Project Description
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Rodney Ewing and Tahiti Pehrson
What Kind of Cool (Will We Think of Next)
October 14 to November 30, 2020
PAST EXHIBITION
Rodney Ewing and Monica Lundy
Untethered – Stories of the Fillmore District
October 1 to November 19, 2016
“While debating demanding topics such as race, religion, or war, it is simple enough to become polarized, and see situations in either black or white, right or wrong. These tactics may satisfy individuals whose position depends on employing policies or implementing strategies that promote specific agendas for a specific constituency. But as an artist, it is more important to create a platform that moves us past alliances, and begins a dialogue that informs, questions, and in some cases even satires our divisive issues. Without this type of introspection, we are in danger of having apathy rule our senses. We can easily succumb to a national mob mentality, and ignore individual accounts and memories. With my work I am creating an intersection where body and place, memory and fact are merged to re-examine human interactions and cultural conditions to create a narrative that requires us to be present and profound.”
Rodney Ewing, photo by Alan Bamberger
Based in San Francisco, Rodney Ewing creates drawings, installations, and mixed media works that focus on his need to intersect body and place, memory and fact to re-examine human histories, cultural conditions, and events. Ewing received his BFA in Printmaking from Louisiana State University and his MFA in Printmaking at West Virginia University. With his work he is pursuing a narrative that requires us to be present and intimate. His art has been exhibited at Euphrat Museum of Art in Cupertino, The Drawing Center in New York, and at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. He has been an artist-in-residence at San Francisco’s Recology and the de Young Museum of Fine Arts, as well as Djerassi in Woodside, California, Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, and Bemis Center for the Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.
