Terri Loewenthal and Sally Martin Katz In Conversation
Wednesday November 15th, 6-8pm
Join us for a conversation with artist Terri Loewenthal and SFMOMA Curatorial Associate of Photography, Sally Martin Katz. Loewenthal and Katz will discuss the artist's new solo exhibition Mountain Goat Mountain currently on view at CULT Aimee Friberg in San Francisco.
Loewenthal's new body of work is a further evolution of her initial reckoning with the impact of Manifest Destiny and her perspective on the West as a female photographer. In this time of drastic impacts to the climate and our planet, Loewenthal pushed herself, both deeper into the remote landscape and deeper into her process. Using new techniques and handmade tools, she offers her audience the opportunity to look beyond the sublime into a space where awe culminates in a sense of connection and whole-ness, celebrating what it means to be a human in nature.
Loewenthal describes herself as an “astronaut of the human experience.” Her work addresses the parts of our lives and our world that are difficult to process by not only giving us the aerial view, but also a front row seat, to the ethereal. The photographs in Mountain Goat Mountain are a reminder of our temporary existence on this planet, of the trees that have been growing and the mountains that were formed long before we were here. Loewenthal’s feminist vision of the sublime does not wish to interfere with the otherness of the awesome. Instead, it seeks to look beyond the metaphors of the sacred and the holy, to create a closer connection with our appreciation of Earth’s beauty.
CULT Aimee Friberg
1401 16th St (at Carolina)
San Francisco, CA 94103
Terri Loewenthal has exhibited at diverse venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San Jose, CA) and Booth Western Art Museum (Cartersville, GA). Her work is included in many private, corporate and foundation collections including the City of San Francisco, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, JP Morgan Chase Corporate Art Collection, Facebook and Instagram. She has been featured in many publications including Aperture, Harper's and Wired. She is also the founder of The Chetwood, a residency program that provides housing for artists visiting the Bay Area, allowing them to create lasting community with supportive peer networks outside of typical art-making structures. Loewenthal is a frequent collaborator with many Bay Area arts organizations including Creative Growth (Oakland, CA) and SF Camerawork and has been an active musician for over a decade; her bands Call and Response, Rubies and Shock have performed extensively nationally and internationally. Terri has a Bachelor of Arts from Rice University in Houston, Texas and resides in Oakland, CA.
Sally Martin Katz is a curator based in San Francisco. For the past six years she has been working in the photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Concurrently, she is a PhD candidate in Art History, specializing in History of Photography, at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. As an independent curator, she guest curated the Louis Stettner retrospective at the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid (May-August 2023) and was the editor of the exhibition catalogue, and also guest curated A Moment in Time: Iconic Images by Harry Benson at the Southampton Arts Center, New York (May-July 2023). She has co-edited several books, including American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (2021) and snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks (2019). While living in Paris, she worked at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Musée du Louvre. She received a BA in Art History and French Literature from Brown University and earned an MA in Art History and an MFA in Photography from the Sorbonne.
