Pato Hebert: Inordinate Coordinates

September 9-October 22, 2010

CIIS Mission Campus

This exhibition is concurrent with a CIIS arts residency in which Hebert will collaborate with students at three San Francisco high schools, culminating in a group presentation in early 2011. “My intervention at the CIIS Mission Street space will engage the main hallways, as well as the elevators, stairwells, drinking fountains, and windows that may be considered incidental, even invisible elements. These undervalued spaces for transition and movement fascinate me. How is social space shaped and how does it in turn shape us? What lessons are to be found in the quotidian poetry that surrounds us? I will explore these questions through photography, text-based works, and drawings.” Patrick “Pato” Hebert is an artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Los Angeles. He teaches at Art Center College of Design, and serves as the senior education associate with the Global Forum on MSM & HIV.