Standard: $30
VIP: $75
For two nights only, musicians of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and an Adler Fellow will perform chamber music and song inspired by art.
We invite you to join BOXBLUR at Catharine Clark Gallery and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra for an evening of live music inspired by the exhibitions of work by Nanci Amaka, Lenka Clayton, and Katherine Vetne. All three artist have exhibitions on view at Catharine Clark Gallery from October 11, 2025 to January 3, 2026. The event, titled “Still Life, After Life: Women Disrupting Tradition in Art and Music,” is co-produced by BOXBLUR, a performance intiative, and San Francisco Opera Orchestra. The evening performances are on Wednesday, October 15 and Friday, 17, 2025 with a special VIP champagne walk through and opportunity to meet the musicians on Friday, prior to the concert.
The event provides guests to hear a concert that showcases the artistry of select musicians from San Francisco Opera Orchestra and a current Adler Fellow baritone performing in the context of a contemporary art gallery and in response to the ideas in the visual artists' work. On view are exhibitions that explore through works on paper, textiles, and video women's labor, reimagined domestic spaces and objects, and memory as a creative force.
Performers include violinists Craig Reiss and Mariya Borozina, violist Emily Liu, cellist Peter Myers, and oboist Ben Brogadir. The musicians are joined by current Adler Fellow, baritone Olivier Zerouali, in works by Jesse Montgomery, Joan Tower, Dmitry Shostakovich, Missy Mazzoli, and Caroline Shaw.
Schedule - Wendesday, October 15
Doors: 6:00 p.m.
Performance: 6:30 p.m.
Performance concludes: 7:30 p.m.
Event ends: 8:00 p.m.
Schedule - Friday, October 17
*VIP Champagne + Gallery Exhibition Tour + Meet the Musicians Preview: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Doors: 7:00 p.m.
Performance: 7:30 p.m.
Performance concludes: 8:30 p.m.
Event ends: 9:00 p.m.
Please note that the VIP event tickets are only available for the Friday, October 17 performance. VIP ticket holders are invited to enjoy a one-hour preview of the exhibition with a walk-through of the exhibition accompanied by the musicians and a champagne toast.
About San Francisco Opera Orchestra
The San Francisco Opera Orchestra, led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim, has achieved an acclaim matched by very few such ensembles. The Orchestra performs an annual season of international opera repertoire, in addition to concerts and educational programs. The San Francisco Opera Orchestra has been featured in numerous telecasts, livestreams, radio broadcasts, and video and 5 audio recordings, garnering a GRAMMY nomination for its CD of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Commercial DVD releases featuring the Orchestra include Jerome Kern’s "Show Boat," Jake Heggie’s "Moby-Dick," the Gershwins’ "Porgy and Bess," Boito’s "Mefistofele," Donizetti’s "Lucrezia Borgia" and Bellini’s" I Capuleti e i Montecchi." The Orchestra is represented by Local 6 of the American Federation of Musicians.
About BOXBLUR
BOXBLUR began as occasional performances at Catharine Clark Gallery and was formalized in 2016 as a fiscally sponsored program of Dance Film SF with quarterly programs. BOXBLUR's mission is to produce events that are socially engaged, ephemeral, experimental, and performative, often realized through collaboration with other arts organizations and responsice to visual artists' work, expanding performance possibilities beyond traditional theater settings.
BOXBLUR collaborates with Bay Area cultural organizations and many community nonprofits. The program has featured renowned artists across disciplines: musicians and groups like Rufus Wainwright, Shinji Eshima, and EOS Ensemble, dancers from Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and Lines Ballet, performance artists such as Monique Jenkinson, and writers including Forrest Gander and Tongo Eisen-Martin.
Notable off-site productions include Monique Jenkinson with Deborah Oropallo at di Rosa Art Center, Chris Doyle with dancers from Houston Ballet, Nina Katchadourian's "Monument to the Unelected" at Minnesota Street Project during the 2024 election, and Shimon Attie's "Night Watch" on San Francisco Bay, which garnered PBS NewsHour coverage. BOXBLUR annually hosts experimental dance films selected by SF Dance Film Festival and receives support from organizations such as Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and individual donors.
