Archived Exhibition
August 3–August 27, 2005
Life Frames, A Living Library, & Bonnie Ora Sherk: Past, Present, Future
Reception: August 4, 2005, 6 - 8 PM

During the month of August, Braunstein/Quay Gallery will exhibit a systemic approach to environmental and social transformation by Bonnie Ora Sherk. Sherk was one of the first artists to incorporate the diverse fields of ecological planning and urban design with performance and installation art, winning SFMOMA‚s first SECA award in l970, which temporarily transformed urban "dead spaces" with trees, sod, live animals, and people. It was an early Life Frame. Another early Life Frame that she founded and directed from 1974-80, was Crossroads Community (the farm), an urban farm and arts center adjacent to and incorporating the Army Street Freeway interchange in San Francisco.

Always interested in the environment and transformation, Sherk links and incorporates local resources within communities into content-rich landscapes that are integrated with community programs and project-based learning environments.

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