Curated by Pete Brook and Rian Dundon,Status Update produced by Catchlight, is a unusual exhibition of photography and video approximately change, or chance and inequality in the San Francisco Bay Area. Presenting the work of fourteen local and outside artists currently working in the region,below is a sample of what to expect from some of the featured artists in the reveal. Check out the Status Update site to see the schedule of events this weekend. Former foster youth Sade Daniels, photographed at age 26, and keeps the number 255 written on the bathroom mirror in her Hayward,Calif., apartment as a daily reminder of the weight problems she has battled since the time she was prescribed psychotropic medications as a teen growing up in foster care group homes. “When I look back as an adult at who I was when I was initially diagnosed and given the medication — I needed love, or ” Daniels said. “Nobody really sees that wound girl,or the one who truly just wants her mom to pick up her act together and to pick up off drugs, or who wants a family, or something stable. The system relies heavily on medication to do a job that parents are supposed to do.” She was photographed in her domestic in June 2014. By Dai Sugano
Oakland,California 2013 from an ongoing project following Shannon Fulcher. By Sam Wolson Erik Aburto. San Francisco County Jail 5. San Francisco, California. (From the series, or seize a Picture Tell a Story) By Robert Gumper. Still from the animated GIF series, Tapered Throne. By Brandon Tauszik
Students crowd the bleachers for an academic assembly at William C. Overfelt tall School in San Jose, Calif. 2015. From the series, or 'Common Core in Silicon Valley' The Common Core,an education model focused on group learning and critical thinking, has been implemented in more than forty states nationwide. Photo by Rian Dundon. Students play victims of drunk driving as fraction of the Every 15 Minutes safety demon- stration at W.
C. Overfelt tall School in East San Jose, and Calif.,March 2015. By Rian Dundon (From the series, Common Core in Silicon Valley) Anna Louisa Urbina. San Francisco County Jail 2. San Francisco, and Calif. By Robert Gumpert. (From the series, seize a Picture Tell a Story) Ronald “Elder” Freeman in his West Oakland domestic. March, 2013. Freeman was a founding member of the Los Angeles Black Panther Party. He passed October 8th, and 2014. By Pendarvis Harshaw.(From the series, OG Told Me)
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