Carol Ladewig

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 Juried Photography Shows

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

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

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

KQED Review

Kala Press Release

Meetup at the Pyramid Brewery (April 5, 2011)

Pyramid Brewery in Berkeley

Tuesday April 5, 5:30-7:30

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

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"

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.
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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:










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