10 Connect: A Group Show of Ten Artists - Featuring Lynn McGeever

April 13 - May 25, 2012

Gray Loft Gallery

2889 Ford St., 3rd Floor, Oakland, CA 94601

Opening reception 2nd Friday, April 13, 6 - 9 pm

Closing party/reception: May 25, 6 - 9 pm

Weekend dates: Saturdays from 2 - 6 pm and by appointment

This event is free and open to the public.

"Jan Relaxing" 30" x 22"

Lynn McGeever

GrayLoftGallery@gmail.com

GrayLoftGallery.blogspot.com

(510) 499-3445

Eddie Rhodes Gallery at Contra Costa College

Genn Toffey
Solo Show - TriCoastal Layers

March 24th – April 26th

Important: please note the Gallery is closed March 30th - April 8^th for their Spring break.

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 9:00 – 4:00 PM

Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 11th 4:30 – 7:30 PM

Eddie Rhodes Gallery at Contra Costa College Art Building

Building A, Parking lot 17

2600 Mission Bell Dr., San Pablo, CA 94806
(510) 235-7800

For directions and map please see below

Genn Toffey’s paintings reflect her fascination with the human spirit. Her Great Women of the Past series focuses on women who changed the world – often under hardship. Toffey developed her signature style of painting in thin transparent layers twenty years ago when she lived in New York. Genn Toffey recently moved to the East Bay area after living in South Korea for ten years. A Berkeley native, Toffey is a 3rd generation woman artist. Both her daughters are also professional artists.

For more information visit: http://GennToffey.com or email CGToffey@yahoo.com

DIRECTIONS TO EDDIE RHODES GALLERY

FROM THE SOUTH (OAKLAND, BERKELEY, RICHMOND)
1-80 east toward Sacramento. Take exit 19A "El Portal" and make a left onto El Portal Dr for 1.5 miles. Turn right onto Contra Costa College's Mission Bell Dr which becomes Campus Dr. and use parking lot 17.

FROM THE EAST (WALNUT CREEK, LAFAYETTE)
Hwy 24 to Orinda/Richmond exit. Right on Camino Pablo Rd. Continue about 10 miles to El Sobrante (Camino Pablo Rd will become San Pablo Dam Rd). Make a right onto El Portal Dr. and go 1.6 miles and turn right onto Contra Costa College's Mission Bell Dr which becomes Campus Dr. and use parking lot 17.

FROM THE WEST (OVER THE RICHMOND-SAN RAFAEL BRIDGE)
From the bridge, take the Castro St exit. Follow signs to the Richmond Parkway (under the freeway) take Richmond Parkway for about 4 miles to San Pablo Ave. Make a right on San Pablo Ave and in 1.5 miles turn left onto El Portal Dr. In a few hundred feet make a left onto Contra Costa College's Mission Bell Dr which becomes Campus Dr. and use parking lot 17.

Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

downloadable directions

The UC Art Alumni Group is Pleased to Present

*** SPRING TRAINING ***

Saturday, April 21 st

9 a.m. - 12 p.m. 1 p.m.- 4 p.m.

Kroeber Hall UC Berkeley

An Opportunity to Meet One-On-One with Arts Professionals for Advice on:

*a new body of work

*website

*presentation materials

*prepared grant or residency applications

In twenty-minute appointments, alumni will have the benefit of practical and professional advice in consultation chosen from a group of artists, gallerists, curators, and critics.

Whether one, three, five, or even ten years out in the world, an experienced eye, guiding voice, informed perspective is an invaluable resource to us all !

Our generous and supportive mentors :

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

Brian Gross, Brian Gross Gallery

DeWitt Cheng, Art Critic, Independent Curator, and Artist

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

To Register:

Registering is a two part process:

To secure a place, first send an email to calartalumni@gmail.com listing your 1st choice with your second and third back up choices of mentor. To complete the registration process, use PayPal on the top righthand side of this blog to pay the process fee of $20.

Richard Shaw: 40+ Years of Students' Work

CALL TO SHOW:

The University of California at Berkeley Department of Art Practice is organizing a show of 40+ years of Richard Shaws’ students’ work. All former students from The San Francisco Art Institute and UC Berkeley are invited to show work. We are hoping for small works (and egos).

The installation will begin Monday April 2^nd 2012. The Department of Art Practice will be throwing party for Richard along with the reception for the show April 5th 2012. The Department of Art Practice will unfortunately not be able to provide funding for shipping to or from the show.

Department of Art Practice
345 Kroeber Hall #3750
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-3750
510.642.2582
artdept@berkeley.edu

www.richardshawart.com

MEET UP!

Do Join Us

March 21st (Wednesday) 5:00 p.m.

@ PICANTE

1328 6th Street (cross Gilman) in Berkeley

Come and share Projects, Exhibitions, and Insights---

...and bring a friend !

Bridge 11: Lia Cook

Feb 4-May 13, 2012

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

Lecture May 12, 2012 "Navigating the Maze: Neuroscience and Fiber Connections” Houston Museum of Art

Review: Lia Cook “Bridge 11″ : Arts + Culture Magazine Houston

Group Exhibitions

"Sourcing the Museum", The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, March 23 - August 19, 2012

Lecture, Lia Cook. May 31, Textile Museum Washington DC.

"Sleight of Hand", Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, extended to November 25, 2012

"New Materiality" Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC November 18-March 18, 2012

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR April 13- August 5, 2012

"The French Connection" artspace, Richmond Va February 24-March, 2012 http://thefrenchconnection2012.blogspot.com/

"8th International Fiber Biennial" Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Essay on Exhibition "Shot Through-Textile and Photography" by Glem Adamsen. Retrospective Catalog 2011 Hordaland Art Centre

Book Cover: "Point of Touch, Bathsheba"

Sensation and Perception, Jeremy Wolfe Ed.

Nancy Genn: The Shape of Water

February 26 - March 11, 2012

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College UCSC

This exhibition is being held in conjunction with a reenactment of the 1966 Cowell College Fountain Dedication Ceremony. Complete with a performance by the original Cowell alumni returning to perform as they did at the original celebration. A contingent of Osher Lifelong Learning members; emeritii faculty; current faculty, students and staff; and with the current Cowell a capella choir also performing, should make this a fun event.

Nancy Genn’s style is deeply personal, finding inspiration and themes between geometric abstraction, landscape and architectural motifs with great attention to light and to the calligraphic images that have constantly influenced Genn’s works throughout her career. While growing up she was strongly influenced by her mother’s lobbying efforts on behalf of nature and trees, and many of Genn’s works take their semblance from nature as does the Cowell fountain she designed in 1966 and those pieces in the exhibit at the Smith Gallery.

The exhibition features seven large scroll paintings, mixed media works on paper, and six bronze sculptures.

Peter Voulkos Event Coverage

These photos were taken of former students, colleagues and admirers of the highly influential and world-renowned sculptor and Cal professor, Peter Voulkos, at a party and screening of the energetic documentary film by Susan Fanshel called "Voulkos and Company." For more info on Peter Voulkos, here is a good link:

IN MEMORIAM

Peter Voulkos

(click images below to enlarge)

Photos Courtesy of Susan Felter

Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport

JAN 18–MAR 11, 2012

Mills College Art Museum

The art of Sonya Rapoport has long operated as a bridge between the public sphere of intellectual curiosity and scholarship, and the domestic one of spiritual inquiry and nurturing. Spaces of Life presents a group of Rapoport’s interactive works, created between 1980-2010, that function in the intersection between questioning and inviting.

The installation will be structured so as to infuse the spaces of the museum with the energy of the artist’s Berkeley home and studio. A mixture of documentation of original interactive installations, domestic objects that provide a launching pad for interactions, and new interpretations of the works’ systems of interaction will be developed in conjunction with Mills students and departments. Visitors to the gallery will engage in ongoing, distributed performance actions that draw on imagery and ideas from a range of disciplines including biochemistry, anthropology, psychology, and feminist studies.

Central to this installation of Rapoport’s work at Mills is Objects on My Dresser (1979-1983), an 11 phase work intended as a kind of “conceptual visit” to the artist’s home and studio. The titular dresser, which has occupied Rapoport’s foyer for decades, will be installed along with the original objects that sparked her investigation of the connections between symbols, words and ideas. Documentation of “netweb plots” created by Rapoport and by visitors to installations of previous project phases will be included along with a new “netweb plot” created with Mills students. The “Mills plot” will include images, correlative images and words determined by Mills students in advance of the exhibition, and will be on display for visitors to the exhibition to manipulate and customize according to their own, personal correlations.

Curated by Terri Cohn and Anuradha Vikram.

This exhibition is supported by the Agnes Cowles Bourne Fund for Special Exhibition and the Helzel Family Foundation.

Crave: The Art of Dependency

Step Gallery

Arizona State University, Tempe Campus

opening reception :

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Bachelors of Fine Arts candidate, Jeanné (Juno) Schaser, presents Crave: The Art of Dependency. Schaser is curating a national multimedia group exhibition comprised of works dealing with the subject matter of dependency and addiction that speak to the human nature for dependency as well as the negative effects addiction can have on individuals.

Sonya Rapoport Pre-Release Book Launch

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

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.