February 17 - March 20, 2004

Abbas
Eddie Adams
David Burnett
Larry Burrows
Horst Faas
Lori Grinker
Jean Gaumy
Matt Harnett
David Leeson
Marta Lopez
Alex Majoli
Steve McCurry
Don McCullin
Susan Meiselas
Joel Meyerowitz
Jon Mills
James Nachtwey
Sebastiao Salgado
Larry Towell
Nick Ut
Sal Veder
Alex Webb

Killer Shots: A Photographic Response to War begins with images from the Vietnam War, often referred to as the first picture war, setting the photographic yardstick for photographers who risk their lives to reveal the atrocity of human violence. These photographs are imbedded in our visual memory and, brought together, force us to examine what we've learned about war and mankind over the past thirty years.

February 17 - March 20, 2004

Shingo Annen
Glenda Drew
Jesse Drew
Kenneth Hung
Ed Kashi
Claudia Léger

Starting with the foundation laid in Killer Shots, this companion exhibition draws its inspiration from the strong protest movement surrounding the US war in Iraq. The five Bay Area artists in this exhibition take a measured look at the weighty causes and varied consequences of war and offer an alternative view to traditional photojournalistic interpretation.

May 11 - June 12, 2004

Cory Arcangel
Matthew Beiderman
Anthony Discenza
Alex Galloway
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Paul Pfeiffer

POP_Remix updates Pop Art arguments about the context of image-production, from the perspective of moving image culture. Just as pop artists of the 1960s appropriated logos and vernacular imagery, the artists in this exhibition take as their marrow segments of popular films, TV programs, and video games. The deconstructed and remixed results serve as meditations on mainstream imagemaking and its cultural import. Each project is at once accessible - even fun! - by virtue of its relationship to pop culture, while simultaneously revealing the deeper cumulative effects of our relationship to its content. Ultimately, we are invited to consider the impacts these popular lens-based genres have had upon the ways in which we choose to look at the world.

Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
Spring/Summer 2004, Vol. 31, No. 1
Pop_Remix

August 3 - September 4, 2004

Hannah Hammond-Hagman
Kevin Krivel & David Warne
Alan Labb
Anneè Olofsson
Shirley Shor

Body: Building presents a group of artists working in a variety of photographic and media arts who focus on the body in relationship to space and architecture. The bodies represented here are activated by their real, psychological, and virtual spaces and draw upon the vocabulary of architecture - construction, scale, space, and time in an effort to explore self and the experience of physical presence.

In their viewer-activated video installation the Toronto-based collaborative team of David Warne and Kevin Krivel, create a collision of physical experience and memory in the context of a world where our bodies and minds are more and more hyper-extended over time and space. Hannah Hammond-Hagman’s color photographs measure and map an imaginary body in specific sites personal to the artist in an effort to connect memory, body, and space. Alan Labb’s photographs and photographic installation of images of male and female bodies play with scale in gender relationships in order to reconsider established identifications of power and strength in representations of the male. In Anneé Olofsson’s large-scale color photographs the persona disappears and the body is morphed by its domestic surroundings bringing to mind issues of invisibility. Shirley Shor creates soft-ware art a self in constant transition, organically regenerating, and constantly challenging our perceptions of boundaries between each other .

Fall 2004

Lorrie Aspiras
Manon Bogerd-Wada
Tara Brown
Jeremy Castro
Naomi Castro
Jontonnette Clark
May Deng
Lauren Desuyo
Ivan Fernandez
Robert Lima
Mario Luna
Taylor Mixon

First Exposures students had a unique opportunity to create billboards that were publicly displayed on city streets throughout San Francisco and San Jose. Using current events and their personal experiences with prejudice or misjudgment, First Exposures students used the power of their words and images to design billboards to encourage greater acceptance of diversity and difference. The students’ hope is that the billboards may inspire people to overcome the inclination to prejudge one another, instead affirming our commonalities. The resulting billboard prototypes were also displayed in a show at San Francisco City Hall, in collaboration with the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

The billboard project was made possible by generous donations of time and resources by:

The Nelson Fund of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley
The Louis R. Lurie Foundation
The Gould Family Foundation
The Potrero Nuevo Fund of the Tides Foundation
The Morris Stulsaft Foundation
Clear Channel Outdoor
LeAnne Hitchcock and Janeil Englestad, Guest Teachers
Patricia Sohl, Symbolism Archivist at the C.G. Jung Institute
Joe Brook, Photography Editor at SLAP Magazine

October 26 - November 24, 2004

Gallery Artists:
The Boym Partners
Thomas Kellner
Germaine Koh
Tony Labat
Manuel Piña
John Roloff
Eva Sutton
Lex Thompson
Wang Qingsong
Mabel O. Wilson + Paul Kariouk/KW:a

Site-Specific Artists:
Mark Brest van Kempen
Debbie and Larry Kline
David Maisel
Jeannene Przyblysky/The Bureau of Urban Secrets
Stephanie Snyder and Aaron Day

Monuments remind and warn. They speak to the future and the past. Monument Recall seeks to illuminate this play between past and future, opening dialogues about what society chooses to remember or forget, and what underlying values and ideologies are embedded in markers of public memory. Contemporary political events have weighed heavily upon the need for public monuments to form a bridge between individual lives and larger institutional values. Here, contemporary international artists, architects, designers, web artists, and writers set a course that challenges the conventional definition of a monument, and offer new imagery and concepts of what a monument can be. The work presented expands the breadth, voice, appearance, and materiality of what we are accustomed to seeing as public monuments.

Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts
Spring/Summer 2004, Vol. 31, No. 1
Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces