Feb 22, 2016
Artist Development
The San Francisco Film Society will present a new KinoTek program featuring work by video artist/sculptor Nate Boyce, July 27-August 11, 1:00-7:00 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays at Superfrog Gallery in the New People building (1746 Post Street). The Film Society will host an opening night reception in honor of Boyce, Friday, July 27, 7:00 pm.
“Nate Boyce has woven together a diversity of discursive histories into elegant and strange sculptures,” said SFFS programmer Sean Uyehara. “His access to and confrontation of art historical references is impressive and wonderful. That he is able to blend these ideas by using materials found in our workaday lives and can combine humor in such work makes it all the more engaging.”
Collapsing physical and depicted space, Nate Boyce’s sculptural/video hybrids formally involve the conditions of display. At once manufactured and handmade, these objects draw on an expansive field of art historical reference filtered through the psychology of commonplace industrial materials and finishes. Reworking the history of modernist abstraction, Boyce explores the absence of dialog between early video art and concurrent abstract painting and sculpture. Simultaneously, the work invokes early instances in Hollywood cinema where CGI is combined with live action footage.
Boyce lives and works in San Francisco. He was featured in the 2010 California Biennial and has had recent solo shows at Altman Siegel, San Francisco and IMO, Copenhagen. He participated in group shows at Vilma Gold, London; Jack Hanley, San Francisco; Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles; the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; Landings Project Space, Oslo, (curated by Will Bradley); Deitch Projects, New York, (curated by Takeshi Murata); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Galerie Neue Alte Bruecke, Frankfurt; Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; California College for the Arts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose. Boyce is also actively involved in the experimental music scene, collaborating and touring with musical acts including Matmos and Oneohtrix Point Never with whom he has performed at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Royal Festival Hall, London; and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, among others.
For complete program information visit sffs.org/Exhibition/KinoTek.
The Film Society has commissioned an original essay by Jordan Kantor, inspired by and about Boyce, to be published on sffs.org. Kantor is a San Francisco-based artist, whose work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including, most recently, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco; Churner and Churner, New York and Ratio 3, San Francisco. He has written extensively on contemporary art subjects and is a frequent contributor toArtforum. Kantor is currently associate professor of painting and humanities at California College of the Arts.
KinoTek is a programming stream presenting nontraditional, cross-platform and emergent media. Throughout 2011 and 2012 the Film Society will present eight KinoTek programs, each featuring the work of an artist or practice that challenges the boundaries of screen-based art. Previous programs in the series have featured fine artist Adriane Colburn, interactive installation designer Karolina Sobecka, Brooklyn-based writer/performer Erin Markey, pioneering software artist Marius Watz and American multimedia artist Laurel Nakadate. KinoTek is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.
For interviews contact hhart@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit sffs.org/pressdownloads.
More upcoming San Francisco Film Society programs
Continuing on consecutive Saturdays through July 21: The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Through June 28: Found Memories
Through July 7: KinoTek: Adriane Colburn: Ways, Points and Means
Opening June 29: Corpo Celeste
Opening July 6: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
Also Opening July 13: Ballplayer: Pelotero
Also opening July 13: Bonsái
July 14 only: The Storytellers Show
July 19 only: Dark Horse Filmmaker Todd Solondz in Person
Opening July 20: A Burning Hot Summer
Opening July 27: Sacrifice
August 24: Master Class: Les Blank on Documentary
September 15-October 20: KinoTek: Brent Green, sculpture and animation
December: KinoTek: Kota Ezawa, animation