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

Book Recently Published about Sonya Rapoport's Art: Pairing of Polarities

From dresser-top objects to shoes, the female body to Egyptian mythology, Sonya Rapoport's pioneering artwork integrates the everyday, emotional, and mystical with science and technology. To Rapoport, a geological survey map and the topography of the human soul are equally creative, and the Internet is a web of relationships "spun by the mother".

Rapoport combines her formal training as a painter and her clear bent toward mathematical thinking with audience participation and Web-based media, always pushing boundaries and creating meaningful relationships across seemingly unrelated fields.Her work has been shown internationally, including as part of traveling exhibitions sponsored by the US  Information Service and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In honor of Rapoport's tremendous contributions and accomplishments, twelve noted scholars, scientists and art historians have come together to discuss her work. The result is a book that is at once a tribute and an illuminating exploration of the creative process itself. recent events include exhibitions at the Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), Mills college Art Museum(Oakland, CA). and Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA).

Meet Up!

August 7th (Tuesday) 5:00 p.m. 

@ PICANTE

1328 6th Street (cross Gilman) Berkeley, CA 94710

Right in the middle of summer and some of us are here in town.

So...

Let's gather for a drink, a meal, a conversation!

Bring a friend, a catalogue from your travels, or just the latest phone photo or tablet drawing!

Come and share projects, exhibitions, and insights...

...and bring a friend!

Lynne Rutter - Artist of the Month

Lynne Rutter is featured as Artist of the Month at Sinopia Pigments.  Sinopia is one of those rare and wonderful shops that specializes in pigments and  raw materials for artmaking, and is particularly popular with anachronistic painters like Lynne.

Her recent commission for an 11-foot wide mural is now installed at Gilberth's Rotisserie and Grill, a new restaurant in the Dogpatch  neighborhood of San Francisco, which has recently opened to positive reviews for its inventive latin-fusion food as well as the stylish industrial decor. The giant rooster is painted on copper leaf and watches over the dining area.

giant rooster painted in oil on copper leaf

This summer offers numerous wonderful opportunities to paint and gild in beautiful ways.  Have a fabulous summer and please stay in touch!

http://www.lynnerutter.com/

Meet Up!

June 13th (Wednesday) 5:00 p.m. 

@ PICANTE

1328 6th Street (cross Gilman) Berkeley, CA 94710

Come and Share...

New Projects, New Shows, New Follies, Summer Plans

...and bring a friend

Carol Ladewig: A Year in Color, 2011 (52 weeks + a day)

Slate Contemporary Gallery

Oakland Art Murmur Pavilion at

Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

(located at the intersection of Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street, San Francisco 94123) 
Additional details can be found here.    
May 16 thru May 20 

Wednesday, May 16, 7 - 9:30pm | VIP Opening Reception
Thursday, May 17, 11am - 7pm
Friday, May 18, 11am - 7pm
Saturday, May 19, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 20, 11am - 6pm

Year in Color, 2011 (52 weeks + A Day), Acrylic/Gouache on canvas panels (365), 7.2 Feet x 13.5 Feet, 2011

www.carolladewig.com

Spring Training - Evaluation and Checklist

The first Spring Training brought dozens of artists to Kroeber Hall to meet with art professionals for one-on-one consultations. 

Whether seeking advice about:

*a new body of work

*website

*presentation materials

*prepared grant or residency applications,

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

Participants were able to frame their sessions with a prepared format suggested by the College Art Association. This structure encouraged an organized presentation of materials, presentation, and questions.

Our supportive and generous Mentors for our charter event were:

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

Brian Gross, Brian Gross Gallery

DeWitt Cheng, Art Critic, Independent Curator, and Artist

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

We asked our Mentors for their general impressions and would pass on these observations:

Regardless of stage in their career, artists all seem to have one common question: 

*What should I do next to get my work shown?

It was suggested that one

*find a gallery showing work where there might be an affinity 

*ask for advice

*ask for one or two names of someone, gallerist, curator, who might be interested in your work

It was also pointed out that artists needed help with writing their 

*Artist's Statement 

Particularly for artists who had graduated earlier, the kind of statement in common usage today is a longer, more detailed, and more analytical statement than  may have been presented in the past.

*Cover Letter

*Organizing a presentation---> **Choosing the Strongest Work****

*What Content to have and how to Organize a Website

At a Meet Up following our Spring Training event, participants shared their experiences with others who did not have the opportunity for a consultation.

Here follows some of the insight taken from their sessions:

Our Mentors were all well appreciated by our participants who all want to have 

*more support for their art practice.

Our Participants were given suggestions of 

*consultants, gallerists, museum curators

*selection of work for a grant, prize submission

*advice on a website development

*coaching on how to present their work to a gallery

*recommended reading

And who were some of our participants?

Artists who graduated in

2012, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2008, 2009, 2005, 2004, 2004, 2000, 1993, 11987, 985, 1984, 1984, 1983, 1977, 1974, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1967, 1966...with degrees from UC Berkeley as well as those who went on for  degrees at the San Francisco Art Institute, Mills, San Jose State, Rhode Island School of Design, or received certificates at UC Berkeley Extension. 

One thing they all expressed:  this was a very valuable experience !

Hope we will be able to serve the art community again with Spring Training March 2013 ....

Best Wishes from

the  Art Alumni Group

Professional Advice on Getting What You Want, (One Spring Training Participant's Experience of the Event via Blog Post)

Stephanie Peek - San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2012

April 28 - May 28, 2012 

2020 Jackson Street,  San Francisco CA

Deeper II  80” x  78”   oil on canvas 2012

Stephanie Peek  

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. (last entry)
Thursday and Friday: 10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. (last entry)
Sunday and Memorial Day: 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. (last entry)
CLOSED MONDAY (except Memorial Day) 
Admission: $30, Seniors: $25 (60+) 

Michelle Bello Fine Art Consulting
Grand Staircase, Upper Staircase and Art Gallery 
 415 317 5975  info@michellebello.com

Deborah Oropallo, Hung Liu and Squeak Carnwath: Heroes

APRIL 27 - JUNE 9, 2012

Turner Carroll Gallery

A hero is a person of notable and distinguished courage or ability. Songs, films, and paintings have celebrated heroes and their deeds for millennia. Are the creator of the image of the hero complicit? Who is the person who paints a hero? It seems like our heroes are better than in the past, maybe a bit more real and less "super." So how do we paint new heroes? Paintings by three powerhouse Bay Area painters on the subject of important personages.

                                  Opening Reception Friday, April 27, 2012 from 5 to 7pm

[n.b. that this event takes place in Santa Fe]

Gyöngy Laky: Crossover

May 3 - June 2

Opening Reception: May 3, from 5:30 to 7:30

Writing on the Wall, 2011, Ash, paint, dowels, 90 x 90 x 3 in. Photo: Alan Robin/Aline Dargie

In her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Gyöngy Laky will present a series of work examining our complex relationship with nature. Sculptural pieces containing words, letters, and symbols are made of painted and stained branches and twigs combined with screws, nails, wires, and plastic figurines.

This show will feature a selection of work exploring on the transitional space between visual and textual aspects of Laky's work, such as Writing on the Wall, a grid of wooden objects seemingly shifting between two symbolic information codes. The organic essence of the natural wood contrasted with the spiky industrial elements draws upon the ambivalence of the natural and artificial, organic and industrial, and encapsulate co-existing feelings of violence and serenity, aggression and sanctuary.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944, Gyöngy Laky studied at UC Berkeley where she earned both her B.A. and M.A.degrees (B.A., 1970 and M.A., 1971). She has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally in France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Hungary, Lithuania, Colombia, the Philippines, China, and England.

A past recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, Laky's work is in museum collections in Europe and the United States, including the San Francisco MOMA, The Smithsonian's Renwick Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum, and the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. The Smithsonian Institution is currently assembling a collection of Laky's personal papers, photographs and documents for the Archives of American Art.

For more images and information please contact the gallery: info@cainschulte.com, 415.543.1550

MEET UP!

Do Join Us

May 2nd (Wednesday) 5:00 p.m.

@ PICANTE

1328 6th Street (cross Gilman) in Berkeley

Come and hear about the SPRING TRAINING.

Come share your experience if you participated--

Let us all know what was useful, how you prepared, what surprised you...!

...and bring a friend!

Sonya Rapoport: The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age

The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age updates the 1977 artwork, "Horizontal Cobalt," that I had created in collaboration with the Nuclear Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In that artwork I had translated the Laboratory's experimental output by drawing directly on the computer printouts that described the transmutation of chemical elements when they are bombarded with nuclear substances. Nearby at the associated Livermore Laboratory, the employees and their immediate families were celebrating the once a year Family Day, where visitors walked amidst the H-Bomb mock-ups. In the current artwork, The Nuclear Family in the Atomic Age, I digitally integrated a photograph of each member of my family into a relevant artwork created by Roy Lichtenstein. I then selected a word from the nuclear glossary that related to each collaged image. This ironic juxtaposition has a disturbing effect, purposefully conveying a critical attitude toward nuclear projects. Lichtenstein also created ironic work. His adherence to traditional structure along with his use of images selected from narratives of corporately endorsed domestic, romantic and consumer activities illuminates the irony available in my work. The nuclear era coincides with the era represented in Lichtenstein's work, making for a natural historical overlay. But just as Lichtenstein denaturalized scenes that were meant to represent an everyday life, my work denaturalizes what the corporate and scientific worlds worked to naturalize in nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The photographs of members of my own family incorporated into Lichtenstein artwork exist in a space of detachment and ironic distance, wherein the viewer is able to contemplate the harrowing juxtaposition of family and nuclear bombs.

Gyongy Laky: CROSSOVER

May 3 - June 9, 2012

Opening Reception:

Thursday, May 3rd from 5:30-7:30

Cain Schulte Contemporary Art

251 Post Street, Suite 210 (1/2 blk from Union Square)

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.