Kenney Mencher

ON VIEW

Project Space The Dishwasher July 22-23, 12-6pm, Opening: July 21, 6-8pm Carlos Gonzalez, uses the genre of self-portraiture, mounts a testimonial to his father who came from Puerto Rico in the 1960s and worked as a dishwasher for decades before becoming a cook. The artist says the photographs in this presentation were “taken in New York and in the house in Puerto Rico that my dad bought after years of hard work.” more

Lohman Gallery FOUND: Queer Archaeology; QueerAbstraction June 10 - September 10, 2017 A survey of artists trained for the trail, socio-anthropologists of the queer whose work find traces of queerness in a world that prefers us hidden, we excavate. We sift through the past for clues about ourselves, driven by our own impulse for survival. Curated by Avram Finkelstein. more

Pinto Gallery EXPANDED VISIONS: Fifty Years of Collecting Through October 28, 2017 A selection of works from the collection highlighting the Museum's interest in broadening the representation of the LGBTQ community while exploring the ever-evolving definition of queerness.more

Museum Façade QUEERPOWER: Façade Commission Through June, 2018 Each year, the Museum will commission an artist or group of artists to create work to cover the façade of the Museum. To inaugurate this initiative the Museum features a site-specific installation by the Silence=Death Collective, adapting the iconic poster used by Act Up during the AIDS Pandemic in 1980s calling attention to the lack of action by the United States government. more

TRAVEL

Pietrasanta, Italy Anna Canepa International presents a Special Tour to Pietrasanta, Italy September 10 – September 16, 2017 Pietrasanta, a lovely medieval town known for its marble and bronze workshops, artists and monuments on the coast of northern Tuscany about 20 miles north of Pisa, is one of the most qualified centers for the art of the sculpture where numerous artisan studios and foundries are scattered in the town. Key tour highlights include a visit to the Carrara quarries, a private guided tour of the legendary Gori Collection; and a visit to the recently extensively renovated Pecci Museum. more

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Image credits: (Title image): Matt Lipps, Untitled (Men), 2010, Two chromogenic prints, 33 x 88 in. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, and Josh Lilley Gallery, London UK. Copyright the artist. Carlos Gonzalez, Horse Ranch, 2014, C-print on paper, 12 x 18 in. Courtesy of the artist. Ken Gonzales-Day (b. 1964, Santa Clara, California) The Wonder Gaze (St. James Park), 2006, Digital exhibition print on vinyl, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, CA. Caleb Cole, Birthday Girl , 2008/2010. Archival pigment print, 12.75 x 19 in. Museum purchase. (c) Tomothy Schenck, QUEERPOWER Facade Commision, 2017. City of Pietrasanta (upper); Carrara Quarries (lower). Rob Hugh Rosen, Sylvester, 1970. Courtesy of the Leslie-Lohman Musuem.

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