"While I often struggle to juggle many roles in my practices as artist, educator and cultural worker, it is rare that I am able to bring all of these interests to bear on a given space or moment. My intervention in CIIS' Mission Street space, entitled "Inordinate Coordinates," will engage the main hallways, but also the elevators, stairwells, drinking fountains and windows that may normally be considered mere 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 kinds of cues can we take from listening more closely to our spiritual cartographies? Thematically, the works traverse language and death, vernacular sculpture and performative self-portraiture, spatial demarcations and evocative abstractions."

This exhibit runs concurrent with a CIIS arts residency in which Hebert will collaborate with students at three San Francisco high schools. Through a series of workshops in the fall, the students at each site will develop unique creative interventions. The students will come together as a collective to share and plan a group presentation and installation for early 2011.

About the Artist

Patrick "Pato" Hebert is an artist, educator, and cultural worker based in Los Angeles. His recent shows include the 2008 California Biennial; Writ Large at Pitzer College; and solo exhibitions at Haverford College and the University of Maine at Augusta. In addition to teaching in the Photography and Imaging Department at Art Center College of Design, Hebert serves as the senior education associate with The Global Forum on MSM & HIV, where he develops innovative HIV prevention programming and materials to help mobilize gay and bisexual men at the global level.

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