San Francisco Center for the Book

The Austin/Burch Gallery

SFCB has mounted over 70 book arts related exhibitions since its inception in 1996, ranging from collections or group works to individual retrospectives featuring local, national and international book artists in our Austin/Burch gallery. Named for our co-founders Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch, this 1,400 square foot exhibition space is adjacent to our print and bindery studios, creating the perfect environment for visitors to see both works in progress and fully realized art work. We have also presented exhibitions at off-site venues including the Commonwealth Club, ODC Dance Theatre at Project Artaud and the Marin Community Center.

Exhibition Opportunities:
Proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis. Unsolicited proposals will not be returned without a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Review can take up to 12 weeks. Artists and organizations interested in exhibition opportunities at SFCB can send proposals to: Exhibitions, SFCB, 300 De Haro, Street Ste. 334, San Francisco, CA 94103

Currently Showing in the Austin Burch Gallery

Paper Space: The Work of Kota Ezawa

December 19, 2011 - January 27, 2011

Kota Ezawa, the 2012 SFCB Imprint artist-in-residence, is a Japanese- German artist currently based in San Francisco. Ezawa meticulously recreates, frame-by-frame, animated sequences from television, cinema, and art history using basic digital drawing and animation software. His aesthetic is a highly stylized mixture of Pop Art, Alex Katz, and paint-by-numbers pictures, to name but a few of his stylistic antecedents. This painstaking process creates an in intriguing facsimile of the source material, which include the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, the O.J. Simpson trial - works wherein the stylistic artificiality underscore the manufacturing of the historical spectacle and paradoxically preserve the power of the original events.

This exhibition features earlier work from Ezawa's career, as well as work from the making of his Imprint 2012 Artist in Residence edition, Paper Space.