Artist Talk + Book Signing with HAL FISCHER and Erin O'Toole
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About this event
Please join us at Gallery 16 on SATURDAY, October 19th, 4-7pm for a special evening as we celebrate the release of Hal Fischer's new monograph, Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies. There will be a book signing as well as an artist talk with Erin O'Toole, the Baker Street Foundation Associate Curator of Photography at SFMOMA.
Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies is the first monograph to feature the complete set of photo-text works that Hal Fischer produced between 1977 and 1979 in San Francisco’s Haight and Castro neighborhoods. In addition to Gay Semiotics, Fischer’s best- known work (the monograph sold over 7,000 copies and is now out of print), Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies includes 18th Near Castro Street x 24, which was published as an artist’s book but has not been on view since 1981, Boy-Friends, A Salesman and two other series—Civic Center and Cheap Chic Homo.
Books will be available for purchase.
While this is a free event, we ask that you kindly sign up to reserve a place.
Organizer Gallery 16
Organizer of Artist Talk + Book Signing with HAL FISCHER and Erin O'Toole
Gallery 16 is entering it's 25th year. The gallery was founded in 1993 by artist Griff Williams with the primary focus of representing and advocating for the work of living contemporary artists. In addition to the regular exhibition schedule, the gallery sponsors artists talks, and hosts performances and music throughout the year. It is the gallery's belief that the brick and mortar gallery model, to be culturally relevant, needs to embody new strategies for facilitating and presenting artist’s projects.
