August 22nd | 5:30pm – 8pm 
Special Event:  "Art For ¡Quba!”, a WILD PROJECTS auction to benefit Kim Anno’s documentary film on the LGBT community in Cuba.  

WILD PROJECTS presents Nature Studies: an exhibition of art and film. 

Nature Studies showcases recent work by the San Francisco artist Kim Anno. The exhibition includes paintings, photography, prints, and video on the subjects of climate change, and adapting to the watery world of sea level rise. Works include images that conjure a dark Utopia from an imagined vantage point of generation Z. 

As an artist, Kim Anno is on a quest to understand how humans studied nature in past centuries on the hypothesis that this led to a wrong turn in the Anthropocene era. She examines early science depicted in tiny steel engravings from 18th and 19th-century books that she recombines in oil paintings on aluminum and wood. Anno’s own photogravure prints, part of a limited-edition book The Albertine Work Out, created in collaboration with the poet  Anne Carson, will be on view. The painterly and poetic photographs and videos, included in the exhibition, imagine young people at play as they adapt to a new watery world after the sea rises to enter their cities.  

In the tradition of painters who also became film directors, i.e. Schnabel, Antonioni, and Kurasawa, in 2012 Anno began directing her own short socially engaged films in an ongoing series Men and Women in Water Cities. Three of these shorts, Water City, Ipswich, Water City, Berkeley, and Water City, Durban, will be screened as part of the exhibition.  

In addition to Anno's current work on view in the gallery, the silent benefit auction will include on exhibition works by such artists as Francesca Pastine, David Huffman, Linda Geary, Christine Wang, Karla Wozniak, Mia feuer, Mark Wyatt, Karen Hampton, Leonie Guyer, Alicia McCarthy, Libby Black, Alicia Escott, Steve Beal, Preston Fox, and Marco Garcia among others. The auction will raise funds for the post-production of ¡Quba!,  Anno's first feature documentary on the LGBTQ community in Cuba. On August 22nd,  a work in progress screening and Q & A with the filmmaker, along with performances by the costumer, Tara Rech, and drag artists, Marco Garcia & friends will round out an evening of silent auction.  

Kim Anno, Painter, Director/Producer. Anno is an artist/filmmaker who has screened in festivals and exhibited in museums nationally and internationally. and is in production on ¡Quba! a documentary on the LGBT Movement in Cuba, and 90 Miles From Paradise, and recently completed: Water City, Ipswich in the UK. Her exhibition and screening venues include: Patricia Sweetow Gallery, SF, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Patricia Correia Gallery, LA, Sue Scott Gallery, NY, University of Suffolk, Abron Arts Center, New York; England, Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janeiro; the 14th Annual New Media Festival, in Seoul, Goethe Institute in Johannesburg; Durban Municipal Gallery, South Africa, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, NY; Site Santa Fe Biennale: “One Night Stand; the Varnosi Museum in Hungary; DC Dusseldorf International Expo, Germany, Varnosi Museum, Hungary. Her work is in collections such as: SFMOMA, Brooklyn Museum, Getty Research Institute, Columbia University, University of Texas, Austin, Walker Museum, Minneapolis, Honolulu Academy of Art, Koopman Collection, The Hague, Berkeley Art Museum, among others. Anno received awards: Westsaf/NEA, Gerbode Foundation Award, Open Circle Foundation Award, John S. and James Knight foundation award, Zellerbach Fellowship, Fleishhaker Fellowship, Berkeley Film Foundation, Robertson Family fund award, Puffin Foundation Award among others. Her work has been written about in Areaparis magazine, Artpapers, SF Voice, SF Gate, UTNE reader, Sierra Club magazine among others. Kim Anno is a professor of art at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. 

A nonprofit founded in 2016, Wild Projects’ mission is: “Wild Projects collaborates with fearless art, film, and performance production teams who inspire resiliency in the face of adversity."  

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