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Past exhibitions at SFMC+D have included:
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Within Two Hands:
The Eye of the Collector
During the mid 1950s, the ceramics department at Otis Art Institute was a place of artistic vitality and innovative energy.
At Otis, Peter Voulkos led a “revolution in clay” by questioning the tradition that ceramic forms must be utilitarian and by creating instead nonfunctional,
sculptural works that gave the medium a new freedom of expression. Later, Voulkos and other notable artists maintained the momentum of
this philosophy in Northern California at U.C. Berkeley. This exhibition included works representing this pivotal period.
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New West Coast Design:
Contemporary Objects
This exhibition highlighted a collection of the most exciting new designs for contemporary living currently emerging on the West Coast, including functional pieces for interiors, outdoor sports gear, and landscape design. The breadth of work displayed emphasized a multiplicity of materials and objects designed and fabricated by established and new artists in the field.
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M. Lee Fatherree:
Evidence of Artists at Work 1978-2008
Photographer M. Lee Fatherree is renowned in the San Francisco Bay Area.
For more than twenty-five years, museum and gallery professionals as well as collectors, have commissioned his photographs to provide the primary visual records of art objects for exhibitions and for curatorial records. During that time, Bay Area artists entrusted Fatherree to represent them and their artwork in widely published museum catalogues. Less well known are his personal, intimate portraits of artists in their studios. Unlike the carefully composed images of art objects created by Fatherree in his controlled studio environment, the majority of images in this exhibition are improvisational records of artists at work and at play.
A catalogue for this exhibition is available
in the Museum Store.
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Sculpture Transformed:
The Work of Marjorie Schick
For decades Marjorie Schick has been a pioneering force in the craft field. Her vibrant, energetic pieces break through traditional boundaries of form, texture, and color while sparking the imagination. Schick is best known for her brilliantly colored, wearable art constructions using non-traditional materials. Her new book “Sculpture to Wear: The Jewelry of Marjorie Schick” and the exhibition catalogue will be available in the
Museum Store. (A program of International Arts & Artists)
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Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection
This exhibition culled from the vast contemporary art holdings of hardware store magnate John Hechinger Sr., celebrated the common tools in our lives through witty and elegant artworks that incorporate tools and hardware in their imagery. Internationally acclaimed artists such as Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Wayne Thiebaud, Fernand Leger, William T. Wiley, and William Eggleston were represented. Spanning a wide range of media, styles and themes, the Hechinger Collection honors these familiar forms in new and imaginative ways. (A program of International Arts & Artists)
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CCA: A Legacy in Studio Glass
California College of the Art’s Studio Glass Program was one of the first in the United States founded in 1967 by Marvin Lipofsky. The accomplishments of this program set the stage enabling the San Francisco Bay Area to be a national center for studio glass arts. This exhibition will focus on the important contributions made by CCA faculty and alumni to the American studio glass arts movement and will be presented in conjunction with the celebration of California College of the Art’s 100th Anniversary.
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Kickin' it with Joyce Scott
This 30-year retrospective includes sculpture, jewelry, prints and textiles, as well as videos and photographs of the artist’s performance and installation work. Ms. Scott’s exuberant, beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces are beautiful and provocative, while offering her own distinctive commentary on social issues.
(A program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts)
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Playing Around: Toys Designed By Artists
This exhibition featured 50 colorful, skillfully made, wildly inventive toys varying in theme, materials, and utility. Some wind up, while others work like the automatons popular in the first half of the 20th century, inspired by Alexander Calder’s circus figures. (A program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts) |
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Raymond Loewy: Designs for a
Consumer Culture
Raymond Loewy was the most prominent industrial designer of the 20th century and helped shape the future of modern consumer culture. Producing everything from lipsticks to locomotives, Loewy’s career will come to life with an array of original drawings, models, products, advertisements, photographs, and rare film footage of the designer at work. (A program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts)
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Beyond the Pour: Pairing Art and Wine
Label Design
The exhibition for our first anniversary celebration focused on the art and process of wine label design with 6 Bay Area designers and 8 prominent artists known for their significant achievements in their respective fields. Examples include Michael Osborne, Robert Arneson, Squeak Carnwath, Dominic DiMare, David Gilhooly, Nancy Graves, Sol LeWitt, and David Nash. (Catalogues available in the Museum store.)
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Installation/Innovation: Textile Art in the
21st Century
In this exhibition, artists used textiles as triggers to evoke memory, language, landscape, history, and other significant themes. Through the installations, viewers were encouraged to fully participate in the conceptual experience in ways that the static nature of much visual art does not.
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Convergence: The Studio Furniture of
Tasmania and America
Two groups of studio furniture makers from opposite sides of the world came together to illustrate how common factors of craftsmanship and design could transcend time and space. (Catalogues available in the Museum store.)
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Nouvelle Nuptials: New Visions in
Wedding Traditions
25 artists interpreted the 21st century wedding ceremony through their respective artistic media, including ceramics, jewelry, woodwork, fashion, fiber, glass, and mixed media.
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Dovetailing Art and Life: The Bennett Collection
Through the collection of noted artist and furniture maker Garry Knox Bennett, and his wife Sylvia, the museum’s inaugural exhibition highlighted the history of American studio craft from its beginnings in the 1960s through the present. (Catalogues available in the Museum store.) |
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