Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art

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Event has passed (Thu Oct 23, 2008 - Sat Jan 3, 2009)
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Galleries, Painting & Drawing

Description

Icons of Presence highlights the substantial role of printmaking and graphics as a powerful means of social expression for Asian American visual culture. It showcases both graphic art and posters from the landmark decades of the 1970s and ‘80s, and more recent work by Jim Dong, Nancy Hom, and Leland Wong, who played a pivotal role in the San Francisco Bay area’s Asian American arts movement. Putting the work of these three Chinese American artists in a wider context, the exhibition and its accompanying catalog also emphasize the range of influences that have shaped their art and cultural activism.

Icons of Presence is conceived as a counterpart to Asian/ American/ Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970. This national historical survey exhibition of Asian American art, with significant West Coast representation, is on view at the de Young Museum in San Francisco from October 25, 2008 – January 18, 2009.

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http://www.c-c-c.org
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415-986-1822
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Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor (Chinatown Holiday Inn)
San Francisco, CA
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  1. Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
    750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor (Chinatown Holiday Inn), San Francisco, CA