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San Francisco Camerawork appoints Robert C. Riley as Executive Director.


San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  Camerawork appoints Robert C. Riley as Executive Director. Riley served most recently as Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery at University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. , and was the founding Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a major modern art museum and San Francisco landmark.

It opened in 1935 under founding director Dr. Grace Morley (Grace L.
 and Curator of Video and Performance Art at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Riley succeeds Marnie Gillett, who passed away in December 2004 [ed. note: see Afterimage afterimage /af·ter·im·age/ (af´ter-im?aj) a retinal impression remaining after cessation of the stimulus causing it.

af·ter·im·age
n.
 January/February 2005 (Volume 32, no. 4) for an obituary of Gillett]. Riley will oversee the organization's relocation to a new, larger location in the neighborhood known as the city's "museum corridor."
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Date:Jan 1, 2006
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