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S.F. artist Carlos Villa was told there was no such thing as ‘Filipino art.’ So he made history

The first major museum retrospective of a Filipino American artist in the U.S., Carlos Villa's work is a quintessentially San Francisco story.

“Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision,” the first major museum retrospective of a Filipino American artist in the U.S., is a quintessentially San Francisco story about what it means to grapple with the cultural losses of diaspora and nevertheless persist to form a community.

Born in the city in 1936 to immigrant parents, Villa studied at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and Mills College in Oakland. After five years in New York making minimalist sculptures, Villa returned to San Francisco in 1969, feeling a visceral need to be part of the Third World Liberation Front movement, a multiracial coalition formed at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley advocating for ethnic studies, and connect to his roots. Villa remained in San Francisco teaching at SFAI until one year before his death in 2013 at the age of 76, leaving behind a strong network of artists dedicated to the inclusive cause he had championed.

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Cecile Chong. “El Dorado: The New Forty-Niners,” traveling installation, ​encaustic, plastic bottles, plaster, fiberglass-reinforced resin, paint. 2017—.

Promoting ideas of transformation, immigration, and community, EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners is a public art installation traveling to each of the five boroughs of New York City. The installation pays tribute to the 49% of NYC households that speak a language other than English. 100 colored “guagua” sculptures, 49 painted gold, 8 to 24 inches tall, arranged at ground level and presented as a contemporary archeological site and accompanied by location-specific community programs.

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Borderless (2013) - Tanzila Ahmed 

Mixed Media 

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center 

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Hybrid Folklore

Hale Ekinci at One River School of Art & Design in Chicago, Illinois, USA through 22 February 2019. Ekinci writes, "Pictorial histories, gender politics, and ritualistic traditions from my Turkish upbringing form the conceptual foundation of my work. Visually, they resemble my main influence: indigenous Middle Eastern crafts. Similar to the way these colourful pattern-based textiles employ esoteric symbolism, I explore my heritage, my status as an immigrant, and the rich history of 'women's work' through non-linear narrative videos and mixed media paintings embellished with craft. Historically, textiles and photos are used for recording information and telling stories. So, to tell the story of my hybrid folklore, I create pictorial scenes framed with crochet edgings like headscarves–a prominent, female, religiopolitical symbol." MORE

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Kolaj Fest New Orleans is a multi-day festival and symposium about contemporary collage and its role in art, culture, and society, July 12-15, 2018. Learn more, see an overview of the program, and register to attend

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The Rich History of "Women's Work"

With Vibrant Colors Hale Ekinci Asks Serious Questions: Ekinci's visual vocabulary includes pictorial histories, gender politics, and traditions from her Turkish upbringing. Ekinci uses collage to explore her heritage, her alien status living in the US, and the rich history of "women's work" through non-linear narrative videos and mixed media paintings that are juxtaposed with craft. MORE

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Huma Bhabha (b. Pakistan, 1962). There Is No Killing What Can’t Be Killed. 2012

“Pakastani-born, Poughkeepsie, NY–based artist Huma Bhabha creates semi-figurative sculptures that variously conjure ancient Greek, African, and Egyptian art. Using strategies developed by American assemblage artists, she composes works incorporating found or inexpensive materials, such as Styrofoam and newsprint.” - MoMA

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video # 2 from my opening Lawrence Wells KONEC///THE END Galerie Kytka Rokycanova 34 Prague, CZ