Crossing Borders, May 16 - July 30, 2012
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
OACC's Official APA Heritage Month Exhibit represents Crossing Border. Asians in America come upon many boundaries, some for a crossing and some remain untouched. The artists gathered here have taken position, crossing/touching various borders and giving us new ways to examine the political and/or the personal.
Adrian Wong: Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal, May 12-July 21, 2012
Chinese Culture Center
Inspired by these parallel visual identities, Wong has created six new sculptural works for
Orange Peel, Harbor Seal, Hyperreal whose shapes and forms all hark back to this era in Hong Kong and its replication here in San Francisco and draw from everyday observances in both places.
Zheng Chongbin: Ink Phenomenon - Objects of Perception, May 12 - June 28, 2012
Flo Peters Gallery
Contemporary Chinese artist Zheng Chongbin is having his first solo show in Germany at Flo Peters Gallery in Hamburg. The internationally renowned artist will show thirteen of his latest abstract works. Zheng's artwork combines the aesthetics of the East and the West by creating a synthesis of classical Chinese art and Western abstract painting. The artist not only creates a "visual bridge" between history and modernity by means of his expressive brush strokes with ink and acrylics on traditional xuan-paper and canvas.
Lin Yilin: May 3 – July 28, 2012
Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute
A versatile and internationally significant artist whose work has been marked strongly by his urban interventions, Lin Yilin researched the city of San Francisco in Fall 2011 and came up with site specific performances. This exhibition presents his interaction with the city and the art community exploring the various aspects of historical processes of urban society including the history of migration, immigration and their political implications. The show also presents a selection of his early works to gain understanding of the evolution of his complex body of creation.
Tomokazu Matsuyama: The Future is Always Bright, May 3 - Jun 30, 2012
Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern
Powered by communications technologies such as e-mail, texting, and mobile phones, urban centers are becoming increasingly a patchwork of intermingling cultural signifiers. These signifiers dramatically shape our everyday lives, in manners unfolding far too fast for us to properly monitor. This new conflation of the local and the global has evolved into a glocal community, "glocal" being a term coined in 1990 by Dr. Manfred Lange in Bonn, Germany that combines "global" with "local."...
Jagannath Panda: Cults of Serendipity, May 3 - June 30, 2012
Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern
Panda’s imagery plays with scale in deceptive ways; the edges of a massive patterned heart sinks a root into a pot, as though a fertile plant and simultaneously a sitter in a portrait, the patterning of its ventricles like so many options at a bazaar.
Barbara Takenaga : May 3 - June 23, 2012
Gregory Lind Gallery
Takenaga has expanded on her lexicon of simple shapes – dots, lines, circles, and undulating wave patterns of varying scales – with the inclusion of a flat line that is both horizon and division.
Super 8, Jan 26 - Jun 24, 2012
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Super 8 is an artist-curated video art exhibition screening organized by Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles. Eight artists from eight different cities were invited to present their own videos and, in addition, asked four other artists from their respective cities to present works as well.
John-Mark Ikeda: What Suits Us, Jan 26 - Jun 24, 2012
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
John-Mark Ikeda: What Suits Us is an exploration of the current economic climate through the deconstruction of the iconic business suit.
