Art Alumni Group

Sonya Rapoport Pre-Release Book Launch

2012-02-09T22:56:00.000-08:00

MAR 7, 2012PRE-RELEASE BOOK LAUNCH, PAIRING OF POLARITIES: THE LIFE AND ART OF SONYA RAPOPORTEDITED BY TERRI COHN7:00 PM, Mills College, ART MUSEUMIn conjunction with Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport, join Malcolm Margolin of Heyday Press in the launch of Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport. Books will be available for pre-sale.

Sonya Rapoport Event at Mills College

2012-02-09T22:38:00.001-08:00

FEB 12, 2012OBJECTS ON MY DRESSER: ARTIST TALK AND PERFORMANCE1:00–3:00 PM, Mills College, ART MUSEUM

As part of MCAM’s current exhibition, Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport, Sonya Rapoport and Dr. Revathi Vikram,psychiatrist, come together to explore the artist's memories of her past work and the life experiences that give her work context. Central to this discussion is Rapoport’s ongoing work Objects On My Dresser: Shared Dynamics, an interactive “netweb plot” from which connections between symbols, words and ideas are made. Over the course of the exhibition, gallery visitors have been invited to participate in this work by manipulating and customizing a new “netweb plot.” Dr. Revathi will analyze the recorded actions and motivations that have created this new plot in an effort to determine acollective Mills consciousness.

This performance with Dr. Revathi is an updating of Rapoport’s original collaboration with psychologist Winifred de Vos.

Voulkos and Company Film Event

2012-02-04T18:29:00.003-08:00

Gyöngy Laky - Solo Show and Conversation

2012-02-01T07:01:00.000-08:00

101L ALTERATIONS, 2008 (apple, grapevine, nails, wire)

On Saturday, February 4, 3:00pm at the Cain Schulte Gallery in San Francisco, join artist and 1971 Cal alumna Gyöngy Laky for a talk on her work.

The artist will have a solo show at the Cain Schulte Gallery with an opening reception on Thursday, May 3, 5:30-7:30.

One on One with Squeak Carnwath

2012-01-31T14:00:00.000-08:00

Vija Celmins: Blackboard Tableau #1, 2007-10

On Thursday evening, February 2 at 6:30, Squeak will be at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to participate in the museum’s One On One gallery talks. “Get a singular take on a work of art each Thursday evening as one artist, curator, or specialist shares a perspective on one artwork.” From January 26 through March, past winners of the SECA Art Award will discuss works by other artists on view at SFMOMA.

In 1980 Squeak received the SECA Art Award. On Thursday she will talk for 20 minutes about one of her favorite pieces, Vija Celmins’ Blackboard Tableau #1 (pictured above). Please join her at 6:30 in the Haas Atrium (ground floor, main entrance) before moving into the gallery.

If you go to SFMOMA for Squeak’s One On One gallery talk, or for any other reason before April 3, 2012, be sure to see Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, which includes a painting Squeak did in 1979, My Own Ghost #3 (Small Songs #2), as well as a 4-minute video in which Squeak “details the process of making her paintings and considers the ways viewers might approach her work.” There are lots of other artworks and videos of artists in the exhibition as well.

For more information about upcoming shows and other places to see the artwork of Squeak Carnwath, please visit her website at www.SqueakCarnwath.com and look for her calendar.

MEET UP!

2012-01-22T21:53:00.000-08:00

Do Join Us

Tuesday, January 24th 5:00 p.m.

@ PICANTE

6th & Gilman in Berkeley

Come and share New Plans for the New Year

New Projects

New Shows

New Follies

...and bring a friend!

Deborah Kennedy: Installation in "The Fine Art of Recycling"

2012-01-22T20:56:00.000-08:00

Hour of Decision, 2011, plastic

Oct. 22, 2011 - Mar. 31, 2012

Deborah Kennedy, eco artist and 1983 Cal alumna, has an installation in The Fine Art of Recycling, a show organized by the Triton Museum and held at the Santa Clara City Hall.

Stephanie Peek: Certain Riches

2012-01-16T10:48:00.000-08:00

Till Paradise II, 72” x 72” oil on canvas 2011

Judy Reed Photography

December 24, 2011 – March 3, 2012

555 California Street, Plaza Gallery (formerly The Bank of America Building), San Francisco CA 94104

Paintings can be viewed from the plaza, but due to security, please contact Jan Casey by email (caseart@earthlink.net) with your name and date of visit to enter the Plaza Lobby.

Jan Casey & Associates Art Advisors (415) 834-2394

Stephanie Peek

Spring Artist Lecture Series: Deborah Oropallo

2012-01-08T08:51:00.000-08:00

From the series HEROINE
FLASH
Pigment print on Paper
50"x38" 2011

Saturday, January 28, 4pm

In paintings and prints, Deborah Oropallo has forged inventive bodies of work which engage and challenge the viewer in reading the form and content. Fracturing or merging images, Oropallo renders relationships of power and position which point to societal norms and subtexts.

$10 general admission, free for BAC members and students.
RSVPs are strongly encouraged by calling 510.644.6893 or e-mail annw@berkeleyartcenter.org

Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler

2012-01-07T10:33:00.000-08:00

Left: Thorax Figure, 2008. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, promised gift of the estate of Stephen De Staebler. Photo: Scott McCue, courtesy of Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco. Center: Yoke Winged Man, 1994. Collection of Russ Solomon, Sacramento. Photo: Scott McCue. Right: Stephen De Staebler, Blue Face with White Stripe, 1971. Estate of Stephen De Staebler. Photo: Philip Ringler. All artwork © Estate of Stephen De Staebler.

January 14, 2012 - April 22, 2012

For more than 50 years, Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011) created figurative sculptures primarily from clay—a medium derived from the primordial earth. Drawing inspiration from fundamental childhood experiences with nature, a transformative adolescent encounter with mortality, and adult studies in the histories of art and religion, he explored and extended a tradition of human representation that includes the religious monuments of ancient Egypt, the Renaissance humanism of Michelangelo’s finished and unfinished figures, and the modern existentialism expressed in the works of Alberto Giacometti. Matter + Spirit, installed in the American art galleries, includes 55 of De Staebler’s works.

Aspects of a New Kind of Realism: Group Exhibition with Squeak Carnwath

2012-01-07T10:06:00.000-08:00

Squeak Carnwath
Self
2000
Oil and alkyd on canvas
80 x 80 inches

On Saturday evening, Squeak will be in New Orleans where a group show with three of her paintings will open at Arthur Roger Gallery. If you happen to be anywhere near 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130; 504-522-1999; please visit Aspects of a New Kind of Realism, curated by Michael Klein. The opening is this Saturday, January 7, 2012, from 6:00 to 8:00pm. The show will remain on view until February 18, 2012.

For information about upcoming shows and other places to see the artwork of Squeak Carnwath, please visit her website at http://www.squeakcarnwath.com and look for her calendar.

Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport

2012-01-07T08:49:00.000-08:00

Stephanie Peek at SFMOMA Artists Gallery

2011-11-03T18:17:00.000-07:00

S T E P H A N I E P E E K
C E R T A I N R I C H E S

November 11–December 22, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 12, 1-5 p.m.
SFMOMA Artists Gallery
Building A, Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA 94123
415.441.4777
http://www.sfmoma.org/visit/artists_gallery

Hours: Tues. through Sat. 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

see more of Stephanie's work at her website:
http://stephaniepeek.com/

UC Berkeley Art Alumni Symposium IX

2011-08-31T10:16:00.000-07:00

HELP: Facing and Fielding Transitions

Saturday, October 15^th, 2011 - 9 am – 4 pm

160 Kroeber Hall

FREE and OPEN to the Public

Geared toward artists at all levels, this free symposium will explore ways of composing a career in a shifting landscape. Panelist of varied experience will address their histories and perceptions regarding exhibitions, gallery relationships, networks, critical written discussions, residencies, mentors, and legacy. Featured speakers include:

Participants are invited to enjoy lunch ($12 – RSVP appreciated) and a reception following the second session. For more information, to register, or to RSVP for lunch, please email: calartalumni@gmail.com

Carol Ladewig

2011-05-29T21:32:00.000-07:00

Open Studios – June 4 & 5 – 11am to 6pm 

3246 Ettie Street, #15 – Oakland, CA 94608 

Image: Simple Construction 1, Monoprint, 28 x 22 Inches, 2010  (Photo: Phil Cohen)  

Current Exhibitions   

Small Miracles 

San Pablo Art Gallery 

13831 San Pablo Ave – Maple Hall in San Pablo Civic Center 

Open Sat & Sun - Noon to 4pm - Through June 19   

Art Passages 

Contra Costa County Community Colleges Faculty 

CoCoCo Administration Bldg, Gallery 651 - 651 Pine Street, Martinez 

Open Monday thru Friday, 9am to 5pm   

CCA Alumni Exhibition Series 

Brava Theater 

2781 24th Street - The Mission, San Francisco 

Open during performances only   

Work can also be seen at KALA in the Smullen Print & Media Study Center - 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, contact Andrea Voinot -510.841.7000, x 206 or andrea@kala.org

2011-05-29T21:30:00.000-07:00

2011 Juried Photography Shows

2011-05-16T22:27:00.001-07:00

Louis DeLuco BA '74, has been selected for the a great number of juried photography exhibits this year:

Bystander, Working With Artists -FLASH Gallery, Lakewood, CO. April 29 - June 11, 2011.

Early Morning after Dark, MLPS Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN, Exhibition Dates: June 24 - August 13, 2011.

The Halpert Biennial '11, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone NC, July 1 - December 3, 2011.

Alumni Involvement in Spring 2011 Auctions

2011-04-13T21:31:00.000-07:00

Among the Cal alumni taking part in auctions this spring were Shirin Neshat and Mary Heilmann, who contributed to the 30th Anniversary celebration for BOMB in New York City.

The upcoming KALA Auction in Berkeley has in it art works contributed by Donna Brookman, Enrique Chagoya, Lewis deSoto, Stephen deStaebler, Nancy Genn, Sheile Ghidini, Tom Holland, Randy Hussong, Cynthia Ona Innis, Carol Ladewig, Kara Maria, Jim Melchert, Matt Mullins, Deborah Oropallo, and Inez Storer.

April 2011 Alumni News

2011-04-03T17:05:00.000-07:00

Robert Armstrong, Exhibiting mixed media show, “Meanwhile…and…Likewise” at the Barbara Anderson Gallery from April 9 to May 7 and has a show at the Garage Gallery for three weekends starting April 9.

Jo Whaley’s “Theater of Insects” will be at Santa Clara University from April 9 to June 12.

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The Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco is exhibiting shows by two former and beloved members of the faculty, i.e., Emeritus Professor of Art Robert Hartman and the late Joan Brown until April 30^th.

KQED Review and Kala Gallery Press Release for Sonya Rapoport: Pairings of Polarities

2011-03-27T02:56:00.000-07:00

KQED Review

Kala Press Release

Meetup at the Pyramid Brewery (April 5, 2011)

2011-03-24T18:45:00.000-07:00

Pyramid Brewery in Berkeley

Tuesday April 5, 5:30-7:30

[901 Gilman Street Berkeley, CA 94710 (510) 528-9880]

2011-02-23T23:51:00.000-08:00

Censorship in the Arts:

A Trend or Just a Passing Fad

Panel Discussion

Saturday, February 26, 2:30pm

at the Performance Art Institute

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

NADINE GORDIMER, 1990

Saturday, February 26, 2011, 2:30 p.m.

Performance Art Institute

575 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

A program of two sessions, two moderators and seven panelists.

The Performance Art Institute in partnership with the First Amendment Project is proud to present Censorship in the Arts: A Trend or Just a Passing Fad, a public forum. Please join our panelists in a discussion about the rise of censorship and the renewed threats to abolish funding to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

The urgency to engage the public in a debate about censorship started in earnest with the controversy surrounding the removal of the video, A Fire in My Belly from the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. The interest in freedom of speech and expression has spread and intensified beyond our shores in the wake of WikiLeaks, the house arrest and studio demolition of the Ai Wei Wei, and the spread of revolutionary fever sweeping the Middle East.

The forum sponsored by PAI and FAP is designed to delve into these concerns, inform the public about the recent censoring activities and address the threats that call for the termination of the NEA. Late January, 165 conservative members of Congress representing the Republican Study Committee called for termination of the NEA. When a similar battle was fought, the NEA's budget was cut by 39% and led to the end of awarding grants to individual artists.

The moderators will steer the debates in their respective sessions towards an exploration of issues that stem from the Smithsonian caving in to political pressure and discuss questions such as "What is the underlying objection to A Fire in my Belly? "Are we on the verge of seeing the comeback of culture wars in this country? Are museums appropriate forums for engaging in civic debates? Do curators and artists have an obligation to test the limits of fundamental civil liberties? What effects does self-censorship have on museum integrity? Is self-censorship ever justified? How resilient is the First Amendment? How did the First Amendment fare in the past? What encouragement do we draw from past landmark cases involving the First Amendment (Ulysses, Tropic of Cancer, Howl and more)? How real are the threats of eliminating the NEA, NEH, and PBS? What lessons can we draw from the Robert Mapplethorpe controversy and the uproar over NEA funding in 1989? And what about censorship in China? Why should we be concerned?

These are serious questions and disturbing trends that have a chilling effect throughout the art community in the Bay Area and beyond and; thus, require our engagement. This event is free and open to the public.

The slate of the two panels includes:

Ray Beldner, conceptual artist

Allan deSouza, artist and Associate Professor, Chair of New Genres at San Francisco Art Institute, who co-created an installation with Yong Song Min for the 2008 Guangzhou Triennale, which was subsequently censored by the museum with no explanation given.

Kenneth Foster, Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

David Greene, Executive Director of the First Amendment Project and professor of constitutional law at University of San Francisco

Art Hazelwood, artist, impresario and instigator, who integrates his art practice with curating and political activism

Justin Hoover, Curator and Gallery Director, SOMArts Cultural Center

Dr. Paul Karlstrom, former director of the American Archives of the Smithsonian on the West Coast and art historian

Jeff Kelley, Moderator of Session Two is the former curator of contemporary art of the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.

Laura Sydell, NPR correspondent who reports frequently on currents events in China

Jan Wurm, Moderator of Session One is a practicing artist and art educator

Participating and sponsoring organizations are:

Arc Gallery and Studios

California Exhibition Resources Alliance (CERA) is the sponsoring organization of the traveling show, Banned and Recovered: Artists Intervention

Di Rosa, Napa, CA

Intersection for the Arts

SOMArts Cultural Center

The First Amendment Project

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Contact Information for this event:

Hanna Regev (Tel: 415-566-7515)

Heather Smith (Tel: 415-501-0575

Symposium VIII: "Art Inside Out"

2010-10-14T18:29:00.000-07:00

This symposium is the 8^th in the annual series presented by the UC Berkeley Art Alumni Group: conversations with artists, gallerists, curators, and writers about surviving in today’s art world with improvisations, adaptations, and possibilities. This year’s symposium will be held in 102 Wurster on the UC Berkeley campus.
To pre-order lunch, use the paypal donate button and specify for lunch.

UC Berkeley Alumni Shows (June-October 2010)

2010-10-14T17:45:00.001-07:00

Thomas Akawie and Dean Smith

UC Berkeley graduates showing work in a group exhibition called Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space at the Wiegand Gallery in Belmont, CA. The show extends from September 23 to October 30.

Eve Aschheim

Exhibited at the Galleri Magnus Aklundh in Malmo, Sweden. April 23 - May 29. Eve teaches in the Creative and Performing Art Center at Princeton. 

Christopher Brown

Former UC Berkeley faculty member exhibiting solo show A Gardener’s Notebook at the John Berggruen Gallery from September 9 to October 30.

Wayne Campbell

Earned MFA at UC Berkeley in 1969. The artist has a show entitled Dreaming on Pillow Mountain from September 15 to October 29 at the Galeria Esther Montoriol in Barcelona. Campbell currently divides his time between New York and Barcelona.

Victor Cohen-Stuart

Earned MFA in 1972. The artist is showing new paintings at Slate Contemporary Art and Design Gallery in Oakland from September 3 to October 16.

Edythe Bresnahan

Exhibited work in Perspectives 2010, at the Stremmel Gallery in Reno, Nevada and at the Triangle Gallery in San Francisco

Donna Brookman

Had a solo exhibition at Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles opening on June 5, 2010 thru July 3, 2010

Carol Ladewig

Has work in On View: New Work from Kala, continuously features works on paper by artists affiliated with Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA and at Bocanova, in Jack London Square, Oakland, CA.

Charles Lindar

Received MFA in 1997. The artist released his book Good Cop/Bad Cop and held a show of photographs with the same name in July at the Ever Gold Gallery in San Francisco. His gallery, LINCART, participated in new San Francisco Art Fair, at Fort Mason, May 20 thru May 23.

Marvin Lipovsky

Former Faculty has work in Gifted Hands: The Fine Art of Craft at The Hearst Art Gallery, the Museum of Saint Mary’s College of California

Shirin Neshat

Directed a film, "Women Without Men". She co-wrote the screenplay with her husband. "This visually transfixing film, which originated as a video installation, has the feel of an exhibition of Ms. Neshat's work whose figures have stirred to life to play out a tragic feminist allegory."

Carla Paganelli

Alumna of 1996, Paganelli is showing works in a show titled Survey, held at the Edward Jones Office of Larry Kolka & Kevin Hills in Walnut Creek beginning October 21.

Brett Reichman

Former chair of and associate professor in the Painting department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Earned BFA at Carnegie Mellon University and MFA from UC Berkeley. Reichman had a solo show entitled Simulations at the Paule Anglim Gallery in San Francisco in September 2010.

Katherine Sherwood

Senior member of the Art Practice Department. Showed a new body of work, Healers from the Yelling Clinic, at the Paule Anglim Gallery from September 1 to September 25.

Mark Thompson

Was one of 14 sculptors and architects included in the First Site-based Art Exhibition Conceived for a National Park, which opened yesterday at the Presidio in SF. It will run until May 15, 2011.

Jo Whaley

Exhibited her work at the Photo-Eye booth at Art Chicago 2010.

Norton Wisdom

One of the twenty artists who meet for conversation once a week at the Café Van Kleef in Oakland. The City College Art Gallery in San Francisco will be showing their work from September 29 the October 28.

John Zurier

Has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.

Ceramics Annual of America

Held at Fort Mason from September 10-12 featured a monumental wall sculpture that Harold Paris (former professor) had made shortly after arriving at Cal in 1961. Other UC artists whose work was shown were Marilyn Levine (former professor, 1976-80), Jim Melchert (professor emeritus), Nancy Selvin (B.A. and M.A. in ceramics), Richard Shaw (current professor), Patrick Siler (M.F.A 1963), and Peter Voulkos (former professor, 1959-85 and founder of the art ceramics department).

Oral History Project video!

2010-10-01T21:22:00.000-07:00

Sonya Rapoport and Fred Martin interviewed for posterity! You could learn a lot from these amazing artists. check it out.

UC Berkeley Oral History Project video featuring Sonya Rapoport and Fred Martin, interviewed by Richard Candida Smith. Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library of UC Berkeley.
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