a: Solo Shows by: The Chadwicks, Aaron Maietta, and Soft Turns

b: Selected Shipwrecks

Published by Southern Exposure and Bookhorse. Design by Lex Trueb.  Contributors include Valerie Imus, Kevin Cook, and Lisa Robertson. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 82 pages.

Produced in conjunction with Jimbo Blachly and Lytle Shaw's solo exhibition, Selected Shipwrecks. The 82-page volume contains "seafaring documents" by the artists regarding work from the Chadwick Family Collection, including their Shipwreck Memorials and The Nelson Man o' Bar (an occupiable scale model of Admiral Nelson's HMS Victory). The book also includes a photographic compendium of knots and coils, a tutorial for practicing nautical sentences, and critical essays by Valerie Imus, Kevin Cook, and Lisa Robertson.

 
Price: $15

c: Working Conditions

Published by Southern Exposure, Designed by MacFadden & Thorpe

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Working Conditions
Steven Barich
Elysa Lozano
Jennie Ottinger
Nathaniel Parsons
Carlos Ramirez
Zachary Royer Scholz
Charlene Tan
Ethan Worden
Wafaa Yasin

Working Conditions is a process-based project featuring nine artists invited by Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Committee. Each artist creates his or her own work environment as installation within the gallery and keeps regular work hours there, while developing a project rooted in notions of production, labor, and process. Rather than working alone in their studios, the artists in this exhibition are obliged to interact with their environment as they operate in full view of the public in an open space they share with one another. Each artist will work at Southern Exposure for fifteen hours per week or more.

d: 20 Years of Juried Exhibitions

d: Alchemy/Beautiful Possibility

March 12 - April 24, 2010

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Design by Zaldy Serrano. Contributors include Sarah Smith and Rebecca Solnit. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 16 pages.

Alchemy presented new work by artists who act on schemes of transformation and whose investigations are imbued with metaphor and poetry. Curated by Sarah Smith, the exhibition features work by Ellen Babcock, Brice Bischoff, Michelle Blade, John Chiara, Randy Colosky, Adam Hathaway, Christopher Sicat, and Lindsey White. Beautiful Possibility is a two-year (2010-2011), coast-to-coast touring project by Alison Pebworth investigating American history and contemporary culture. It takes the prototype of the 19th century American traveling show as inspiration for engaging people across the country in dialogue about what it means to be American.

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e: On the Ground

Artists: Taha Belal, Gaye Chan, Sofia Cordova, Sergio De La Torre, Malak Helmy, Juan Luna-Avin, Jerome Reyes, Rene Yung

On the Ground is curated by SoEx Curatorial Committee member, Weston Teruya.

On the Ground presents new work arising from artists’ relationship to particular localities.
San Francisco. O’ahu. Cairo. The North coast of Egypt. Tijuana. Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Mexico City, Puebla, Monterrey and Queretaro. The artists in On the Ground build from the specific codes and nuances of these places, creating their own narratives and gestures that begin to reveal or reimagine their communities. Whether through community engagement, historical research, musical performance or language, each artist delves into a specific facet of a site’s cultural structure. While each artist has taken his or her own approach to interpreting and dissecting a locality, all of their projects emerge from an honest reflection on the terms and textures of their respective sites. From the particularities of each community, they help to build a sense of differences and shared dynamics globally and locally.

f: Solo Shows By: Jaime Cortez, Kenneth Lo, Ginger Wolfe-Suarez

January 7 February 19, 2011

Jamie Cortez’s solo exhibition, Universal Remote, is a meditation on the absence of Michael Jackson. Kenneth Lo presents every stone tethered to sleep/every presence wedded to stone, turning self-deprecating wit to a subject with more gravitas – death and the life examined. Ginger Wolfe-Suarez presents the sculptural installation, Both Are True, which treads in memories, deconstructing specific experiences into forms that have been pared back just enough to feel as if they are our own.

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g: Thinkings: How Computers Change The Way We See By Altering The Way We Think by Brad Borevitz

2010

Over the course of three evenings, Brad Borevitz, facilitated an exploration of the impact of computers on art practice and the practice of every day life. In these sessions, participants worked through concepts presented in the Thinkings book which are crucial to understanding the computer's impact: the automation of variation, the automation of the sublime, and the automation of the image itself.

A limited number of copies are available from Southern Exposure. Print on demand copies may be purchased through Blurb. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/1049690/29a753453f0e0e06915a0995a6c7351a

Price: $35

h: Extended Play

May 21 June 26, 2010

Extended Play was a series of new, weekly live art performances and workshops. Curated by Maysoun Wazwaz, the exhibition features work by Æth, Andrew Benson and Joshua Churchill, Nate Boyce, Festa L’Animale, Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong, Misha Glouberman, Lucky Dragons, and Suzy Poling. Extended Play is a series of ranging works that exude a thoroughly experimental attitude, and more significantly embody distinct aspects of both extension and play.

Price: $2

i: Solo Shows By: Mike Lai, Genevieve Quick, Lacey Jane Roberts, and Andy Vogt

January 8 February 20, 2010

Mike Lai presents The Legendary Lions vs. the Fists of Fury, a one-night performance project in the form of a dance-off competition between traditional Chinese lion dancers and Bruce Lee's larger than life sized fists. Genevieve Quick’s Scopes & Scapes was a combination of carefully crafted sculptures and drawings exploring past and future ways of looking. Lacey Jane Roberts’ building it up to tear it down was a large scale, hand-woven, colorful razor wire and cyclone crank-knitted fence through which she seeks to reclaim and re-imagine the industrial fence and the use of craft through her work. Andy Vogt’s Gray Area was a large architectural intervention capturing a moment of light as it traverses the gallery windows and crosses from the exterior to the interior.

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j: Beautiful Possibility: Alison Pebworth Exhibition at Southern Exposure

March 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco.  Designed by MacFadden & Thorpe.  With an essay by Rebecca Solnit.  Publication was produced in conjunction with the exhibition and public program series.

Alison Pebworth has been making “street side” projects locally and nationally since 2004 under the rubric of the Roadside Show & Tell, a series of interactive roadside attractions and related projects created in the spirit of the 19th century American traveling road show.  In 2006, she traveled cross-country for eight months developing Looking for Lost America, a research project of the Roadside Show and Tell. This trip was the inspiration for Beautiful Possibility, her current exhibition and research project.  9 x 12.25 inches. 12 pages.

Price: $15.00

k: Bellwether: Southern Exposure Inaugural Exhibition

October 17 - December 12, 2009

Price: $9.95

l: Ecoheroes

November 2008

Created by Suzanne Husky with support by Southern Exposure. Designed by Ilsa Brink. Eco Heroes is a series of photographs, texts and drawings documenting environmentally related actions and ideas that take place in the domestic intimacy of the urban and sub-urban garden. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 40 pages.

This book is no longer available from Southern Exposure. Print on demand copies may be purchased through Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/eco-heroes/3829193

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m: Hopeless & Otherwise

May 23 - July 3, 2008

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Zaldy Serrano. The catalog includes essays by Valerie Imus. Hopeless and Otherwise address our contemporary conception of American identities within the context of our historic narratives and myths. They negotiate the current pervasive atmosphere of doom and powerlessness by venting their own rage or simply grappling with the feeling of being outsiders in this bizarre place we call home. Their explorations acknowledge the challenges and direness of our current situation, while persistently reframing and engaging alternative perspectives on being American. Curated by Valerie Imus, this exhibition features works by Siemon Allen, April Banks, Mary Walling Blackburn, BLW, Melissa Day, Michael Light, Nathan Lynch, Alison Pebworth, The Renaming Bush Street Project, Jonathan Santos, Mark Tribe, and Visible Collective. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 12 pages.

Price: $2

n: Solo Shows By: Chris Bell, Elaine Buckholtz, Bruce Tomb, Jennifer Wofford

January 11 - February 23, 2008

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Zaldy Serrano. The catalog includes essays by Emily Sevier, Valerie Imus, Jordan Geiger, and Jessica Tully. Chris Bell presents Slow Pan Interior, a video installation that seamlessly projects the gallery back onto itself or so one would think. Elaine Buckholtz’s Scenes for a Box Carnival, is a video installation that takes an exterior approach to image projection utilizing four projectors during the evening hours to light the windows, trees and sidewalk directly outside the gallery. Bruce Tomb’s (de)Appropriation Project Archive is a web-based and public art project focusing on 10 years of photographic documentation of the former Valencia Street police station. Jenifer Wofford's Unseen Forces, a sculptural installation and wall painting installed in the rear gallery at Southern Exposure, persuades viewers to consider or re-consider the intent of a walk-through metal detector and it’s constant influence in our lives. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 12 pages.

Price: $2

o: Beyond Our Limits

2007

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. The catalog is published by Southern Exposure's Youth Advisory Board as a result of a year-long arts and writing workshop. Lead artist is Ben Jesse Clarke. Assistant artist is Claire Downey. Contributions by YAB members Ebony Broughton, Victor Chan, Jontonnette Clark, Nancy Galvez, Javier Gutierrez, and Emma Zevin. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 64 pages.

Price: $9.95

p: San Francisco Emotion Map

March 30 - April 28, 2007

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. The San Francisco Emotion Map is the product of Christian Nold's Bio-Mapping project. This is a social project exploring an individual’s uninhibited response to place by inviting people to go for a walk in the area around Southern Exposure using a "bio-mapping" device that could be checked out of the gallery. 27 x 38.5 inches.

Price: $8

q: Smart-Ass/Invisible-5

March 10 - April 15, 2006

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Zaldy Serrano. The catalog includes essays by Kelsey Nicholson, Invisbile-5 Collaborators (Amy Balkin, Tim Halbur, Kim Stringfellow, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice, Pond: art, activism & ideas). Smart-Ass explored humor in conceptual art making. Invisible-5 is collaborative project that produced a self-guided two-CD audio tour along the Interstate-5, between Los Angeles and San Francisco. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 12 pages.

Price: $2

r: Solo Shows By: Matthew Flegle, Sarah Smith, Chris Sollars

January 13 - February 18, 2006

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Zaldy Serrano. The catalog includes essays by Scott Oliver, Kelsey Nicholson and Aimee Le Duc. Flegle’s exhibition fuses the expressive potential of sculpture and installation, examining how physical space affects psychology. Smith’s exhibition combines elements of sculpture, painting, and drawing to create three-dimensional immersive environments that address our relationship to nature. Sollars’ exhibition represents a large-scale rubbing and site-specific installation that address consumption and waste, aiming to critique contemporary societal values. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 8 pages.

Price: $2

s: Practice Makes Perfect: Bay Area Conceptual Craft

September 9 - October 15, 2005

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Zaldy Serrano. The catalog includes essays by Courtney Fink, Lydia Matthews, Kristen Evangelista, Kelsey Nicholson, Emily Sevier, Abner Nolan, and Maysoun Wazwaz. The exhibition investigates the intersection between craft and conceptual art in diverse media by local emerging and established artists. 8.5 x 6 inches. Featured artists include Ann Chamberlain, Amy Franceschini/Michael Swaine, David Ireland, Bernie Lubell, Christian Maychack, Jim Melchert, Scott Oliver, Stephanie Syjuco, Mark Thompson, Tony Tredway, and Anna Von Mertens. 44 pages.

Price $6.

t: Social Construction/Cross Cuts

May 13 - June 18, 2005

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Zaldy Serrano. The catalog includes essays by Abner Nolan, Scott Snibbe and Cross Cuts Curators (Lee Campbell, Abril Castro, Kristen Evangelista, Abner Nolan, Kristen VanDeventer). Social Construction features works in which the finished piece is substantially or entirely created by other organisms, highlighting the interdependence of artist, medium and society. Curated by Abner Nolan and Scott Snibbe, the exhibition features work by Barbara Bartos, c a l c (tOmi Scheiderbauer, Teresa Alonso Novo, Luks Brunner and Malex Spiegel) in close collaboration with Johannes Gees, John Knuth, Vitaly Komar (former Komar & Melamid Art Studio), Leah Modigliani, Philip Ross, and Lee Walton. Cross Cuts is a presentation of a five weeklong video program surveying cutting-edge contemporary video art from Chicago, San Francisco, South Florida, Tijuana, and the United Kingdom. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 12 pages.

Price: $2

u: Solo Shows By: Adriane Colburn, Frederick Loomis, Kerry Tribe, Jessica Tully

March 4-April 9, 2005

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Zaldy Serrano. The catalog includes essays by Abner Nolan, Leah Modigiliani, Joseph Del Pesco and Courtney Fink.
Colburn’s exhibition reconstructs personal and social history through the study and reinterpretation of maps, photographs, and other historical documents. Loomis’ exhibition presents a series of graphite drawings by Edward Mathew Taylor, a fictitious individual constructed by Loomis in the attempt to focus attention on the artwork rather than the artist. Tribe’s exhibition investigates memory, perception, and subjectivity by exploring encounters with light through abstract imagery of colored light. Tully’s exhibition explores the intersection between performance and social sculpture, and often incorporates dance, political activism and Hip Hop culture. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 12 pages.

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v: Solo Shows By: Conrad Bakker, Chadwick Rantanen, Daniel Seiple, Claudia Tennyson, Kate Pocrass

January 7-February 12, 2005

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Zaldy Serrano. The catalog includes essays by Kristen Evangelista, Emma Tramposch, Joseph Del Pesco, Shane Aslan Selzer and Emily Clark. Bakker’s exhibition, a series of digital photographs of simulated objects, are formal investigations as well as evidence of his site-specific installations in the Mission District. Rantanen’s exhibition relies on a dry sense of humor and a vivid imagination to investigate everyday objects and occurrences. Seiple’s exhibition a conceptual interactive project in which the artist has launched his own moving business. Repair Work, a project by Claudia Tennyson, presents repairs of household goods such as a flat tire and a worn straw broom that serve as absurd interventions rather than a renewal of the object’s function. Pocrass’ off-site project provides walking destinations and narratives through an audio soundtrack, in which participants venture through the San Francisco streets in search of overlooked points of interest and everyday phenomenon.
8.5 x 5.5 inches. 12 pages.

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w: Brut Love: Love, Romance, Eroticism, Desire, Obsession

August 30 - October 13, 2002

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Efrat Rafaeli. The catalog includes essays by Reanne Estrada. This ground-breaking exhibition features work of aritst with disabilities from Creative Growth Art Center and aims to prove that people with disabilities are capable of accomplished artistic production that transcend art therapy and include issues of sex and sexuality. Exhibiting artists: Camille Holvoet, Aurie Ramirez, William Scott, Gerone Spruill and Lolita Triplette. 7.5 x 5.5 inches. 5 pages.

Price $2

x: Byproduct: Deviation from Design

Aug. 31 - Oct. 13, 2001

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Efrat Rafaeli. The catalog includes essays by Beej Cronin; Kurt Bigenho of the Dept. of Shape Research; design raw (Fadhy Bey, Nicolas Denhez, Markus Diebel, Pierre-Yves Dubois, Roman Gebhard, Tadeo Toulis, Pontus Wahlgren, & Rico Zörkendörfer); Catherine Harris and Sarah Kuehl; Matthew Hebert; Rebecca Miller; Sven Newman; Numen Associates©; Martin Venezky of Appetite Engineers. This exhibition brings together diverse design practitioners who use their individual methodology to create work that lies outside of their respective disciplines. This exhibition features work by Kurt Bigenho/The Dept. of Shape Research, Beej Cronin, design raw, Catherine Harris and Sarah Kuehl, Matthew Hebert, Rebecca Miller, Sven Newman, Numen Associates®, and Martin Venezky/Appetite Engineers. 5.5 x 5.5 inches. 11 pages.

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y: Sister Spaces

Sept. 8 - Oct. 28, 2000

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Scott Oliver, Appetite Engineers. The catalog includes essays by Sophi Hackett of YYZ Artists’ Outlet; Emma Bugden of the Physics Room; Francisca Salvador Bagulho, Ana Cláudia Castelo, and Manuel Henriques of Zé dos Bois; and Michael Ming-Hong Lin, Peilin Lu, Hung-Chih Peng, and Te-Yu Wang of IT Park. This exhibition presents an unprecedented exhibition of alternative, international artists and arts organizations from four points on the globe, in order to explore notions of alternative contemporary art and the spaces that show such work. 7 x 7 inches. 85 pages.

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z: 25/25

Feb. 12 - Mar. 13, 1999

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Diesel Designs. This catalog includes essays by Constance Lewallen, senior curator Berkeley Art Museum. This exhibition kicked off Southern Exposure’s 25th Anniversary celebration and featured two generations of artists—artists emerging in and around 1974, Southern Exposure’s founding year and young artists born around that time. Exhibiting artists: Heléne Aylon, Clint Bagwell, Nina Bellisio, Howie Cherman, Elizabeth Demaray, Emory Douglas, The Diana Group with Christianne Dugan and Gina Osterloh, Howard Fried, Hilary Harkness, Ester Hernandez, Nancy Hom, Mildred Howard, Curtis Hsiang, Paul Kos, Mail Order Brides, Kimberly Miskowicz, Simo Neri, Abner Nolan, Cherie Raciti, Tucker Schwarz, Bonnie Sherk, Fynnegan Sloyan, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, Mark Thompson, T.R. Uthco with The Ant Farm, and Shiho Yoshikawa. 9 x 8.5 inches. 5 pages.

Price $2

za: Urban Renewal Laboratory

May 8 - June 20, 1998

Published by Southern Exposure, San Francisco. Designed by Amici Design. The catalog includes essays by Mike Blockstein and Michael Brown, Jim Paul, Rebecca Solnit, Richard Somner. This exhibition looks at the urban environment and its development through the eyes of artists, and examines the ways in which history, community, environment, geology, technology and politics shape urban space. Curated by Michael Brown and Mike Blockstein, project participants included Raveevarn Choksombatchai, Margaret Crane, Erika Olsen Hannes, Scott MacLeod, Anita Margrill, Julio Morales, Natasha Ogunji, Harrell Fletcher, Jon Rubin, Kevin Radley, Alison Sant, Valerie Soe, Jacques Servin, Richard Sommer, Zane Vella and Fan Warren. 13 x 9 inches. 31 pages.

Price $2