San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery

Through December 31, 2020, the Fine Arts Gallery is temporarily canceling public hours as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19

This Thursday, October 22 @ 5:30 PST join us in our second event of PLATFORM web series!! We will hear from artists Cristóbal Martínez and Kade L. Twist who collectively form Postcommodity. Their work "connect[s] Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere." -post commodity.com If you haven't seen Postcommodity's work, check it out AND hear from the artists themselves this Thursday!! Register with this link https://fresnostate.zoom.us/j/99887549501

Tomorrow, September 24 @ 5:30 PST join us in the launch of our PLATFORM speaker series!! Hear from artist Beatriz Cortez in conversation with curator Erin Christovale. Follow the link below to register for this event and to find more information on the guest speakers. These events are free and open to the public! https://www.cpp.edu/platform-csu-art-speaker-series/

The newly formed ConSortiUm, a collaborative project of art museums and galleries from the California State University (CSU) system, is pleased to announce a virtual event series that actively engages students, faculty, staff, and communities through visual arts-based dialogue. The inaugural program, PLATFORM, will launch in September 2020 and include six live virtual conversations with contemporary artists, collectives, and curators whose work is critical to current re-imaginings of the art world and the world at large.

SFSU School of Art's 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition is up until September 30! Check out the work of our recent grads, A.R Keiner, Calum Craik, and Nathan Kosta. Enter the virtual gallery on https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com//sfsu-school-of-arts-202

BLACK LIVES MATTER Black Out Tuesday is about stopping ‘business as usual’ and taking a break from your own content to raise black voices. ... If you want to participate in BlackOutTuesday, please do NOT use the BlackLivesMatter or any other important BLM hashtags. The black squares are powerful but are overshadowing the important content that is posted under those hashtags. #blackouttuesday

SFSU Fine Arts Gallery is proud and excited to present the SFSU School of Art 2020 Undergraduate Senior Exhibition on virtual platform kunstmatrix - open May 22 - June 19, 2020 See it now on mobile or desktop with the following link tinyurl.com/sfsu2020exhibit Congratulations to the SFSU School of Art class of 2020 and a very special thanks Jackie Im, Co-Director of Et Al

Were you able to see Libby Black's sculpture "Spirit" before COVID-19 shelter in place began? Drawing from the classic idea of a convertible purchased in a mid-life crisis, Black created a one-person Chanel row boat with luxury brand versions of survival kit items. What luxury brands and items would you make art of? #Chanel #Goyard #Valentino

Happy International Museum Day to our neighbors at The Global Museum, a new museum on campus and a teaching lab for the Museum Studies program! The Fine Art Gallery’s Director Sharon Bliss is an alumnus of the program and several of our student assistants are currently in the program. While both the Museum and Gallery are temporarily closed as part of university-wide health precautions, you can learn more about the Global Museum’s collections, staff, and Museum Studies progra...m at the link below! https://connect.sfsu.edu/s/1905/19/interior.aspx #museumfromhome #internationalmuseumday

A belated thanks to Squarecylinder.com for the virtual review of the SFSU Faculty Exhibition Check it out here!

Open December 3rd through 12th

Can you recognize any of these Characters? Artist Enrique Chagoya draws inspiration from Spanish artist Francisco Goya’s series Los Caprichos (1797-1798). Chagoya harvests the satirical, anti-authoritarian glee first expressed by Goya towards 18th century Spanish power structures, and redirects it towards contemporary targets. Come get a closer look at this series completed over a span of 33 years, on view now in the Fine arts gallery! Come soon, the show is only open through Thursday, October 31st.

September 21- October 31, 2019 Featuring: Libby Black, Enrique Chagoya, Kota Ezawa, Nina Katchidourian, Scott Kindall, Scott Kindall & Brian Cera, Michael Mandiberg, Sean Peeler, Stephanie Syjuco, Charlene Tan, Chis Thorson and Daren Wilson. With work by students in SFSU's Spring 2019 Language of Observational Painting classes taught by Libby Black and Pablo Cristi. Curated by Kevin B, Chen.