The Present Group is an art subscription service based in Oakland. For $150, roughly twice the cost of a leading contemporary art magazine, you can receive an original piece of art every quarter. The first two issues were multiples by Ethan Ham and Benjamin Rosenbaum (spring) and Presley Martin (summer), but in September they'll be releasing a new set of unique drawings by Christine Kesler. Christine drew these on the road from Brooklyn to SF, where she recently moved to start grad school at CCA. She should be well served by a department that helped shape the work of Leslie Shows and Val Britton, two artists with comparable interests in painting as topography.
That's all I can tell you for now, except that I'll be contributing a short essay on Christine's work to the September release. Watch for it.
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About Me
- Anuradha
- I am a curator and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've curated exhibitions for Craft and Folk Art Museum in LA, Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, DeYoung Museum Artist Studio in San Francisco, and numerous Bay Area non-profits and galleries. I am a Lecturer in Art Practice at San Jose State University and UC Berkeley, and in Art History at College of Marin. I'm #Hashtags editor for DAILY SERVING, and my writing has appeared in Artillery, Art Practical, Afterimage, LEONARDO, and OPEN SPACE: The SFMOMA Blog, as well as in books and catalogues on contemporary American artists including Sonya Rapoport and Chitra Ganesh. From 2009-2013, I was Curator at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery in the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice. I earned an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts, and a BS in Studio Art from New York University.
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