SF Camerawork
Sean McFarland: The 2009 Baum Award
Doris Jew Conrath and Jim Stone:
Test Patterns: Recent Video Work from South Africa
Curated by Leigh Illion
January 8 - March 25, 2009
An exhibition featuring the work of eight contemporary South African video artists who explore ideas of citizenship and belonging in post apartheid South Africa. The artists include Churchill Madikida, Penny Siopis, Berni Searle, Simon Gush, Jo Ractliffe, Ismail Farouk, Ruth Sacks, and Usha Seejarim.
United in Nima: Bay Area and Ghanaian Youth Share Lives Through the Lens
Curated by Erik Auerbach, Jamie Lloyd, and Vivian Chan
January 8 - March 25, 2009
An exhibition based on a unique photographic and cultural exchange between youth photographers from SF Camerawork’s First Exposures photography mentoring program and teens living in the notoriously poor Nima slum of Accra, Ghana who spent three weeks together last summer in Africa sharing their lives, culture, and art. This project was created as part of Adobe Youth Voices, a global youth media initiative. To learn more, please visit www.adobe.com/go/youthvoices.
Even in Arcadia
Guest Curated by David Spalding
April 2 – May 23, 2009
Even in Arcadia, guest-curated by David Spalding, Curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), combines the photography of Liu Gang and the video work of Wang Jianwei, which examine the far-flung fantasies, grim realities, and stark contradictions that often define life in China today.
Julie Blackmon: Domestic Vacations
April 2 – May 23, 2009
Chaos, disorder, family gatherings, game playing...these scenarios dominate Julie Blackmon's large scale color prints. Like Alice in Wonderland, Blackmon's young subjects appear in reality and fantasy, engrossed in their created worlds.
Sean McFarland: The 2009 Baum Award
for Emerging American Photographers
April 2 – May 23, 2009
Delicately manipulating imagery to create black and white Polaroid photographs that subtly explore ways in which our actions alter the natural landscape, McFarland's photographs serve, he notes, as "witness to the landscape, showing its history, our trace in it, and admiring its beauty."
Doris Jew Conrath and Jim Stone:
The 2009 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography
June 4 - August 22, 2009
The 2009 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography is administered by SF Camerawork for The San Francisco Foundation every two years, and is given in recognition of artistic achievements by California-born artists. This year's recipients include Doris Jew Conrath (Seattle, WA) and Jim Stone (Albuquerque, NM) .
Ersatz Group Exhibition
Curated by a professional mail carrier, with assistance from co-curators Chris Fitzpatrick and Chuck Mobley
June 4 - August 22, 2009
In recognition of our 35th anniversary and the launch of our new website, Camerawork is extending an invitation to its members participate in a unique, all-inclusive group exhibition. Ersatz Group Exhibition uses the aesthetics and mechanisms of the postal service as means for an exhibition of artwork created by mail.
Leaving a Mark: Cutter Photozine
Organized by Jesse Rose Roberts, Heather Renee Russ, and Rachel Styer
June 4 - August 22, 2009
Bay Area-based Cutter Photozine seeks to undo a traditional voyeurism of the "other" and place the power of sight in the focused home of the author. This special exhibition celebrates the launch of the second issue Leaving a Mark with more than 25 artists featured.
An autobiography of the san francisco bay area, part 1: san francisco plays itself
Curated by Chuck Mobley
September 10 - October 31, 2009
In recognition of SF Camerawork’s 35th anniversary, this first of a two-part exhibition explores the work of artists who have contributed to the cultural landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area in a significant way through a practice that is in dialogue with the events and the people of the region. Artists include: John Chiara, Catherine Wagner, Mark Citret, Richard Gilles, Michael Rauner, Alex Fradkin, Shi Guorui, Abelardo Morell, Larry Sultan, Catherine Opie, Keba Konte, Judy Dater, Michael Jang, Katy Grannan, Annie Leibovitz, Kota Ezawa, Sergio De La Torre, Richard Misrach, Mary Ellen Mark, Tseng Kwong Chi, Zig Jackson, Ken Light, John Harding, and Jim Goldberg, among others.
2009 Benefit Auction of Photographic Prints
November 10 - December 5, 2009
SF Camerawork is proud to present the Preview Exhibition for our 2009 Annual Benefit Auction. With more than 200 vintage and contemporary prints, the Auction is truly a collector’s paradise. Featured artists include such luminaries as Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Misrach, Catherine Opie, Catherine Wagner, Todd Hido, Larry Sultan, and Michael Light.
Auction: December 5, 1 pm