CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

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145 Hooper Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Potrero Hill

Open Hours:

Saturday, January 18 | 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sunday, January 19 | Closed
Monday, January 20 | Closed
Tuesday, January 21 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday, January 22 | 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday, January 23 | 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday, January 24 | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday, January 25 | 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sunday, January 26 | Closed

Special Events:

Tuesday, January 21st | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Opening Reception: STEADY: Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs.
Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Friday, January 24th | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

We will host a curatorial tour with bagels and coffee of our current exhibition STEADY: Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs.

STEADY: Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs

The word "steady" implies a continuous state of becoming balanced, developed, and supported. The act of steadying requires a physical, structural, and conceptual interdependence. In this two-person exhibition, Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs's precarious, playful, and powerful sculptures harness physical and material components  even using the ground below and the air above. Instead of separation and assertion, there is a counterbalance.

The sculptures in STEADY ask us to question how the world is built the way it is, and why. They offer a broader reflection on the balance of power through form, as it extends into the world at large. As the Wattis welcomes audiences to its new galleries on the CCA expanded campus, the works propose ways of inhabiting, holding, sharing, and gathering in space.

This exhibition comes to the Wattis from Ballroom Marfa, and is curated by Daisy Nam and organized by Diego Villalobos.
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