SFCMP William Wiley Print

The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players has partnered with Electric Works and two prominent artists in an ongoing project of venture philanthropy. These artists have each generously donated a work of art for a series of limited-edition prints, available for purchase through the ensemble. This is an exciting opportunity to own a museum-quality archival work of art by a major artist, and 100% of your purchases will support the ensemble’s programs.

For more information or to place an order, please call (415) 278-9566, or email cblanding@sfcmp.org.

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Hung Liu: Dirge

Prints in this series of 45 are 18”x18” each, presented in an attractive portfolio that includes an excerpt from a piece of music chosen by the artist and a poem by Richard Lang. Each print can be stored and displayed in its portfolio, or removed for framing. The prints were produced by Electric Works, and underwritten by Board member Susan York.

Price: $1,800 not including tax.

About the artist: Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948, growing up under the Maoist regime. She immigrated to the US in 1984 to attend the University of California, San Diego, where she received her MFA. She currently lives in Oakland and is a tenured professor in the art department at Mills College. She has twice received painting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her work appears in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and many others.

Print by William Wiley

Not the singer, not the song William Wiley 2005

Only one of these prints remains for sale, from an edition variée of 32. The image is 32" X 30" and includes a poem by Michael Hannon. Each unique print is hand worked and signed by the artist. Featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, the prints were made at Trillium Press (now called Electric Works).

Price: $3,000 not including tax.

About the artist: William Wiley (b.1937, Bedford, Indiana) is one of California's most beloved and celebrated artists. Wiley's works may be found in such leading museums as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Gallery, the Corcoran Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrospective showings of Wiley's work have taken place at San Francisco's Legion of Honor Museum (2007-08), in Honolulu (2008), and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. (2009-10). The Smithsonian exhibition subsequently appeared at the Berkeley Art Museum (March-July 2010).