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# Maya Stovall Opens Under New Ownership at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/maya-stovall-under-new-ownership-fort-mason-center-arts-culture-san-francisco/
- Published: 2019-03-29T16:26:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:54:09.000Z
- Description: Under New Ownership will be on view from March 29 to May 5 with a newly commissioned performance by artist and anthropologist Maya Stovall on May 3.
- Author: Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
- Tags: Announcement, California, Exhibition Announcement, Maya Stovall, San Francisco, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

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Maya Stovall, The Public Library, vol.1, no.4 (2018), HD video, color, stereo surround sound, 9 minutes 56 seconds, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CA

[Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture](http://bit.ly/2CDQX1Q?ref=hyperallergic.com) (FMCAC) and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) jointly present [Maya Stovall: *Under New Ownership*](http://bit.ly/2FDDyZN?ref=hyperallergic.com), an exhibition of the artist’s innovative performance-based interventions in public life.

A self-described “radical ballerina,” Stovall explores questions of human existence, creating works that “vividly juxtapose art and life” (the *New York Times*) through unannounced performances in contemporary urban spaces. Stovall’s *Liquor Store Theatre* (2014–present) stages and films performance around businesses in Detroit’s McDougall-Hunt neighborhood. Stovall inserts dancers’ movement in an otherwise everyday rhythm, drawing out the people shopping, rushing, and hanging around. Juxtaposed with performance are Detroiters’ stories, drawing on the energy of the city landscape to picture this urban fabric in new ways.

*Under New Ownership* brings together selections from *Liquor Store Theatre* and *The Public Library* (2018–present), an ongoing project performed and filmed in Saskatoon, California. The exhibition also features two new conceptual sculpture series: *Untitled (B-F),* built from abandoned commercial signage; and the *Theorem Sculptures (A-D),* objects made with an eye to performance.

In conjunction with the close of the exhibition, Stovall will present a live performance of *Theorem, no.1*, commissioned by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Distilling the theorizing behind earlier projects, *Theorem* is a meditation on the fervor, grit, and craving of the urban experience. Details for the May 3 performance will be released in full at [fortmason.org](http://bit.ly/2CDQX1Q?ref=hyperallergic.com).

Maya Stovall*: Under New Ownership* is on view from March 29 to May 5, 2019 at SFAI’s Fort Mason Campus in San Francisco, CA. Exhibition hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11am–7pm. Admission is free and open to the public.

**For more information, visit** [**fortmason.org/stovall.**](http://bit.ly/2FDDyZN?ref=hyperallergic.com)