Abdullah
Al Jahdhami
GENER#TION
Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, USA
11 Aug - 6 Sep 2016
PART OF BRIDGES 2016 - 2017: AN ITHRA INITIATIVE
GENERA#ION: Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia, presents San Francisco’s first exhibition of contemporary art from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This timely, cross-generational survey of 15 artists working at the center of the Islamic world, opened at Minnesota Street Project in the heart of the Dogpatch district in summer 2016.
GENERA#ION marked the third stop on a multi-city Saudi artist’s tour of the United States, supported by King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture. The tour, which launched earlier this summer at the Station Museum in Houston, Texas before traveling to Aspen-Colorado, aims to generate people-to-people dialogue and better understanding between nations.
As the world’s media reports a resurgent tide of religious intolerance and conflict, a tight-knit group of Saudi artists, both men, and women, have acted upon a dream to discover the people and the diversity of America — from the East to West coast — trekking across the US interstate highway system and major cities on a mission to share not only their innate passion to create but also to learn from the local public’s reactions to their artworks.
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Panel discussion with Sarah Thornton
As the world’s media reports a resurgent tide of religious intolerance and conflict, a tight-knit group of Saudi artists, both men, and women, have acted upon a dream to discover the people and the diversity of America — from the East to West coast — trekking across the US interstate highway system and major cities on a mission to share not only their innate passion to create but also to learn from the local public’s reactions to their artworks.
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