Jeremy Deller's Life Drawing of a Caregiver

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Life Drawing of a Caregiver is a participatory project by Jeremy Deller that consists of scheduled clothed life drawing sessions led at the San Francisco Art Fair by a facilitator and features models drawn from a consistent set of caregiving roles. Participants include nurses, home health aides, public school teachers, art teachers, early childhood educators, caregivers for elders, or foster parents. Individuals are invited locally and opt in. The focus is on roles rather than personal narratives. 

The Alternative Art School collaborates on the project by identifying and coordinating experienced life drawing instructors based in San Francisco. Working with local facilitators allows the structure of the sessions to remain consistent while responding to the specific conditions of each location. 

The project places people whose work involves attending to others into a situation where they are themselves attended to through sustained looking and drawing. 

Life Drawing of a Caregiver extends Deller’s long standing interest in social roles, collective labor, and the everyday structures that shape public life. Like earlier works that brought non art world participants into art contexts, the project operates through simple rules and familiar forms. Here, the conventional format of life drawing is used as a tool for observation rather than idealization, shifting attention from spectacle to function. 

These free life drawing sessions will take place at San Francisco Art Fair at the following times.

Thursday, April 16, 5:00 – 8:00 PM in the San Francisco Art Fair Theater

Saturday, April 18, 2:00 – 5:00 PM in the Upper Mezzanine Lounge

Sunday, April 19, 2:00 – 5:00 PM in the Upper Mezzanine Lounge