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  • Thursday, July 10– Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    Thursday, July 10, 2014, 8:00 pm, $7-$10
    Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

    The world scandalized James Broughton, a sartorial-minded pre-Beat filmmaker and poet, so he, in turn, scandalized it. In Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, directors Eric Slade and Stephen Silha detail Broughton’s courage and impertinence in rejecting the heteronormative life of the 50s onward with its emphasis on frenetic consumerism and careerism. He embraced the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century by erasing the boundaries between poetry and cinema, thereby creating a new aesthetic in film.

    https://www.atasite.org/2014/07/big-joy-the-adventures-of-james-broughton/

  • Wednesday July 2, 6:00pm Opening for works by Dell Martinez

    Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 6:00 pm
    Opening Reception: Works by Dell Martinez

    Dell Martinez, “Drawing upon influences from portraiture,psychology, sex and surrealism Martinez assembles momentary statements of personal iconography and transcendental associations. After studies in Chicago and a lengthy tenure in New York, Dell escaped to San Francisco where he paints in the Lower Height and skateboards whenever his knee lets him.”

    http://www.atasite.org/2014/07/works-by-dell-martinez-2/

     

     

  • Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse

    Wenxin Zhang (b. 1989) lives and works in San Francisco. She received her MFA at California College of the Arts. Zhang creates non-linear photographic novels. In her writings and photography, she describes her experiences of growing up in China, her current life in San Francisco, and her personal relationships. Zhang’s work has exhibited widely in United States and China. Zhang is now doing and Artist in Residence at Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco. Zhang was selected as a finalist in 2014 Three Shadows Photography Award, Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, and Photographic Museum of Humanity New Generation Award. Also, Zhang will be an artist in residence at The Center for Photography in summer 2014.

    Project Statement:
    The on-going project Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse discusses lost and rediscovered desire, the evolution of curiosity and estrangement between childhood and adulthood in human life, and how the recent history has affected my generation and me in an illusive way. Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse consists of photographic and written works to create a nonlinear story, in which the boundaries between animal and human are blurred, as well as the sense of time.