Ron Moultrie Saunders
and Felix Quintana
Friday, February 18, 2022 7:00 pm PST
San Francisco Art Institute Osher Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA 94133
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All photos © Ron Moultrie Saunders
About Ron Moultrie Saunders
Ron Moultrie Saunders, a co-founding member of the 3.9 Art Collective, is a photographic artist and landscape architect. Originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York, he currently lives in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco.
Saunders' art has been exhibited throughout the US including solo shows The Secret Life of Plants at San Francisco International Airport and Corden|Potts Gallery, and group shows Echoes of Bauhaus Photography Cast Long Shadows at Ruth's Table, San Francisco, Self: Scape at Middlesex County College, New Jersey, Exposed: Today’s Photography/Yesterday’s Technology at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Measure of Time at Oakland Museum of California at City Center. His work is published in several books including Self Exposure: The Male Nude Self-Portrait and From Art to Landscape.
Saunder’s work is currently on view at the SFAC Main Gallery as part of the Black Magic exhibition, and is included in the SFSU Art Gallery exhibition When Light Becomes Form: Processing Photography, Feb 19 - March 31, 2022.
All photos © Felix Quintana
About Felix Quintana
Felix Quintana received an MFA in Photography from San Jose State University, San Jose CA (2021) and a BA in Studio Art from Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA (2014). His solo exhibitions include SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA; Espacio 1839, Boyle Heights, CA; Avenue 50 Studio, Los Angeles, CA; and Residency Art, Inglewood, CA (forthcoming 2022). Quintana’s work is included in the SFSU Art Gallery exhibition When Light Becomes Form: Processing Photography, Feb 19 - March 31, 2022. His work can be found in the permanent collections of Humboldt State University, Altamed Art Collection, and Oakland Museum of California.
Quintana has served as an educator and teaching artist at UCLA VAPAE and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; ArtworxLA; Slanguage Studio, Wilmington, CA; Plaza de La Raza, Los Angeles, CA; Self Help Graphics & Art, Boyle Heights, CA; Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. He has been an artist in residence at MACLA and Working Partnerships USA, San Jose, CA; and Meta Open Arts, Sunnyvale, CA. He currently lives, works, and teaches in Los Angeles, CA.
When Light Becomes Form: Processing Photography
Exhibition Dates: Feb 22 - Mar 31, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 19, 2022, 1 - 3 PM
Fine Arts Gallery - Fine Arts Building, San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, California, 94132
(DIRECTIONS HERE)
Photo credit: Andrew Wilson, Point of Departure (2015-2021).
How do we consider what makes a photograph in this time of merging and diverging technologies? Every photograph, regardless of format or process, begins with and can be simplified to being a product of light, time, and materiality – the recording of the image. When Light Becomes Form: Processing Photography explores a variety of unconventionally innovative, and sometimes antiquated, photographic techniques, and celebrates the subjectivity of the definition of photography. By reframing the way photography is traditionally presented, the exhibition highlights the way these ten artists tangibly shape light using the conceptual tool of time.
Featuring Lisa K. Blatt, Rachelle Bussières, Adam Chin, Binh Danh, Chris Duncan, Amy Elkins, Kija Lucas, Felix Quintana, Ron Moultrie Saunders, and Andrew Wilson.
This exhibition is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, and SFSU's Instructionally Related Student Activities Fund.
In accordance with the City of San Francisco's Vaccine Requirements, the Fine Arts Gallery will be requiring proof of full COVID-19 vaccination for all visitors ages 12 years and older and will accept the following forms of verification:
· An original, a copy, or a picture of your CDC vaccination card.
· Documentation from a healthcare provider.
· Digital COVID-19 vaccine record issued by the State of California.
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San Francisco Art Institute is dedicated to the intrinsic value of art and its vital role in shaping and enriching society and the individual. As a diverse community of working artists and scholars, SFAI provides its students with a rigorous education in the fine arts and preparation for a life in the arts through an immersive studio environment, an integrated liberal arts curriculum, and critical engagement with the world.
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