Current News & Events:
Book launch for Sonya Rapoport: Objects on my Dresser
Please join us for a book launch at Kala Art Institute Gallery in Berkeley to celebrate Sonya Rapoport: Objects on My Dresser by Alla Efimova and Terri Cohn. With exclusive access to archival materials and interviews with the artist during her lifetime, Efimova and Cohn decode Rapoport’s expansive, enigmatic art project and position it within the canons of Conceptual, Feminist, and early computer art. The authors reveal Objects on My Dresser (1979-83) to be a psychological self-portrait for the digital age.
An artist with deep roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rapoport (1923-2015) was a long-time supporter of Kala Art Institute. The book is co-published by the Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust and Kala Art Institute and funded, in part, by the Jay DeFeo Foundation.
Purchase the book here.
Event Details
Date: September 29, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Kala Art Institute Gallery
2990 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Please join us for a book launch at Kala Art Institute Gallery in Berkeley to celebrate Sonya Rapoport: Objects on My Dresser by Alla Efimova and Terri Cohn. With exclusive access to archival materials and interviews with the artist during her lifetime, Efimova and Cohn decode Rapoport’s expansive, enigmatic art project and position it within the canons of Conceptual, Feminist, and early computer art. The authors reveal Objects on My Dresser (1979-83) to be a psychological self-portrait for the digital age.
An artist with deep roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rapoport (1923-2015) was a long-time supporter of Kala Art Institute. The book is co-published by the Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust and Kala Art Institute and funded, in part, by the Jay DeFeo Foundation.
Purchase the book here.
Event Details
Date: September 29, 2022
Time: 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
Kala Art Institute Gallery
2990 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Sonya Rapoport in the center of her Netweb, ca.
1979, performance documentation.
1979, performance documentation.
Past News & Events:
On the Horizon
Summer Solstice 2021 event
Since late 2019 I’ve been working with artist Ana Teresa Fernandez on a project designed to catalyze action around rising sea level and climate change. On the Horizon was installed for the first time at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on June 20, the Summer Solstice.
Writer Tony Bravo attended the event and reviewed it for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Summer Solstice 2021 event
Since late 2019 I’ve been working with artist Ana Teresa Fernandez on a project designed to catalyze action around rising sea level and climate change. On the Horizon was installed for the first time at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on June 20, the Summer Solstice.
Writer Tony Bravo attended the event and reviewed it for the San Francisco Chronicle.
ArtTable Virtual Pecha Kulcha Video
Excerpt by Terri Cohn
On October 17, 2020, ArtTable’s Northwest and Northern California chapters hosted a virtual pecha kulcha. The event highlighted members’ projects and initiatives across the visual arts professions. My four minute presentation highlights On the Horizon, a collaborative project conceived and implemented by San Francisco artist Ana Teresa Fernández that intends to address sea level rise and climate change.
View full ArtTable Virtual Pecha Kulcha video featuring members of the ArtTable Northern California and Pacific Northwest Chapters
Find the featured artwork, On the Horizon, by Ana Teresa Fernández at onthehorizon.org
Excerpt by Terri Cohn
On October 17, 2020, ArtTable’s Northwest and Northern California chapters hosted a virtual pecha kulcha. The event highlighted members’ projects and initiatives across the visual arts professions. My four minute presentation highlights On the Horizon, a collaborative project conceived and implemented by San Francisco artist Ana Teresa Fernández that intends to address sea level rise and climate change.
View full ArtTable Virtual Pecha Kulcha video featuring members of the ArtTable Northern California and Pacific Northwest Chapters
Find the featured artwork, On the Horizon, by Ana Teresa Fernández at onthehorizon.org
Bay Area Women Artists' Legacy Project
Introduction by Terri Cohn
I'm happy to announce publication of The Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project book. It was an honor to write the introduction to this book that contextualizes the work of 29 mature women artists within the historic milieu of Bay Area art and artists.
Introduction by Terri Cohn, Realization by Jan Wurm, Creative Direction and Design by Elizabeth Addison and Design and Production by Carol Benioff.
Each of the 29 participating artists donated a book to a museum, library, university or other organization to safeguard and highlight women’s contribution to Bay Area art. This project was initiated by artist luminary Edith Hillinger. She initially wanted to establish a physical archive. Jan Wurm, painter and former Director of Exhibitions and Curator of Art at the Richmond Art Center, realized the project by encouraging the legacy book publication for distribution to libraries, museums, and universities.
Published August, 2020.
For more information please visit the Bay Area Women Artists' Legacy Project website.
Introduction by Terri Cohn
I'm happy to announce publication of The Bay Area Women Artists’ Legacy Project book. It was an honor to write the introduction to this book that contextualizes the work of 29 mature women artists within the historic milieu of Bay Area art and artists.
Introduction by Terri Cohn, Realization by Jan Wurm, Creative Direction and Design by Elizabeth Addison and Design and Production by Carol Benioff.
Each of the 29 participating artists donated a book to a museum, library, university or other organization to safeguard and highlight women’s contribution to Bay Area art. This project was initiated by artist luminary Edith Hillinger. She initially wanted to establish a physical archive. Jan Wurm, painter and former Director of Exhibitions and Curator of Art at the Richmond Art Center, realized the project by encouraging the legacy book publication for distribution to libraries, museums, and universities.
Published August, 2020.
For more information please visit the Bay Area Women Artists' Legacy Project website.
Sonya Rapport: Biorhythm
Exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art
We invite you to a virtual tour of the exhibition Sonya Rapoport: Biorhythm at San Jose Museum of Art, featuring a live conversation with Assistant Curator Kathryn Wade and Rapoport scholars Terri Cohn and Alla Efimova.
This is a great chance to view Rapoport's artwork from your home and to learn more about the process of putting together this ambitious exhibition!
The virtual event took place Thursday, April 30th, 12:30 - 1:15 pm.
Exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art
We invite you to a virtual tour of the exhibition Sonya Rapoport: Biorhythm at San Jose Museum of Art, featuring a live conversation with Assistant Curator Kathryn Wade and Rapoport scholars Terri Cohn and Alla Efimova.
This is a great chance to view Rapoport's artwork from your home and to learn more about the process of putting together this ambitious exhibition!
The virtual event took place Thursday, April 30th, 12:30 - 1:15 pm.
SJMA Assistant Curator Kathryn Wade and Rapoport scholars Terri Cohn and Alla Efimova. Photos by Gary Sexton Photography and JKA Photography.
Sonya Rapoport in the News
"Feminizing Permanence" Recognizes Women Artists in Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art Collection
February 5th, 2020
San Jose Museum of Art show celebrates Sonya Rapoport, Mercury News
February 6, 2020
"Sonya Rapoport: biorhythm", a 21st Century Portrait, Digicult
February 10, 2020
Big Data, Metro Silicon Valley
February 19, 2020
Note: Sonya Rapoport's work was featured in the Frieze New York art fair, which took taking place virtually via an online viewing room, Thursday, May 7th – Sunday, May 10th, 2020.
Sonya Rapoport: Yes or No?
Catalogue by Terri Cohn and Alla Efimova
Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015) was a Berkeley-based conceptual artist whose career consistently defied stereotypes and expectations. Yes or No? is an autobiographical work created in the last year of the Rapoport's life. It is a series of twelve seductively complex collages, based on pages of New York Times, that convey the parting observations of an artist who kept ahead of her time for over six decades. Art historians Alla Efimova and Terri Cohn decipher and interpret this tour de force of visual philosophy to make it accessible to Rapoport's viewers and readers.
Published March 2016.
To purchase online, click the image below.
Catalogue by Terri Cohn and Alla Efimova
Sonya Rapoport (1923-2015) was a Berkeley-based conceptual artist whose career consistently defied stereotypes and expectations. Yes or No? is an autobiographical work created in the last year of the Rapoport's life. It is a series of twelve seductively complex collages, based on pages of New York Times, that convey the parting observations of an artist who kept ahead of her time for over six decades. Art historians Alla Efimova and Terri Cohn decipher and interpret this tour de force of visual philosophy to make it accessible to Rapoport's viewers and readers.
Published March 2016.
To purchase online, click the image below.