https://premierejr.space Premiere Jr. Sat, 04 Feb 2023 19:23:18 +0000 https://premierejr.space en https://premierejr.space/Nav Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:52:07 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Nav 1. Lindsey White 2. Katie Dorame3. Oree Originol4. David Bayus 5. Maria Guzmán Capron 6. Yétundé Olagbaju 7. Kate Rhoades 8. Emma Spertus 9. Saif Azzuz 10. Em Meine11. Isaac Vazquez Avila 12. Lisa Rybovich Crallé 13. Other Places Art Fair North 14. Pieper 15. Margaret Tedesco 16. Other Places Art Fair 5 17. Daniel J. Glendening FarewellAbout Press<img width="1200" height="545" width_o="1200" height_o="545" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b47cef2048040512008ded1c8bf05db664eb20339804ad2e6c0ed90f2ba6da47/All-Billboards.gif" data-mid="167259211" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b47cef2048040512008ded1c8bf05db664eb20339804ad2e6c0ed90f2ba6da47/All-Billboards.gif" />All the billboards from our three-year run! https://premierejr.space/Farewell Sat, 04 Feb 2023 19:23:18 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Farewell Farewell February 4, 2023 Dearest looker-uppers, We’re writing to bid you a fond farewell. For three years, there’s been nothing but beautiful Bay Area art on the billboard above 624 Irving Street and we’ve had such an incredible time working with the artists who made this possible: Lindsey White, Katie Dorame, Oree Originol, David Bayus, Maria Guzmán Capron, Yétundé Olagbaju, Kate Rhoades, Emma Spertus, Saif Azzuz, Em Meine, Isaac Vazquez Avila, Lisa Rybovich Crallé, Joey Enos, Pieper, Margaret Tedesco, Cybele Lyle and Daniel J. Glendening Thank you all! When we started Premiere Jr. we had no idea we’d be operating for the duration of a global pandemic. For us, it has been so important to create a space for this community to gather and make new work at a time when it was hard to access art and art spaces. We loved seeing how artists responded to this weird assignment, stretching beyond their studio practices and familiar mediums to interesting and delightful results. Thank you to Southern Exposure for the Alternative Exposure grant. Thank you to Arizmendi for all the sidewalk pizza. And thank you to everyone who stopped by a reception or paused in their daily lives to look up. We hope we provided a welcome interruption in the landscape to ponder something a little mysterious, a little fun and always beautiful. We encourage others to do this kind of work. This format is for everyone! Recreate it! If you have any interest in doing a project like this or putting art on a billboard in general, get in touch with us — we’ve learned a lot from our time working with Clear Channel and we would love to see more stuff like this in the world. Much love to you all, Zoë Taleporos &amp; Sarah Hotchkiss Premiere Jr. <img width="2535" height="2057" width_o="2535" height_o="2057" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/16a68c903470931acf8c627a72c1b53e1fa20a08d27c8ba2c6fdc885553e771d/PremiereJr_CropWeb.jpg" data-mid="167260981" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/16a68c903470931acf8c627a72c1b53e1fa20a08d27c8ba2c6fdc885553e771d/PremiereJr_CropWeb.jpg" /> https://premierejr.space/About Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:52:09 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/About About Premiere Jr. was a 6-by-12-foot billboard affixed to the back of a much larger billboard above 624 Irving Street in San Francisco that “opened” in January 2020 and ran through January 2023. Bay Area artists were commissioned to create work for the billboard. Each show lasted approximately 2 months. Premiere Jr. was best seen during daylight hours from the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and Irving Street, just outside the Fireside Bar. Support for Premiere Jr. was provided by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program.Mailing List Contact premierejrspace@gmail.com ︎ Instagram Organizers Sarah Hotchkiss is a San Francisco artist and arts writer. Recent shows include exhibitions at San Francisco’s Friends Indeed and Guerrero Gallery, and New York’s Cheymore Gallery. She watches a lot of science fiction, which she reviews in the semi-regular publication Sci-Fi Sundays. Zoë Taleporos is an arts administrator and curator based in Oakland, CA. Currently she works as the Public Art Program Lead for the City of Berkeley, overseeing temporary and permanent public art commissions, rotating exhibitions, and public programs. Previously, she held the position of Public Art Project Manager at the San Francisco Arts Commission where she implemented public art commissions for San Francisco International Airport, SFMTA’s Central Subway Project, San Francisco General Hospital, and other sites. She has produced exhibitions and public programs for the California College of the Arts, Charlotte Street Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Pro Arts, Queen’s Nails Annex, Real Time and Space, and Royal NoneSuch Gallery. She received her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. https://premierejr.space/Press Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:41:52 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Press Press 5/12/2022: Theadora Walsh, Northern California pick for “Cliff Notes” newsletter, Variable West&nbsp;5/11/22: Mya Constantino, “OPaf (Other Places art fair) makes way into Sonoma County,” The Press Democrat 3/6/2020:&nbsp;Noma Faingold, “Artists Lease Billboard Above Irving Street to Showcase Other Artists’ Works,” in March issue of The Sunset Beacon 2/27/2020: Premiere Jr. makes a guest appearance on KunstCapades 2/8/2020: Zoë talks public art and Premiere Jr. on Congratulations Pinetree 2/6/2020: Marke Bieschke, “Look! Up in the sky! It’s public art—with Premiere Jr.” on 48 Hills 1/21/2020:&nbsp;Interview with Aaron Harbour on Journal’s podcast https://premierejr.space/Lindsey-White Mon, 30 Dec 2019 05:52:08 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Lindsey-White A billboard by Lindsey WhiteFebruary 6–April 19, 2020 Opening: Sunday, February 9, 2–5pm Lindsey White is an artist and educator. White has exhibited at venues such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen; Bolinas Museum, California; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; ACME., Los Angeles; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Oregon; San Francisco International Airport Museum; and Museum Bärengasse, Zurich. White was awarded SFMOMA's 2017 SECA Award and residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, and Latitude, Chicago. Her work was recently featured in Photography Is Magic by Charlotte Cotton. White is also a co-founder of the para-curatorial/artist-run experiment Will Brown, which has realized projects with institutions such as the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; di Rosa, Napa; Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University; and Kadist, San Francisco. White’s projects have been featured in Artforum, Frieze, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and KQED. She has an upcoming book, Controlled Miracles coming out on TBW Books. She is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cea0ca2d578b2a2c239ff6fdd535281297329a0ceffff86ad87f8cf813a37b51/Premiere_Jr_Linsey_White_hires_1.jpg" data-mid="61359961" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cea0ca2d578b2a2c239ff6fdd535281297329a0ceffff86ad87f8cf813a37b51/Premiere_Jr_Linsey_White_hires_1.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b324c5f28c60ca04a74ed47908b17cda76a7e92322e8c45d6d2dbfe4f0759aa/IMG_4798-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359935" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="Celebrating the opening of Lindsey White&rsquo;s billboard" data-caption="Celebrating the opening of Lindsey White’s billboard" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b324c5f28c60ca04a74ed47908b17cda76a7e92322e8c45d6d2dbfe4f0759aa/IMG_4798-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/651a0b378eeb78272cb163d24d086bbff91e90569ffa54e5710cb89b71d61c71/IMG_4809-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359938" border="0" alt="Kate Rhoades peeps the billboard from across the street" data-caption="Kate Rhoades peeps the billboard from across the street" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/651a0b378eeb78272cb163d24d086bbff91e90569ffa54e5710cb89b71d61c71/IMG_4809-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c8b4298f903cf5fc09fe51df0e4b624c73f071d009fe38aec47a8e59b8656a4/IMG_4845-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359946" border="0" alt="The celebration continues inside the Fireside" data-caption="The celebration continues inside the Fireside" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c8b4298f903cf5fc09fe51df0e4b624c73f071d009fe38aec47a8e59b8656a4/IMG_4845-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f56e1769b719e926fd83c47599c10bbf50234e55b1b8ed3207b2262be6e307f/IMG_4853-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359950" border="0" alt="Maggie Haas makes a tricky binocular/camera shot" data-caption="Maggie Haas makes a tricky binocular/camera shot" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f56e1769b719e926fd83c47599c10bbf50234e55b1b8ed3207b2262be6e307f/IMG_4853-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b3d2b375bf7bea0253a023350cfbb4d2e5b8efdde6fbb8f42bf97c0668b05e0/IMG_4851-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359949" border="0" alt="The artist, center, suffers admiration" data-caption="The artist, center, suffers admiration" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b3d2b375bf7bea0253a023350cfbb4d2e5b8efdde6fbb8f42bf97c0668b05e0/IMG_4851-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d047c749e48679c67d7d35c6cb691052ca8f3522ef14a636f18a029432233a3b/IMG_4843-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359945" border="0" alt="The artist endures praise while others call the hotline" data-caption="The artist endures praise while others call the hotline" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d047c749e48679c67d7d35c6cb691052ca8f3522ef14a636f18a029432233a3b/IMG_4843-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de667a56d8f894fa88f90d70e45a280e9f8e28d0aa360c0692e70f35da75c946/IMG_4864-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359955" border="0" alt="The artist enjoys frozen yogurt" data-caption="The artist enjoys frozen yogurt" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de667a56d8f894fa88f90d70e45a280e9f8e28d0aa360c0692e70f35da75c946/IMG_4864-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a48d45389b66b6a81a5b6c67e55a2f1d1914c84436f6a120aff86c66e59f98c9/IMG_4857-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359953" border="0" alt="Some people arrived by bike" data-caption="Some people arrived by bike" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a48d45389b66b6a81a5b6c67e55a2f1d1914c84436f6a120aff86c66e59f98c9/IMG_4857-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/68a589c356abea787c580ef1fd3ba43bfabdbbca50a08582006fc0fb278ec387/IMG_4869_edit.jpg" data-mid="61359956" border="0" alt="Miniature billboards (business cards) were distributed" data-caption="Miniature billboards (business cards) were distributed" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/68a589c356abea787c580ef1fd3ba43bfabdbbca50a08582006fc0fb278ec387/IMG_4869_edit.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/044c7a5f7f6e819ba7628ef08a83f7a362bc98df9c35786016804d341b353264/IMG_4879-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359957" border="0" alt="The event was rife with photo ops" data-caption="The event was rife with photo ops" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/044c7a5f7f6e819ba7628ef08a83f7a362bc98df9c35786016804d341b353264/IMG_4879-copy.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4cf361e863ebab738bf9bf98298c8231d6a5c8671b55cff0fc9d094b988ae5b/IMG_4861-copy.jpg" data-mid="61359954" border="0" alt="Lolly!" data-caption="Lolly!" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4cf361e863ebab738bf9bf98298c8231d6a5c8671b55cff0fc9d094b988ae5b/IMG_4861-copy.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/daaf7262fe2458f1a1c2d4445c3f06a66374ce48233b4cc6cba510dc03245f34/Premiere_Jr_Linsey_White_hires_4.jpg" data-mid="61359967" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/daaf7262fe2458f1a1c2d4445c3f06a66374ce48233b4cc6cba510dc03245f34/Premiere_Jr_Linsey_White_hires_4.jpg" /> <img width="793" height="1225" width_o="793" height_o="1225" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d612d39ae0d7dea8945b5ae42faf3818c7c0b220f39cd5ff70c9527ea0ad04e/PremiereJr_Checkerboard_Colors2.png" data-mid="60571469" border="0" data-scale="44" data-rotation="10" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/793/i/3d612d39ae0d7dea8945b5ae42faf3818c7c0b220f39cd5ff70c9527ea0ad04e/PremiereJr_Checkerboard_Colors2.png" /> https://premierejr.space/Katie-Dorame Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:41:46 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Katie-Dorame Katie Dorame Into the Darkness,&nbsp;from the series I am not Rebecca April 26–June 21, 2020 Katie Dorame’s Into the Darkness comes from a black pastel on paper drawing, part of the series I am not Rebecca. In this body of work, Dorame inserts contemporary Indigenous actors into classic gothic horror films. In each drawing for I am not Rebecca, Dorame recategorizes Hollywood’s myth of Pocahontas in the horror genre. Into the Darkness places Q’orianka Kilcher (who starred in 2015’s&nbsp;The New World) within 1961’s The Innocents.Katie Dorame is a visual artist born in Los Angeles, currently living and working in Oakland. Dorame’s work was recently exhibited at Shulamit Nazarian in Los Angeles, Guerrero Gallery in San Francisco, Form and Concept in Santa Fe and the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara. She has attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe as an artist in residence, and contributed to SFMOMA’s Open Space blog. She received her MFA from the California College of the Arts and her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is an Indigenous artist of mixed descent, and a member of the Gabrielino/Tongva tribe of California. <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23f0f4fc197c7b8f70b55cf66b79381ad70f0037ebd4f90926f0150336529508/Premiere_Jr_Katie_Dorame_hires_3.JPG" data-mid="75180974" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23f0f4fc197c7b8f70b55cf66b79381ad70f0037ebd4f90926f0150336529508/Premiere_Jr_Katie_Dorame_hires_3.JPG" /> <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c88caadf247a4b38a5612eaf7174a8039d3c396c9420736d348c7196e35cbfa/Premiere_Jr_Katie_Dorame_hires_6.JPG" data-mid="68176869" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c88caadf247a4b38a5612eaf7174a8039d3c396c9420736d348c7196e35cbfa/Premiere_Jr_Katie_Dorame_hires_6.JPG" /> <img width="1200" height="545" width_o="1200" height_o="545" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40e80f76490898fc87555956cd1099bca04fb12517700667ad9cfcd314e59691/KDbillboardFINAL_web.jpg" data-mid="75180936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40e80f76490898fc87555956cd1099bca04fb12517700667ad9cfcd314e59691/KDbillboardFINAL_web.jpg" /> https://premierejr.space/Oree-Originol Sat, 20 Jun 2020 22:00:22 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Oree-Originol Oree Originol Justice for Sean Monterrosa July 9–August 23, 2020 On June 2, 2020, Sean Monterrosa, a 22-year-old resident of San Francisco, was fatally shot by Vallejo police officer Jarrett Tonn. Monterrosa was on his knees with his hands above his waist when Tonn fired five shots from inside his vehicle, through his own windshield.&nbsp;His death occurred at the beginning of a national uprising, with protests around the world calling for justice and an end to police violence. In 2014, Bay Area artist Oree Originol launched Justice For Our Lives, an open-source digital portrait series of people who have been killed by U.S. law enforcement. Inspired by Black Lives Matter activism, the black-and-white portraits have served as pivotal instruments in the fight for justice against state-sponsored terrorism. Often working with the families of those killed when selecting the source photograph, Originol distills images into simple line work that easily translate to reproducible templates. His images have been publicly disseminated worldwide in demonstrations, classrooms, art galleries, as street art and online. You can download your own PDF of Originol’s poster for Sean Monterrosa here. With permission from Sean Monterrosa’s family, Oree Originol and Premiere Jr. honor his memory. We thank the family and Kate Rhoades for their help in making this exhibition possible. Oree Originol has been an active member of the Bay Area art community since he moved to the region from Los Angeles in 2009. With a background in graffiti and abstract, colorful painting, Originol joined the artist network CultureStrike in 2012, connecting his practice to activism and social engagement. His work has been covered in the East Bay Express, the San Francisco Examiner and a KQED Arts documentary; his Justice for Our Lives portraits were included in Take This Hammer at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and will be shown at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2020. <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d46087e0eb8f553297b91639d31684e0fb254d6b6e896d3d5ecf691df5286fb/premiere_jr_Oree_Originol_web_2.JPG" data-mid="77463719" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d46087e0eb8f553297b91639d31684e0fb254d6b6e896d3d5ecf691df5286fb/premiere_jr_Oree_Originol_web_2.JPG" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/273a6354acfe1efe3f1ae2d15631fba566d6b5361bcd9349d32e514571efc6a6/premiere_jr_Oree_Originol_web_7.JPG" data-mid="77463736" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/273a6354acfe1efe3f1ae2d15631fba566d6b5361bcd9349d32e514571efc6a6/premiere_jr_Oree_Originol_web_7.JPG" /> <img width="2000" height="909" width_o="2000" height_o="909" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ba82f5950c2218b45eba4b894fa0c7883b0aede43d34247a4d222e4e53a9586/PremiereJr_OreeOriginol_Web.jpg" data-mid="75180906" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ba82f5950c2218b45eba4b894fa0c7883b0aede43d34247a4d222e4e53a9586/PremiereJr_OreeOriginol_Web.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80f5aa54443a656e7a9e7057059f1fa46e81cdc971e11e0725aa507fa9736b05/premiere_jr_Oree_Originol_web_10.JPG" data-mid="77463820" border="0" alt="At the time of install, the billboard on Premiere Jr.&rsquo;s verso was a recruitment ad for the Contra Costa Sheriff&rsquo;s department" data-caption="At the time of install, the billboard on Premiere Jr.’s verso was a recruitment ad for the Contra Costa Sheriff’s department" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80f5aa54443a656e7a9e7057059f1fa46e81cdc971e11e0725aa507fa9736b05/premiere_jr_Oree_Originol_web_10.JPG" /> Petitions and ways to donate: Sean Monterrosa funeral and legal fees “Knowledge Up” Library in Sean Monterrosa’s memory&nbsp; Stand with Sean petition Petition for “Hands Up Act” Petition for Sean Monterrosa Justice for Sean Monterrosa email to DA and Mayor https://premierejr.space/David-Bayus Fri, 11 Sep 2020 01:34:21 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/David-Bayus David Bayus Human-To-Be-InSeptember 10–October 25, 2020 Socially distant opening: Saturday, October 10, 2–4pmMeet at the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and Irving Street Amoebas, viruses and bacteria present us with a utopian vision! We can choose to live in fear, or we can choose to actively participate in our own disease as teammates. A new “Human-To-Be-In” is upon us, where cooperation and trust in our protozoan brothers and sisters leads to a new world of peace and love. Join us! David Bayus’ Human-To-Be-In draws inspiration from self-referential advertising campaigns, cultish utopian movements, and the current pandemic. Using images of previous Premiere Jr. installations, he rendered the barnacle-like billboard and its surroundings in 3D-modeling software to half scale. No detail was ignored, including dents in metal frames, half-peeling signage and the traces of bird droppings. Bayus then placed his “sculptures,” psychedelic renderings of amoebas and other organic forms, into the meta environment. In this scenario, these living things are advertising themselves, urging passersby to welcome them into their human bodies and create a new, parasitic ecosystem. David Bayus lives and works in San Francisco. His cross-disciplinary practice centers on experimental filmmaking with a focus on the dualistic relationship between science and spirituality. He is a co-founder of BASEMENT art collective, based in the Mission District. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010. <img width="2107" height="957" width_o="2107" height_o="957" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a236e2795531d95659d30b60878415bdcba270184639c5bbac2a58861d6d551/JR_BAYUS_THUMBNAIL.png" data-mid="82379100" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a236e2795531d95659d30b60878415bdcba270184639c5bbac2a58861d6d551/JR_BAYUS_THUMBNAIL.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/06fd06007481f8aa56ed037d32bf89d9a30ee449353e747b99c6f412645aa9ad/Premiere_Jr_David_Bayus_web_1.jpg" data-mid="82438927" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/06fd06007481f8aa56ed037d32bf89d9a30ee449353e747b99c6f412645aa9ad/Premiere_Jr_David_Bayus_web_1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52b7053c3349c85bc197328d16e5662d5270a818411866455e9957377fdabd23/Premiere_Jr_David_Bayus_web_9.jpg" data-mid="82438942" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52b7053c3349c85bc197328d16e5662d5270a818411866455e9957377fdabd23/Premiere_Jr_David_Bayus_web_9.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77036d3f2307377db8e42a59487534c0b944055aca18044079153f2877f14c1f/Premiere_Jr_David_Bayus_web_6.jpg" data-mid="82438937" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77036d3f2307377db8e42a59487534c0b944055aca18044079153f2877f14c1f/Premiere_Jr_David_Bayus_web_6.jpg" /> https://premierejr.space/Maria-Guzman-Capron Sat, 14 Nov 2020 17:21:01 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Maria-Guzman-Capron Maria Guzmán Capron Make it All BetterNovember 6–December 27, 2020 Socially distant opening: Saturday, November 21, 3–5pmMeet at the southwest corner of 7th Avenue and Irving Street (the Fireside is back in action!)Premiere Jr. is so dang happy to present the fifth billboard installation above 624 Irving Street, Make it All Better by Maria Guzmán Capron. For Maria, this was an opportunity to make weird art during a surreal moment. If a strangely humanoid cat creature can casually groom itself on a San Francisco billboard, truly anything we imagine is possible right now. Maria’s collage-like approach to the image of Make it All Better transforms a creature’s self care into an absurdist, magic realism PSA. Designed before the 2020 general election to suit whatever outcome might transpire, Maria’s billboard is a form of visual comfort and a call to action—to take care of ourselves and the world around us. Maria Guzmán Capron (b. 1981 in Milan, Italy to Colombian and Peruvian parents) lives and works in Oakland, CA. She received an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2015 and her BFA from the University of Houston in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Being Human Is Hard at pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA; Female Trouble 2 at CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA; Body Spray at Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY; Don’t Eat Me at Deli Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC; Through Her Eye at Mana Contemporary in Chicago, IL; and Snail Shell, open this month at pt.2 Gallery, Oakland, CA. She is a cofounder and past member of CTRL+SHFT Collective, an exhibition space and 13 studios located in West Oakland operating with an emphasis on collaborating with underrepresented arts communities, including women artists, artists of color, and queer and non-binary artists. She also works as a full-time mother and part-time facilitator at NIAD Art Center, a progressive art studio helping more than 60 artists with disabilities create art. <img width="2000" height="909" width_o="2000" height_o="909" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1d5d9ca8b6bee75321dcbab0e0c18d64bacecf249102c0fbebbb54ce5bcd344/make-it-all-better_FINAL_web.jpg" data-mid="88818978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1d5d9ca8b6bee75321dcbab0e0c18d64bacecf249102c0fbebbb54ce5bcd344/make-it-all-better_FINAL_web.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf40f342e1949ce8d5b5aee0203b0671d86ae20c06bbfcb87e01f3864edaa5c9/Premiere_Jr_Maria_Guzman_Capron_web_1.JPG" data-mid="92167603" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf40f342e1949ce8d5b5aee0203b0671d86ae20c06bbfcb87e01f3864edaa5c9/Premiere_Jr_Maria_Guzman_Capron_web_1.JPG" /> <img width="4000" height="2668" width_o="4000" height_o="2668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5ec798429f29ca015ce5c4be9b52552d594cc08b1073b93e38ac70029bf62825/Premiere_Jr_Maria_Guzman_Capron_web_5.JPG" data-mid="92167607" border="0" alt="Photo by Graham Holoch" data-caption="Photo by Graham Holoch" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5ec798429f29ca015ce5c4be9b52552d594cc08b1073b93e38ac70029bf62825/Premiere_Jr_Maria_Guzman_Capron_web_5.JPG" /> https://premierejr.space/Yetunde-Olagbaju Sat, 06 Feb 2021 19:56:42 +0000 Premiere Jr. https://premierejr.space/Yetunde-Olagbaju Yétundé Olagbaju joy that’s a circle no. 1February 2–March 21, 2021 Premiere Jr. opens the new year with a work by artist Yétundé Olagbaju, drawn from a series of journal entries created in 2017, when they were exploring notions of birthright, lineage and inheritance. The images—a carved statue and a branch of blossoms—come from books given to Olagbaju by their mother and form an echo across the pages. “The questions I pose while looking at these two images are significant as well,” Olagbaju writes, “they ask the viewer (especially Black folks like me) to consider where they inherited their joy from (not just our trauma) and how that joy might be cyclical in their lineage.”Yétundé Olagbaju is an artist and maker currently residing in Oakland, California. They utilize video, sculpture, action, gesture and performance as through-lines for inquiries regarding Black labor, legacy and processes of healing. They are rooted in the need to understand history, the people that made it, the myths surrounding them and how their own body is implicated in history’s timeline.They have shown work and projects with Oakland Museum of California, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Pt. 2 Gallery, Southern Exposure, SOMArts Cultural Center, Untitled Art Fair, Art Basel, and more. They hold an MFA from Mills College and are the recipient of the inaugural Nancy Cook Fellowship, the Murphy Cadogan Award, and the Jay DeFeo Award. They are currently in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. <img width="3300" height="1503" width_o="3300" height_o="1503" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d4a5ca732eded1f32be15663e47eaadb4b8ec46bc3431b820f0d7d4f1ca2feb/pre-jr_rgb.jpg" data-mid="98010086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9d4a5ca732eded1f32be15663e47eaadb4b8ec46bc3431b820f0d7d4f1ca2feb/pre-jr_rgb.jpg" /> <img width="4680" height="3120" width_o="4680" height_o="3120" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67d387c16c587092238b8fa9cef33a2bcee9b816edaa58e931a70908ad7ffcde/Yetunde_PJ_03.jpg" data-mid="98010094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67d387c16c587092238b8fa9cef33a2bcee9b816edaa58e931a70908ad7ffcde/Yetunde_PJ_03.jpg" /> <img width="5362" height="3575" width_o="5362" height_o="3575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a59022db4c583b47233a80a42318c2b1b84ba5427bf20c3bd41aec49c4ccabea/Yetunde_PJ_01.jpg" data-mid="98010093" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a59022db4c583b47233a80a42318c2b1b84ba5427bf20c3bd41aec49c4ccabea/Yetunde_PJ_01.jpg" />