This week Brian and Patricia head over to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to check out Bay Area Now 5, a triennial of local contemporary art. Joining the round table discussion are curators
Berin Golonu, Valerie Imus, and Taraneh Hemami, as well as
participating artists Ian McDonalnd, Edmundo de Marcheno, and Jonn
Herschend.
YBCA's fifth triennial exhibition of Bay Area art explores
questions around how to re-imagine a regional survey in the midst of
globalization. What continues to draw artists here and makes the Bay
Area a unique place to live and work when more and more of us are
traversing the globe and becoming international citizens? How does the
physical geography of the Bay, both natural and constructed, influence
the Bay Area as a site of artistic production? How does the history of
this region, including its legacy of social activism, shape Bay Area
residents' understanding of themselves and the rest of the world's
notion of this place? What are the contrasts between the myths, ideals
and realities of the Bay Area and the aspirations of its residents? The
Bay Area Now 5 survey exhibition asks these questions to explore the
many ways artists are influenced by their experiences both inside and
outside of the Bay Area.