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San Francisco based art gallery Anglim Gilbert Gallery will be participating in the UNTITLED Art Fair, San Francisco to be held from January 13 throug
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10 Exhibitions Opening This Week
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Artist Ala Ebtekar discusses his artwork, personal history, and inspirations from history and contemporary culture.
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What's opening where across the globe. This week: Richter, Warhol, Nara, Bourgeois, Flavin, Lichtenstein and more.
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In this exhibition, eight artists—Ala Abtekar, Michelle Dizon, Naeem Mohaiemen, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Yamini Nayar, Ishmael Randall Weeks
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Two shows at San Francisco museums this past July proposed to reconcile gaps between local and global concerns. For Proximities I: What Time Is It The
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During a trip to Iran, Ala Ebtekar was inspired by young girls wearing their headscarves like bandanas. He liked their attitude. And as an artist
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The art of Ala Ebtekar is as simple as it is effective. Ebtekar was born in the United States and raised in California but retained a strong
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Ala Ebtekar (b. 1978 Berkeley, California) received an MFA from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 2006, and a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco in 2002. He was the San Francisco Center for the Book Artist-in-Residence in 2008; received the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Print Award and the Jack and Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship in 2006; and received the Presidential Merit Scholarship from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001, 2000, and 1999. Selected solo shows include Ala Ebtekar at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco (2007); Emergence: Elements at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco (2006); Emergence at Richmond Art Center in Richmond, California (2006); Elemental at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco (2004); and 9-9-99 at Blake Street House Project in Berkeley, California (1999). Selected group shows include One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles (2008); Make The Art You Need: The UC Berkeley Department of Art Faculty Show at Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California Berkeley in Berkeley, California (2008); The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection at De Young Museum in San Francisco (2007); and Feel The Difference: Cultural Branding Remix at Works/San Jose in San Jose, California (2007). He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco. Ala Ebtekar lives and works in San Francisco.
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