Deep Cuts: Jacqueline Francis on Transforming the Everyday

Discover hidden gems and diverse voices from our collection. Each month, we highlight works that push boundaries, defy expectations, and inspire deep thinking. You might find a new favorite!

This week, join art historian and curator Jacqueline Francis in Nothing Stable under Heaven (Floor 7), where she explores the work of contemporary artists who transform everyday subjects and familiar materials into extraordinary objects, charged with ambivalence, anxiety, memory, fantasy, and desire.

Francis, PhD, teaches US art history and researches critical questions about minority identities and identifications represented in historical and contemporary visual cultures in the Americas and Europe. She is the author of Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America (2012) and a co-editor of Romare Bearden: American Modernist (2011). She is Associate Professor and Chair of the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.