Southern Exposure’s 50th Anniversary Celebration and Exhibition

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Southern Exposure is thrilled to invite our community to celebrate our landmark 50th Anniversary with a party and exhibition. Our 50th Anniversary Celebration will take place September 14, 2024, at 6:00 PM, opening an exhibition and bringing an array of entertainment, including a DJ set by Brown Angel, cake by Jamie Cake SF, beer on tap from BareBottle Brewing Co., screenprinting by SF artist Alejandra Rubio, and a plant swap installation organized by exhibiting artist Erina Alejo. Join Southern Exposure as we honor our 50-year legacy and celebrate the 50 years to come!

The exhibition, titled “A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container,” will be on view September 14 through November 16, 2024. It features artwork by Erina Alejo, Enrique Chagoya & Kara Maria, Futurefarmers & Shaun O’Dell, Marcel Pardo Ariza & Julian Delgado Lopera, Related Tactics, and Pablo Tut. The exhibition takes its name from Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,” in which Le Guin offers new metaphors that enable us to reimagine our histories as well as our futures while telling our most important stories. As Southern Exposure looks toward the next 50 years of supporting artists and presenting experimental and provocative art, we acknowledge the deep relationships that make up our community, connections woven together to create a container that holds space for multivocal histories and futures. This container, or “bag of stars,” as Le Guin names it, carries conversations born out of the possibilities found in learning from and teaching each other. This 50th Anniversary exhibition represents a web of connected artists who have been crucial in shaping, and have in turn been shaped by, Southern Exposure.

Launched in 1974 by a collective of artists amidst the artist-run-space movement of the early seventies, Southern Exposure carries on this legacy, continuing to be an epicenter for experimentation, innovation, and artist support.

Presented by Southern Exposure

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