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DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the biblical exhortation to “pursue justice and justice 
 alone,” The Contemporary Jewish Museum presents Chasing Justice, a new 
 exhibition featuring the work of Arnold Mesches, Johanna Barron, and Robbin 
 Henderson, three artists of Jewish heritage who have, through activism, 
 research, and engagement with the government, produced bodies of work that 
 explore different approaches to this Jewish commitment. From surveillance 
 to arrest, the three artists shine a light on controversial government 
 practices that often remain hidden, unseen, or forgotten.\n \nThe 
 exhibition features ten pieces from Mesches’ series The FBI Files 
 (2001–03) in which the artist turned the government’s investigations of 
 him into portals for creative expression, resulting in the creation of a 
 kind of illuminated manuscript for the modern world. Johanna Barron also 
 used the Freedom Of Information Act to obtain the starting materials for 
 her ongoing series Acres of Walls (2015), recreations of a selection of 
 paintings that hang in the secretive CIA headquarters in Virginia. 
 Berkeley-based Robbin Henderson contributes fifty-five artworks created as 
 part of her portfolio, Matilda Robbins: Immigrant, Wobbly, Feminist 
 (2013–15). Matilda Robbins was a Jewish immigrant from Russia who became 
 an itinerant labor activist throughout the Northeast in the years before 
 WWII, and was also Henderson’s grandmother. Through the creation of a 
 sort of “graphic memoir” representing her grandmother’s story, 
 Matilda Robbins: Immigrant, Wobbly, Feminist provides a contemporary 
 interpretation of what pursuing justice in the early twentieth century 
 looked like.\n\nChasing Justice is organized by The Contemporary Jewish 
 Museum, San Francisco.\n\nWHEN: November 19, 2015–February 21, 
 2016\n\nTIME: Open daily (except Wed.): 11am–5pm and Thursday, 
 11am–8pm\n\nWHERE: The Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission Street, 
 San Francisco \n\nADMISSION: $12 adults, $10 students and senior citizens 
 with a valid ID, and $5 on Thursdays after 5pm. Youth 18 and under 
 free.\n\nINFO: Visit thecjm.org or call 415.655.7800\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/11/11/18779875.php
SUMMARY:Chasing Justice
LOCATION:The Contemporary Jewish Museum\n736 Mission Street\nSan Francisco, CA 94103
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/11/11/18779875.php
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