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David Kasprzak (b. 1983, Knoxville, TN) is a conceptual artist and curator who is based in San Francisco, CA. He has exhibited at Southern Exposure and Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, and was a founding member of the acclaimed artist trio that conceived and ran the alternative space Will Brown. He has curated exhibitions at the Kadist Art Foundation and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (CCA). Kasprzak holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. He is a co-founder of the San Francisco Art Book Fair. Kasprzak teaches in the Graduate Design program at the CCA and was recently an artist in residence at Iaspis in Stockholm, Sweden.
Presented in conjunction with Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, on view Sep 28, 2017–Jan 28, 2018 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
Uploaded Aug 31, 2017.
Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid presents newly commissioned works of art by sixteen contemporary artists in response to a selection of tales from Jewish folklore. Acting as modern maggids—storytellers, transmitters of knowledge, secrets revealers—they explore the many facets of these stories’ characters, themes, and metaphors. Artists include: Michael Arcega, Julia Goodman, Dina Goldstein, Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth Hope, Vera Iliatova, David Kasprzak, Mads Lynnerup, Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, Mike Rothfeld, Tracey Snelling, Chris Sollars, M. Louise Stanley, Inez Storer, and Young Suh and Katie Peterson.
Leadership Support for digital media at The Contemporary Jewish Museum is generously provided by the Jim Joseph Foundation.
Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Lead sponsorship is provided by the Koret Foundation. Major support is provided by Gaia Fund, Wendy Kesser, and Dorothy R. Saxe. Sponsorship is provided in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum thanks The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for its major support of The Museum’s exhibition program.