Pato Hebert: Inordinate Coordinates - OPENING September 10, 2010

Opening reception Thur, Sept 9, 5:30-8pm, exhibit runs through October 22, 2010

This exhibition is concurrent with a CIIS arts residency in which Hebert will collaborate with students at three San Francisco high schools. Through a series of workshops in the fall the students at each site will develop their own unique creative interventions and then come together as a collective to share and plan a group presentation and installation for early 2011.

"While I often struggle to juggle many roles in my practices as artist, educator and cultural worker, it is rare that I am able to bring all of these interests to bear on a given space or moment. My intervention in CIIS' Mission Street space will engage the main hallways, but also the elevators, stairwells, drinking fountains and windows that may normally be considered mere incidental, even invisible, elements. These undervalued spaces for transition and movement fascinate me. How is social space shaped and how does it in turn shape us? What kinds of cues can we take from listening more closely to our spiritual cartographies? Thematically, the works traverse language and death, vernacular sculpture and performative self-portraiture, spatial demarcations and evocative abstractions."

Patrick "Pato" Hebert is an artist, educator and cultural worker now based in Los Angeles, though he lived in San Francisco through the 90s. Recent shows include the 2008 California Biennial, Writ Large at Pitzer College, and solo exhibitions at Haverford College and the University of Maine at Augusta. In addition to teaching in the Photography and Imaging Department at Art Center College of Design, Hebert serves as the Senior Education Associate with The Global Forum on MSM & HIV, where he develops innovative HIV prevention programming and materials to help mobilize gay and bisexual men at the global level.

"Inordinate Coordinates" will be on display through October 22, 2010.

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