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Fri Jan 18 - Sat Mar 8

RECONCILING AMERICA: MIRACULOUS ENCOUNTERS WITH THE MUNDANE


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San Francisco Art Commission (SFAC)
401 Van Ness Avenue, Ground Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102 map
cross street: McAllister Street
district: Civic Center

Fri Jan 18 (12noon - 5pm)
Sat Jan 19 (12noon - 5pm)
Wed Jan 23 (12noon - 5pm)
Thu Jan 24 (12noon - 5pm)
Fri Jan 25 (12noon - 5pm)

Description
Artists: JD Beltran & Sebastien Bachar, Dina Danish, Jennifer Durban, Richard Haley, Lynn Marie Kirby, Ellen Lake ,Brendan Lott, Paul Mullins, Tucker Nichols, Julia Page and Zefrey Throwell.

The American archetype is rooted somewhere in anthems, slogans and amendments – yet under this big blanket where do the lives of average Americans fit in? Americans are born into the world and rush to grow up - all the while attempting to make sense of their lives through direct encounters and an ever-expanding glut of mediated experiences of the world. In our quest to understand and to be understood, new technologies have made it easier to record observations and create personal histories. This is evident in the countless home movies, scrapbooks, blogs and personal web pages created by average Americans. Alternatively, the history of art practice is deeply rooted in creating individual systems for understanding and documenting...