SLATE CONTEMPORARY: COLOR CHARTS

Carol Ladewig | Diane Rosenblum | Lucky Rapp

January 15 – February 28

"Year in Color: 2013" by Carol Ladewig

Featuring large scale works exploring the intersection of color, data, and information. 

Opening Reception: January 15th, 6–8pm

In conjunction with Art on 25th Street’s Third Thursdays

SLATE contemporary, 473 25th St., Oakland

Gallery hours: Friday and Saturday 12–5, week days by appointment

ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?

A photograph of Sonya Rapoport's interactive piece "ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" at the Fresno Art Museum, where participants chose a title and paste it onto its matched image. 

Photograph by David Keaton.

The exhibition runs through January 5, 2014.

Kimberly Rowe's NYC Gallery Debut

Kimberly Rowe's piece Laissez Vivre (la Nappe d'Autel) will be part of New York City's Viridian Artists 24th Annual International Exhibition, juried by Elizabeth Sussman, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The exhibition opens on Tuesday, July 2nd, and runs through Saturday, July 20th.

Reception on Thursday, July 18th, from 6 to 9 pm.  

For a full listing of Kimberly Rowe's current exhibitions, visit www.kimberlyrowe.net.

Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport

Stephanie Peek at SFMOMA Artists Gallery

Stephanie Peek "Double Dutch II"  45 x 45”  oil on canvas  ©2011  Frank Wing Photography

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

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:

Chris Brown

Squeak Carnwath

DeWitt Cheng

Taraneh Hemami

Jonn Herschend

Will Rogan

Margaret Tedesco

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

Symposium VIII: "Art Inside Out"

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)

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!

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. 
© Copyright 2010 UC Regents

Digital Mudra Extended

You really have to check out Sonya Rapoport's blog. Her latest this is just so right on.  This piece investigates the relationships between the expressive hand gestures employed by public and political personalities, and those of Indian Kathakali dancers.

Here is an example:










Keep in touch! what are you doing?

Alumni News 2009 Roundup!

Some news from our talented alumni near and far:

Barbara Rogers "Traces 7" oil on canvas 36" x 48"

Barbara Rogers' show "Garden Archeology" was at Gerbert Gallery in June (see photo above) Robin (Fales) Repp BA '70 showed at the Huntington Beach Art Center last April, and had a one person exhibition of infrared photography at JWA Community Focus Gallery. Dennis Potter wrote us from Hsinchu, Taiwan where he is teaching high school and no doubt steering his students toward art.
“Uncertain Riches”, the gorgeous solo exhibition by Stephanie Peek MFA ‘96 showed at Triangle Gallery through October. Pat Adams exhibited her work at Bigtown Gallery in Vermont, alongside colleagues and friends in the "Masterworks" show.
Lynne Rutter re-launched her website in July, after several years of not doing it. Bill Dane has just enlarged his website, with lots of new work posted via Flickr.
And check out the awesome new website of Peter C. Roell BA 1969, MA 1971.
Andie Thrams still doesn't have a website, but you really should sign up for her email list so you can learn about her workshops, such as the upcoming Surface Design & Accordion Books class at San Francisco Center for the Book. Sandy Eastoak also has a great newsletter "Fish Rap" and you can sign up for it on her website.
Barbara Morris had several showings in the Marin area in 2009, and more are coming up! Check her website for the latest!



Nemo Gould created more kinetic sculpture and just plain fun at the 2009 Maker Faire. See a preview of his new coffee table book at Blurb.com now available for purchase! (YouTube Video above is Nemo's "Aztech" sculpture. ) Elaine Duncan's book "Feathered Space" is now available at amazon.com

Kara Maria had a solo show in June called "Inviting the Storm" at b. sakata garo, Sacramento. Stephen Laub was chosen by Donald Sultan for a show at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton last Spring in a group show called "Mixed Greens: Artists Choose Artists on the East End."
Sonya Rapoport's recent artwork: "Manhood Manifesto" in the WikipediaArt Remix Project in the Padiglione Internet (Internet Pavilion) was included at the Venice Biennale through November 2009.
Michael McCollum has moved to Damariscotta, Maine, and recently produces a series of still-lifes called "I Vasi di Fiori." Pauletta Chanco is currently showing at the SFMoMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason. Visit Ciel Bergman at her new studio on Lena St in Santa Fe, NM.
Bill Teeple's gallery in Fairfield, Iowa has evolved into a non-profit called ICON:Iowa Contemprary Art. Mark Johnson curated a very cool exhibition in October at San Francisco State called "Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art"

Lorene Anderson: Belt(way) acrylic, mica, casein, ink on canvas, 34 x 40"

Lorene Anderson showed her recent work at the room for painting room for paper gallery in San Francisco in August.
We are still waiting for Emily Duffy to post a picture of her 1984 Nissan Sentra painted a la Mondrian on her website, but she's got a nice artblog here full of other interesting things. Patrick Siler recently completed a mural covering the entire side of a downtown building in Pullman, WA. Last May Dorothy Robinson opened a solo show at the Slate Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.


Facebook Members: look for Cal Art Alumni discussion group as well as UC Berkeley Art Practice Events group (sorry there is no permalink for these)

October's Symposium on photography was a rousing success with many alumni and students in attendance. Nancy Genn hosted a small gathering of alumni and emeritus faculty at her home on a beautiful clear evening in December.

and with that we wind up the year... and look forward to 2010, and hearing from you.

Have a show, event, or announcement to make, please contact us!

Jo Whaley at MoPA

Jo Whaley MFA '80 has a show on at Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
her solo exhibit is entitled The Theater of Insects and runs May 16 to September 27, 2009.
Those in Northern California can check out the show at the Sonoma County Museum
this fall- October 2009-January 2010

Her lovely book, The Theater of Insects, is now published by Chronicle Books with photographs by Jo Whaley, essays by Debra Klotchko and Linda Wiener.

Sonya Rapoport: "(in)AUTHENTIC : War, Woman, Jew"

Sonya Rapoport will be exhibiting her net artwork "(in)AUTHENTIC : War, Woman, Jew" at the University of Wisconsin's upcoming Conney Conference, "Performing Histories, Inscribing Jewishness" to be held April 22-24, 2009.

A brief synopsis of the project from an interview with Sonya Rapoport:

It was probably in 1999 that I was introduced to French feminist Luce Irigaray's critical writings. They inspired me to consider the female as a displaced person. My previous art projects had come from the perspective of masculine emulation of feminine attributes.

For my new adventure I copied excerpts of Irigaray's criticism of the Freudian castration dogma, a psychoanalytic theory that presumes the female to be an aborted male. I then contrived a dialogic exchange between Irigaray and Freud by transferring the Freudian quotations that Irigaray had used in her chapters and gave Freud back his own voice, free from Irigaray's sentences .The text had been extracted from Luce Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman. During the same time period I was reading Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew. I roguishly threw him into the contentious pool as the third author to participate in the discussion. Other than both books having French origin, they are very different.

About eight years later, I returned to the work to incorporate the material into a more complex net artwork. On the worktable before me lay a collage of printed text that was comprised of ten sets of a terse interchange among the three authors.

I had tried to keep the original sentences intact with minimal editing while at the same time I was selecting passages for their logical associations between woman and Jew. I had intuitively extracted a common denominator of displacement/outsider. A year or so later, after I had accrued an array of images that related to the concept of (in)AUTHENTIC, electronic artist Robert Edgar and I collaborated to create an interactive website that builds itself while you watch it. Thus it was fashioned into one of Edgar's Memory Theatres. Memory Theatres were first formulated in the sixteenth century by Giulio Camillo as a way to sense the structure of the cosmos through painting, text, and architecture. Robert Edgar composed the first implementation of a memory theatre on a computer in the mid-1980s on an Apple //. We selected and categorized images, texts and vocalizations, and loaded them into the engine of the memory theatre. The text is read in English by German and French natives.

Freud's view of the female as a masochistic castrated male triggered in me a recognition of the association of gender displacement and the "in-authentic woman." Jean-Paul Sartre's "in-authentic Jew" in his book Anti-Semite and Jew, claims that the in-authentic Jew's self-hatred stems from anti-Semitism and circularly, the in-authentic Jew is a rationale for anti-Semitism.

Robert Edgar and I introduced into the web piece an animated military tank for navigating through the contentious material landscape. The tank robot evolves as a physical and psychological intermediary. The aggressive intent of the piece and the phallic symbol of the tank play the gender counterpart to the female. It seemed appropriate to use the tanks' functions as thematic headings for each of the ten sets of topical discourse.

The concept of theatre on the website (in) AUTHENTIC takes on two meanings: in one sense it is a theatre of memory; in another sense it is a theatre of war. Within these coextensive theatres, the army tank moves between what is authentic and what is inauthentic as found in the aggressive environments of Sonya Rapoport's personal cosmology of gender, race, science, and mythology. The ten given fields of tank function, and their representations are presented under the headings Shift, Hidden, (Un)seen, Masochism, Impenetrability, Duality, Phallic, Gouge, Despoil, and Cover- words culled from excerpts of the disparate texts by Freud, Irigaray, and Sartre. These categories are further linked with associated images of outsiders, outcasts, and plights of women from Guinea, Iraq, India, Darfur, Bosnia, and the United States. Nigerian hairstyle codes, Jungian symbology, and mitochondrial mitigations further enhance visual and symbolic associations.

Expanding upon the theme's message the Nigerian hair-styles are imposed on the women's portraits. Because the mitochondrion is inherited exclusively through the female it represents the scientific aspect to the work. Alchemical imagery is interwoven conceptually and visually with mitochondrial processes.

(The exhibition will present a video of the unfolding net artwork).

2009 Juried Photography shows

Louis De Luco "Store Fronts"

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

Annual Bay Area Juried Exhibition Falkirk Cultural Center. Exhibition Dates: March 27 - May 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, March 27, 5:30 -7:30 pm . Address: 1408 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, CA.

36th National Juried Photography Exhibition Larson Gallery, Yakima Community College, Yakima, WA. April 3 - May 2, 2009.

Mind's Eye The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO. May 29 - June 20, 2009.
See the selected works here: Mind's Eye

The Halpert Biennial '09, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone NC,
May 1 - August 29, 2009.




as well as the recent:

Depth of Perception, 4th National Juried Photography Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, Jan 31 - Mar 1, 2009
Juror: Linda Connor, San Francisco Art Institute


Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland Juried Annual 2009
Selections by Ali Subotnick, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
February 17 - March 22
selected artists:
Stephen Albair, Peter Andrea, Alexis Babayan, Jenny E. Balisle, Robert
Blackburn, Louis DeLuco, Pamela Merory Dernham, Adam Friedman, Richard
Gilles, Julia Goodman, Ira Hawkins, John Hundt, Harley Jensen, Bill
Lo, Seth Lower, Mary Alison Lucas, Katie McCann, Jill McLennan, Emily
McLeod, Glenna Mills, Kate Moore, Mary Mortimer, Laura Sackett, Sanjit
Sethi, Amy Todd, Susan Tuttle, Holly Wach, Jan Watten, Susan Wolf.

"Translation" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Translation
by Molly Springfield
February 13 - March 21, 2009

Steven Wolf Fine Arts
49 Geary Street, # 411
San Francisco
(415) 263-3677

On February 13, Molly Springfield will debut her own "translation," entirely in the form of drawings, of the first chapter of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, pieced together from every English translation of the novel.

Opening: Friday, February 13 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Saturday, February 14, 2:00 to 3:30 pm


The project consists of 28 individual drawings of photocopies of sequential pages from the first chapter of the book. This patchwork results in the repetition and omission of text from page to page, resolving into an incomplete and not-fully-readable rendition of the original.

On February 14, join the artist, Joshua Landy (professor of French and co-director of the Literature and Philosophy Initiative at Stanford University) and Kriston Capps (critic and reporter for the Guardian, Art Papers, and Art in America, among other publications), for a panel discussion.

more at Moly Sringfield's website

Call for Entries: Disability Art Festival at the DeYoung

Alumna Vanessa Castro BA'03 send in this announcement which may be of interest. Please respond to the addresses below.

"Entries are being sought for the Disability Art Festival at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, which will be at the end of March 2009. We are sill looking for artists with disabilities to submit their work and get a chance to have their masterpieces displayed during the festival.

The last day to enter is Friday, January, 30, 2009. The artists can send their work in electronically to Trish Brown at tbrown@famsf.org . Entries that are sent electronically must be formatted size to 4’ x 6’, resolution 300 DPI, and send as JPG.

You may also send it by surface mail to
Trish Brown
De Young Museum
50 Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, Ca 94118.

All artists entering must include their name, year it was created, the medium, the dimensions, and a 45 word statement about themselves. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at nessnessva@aol.com.

Good luck! We look forward to seeing your work!"

Alumni News December 2008

Alumni in the news... in the bookstores... and in your Internets!
Now with more color pictures!

Karl Kasten's long-anticipated and profusely illustrated memoir, Foghorns and Peacocks, chronicles his college years, war years, professional years, activities in painting, printmaking, and education, and random observations, is due out any day now. Check back here for ordering instructions.
Luz Marina Ruiz had a busy fall, with two artists books at the Conrad Gallery in Tuscon, AZ and a show at NoneSuch Space Gallery in Oakland. Also this fall, Diane Damé Shepp BA '77 showed at the Oakland Museum as part of the Day of the Dead Exhibit.
Flatfile Galleries showed the work of Nancy Genn in Chicago at SOFA in November, with several of her cast bronze sculptures and mixed media drawings from her new Geneses series. Helen Ann Licht has a show at the Bade Museum, the Pacific School of Religion from Jan 7 through March. The title of the show will be the Bible and Bhuddha. Opening reception will be Saturday February 7, 2009. Check out what's going on at the Sebastopol Gallery and keep up with Sandy Eastoak by subscribing to her "Fish Rap" newsletter. In September, Christine Lando held a Contruction/Deconstruction show of her work at her gorgeous Dogpatch studio in San Francisco.
Prius-driving Barbara Morris had a show called Hybrids at the San Geronimo Valley Center in November. Jim Melchert MA '61 (also driving a Prius) had a solo show at Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco in June and another fabulous show in November at b. sakata garo entitled appropriatly enough Breaking and Entering. Yuriko Yamaguchi had a huge feature in the Washington Post with video that you can see on-line here. The Theater of Insects, Jo Whaley's beautiful new book, was published last month by Chronicle Books. Lynne Rutter BA '85 recently completed a major mural commission for the children's wing of the Burlingame Public Library.

"Blink" by Nemo Gould

Giant boxing Robots! Nemo Gould is mixing it up in the news, in the clubs, and on the Discovery Channel! Check out his Giant Boxing Robots on YouTube. Jeff King's Y2K Gallery includes some of Nemo's work, on now through January 23, 2009.
Casey Anderson continues to paint and exhibit in East Hampton, NY. Sandra Low BA '97 showed in two recent group exhibits: "we are all in this together" at McNish Art Gallery, Oxnard, CA in November, and "Reality Check" at Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA in December. Merl Ross BA '85 recently celebrated her 20+ year career with a retrospective show in December at her historic Hillside School Studio. Kara Maria is currently showing her work in Los Angeles at the Charlie James Gallery, through January 3.

David Jones hawking his wares at a recent show.

The Elephant in the Room, a group of politically provocative, mixed-media sculptures by Emily Duffy MFA '93 had a pre-election showing True World Gallery in Joshua Tree.
A recent show called Art of Democracy; War and Empire at the Meridan Gallery in San Francisco, featured the expertly crafted "Limited Time: Sale: $999.99 Lead Shirt" by David Jones MFA '73. David's work was also exhibited in the October show Change America at Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica.

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