a: Bellwether: Southern Exposure Inaugural Exhibition

October 17 - December 12, 2009

Price: $9.95

b: 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.

Price: $20

c: 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

d: 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

e: 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

f: 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

g: 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

h: 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

i: 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.

j: 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

k: 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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l: 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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m: 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

n: 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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o: 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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p: 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

q: 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