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We Let the Darkness In An installation by Nancy Jean Tucker Curated by Jenny Stark
April 10 - May 19 We Let the Darkness In is a dark fairy tale that tells the story of a young witch who loses everything and is then almost destroyed by the evil thoughts that plague her. The installation used bits of animation combined with video, Super 8 live-action and music to guide the viewer through a dreamlike narrative. These projected scenes transgress the linear structure of filmmaking, examining the expectations we have for narrative work and its effects on our sense of reality. Nancy Jean Tucker is a Los Angeles based director and animator. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Tucker began making films at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. Her films and music videos have been shown around the world in such venues as LA Freewaves, Los Angeles, California; the Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands; the Nova Scotia Museum of Art, Canada. Tucker's work has also been showcased in Spin Magazine and Pitchfork.com. Additionally, she teaches at the Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California, and curates screenings of her favorite animated works. Listen to exhibition curator Jenny Stark's lecture Listed to Bill Brown's lecture
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Time and space—two basic building blocks of experience, and a subject for more than a few artists, whether they're thinking about a particular space and time, as in history, a process of change, or space as the infinite nothingness full of stars. This show explores these three avenues through the work of seven artists working with a wide variety of Hilary Wiedemann uses data gathered from NASA about light in general and the sun in particular for her sculptures and installations. Sarah Hotchkiss examines the idea of space exploration as an imaginative activity in her installation, "Young Astronaut Club", using responses from her survey about what should be in the clubhouse for the now long defunct "Young Astronaut Club" started by the White House in 1984. Benjamin Vilmain's expanded foam and acrylic constructions look like space junk, asteroids, constructions from the beyond made of humble materials. Julia Goodman observes change over time through cast paper sculptures. Parker Tilghman's works ride the line between sculpture and photography—photography being a collapsing of space into time, and sculpture being a bubble of time trapped in space. Pablo Cristi's sculpture and paintings draw our attention to the historical, working with concepts of Manifest Destiny, and how space is divided up and how those divisions shift. Shipping & Receiving also looks at the legacy of Manifest Destiny through a series of photographs and texts about the derelict leftovers of western expansion and what happens to the projects of politics when they are no longer maintained.
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White Wash The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento (CCAS) invited the community to ride some uncharted waves with the screening and discussion of White Wash. This documentary film features 10 time Association of Surfing Professional World Champion Surfer Kelly Slater, Triple Crown of Surfing winner Rob Machado, Legendary Pro Surfer Buttons Kaluhiokalani, and more. Narrated by Grammy winner Ben Harper, in conjunction with Black Thought of the Grammy Award winning group, The Roots, the film explores the history of surfing culture and breaks all 'surfer dude' stereotypes by uncovering the succession of African-Americans riding the waves. While paying respect to the ocean, filmmaker Ted Woods and producers Airrion Copeland and Dan Munger illustrate a comprehensive study from the perspective of black surfers from Hawaii, Jamaica, Florida, and California, blending archival footage and conversations with professors, historians, authors, organizations and professional surfers. CCAS hosted a film screening and community discussion with Rhonda Harper on Thursday, February 7th. An exhibition of memorabilia and photos were showcased at CCAS from February 5th through February 24th. |
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Yes We Can! Prior to opening to the public, jurors Darla Givens of Channel 10; Oliver Ridgeway, Executive Chef of Grange Restaurant and Bar; Kerrie Kelly, owner and founder of Kerrie Kelly Design Lab; Natalie Nelson, Director/Curator of the Pence Gallery; and Tre Borden, Director of Flywheel and Tapigami Business Manager selected winners in several categories. Following the judging, the public was welcomed to discuss the work with the artists and judges from 6:00-9:00pm. Visitors were also given the opportunity to chat with RCFB's Executive Director, Eileen Thomas, about hunger issues in Sacramento. Highlights and comments from Yes We Can! on YouTube:
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The Art of Noises The Art of Noises exhibition traced the development and design of synthesizers/synthesis/electronic instruments and circuit bending. The social and cultural impact of electronic music and technology were also addressed. The exhibition will feature several electronic performances and lectures including legendary synth designer, David Smith of Dave Smith Instruments (see below).
CCAS was very proud to present David Smith (above) in a lecture titled: 35 Years of Designing Synthesizers at CCAS on November 3rd at 3pm. The presentation is also part of California State University, Sacramento's Festival of New American Music and is paritally sponsored by the University. Dave is also the driving force behind the generation of the MIDI specification in 1981—in fact, he coined the acronym. In 1987 he was named a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) for his continuing work in the area of music synthesis. After Sequential, Dave was President of DSD, Inc, an R&D division of Yamaha. He later started the Korg R&D group in California, followed by a stint as President of Seer Systems, developing the world's first software-based synthesizer. In 2002 Smith started Dave Smith Instruments, which sells award-winning, professional analog synthesizers and drum machines to top-name musicians and bands worldwide (www.DavesSmithInstruments.com). Please <click here> to listen to the entire presentation.
Other Events: Crossroads Poetry Reading
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The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento was pleased to present Common Bond, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Annabeth Rosen. This is Rosen's first solo exhibition in the Sacramento area since 1999.
The exhibition featured Rosen's 3D work as well as several of her drawings.
SWOLL. 2012. Glazed ceramic and rubber inner tubes, 14" x 18" x 20"
Rosen received her BFA from NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred NY and a MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. She has an extensive exhibition history including Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA and multiple solo shows at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA. Her work has been critically reviewed by the New York Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, Art in America, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ceramics Art & Perception, Sculpture Magazine and the New York Times. Rosen's work is held in the collections of Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA; The Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA and The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA.
Other Events:
Crossroads Poetry Reading
Laura (L) and Traci (R) after the reading, posing in front of a work by Annabeth Rosen.
Exhibition Sponsored in part by:
Nina Krebs
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It is FREE to tour goers and gives our local artists a chance to share their art from the intimate environment of their own studios. Pick up a CAST Guide around town and choose the artists you want to visit. The Capital Artists’ Studio Tour is an easy way for people to see art where it is made, to buy art directly from the artists, and to experience art in our community. We are excited that you plan to join host of the tour, the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento (CCAS) and over 150 artists to celebrate the fine arts in Sacramento and tour CAST 2012! Please click here, www.castsacramento.org, to visit the CAST web site! Also part of Tour is Open Reel. This year, a congratulations goes to Ann Tracy's Zombie Kickball 2012 for Best Use of Sound and Edgar A. Hilbert's The Medium was the Audience Favorite. It's hard to believe these films were made in 30 days. Special thanks to Sid, her staff and the Crest Theatre for presenting all the films. Sponsored by:
Funded in part by the Sacramento Cultural Arts Award Program of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission with support from the City and County of Sacramento.
Nina Krebs
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Curated by Jenny Stark The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento was pleased to present What Does It Mean to Excel?, an exhibition by Houston-based artist Patrick Phipps curated by Jenny Stark, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Film Coordinator at California State University, Sacramento. Seeking what the artist calls an "authentic experience" unfettered by art industry expectations or self-censorship, Phipps founded the artists collective Sketch Klubb. The artists in Sketch Klubb meet every other Saturday to work in a supportive and unrestrained environment. The conversation and the context of that time together induce the drawings Phipps creates. His ambiguous, figurative "cartoon-like" imagery references pop culture, comics, graffiti, and abstract art.
Phipps holds a B.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.F.A. from the University of Houston. He has presented his work in numerous exhibitions across the country, including the Lawndale Art Center in Houston; the ArtPace Contemporary Art Foundation in San Antonio, Texas; the Arlington Museum of Art in Arlington, Texas; Colgate University in Hamilton, New York; the International Invitational at Art Chicago; and Scope LA in Los Angeles. Local artists Melaine Bown and John Conley started a Sacramento based Sketch Klubb- their first meeting was on Second Saturday, July 14. Future meetings will be the first Tuesday of the month at Bows and Arrows on 19th.
To learn more about the Houston-based Sketch Klubb, please click here.
Other Events: Crossroads Poetry Reading with Shawn Pittard and Danyen Powell- presented July 21.
Exhibition Sponsored in part by:
Nina Krebs
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June 5 - July 1 The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento pleased The Air Around Us, an exhibition by Chris Fraser curated by Rachel Clarke. Fraser works in installation, photography and video. His work is about searching for a direct experience of the optical environment, exploring the changing qualities of light, shadow, and cast images. He often places the viewer at the axis between object and image, where even the smallest of gestures have aesthetic consequences; as he says, "cold matter knows nothing of the satisfaction of experiencing the world as a living facsimile." Kenneth Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle writes of Fraser that he "…silently asserts the availability of meaningful aesthetic experience in the vast peripheral field of the unnoticed." Fraser's work was exhibited last year in Bay Area Now 6 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and at Pro Arts in Oakland. He has an MFA from Mills College and a BA from UC Davis. To learn more about Chris, please visit his web site: http://chrisfraserstudio.com/
*Free to members and students, general admission $5. Exhibition Sponsored in part by:
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Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist Discussion
Stephanie Sauer and Doug Rice discussed their colloboration in Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist on April 28 at CCAS <click here to listen to the entire presentation> Lecture*: Koo Kyung Sook
Koo Kyung Sook discussed her work at CCAS on May 3. <click here to listen to her complete presentation> Lecture*: Sandra Davis
Sandra Davis discussed film, her films and images on display at CCAS on May 5. <click here to listen to her complete presentation> *Free to CCAS members and students; general admission $5. Limited seating. Exhibition Sponsored in part by:
Nina Krebs Other Events: Crossroads Poetry Reading with Lisa Dominguez Abraham and Susan Kelly-DeWitt flash experiment 2.2 /
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February 28 - April 1
Wei Na, still from Temple, digital film.
*Free to CCAS members and students; general admission $5. Limited seating.
Exhibition Sponsored in part by:
Also sponsored in part by Nina Krebs, Other Events:
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Portrait of a Photographer.
The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento presented Time Fugitives, an exhibition by Bay Area artist Christopher Taggart curated by Renny Pritikin. Pulling from all facets of his varied and energetic art-making practice, Taggart showed an interrelated group of works in diverse media, scales and approaches. His sculptures, drawings, photo-constructions, machines, and videos draw from often divergent inspirational directions, including natural growth systems, optical illusion, comedy, mass material culture, self-portraiture, information overload, and food. In Time Fugitives, he continued his exploration of how mundane objects and images behave when their position in time is systematically manipulated, twisted, and multiplied. Exhibition curator Renny Pritikin, director of the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, describes Taggart as "a sculptor of leaping imagination. He begins his enormously labor-intensive projects without certainty where the rules he makes up will ultimately take him." Along with a B.S. in Physics from the College Of William And Mary, Taggart holds an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has presented his work in numerous exhibitions across the country, including the Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, the Richard L. Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, the Drawing Center in NY, ACE Gallery in Los Angeles and New York, the California Museum of Photography, the Weisman Museum Of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, the New Orleans Museum Of Art, and the Gallery Of The School Of Art & Design, SUNY Purchase, NY. Christopher Taggart and Renny Pritikin spoke at CCAS on February 11. Chris discussed and showed slides of some of the work he did not include in the show and described some of his art-making processes in greater detail. Renny asked Chris questions, as did the audience. Afterwards, Chris signed some of the catalogs from the exhibition.
During the show's run Chris also took part in CCAS's new education initiative Art Connection, spearheaded by CCAS Education Committee Head Taylor Gutermute. Chris and Taylor spoke with a local art class via video chat and gave them a private tour of the show, as well as the opportunity to ask Chris questions about his work. From there, the students made their own art inspired by their interaction with Chris, and Chris visited their classroom to meet them in person and see the resulting work.
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2011 Annual Non-Profit Benefit Exhibition To benefit CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) Participants in the CASA program ages 8-18 joined members of the CCAS Exhibition Committee to make self portraits, both papier mache masks and digital prints. The resulting pieces were exhibited at CCAS for the Annual Non-Profit Benefit Exhibition. The work was for sale and all proceeds benefitted CASA.
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2011 Benefit Art Auction Sponsored in Part By:
CCAS would like to thank CBS Outdoor and Clear Channel Outdoor for their generous support. Also Sponsored in Part By:
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September 20-November 18
The Second Saturday Reception, October 8, included a book signing by the artist and an Aztec blessing by Kalpulli Maquilli Tonatiuh. The reception began at 6 pm with the blessing. Montoya signed the newly released biography authored by Terezita Romo, as well as two other publications, PreMediated: Meditations on Capital Punishment and Globalization & War -- The Aftermath. Montoya discussed his work and the exhibition in a lecture at CCAS on October 12 at 7pm. On Friday, November 4 at 7 pm, CCAS hosted Remembering Facundo Cabral: A Dia de Los Muetros Poetry Reading in honor of Facundo Cabral, an Argentine singer of social protest music who was murdered in Guatemala City on July 10, 2011. Malaquias Montoya is a Professor Emeritus at University of California, Davis where he teaches Chicano Studies and Art, including silkscreening, poster making, and mural painting.
Limited Edition print available!
Exhibition Sponsored in part by:
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Capitol Artists' Studio Tour
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CCAS would like to thank CBS Outdoor and Clear Channel Outdoor for their generous support. Also Sponsored in Part By: |
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July 26 - August 21 Dean De Cocker
Dean De Cocker's work is part of a continuing series, Blue Jackets Return. De Cocker transforms flat, two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional objects via techniques of aircraft construction, whereby fabricated objects of inner structures and outer coverings create volumetric enclosures. He derives much of his inspiration from everyday objects such as mailboxes, aircraft, wings, propellers, heavy machinery, and architectural works. Recently, his interest in race car fabrication and collecting vintage BMX bicycles from the 1970s has led to subtle changes in form and color. De Cocker is an Associate Professor in the Art Department at California State University, Stanislaus. Recent solo exhibitions include High Tide at Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA in 2008 and Return to Pearl at 643 A Project Space, Ventura, CA in 2008. Recent group exhibitions include Lust for Machines (Dean De Cocker and Matt Furmanski) at Santa Ana College Main Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA in 2009. His work is in numerous collections including the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Laguna Beach Museum, Laguna, CA and Merrill Lynch, Sacramento, CA. Dean De Cocker lecture
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June 11 - July 17
To learn more about the Non Solo exhibition, please visit their web site by clicking <here> or read their blog, <please click here>.
Featuring: Margaret Coleman, Stephen Eakin, Heather Elizabeth Garland, Jason Gaspar, Lacey Pripic Hedtke, William Hempel, Anna Marie Shogren and Bonnie Kay Whitfield. The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento presented Non Solo, a group exhibition of 2-D and 3-D works in various media in an exhibition from April 5 to July . The eight young artists whose individual and collaborative artwork is on view are based in New York, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia. Non Solo is a show the artists have taken on the road, traveling together in a van like a rock band on tour. The art travels with them, much of it in progress – in recombination and otherwise morphing – as Non Solo tours among scheduled art venues and interacts with specific spaces and audiences around the U.S. Be prepared for surprises when Non Solo comes to CCAS, but some things we can expect. The exhibition opens with a public conversation among the artists. We can also expect to see their Merch Table: an installation-as-gallery of cheaply-priced art objects, clothes, handmade books, zines and other 'merchandise' offered to the public much like a band on tour sells paraphernalia like t-shirts and stickers. The Merch Table appears at all Non Solo venues. At once a fundraising tool and an artwork, it is accompanied by an assemblage video work made from clips of the Non Solo artists interacting. Another collaborative work on view is an interactive still life sculpture project that viewers rearrange during the exhibition. A satellite installation is the van the group tours in, presented as an artwork and exhibition space. Stream a lecture among the artists moderated by Elaine O'Brien on June 11, please click <here>
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April 5 - May 15 Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas
Primarily regarded as a conceptual sculptor with a growing national reputation, Gay Outlaw works as an investigator of physicality, perception, memory, and materials. Her work revolves around combining inherent contradictions: Sculptures that seem to be constructed of voids; Photographs of false surfaces transformed into solid objects; Images of holes, reversed, and cast in bronze and glass.
Gay Outlaw has had one-person shows at the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. She has been included in exhibitions in New York, Tel Aviv, Isreal, Leipzig, Germany, and Pusan, Korea. She was awarded the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1996. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco, the di Rosa Preserve, Napa, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas
Excerpt of the exhibition catalog.
Exhibition Sponsored in part by:
Also sponsored in part by Ginny and Phil Cunningham,
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February 22 - March 20 Signs Signs featured the work of Aptos, California-based artist Enid Baxter Blader. The exhibition included her paintings and her short film, THE ORD, which documents the de-commissioned Fort Ord Army Base. A pile of bloody birds lying on the ground, a crooked rainbow formed over a burnt landscape and cows making their way through a flood are other subjects found in Blader's paintings. There is no rationale for optimism and no proof that things will get better. Yet, there is a hopeful surging forward, a "cutting against the grain" in the face of uncertainty. Sense of place is central in much of Blader's work, as is an emphasis on the connection of opposites. Enid Baxter Blader Lecture (March 12, 2011)
Highlights from Enid's lecture at CCAS (please click to view).
Please click above to view the exhibition. Exhibition Sponsored in part by:
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January 6 - February 13 Light Matters A two-person exhibition of photography and video by Christina Seely and Gretchen Skogerson. Both artists take the artificial light of the night time urban environment as a primary inspiration for their projects. Christina Seely's LUX, a large-scale photo series, features night time photographs of cities in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. Her beautiful and haunting representations of these cities brings us an awareness that this illumination comes at a high cost to our environment and urges us to reconsider the way of living that contemporary society has created. Gretchen Skogerson's Drive Thru, is a single channel high-definition video that looks at the impact of natural disaster on the man-made environment. Drive Thru presents night time views of shattered illuminated commercial signage from the aftermath of 2004's Hurricane Ivan in Miami.
To listen to Gretchen's lecture, please click here (MP3/8.93 MB download). Or view Gretchen on YouTube:
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December 9 - December 24
A través de mis ojos
Most of the children in the exhibit participated in a six-week photography class facilitated by Neil Hollander and Dr. Natalia Deeb-Sosa. The goals of the class were for children to learn the mechanics of taking photos using 35 mm cameras, developing and printing in a dark room, as well as to document, through photography, their experiences as children of migrant agricultural workers. Proceeds from the exhibit will be used to set up a permanent darkroom for migrant children and their families at the Yolo Family Resource Center in Woodland, California. Aztec blessing dance at Second Saturday, December 11.
Exhibition Sponsored in part by: The Latino Legislative Caucus Foundation
Also sponsored in part by Cheryl and Chris Holben,
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November 6 - November 20 / Benefit Art Auction November 20
2010 Benefit Art Auction
The 2010 Benefit Art Auction is the primary fundraiser for the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento. It features the work of 115 artists, primarily from the greater Sacramento region. The auction is a combination of live and silent- this year the auctioneer will be David Sobon. The auction featured the work of : Sponsored in part by:
Also sponsored by: Statewide Painting,
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September 23 - October 24 They are more than paintings of two vases; they are an attempt to capture the flowing quality of sight itself. Each one of these scenes is the record of a specific optical occurrence. It is as if the church on K Street was designed as an optical laboratory with its high white walls and infused bright light to afford an ideal environment for this intensified observation. The energized brushwork utilized to capture the light as it surrounded the model in the figure paintings is now used to identify the fleeting essence of color at a precise moment. Using the nominal subject of the vases, painted over the course of a year, Dalkey has been able to concentrate his attention on the perceived surface of vision. Above excerpts from the essay, The Church Series- A Project by Fred Dalkey by C. Daubert. 2010.
Sponsored in part by:
Cheryl and Chris Holben,
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September 3 - September 12
Capitol Artists Studio Tour_2010 from Sponsored in part by:
Also sponsored in part with the gracious support from Style Media Group; Clear Channel Radio and Clear Channel Outdoor. Cheryl and Chris Holben,
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August 20 - August 21 Mikko Lautamo On the evenings of August 20th & 21st from 8 - 10 pm, new media artist Mikko Lautamo projected Constellation, a programmatic animation through CCAS' front window. Lautamo employed user input and computer code to produce networks of nodes akin to both stars and neurons. The live and continuous image evolved through the interplay of growth and decay.
To see more of Mikko's work, please see http://webpages.csus.edu/~mwl22/
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July 10 - August 15
The Preview Party - Contemporary cocktails and conversation featured a discussion with
Tatina Reinoza Perkins, Quintin Gonzalez
and Carlos Jackson Click here to listen
Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Marilyn and Phil Isenberg; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; James H. Smith; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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May 27 - June 27 WILDFIRES by youngsuk suh
Lecture, May 12. <audio to be uploaded>
Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Marilyn and Phil Isenberg; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; James H. Smith; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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March 4 - May 16 In Public : Designing Art for the Sacramento International Airport
Featuring the work of: Donald Lipski, Mildred Howard, Joan Moment, Lawrence Argent, Suzanne Adan, Po Shu Wang and Louise Bertleson, Camille Utterback, Ned Kahn, Christian Moeller, and Lynn Criswell.
The Panel Experience- Discussion featuring panelists from
the Sacramento International
Airport Artist Selection Process (presented March 16, 2010) New Media In Public -
Presentation featuring
Camille Utterback (presented April 7, 2010).
Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Marilyn and Phil Isenberg; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; James H. Smith; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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January 7 - February 14 Improbable Mends
Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers. |
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November 12 - 21
The 2009 Benefit Art Auction was dedicated to the memory of Jean Runyon. CCAS' Board of Directors, volunteers and staff extend their deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Jean Runyon as well as staff of Runyon Saltzman & Einhorn. She was a friend and will be greatly missed. The auction featured work by: Phil Amrhein, Omar Thor Arason,
Mary Carol Baird,
Lisa Barker,
Sandra Beard, Karen Bearson,
Gregory Berger,
Lou Bermingham,
Joy Bertinuson,
Donna Billick,
Mark Bowles, Milton Bowens,
Elaine Bowers,
Brenda Bowles,
Karen Brooks,
Dotty Brown,
James Cameron,
Marcia Cary,
Erik Castellanos,
Mary Chan,
Melissa Chandon,
Alma Chaney,
Rachel Clarke,
Erika Clayton,
Ruth Coelho,
Michelle Cordova,
Julia Couzens, Carolyn Cozad,
Andy Cunningham,
Eric Dahlin,
Julie Diane,
Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Freeport Bakery; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Statewide Painting; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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October 1 - November 1
The Separation of Perception and Intent. The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, is pleased to present Filling the Void, an exhibition of new works by Omar Thor Arason. The paintings range from large-scale works on canvas to smaller, more intimate works on wood panels.
onsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Nina Krebs; Raven's Corner; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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August 21 - September 13
This year, CCAS is proud to make available a catalog featuring work by many of the artists participating in the Tour. The catalog is $25 (plus CA tax). Please contact the museum for further details.
The "Art" of Engagement: Connecting with Artists on Their Home Turf- a panel discussion with Gioia Fonda, Ianna Frisby, Cheryl Holben and Mariana Moscoso September 10 / audio to be added.
Capital Public Radio- Insight
In Memory of Laureen Landau The Board, volunteers and staff of the CCAS were sadden to learn of the passing of our friend, supporter, and fellow artist Laureen Landau. The 2009 Capitol Artists' Studio Tour has been dedicated to her memory.
In Partnership with:
CCAS would like to thank the following sponsors for helping to make the 2009 CAST possible:
Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner: Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers Special thanks to ChalkItUp.org
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July 9 - August 9
We live in a sea of information: The Internet and the 24-hour news cycle have dissolved national and international boundaries. We have friends with whom we communicate who we have never met, living in countries we have never visited. We wake up, if we sleep at all, with new messages waiting on our phones, on our computers. Anything we want to know or want to see is available to us, falling like mythical droplets from God. Ricardo Rivera will present a series of activated digital sculptures that address and embody our new world. Images seen on whirling monitors seem to float in the very air through which they traveled. Scenes with shattered and forgotten images cast by a projector dissolving into time and space fall into a constructed Einsteinian Black Hole. Other pictures, other projections, break apart the old mode of linear thought, presenting an appreciation and critique of the constant present that has a density of experience and a sense of infinite possibilities that can only be ordered or even created by the imagination of the participating viewer. Raised in Courtland, CA, Ricardo Rivera studied at the San Francisco Art Institute earning a BFA in interdisciplinary art and an MFA in sculpture. Rivera has realized works in various locations from San Francisco to Sierre, Switzerland. He has collaborated with Swiss percussionist Christophe Fellay, Swiss artist Georges Pfruender, choreographer Joanna Haigood, Macarthur genius award recipient Walter Kitundu, and South African artist Donna Kukama. Ricardo Rivers presented a lecture July 9/ audio to be added. Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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May 7 - June 14 Arnold, Greene and Heffernan all share an affinity for abundance in their paintings. While the imagery differs, the works share a pre or post-apocalyptical narrative that simultaneously embraces this abundance, and questions it. Chester Arnold’s paintings of stacked or strewn objects most directly relate to an acknowledgment of, and perhaps an infatuation with, ordinary objects; with those things in our lives that we acquire, use and/or abuse, and eventually discard (or allow to remain) when their usefulness has diminished. Scott Greene’s images, which include paintings of impossibly dense piles of satellite dishes, confront the viewer with a visual representation of our communication obsession, reminding us that Big Brother is indeed watching, while begging the question “How much is too much?” Julie Heffernan’s candy-coated palette of miniature vignettes reveal personal dramas that reference everything from history painting, to mythology, to kitsch. Ultimately, the riddle presented by the work of these three artists in the Conundrum of Abundance is one that the viewer must solve. Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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March 7 - April 11 Divergent Timing, was an installation of sculptural and sound works, in addition to video and drawing, by artist Terry Berlier. Terry Berlier earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Davis, in 2003, and since that time she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, throughout California including Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In addition, she has shown her work throughout the United States, with solo exhibitions in California and Ohio. She has also participated in important group exhibits internationally in Australia (a collaborative project with composer Luciano Chessa), Italy and Spain, including the “Wandering Library” Project at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Berlier is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and scholarships, including a residency in Barcelona, Spain. She has taught at several colleges and universities in California including the California College of Arts, Sierra College, and the University of California at Davis, and at Santa Cruz. Berlier is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Stanford University. Berlier’s recent body of work mines deep into the memory of time and the history that is preserved in the natural environment surrounding us. These clues reveal quasi-cyclical patterns of the past and remind us at the same time to question how we might use that evidence to move forward. Her work seeks to dissect and map time to expose and manipulate our understanding of cultural and environmental histories. These are spatially configured through interactions with sculpture, sound, video, installation and drawings. Found materials, vernacular and modern technologies, and detritus from everyday life are subverted. She questions how innovations are changing the way we perceive and interact with the world and whether we are coming closer to or farther from understanding each other and the world around us. Terry Berlier presented a lecture March 12/ audio to be added.
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January 8 - February 22, 2009
Khalil Chishtee and Ruby Chishti are established international artists. Husband and wife, Pakistani émigrés to Sacramento now living in the Bay Area, they have shown individually and in group shows regionally and worldwide, including venues in Pakistan, India, Egypt, Europe, the UK, India, Dubai, and the US. Duet is their first two-person exhibition. Duet continues their previous practices as artists but integrates them into a unique visual dialogue: “a song of life sung together,” Ruby Chishti explains; “that is why it is called “Duet.” Echoing the events of their lives, Duet employs the artists’ signature media and processes. For Khalil Chishtee, that is torn plastic bags and other disposable materials shaped on site into expressive, life-sized figurative ensembles. For Duet his forms occupy and respond to the spaces of the CCAS galleries left by Ruby’s art – the ceiling and walls. His more airy and ephemeral installation interfaces with her work and reflects the shared experiences of their lives. Khalil sees his part in Duet as a dance “with and around Ruby’s art (as her love always makes me do).” Ruby’s work is displayed at CCAS on the floor and thus shares the same ground as the viewer. Warm, tender, and more earthly than Khalil’s, her art is made of a wide range of evocative materials, including twigs, cast-off scraps of cloth, and feminine napkins tied and stitched into figures of varying scale, including small ones linked to the history of doll making in India and Pakistan.
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December 4 - 21 University of Phoenix and The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento in conjunction with St. John's Shelter present: Home for the Holidays
Handmade Houses by The University of Phoenix and Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento were honored to present Home for the Holidays, an exhibition highlighting the creative talents of children. The Home for the Holidays exhibition features doll-sized houses created by sixty children of St. John's Shelter Program for Women & Children at Sacramento State and St. John's workshops. A video of the workshop at St. John's by videographer Ivan Harder, and Dave Howard's delightful photographs of the children at work were presented. The child-built homes were purchased in a silent auction and all proceeds benefited St. John's Shelter. St. John's mission is to support homeless women with children to advance from a point of crisis to a position of self sufficiency. St. John's is the only shelter program in Sacramento County focused exclusively on women with children - the most vulnerable of the homeless population. Since 1985, the program has provided a safe and supportive haven to more than 23,000 displaced women and children. For more information about St. John's Program go to: http://www.stjohnsshelter.org
Special thanks to: Sacramento State Art Department, Home Depot and University Arts for their generous support. Also sponsored in part by:Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Ann & Johan Otto; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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November 6-22 The auction featured the work of more than 100 artists. Color Lithograph 22x30
Also sponsored in part by:Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Ann & Johan Otto; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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September 11 - October 26
Salvatore Victor, did a presentation on his work October 9. Audio to be uploaded. Sponsored in part by: Sponsored in part by:
Also sponsored in part by Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Chris and Cheryl Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Skip and Shirley RosenbloomDr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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May 8 - June 29
The Dark Side of the Mouse l
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May 8 - June 29
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March 10 - April 27 The exhibit included the paintings by Robert Schwartz and Sheldon Tapley. Both are contemporary realist painters however the expressive character of the work is strikingly different even given some formal similarities.
Robert Schwartz (1947-2000) was born in Chicago and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. While in Chicago he participated in a group exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art along with members of The Hairy Who. In 1971 Schwartz graduated and moved to San Francisco where he lived until his death in 2000. Often working in gouache on paper or oil on wood panel, his publicly exhibited works were rarely larger than 7 x 9 inches. Schwartz's narrative paintings explore and question the human psyche and social mores. He received a National Endowment for the Arts WESTAF Award in 1992. Sheldon Tapley was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela to British parents and was raised in Europe and North America. Tapley is a nationally recognized artist whose paintings are held in museum, academic, corporate, and private collections across the United States. In the spring of 2004, the Evansville Museum of Art presented a major retrospective exhibit of Tapley's art, displaying thirty of his still-life works from the last ten years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate holding a 1980 B.A. from Grinnell College, Tapley received an M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1983. Please click here to visit Sheldon Tapley's web site, www.sheldontapley.com
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January 10 - February 24, 2008 Cathy Stone and David E. Stone selected emerging, mid-career and established artists that are of note for this group exhibit. David comments, "Given the frenetic growth of the Los Angeles art world and the lack of an ‘ism’ that easily associates with art in L.A., it is no easy task to curate an exhibition that comprehensively encapsulates the look and feel of art in this sprawling metropolis. Therefore, this exhibition is a specifically subtitled ‘a select survey’
of art from Los Angeles.
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Also sponsored in part by Mimi and Burnett Miller; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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December 6 - 23
The Power of Purpose: A Photographic Exhibit by Christopher Irion Photography sponsored by PRIDE Industries The exhibit consisted of a series of portraits made in the PhotoBooth, a portable, shippable, light-weight studio that is on the cutting edge of photography art today. In April 2007, Irion traveled to Roseville, California, and photographed employees of PRIDE Industries, a non-profit organization whose mission it is to create jobs for people with disabilities. Each of these individuals embodies the power of success through determination and the exhibit's images capture their heart and purpose.
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November 3 - 17
2007 Benefit Art Auction The 2007 Benfit Art Auction featured over 100 quality works that were purchased in both a live and silent auction. The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento would like to thank all artists, sponsors, members and guests for making the Auction a huge success.
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September 6 - October 26, 2007
East Coast Contemporary Painters Featuring the work of
Jake Berthot, Porfirio DiDonna, John Lees, Joan Snyder, John Walker the exhibition features paintings by five renowned east coast painters. The artists are united primarily by style; this show will be comprised mainly of painterly abstractions, many of which contain allusions to the landscape, either real or imagined or symbolic.
Bayard's Meadow, Jake Berthot, On Thursday, October 11, Craig N. Smith presented a lecture titled, Painterly Abstration and the Landscape.
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July 5 - August 26, 2007
Tar, Dust and Canvas
Described as a "painter's painter" Jack Ogden has been creating compelling works for over fifty years. Equipped with a keen eye for composition and color, his work is as much about the process of creating imagery, as it is about its destruction. In fact, it is the possibility of infinite outcomes that make even a previously completed canvas fall prey to re-working, or complete obliteration, if left in the studio for too long.
Blue Yonder. 2007. Jack Ogden.
On Thursday, July 12, Jack presented a gallery talk. To hear the presentation, please click <here>
Jack Ogden. Photo by Joy Bertinuson.
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May 3 - June 24, 2007
Roy De Forest / Gerald Walburg
Roy De Forest, best known for his colorful paintings of dogs and other animated figures, became associated with the California Funk Art movement of the mid-1960s. He make distinctive cartoon-like imagery that was a signature style quite recognizably his own. De Forest was a professor of some acclaim at the University of California, Davis for seventeen years before retiring to focus on his artwork full-time. He had countless solo-exhibitions throughout the United States, and has shown his work in important exhibitions internationally as well.
Gerald Walburg is best known for his large-scale sculptural forms that can be found on the campus at Sacramento State University as well as at the edge of Downtown Plaza in Sacramento. However, for the past forty years he has worked both two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally in the creation of intimate studies and maquettes, as well on the development colossal sculptures.
18, May May 18, 2007 President, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento
The CCAS celebrated the life of Roy De Forest on Thursday, June 7. Surrounded by Roy's work, the open-mic event gave those that knew him an opportunity to share a special memory. To hear the comments please click <here>
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March 1 - April 27, 2007
Currents in Photography
This group show featured preeminent local and regional photographic artists as well as nationally and internationally renowned photographers. The exhibition presented photographers whose works demonstrate the great variety of technical, formal, and conceptual concerns pursued by artists today. The show is not an attempt to define the nature of contemporary photography so much as to present a rich variety of ambitious works created in photographic mediums.
Featured artists: Kimberly Austin, Steven Elner, Katy Grannan, Anne Hamersky, Todd Hido, Matthias Hoch, Jodie Hooker, William L. Jolly, Michael Kenna, Mona Kuhn, Kent Lacin, Annie Leibovitz, Reagan Louie, Danny Lyon, Vik Muniz, Nigel Poor, Unai San Martin, Izzy Schwartz, Youngsuk Suh, Larry Sultan, Roger Vail, John Waters, Henry Wessel and Heidi Zumbrun.
Hand Job (detail), 2005. Nigel Poor.
Generous support has been provided by the following San Francisco galleries: Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, Fraenkel Gallery, Haines Gallery, Rena Bransten Gallery, Scott Nichols Gallery and the Stephen Wirtz Gallery.
Sponsored in part by Cali-Color, Coldwell Banker, Steven R. Moore and Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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January 11- February 18, 2007
Authenticating Consciousness:
The memorial titled, Untitled establishes a monument to the lost, a personal Composition for Authenticating Consciousness by Mike Crain.
Click here to visit Andrew Connelly's web site.
Click here to view Authenticating Consciousness on YouTube.
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November 25 - December 23, 2006 Visual Characters
Featuring the work of Deborah Barrett, John Stuart Berger, Chris Botta, Ken Brown, Martha Douglas, Jon Espegren, John Ezel, Gale Hart, Sandra Hoover, Cynthia Huston, Rick Linville, Julia Resendez, Stephanie Skalisky, Susan Tonkin Riegel, Greg Tumbusch, James Van Tassel and Patricia Wood.
La Chica (detail), Julia Resendez
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November 4 - November 18, 2006
Benefit Art Auction
The 2006 Benfit Art Auction featured over 100 quality works that were purchased in both a live and silent auction. The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento would like to thank all artists, sponsors, members and guests for making the Auction a huge success.
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September 7 , 2006 - October 29, 2006
Rachel Clarke The Present Moment
Rachel Clarke is a digital media artist and is Assistant Professor in Electronic Art in the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento. She works in digital imaging, video, animation and installation. Clarke’s work intertwines themes of nature and culture, and explores intersections of technology and identity. Clarke has exhibited internationally and throughout the United States. In fall 2003, she curated a show of national and international artists using new media, entitled Postflesh: Visualizing the Techno-Self at the University Library Gallery, Sacramento State University. Clarke is currently Vice-President of the CAA New Media Caucus and Editor-in Chief of their online journal, Media-N, a national journal of digital and media arts: http://www.newmediacaucus.org
The Garden (video still),
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July 6, 2006 - August 27, 2006 Aspects of Humanity
CCAS thanks the local artists for their efforts and also Crown Point Press, Gallery Paule Anglim and the Hacket-Freedman Gallery for their generosity in making the exhibition possible. Thanks also to local collectors Joe Rodota, Jean Runyon and Pat Wood for their contributions; and to Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers for their continued support.
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May 6, 2006-June 26, 2006 James Albertson
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March 2, 2006 - April 30, 2006 A Survey of Work from 1998-2005 Yoram Wolberger
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Yoram Wolberger Toy Soldier #3 (Crawling Soldier) [72" x 60" x 24"
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December 1, 2005 - February 26, 2006 Julia Couzens and Peter Stegall Strange Fascination and Paintings and Constructions |
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Strange Fascination: New Sculpture by Julia Couzens in the West Gallery and Peter Stegall: Paintings and Constructions in the East Gallery from December 1, 2005 through February 26, 2006. Couzens’ exhibition will continue to grow and inhabit the space throughout the show with the artist creating the piece over three months. Stegall’s work will explore relationships of space and the “powerful playing field of color.”
Born in Auburn, California, Julia Couzens received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis in 1990. She has received national recognition and critical acclaim since the early 1990’s including the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship in Visual Arts award for innovative work in sculpture. She has been a lecturer and an artist-in-residence at numerous colleges and universities and her work has been widely shown throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, including at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in San Francisco, Crocker Art Museum and Oakland Museum.
Unprecedented in Sacramento, a component of the CCAS exhibition will be Couzens’ residence in the gallery to continue work on Strange Fascination. Over the three-month installation, the exhibit will grow, suggesting a parasitic relationship to the space. By continuing to work in the gallery Couzens gives the public the opportunity to witness her creative process and the progression of her relationship to this mutating work.
Stegall earned his M.A. in Art from California State University, Sacramento. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
Since the early 1970’s, Stegall has been exploring concepts about color, form and space while experimenting with differing scales from small watercolors to medium range paintings and in the 1990’s large door panels. As a painter he has been most interested in pattern and symmetry, aspects of positive and negative space and the “powerful playing field of color.”
Image Above Right: Julia Couzens Strange Fascination [Installation 2005-2006]
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September 15 - October 30, 2005
Diane Richey-Ward and Jiayi Ling Investigations/Collaborations
Diane Richey-Ward and Jiayi Ling will be exhibiting three installations at CCAS. Their collaborative installation entitled Cinetique Procession incorporating video, transparencies and drawing, will be shown along with Jiayi Ling’s piece Las Vegas, China, which features suspended silk panels and video. Diane Richey-Ward will also show a number of three-dimensional wall pieces that highlight drawing, sculpture and transparent images. Their work examines the integration between works on paper, video and transparencies to explore the effects of how light travels through media with varying opacities.
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August 6,2005 - September 11, 2005
Christopher Brown New Work
Recognized for his large scale, intensely colored paintings based on photographs, the internationally known Bay Area artist earned his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis in 1976. Brown, an Illinois native, came west in 1973 to study with the impressive faculty at Davis that included Wayne Thieb
Brown began exhibiting his work publicly in 1977. He earned his first solo show in 1980 at the Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco. Since that time, he has had numerous exhibitions, both in this country and abroad. This will be his first exhibition at CCAS. Brown lives and works in Berkeley.
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and an Adolf and Esther Gotleib Foundation grant. His work was recently included in the Crocker Art Museum exhibition Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction.
aud, William Wiley, Robert Arneson and Roy De Forest. His style balances abstraction and figuration with a variety of texture and depth.