EXHIBITIONS
CURRENT/UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Clinton Fein at Southern Oregon University
Apri 17, 2008 - May 2008
Thorndike Gallery
Southern Oregon University
TORTURE
January 4, - January 30, 2007
TOOMEY TOURELL GALLERY
49 Geary Street, Fourth Floor
San Francisco, California
Uncovered
February 12, - March 13, 2005
UPFRONT GALLERY
7267 Laurel St
Ventura, California
Numb & Number
October 7, - November 13, 2004
TOOMEY TOURELL GALLERY
49 Geary Street, Fourth Floor
San Francisco, California
WARNING!
August 31 - October 2, 2004
AXIS GALLERY
425 17th Street, Fourth Floor
New York, New York
October 18 - December 31, 2003
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM & LIBRARY AT OAKLAND
659 Fourteenth Street Oakland, California
Criminal Vol. 2
A solo video installation using photographs of graffiti art designed to question the designed to explore the labels, contradictions, hypocrisies and ironies in the sanctioned and the condemned and the criminalization of art.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
The Other Mainstream II
Sept. 27, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Selections From the Collection of Mikke and Stanley Weithorn
The Arizona State University Art Museum
Banned and Recovered
Sept. 5 - Dec. 31, 2008
African American Library and Museum at Oakland
NOISE
October 15, 2008 - November 4, 2008
Anton Gallery, 701 Hawthorne St., Monterey, California
Face It - Torture in the 21st Century
October 19 and October 20, 2008
Highways
1651 18th St
Santa Monica
Peace Billboards: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations
May 26, 2008 - Jun 22, 2008
San Francisco, California
April 19 - July 30, 2006
VISUAL POLITICS: THE ART OF ENGAGEMENT
On tour from the San Jose Museum of Art, this AU Museum exhibition focuses on art from the West Coast to examine the interconnected history of art and politics since the Cold War. Free speech, Vietnam, black power, gay rights, Chicano liberation, the environmental movement, poverty, immigration, and nuclear war are among the issues explored. The exhibition includes a 300-page book by Berkeley art historian Peter Selz, and Gallery Talks by Selz and by exhibition curator Susan Landauer.
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC
February 8 - April 2, 2005
IMPRINTS
Works on paper by noted South African artists William Kentridge, Kim Berman, Linga Diko, Stephan Erasmus, Clinton Fein, David Goldblatt, Robert Hodgins, David Koloane, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Brett Murray, Sam Nhlengethwa, Diana Page, Tracey Rose, Nyanda Tom, Hentie van der Merwe, and Graeme Williams.
AXIS GALLERY
425 17th Street, Fourth Floor
New York, New York
January, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL ART EXPOSITION
Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA with Toomey Tourell.
November, 2004
BIG
TOOMEY TOURELL
511 Harrison Street, San Francisco.
June 26, 2004
FEAR WILL NOT SILENCE US!!!! ANTI-MILITARIST ART SHOW!
Not in Our Name
French Fry Factory
278 4th St Oakland, California
May 17-21, 2004
SCOPE LOS ANGELES,
STANDARD HOTEL, West Hollywood, USA with Toomey Tourell (San Francisco).
March 12-15, 2004
SCOPE NEW YORK,
HOTEL GANSEVOORT, New York, New York, USA with Toomey Tourell (San Francisco).
ACADEMY OF FRIENDS AND VISUALAID ART AUCTION
Group Exhibition - Clift Hotel - Thursday, February 12th 2004
Academy of Friends and VisualAid art auction at the Clift Hotel. Proceeds from this event to benefit Visual Aid and Academy of Friends. Some of the Bay Area's most prominent artists and informal collectors joined for an evening of healing through art.
December 4-7, 2003
SCOPE MIAMI,
THE TOWNHOUSE HOTEL, Miami Beach, Florida, USA with Toomey Tourell (San Francisco).
November 15, 2003
BIG DEAL X
VISUAL AID'S 10TH ANNUAL 'BIG DEAL' ART SALE AND FUNDRAISER
A silent auction featuring important works of art by Timothy Cummings, Arthur Tress, Danny Shain, Martine Jardel, Travis Sommerville, Matthew Hudson, Michael Toenges, Nina Glaser, Jeff Long, JoeSam., Clinton Fein, Gary Bukovnic, jewelry by Jeanine Payer, Inc., and more. All proceeds from the event benefit Visual Aid's programs for artists with life-threatening illnesses.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Clinton Fein's Annoy.com: Solo Exhibition - January 2002 - Tomey Tourell Gallery
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called it obscene and illegal, corporate trademark attorneys bristle over it, and renowned artist Lynda Benglis has dubbed it "Press Art." In April 1999, the United States Supreme Court weighed in, issuing an affirmation that upheld the basic premise of annoy.com: indecent communications intended to annoy are protected by the First Amendment of America's constitution. Clinton Fein insists that the fundamental right to annoy, even if indecently, is one of the most effective tools we have to counter apathy and challenge complacency, and annoy.com proved the ultimate test.
The images in this exhibition are the direct manifestation of that challenge, extracted from their interactive context, adjusted and translated into a static medium using a Color Cruse Camera process to create archival quality, state-of-the art color photographic Type C Prints. The images selected for the exhibition represent a snapshot of the events, people and brands that are rooted in Clinton Fein and Annoy.com's already formidable history.
Reviews:
Contemporary art gets no more incendiary than the C-prints on political and social topics...
Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle
...downright obnoxious...
News.com
He's made Mickey Mouse a homosexual martyr, strapped Dick Cheney to General Electric's electric chair, slapped the pope onto a perforated condom wrapper and transformed Lady Liberty into a rifle-wielding madwoman.
The San Francisco Examiner
The site is worthy of exploration for its irreverent use of interactivity, and there are also other kinds of provocative material here -- in particular, cogent essays on media and social issues that are as edgy as anything on the Internet.
The Atlantic Monthly
An exhibition/art sale that benefits artists living with life-threatening illnesses. BIG DEAL generates public excitement every year due to the quality of the work it features at such a reasonable cost, tempting both new and seasoned art collectors.
Academy of Friends and VisualAid art auction at the Clift Hotel. Proceeds from this event went to Visual Aid and Academy of Friends. Some of the Bay Area's most prominent artists and informal collectors joined for an evening of healing through art.
ICON 2002 - Group Exhibition - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts - Friday: October 4, 2002
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society's 4th annual art auction and gala fund-raiser. A dazzling array of works of art and historic memorabilia.
