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2004
California
Society of Printmakers' 90th Annual Members' Exhibition • 1/06/04
- 1/31/04
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday January 9
Celebrate with over 100 printmakers during this 90th anniversary exhibition.
Slippage:
Wording the Thought Bubble • 2/05/04 - 3/06/04
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday February 6
The addition of words can make an image concrete in its reading or cause
it to slip into ambiguity. The artists in this exhibition employ language
as a means to explore cultural issues and dualities of meaning. Artists:
Jose Arenas, Julie Bradshaw, Diane Fenster, and Nanette Wylde.
The Slippage lecture is still scheduled for Thursday evening February
26th at 7pm.
Artist in
Residence Open Studio
The current Artist in Residence (Damon Belanger) open studio is still
scheduled for Thursday evening February 26th at 7pm.
New Music Night: Friday, March 12, 8pm, doors open 7:30
Performance
Night: Saturday, March 13, 8pm, doors open 7:30
Rick
Walker's L()()p.p()()L is an excursion through the world of sound. Playing
found and invented musical objects, Rick has performed all over Northern
America and Europe and the British Isles as a solo live looping artist.
He is well known for being able to extract music from almost any ordinary
object and frequently, will do pieces based
on what audiences have in their pockets.
He is also as a major producer in emerging international live looping
scene, having produced 35 live looping festivals all over the world. His
most recent CD, 'Faux Voix', uses only human voice and digital processing
as a sound source. He has innovated many different extended vocal techniques
including warble singing, trill singing, overtone chest percussion, hum
whistling, piccolo face trumpet, gutteral singing, industrial and regular
beatboxing. The WORKS performance will be a Silicon Valley release party
for his new CD.
He will also be accompanied by the amazing live video digital animator
David Tristram in an ongoing collaboration begun at the creative Woodstockhausen
Festivals of Esoteric Music. The pair are currently working on a mixed
media DVD of their improvisations.
New California
Masters • 3/25/04 - 4/17/04
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday March 26
Guest emerging curator Kuniko Vroman, examines the work of California
Masters of Fine Arts recipients of 2004 in the hopes of finding the California
connection. Is there a common thread among MFA students in California
or will they distinguish themselves as individuals working without reference
to their stateside peers?
Call for entries for the exhibition: New
California Masters.
The deadline is Dec. 31st.
Participating Artists:
Bill Berry, UC Davis
Alice Cattaneo, San Francisco Art Institute
Binh Danh, Stanford
Rose Desiano, Art Center College of Design
Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, UC San Diego
Mayumi Hamanaka, California College of the Arts
Scott Hinton, San Jose State University
Chiei Ishida, San Francisco Art Institute
Jason Mortara, San Francisco Art Institute
Christine Nguyen, UC Irvine
Julia Page, Mills College
Michael Rich, San Francisco State University
John Richey, UC San Diego
Adam Schwartz, California Institute of the Arts
Chad Stayrook, San Francisco Art Institute
Tim Sullivan, San Francisco Art Institute
Jackie Sumell, Stanford
Robin Ward, San Francisco Art Institute
New Music Night: Friday, April 30, 8pm, doors open 7:30
Performance Night: Saturday, May 1, 8pm, doors open 7:30
Blue •
5/06/04 - 6/05/04
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday May 7
A salon of current Works members. Become a member and show your work in
this exhibition!
Link to the press release
Curated Queer
Arts Festival and Exibition • 6/10/04 - 7/10/04
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday June 11
Lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/transsexual/ queer artists respond to
the marketing of queer identity in American popular culture. Developed
in collaboration with cultural theorist David Duckworth and San Jose’s
Billy DeFrank Lesbian and Gay Center, the exhibition is co-curated by
five individuals from different geographical regions of the U.S. Programming
includes a queer video festival, a lecture series with by local and national
queer artists and scholars, and hands-on art making workshops.
Link to the press release
or check this page for direct info/events
Pacific Rim
Art Now: Japan - USA • 7/15/04 - 8/14/04
This exhibition includes works in diverse media and is part of an ongoing
international exchange between artists from Northern Japan and Northern
California.
exhibition: July 15 through August 14, 2004
reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday, July 16
happy collage workshop: 1 to 3pm, Saturday, July 17
artists from Japan:
Mitsuhiro Egawa, Hiroko Hinoma, Yoshie Inoue, Hiroshi Kakizaki, Yoshikazu
Kadono, Asuka Kunimatsu, Daisuke Nakamaru, Ari Nakamura, Haruyo Nakanishi,
Kenji Otaki, Tohru Sasaki, Fujio Sado, Kan Shimada, Kiyomi Yamada, Masami
Yoshioka, Kazuyuki Uno
from California:
Luke Bartels, Sean Boyles, Kelly Detweiler, Susan Felter, Don Fritz, David
Pace
Curated by David Pace, Professor of Photography at Santa Clara University.
Final kids
art workshop of the summer - Saturday, August 14:
ink drawing:
1:00pm to 2:30pm - open to the public and free!
Connecting
to Nature: Art and the Archetypal Symbol • 8/24/04 - 9/18/04
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday August 27
An exploration of archetypal symbols found in ancient, sacred sites around
the world. Each artist uniquely responds to these universal symbols, using
color, surface and texture to develop distinct meanings. Featuring paintings
and works on paper by Diana Pumpelly Bates, Kay Fontana, Cynthia Handel,
Lynn Powers, Wanda Waldera, and Glen Rogers. Curated by Kay Fontana.
during the
8/27 reception:
jennifer levy, artist in residence open studio:
friday, august 27, 7 to 9pm
New Music
Night: Friday, September 24, 8pm, doors open 6:00
pac session at works:
friday, september 24, 6 to 11pm
Select THIS for direct link to the event info
Pacific Art Collective
a cross-cultural, multi-media, art event with live painters, musicians,
performance artists, dancers, poets, fashion designers, actors and more.
Welcome pac home to san josé! See more at: www.pacificartcollective.com
$5 general, $3 members of works
Performance Night: Saturday, September 25, 8pm, doors open 7:30
$10 general, $6 members of works; students with id (no one turned away) members: bring one guest for free!
Rainey Straus &
Katherine Isbister
SimBee
SimBee is a live simulated performance created using the Sims—one of the most popular computer games of all time. SimBee explores the digital in relationship to the embodied by catalyzing a meeting between a live audience and virtual characters who live their daily lives in the space of the art gallery.
Rainey Straus
Rainey’s practice investigates technology and the body. Her work
emerges from years of art making and movement training combined with a
commercial life spent immersed in digital technology. Her work has appeared
locally at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and at GenArt’s new
media show, New Fangle and internationally at the Canadian Design Exchange
Museum. Reviews of her work have been featured in Sculpture Magazine and
online at City Search7. She has also attended the Vermont Studio Center
residency program as an artist’s grant recipient.
Rainey received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from the California College of the Arts, and a B.F.A. in Painting from the State University of New York at Purchase. She is also the founder and principal designer of Whirligirl Studio which focuses on web, print and interactive design.
Katherine Isbister
Katherine Isbister brings social scientific, artistic, and design-practice
approaches to investigating computer games and other digital media. She
developed and taught a course in Stanford University's HCI program: Designing
Characters for Computer Games. Her artwork has been shown in the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Toronto's
Design Exchange, and in the MIT Media Lab's Portraits in Cyberspace online
gallery. Her research has been presented at CHI, Agents, and in other
international venues.
Isbister received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, with a focus on the design of interactive characters. She has worked in research labs (including a one-year postdoc at NTT in Kyoto, Japan) as well as in commercial design studios. She's the founder of katherine interface, a social and character interface design consultancy. She is currently a researcher for KTH: the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and an Associate Professor at RPI (www.rpi.edu).
see: www.Simgallery.net
Shannon Knorr
Telling Secrets
A crevice, a crease, a line, a split, an opening. A line shares ends,
sides, distance and origins. Trying to piece together pieces, separations,
opposites; giving them a place to meet.
I am a body of emotions, words, stories, sounds, images; they are not all mine, yet they are mine. It is a shared body of water. I speak from this place, from a cellular level I try to listen to the stories, to mine that I hold secret, to others that don't have a voice. Stories of separation, from oneself, from one's environment, from each other. The essence of beauty has been lost in so much of this world. I am trying to convey the trueness of beauty, not the idea or concept of beauty. Beauty as an experience. The farther we move away from the trueness of beauty, the farther we move away from our centers, our bodies, our own true beauty. How do we resonate with these imposed ideas of beauty that don't even exist within our bodies. This dissonance creates distance, alienation, from each other, our world and ourselves. The gap between mind and body is widened, swelling like a river, we become lost. I am trying to build a bridge, to cross, connect, to weave. Reclaiming my beauty, womanness, and body in it's flaws, death, unfamiliarity and unknown.
Shannon Knorr has a degree in Dance/Movement Therapy with an emphasis in Performance Studies from Naropa University. She is currently working on her MA at JFK University, Berkeley, in Arts and Consciousness. She explores many mediums from poetry, dance, sculpture, and recently video. She is fascinated in the imprints of our culture on our bodies and how it affects our movement, thoughts and beliefs. She is also a student of West African Dance, Butoh, Authentic Movement, Continuum Movement and Gyrotonic, in which she finds fluid, deep communication with the environment and her body. She also performs with Akat, a dance company that combines modern dance with Afro-Brazilian and Indonesian dance, telling stories of creation and of the forgotten. Shannon is a Pilates teacher, where she works with the process of the body unfolding. Working with her clients to help them get deeper in their bodies, as an art, a practice. Letting go of patterns, and unwanted habits, to make space for a more authentic body, true and feeling in it's wholeness.
Leah Libow
Mikvah
The Mikvah in Jewish culture is a ritual bath for women, taken right after their menses, which provides a connection between the physical Body and the Devine via the acts of cleansing, praying, and submerging the body in water. Leah's ritual performance, "Mikvah," is a reenactment of a dream using the ritual elements of the traditional Mikvah.
Currently an MFA candidate at John F. Kennedy University in the Arts and Consciousness Program, Leah Libow is a mixed media artist who uses Still Life, Installation, Drawing, Writing, Video and Performance as a means to communicate her ideas. Her work comes directly from her own personal history - from the matrilineal or 'mother line,' and from her Body as separate and unique from her history and stories. These two paths to her existence cross and diverge often like threads on the hem of a dress. She sees her art making as Ritual for working out the tensions between memory, history and the present moment, and eventually as a way of finding her way back 'Home' to her Body. In her performances she enacts personal rituals, which refer to being a woman in the larger culture, as well as to the traditional and feminine rituals within the Jewish culture. The end result, or residue, of her performances become installation pieces which embody memory, and history, evoke the world of dreams and the unconscious, address issues of the oppressed feminine in the larger culture, and ultimately reference the Body's connection to the Material and Spiritual.
Chris Sollars
Pile of Trash - video
I put myself into public situations using performance-based actions documented in video and resulting in sculptural installations.
Pile of Trash uses humor to show how inanimate objects may be more animate than we at first perceive. I am dressed in an outfit that allows me to be mobile pile of trash. Two modes of viewing are involved. First, the action takes place directly in a public space for viewers on the street. The viewer is either oblivious to or startled by the trash, similar to many pedestrians’ relations to discarded homeless people. Video documentation allows for a second place of observation and critique of trash in public space. The movement of the pile of trash is a metaphor for the unrealized amounts of energy involved in the production and disintegration of waste. In my work, I strive to influence people?s perceptions and lead them to question or to rethink their everyday reality.
667Shotwell is the home of artist Chris Sollars. Each month an artist is invited to utilize Chris' living space for a project, which will be made available to the public. The objective is to maintain diversity in selecting the artists and to provide a non-commercial space in which artists may experiment with new mediums to explore alternative ways of reaching an audience. Each project is documented and posted on the web-site: www.667shotwell.com/Projects.html
Beginnings
and Endings • 9/28/04 - 10/30/04
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday October 1
This show examines collective and personal rituals surrounding life cycles—birth
and death in particular. Showcasing sculpture, installation and photography
by Ann Wolf, Lisa Levine and Cariadne Margaret Mackenzie. Curated by Lisa
Levine. Programming includes performance of a burial ritual, demonstration
of the bromoil photography process, and artist talks.
New Music Night: Friday, November 5, 8pm, doors open 7:30
Performance Night: Saturday, November 6, 8pm, doors open 7:30
2nd Annual
Youth and Family Art Connection Exhibition • 11/13
Artwork by participants from the Summer, 2004 Saturday art workshops.
PUBLIC ART
MEETING
monday, november 29, 5:30 - 7:30
Meet the Artist: Bill Gould and his schematic design to be incorporated
with the "Heart of the City" project under construction at Santa
Clara between 2nd & 3rd.
The Annual
Works Benefit Auction • 11/23/04 - 12/4/04
Auction Night: Saturday, December 4th. Doors open at 5pm,
bidding starts at 7pm. Admission is FREE!
Join us for this exciting fundraising event, showcasing the works of nearly
200 established and emerging Bay Area artists.
Read more and also the PR
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