KRISTIANSAND.- Desirée Holman’s second solo museum show features a new video that combines live action and 3-D digital animation, paired with a series of sixteen drawings that visualize the process of gamers embodying their avatars. The exhibition con…
UC Berkeley Art Museum Receives Grant To Conserve Hans Hofmann Collection
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is the recipient of a $93,825 award from the federal grant program Save America’s Treasures to conserve the museum’s remarkable collection of paintings …
Jill Magid’s Recent Work "Closet Drama" on View at Berkeley Art Museum
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents Jill Magid: Closet Drama / MATRIX 237. Jill Magid’s work involves infiltrating systems of authority and power to explore issues of vulnera…
Futurefarmers: A Variation on the Powers of Ten at the Berkeley Art Museum
BERKELEY, CA.- What are the limits of knowledge? Where is there still mystery, and how are researchers moving towards these “unknown” territories? Futurefarmers, the San Francisco-based collective (artists Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine)…
Indeterminate Stillness: Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition Looks at James McNeill Whistler
BERKELEY, CA.- James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the expatriate American artist, was a prolific and innovative painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Throughout his lively career Whistler was known as a discerning collector of Japanese prints a…
Indeterminate Stillness: Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition Looks at James McNeill Whistler
BERKELEY, CA.- James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the expatriate American artist, was a prolific and innovative painter, watercolorist, and printmaker. Throughout his lively career Whistler was known as a discerning collector of Japanese prints a…
First Solo Museum Show in the United States by the Artist and Writer Emily Roysdon at Berkeley Art Museum
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) present Emily Roysdon: If I Don’t Move Can You Hear Me? / MATRIX 235, the artist and writer’s first solo museum show in the United States. Em…
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Presents Marjolijn Dijkman: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) presents Marjolijn Dijkman: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum/MATRIX 234. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is an ongoing photographic archive of more than 9,000 images, wh…
Berkeley Art Museum Explores the Logic of the Ghost in Exhibition
BERKELEY, CA.- Hauntology, essentially the logic of the ghost, is a concept as ephemeral and abstract as the term implies. Since it was first used by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida in a 1993 lecture delivered at UC Riverside concerning the stat…