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DESCRIPTION:One of the Nation’s Top Photography Awards\n Goes to San Francisco 
 Photographer\n \nShowing: April 2 – May 23, 2009\nOpening Reception: 
 Thursday, April 2nd\n 5pm-8pm\n\n\nSan Francisco, March 2009 – SF 
 Camerawork surely has a full house this upcoming Spring 2009. With four 
 artists, featured in three exhibits, opening simultaneously on April 2nd, 
 the gallery is filled with a not-to-be-missed visual cornucopia of 
 photography. \n\n•    Celebrating the work of Sean McFarland recipient of 
 the 6th annual Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, and San 
 Francisco’s first photographer to win this prestigious national award, SF 
 Camerawork will feature McFarland’s series ‘Pictures of the Earth’ in 
 the upcoming solo exhibit, Sean McFarland: The 2009 Baum Award for Emerging 
 American Photographers.\n\n•    In artist Julie Blackmon’s San 
 Francisco debut exhibit, Domestic Vacations, images both grounded in 21st 
 Century family life and referencing the domestic arena of 17th Century 
 Dutch and Flemish paintings draw the viewer into a world of constructed 
 fantasy where things never seem quite right.\n\n•    From fantasy to 
 stark reality, guest curator David Spalding introduces the visually 
 divergent works of two different generations of Chinese artists in Even in 
 Arcadia. A selection of prints from Liu Gang’s series, Paper Dream (2008) 
 & Wang Jianwei’s documentary video, Living Elsewhere offer two distinct 
 but complimentary takes on how subjectivity is shaped by dreams of 
 affluence and feelings of anomie.\n\n\nSean McFarland: The 2009 Baum Award 
 for Emerging American Photographers\nDelicately manipulating imagery to 
 create black and white Polaroid photographs that subtly explore ways in 
 which our actions alter the natural landscape, McFarland’s photographs 
 serve, he notes, as “witness to the landscape, showing its history, our 
 trace in it, and admiring its beauty." \n\nMcFarland is the sixth recipient 
 of The Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers, one of the largest 
 national awards available in photography, and the only award in the United 
 States to single out ‘emerging’ photographers for support, Through the 
 generosity of Glenn and April Bucksbaum of The Baum Foundation, this 
 $10,000 cash grant honors a talented and innovative photographer at a 
 pivotal moment in the development of his or her career, and as Sharon 
 Tanenbaum, Executive Director of SF Camerawork notes, “We are delighted 
 to host The Baum Award and thrilled that San Francisco resident Sean 
 McFarland was chosen from an impressive group of nominees from across the 
 country as the 2009 award recipient."\n\nDomestic Vacations\nChaos, 
 disorder, family gatherings, game playing...all of these scenarios dominate 
 Domestic Vacations, a solo exhibition of Julie Blackmon’s recent series 
 of color photographic prints. Like Alice in her wonderland, Blackmon's 
 young subjects appear in reality and fantasy, engrossed in their created 
 worlds. Blackmon, herself the oldest of nine children, balances her role as 
 a mother of three and an artist by using her children, nieces, nephews, and 
 friends as subjects in her images.  Notes Blackmon, “These images are 
 both fictional and auto-biographical, and reflect not only our lives today 
 and as children growing up in a large family, but also move beyond the 
 documentary to explore the fantastic elements of our everyday lives, both 
 imagined and real.”\n\nEven in Arcadia\nOrganized by guest-curator David 
 Spalding, Curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing), the 
 exhibition combines photography and a single video work, made roughly ten 
 years apart, to examine the far-flung fantasies, grim realities and stark 
 contradictions that often define life in China today.\n\nA selection of 
 prints from Liu Gang’s series, Paper Dream (2008), presents viewers with 
 images appropriated from newspaper advertisements for upscale housing 
 developments in Beijing. Shot with a macro lens in medium format (6 x 7), 
 the images overflow with an absurd array of symbols that promise buyers a 
 taste of the good life. Liu Gang’s series is not about luxury housing or 
 the adverts that promote it per se. Instead, the artist remarks, “the 
 works are about Chinese identity, as reflected in our dreams and 
 desires.”\n\nIn contrast to the Photo-shopped follies in Liu Gang’s 
 work, Wang Jianwei’s documentary video, Living Elsewhere (1997-1999), 
 charts the daily existence of a group of farmers squatting in an abandoned 
 complex of half-finished luxury villas in Sichuan Province. Documenting the 
 stories of persons who are otherwise off the grid, Wang Jianwei focuses on 
 the details of their domestic experience to comment on the schisms between 
 luxury and poverty, aspiration and actuality that are symptomatic of the 
 economic and social transformation China continues to 
 experience.\n\n\nAbout 2009 Baum Award:\nGlenn and April Bucksbaum of The 
 Baum Foundation established The Baum Award for Emerging American 
 Photographers in 2001. The 2009 Award winner, Sean McFarland, was 
 unanimously selected by a panel of jurors that included Vince Aletti, 
 independent curator and photography critic, The New Yorker magazine; Pamela 
 M. Lee, associate professor in the department of art and art history, 
 Stanford University; Chuck Mobley, curator, SF Camerawork; Larry Sultan, 
 artist and professor of photography, California College of the Arts; Lisa 
 Sutcliffe, assistant curator of photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern 
 Art.   Previous award winners include Deborah Luster (2001), Luis Gispert 
 (2003), Katy Grannan (2004), Lisa Kereszi (2005), and Mike Brodie 
 (2008).\n\nSupport for The Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers 
 and for the accompanying exhibition has been provided by The Baum 
 Foundation.\n\n–end–\n\nFor More Exhibit Information or Images 
 Contact:\nWendy Norris, Norris Communications\n(415) 
 307-3853\nwendy@norriscommunications.biz\n\n\n\nAbout SF 
 Camerawork\nFounded in 1974, SF Camerawork encourages emerging and 
 mid-career artists to explore new directions in photography and related 
 media by fostering creative forms of expression that push existing 
 boundaries. Throughout its history, SF Camerawork has nurtured artists, 
 mentored youth and helped make San Francisco a destination for the 
 exploration of photography as an artist’s medium.  Its exhibitions are 
 nationally recognized as a focal point for innovation, a pacesetter for new 
 trends in the medium and a launching pad for the careers of young artists. 
 With three galleries and an education center at its new centrally located 
 facility, SF Camerawork is the only non-profit organization in the Bay Area 
 with an exhibition space and educational programs focused exclusively on 
 contemporary photography and related visual image media. It is an 
 accessible venue for people to view exhibitions, meet artists, participate 
 in educational programs, peruse photographic publications, and gather for 
 lectures, screenings, portfolio reviews, and discussions.\n\nAll 
 exhibitions are on view Tuesday – Saturday 12-5 p.m.\nSF Camerawork, 657 
 Mission St., 2ndFloor\nAdmission is $5.00; $2.00 for students and seniors; 
 free to Camerawork members\n\nFor more public information, visit 
 www.sfcamerawork.org or call 415.512.2020\n 
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SUMMARY:SF CAMERAWORK’S SPRING EXHIBITION TRIO
LOCATION:657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor\nSan Francisco, CA 94105
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