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Catherine Wagner (born January 31, 1953) is an American photographer, professor and conceptual artist.Wagner has created large-scale, site-specific public artworks for the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, and Kyoto, Japan.
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco – Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture [1] is a museum in San Francisco, California that specializes in Asian art. It was founded by Olympian Avery Brundage in the 1960s and has more than 18,000 works of art in its permanent collection, some as much as 6,000 years old. [ 2 ]
The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
San Francisco Taiko Dojo, founded in 1968 by Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka, was the first taiko group in North America, and has been seen as the primary link between the Japanese and North American branches of the art form. Additionally, Tanaka's belief that learning to play taiko only requires a genuine interest in the art form (rather than ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [37] Large Four Piece Reclining Figure: Henry Moore: 1972 Davies Symphony Hall: Bronze: H. 6 1/2 x W. 4 ft. x D. 13 1/2 ft. San Francisco Arts Commission [38] Untitled: Sidney Gordin: 1969
Pages in category "Artists from the San Francisco Bay Area" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 244 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. [2]
The history of art in the San Francisco Bay Area includes major contributions to contemporary art, including Abstract Expressionism. The area is known for its cross-disciplinary artists like Bruce Conner , Bruce Nauman , and Peter Voulkos as well as a large number of non-profit alternative art spaces .