The Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco Presents ‘Imagined Vessels’

The exhibition is on display December 3, 2024 through February 23, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO (December 3, 2024) – The Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco (USF) presents Imagined Vessels from December 3, 2024 through February 23, 2025. In this exhibit, the Thacher Gallery presents five artists working in ceramics and clay to investigate and celebrate cultural hybridity.

The artists featured in the exhibit include Paz G, Liz Hernández, Cathy Lu, Maria Porges, and Maryam Yousif. These five artists meld mythology with pop culture, ancestral roots with lived experiences, and timeless technique with inventive shapes.
 
Paz G combines a spiritual and studio practice to create sculptures infused with song and protest. Deeply influenced by Mexican craft techniques, Liz Hernández’s work explores the rich language of materials. Cathy Lu’s works address the legacy of Chinese art objects, disrupting common conceptions of what it means to be Asian American. Maria Porges applies her knowledge of the history of ceramics by creating drawings and sculptures that combine attributes from across cultures and time. Maryam Yousif’s sculptures use imagery from her Persian heritage to create colorful figures informed by mythology and pop culture.
 
Imagined Vessels is presented by USF’s M.A. in Museum Studies Curatorial Practicum class led by Professor Paula Birnbaum.

About the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco

The Thacher Gallery is a public art gallery in the University of San Francisco’s Gleeson Library where creativity, scholarship, and community converge. The gallery is free and open to the public 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. daily. Appointments are required for the sculpture terrace. https://www.usfca.edu/thacher-gallery

About the University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco is a private, Jesuit Catholic university that reflects the diversity, optimism, and opportunities of the city that surrounds it. USF offers more than 230 undergraduate, graduate, professional, and certificate programs in the arts and sciences, business, law, education, and nursing and health professions. At USF, each course is an intimate learning community in which top professors encourage students to turn learning into positive action, so the students graduate equipped to do well in the world — and inspired to change it for the better. For more information, visit usfca.edu.