SYMPOSIUM XII - UC Art Alumni

MEET UP !

Do Join Us 

SEPTEMBER 16th  5:00 p.m. 

@ PICANTE 

6th & Gilman in Berkeley

As Summer comes to an end, come join us and share 

Tales of Travel

Successes of the Studio

and all manner of Planned Projects

We Will Then Gather 'Round the Table and Hear All About the Cal Art Alumni Annual SYMPOSIUM

SYMPOSIUM XII

Contemporary Art: Creating the Canon

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25^th

Find Out Who will be Participating and 

How You can be Involved !

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th  5:00 p.m.

PICANTE

1328 6th Street ( cross Gilman ), Berkeley

Come and share Your Ideas and Solutions--- New Projects New Shows New Follies --

...and bring a friend !

Scores for a Room: David Haxton and Jim Melchert Guest Curated by Tanya Zimbardo Wednesday, September 17th through Friday, October 17th, 2014 Opening Reception: 4 – 7 pm, Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 Worth Ryder Gallery, 116 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 12 – 5pm Free and Open to the Public From September 17 through October 17, 2014, the Worth Ryder Art Gallery at the University of California at Berkeley will present Scores for a Room: David Haxton and Jim Melchert. Guest curated by Tanya Zimbardo, Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition brings together for the first time historic works by these two artists, exploring their different approaches to the description of space through structured activity performed for the camera. Both renowned artists turned to the projected image in the seventies, highlighting the shifting awareness of spatial perception in the interaction between illusionistic filmed space and a physical location.

Louis DeLuco exhibiting in:

Works on Paper 

National Juried Exhibition

Santa Cruz Art League

526 Broadway
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 426-5787

• Exhibition: August 15 through September 14
• Reception: Saturday, August 23, 2014 3-5pm

Jan Wurm participating in:

FourSquared August 23rd - September 20th 

image: Jan Wurm, Keeping Score - Big Fish, 10" x 10", pigment stick on panel, 2014 "FourSquared" at arc gallery OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, August 23rd, 7-10 PM ARTIST TALK & BRUNCH CLOSING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 20th, 11AM-3PM "FourSquared V" is a unique exploration of the works of sixteen Bay Area artists. Each of the artists has produced sixteen small works, presented in sixteen clusters giving the audience the experience of sixteen micro solo exhibitions. Arc Gallery & Studios 1246 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 phone:  415.298.7969

Diana Krevsky exhibiting in:

Altered Landscapes

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 19, 2014, 7:00-9:00 PM

Family Art Day: Sunday, August 10, 2014, 1:00-3:00 PM    

       

Artists/Environmentalists Panel Discussion: Saturday, August 23, 1:00-3:00 PM  

Juror: Phil Linhares, Chief Curator of the Oakland Museum of California, 1990-2011

Altered Landscapes showcases artists' responses to our changing environment, revealing the undefined lines between nature and industry and the gaps and secret places between natural and mediated spaces.Altered Landscapes ultimately celebrates the natural resilience inherent in our world, which is there to be nourished and encouraged.

Location:  Arts Benicia

991 Tyler Street, suite #114, Benicia, CA  94510

Five Photographs by Louis DeLuco included in: 

UP ALL NIGHT

July 9 - August 16, 2014
SF CAMERAWORK'S  MEMBERS' EXHIBITION

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 10, 6 - 8 PM

1011 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103-1605

Bunny Suit - Louis DeLuco

This summer SF Camerawork will host a juried show with the theme: Up All Night.  All artists who submitted work will be included in an outdoor projection series running from sunset to sunrise, July 9 - August 16, 2014. 

A select group of works will be chosen by our jurors for exhibition in the SF Camerawork gallery. Jurors this year include: Hesse McGraw, Vice President for Exhibitions and Public Programs. San Francisco Art Institute; Jane Reed, Photographer, Curator, and Documentary Filmmaker; and Judy Walgren, Director of Photography, San Francisco Chronicle.

The 9 finalists selected for exhibition are: Joe Cornett, Amber Crabbe, Louis DeLuco, Christina McPhee, David Pace, Meghann Riepenhoff, Thom Sempere, Kyle Smith, and Jason Tannen.

In conjunction with this exhibition, SF Camerawork will be collaborating with Illuminate the Arts on a public work of art featuring content from a wide variety of arts organizations. We will be providing images from our members exhibition, Up All Night, to be included in a nightly projection on the south facing wall of 1019 Market Street.

Group exhibition: Art in the Wilderness View this email in your browser

Art in the Wilderness Artists-in-Residence in the National Parks June 26 - July 25 Opening reception: June 26, 4 - 6 pm Schlueter Art Gallery Wisconsin Lutheran College 8815 W. Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI Mon-Sat 9 am - 9 pm Sun 1 pm - 9 pm

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JOIN US FOR A MEET-UP !

April  23rd  5:00 p.m. 

@ PICANTE   6th & Gilman in Berkeley

We have just finished our third annual 

*** SPRING TRAINING ***

one-on-one mentoring sessions with

some of the most distinguished professionals in the

Bay Area Art Community.

So, come join us for a Meet-Up

to hear about and share

these experiences and insights !

If you had a mentoring session, let us know how it went, what you learned, harvested, gleaned.  And, offer any ideas for next year’s event.

If you were unable to attend Spring Training, join us to ask

questions, offer ideas and raise concerns.

Come and share Your Ideas and Solutions--- New Projects, New Shows, New Follies, and bring a Friend !

Helen Ann Licht Paintings

Spring Training 2014

Images - the Breakfast Group at the Richmond Art Center

the Breakfast Group at the Richmond Art Center

see exhibition information in the next post

Bresnahan, Sienna Series #4, 2002

Fenstermaker, Covelo 8, 2012

Wurm, Dessert, 2011

Ladewig, January, 2013

The Breakfast Group at the Richmond Art Center

Bend, Fold, and Spindle

A line of ink follows the edge of the paper and it is transformed into a place mat, or it traces a path across the paper and it becomes a map, or it forms clusters of marks and becomes a book of knowledge cataloging the wonders of the great highway. And sometimes in this coffeshoptruckstoprestaurant, the paper is heavy and the ink is colorful and a shape is freed from the rectangle and two big circles are punched out for eyes and two small circles are pierced at the edges. The edges are gripped, pulled back, the curve giving shape to the mask needing only a bit of string to transform and give powers of flight or might or magic. Imagination is set free.

“Her Story,” an exhibition at the Stanford University Canter Art Center of the work of Elizabeth Murray, presents an exuberant journey from the flat interiority of the small print to the bursting at the seams thrust into space. Elizabeth Murray took flat paper and a dark palette and proceeded to separate from the page, lift off the surface, curve and crest, twist and shout. The transformation from symbol of the everyday, the ordinary, the common– cup, shoe, dog, fish --- to icon of play, damage, loss, is a conjuring act which Murray performed through scale and raw power.

In the three large works punctuating this exhibition of innovative printmaking we see how Elizabeth Murray forced her paintings to grapple with questions of sculpture --- expansion / compression, inside / outside --- and how she pushed to resolve the demands of sculpture within the parameters of painting ( just leave a blank white circle in the middle of an image and you have an opening to the other side...or at least you would if there were another side). These pieces hang on the wall but the shifts in plane are not painted illusion, they are constructed ramps and overpasses on a huge scale which can make the viewer feel like Alice drinking and shrinking and ready to slide down a chutes and ladders joyride of a board game. Murray shows all: wooden edges, staples, swathes of unpainted raw canvas. And she lets us see the cubism and the surrealism and the pop. Like a magician who lets us see the lining of the top hat and the four sides of the wooden box and the red scarf so that we think we know that this is about seeing the ability to whirl through space or feel the edges or see red. Of course, with the sudden wave it pops out, it appears: what was really there to be seen was the fragility, the constant restless movement, the unparalleled vulnerability.

Elizabeth Murray pushed and pulled her lines and planes and shapes until the work presented itself. When she approached printmaking she pushed her plates and paper in the same unrelenting pursuit. These rich and expansive prints encompass myriad layers and an ongoing renegotiation of border.

As large as these prints stretch, as much territory as they cover, as assertive as they become, what remains a constant pull, an un- severed bond, is that fine line. It is a line which strokes and builds and polishes each form, a line which links each part, a line which clings to the surface and insists on bringing the viewer to the work, up close, indeed up close and personal. It is a mark both obsessive and obsessed. It is a hand both alluring and hypnotic.

In this the Bay Area has an extraordinary opportunity to view an exhibitions of work vested with the personal, the intimate. Whether taking an hour to ride down from San Francisco, or fly up from L.A., the Cantor's current exhibition, “Her Story” and the ongoing San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's “Flesh and Metal,” also mounted at the Cantor, will fill a day of deep viewing.

-Jan Wurm

Image: Elizabeth Murray (U.S.A., 1940–2007), Shack, 1994. Three-dimensional lithograph, 63 x 51 x 2 in. Published by Universal Limited Art Editions. © 1994 The Murray-Holman Family Trust/ Universal Limited Art Editions.

Buried Treasure

Kabbalah/Kabul: Sending Emanations to the Aliens

Sonya Rapoport will be exhibiting her web-based project "Kabbalah/Kabul: Sending Emanations to the Aliens" at Techfest 2014 in Bombay, India from 10 AM, January 3rd - 5 PM, January 5th, 2014. 

Techfest, Asia's largest science and technology festival, promotes technology, scientific thinking and innovation. It takes place on the campus of IIT Bombay at Powai, Mumbai.

"Kabbalah/ Kabul: Sending Emanations to the Aliens", encodes altruisms into a form that could be transmitted across interstellar space by radio or laser signals. Emanations are derived from the Tree of Life, the main icon of Kabbalah, in which ten creative forces intervene between the infinite and our created world.

The web narrative, set in the Afghanistan war, opens with an animation of a US helicopter carrying the altruistic emanations into outer space. The image morphs into embryonic stem cells superimposed on a spinning ring of Al Qaeda terrorist cells. When selected by the viewer, each stem cell differentiates into a body part and displays hybrid images of the war in Afghanistan and an altruistic element derived from DNA fusion. A winged Golem catapults the element into outer space to communicate with the aliens, while the Earth-bound viewers absorb the altruistic mantras into their own psyches.

http://www.techfest.org/  |  http://users.lmi.net/sonyarap/kkabul/index.html

ARTISANS! A Group Show

December 13th, 2013 – March 8th, 2014

Reception: December 13, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Falkirk Cultural Center

1408 Mission Avenue at "E" Street

San Rafael, CA

Artisans was founded in Mill Valley in 1977 and remains today as one of Northern California’s oldest and most innovative arts organizations. With no current "bricks and mortar" gallery, members currently exhibit in numerous local venues and special exhibits. Artisans carries the work of both emerging and internationally exhibited artists with a collection that includes oil, gouache, pastel, ink, charcoal, watercolor, photography, mixed media, sculpture, and textile.

Our own Louis DeLuco will have three photographs exhibited in this show!

Hair Code Duality by Sonya Rapoport

Sonya Rapoport is participating in HAIR-CODE, an activist Vienna Memory Project about Violence Against Women, a first phase of the Holocaust Memorial project.

Hair and hairstyle are seen as a social expression for gender. They play an important symbolic role in human culture.

The image I am exhibiting in The Vienna Project is a digital collage from "(in)AUTHENTIC: Woman, War, Jew", that I created in 2008.

The Vienna Project submission makes use of selected texts by Sigmund Freud, Luce Irigaray, and Jean-Paul Sartre that address gender and anti-Semitism. I correlated the texts with images of Nigerian hairstyles, military tanks, matriarchal mitochondrial genetics, alchemical symbols, and women in violent environments.

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.

MEET UP

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Wednesday, Nov 6th  5:00 p.m. 

PICANTE

6th & Gilman in Berkeley 

***  We began a complex discussion at last week's Symposium:

ART : Appropriation - Authenticity - Application.

Let's Continue the Discussion !!   ***

Symposium XI

We are so pleased to announce the UC Berkeley Art Alumni Group's Symposium XI:

APPROPRIATION / AUTHENTICITY / APPLICATION
Exploring the evolving role of technology in relation to contemporary art practice. 

Saturday, October 26, 2013 / 9 am - 4 pm
UC Berkeley, 160 Kroeber Hall

FREE + OPEN to the public!

Panelists include*:
Dena Beard, Assistant Curator, UC Berkeley Art Museum
Allan deSouza, Artist, Professor UC Berkeley Dept. of Art Practice
Donald Farnsworth, Artist, Founder-Publisher Magnolia Editions
Jeff Kelley, Curator and Writer
Noah Lang, Publishing and Artist Management, Electric Works
Foad Satterfield, Artist, Curator, Professor Dominican University
Nina Zurier, Artist

Moderator: 
Jan Wurm, Artist, Curator, Educator

To order lunch ($15 - cash only the day of the event / pre-pay via PayPal) provided by Ann’s Catering, please email: calartalumni@gmail.com.

Symposium XI Agenda

9:00 am - 9:30 am  
Participant registration, refreshments served

- Processing of payment for lunch sales for those who pre-ordered (recommended). 
- A limited number of lunches will be available to buy the day-of the event.  
- Lunch is $15, cash only the day-of the event / pre-pay via PayPal.  
- Provided by Ann’s Catering with vegetarian and vegan options 

9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Morning panel session

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Lunch break
- The catered lunch will be served in the Worth Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall.
- For those not taking part in the catered lunch, there are a number of eateries in the area.

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm  
Afternoon panel session

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm 

Reception

- Drinks and refreshments will be served in the Worth Ryder Gallery.

Transit: 
Please see the neighboring Berkeley Art Museum's information for visitor's parking.  Kroeber Hall is located across the street (Bancroft Way) and north of BAM.  

Kroeber Hall is easily accessibly by a number of different AC Transit bus lines.  The Downtown Berkeley BART station is a twenty minute walk or short bus ride away.


*Panelists update:
Critic David Roth will unfortunately not be able to participate in this year's symposium as planned.  
We are pleased to welcome artist Nina Zurier to our distinguished group of panelists.  

Sanchez Art Center 50 | 50 V

Opening Friday!

1220-B Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica, CA

Preview: Fri, 8/23, 6-7:30p
Grand Opening: Fri, 8/23, 7:30-9p
Grand Closing: Sun, 9/29, 1-5p

Carol Ladewig | Painting Days, 2013, acrylic and gouache on panels

Here's how Pacifica's Sanchez Art Center explains this special annual exhibition...