Four young Bay Area artists of exceptional talent were recognized at the 2008 SECA Art Awards presentation last Wednesday at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition in the fourth floor galleries features several works by Tauba Auerbach, Desirée Holman, Jordan Kantor, and Trevor Paglen, all of whom were present at the opening. Auerbach’s subject matter ranges from static on TV screen and computer programming codes to crumpled paper and shattered glass, all rendered in photography, painting, and drawing. Holman populates her gallery with a disturbing cast of characters mocking the TV sitcoms of her childhood—Roseanne and The Cosby Show. In her drawings and videos, actors in masks that smack of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, play their silent yet telling parts in the bizzaro world, produced by daytime television and accepted by the wider culture. Kantor’s oil paintings explore lens flares, overexposed photographs, and a fascinating X-ray of Edouard Manet’s “Bar aux Folies-Bergere.” Paglen’s body of work in photography and mixed media concentrates primarily on some kind of a conspiracy theory, US government/military/hidden-from-the-public spymania. For the last 40 years, SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), an SFMOMA art interest group, has awarded more than 50 Bay Area artists in its biennial program. During the award presentation on February 11, SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra joked that it reminded him of the Academy awards ceremony (although the key element of the latter, that coveted golden statuette, was missing). 2008 SECA Art Award exhibition runs through May 10 at 151 Third Street, San Francisco.
Biennial SECA Art Award Exhibition Opens at SFMOMA
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Four young Bay Area artists of exceptional talent were recognized at the 2008 SECA Art Awards presentation last Wednesday at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition in the fourth floor galleries features several works by Tauba Auerbach, Desirée Holman, Jordan Kantor, and Trevor Paglen, all of whom were present at the opening. Auerbach’s subject matter ranges from static on TV screen and computer programming codes to crumpled paper and shattered glass, all rendered in photography, painting, and drawing. Holman populates her gallery with a disturbing cast of characters mocking the TV sitcoms of her childhood—Roseanne and The Cosby Show. In her drawings and videos, actors in masks that smack of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, play their silent yet telling parts in the bizzaro world, produced by daytime television and accepted by the wider culture. Kantor’s oil paintings explore lens flares, overexposed photographs, and a fascinating X-ray of Edouard Manet’s “Bar aux Folies-Bergere.” Paglen’s body of work in photography and mixed media concentrates primarily on some kind of a conspiracy theory, US government/military/hidden-from-the-public spymania. For the last 40 years, SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), an SFMOMA art interest group, has awarded more than 50 Bay Area artists in its biennial program. During the award presentation on February 11, SFMOMA Director Neal Benezra joked that it reminded him of the Academy awards ceremony (although the key element of the latter, that coveted golden statuette, was missing). 2008 SECA Art Award exhibition runs through May 10 at 151 Third Street, San Francisco.
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