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Current Exhibitions

	Andy Warhol: Polaroids / MATRIX 240 January 27, 2012 - May 20, 2012 Meet celebrities and other fabulous people in this diverse selection of portraits taken by Warhol in the 1970s and 1980s with his favorite camera, the Polaroid Big Shot. A generous gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, these images reveal a little-known but seminal aspect of Warhol’s practice.
	Tables of Content: Ray Johnson and Robert Warner Bob Box Archive / MATRIX 241 January 27, 2012 - May 20, 2012 The collagist Robert Warner has arranged the contents of thirteen boxes given to him by reclusive artist Ray Johnson (the "Bob Boxes") on tables and on the gallery walls. The collages, letters, drawings, beach trash and other found objects reveal Johnson’s stream-of-consciousness flow through the matter and memory of everyday life. “Once you get into Johnson art, it’s very hard to leave . . . take that immersive trip with a highly knowledgeable and profoundly committed guide” (Holland Cotter, New York Times).
	Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection January 18, 2012 - June 10, 2012 Come spend some time with the work of seminal Abstract Expressionists this spring at BAM/PFA. Forceful paintings by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, William Baziotes, Asger Jorn, Philip Guston, and others hang in light-filled Gallery A, while Gallery C displays rarely seen works on paper by artists including Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, Antonio Saura, and Norman Bluhm.
	The Reading Room January 15, 2012 - June 17, 2012 Come hang out in The Reading Room, a temporary project dedicated to poetry and experimental fiction. Bring a book from your own collection to leave and take home a book from one of several noted East Bay small presses. Spend time here reading, listening to recordings of selected poets , and viewing artwork made collaboratively by artists and poets. On selected Fridays, The Reading Room becomes the site of readings by young poets and writers, programmed by David Brazil and Suzanne Stein.
	Sun Works November 9, 2011 - May 6, 2012 The sun’s power to illuminate, yet also to scar, makes itself known in the works of Sarah Charlesworth and Chris McCaw on view in Sun Works. Part of a larger series that explores how current events are represented photographically in the media, Charlesworth’s Arc of Total Eclipse (1979) tracks a solar eclipse across the front pages of multiple newspapers. Like Charlesworth, McCaw is also interested in questioning the role of the photograph as a simple representation of reality. For Sunburned GSP #488 (2011), he used a handmade view-camera to capture the path of the sun on a paper negative, creating an ambiguous, ethereal image.
	Himalayan Pilgrimage: Journey to the Land of Snows June 16, 2010 - June 30, 2013 Explore the journey of Buddhism across several centuries and from India into Tibet through exceptionally beautiful objects of sculpture and painting dating from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries.
	Thom Faulders: BAMscape January 29, 2010 - April 15, 2012 How often do you get a chance to sit, lounge, or study on a work of art? BAMscape invites you to interact with art—and with the museum—in unexpected ways.

Upcoming Exhibitions

State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970
February 29, 2012 - June 17, 2012
Have you ever heard the sound of ice melting? State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, part of Pacific Standard Time, offers an in-depth exploration of Conceptual art made by both Northern and Southern California artists during a pivotal period in contemporary art. The more than 150 works of art on display—many rarely seen or newly discovered—are organized by themes, such as the street, the body, politics, private/public space, and language/wordplay, that elucidate this dynamic era in our history and foreshadow the concerns of young artists working today.