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10-04-11

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The critter cam at our Nevada City residency site has been active lately. Here’s a snapshot of a recent visitor.

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This week, we look back at another project from our 2012 International Orange installation at Fort Point: David Liittschwager’s “One Cubic Foot: Life Under the Golden Gate Bridge.⠀
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For this work, part of his One Cubic Foot series, which observes the density and diversity of life that exists within a 12-inch cube of soil, air, or sea, David Liittschwager photographed organisms found in seawater below the bridge. The images were then displayed on representative cubic foot blocks directly above where the creatures reside. ⠀
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The work speaks to Liittschwager’s practice of creating pictures to capture overlooked details of the stunningly varied ecosystem that is San Francisco Bay.⠀
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Photo: Ben Blackwell⠀
#forsite #forsitefoundation #publicart #fortpoint #davidliitschwager #research #environmentalart #organisms #climatechange #ecosystem #goldengatebridge #sanfranciscobay #sanfranciscoart #onecubicfoot #bayareart #bayareaecosystem

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This week, we look back at another project from our 2012 International Orange installation at Fort Point: David Liittschwager’s “One Cubic Foot: Life Under the Golden Gate Bridge.⠀ .⠀ For this work, part of his One Cubic Foot series, which observes the density and diversity of life that exists within a 12-inch cube of soil, air, or sea, David Liittschwager photographed organisms found in seawater below the bridge. The images were then displayed on representative cubic foot blocks directly above where the creatures reside. ⠀ .⠀ The work speaks to Liittschwager’s practice of creating pictures to capture overlooked details of the stunningly varied ecosystem that is San Francisco Bay.⠀ .⠀ Photo: Ben Blackwell⠀ #forsite #forsitefoundation #publicart #fortpoint #davidliitschwager #research #environmentalart #organisms #climatechange #ecosystem #goldengatebridge #sanfranciscobay #sanfranciscoart #onecubicfoot #bayareart #bayareaecosystem

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As the tragic news of wildfires in our home state and flooding elsewhere in the US turns our attention to the imminent climate crisis, we look back at some of the artists we have worked with whose work speaks to climate change and human impact on the environment. ⠀
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Camille Utterback’s work “Span,” part of our 2012 installation International Orange at Fort Point, revealed the ways in which the Bay and the Golden Gate have changed — and continue to change — over time.⠀
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On an array of monitors arranged in a curving pattern that roughly mimics the shape of the Golden Gate’s shores, animated, dynamic renderings of flow patterns visualized the daily and historical shifts in the Bay’s shoreline, sea floor, and water currents.⠀
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Photo: Ben Blackwell⠀
#forsite #forsitefoundation #publicart #fortpoint #camilleutterback #research #environmentalart #climatechange #ecosystem #goldengatebridge #sanfranciscobay #sanfranciscoart #bayareart #bayareashoreline #watercurrents

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As the tragic news of wildfires in our home state and flooding elsewhere in the US turns our attention to the imminent climate crisis, we look back at some of the artists we have worked with whose work speaks to climate change and human impact on the environment. ⠀ .⠀ Camille Utterback’s work “Span,” part of our 2012 installation International Orange at Fort Point, revealed the ways in which the Bay and the Golden Gate have changed — and continue to change — over time.⠀ .⠀ On an array of monitors arranged in a curving pattern that roughly mimics the shape of the Golden Gate’s shores, animated, dynamic renderings of flow patterns visualized the daily and historical shifts in the Bay’s shoreline, sea floor, and water currents.⠀ .⠀ Photo: Ben Blackwell⠀ #forsite #forsitefoundation #publicart #fortpoint #camilleutterback #research #environmentalart #climatechange #ecosystem #goldengatebridge #sanfranciscobay #sanfranciscoart #bayareart #bayareashoreline #watercurrents

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Today’s lookback subject is Cornelia Parker. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions, Parker’s work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations that transform ordinary objects into something compelling and unexpected.
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Parker’s exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts @ybca in 2005-2006 featured a new work, Anti-Mass, created during a FOR-SITE residency.
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The sculpture was constructed from the charred timbers of a Baptist church with a predominantly African American congregation; the church had been destroyed by arson. Anti-Mass was presented alongside a 1997 work, Mass (Colder Darker Matter), which was made from the remains of another Baptist church — this one with a mostly white congregation — that had been struck by lightning.
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#forsite #forsitefoundation #publicart #ybca #yerbabuencenterforthearts #corneliaparker #conceptualart #environmentalart #installation #woodsculpture #bayareaart #sanfranciscoart #sanfrancisco

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Today’s lookback subject is Cornelia Parker. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions, Parker’s work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations that transform ordinary objects into something compelling and unexpected. . Parker’s exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts @ybca in 2005-2006 featured a new work, Anti-Mass, created during a FOR-SITE residency. . The sculpture was constructed from the charred timbers of a Baptist church with a predominantly African American congregation; the church had been destroyed by arson. Anti-Mass was presented alongside a 1997 work, Mass (Colder Darker Matter), which was made from the remains of another Baptist church — this one with a mostly white congregation — that had been struck by lightning. . #forsite #forsitefoundation #publicart #ybca #yerbabuencenterforthearts #corneliaparker #conceptualart #environmentalart #installation #woodsculpture #bayareaart #sanfranciscoart #sanfrancisco

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For this week’s lookback, we revisit British artist Richard Long’s exhibition “The Path Is the Place Is the Line” at SFMOMA
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Long is known for creating a kind of extended sculpture informed by his vigorous, solitary sense of quest. His exhibition at SFMOMA, developed during a FOR-SITE residency, documented and reflected on a 250-mile walk in the Sierra Nevada mountains, mainly along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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The exhibition included photographs, mud works, sculpture, and texts. Continuing the artist’s longstanding use of walking as a basis for art, the work in the exhibition manifested what Long has called “an imaginative freedom about how, or where, art can be made in the world.”

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For this week’s lookback, we revisit British artist Richard Long’s exhibition “The Path Is the Place Is the Line” at SFMOMA . Long is known for creating a kind of extended sculpture informed by his vigorous, solitary sense of quest. His exhibition at SFMOMA, developed during a FOR-SITE residency, documented and reflected on a 250-mile walk in the Sierra Nevada mountains, mainly along the Pacific Crest Trail. . The exhibition included photographs, mud works, sculpture, and texts. Continuing the artist’s longstanding use of walking as a basis for art, the work in the exhibition manifested what Long has called “an imaginative freedom about how, or where, art can be made in the world.”

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🌟Exciting Announcement🌟 We are hiring!
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FOR-SITE is welcoming a full-time Administrative Manager to the team. Come work for a San Francisco arts non-profit dedicated to the creation and presentation of art about place through innovative public art projects in partnership with the National Park Service.
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If you are local to the Bay Area and interested in joining our dynamic team, please review the qualifications at the link in our bio and submit your application. And please share! We look forward to hearing from you!🌟

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🌟Exciting Announcement🌟 We are hiring! . FOR-SITE is welcoming a full-time Administrative Manager to the team. Come work for a San Francisco arts non-profit dedicated to the creation and presentation of art about place through innovative public art projects in partnership with the National Park Service. . If you are local to the Bay Area and interested in joining our dynamic team, please review the qualifications at the link in our bio and submit your application. And please share! We look forward to hearing from you!🌟

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5/9

This week, we look back at another exhibition featuring work created during a FOR-SITE Residency from 2007, entitled Shi Guorui: Reproduction and Refashioning at the de Young Museum @deyoungmuseum
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During the FOR-SITE residency that preceded this exhibition, Shi examined the landscape and history of California. The photographs in the exhibition responded to the de Young as a building, location, and collection. Shi built two camera obscuras in the museum’s tower, one looking toward the ocean and one looking toward downtown San Francisco. He also created photograms of objects in the de Young’s collection, excavating the museum as a repository of memory.
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#forsite #forsitefoundation #publicart #deyoungmuseum #famsf #fineartmuseums #shiguorui #photography #environmentalart #architecture #cameraobscura #photogram #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscoart #bayareaart #sanfranciscomuseums #artistresidency

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This week, we look back at another exhibition featuring work created during a FOR-SITE Residency from 2007, entitled Shi Guorui: Reproduction and Refashioning at the de Young Museum @deyoungmuseum . During the FOR-SITE residency that preceded this exhibition, Shi examined the landscape and history of California. The photographs in the exhibition responded to the de Young as a building, location, and collection. Shi built two camera obscuras in the museum’s tower, one looking toward the ocean and one looking toward downtown San Francisco. He also created photograms of objects in the de Young’s collection, excavating the museum as a repository of memory. . #forsite #forsitefoundation #publicart #deyoungmuseum #famsf #fineartmuseums #shiguorui #photography #environmentalart #architecture #cameraobscura #photogram #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscoart #bayareaart #sanfranciscomuseums #artistresidency

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This week, we look back at “Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds,” which took place at the Nevada Museum of Art @nevadaart from August 10, 2008 - October 5, 2008
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One of Great Britain’s most prolific and respected Conceptual artists, Chris Drury investigates themes related to the environment, emphasizing cycles of destruction and regeneration in nature, and the ways that humans affect these processes. For “Mushrooms | Clouds,” Drury brought an international perspective to topics ranging from land and water appropriation to nuclear testing in the American West.
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The exhibition included the large-scale wooden sculpture “Cloud Pool Chamber,” seen here, which the artist created in a FOR-SITE residency. “Cloud Pool Chamber” was made from diseased logs felled at Donner State Park near Truckee, California. A hand-carved granite pool beneath the structure reflected the clouds overhead and referred to the Native Maidu grinding stones located nearby.
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Photo: Dean Burton

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This week, we look back at “Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds,” which took place at the Nevada Museum of Art @nevadaart from August 10, 2008 - October 5, 2008 . One of Great Britain’s most prolific and respected Conceptual artists, Chris Drury investigates themes related to the environment, emphasizing cycles of destruction and regeneration in nature, and the ways that humans affect these processes. For “Mushrooms | Clouds,” Drury brought an international perspective to topics ranging from land and water appropriation to nuclear testing in the American West. . The exhibition included the large-scale wooden sculpture “Cloud Pool Chamber,” seen here, which the artist created in a FOR-SITE residency. “Cloud Pool Chamber” was made from diseased logs felled at Donner State Park near Truckee, California. A hand-carved granite pool beneath the structure reflected the clouds overhead and referred to the Native Maidu grinding stones located nearby. . Photo: Dean Burton

3 months ago

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This week's featured past project is Pae White: In Between the Outside-In, which was exhibited at New Langton Arts in 2009. ⠀
Developed during a FOR-SITE residency, White’s installation proposed new paradigms for art and landscape. Using a noninvasive data collection and mapping procedure, three-dimensional scans were taken of an 800-year-old massive oak tree, a wild raspberry bush, and a manzanita grove. White then used these topographical scans as conceptual source material for a series of color-treated, morphing animations.⠀
Photo: Wilfred T. Jones

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This week's featured past project is Pae White: In Between the Outside-In, which was exhibited at New Langton Arts in 2009. ⠀ Developed during a FOR-SITE residency, White’s installation proposed new paradigms for art and landscape. Using a noninvasive data collection and mapping procedure, three-dimensional scans were taken of an 800-year-old massive oak tree, a wild raspberry bush, and a manzanita grove. White then used these topographical scans as conceptual source material for a series of color-treated, morphing animations.⠀ Photo: Wilfred T. Jones

3 months ago

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This week, we look back at The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project. ⠀
This exhibition took place at the Oakland Museum of California from 2010– 2011. As part of the conceptual development of his project at the Oakland Museum of California, Dion used a FOR-SITE residency to familiarize himself with the natural and social history of California. The exhibition consisted of multiple site-specific installations in the museum’s art galleries. It amounted to an imaginative expedition through the museum’s collections, drawing on overlooked orphans, curiosities, and surprising treasures. We love collaborating with our Bay Area neighbors and artists! ⠀
Photo: Sixth Street Studio

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This week, we look back at The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project. ⠀ This exhibition took place at the Oakland Museum of California from 2010– 2011. As part of the conceptual development of his project at the Oakland Museum of California, Dion used a FOR-SITE residency to familiarize himself with the natural and social history of California. The exhibition consisted of multiple site-specific installations in the museum’s art galleries. It amounted to an imaginative expedition through the museum’s collections, drawing on overlooked orphans, curiosities, and surprising treasures. We love collaborating with our Bay Area neighbors and artists! ⠀ Photo: Sixth Street Studio

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