Monday, January 29, 2007

SECA Award Exhibition at SFMOMA


Every two years, one of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art auxiliaries, SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), recognizes a handful of remarkably talented local Bay Area artists culled from hundreds of artists nominated by professors, curators, gallerists and other recipients. This Saturday, January 27th, SFMOMA held the opening for their SECA Art Award Exhibition honoring Sarah Cain, Kota Ezawa, Amy Franceschini, Mitzi Pederson and Leslie Shows.

With a stunningly diverse range of media, these artists prove the vitality of San Francisco artists. I was especially excited by the landscape collage-paintings of Leslie Shows, with her adept handling of materials and understanding of scale, and the stylized re-creations of Kota Ezawa. His re-interpretation of the Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee sex tape is not to be missed.

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