Contemporary Art: 30,000 B.C. – Present

Guest curator Michael S. Bell, assistant director of cultural affairs of the Arts Commission in San Francisco, offers a radical approach to art history with his exhibition Contemporary Art: 30,000 B.C. – Present. Doing away with traditional categories and trends in modern art, Bell proposes a collection of works that exhibit decorative, abstract, and surrealist qualities that transcend boundaries of time and place. A review from the San Jose Mercury News calls the exhibition “a provocative, ambitious show with real strengths.”