Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2155 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
Downtown Berkeley
Saturday, January 18th | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Artist’s Talk and Conversation: Tanya Aguiñiga and Anthony Graham
Tanya Aguiñiga discusses her Art Wall with BAMPFA Senior Curator Anthony Graham. Aguiñiga creates sculptures and installations using natural materials and objects gathered from her environment. For her first solo presentation in the Bay Area, Aguiñiga presents a series of rust prints depicting a thirty-foot ladder made using an actual object that she found near the US–Mexico border. More here.
Saturday, January 18th | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Artist’s Talk and Conversation: Amol K Patil and Victoria Sung
Amol K Patil (b. 1987, Mumbai) works across painting, sculpture, performance, and video and excavates the lived experiences of Mumbai’s working class. On the occasion of his MATRIX exhibition, and his first solo show at a US museum, join the artist and Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator Victoria Sung for a conversation on Patil’s newly commissioned body of work. More here.
Sunday, January 19th | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Stranger Inside
Free film screening at BAMPFA!
Yolanda Ross stars as a tough young butch in this terrific, rarely seen women’s prison drama from Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman). Featuring an in-person conversation with filmmaker Cheryl Dunye and Allegra Madsen, Executive Director at Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4:00 PM. More here.
Saturday, January 25th | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Artists’ Conversation: Painting and Technology Featuring three artists whose work is included in the exhibition Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, this discussion explores the innovative ways artists have transformed the language of painting as technologies evolve. Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, moderates. More here.
Sunday, January 26th | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Workshop: Mixed Media Drawing with Anjelica Colliard Oakland artist Anjelica Colliard (Jellicore) shares a wide range of their favorite techniques for mixed media drawing using materials like soft and oil pastel, gouache and watercolor, and ink and crayon to create dynamic, vibrant, fantastical scenes. More here.
Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection is on view through April 20. Bringing together more than seventy artworks by women artists from the Shah Garg Collection, Making Their Mark illuminates transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among pathbreaking artists from the postwar era to the present.
Art Wall / Tanya Aguiñiga opens January 18 with an Artist's Talk on opening day. For her first solo exhibition in the Bay Area, Aguiñiga presents a series of rust prints depicting a thirty-foot ladder made using an actual object that she found near the US–Mexico border.
MATRIX 286 / Amol K Patil: A Forest of Remembrance opens January 18 with an Artist's Talk. Amol K Patil's work excavates the lived experiences of Mumbai's working class. This newly commissioned body of work reconfigures the architecture of the Mumbai's chawls into a space of collective memory and dynamic protest.