MERIDEL RUBENSTEIN AND OLJA TRIAŠKA STEFANOVIĆ
Thursday, February 16, 2023 7:00 pm PST
Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco, CA 94114
Tickets: $20
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About The Program
Meridel Rubenstein and Olja Triaška Stefanović both consider the ways culture influences how we inhabit the landscape, and how human ideologies and conflicts leave significant imprints on our environment. For example, Rubenstein’s Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden Project “is a response to decades of conflict in this region and continued tension due to climate change, external water rights violations, and social upheaval.” Although photographing in a different region of the world, Triaška Stefanović also considers the long, lingering effects of social upheaval on the human landscape as she focusses on soviet-era architecture in Eastern Europe and the weighty history associated with these buildings.
All photos © Meridel Rubenstein
About Meridel Rubenstein
Meridel Rubenstein is an American photographer and installation artist based out of New Mexico. She is known for her large-format photographs incorporating sculptures and unusual media. In 1970, Rubenstein earned a bachelor's degree in social science, with a film-making emphasis from Sarah Lawrence College. She received an M.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the same institution in 1977, studying with Beaumont Newhall and Franck Van Deren Coke. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1983.From 1985 to 1990 she was head of the photography department at San Francisco State University. In 1990 she returned to New Mexico to teach at the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2006, she received a fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She has published the monographs Eden Turned on Its Side, with University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 2018, and Belonging: Los Alamos to Vietnam with St. Ann’s Press, Los Angeles, 2004. She currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Singapore.
All photos © Olja Triaška Stefanović
About Olja Triaška Stefanović
Olja Triaška Stefanović is the recipient of a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholarship, and she is currently conducting research with Anthony Aziz at Parsons School of Design in New York. She is a visual artist and a photographer born in Novi Sad in the former Yugoslavia. During the Balkan Wars in the 1990’s, she settled in Slovakia where she now lives and works. She is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava, where she is currently the Head of the Department of Photography and New Media.
Many of her previous exhibition projects focused on the historical, political and cultural context of former Yugoslavia and consequences of the civil war in the 1990s. Beside this topic, in her visual researches she shows a special interest in the space, history and architecture of Eastern Europe. She regularly exhibits both in Slovakia and internationally.
About the Venue: Randall Museum
This event is in San Francisco at the theater in the Randall Museum, located in Corona Heights Park, on a large hill between the Castro and Haight-Ashbury districts of San Francisco. The Corona Heights location features sweeping views of the city, downtown financial district and the San Francisco Bay. Learn more about the Randall.
A note on parking: The Randall Museum has a fairly large free parking adjacent to the musuem.
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