Raul Martinez Hands. Photo: SF Museum of Craft & Design
Open Studio invites audiences to ask questions, view works in-process, and gain hands-on experience with the creative process of artists currently working or exhibiting at Guild Hall.
This Open Studio, which will take place for three days—Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, May 18-20 from 12-5 PM—will be led by cross-disciplinary artist Raúl Martinez. Martinez’s work examines the intersections between art and language, and more specifically, the possibilities of using legal language (i.e., employment contracts, traffic rules and regulations, military training codes, etc.) as material for art, dance, and performance. Audiences are invited to join Martinez in a new collaborative in-process piece or begin an individual piece of their own with the materials on-site.
This Open Studio is programmed in tandem with the Guild Hall exhibition Spin A Yarn, where Martinez’s work is on view.
This program is open to members only for Members Preview Day on Saturday, May 18, and open to the public Sunday, May 19, and Monday, May 20. Open Studio is free of charge. Advance reservations are not required.
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Raúl Martinez
As an artist and lawyer, Raúl Martinez is interested in the intersections between art and language, and more specifically in the possibilities of using legal language (i.e., employment contracts, traffic rules and regulations, military training codes, etc.) as material for art, dance and performance. Working as part of DETEXT, a shifting collective of artists and designers, the group has often used material culled from the Internet. Martinez examines how ideology enters the collective consciousness and the impact of mass media on social relations.
Pictured: Raul Martinez Hands. Photo courtesy of SF Museum of Craft & Design
Sponsors
Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible through The Patti Kenner Arts Education Fellowship, Vital Projects Fund, the Glickberg/Abrahams S. Kutler Foundation, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
Museum programs are supported by Crozier Fine Arts and funding from The Michael Lynne Museum Endowment and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
Free gallery admission is sponsored, in part, by Landscape Details.