The perennial complaint that SF is a sleepy, culturally deprived town isn’t really holding up these days. Sure, there are deficiencies, but lack of culture is no longer one of them. In fact, I’ve been lamenting the steadily increasing frequency of Saturday gallery openings — as someone working in the arts, having weekends off has its appe... More
Posts Tagged “Stephanie Syjuco”
abundance thinking
06.05.2011 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
75 Reasons to Live: Stephanie Syjuco on Sherrie Levine
06.21.2010 | ByFiled under: Projects/Series
Stephanie Syjuco is a San Francisco artist (and former Open Space columnist!). More Sherrie Levine on our website.
Remember the end of Manhattan, when Woody Allen asks himself what makes life worth living? Last January, during SFMOMA’s three day 75th anniversary celebration, 75 people from the Bay Area creative community gave extremely shor... More
20 Bay Area Artists & Videos
01.06.2010 | ByFiled under: Field Notes
In collaboration with Happenstand, last summer I compiled a provisional list of some of the most important living artists in the SF Bay Area to share with curator friends abroad and those visiting. It includes artists who have realized exhibitions at museums, solo shows at galleries, and experience outside California and in most cases the US. In other words it’s an attempt at a quantitative rather than qualitative survey. We called it Stance both as a play on the name Happenstand and the idea of taking a stance. Using the Stance artists a... More
Please Welcome! Our new columnists on Open Space:
09.18.2009 | ByFiled under: Back Page
An official first welcome to our fantastic new crew of columnist-bloggers, who are already well underway this week with the posting, and for which I thank them. Your fall hosts on Open Space are:
MICHELLE TEA!, writer, poet, and founder of RADAR Productions, a literary non-profit; DUANE DETERVILLE!, artist, writer and cofounder of the Sankofa Cultural Institute; the visual artist STEPHANIE SYJUCO!; JOSEPH DEL PESCO!, independent curator, art journalist and web-media producer; and the poet CEDAR SIGO!
I a little overdo it with the all-caps... More
On Letting Them Do It Themselves: Activated Anarchy vs. Designed Intentions
01.27.2009 | ByBay Area artist Stephanie Syjuco weighs in here on the successes and pitfalls of ‘participatory’ art, and takes a close look at New York design firm Freecell‘s Stack-to-Fold project, currently in use in our second-floor “D-space“.
“(T)hese objects, once they are assembled, will lend themselves to certain function... More
