Museum, and Todd Hosfelt, founder of Hosfelt Gallery, will discuss the gallery’s current exhibition ASSEMBLED: Bruce Conner / Jean Conner / Anonymous / Anonymouse / Emily Feather / Signed in Blood, on view at Hosfelt Gallery through March 6.

Join us for a virtual studio visit in Sydney to see Craig’s newest works and hear about his artistic practice.

Bay Area-based independent curators Juana Berrío, Naz Cuguoğlu, Sam Vernon, and Leila Weefur, who are each organizing an upcoming exhibition at /, will be in conversation about the practice of curating now and into the future.

Learn about Creative Growth’s history, relationship to Art Brut, and the artists presented in the 4×8-bridges week during a cocktail hour conversation with Tom di Maria and Sarah Galender Meyer from Creative Growth, and Anton Stuebner, long-time supporter and Director of Catharine Clark Gallery. Registration is required, and the cocktail recipe will be sent in advance.

Johansson Projects - Studio Visit with Rachelle Bussières and curator Tim Buckwalter

Join artist Masako Miki and independent curator and writer Dr. Natasha Boas for a discussion of Miki’s new public art commission of 9 bronze sculptures in San Francisco’s Mission Bay, which will be unveiled later this winter. Miki and Boas will discuss the new bronze forms of Miki’s ongoing Shapeshifter series, and give sneak peeks into her studio practice in Berkeley, as she prepares for her third solo exhibition New Mythologies with CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions. CULT Director Aimee Friberg will facilitate a Q&A after the discussion.

Overlapping memories related to his friendship with the artist and reflections on her work, Miguel López introduces Cecilia Vicuña’s sharp creative practice in the form of a letter addressed to the artist. He shares his intimate perspective on working with Vicuña over many years, as well as the enormous impact of her visceral entanglements between words and seed, sound and thread, quipu and blood.

Detroit-based Ghanaian artist Conrad Egyir will be in conversation with Ali Gass (Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art San José) on Zoom. The artist will discuss his new paintings for 4×8-bridges and his upcoming Facade Project with ICA San José in summer 2021.

Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present artist Joel Daniel Phillips in conversation with Philbrook Museum of Art Director Scott Stulen and poet Quraysh Ali Lansana. The three will discuss “Killing the Negative”, a collaborative series of works by Phillips and Lansana exploring an untold history of censorship within the Great Depression-era Farm Services Administration.

Acclaimed recording artist/musician PC Muñoz, together with Robert Moses, founder of the dance company Robert Moses’ Kin, and performance artist and composer Cellista take a deep dive into how artists can create and thrive in a post-2020 world. Be prepared for some crowdsourced creativity as well.

The content that each artist has contributed to the Altman Siegel online viewing room as well on Rachel Comey’s website and in her NYC store will be introduced by each participant in this conversation. The group will also workshop new methods of activating online spaces and marketplaces as a means of addressing shifting concerns of cultural production and survival during this transformational time.

Join us for a conversation about reimagining artist/dealer relationships with artist and former dealer Mieke Marple and artist manager and curator Maya Futrell. We will examine whether the model of gallery as both brick-and-mortar retail space and talent management is still relevant today. In doing so, we will discuss the inefficiencies of such a model […]

Altman Siegel is pleased to present artist Alex Olson in conversation with art historian and critic, Suzanne Hudson. The two will discuss Olson’s current solo exhibition at the gallery, A Platypus Glows Under Blacklight, and more broadly how it sits within the painter’s broader practice.

Conversation between Lena Wolff and artists Tammy Rae Carland, Angela Hennessy, Masako Miki & Miriam Klein Stahl, in celebration of the exhibition Our Eyes Are On Fire.

Have you been missing the experience of making art in a collaborative space? The company of other people’s creative processes can be a catalyst for new ideas, inspiration, and spontaneity. Join facilitator Alayna Boots Tinney for a virtual drop-in art session in the spirit of BAMPFA’s Art Lab, using any materials and techniques you choose. All ages welcome.