Juxtapoz Magazine – Gregory Rick Highlights SFMOMA’s 2022 SECA Art Award Exhibition
Due to the fact 1967, a revered barometer for how we view the San Francisco artwork group, the SECA (Modern society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Artwork Award is a widely anticipated exhibition at SFMOMA, a ceremonious moment honoring the previous, existing, and long term of art in the Bay Space. From community art to installation, from photography to conceptual performs, SECA appreciates a vary of mediums, a precious indicator of how the art environment comes in numerous styles, sizes, and vantage details. From Sarah Cain to Barry McGee, Chris Johanson to Tauba Auerbach, we see the myriad techniques in which the Award has kept an ear to the floor, preserving the Bay as an epicenter in global artwork circles.
The 2022 winners, Binta Ayofemi, Maria Guzmán Capron, Cathy Lu, Marcel Pardo Ariza (a Juxtapoz alum), and Gregory Rick are each and every on their individual, intriguing creatives, with Rick currently being one of the most interesting painters our editors have noticed appear from the Bay in new decades. From his roots in graffiti to his time in the 101st Airborne in Iraq and now a prestigious MFA from Stanford, the painter’s huge-scale, political paintings are a frenzy of cartoon and historic imagery, an virtually new era social realist. “I see my function as Heritage Portray advertising the obscure, the forgotten, and the popular knowledge,” Rick claims. “My life has been comprehensive of tribulations, I look at them as initiations.” In a essential minute for contemporary paintings, Rick is a effective new voice, the embodiment of what the SECA Award has prolonged championed. —Evan Pricco
2022 SECA Artwork Award Exhibition @ SFMOMA, San Francisco will be on perspective December 17, 2022—May 29, 2023
