Minnesota Street Project Adjacent | SF Camerawork Artists’ Showcase

Thursday, September 17, 2020 | 4 pm PST

San Francisco Camerawork presents Artists Showcase, a conversation between artist Adrian L. Burrell and art scholar Benjamin Jones. Burrell and Jones discuss the work donated for the SF Camerawork Benefit Auction: See How Beautiful I Am, featuring over 60 artists around the world. The evening is an empowering conversation around creative practice, vision, and activism.

The Artists’ Showcase will also feature live talks with Alanna Airitam, Johnnie Chatman, Mikael Owunna, Chanell Stone, and more. They will share their independent visions and offer collective insights in a roundtable session finale.

Browse artwork in SF Camerawork Benefit Auction: See How Beautiful I Am.

Chanell Stone, Seraphim, 2018/2020.

Adrian Burrell, Black Americans, July 4th, 2018.

Mikael Owunna, Infinite Essence: Emem, 2018.

About San Francisco Camerawork

San Francisco Camerawork is a nonprofit organization dedicated to provoking discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography. Founded in 1974 by a collective of artists, SF Camerawork is a launch pad for many artists’ careers, supplying invaluable financial support, exhibition space, curation, and patronage.

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Adrian L. Burrell

Host & artist

Adrian L. Burrell is a multidisciplinary storyteller who uses film, photography, and site-specific installation to shape culture and evoke conversation on issues of race, class, gender, and intergenerational dynamics. Burrell’s multimedia installation Mama’s Babies explores Black matriarchy in America and won the 2019 SF Camerawork Juror’s Choice Award and the SFAI John Collier Award.

Burrell grew up in Oakland, California. He has lived and worked in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Burrell earned a BFA in film from the San Francisco Art Institute, is a United States Marine Corps veteran, and is currently earning his MFA from Stanford’s Department of Art & Art history.

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Benjamin L. Jones

Artist & scholar

Benjamin L. Jones is a PhD student Northwestern University’s Department of Art History. He researches the speculative analysis and praxis of oppressed people. His art-historical interests include contemporary intersections of art and power, futurism, and Black radical visual culture and performance. Funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Mellon foundation, his work engages critical ethnic studies, critical pedagogical practices, and feminist mobilizations of onto-epistemology and quantum mechanics.

A practicing artist, Jones graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a B.A. in the History and Theory of Contemporary Art (highest honors). He is currently working on two projects tentatively titled: What We Fin’na Do: Preface to a 5,000 Year Almanac, and What We Cain’t Do: The Pedagogy and Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, and Dewey Crumpler.