“HOUSING” is an exhibit I curated with 18 Bay Area artists at the office of Senator Scott Wiener (D- San Francisco) looking at what the meaning of this place we call home. The artists come from all different backgrounds, ages, sexual orientations, countries of orgin, races, and artistic styles. They represent all the incredible diversity of the San Francisco Bay.There will be a reception held on Friday, October 13, 2017 in the office of Senator Wiener at 455 Golden Gte Ave., Suite 14800 from 5:00-7:30pm. This is an after hours event at the State Building, and a RSVP here ( http://goo.gl/SrTAqn ) is needed to get through security.
The artists include Joseph Abbati, Chad Berwald, Julie Blankenship, Jasmin Cañas, Entrophy, Joan Karissa Gallego, Alexander Hernandez, OLE Johnson, Kevin B Jones, Diana Krevsky, Rikki List, Dawline-Jane Oni-Eseleh, Genevieve Pflueger, Ari Salomon, Shannon D. Schmidt, Debra Walker, Deidre Weinberg, and Termeh Yeghiazarian.
Joseph Abbati
“Tent City, San Francisco”, 2017
digital print collage
30″ X 80″
“Tent City, San Francisco”, 2017(detail)
Trans is a video exploring other personas morphed to myself. These transformations were collected from my posts on Instagram(@jabbati). They were originally created in Snapchat from my own photos and others I follow on Instagram. It’s a study of augmenting my reality with the outside world and creating a new narrative by rendering myself new to the world.
The San Francisco Examiners ran an article today featuring the LARGER THAN LIFE exhibit at Senator Scott Wiener’s office. http://www.sfexaminer.com/?p=175189
LARGER THAN LIFE, my tribute to San Francisco drag queens, will be on view at the office of California State Senator Scott Wiener, in San Francisco, for the month of June to help celebrate Pride 2017.
Happy Pride!
My portrait of Edward Sotomayor Jr. will be part of this exhibit at Fort Mason honoring the victims of the Pulse Nightclub attack.
https://fortmason.org/event/pulse/
A new series I’m working on, “Forma Humana”, combining portraits with organic shapes.
P1XELS.com interviewed me following the LARGER THAN LIFE exhibit of mine. We talked about the tapestries, as well as the history of drag queens and the iPhone photos that were part of the exhibit.
Click here for the complete interview as well as the “DRAG SFO” video and profiles of the drag queens for the exhibit. http://p1xels.com/portr…/larger-than-life-with-joseph-abbati
