"Summer 2013" June 1 – August 11, 2013 Please join us on June 1 from 6:00 to 9:00 PM during the reception of this new exhibition that continues the Hammerfriar tradition of presenting the rich diversity of contemporary art.   Hammerfriar Gallery is located at 132 Mill Street, Suite 101, in Healdsburg. Gallery hours are 10-6 Tuesday - Friday, Saturday 10 - 5 and NOW OPEN Sunday 12-4. Closed on Mondays. For more information, call (707) 473-9600, or visit the Gallery website at http://www.hammerfriar.com Sat, June 1 , 6-9 PM,  the Gallery will open a new show featuring the following 4 artists:     Harley: Oil Paintings Bill Shelley: Figurative Works Brian Wilson: Ceramic Sculpture  Hugh Livingston: (Installation With a Grand Finale at Warnecke Ranch) Points of View: Russian River a gallery installation of video, audio and photographs organized in conjunction with the compositional and ecological ideas behind the River Opera, performed at the Warnecke Ranch and Vineyards on August 10*.

Marin Open Studios 5/11 - 5/12/ Sat-Sunday at:

Novato Arts Center

781 Hamilton Parkway, Classroom

Novato, CA

delucophotoart.com

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Sonya Rapoport - "ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" at Fresno Art Museum, 5/17/13 - 1/5/14

Fiction and Fondue

Friday, May 10

5-7 pm

Artists' talk and readings 6 pm

Join Liberty Arts for an evening with

Siskiyou Writers Group reading poetry & prose inspired by

PERSONAL LANDSCAPES:

paintings by

Robert Poplack and Jan Wurm

43rd Annual UC Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition

May 17, 2013 - June 16, 2013
BAM/PFA

Be among the first to encounter the work of six promising artists as they embark on their careers. Each year, BAM/PFA teams with the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice to present the works of graduating M.F.A. students. 

This year's graduates are: 

Dru Anderson 
Dusadee Pang Huntrakul 
Erin Colleen Johnson 
Sahar Khoury 
Jess Rowland 
Sean Talley

The annual M.F.A. exhibition at BAM/PFA is made possible by the Barbara Berelson Wiltsek Endowment.

Robert Poplack and Jan Wurm: Personal Landscapes

April 12- May 10 

       An exhibition of paintings and drawings by

Robert Poplack  and Jan Wurm  

exploring figurative and abstract experiences of nature. 

Opening Reception: April 12th 5-7 p.m. 

Liberty Arts (108 West Minor St. Yreka, CA 96097) 

Gallery Hours:   Wednesday - Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

 Nocturne - Camping  oil on canvas 48"x 108"

Meet Up!

Come Join Us 

Wednesday, April 3rd  5:00 p.m. 

PICANTE

6th & Gilman in Berkeley

On the agenda: review and discuss this year's Spring Training event!

SPRING TRAINING

Sunday, March 17th, 10a - 4p

Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley

An unique opportunity open to all artists to meet one-on-one with arts professionals for advice on......a new body of work / website / presentation materials / prepared grant or residency applications.

Register today to reserve your 20-minute spot!

This year’s generous and supportive mentors include:

Lucinda Barnes | Chief Curator, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California

Karin Breuer | Curator in Charge, Achenbach Graphic Arts Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Amanda Eicher | Visiting Lecturer, University of California Berkeley Department of Art Practice /  Artist

Jack Fischer | Jack Fischer Gallery

Archana Horsting | Executive Director + Co-Founder, Kala Art Institute / Artist

Indira Morre | Co-owner, Martina Johnston Gallery / Visiting Lecturer, University of California Berkeley Department of Art Practice / Artist

Amy Owen | Curator, di Rosa Preserve

Griff Williams | Art Publisher + Gallerist, Gallery 16

REGISTRATION is a two part process:

1. To secure a place, send an email listing your first choice of mentor, with your second and third back-up choices, to calartalumni@gmail.com. 

2. After receiving an email with your appointment time and mentor, complete the registration process by paying the process fee of $25 using the PayPal button on the top right hand side of the Cal Art Alumni blog at calartalumni.org.

Sonya Rapoport - DUALITY

Sonya Rapoport is exhibiting DUALITY, a digital collage, at Gallery Sensenci in Shizuoka, Japan, from March 2 through March 24, 2013.

The theme of the photo exhibition is 'A-mu', a Japanese verb. The word 'A-mu' has several meanings:

   (1) to knit (stockings); to net (a hammock); to plait (straw); to braid

(the hair); to weave (a mat); to twist

   (2) to weave (facts into a narrative); to compile (a history); to

compose (an essay); to devise (a method); to contrive (a plan); to work out (a system);

to frame (rules, etc.)

DUALITY depicts the double tower-like coiled hair style of a Nigerian woman. This hair style crowns each of two portraits of U.S. journalist Jill Carroll.  In Jill Carroll's  image under the left woven hair tower, Carroll is crying for release from an Iraqui prison. In Jill Carroll's image under the right hair woven tower, she is talking about her pleasant jail experience after her release from prison, but still under her captors control.

DUALITY is  from Rapoport's inter-media art work (in)AUTHENTIC.

MEET UP!

***MEET UP ***

Come Join Us 

Wednesday, March 6th  5:00 p.m. 

PICANTE

6th & Gilman in Berkeley

Come get Early Tips for 

 *** SPRING TRAINING *** 

and Advice on how to take Advantage of this Great Resource 

which is Available to All Artists, Alumni of All Institutions in our Community!!

    ...and bring a friend

You are cordially invited to the opening reception for...
YEAR IN COLOR / LUNAR CYCLES: new work by Carol Ladewig 
SLATE Contemporary, 473 25th Street, Oakland
Thursday, February 28th, 6-8p
...also open for the Art Murmur on Friday, March 1st, 6-9p
An exhibit of new work that explores the abstract concept of time through the lens of a daily art practice.  Featuring two large-scale abstract painting installations, smaller canvases, prints on paper, and new works on metal.  The accompanying catalog Painting Time will also be available.  With essays by art critic DeWitt Cheng and SLATE gallery director Danielle Fox, the text chronicles the conceptual grounding, methods, and personal history that Ladewig invests in this body of work.

Sonya Rapoport - "ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" Data Gathering Event at Martina } { Johnston

Martina }{ Johnston

presents

SONYA RAPOPORT

"ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" Data Gathering Event 

One Day Only!

Sunday, February 10th, 2013 from 1 to 4 pm

Martina }{ Johnston would like to invite you to a one-day special Data Gathering Event for artist Sonya Rapoport's project "ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" on Sunday, February 10th, 2013 from 1 to 4 pm. 

Sonya Rapoport will be presenting a new interactive project and invites viewers to come and participate in a simple matching experiment under controlled conditions. The results of this experiment will become part of "ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" and will be exhibited at the Fresno Art Museum in May of this year.  

"ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?" is structured by Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley's "Market Design and Matching Theory", which won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics. This theory explores how people, institutions, and companies find and select each other to create stable matches. The work takes the form of a series of collages; each consists of a black and white photograph of a "pattern painting" that Rapoport created and exhibited in the late 60's, overlaid on a contemporary newspaper advertisement, and juxtaposed with a short text appropriated from the media.

Based in the Bay Area, Sonya Rapoport has exhibited her conceptual and new media artwork internationally. She recently had retrospective exhibitions at the Kala Institute in Berkeley and Mills College Art Museum. She received her MFA from UC Berkeley in 1949. Many of her web-based digital pieces can be experienced on her website, and she maintains an active blog about her work. 

We hope to see you on Sunday, February 10th!

Thank you!
Indira Martina Morre and Farley Johnston Gwazda

Sonya Rapoport, "Impossible Conversations," Photograph and Newsprint Collage, 2013.

*Martina }{ Johnston is an artist-run house gallery located at:
1201 6th St., 2nd Floor, 
Berkeley, CA 94701
510.221.8315
martinajohnston@gmail.com
www.martinajohnston.org

Fan Martina }{ Johnston on Facebook

To our disabled viewers - unfortunately our house gallery is located on the second floor, up a flight of stairs. We would be happy to discuss ways that we could make it possible for you to experience the show!

Support for Martina }{ Johnston is provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program.

Dear Fellow Alumni

Have work in two ongoing exhibitions:
Wonder at the Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94709
Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday, Noon - 5pm
and
Kala's Artist Annual, 2990 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702
Hours: Tuesday-Friday, Noon - 5pm and Saturday,  Noon - 4:30pm
and
Opening on January 24 at Slate Contemporary, Oakland (see below)

Sonya Rapoport is exhibiting her web piece, "MAKE ME A JEWISH MAN: An Alternative Masculinity,"  in Techfest 2013 IIT Bombay, India - Asia's Largest Science and Technology Festival by Indian Institute of Technology.

"MAKE ME A JEWISH MAN: An Alternative Masculinity," is an interactive web-based artwork. It describes the power of blood and the significance of oil in the cultivation of the ideal Jewish man. This process is paralleled with the morphology of its horticultural hermaphroditic counterpart, the olive tree, from which oil, the light of Jewish Law, is processed. Olive Oyl, partner to macho Popeye, is the spokesperson pop-up who interrupts the edicts to take a feminist stance. (This may be viewed at: http://users.lmi.net/sonyarap/mmajewishman/index.html)

Techfest, a non-profit student organization, started off in 1998 with the motto "Technology is fun." This is a great and unique forum of confluence for Industry and Academia where exchange of knowledge takes place by showcasing of cutting edge technology and breakthroughs in science in the form of exhibits. The fifteenth Edition of Techfest is scheduled to be held from 3rd Jan to 5th January 2013. Techfest brings in a participation of about 92,000.

Dear Friends,

I want to let you know about two very interesting holiday shows in the East Bay where my paintings will be shown along with the work of other artists.  

The Cecile Moochnek Gallery which represents my work will hold the annual Gift of Art ShowNovember 14 – January 15, with a reception for the gallery artists Friday November 16, 6 – 8 pm.

Kala Institute will hold its Artists’ Annual Exhibition/Fresh Works December 13 – February 2, with the opening reception on Thursday December 13, 6 – 8 pm.

I will be out of town and will miss the November opening at the Moochnek Gallery but will attend the Kala opening in December and hope to see you there.

All Best wishes for the season,
Ann Holsberry

PK Frizzell: Evidence of Things Unseen

Exhibition dates: October 25 - December 1, 2012

Artists' Reception: Saturday, November 10th from 5-7pm

Oakland Art Murmur First Friday: November 2nd from 6-9pm

PK Frizzell "Evidence of Things Unseen" (2012), installation: mixed media, lights, and lenses, 6 ft x 8 ft x 3 ft. Photo by the artist.

In a new installation, PK Frizzell uses text, plant materials, and discarded broken objects to explore the nature of mind and memory. The installation is viewed through a grid of lenses, creating a vast and dizzying world. In a second body of work, Frizzell shows us a place where the spiritual intersects with the material, by overlaying viscerally physical surfaces made of studio detritus with shadow images imbedded in glass. 

PK Frizzell graduated from the art program at UC Berkeley in the late sixties, having studied with Pete Voulkos, Jim Melchert and Ron Nagle. Later, she established a ceramics studio and showed work throughout the US and parts of Asia, and was included in History of American Ceramics by foremost ceramic art historian Elaine Levin. She has participated extensively in juried and invitational American Craft Council shows and competitions. Recently Frizzell has explored and developed new media and methods of producing two and three dimensional work using paper, paint, x-rays, photographs, lenses and digital manipulation of visual information. PK Frizzell has shown with Mercury 20 Gallery since 2010.

The UC Art Alumni Group Symposium X - Saturday, October 13, 2012, 9 am-4 pm

Art Symposium Oct 13, 2012

Stephanie Johnson Honored For Her Work on the Civic Arts Commission

Cal State Monterey Bay News - VPA professor gets her day in Berkeley

Sonya Rapoport: The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age, Extended - Performance

Friday, October 19th 2012: The Artist is Elsewhere

Doors open at 7:30pm

                                              Performances begin promptly at 8:00pm

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door

Sonya Rapoport will present the next phase of her project, The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age, Extended, as an Audience Participation Performance, at the Zero1 Biennial. This performance will take place at the Performance Art Institute in San Francisco. The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age was recently presented at the CEMEX Auditorium, Stanford University with Richard Rhodes' play, Reykjavik. The play is based on the conversation between Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev about human rights and limiting nuclear arms.. Rapoport's presentation of the extended Nuclear Family portrays the trials and errors in reawakening the Golem for protection against Atomic disaster.

Curated by Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert, The Artist is Elsewhere, an evocative nod to Marina Abramovic's famous retrospective,"The Artist is Present", is a juxtaposition of radically different ways of existing in time and space. Artists participating in the event include Linda Ford, Justin Charles Hoover, Scott Kildall, Sonya Rapoport, Roland Roos, Stoll and Wachall, Lee Walton, Gordon Winiemko, and Michael Zheng.

MEET UP !

Come Join Us 

Wednesday, October 17   5:00 p.m. 

PICANTE

6th & Gilman in Berkeley

Join in the discussion of Symposium X,

&

Bring Tales of Travel. Evidence of Exhibitions, News of the Noteworthy

Please Join Us for a Day of Shared Experiences and Approaches....

ART NEGOTIATIONS
choices compromises commitments

UC Berkeley Art Alumni Symposium X
Saturday, October 13th 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Kroeber Hall

This year’s symposium is a presentation of images and points of view, which will deepen
an understanding of the concerns and ingredients that compose an artist’s career.
This event is Free and Open to the Public so please join our distinguished
Panelists,Discussants, and Art Community Attendees

Panelists:
Leo Bersamina, artist and instructor, Diablo Valley College
Enrique Chagoya, artist and Professor of Art, Stanford University
Mildred Howard, artist, educator and Artist/Consultant at San Francisco
Exploratorium
Chris Johnson, artist, Professor of Photography, California College of the Arts,
and originated the Question Bridge concept
Indira Martina Morre, artist, co-director of Martina[ ]Johnston Gallery, Visiting Lecturer,
Univeristy ofCalifornia, Berkeley
Richard Whittaker, independent curator, art writer, and publisher of Works and Conversations
Panel Moderator: Jan Wurm, artist and educator

The symposium will begin at 9 a.m. with registration, coffee, and informal mini-interviews with attendees. The morning panel introduction will begin at 10:00 am. The morning program ends at noon and lunch will be provided.

The symposium moderator is Jan Wurm, she will focus on the choices, compromises and commitment that are inherent in an artist's life. As an introduction to the panel discussion, Jan will introduce each individual panelist, who will then give a brief visual presentation(approx 6 - 8 minutes). After the entire panel’s visual presentations, the panel discussion will open with reflections, exchange, and observations.

Lunch will be a buffet catered by Ann's Catering in the Worth Ryder Gallery and attendees will have an opportunity to gather in small groups. At the close of lunch, written questions from attendees will be accepted as a starting point in the afternoon session.

You can rsvp for lunch and pay day of, or prepay using paypal on your right. Lunch is $15.00

The afternoon panel will begin at 1:15pm and ends at 3:30pm. The afternoon session will follow an informal and free-flowing format. Artist educators will be joining the morning panelists as discussants as the table is removed and the discussion merges into a dialogue with the symposium attendees. There will be reception in the Worth RyderGallery at the end of the symposium.

In conclusion, participants will be asked to give a brief exit interview so that experiences and thoughts may be posted and shared via the Art Alumni Blog.

Symposium X October 13, 2012

ART SALE

Two days only: Sat Oct 13 & Nov 10

20–50% off amazing landscapes, figure painting,

abstract paintings, photographs, and works on

paper by more than a dozen SLATE gallery artists

Lisa Fernald Baker • Hagit Cohen • Carol Inez

Charney • Joanne Fox • Renée Johnson • Andrzej

Michael Karwacki • Carol Ladewig • Carol

Lefkowitz • Christopher Nickel • Jane Norling •

Caroline Seckinger • Anne Subercaseaux • Hiroko

To • Elizabeth Williams

Support the arts!

SLATE’s artists have stepped up to offer over

100 works, on sale to benefit the Oakland School

for Arts Visual Arts and Vocal Music Programs.

Pre-°©‐shop

highlightsof the sale

at

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Thu–Fri: 12–5pm,  Sat: 12–6pm

Keeping Time

October 4 – November 22, 2012

Members Preview/Curator's Walk-Through:
Thursday, October 4, 5-6pm

Artists' Reception: Thursday, October 4, 6-8pm

Gallery Conversations with Artists and Curator: Saturday, October 20, 2pm

Curated by Lauren Davies

Participating Artists:
Kirkman Amyx, Terry Berlier, Jenny Bloomfield, Jennifer Brandon, Chandra Cerrito, Sohyung Choi, Ryan Jennings Clark, Adele Crawford, Miriam Dym, Beth Fein, Nicole Herbert, Sonja Hinrichsen, Leslie Hirst, Allison Leigh Holt, Robin Kandel, Sarah Klein & David Kwan, Michael Koehle, Carol Ladewig, Eric Larson, Helen Lee, Richard Nagler, Gary Nakamoto, Leah Rosenberg, Christina Seely, Carol Selter, Lili Smith and Ansley West

MEET UP!

Come Join Us 

Tuesday, September 18h   5:00 p.m. 

PICANTE

6th & Gilman in Berkeley

Bring Tales of Travel, Evidence of Exhibitions, News of the Noteworthy

September Brings New Projects and Undertakings--- Come Share the Excitement !!

...and find out why 

***We are all a-buzz***

with plans for next month's

* SYMPOSIUM X *

Art Negotiations

    choices compromises commitments

the UC Art Alumni Annual Symposium

Come Discover How You Can Participate !!

...and bring a friend

New Exhibitions at Worth Ryder Art Gallery - Opening Wednesday

Mariam Ghani: Tracery

                       September 12-October 6, 2012 | Reception Wednesday, September 12, 4-7 pm

Artist talk Tuesday, October 2, 5-7 PM, Worth Ryder Art Gallery. Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies.

Mariam Ghani is a Brooklyn-based artist whose research-based practice operates at the intersections between place, memory, history, language, loss, and reconstruction. She will be exhibiting two bodies of work which use art to question history and our constructions of the past. For The Trespassers (2010-11), Ghani hired Afghan-Americans who had previously worked as translators for the US military in Afghanistan, translating documents related to US military prisons in Afghanistan. The idea behind these encounters was to test whether these individuals would be able to maintain the neutrality of a ‘simultaneous translator’ when confronted with the material of their own histories and to see how their work registered in and reacted to gaps in the records. "The fidelity of translation is always a slippery slope. In situations where words have weight and consequences, is the translator responsible to render the spirit or the letter of the original? Does the act of translation, like the presence of an observer or a recording device, preclude or occlude, transform or make impossible the act of bearing witness?" Fugitive Refrains (2006-07) was conceived and produced collaboratively with Butoh-trained dancer/choreographer Erin Ellen Kelly during a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. It was developed for, performed, and shot on HDV in six specific sites in the Solitude Rotwildpark forest and in the historic site of Schloss Solitude in summer 2006. The title of the video is derived from a line in a Wordsworth poem written a few decades after the construction of Schloss Solitude: "That nature yet remembers/what was so fugitive."

New Work by Ryan and Trevor Oakes

September 12-October 6, 2012 | Reception Wednesday, September 12, 4-7 pm

Co-presented with the Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley School of Optometry and the Zero1 Biennial

Artist talk Monday, September 17, 7:30 PM, Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley. 
Co-presented with the Berkeley Center for New Media Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium.

Colorado-born visual artists and twin brothers Ryan and Trevor Oakes have been engaged in conversation since they were children. They've had the chance to verbalize their respective experience of reality to each other since toddler-hood. This has lead to a body of jointly built art pieces that address human vision, light, perception, and the experience of space and depth in the particular way they've come to understand it. The Oakes' will be exhibiting new drawings that introduce color into their technical lexicon and sculptures which articulate their innovative understanding of human vision.

Upcoming Events:

Lecture: Vishal Jugdeo
Monday, October 8, 7:30 PM | 102 Wurster Hall

Lecture: Marisa Jahn
Monday, October 15, 7:30 PM | 102 Wurster Hall

Lecture: Gabi Ngcobo
Monday, October 22, 7:30 PM | 102 Wurster Hall

Worth Ryder Art Gallery | 116 Kroeber Hall

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 12-5 PM



510-642-2582 
 artdept@berkeley.edu
 http://art.berkeley.edu 

Symposium X - Saturday, October 13

Sonya Rapoport - MERCURY

Sonya Rapoport is showing her artwork, MERCURY, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana. This work, done in collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory was completed in 1980. Since that time, it has been dormant in the IMA collection. Early hand colored blueprint sketches of MERCURY had been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists' Soap Box Derby in 1978.  Margy Boyd had purchased this edition as a gift to the San Francisco Museum. Assistant curator Amanda York of the Indianapolis Museum discovered the original five consecutive computer form panels. They had been exhibited in the exhibition PAINTING AND SCULPTURE NOW and, subsequently purchased. The work is comprised of drawings in color pencil that Rapoport had executed directly onto the printout surface of the research of nuclear chemistry. On this surface she interpreted bombardment schemes, transferred copy images, placed rubber stamp impressions, and other related visual imagery.

MERCURY will be on view at the Indianapolis Museum for six months.

The five panels of Mercury installed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Detail of Mercury