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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WORKS/SAN JOSE
Presents "Ground"
Featuring Oakland
Artists
Colleen Flaherty, Diana Sanchez, Caleb Duarte, and Nereida Garcia Ferraz
Opening 2/15/05-3/05/05
Works/San Jose 30 North 3rd Street
San Jose, CA (408) 295-8378
Reception: 7 to 9pm, Friday February 18th
Teen Arts participation/workshop: March 1st 4pm
Ground A central point of unity for four artists coming together to explore the physical, spiritual, social political, and surreal aspects associated with what we call the "Ground". From the questioning of land ownership as It relates to globalization, death, birth, flight, and re-birth, "Ground" celebrates and contemplates the very earth on which we live. Through the use of materials like driftwood, snake shedding, dirt, copper wire, bees' wax, photography, and painting, this exhibit focuses on individual and social relationships to the ground throughout existence.
Colleen Flaherty's work is an attempt to examine flight and ground. She works with a variety of natural materials like snake shedding, bee's wax, seeds, and painted and drawn images of wings and organic, abstract forms.
Diana Sanchez works site-specifically within nature, documenting ritualistic practice. Using a variety of materials including photographic image, palm oil, cascarilla, copper wire, and insects to conjure action, Sanchez's creates a narrative that examines the self through the awareness of the image. The results are invocations and affirmations illuminated through digital photography and sculpture.
Caleb Duarte's recent body of work is an attempt to communicate about social, political, global, and local class struggles. With the use of dry wall, dirt, and found driftwood, along with the painted image, his work makes observations about exorbitant lifestyles and materialism in contrast to basic shelter and simple means.
Nereida Garcia Ferraz's recent drawings give ground to physical objects otherwise existing within the open space of dreams, thoughts, and memories. These objects, such as houses, figures, animals, and everyday domestic tools, give way to spiritual, physical, or physiological interpretations.
Please call WORKS/
San Jose at (408) 295-8378 for more information.
Parking is available across the street in parking deck on North 3rd.
WORKS/ San Jose is a non-profit, contemporary art and performance Center dedicated to community involvement and the exploration of the artistic experience.
works/san josé
451 south 1st street • san josé,
california 95112• 408.286.6800
hours: t,w,f,sat 12pm - 4pm and th 12pm - 7pm
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