(Joshua Franzos, Phil Bond)Ĭatherine Wagner is a Bay Area native whose award-winning photographic work has pushed the physical and conceptual limitations of photography as a medium for decades. Renowned as a black culture theorist, Jafa’s film work ranges from Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust and Spike Lee’s Crooklyn to the acclaimed short film “Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death.” In 2018 Jafa received the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion award for best artist for his video The White Album, an unsparing portrait of whiteness in contemporary America that was commissioned for and premiered in BAMPFA’s MATRIX program.įrom left: Artists Cauleen Smith and Catherine Wagner. Her acclaimed 1998 feature debut, Drylongso, set and shot on location in Oakland, is returning to BAMPFA on the big screen on Sunday, May 7th, in a 4K restoration undertaken by the Criterion Collection, Janus Films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Īt BAMPFA’s benefit, artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa will offer a special tribute to Smith. “I am deeply honored that we have this chance to celebrate them.”Ĭauleen Smith is a Los Angeles–based artist whose innovative work in film, video and installation has opened portals to new narratives around Black aesthetics and Afro-futurism for 30 years. “As renowned artists and educators, Catherine and Cauleen have pushed the social, aesthetic, and conceptual boundaries of their fields and paved the way for many others,” said BAMPFA’s executive director, Julie Rodrigues Widholm. For the first time, BAMPFA will hold its annual gala fundraiser inside the museum’s downtown Berkeley home, which was designed by Diller Scofidio + Refro and opened in 2016. This festive event will honor two path-breaking creatives with deep ties to the Bay Area: filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith and conceptual artist and photographer Catherine Wagner.
This spring, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) welcomes its community of artists and supporters to the second-annual Art and Film Benefit, on Saturday, May 6th.
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