Recology Artist in Residence Program (Jan 19-23)
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Recology studios | 503 and 401 Tunnel Ave
Event Details
Submitted by the Event Organizer
The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is thrilled to announce exhibition dates for current artists-in-residence Craig Calderwood, Torreya Cummings, and CCA student Qadir Parris.
Friday, January 19, 2024 from 5-8 PM
Saturday, January 20, 2024 from 12-3 PM
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from 5-7:30 PM with artist talk by Qadir Parris at 6 PM (401 Tunnel), Torreya Cummings at 6:30 PM (503 Tunnel), and Craig Calderwood at 7 PM (503 Tunnel).
Admission is free and open to the public, no reservation required. All ages are welcome, and the site is wheelchair accessible.
Craig Calderwood is familiar with found and disposed things, having grown up dumpster diving and gathering discarded materials with their dad and siblings. Coming to Recology was an intentional artistic decision, shaped by those earlier experiences, informing their relationship to the sensory and material experience of the Public Reuse & Recycling Area and spending time in residence.
Through their exhibition, they ask, what if our gathered trash were a central part of our lives, if everyone shared their familiarity and collectively contended with the presence of our things? If all objects carry information about their uses, origins and endpoints, manufacturers, and consumers, what knowledge would we be confronted with on a daily basis? What songs does the Trash Oracle sing to us when it is hyper present?
Imagined landscapes, particularly in the cannon of painting, have been a staple of Western colonial mythbuilding. The form neutralizes and naturalizes narratives about the world as sites to be parceled out, conquered, and stripped for resources. Fidelity to real places matters less than the ways it shapes desire and ways of looking. In Paradise Lost & Found, Torreya Cummings challenges us to consider how we see and imagine place, utilizing plastics and sculptural artifice to skew our passive consumption of visual landscapes as territory for extraction and leisure.
In Spirit, a series of new figurative paintings, Qadir Parris uses found paint, wood, textiles, and gathered ephemera to channel the energy and emotional resonance he draws from a collection of personal family photos. His portraits reach across time and geography to highlight small moments of communal joy amongst his parents, grandparents, siblings, and cousins in Miami where he grew up
Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.
Cost: FREE
Categories: Art & Museums, In Person, LGBTQ+
