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Photographic portrait of artist Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken
From photography and film to installations and monumental public interventions, Doug Aitken’s genre-defying practice seeks to create a new landscape, one in which we can More
Photographic portrait of artist Adam Eli Feibelman
Adam Eli Feibelman
Adam Feibelman’s minutely detailed stencils and paper cutouts draw from his roots in graffiti and street art. His stylized compositions draw attention to often-overlooked More
Photographic portrait of artist Daniel Beltrá.
Daniel Beltrá
Daniel Beltrá’s striking, large-scale aerial photographs of melting polar ice caps and oil spills highlight the rate and scale at which humanity is impacting our world. More
Photographic portrait of artist Ana Teresa Fernández
Ana Teresa Fernández
Through time-based actions and social gestures, Ana Teresa Fernández creates paintings, installations, and videos that explore 21st-century feminism, postcolonial More
Photographic portrait of artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada
Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada
Jorge Rodrigruez-Gerada was a founding figure in the Culture Jamming movement in the 1990s. Today, his socially motivated urban murals and terrestrial interventions are More
Photographic portrait of artist Gülnur Özdağlar
Gülnur Özdağlar
Gülnur Özdağlar was a practicing architect for more than 20 years before pursuing art and design. Her art practice is grounded in a belief in upcycling and the “karmic More
Photographic portrait of artist Chester Arnold
Chester Arnold
Bay Area artist Chester Arnold paints contemporary landscapes devoid of figures but in which human presence is palpable. Narratives both cataclysmic and sublime unfurl in More
Photographic portrait of artist Tuula Närhinen
Tuula Närhinen
Tuula Närhinen’s experimental practice often adapts methods and instruments derived from the natural sciences. Her studio is located on the island of Harakka, south of More
Shumon Ahmed
Dhaka-based multidisciplinary artist Shumon Ahmed’s work in photography and film ulitizes experimental techniques to yield painterly, melancholic images. Since completing More
Photographic portrait of One Beach Plastic (Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang)
One Beach Plastic
Since its founding, the collective One Beach Plastic (Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang) has gathered more than two tons of plastic debris from California’s Kehoe Beach, More
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Artists

  • William T. Wiley

  • Ólafur Eliasson

  • Suzanne Husky

  • Iris van Herpen

  • Tony Matelli

  • Carsten Höller

  • Jana Winderen

  • Maja Petrić

  • Elizabeth Ellenwood

  • Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood

  • Doug Aitken

  • Adam Eli Feibelman

  • Daniel Beltrá

  • Ana Teresa Fernández

  • Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada

  • Gülnur Özdağlar

  • Chester Arnold

  • Tuula Närhinen

  • Shumon Ahmed

  • One Beach Plastic

  • Angelo Filomeno

  • Andrea Chung

  • Brian Jungen

  • Susanne Cockrell

  • Luz María Sánchez

  • Alexia Webster

  • Liza Lou

  • Yin Xiuzhen

  • Krzysztof Wodiczko

  • Bill Viola

  • Do Ho Suh

  • The Propeller Group

  • Michele Pred

  • Shahpour Pouyan

  • Trevor Paglen

  • Mandana Moghaddam

  • Díaz Lewis

  • Al Farrow

  • Yashar Azar Emdadian

  • Tirtzah Bassel

  • Tammam Azzam

  • Shiva Ahmadi

  • Brian Conley

  • Mia Feuer

  • Angela Hennessy

  • Deborah Valoma

  • David Burns

  • Ranu Mukherjee

  • Kota Ezawa

  • Richard T. Walker

  • Lisa Findley

  • Oblio Jenkins

  • Walter Hood

  • René de Guzman

  • Bruce Tomb

  • Alison Sant

  • Sandra Kelch

  • Amy Franceschini

  • Donald Fortescue

  • Ted Purves

  • Pae White

  • Camille Utterback

  • Barbara Takenaga

  • Taalman Koch Architecture

  • Stephanie Syjuco

  • Surface Design Inc.

  • Allison Smith

  • Shi Guorui

  • Dana Sherwood

  • Dan Schmidt

  • Jeannene Przyblyski

  • Kate Pocrass

  • Cornelia Parker

  • Ogrydziak/Prillinger Architects

  • Abelardo Morell

  • Nathan Lynch

  • Richard Long

  • David Liittschwager

  • Amy Lambert

  • Courtney Lain

  • Jensen Architects

  • Nitin Jayaswal

  • Terence Haggerty

  • Fritz Haeg

  • Doug Hall

  • Andy Freeberg

  • Bill Fontana

  • Lori Ellison

  • Chris Drury

  • Mark Dion

  • Chadwick Studio

  • CEBRA

  • Philippe Becker Design

  • Anandamayi Arnold

  • Ai Weiwei

  • Andy Goldsworthy

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Image: Ai Weiwei @Large exhibition curator Cheryl Haines consults with Ai Weiwei at the artist's studio in Beijing, June 2014; Photo: Jan Stürmann
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Happy Birthday to the brilliant Ai Weiwei (@aiww) ⠀ Image: Ai Weiwei @Large exhibition curator Cheryl Haines consults with Ai Weiwei at the artist's studio in Beijing, June 2014; Photo: Jan Stürmann
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Occupying a suite of former military structures in the Presidio overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Home Land Security (2016) brought together works by contemporary artists and collectives from around the globe to reflect on the human dimensions and increasing complexity of national security, including the physical and psychological borders we create, protect, and cross in its name. 

The exhibition extended FOR-SITE’s focus on provocative art about place, inviting viewers into decommissioned batteries, an administrative building, and a chapel — some open to the public for the first time — that served for decades as key sites in the US Army’s Coastal Defense System. #ArtAboutPlace

Image: DÍAZ LEWIS, 34,000 PILLOWS, 2016–ONGOING (VIEW FROM OUTSIDE BATTERY BOUTELLE); USED AND DONATED CLOTHING AND KAPOK FIBER FILLING; COURTESY THE ARTISTS AND ASPECT/RATIO, CHICAGO; © DÍAZ LEWIS; PHOTO: ROBERT DIVERS HERRICK
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Occupying a suite of former military structures in the Presidio overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Home Land Security (2016) brought together works by contemporary artists and collectives from around the globe to reflect on the human dimensions and increasing complexity of national security, including the physical and psychological borders we create, protect, and cross in its name.  The exhibition extended FOR-SITE’s focus on provocative art about place, inviting viewers into decommissioned batteries, an administrative building, and a chapel — some open to the public for the first time — that served for decades as key sites in the US Army’s Coastal Defense System. #ArtAboutPlace Image: DÍAZ LEWIS, 34,000 PILLOWS, 2016–ONGOING (VIEW FROM OUTSIDE BATTERY BOUTELLE); USED AND DONATED CLOTHING AND KAPOK FIBER FILLING; COURTESY THE ARTISTS AND ASPECT/RATIO, CHICAGO; © DÍAZ LEWIS; PHOTO: ROBERT DIVERS HERRICK
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@anateresafernandez’s Sanctuary rug design, titled Erasure, showcases a work from a series of the same name for which the artist documented a performance of erasure: painting her body black with thick acrylic paint in front of a black background. The resulting video and suite of signature large-scale, hyperrealist paintings leave only glimpses of color—in this case, a searing pair of eyes. Fernández performed this act of removal and mourning in response to the 2014 disappearance and presumed murder of forty-three young male student-activists in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. For the artist, this unconscionable act raises critical questions: “Whose life can be erased so quickly? Why are some sectors of our community treated in such a disposable way? What do we need to do as a society to be seen and treated equally, like valued human beings?”

In 2017 FOR-SITE invited 36 artists from 21 different countries to design contemporary rugs reflecting on sanctuary, offering visitors a multiplicity of perspectives on the basic human need for refuge, protection, and sacred ground.
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@anateresafernandez’s Sanctuary rug design, titled Erasure, showcases a work from a series of the same name for which the artist documented a performance of erasure: painting her body black with thick acrylic paint in front of a black background. The resulting video and suite of signature large-scale, hyperrealist paintings leave only glimpses of color—in this case, a searing pair of eyes. Fernández performed this act of removal and mourning in response to the 2014 disappearance and presumed murder of forty-three young male student-activists in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. For the artist, this unconscionable act raises critical questions: “Whose life can be erased so quickly? Why are some sectors of our community treated in such a disposable way? What do we need to do as a society to be seen and treated equally, like valued human beings?” In 2017 FOR-SITE invited 36 artists from 21 different countries to design contemporary rugs reflecting on sanctuary, offering visitors a multiplicity of perspectives on the basic human need for refuge, protection, and sacred ground.
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Titled Here we die, @mpane.aime’s design for Sanctuary was based on one of his carved plywood portraits from a series of the same name. He creates these portraits with an ancient tool called an adze, which allows him to scrape away layers of wood and reveal his subject by reduction. Each panel is roughly twelve by twelve inches: the equivalent of a human head’s surface area. “Because my work deals with problems of race and the stereotypes of black people, the three layers within four-millimeter-thick plywood make me think of the three layers within human skin,” he explains. Despite the dark histories underlying his work, Mpane’s portraits are not somber: his embrace of bright color lends an air of inextinguishable hope and promise.

In 2017 FOR-SITE invited 36 artists from 21 different countries to design contemporary rugs reflecting on sanctuary, offering visitors a multiplicity of perspectives on the basic human need for refuge, protection, and sacred ground.
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Titled Here we die, @mpane.aime’s design for Sanctuary was based on one of his carved plywood portraits from a series of the same name. He creates these portraits with an ancient tool called an adze, which allows him to scrape away layers of wood and reveal his subject by reduction. Each panel is roughly twelve by twelve inches: the equivalent of a human head’s surface area. “Because my work deals with problems of race and the stereotypes of black people, the three layers within four-millimeter-thick plywood make me think of the three layers within human skin,” he explains. Despite the dark histories underlying his work, Mpane’s portraits are not somber: his embrace of bright color lends an air of inextinguishable hope and promise. In 2017 FOR-SITE invited 36 artists from 21 different countries to design contemporary rugs reflecting on sanctuary, offering visitors a multiplicity of perspectives on the basic human need for refuge, protection, and sacred ground.
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@hankwillisthomas Sanctuary contribution, titled Keep the Faith Baby, comes from a series invoking buttons and slogans from political campaigns and social movements from the last 50 years, removing them from their original context to allow audiences to reinterpret the messaging through a contemporary lens. Thomas remembers encountering a button bearing this particular wording as a child. The phrase, used by New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, originally served to communicate the hope and profound faith that fueled the American civil rights movement. “It may sound trite, but commercialism is the new religion. We are all believers. Even the most radical of us,” Thomas has said. “It’s not propaganda anymore.”

The notion of sanctuary—both physical and psychological—has been fundamental in shaping a sense of selfhood and social identity throughout human history. But in an era of increasing global migration and rising nationalism, the right to safe haven is under threat, and the necessity for compassion is greater than ever. Seeking to address these issues and ideas, In 2017 FOR-SITE invited 36 artists from 21 different countries to design contemporary rugs reflecting on sanctuary, offering visitors a multiplicity of perspectives on the basic human need for refuge, protection, and sacred ground.
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@hankwillisthomas Sanctuary contribution, titled Keep the Faith Baby, comes from a series invoking buttons and slogans from political campaigns and social movements from the last 50 years, removing them from their original context to allow audiences to reinterpret the messaging through a contemporary lens. Thomas remembers encountering a button bearing this particular wording as a child. The phrase, used by New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, originally served to communicate the hope and profound faith that fueled the American civil rights movement. “It may sound trite, but commercialism is the new religion. We are all believers. Even the most radical of us,” Thomas has said. “It’s not propaganda anymore.” The notion of sanctuary—both physical and psychological—has been fundamental in shaping a sense of selfhood and social identity throughout human history. But in an era of increasing global migration and rising nationalism, the right to safe haven is under threat, and the necessity for compassion is greater than ever. Seeking to address these issues and ideas, In 2017 FOR-SITE invited 36 artists from 21 different countries to design contemporary rugs reflecting on sanctuary, offering visitors a multiplicity of perspectives on the basic human need for refuge, protection, and sacred ground.
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Deinstall continues! While we are on hiatus, keep in touch by subscribing to our newsletter at the link in bio.
Deinstall continues! While we are on hiatus, keep in touch by subscribing to our newsletter at the link in bio.
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Susanne Cockrell’s (@aradicalstitch ), Indwelling invited students to move their toolkits, studio, and lens of production to the Sierra Nevada and work through their own experiences of being on the land. Through guided walks, and meetings with local artists, community groups, herbalists and trackers students focused on understanding the complex relationships between their art practices and a sense of indwelling.

Since 2003, FOR-SITE’s education program has enriched the experience of graduate-level art students with learning opportunities that extend beyond the traditional academic curriculum.

Image: Susanne Cockrell’s, Indwelling, 2016, California College of the Arts
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Susanne Cockrell’s (@aradicalstitch ), Indwelling invited students to move their toolkits, studio, and lens of production to the Sierra Nevada and work through their own experiences of being on the land. Through guided walks, and meetings with local artists, community groups, herbalists and trackers students focused on understanding the complex relationships between their art practices and a sense of indwelling. Since 2003, FOR-SITE’s education program has enriched the experience of graduate-level art students with learning opportunities that extend beyond the traditional academic curriculum. Image: Susanne Cockrell’s, Indwelling, 2016, California College of the Arts
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Established in 2003, the FOR-SITE Foundation is dedicated to the creation, understanding, and presentation of art about place. Our exhibitions and commissions artist residencies, and education programs are based in the belief that art can inspire fresh thinking and important dialogue about our natural and cultural environment.

Image: Artist Chris Drury at work
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Established in 2003, the FOR-SITE Foundation is dedicated to the creation, understanding, and presentation of art about place. Our exhibitions and commissions artist residencies, and education programs are based in the belief that art can inspire fresh thinking and important dialogue about our natural and cultural environment. Image: Artist Chris Drury at work
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Reflections from preschool students who visited #LandsEnd
Reflections from preschool students who visited #LandsEnd
Reflections from preschool students who visited #LandsEnd
Reflections from preschool students who visited #LandsEnd
Reflections from preschool students who visited #LandsEnd
Reflections from preschool students who visited #LandsEnd
Reflections from preschool students who visited #LandsEnd
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Reflections from preschool students who visited #LandsEnd
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