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from www.sfstation.com:

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits

John Berggruen Gallery
415-781-4629 228 Grant St., 2nd/3rd Floors
San Francisco, CA 94108

This exhibition consists of 30 photographs, each in a diptych format, of porn-stars. Hailing from New York at the Mary Boone Gallery this show will make its second stop at John Berggruen Gallery.

Artist Timothy Greenfield-Sanders is renown for his portraits of members of the art world such as artists, musicians and critics. Inspired by "Boogie Nights", a Hollywood film about the private lives of porn-stars, Greenfield-Sanders began a new series of portraits in this vein. He chose to photograph people from all aspects of the industry: old and young, famous and unknown, gay and straight, male and female. Each portrait consists of two images side-by-side: one of the person clothed, and one in the nude.

According to Greenfield-Sanders, his goal was not to pass judgment on this industry, but instead to expose the essential dignity, beauty, and humanness of these porn-stars. He asked his sitters to act naturally in front of the camera and avoid a sexy, “pin-uppy” stance. The result is a series of portraits that confront the viewer with an honest and directed stare. The presence of these people is both startling and commanding as the depth of their individuality and psychology is revealed.

Greenfield-Sanders’ most recent publication: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders XXX: 30 Porn-Star Portraits, which contains all thirty portraits, has received extensive press nationwide. In addition, both HBO and “60 Minutes” have produced documentaries on the process of this project (the "60 Minutes" episode has not yet aired).

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders was schooled in New York at Columbia University. For almost two decades he has been represented by the Mary Boone Gallery in New York. His work is shown internationally and is a part of many museum collections such as the Marimura Art Museum in Japan, the Museo de Arte Moderno e Contemporania in Italy, the Museum of Design in Germany, the Museo Contemporaneo in Mexico, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.

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American Modern

Hackett-Freedman Gallery
415-362-7152 250 Sutter St., 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108

Hackett-Freedman Gallery presents “American Modern,” an exhibition highlighting the development of modernism in the American visual arts. Curated by Director Michael Hackett, the exhibition brings together superb examples of American modernist painting, sculpture, and works on paper created between 1907 and 1942.

Works by Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, John Graham, Marsden Hartley, Hans Hofmann, Walt Kuhn, Gaston Lachaise, John Marin, Elie Nadelman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Max Weber and others

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