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May 27 - June 27

WILDFIRES by youngsuk suh

Youngsuk Suh’s work is visually stunning. In the Wildfire series, where many of his ideas about the cultural construction of landscape and our contemporary anxieties coalesce – the eerie quality of the smoke and its effects on the muting of colors, the enclosing and expanding of spaces within the image, and the creation of atmospheric lighting effects – are masterfully handled.


Youngsuk Suh. Coffee. 36"x46".
Archival print on rag paper.

Young’s photographic series are subtle and complex explorations of both physical and psychological terrain. His images reference historic landscape traditions in both painting and photography, yet it is the manufactured and controlled aspects of the apparently natural environment that is Young’s focus. He presents us with scenes of conflict: his photographic vistas reference the breathtaking wide-open landscapes that we are familiar with from modernist photography and California landscape painting –the view of nature as eternal and beautiful. Our cultural ideals about wilderness and desire for unbounded nature are projected onto this imagery. Yet he subverts this first-read by presenting a scene that at once speaks of these ideals, and yet simultaneously unravels them. In the Wildfire series the landscape is engulfed in smoke, which encloses the open space and creates a sense of claustrophobia. The presence of firemen, the scarred earth, and the unsettling images of seemingly oblivious tourists continuing to enjoy their vacations while shrouded in smoke problematize our desires and expectations about the landscape. They remind us that the culturally idealized construction of nature we feel comfortable with may be very far from the managed, contained and compromised nature we have created.

California State Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (left)
and Youngsuk Suh at CCAS during the
June the 12th, Second Saturday reception.

Lecture, May 12. <audio to be uploaded>

Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Marilyn and Phil Isenberg; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; James H. Smith; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

March 4 - May 16

In Public : Designing Art for the Sacramento International Airport

The complexities behind the largest public art project in Sacramento’s history unfold in an illuminating exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento. In Public: Designing Art for the Sacramento International Airport tracks the review and design process of 11 artists’ proposals commissioned for the new terminal at Sacramento International Airport. The common element that laces all the work together is that the artists have brought the outside – the Sacramento environs - into the building. Opening March 4, 2010, the exhibition examines how the artists were influenced by public process, practical and theoretical issues, building design principals and the site’s environment. The exhibition includes illustrations of the commissioned artists’ rejected and approved designs, material samples and demonstrations of video and sound that accompany the proposed projects.

Proposal for Mosaic Floor, Sacramento
International Airport - Big Building,
by Suzanne Adan

Featuring the work of: Donald Lipski, Mildred Howard, Joan Moment, Lawrence Argent, Suzanne Adan, Po Shu Wang and Louise Bertleson, Camille Utterback, Ned Kahn, Christian Moeller, and Lynn Criswell.

Design for the Ticket Hall, by Lawrence Argent.
Rendering courtesy of Corgan MediaLab, LLC

The Panel Experience- Discussion featuring panelists from the Sacramento International Airport Artist Selection Process (presented March 16, 2010)

From left to right- Shelly Willis, Gale Hart, Carlin Naify, Kim Curry-Evans and Brent Kelley.
<Click here to listen to the discussion> mp3 format- 10 meg download

New Media In Public - Presentation featuring Camille Utterback (presented April 7, 2010).


Presentation to be uploaded.

Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Marilyn and Phil Isenberg; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; James H. Smith; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

January 7 - February 14

Improbable Mends
Darrin Martin

Darrin Martin explores the fractures inherent within visual and verbal communication and the slippage that occurs as the rhythms of life fall in and out of sync.  Improbable Mends consists of a video installation along with several sculpture, sound and print works that focus on the rupture or breakdown of materials, images and objects followed by their unlikely and transformative reconstitution. Martin’s recent artistic endeavors have focused primarily on these concerns in relevance to his own hearing loss and the technologies used to compensate, measure and augment his various perceptions. Improbable Mends broadens this inquiry as the work moves between responding to wounds of a personal nature to abrasions on a larger social sphere. Through a variety of materials and their alterations, the work asks how can injury become a meaningful opportunity and how does miscommunication become its own poetic experience.  In recent years, Martin has primarily exhibited screen-based video artworks that have shown extensively both nationally and abroad, most recently, at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, European Media Arts Festival in Germany, and Impakt Festival in the Netherlands.  In 2009, he toured his solo and collaborative video works throughout the United States visiting over a dozen cities. He teaches in the Studio Arts Department at UC Davis.

 Untitled (pink noise)  from the series Noise
Print Sculpture for BAHA (Bone Anchored Hearing Aid).

Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

November 12 - 21

Benefit Art Auction Preview and Auction (November 21)

The 2009 Benefit Art Auction was dedicated to the memory of Jean Runyon. CCAS' Board of Directors, volunteers and staff extend their deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Jean Runyon as well as staff of Runyon Saltzman & Einhorn. She was a friend and will be greatly missed.

The auction featured work by: Phil Amrhein, Omar Thor Arason, Mary Carol Baird, Lisa Barker, Sandra Beard, Karen Bearson, Gregory Berger, Lou Bermingham, Joy Bertinuson, Donna Billick, Mark Bowles, Milton Bowens, Elaine Bowers, Brenda Bowles, Karen Brooks, Dotty Brown, James Cameron, Marcia Cary, Erik Castellanos, Mary Chan, Melissa Chandon, Alma Chaney, Rachel Clarke, Erika Clayton, Ruth Coelho, Michelle Cordova, Julia Couzens, Carolyn Cozad, Andy Cunningham, Eric Dahlin, Julie Diane,
Helen DiCarlo, Gary Dinnen, Fernando Duarte, Kurt Fishback, Linda Fitz Gibbon, Gioia Fonda, Darrel Forney, Ianna Frisby, Boyd Gavin, Linda Gelfman, Richard Gilles, Robin Giustina, Zach Gordon, Nancy Gottart, Anne Gregory, Taylor Gutermute, Cherie Hacker, Karen Hamilton, Libby Harmor, Gale Hart,
Maridee Hays, Shirley Hazlett, Dwight Head, Christine Hodgins, Terry Hollowell, Jodie Hooker, Maggie Jimenez, Susan Keizer, Michael Kelly-DeWitt, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Lori Kempf, Mary Kercher, Lisa Kreuziger, Dixie Laws, SK Lindsey, Paula Lloyd, David Lobenberg, Barbetta Lockart, Brenda Louie,
Colleen Maloney, Darrin Martin, Yelena Martynovskaya, Liv Moe, Joan Moment, Judith Monroe, Marjorie Morbitzer, Miriam Morris, Mariana Moscoso, Ann Mueller, Ron Musser, Jeff Musser, Cherilyn Naughton, Lisa Neal, Susan Orr, Ron Peetz, Diane Poinski, David Post, Gayle Rappaprot-Weiland, Robert Ray, Cassandra Reeves, Christo John Reynen, David Roth, Alejandro Rubio, Danny Scheible, Craig Smith, Mel Smothers, Sarah Solis Mattson, Daphne Stammer, Michael Stevens, John Terahteeff, Bob Thompson, Leslie Toms, Ann Tracy, Sam Tubiolo, Pamela Tuohy-Novinsky, Garr Ugalde, Camille VandenBerge, Peter VandenBerge, Salvatore Victor, Peter Weight, Gina Werfel,
David White, Marcelle Wiggins, Farrar Wilson, Maria Winkler, Laurie Winthers, Patricia Wood, Brandy Worsford, Vera Ximenes, Jiayi Young and Shih-Wen Young. Tomas

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Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Freeport Bakery; Nina Krebs; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Statewide Painting; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

October 1 - November 1

Filling the Void
New works by Omar Thor Arason

The Separation of Perception and Intent.
Omar Thor Arason. Oil on canvas. 68.5" x 83.25". 2009.

The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, is pleased to present Filling the Void, an exhibition of new works by Omar Thor Arason. The paintings range from large-scale works on canvas to smaller, more intimate works on wood panels.

For the last several years Arason has explored the relevance of mythological ideas in a contemporary context. Using classical and popular myths as a departure point, coupled with the writings of Carl Jung on mythology, Arason sought to shed light on some of the issues that arise in mythological studies; such as the value of knowing truth, the purpose of faith and belief, and the innate human need for answers to existential questions.

Painting is an exceptional vehicle for dealing with the mythological since it parallels myths in such a powerful way; both draw their real power from the beholder’s faith in their value. Without faith, both myths and paintings become impotent – stories and pictures that offer mere entertainment.

The paintings are made under the assumption that, as humans, we suffer from an intrinsic void - an emptiness that we strive to fill by any means available to us; by accumulating material goods, establishing meaningful personal relationships, or seeking solace in religion.
The paintings are not pictorial representations of known myths, but rather explorations of mythological ideas through the creation of a synthetic world where characters encounter situations of great personal significance. Within the paintings, the characters witness, orchestrate or engage in the unlikely events that are occurring around them; events which can be viewed as external or internal to the characters. Ultimately, the paintings are intended to allow a glimpse into a world where possibilities are nearly limitless, and while the experience may not fill the void, it may at the very least offer a temporary distraction.

Arason has been an active member of the Sacramento art community for the past five years. He received an MA in Studio Art from CSU Sacramento in 2007. He lives and works in Sacramento, where he is currently an artist in residence at The Verge Gallery and Studio Project.

Omar Thor Arason presented a lecture on October 8.

onsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Nina Krebs; Raven's Corner; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

August 21 - September 13

2009 Capitol Artists' Studio Tour

Work from more than 70 of the participating artists on the Tour was on display at the CCAS. The work was arranged based on the location of the studios and keyed to the Tour map.

The Tour featured: Omar Thor Arason, Lisa F. Barker , Karen Bearson , Dana Bilello-Barrow, Randy Blasquez, Brenda Boles , Elaine Bowers, Karen Brooks , Justin Buell, Allison Carlos , Erik Castellanos, Erica Clayton, Ruth Coelho, Carolyn Cozad , Andy Cunningham , Julie Didion,Karen Dukes , Genelle Dwyer, George Ettenheim, Gioia Fonda,Jacob Fossum , Larry Fox , Ianna Nova Frisby , Linda Gelfman,Anne Gregory , Taylor Gutemute, Cherie Hacker, Karen Hamilton, Libby Harmor,Gale Hart, Shirley Hazlett, Kristen Hoard, David Hodapp, Christine Hodgins,Karen Eiko Horiuchi, Michael Misha Kennedy, Mary Kercher, Michael King, Linda Klieman, Mark Lanning,SK Lindsey, Barbetta Lockart, Monica Lunardi, Michelle MacKenzie,Lisa Marasso , Patrick Marasso , Yelena Martynovskaya,Dianne Mattar, Rachel Miller,Liv Moe, Judith Monroe, Marjorie Morbitzer, Mollie Morrison , Mariana Moscoso , Ann Mueller,Jeff Musser , Natasha Nelson, Susan Orr, Christina Pate, Andrew Patterson-Tutschka ,Patris, Dianne Poinski, Natana Prudhomme, Robert Jean Ray,Angela Ridgway, Natalie Rishe, Don Satterlee, Marsha Schindler,Kim Scott,Merle Axelrad Serlin, S.S. Solis, Brent Spaulding, Peter Stegall,Glenn Takai, Tricia Talle, Bob Thompson, Rik Tilson, Pauline Tolman, David Tracy, Sam Tubiolo, Garr Ugalde, Salvatore Victor, Peter Weight, Sandy Whetstone, Sheung Hei Wong, Margaret Woodcock, Lori L. Wylie,Vera Ximenes , Jiayi Young ,Shih-Wen Young and Jan Zacharias.

Purchase your 2009 CAST Catalog

This year, CCAS is proud to make available a catalog featuring work by many of the artists participating in the Tour. The catalog is $25 (plus CA tax). Please contact the museum for further details.

The "Art" of Engagement: Connecting with Artists on Their Home Turf- a panel discussion with Gioia Fonda, Ianna Frisby, Cheryl Holben and Mariana Moscoso September 10 / audio to be added.

Capital Public Radio- Insight

Capital Public Radio's Insight program on September 11 with host Jeffrey Callison interviews Cheryl Holben (Chair of the CAST Committee), Liv Moe (CAST artist) and Omar Arason (CAST artists). To hear the interview, which starts at about 35 minutes into the program please click <here>.

In Memory of Laureen Landau

The Board, volunteers and staff of the CCAS were sadden to learn of the passing of our friend, supporter, and fellow artist Laureen Landau. The 2009 Capitol Artists' Studio Tour has been dedicated to her memory.

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CCAS would like to thank Clear Channel Radio and Clear Channel Outdoor for their generous support.

CCAS would like to thank the following sponsors for helping to make the 2009 CAST possible:

Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner: Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers

Special thanks to ChalkItUp.org

July 9 - August 9

Fantasy is a Place Where It Rains
New works by Ricardo Rivera

Untitled. Ricardo Rivera. 2009.

We live in a sea of information: The Internet and the 24-hour news cycle have dissolved national and international boundaries. We have friends with whom we communicate who we have never met, living in countries we have never visited. We wake up, if we sleep at all, with new messages waiting on our phones, on our computers. Anything we want to know or want to see is available to us, falling like mythical droplets from God.

Ricardo Rivera will present a series of activated digital sculptures that address and embody our new world. Images seen on whirling monitors seem to float in the very air through which they traveled. Scenes with shattered and forgotten images cast by a projector dissolving into time and space fall into a constructed Einsteinian Black Hole. Other pictures, other projections, break apart the old mode of linear thought, presenting an appreciation and critique of the constant present that has a density of experience and a sense of infinite possibilities that can only be ordered or even created by the imagination of the participating viewer.

Raised in Courtland, CA, Ricardo Rivera studied at the San Francisco Art Institute earning a BFA in interdisciplinary art and an MFA in sculpture. Rivera has realized works in various locations from San Francisco to Sierre, Switzerland. He has collaborated with Swiss percussionist Christophe Fellay, Swiss artist Georges Pfruender, choreographer Joanna Haigood, Macarthur genius award recipient Walter Kitundu, and South African artist Donna Kukama.

Ricardo Rivers presented a lecture July 9/ audio to be added.

Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Raven's Corner; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

May 7 - June 14

The Conundrum of Abundance
Chester Arnold / Scott Green / Julie Heffernan


Things Being What They Are. Chester Arnold.
72"x84". Oil on linen. 2007.
Image courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco.

Arnold, Greene and Heffernan all share an affinity for abundance in their paintings. While the imagery differs, the works share a pre or post-apocalyptical narrative that simultaneously embraces this abundance, and questions it. Chester Arnold’s paintings of stacked or strewn objects most directly relate to an acknowledgment of, and perhaps an infatuation with, ordinary objects; with those things in our lives that we acquire, use and/or abuse, and eventually discard (or allow to remain) when their usefulness has diminished. Scott Greene’s images, which include paintings of impossibly dense piles of satellite dishes, confront the viewer with a visual representation of our communication obsession, reminding us that Big Brother is indeed watching, while begging the question “How much is too much?” Julie Heffernan’s candy-coated palette of miniature vignettes reveal personal dramas that reference everything from history painting, to mythology, to kitsch. Ultimately, the riddle presented by the work of these three artists in the Conundrum of Abundance is one that the viewer must solve.

Catharine Clark presented a lecture May 21/ audio to be added.

Chester Arnold presented a lecture June 11/ audio to be added.

Also sponsored in part by: David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

March 7 - April 11

Divergent Timing
Terry Berlier


Detail of Bornea.
9"x9". Digital print on paper, burned, carbon paper. Photo by Berlier.

Divergent Timing, was an installation of sculptural and sound works, in addition to video and drawing, by artist Terry Berlier.

Terry Berlier earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Davis, in 2003, and since that time she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, throughout California including Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In addition, she has shown her work throughout the United States, with solo exhibitions in California and Ohio. She has also participated in important group exhibits internationally in Australia (a collaborative project with composer Luciano Chessa), Italy and Spain, including the “Wandering Library” Project at the Venice Biennale in 2003.

Berlier is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and scholarships, including a residency in Barcelona, Spain. She has taught at several colleges and universities in California including the California College of Arts, Sierra College, and the University of California at Davis, and at Santa Cruz. Berlier is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Stanford University.

Berlier’s recent body of work mines deep into the memory of time and the history that is preserved in the natural environment surrounding us. These clues reveal quasi-cyclical patterns of the past and remind us at the same time to question how we might use that evidence to move forward. Her work seeks to dissect and map time to expose and manipulate our understanding of cultural and environmental histories. These are spatially configured through interactions with sculpture, sound, video, installation and drawings. Found materials, vernacular and modern technologies, and detritus from everyday life are subverted. She questions how innovations are changing the way we perceive and interact with the world and whether we are coming closer to or farther from understanding each other and the world around us.

Terry Berlier presented a lecture March 12/ audio to be added.

Also sponsored in part by:David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

January 8 - February 22, 2009

Duet: The Art of Khalil Chishtee and Ruby Chishti

Khalil Chishtee and Ruby Chishti are established international artists. Husband and wife, Pakistani émigrés to Sacramento now living in the Bay Area, they have shown individually and in group shows regionally and worldwide, including venues in Pakistan, India, Egypt, Europe, the UK, India, Dubai, and the US. Duet is their first two-person exhibition.

Duet continues their previous practices as artists but integrates them into a unique visual dialogue: “a song of life sung together,” Ruby Chishti explains; “that is why it is called “Duet.” Echoing the events of their lives, Duet employs the artists’ signature media and processes. For Khalil Chishtee, that is torn plastic bags and other disposable materials shaped on site into expressive, life-sized figurative ensembles. For Duet his forms occupy and respond to the spaces of the CCAS galleries left by Ruby’s art – the ceiling and walls. His more airy and ephemeral installation interfaces with her work and reflects the shared experiences of their lives. Khalil sees his part in Duet as a dance “with and around Ruby’s art (as her love always makes me do).” Ruby’s work is displayed at CCAS on the floor and thus shares the same ground as the viewer. Warm, tender, and more earthly than Khalil’s, her art is made of a wide range of evocative materials, including twigs, cast-off scraps of cloth, and feminine napkins tied and stitched into figures of varying scale, including small ones linked to the history of doll making in India and Pakistan.

Khalil Chishtee presented a lecture January 8 / audio to be added.

Ruby Chishti presented a lecture February 12 / audio to be added.





Also sponsored in part by:Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

December 4 - 21

University of Phoenix and The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento in conjunction with St. John's Shelter present:

Home for the Holidays Handmade Houses by
the Children of St. John's Shelter Program for Women & Children

The University of Phoenix and Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento were honored to present Home for the Holidays, an exhibition highlighting the creative talents of children. The Home for the Holidays exhibition features doll-sized houses created by sixty children of St. John's Shelter Program for Women & Children at Sacramento State and St. John's workshops. A video of the workshop at St. John's by videographer Ivan Harder, and Dave Howard's delightful photographs of the children at work were presented.

The child-built homes were purchased in a silent auction and all proceeds benefited St. John's Shelter. St. John's mission is to support homeless women with children to advance from a point of crisis to a position of self sufficiency. St. John's is the only shelter program in Sacramento County focused exclusively on women with children - the most vulnerable of the homeless population. Since 1985, the program has provided a safe and supportive haven to more than 23,000 displaced women and children. For more information about St. John's Program go to: http://www.stjohnsshelter.org

Special thanks to: Sacramento State Art Department, Home Depot and University Arts for their generous support.

Also sponsored in part by:Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Ann & Johan Otto; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

September 11 - October 26

Contemporary Drawings and Works on Paper

Come on Dear. Come on Baby... Let's Exchange the Experience.
Tara Tucker. 2008. Courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco.

Annie Murphy-Robinson, did a presentation on her September 11. Audio to be uploaded.

Salvatore Victor, did a presentation on his work October 9. Audio to be uploaded.

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Also sponsored in part by Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Chris and Cheryl Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Skip and Shirley RosenbloomDr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

May 8 - June 29

Light and Presence
Boyd Gavin and Matthias Geiger

Untitled #1, Oil on canvas. Boyd Gavin


SFO, C-Print. Matthias Geiger.

On Thursday, May 8, Matthias Geiger presented the following lecture about his work <click here to hear his presentation>

Boyd Gavin discussed his work on June 12. To hear lecture, please click <here>

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Also sponsored in part by Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Chris and Cheryl Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

March 10 - April 27

Robert Schwartz / Sheldon Tapley

The exhibit included the paintings by Robert Schwartz and Sheldon Tapley.  Both are contemporary realist painters however the expressive character of the work is strikingly different even given some formal similarities.

Still Life with Flowers, 2007. 36" x 48". Oil on panel. Sheldon Tapley

Robert Schwartz (1947-2000) was born in Chicago and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. While in Chicago he participated in a group exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art along with members of The Hairy Who.  In 1971 Schwartz graduated and moved to San Francisco where he lived until his death in 2000.  Often working in gouache on paper or oil on wood panel, his publicly exhibited works were rarely larger than 7 x 9 inches.  Schwartz's narrative paintings explore and question the human psyche and social mores.  He received a National Endowment for the Arts WESTAF Award in 1992.

Sheldon Tapley was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela to British parents and was raised in Europe and North America. Tapley is a nationally recognized artist whose paintings are held in museum, academic, corporate, and private collections across the United States. In the spring of 2004, the Evansville Museum of Art presented a major retrospective exhibit of Tapley's art, displaying thirty of his still-life works from the last ten years.  A Phi Beta Kappa graduate holding a 1980 B.A. from Grinnell College, Tapley received an M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1983.

Please click here to visit Sheldon Tapley's web site, www.sheldontapley.com

As part of the Thursday Lecture Series, on March 6, Sheldon Tapley presented a lecture at CCAS.
To here the lecture, please click here.

On April 10, as part of the Thursday Lecture Series, Kim Curry (Director, 40 Acres Art Galery) presented Expanding Your World: What's Happening with Contemporary Afterican-American Art in Sacramento. To The audio from the lecture will be uploaded soon.

Please click here to visit 40 Acres Art Gallery web site.

Sponsored in part by:

Also sponsored in part by Mimi and Burnett Miller; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

January 10 - February 24, 2008

LA
A Select Survey of Art from Los Angeles
Curated by Cathy Stone and David E. Stone

Cathy Stone and David E. Stone selected emerging, mid-career and established artists that are of note for this group exhibit.  David comments, "Given the frenetic growth of the Los Angeles art world and the lack of an ‘ism’ that easily associates with art in L.A., it is no easy task to curate an exhibition that comprehensively encapsulates the look and feel of art in this sprawling metropolis. Therefore, this exhibition is a specifically subtitled ‘a select survey’ of art from Los Angeles.

The exhibition included the work of John Baldessari, David Burns, Yaya Chou, Linda Day, Carlee Fernandez, Joe Goode, Matthew Green, Gronk, Hugo Hopping, Vincent Johnson, Peter Lodato, Tom Krumpak, Parris Patton, Devon Paulson, Raymond Pettibon, Brian Mallman, Mary Jean Mallman, Paul McCarthy, Siobhan McClure, Jacob Melchi, Robin Mitchell, Danial Nord, Renee Petropoulos, Christopher Russell, Ed Ruscha, Fran Siegel, Alexis Smith, Coleen Sterritt, Cathy Stone, David E. Stone, Marie Thiebault, DeWain Valentine, Jeffrey Vallance, Jerrin Wagstaff, Paige Wery and Austin Young.

Sponsored in part by:

Also sponsored in part by Mimi and Burnett Miller; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

December 6 - 23

The Power of Purpose:

A Photographic Exhibit by Christopher Irion

Photography sponsored by PRIDE Industries

The exhibit consisted of a series of portraits made in the PhotoBooth, a portable, shippable, light-weight studio that is on the cutting edge of photography art today.  In April 2007, Irion traveled to Roseville, California, and photographed employees of PRIDE Industries, a non-profit organization whose mission it is to create jobs for people with disabilities.  Each of these individuals embodies the power of success through determination and the exhibit's images capture their heart and purpose. 

Additional projects by Irion can be viewed at: www.irionphotography.com

Sponsored in part by:

Also sponsored in part by Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

November 3 - 17

2007 Benefit Art Auction

The 2007 Benfit Art Auction featured over 100 quality works that were purchased in both a live and silent auction. The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento would like to thank all artists, sponsors, members and guests for making the Auction a huge success.

To view all the work in the auciton, please click <here>

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Also sponsored in part by Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

September 6 - October 26, 2007

East Coast Contemporary Painters

Featuring the work of Jake Berthot, Porfirio DiDonna, John Lees, Joan Snyder, John Walker the exhibition features paintings by five renowned east coast painters. The artists are united primarily by style; this show will be comprised mainly of painterly abstractions, many of which contain allusions to the landscape, either real or imagined or symbolic.

The show will be an excellent comparison of these eastern artists' treatment of landscape to the distinct northern Californian "River City" school of the Sacramento Valley.

Bayard's Meadow, Jake Berthot,
1999, oil on panel.
Courtesy of the Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA.

On Thursday, September 6, there was a lectured presented presented by Beth Jones, Tony Natsoulas and Joe Rodota titled, Art Collecting and the Internet. To hear the lecture, please click on the image below.

Joe Rodota, Beth Jones and Tony Natsoulas at
CCAS on September 7, 2007.
<click image to download audio of the presentation>

On Thursday, October 11, Craig N. Smith presented a lecture titled, Painterly Abstration and the Landscape.


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and Steven R. Moore and Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

July 5 - August 26, 2007

Tar, Dust and Canvas
a survey of paintings and drawings by jack ogden

Described as a "painter's painter" Jack Ogden has been creating compelling works for over fifty years.  Equipped with a keen eye for composition and color, his work is as much about the process of creating imagery, as it is about its destruction.  In fact, it is the possibility of infinite outcomes that make even a previously completed canvas fall prey to re-working, or complete obliteration, if left in the studio for too long.

Blue Yonder. 2007. Jack Ogden.

Jack Ogden's subject matter ranges from the still-life arrangement and studio scenes, to portraits and figures. His work is informed by numerous sources including Greek mythology, current events, other artist's works, and his own personal narrative. Recurring themes in his work, such as the artist and his muse, or the artist as navigator
in the artistic journey, add depth to the visual phenomenon of his imagery.

On Thursday, July 12, Jack presented a gallery talk. To hear the presentation, please click <here>

Jack Ogden. Photo by Joy Bertinuson.

The survey of paintings and drawings at CCAS included charcoal drawings created in the 1980's of downtown Sacramento where Ogden lived at the time, as well as ink on paper studio works from 1992.  In addition, recent oil on canvas self-portraits were on view, along with paintings that reference historical art motifs and allude to his naval experience, a common thread that has re-emerged throughout the decades.

May 3 - June 24, 2007

Roy De Forest / Gerald Walburg

Roy De Forest, best known for his colorful paintings of dogs and other animated figures, became associated with the California Funk Art movement of the mid-1960s. He make distinctive cartoon-like imagery that was a signature style quite recognizably his own. De Forest was a professor of some acclaim at the University of California, Davis for seventeen years before retiring to focus on his artwork full-time. He had countless solo-exhibitions throughout the United States, and has shown his work in important exhibitions internationally as well.

Gerald Walburg is best known for his large-scale sculptural forms that can be found on the campus at Sacramento State University as well as at the edge of Downtown Plaza in Sacramento. However, for the past forty years he has worked both two-dimensionally and three-dimensionally in the creation of intimate studies and maquettes, as well on the development colossal sculptures.

18, May May 18, 2007

The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, mourns today's loss of Roy De Forest.  Roy's passing is an immense loss to the greater Sacramento art community and to art lovers everywhere.  Roy left his mark as a leader in the California Funk Art movement of the 60s and as a professor at the University of California, Davis.  He will be dearly missed.  We extend our sympathies to his family.

Cheryl E. Holben

President, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento

The CCAS celebrated the life of Roy De Forest on Thursday, June 7. Surrounded by Roy's work, the open-mic event gave those that knew him an opportunity to share a special memory. To hear the comments please click <here>

March 1 - April 27, 2007

Currents in Photography

This group show featured preeminent local and regional photographic artists as well as nationally and internationally renowned photographers.  The exhibition presented photographers whose works demonstrate the great variety of technical, formal, and conceptual concerns pursued by artists today.  The show is not an attempt to define the nature of contemporary photography so much as to present a rich variety of ambitious works created in photographic mediums.

Featured artists: Kimberly Austin, Steven Elner, Katy Grannan, Anne Hamersky, Todd Hido, Matthias Hoch, Jodie Hooker, William L. Jolly, Michael Kenna, Mona Kuhn, Kent Lacin, Annie Leibovitz, Reagan Louie, Danny Lyon, Vik Muniz, Nigel Poor, Unai San Martin, Izzy Schwartz, Youngsuk Suh, Larry Sultan, Roger Vail, John Waters, Henry Wessel and Heidi Zumbrun.

Hand Job (detail), 2005. Nigel Poor.
Courtesy of the artist.

Generous support has been provided by the following San Francisco galleries: Braunstein/ Quay Gallery, Fraenkel Gallery, Haines Gallery, Rena Bransten Gallery, Scott Nichols Gallery and the Stephen Wirtz Gallery.

Sponsored in part by Cali-Color, Coldwell Banker, Steven R. Moore and Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

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January 11- February 18, 2007

Authenticating Consciousness:
Installations by Andrew Connelly

CCAS brings Andrew Connelly's two debut installations: the West Gallery will house the show's title work and the East Gallery will feature a memorial work commemorating lost lives from the past year.

In Authenticating Consciousness a dramatic, dimly lit space will lead the way to multiple motorized sculptures moving on their axes. These tubular bell-like aluminum sculptures have sound and light emanating from within them. The enviroment is foreign yet familiar- with keyed elements through audio and moving elements- causing disorientation. This is a visual representation of the core abyss described. Additional unknown abstract elements contextualize the work, rooting the viewer to a familiar place and time.

The memorial titled, Untitled establishes a monument to the lost, a personal
tribute to lives that have touched many.

Composition for Authenticating Consciousness by Mike Crain.
Click here to visit Mike Crain's web site.

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Click here to view Authenticating Consciousness on YouTube.

Authenticating Consciousness (2007),
Andrew Connelly

November 25 - December 23, 2006

Visual Characters

Featuring the work of Deborah Barrett, John Stuart Berger, Chris Botta, Ken Brown, Martha Douglas, Jon Espegren, John Ezel, Gale Hart, Sandra Hoover, Cynthia Huston, Rick Linville, Julia Resendez, Stephanie Skalisky, Susan Tonkin Riegel, Greg Tumbusch, James Van Tassel and Patricia Wood.

La Chica (detail), Julia Resendez

November 4 - November 18, 2006

Benefit Art Auction

The 2006 Benfit Art Auction featured over 100 quality works that were purchased in both a live and silent auction. The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento would like to thank all artists, sponsors, members and guests for making the Auction a huge success.

Featured artists include: Jim Albertson, Deladier Almeida, Jack Alvarez, Phil Amrhein, Eugene Arguello, Susan Aulik, Merle Axelrad Serlin, Lisa Barker, Sandra Beard, Karen Bearson, Joy Bertinuson, Donna Billick, Chris Botta, Milton Bowens, Mark Bowles, Tom Brockman, Dotty Brown, Marcia Cary, Rachel Clarke, Carolyn Cozad, Fred Dalkey, Troy Dalton, Miriam Davis, Roy De Forest, Paul Di Pasqua, Julie Didion, Ingrid Ellison, Linda Fitz Gibbon, Judith Foosaner, Ianna Frisby, Boyd Gavin, Drew Gawel, Linda Gelfman, Richard Gilles, Anne Gregory, Taylor Gutermute, Cherie Hacker, Frankie Hansberry, Gale Hart, Crystal Haueter, Shirley Hazlett, Dwight Head, David Hollowell, Terry Hollowell, Jody Hooker, Sandra Hoover, Carrue Iudice, Alex Jackson, Diana Jahns, Maggie Jimenez, Florence M. Jones, Steven Kaltenbach, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Lorrie Kempf, David King, Evri Kwong, Kent Lacin, Laureen Landau, Paulina Lawrence, Dixie Laws, David Lobenberg, Brenda Louie, Irving Marcus, Carrie Markel, Brigitta McCarthy, Live Moe, Joan Moment, Tom Monteith, Miriam Morris, Annie Murphy-Robinson, Jack Ogden, Christine Olmsted, Robert Ortball, Ron Peetz, Bonnie Rascon, Cate Repp, Diane Richey-Ward, Diane Rollins Feissel, Alejandro Rubio, Wendy Rudick Shaul, Craig Schindler, Carolyn Schneider, Kim Scott, Joan Sexton, Craig N. Smith, Mel Smothers, Sarah Solis Mattson, Ramona Soto, Daphne Stammer, Peter Stegall, Nick Steinmetz, Stephanie Taylor, Susan Tonkin Riegel, Sam Tubiolo, Garr Ugalde, Roger Vail, Ellen Van Fleet, Peter VandenBerge, Camille VandenBerge, Gerald Walburg, Paula Wenzl, Marcelle Wiggins, Farrar Wilson, Laurie Winthers, Pat Wood, Margaret Woodcock, Brandy Worsfold and Jiayi Young.

September 7 , 2006 - October 29, 2006

Rachel Clarke

The Present Moment

Rachel Clarke is a digital media artist and is Assistant Professor in Electronic Art in the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento. She works in digital imaging, video, animation and installation. Clarke’s work intertwines themes of nature and culture, and explores intersections of technology and identity.

Clarke has exhibited internationally and throughout the United States. In fall 2003, she curated a show of national and international artists using new media, entitled Postflesh: Visualizing the Techno-Self at the University Library Gallery, Sacramento State University.

Clarke is currently Vice-President of the CAA New Media Caucus and Editor-in Chief of their online journal, Media-N, a national journal of digital and media arts: http://www.newmediacaucus.org

The Garden (video still),
Video Installation, 2006.

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July 6, 2006 - August 27, 2006

Aspects of Humanity
Contemporary Portraiture

Local and regional artists who have an ongoing involvement with portraiture were invited to exhibit their work, by the CCAS Exhibition Committee who also solicited works from private collections and galleries. The show features the work of Joan Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Gordon Cook, Fred Dalkey, Troy Dalton, Robert De Niro, Sr., Elaine deKooning, Linda S. Fitz Gibbon, Ray Franklin, Katsura Funakoshi, Ann Gale, Andy Graham, Hans Hofmann, Steve Kaltenbach, Alex Katz, Annie Murphy-Robinson, Betty Nelson, Nathan Oliveira, David Salle, Kim Scott, Mick Sheldon, S.S. Solis, Julia Stagg, Wayne Thiebaud, Peter VandenBerge, Steve Vanoni, William Wiley and Hong Zhang.

CCAS thanks the local artists for their efforts and also Crown Point Press, Gallery Paule Anglim and the Hacket-Freedman Gallery for their generosity in making the exhibition possible. Thanks also to local collectors Joe Rodota, Jean Runyon and Pat Wood for their contributions; and to Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers for their continued support.

May 6, 2006-June 26, 2006

James Albertson
Life Stories, More is More Within a Narrative Structure

Model's Break, oil on canvas, 2006

March 2, 2006 - April 30, 2006

A Survey of Work from 1998-2005

Yoram Wolberger

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and currently living in San Francisco, CA, Yoram Wolberger has exhibited, performed, and co-curated many shows in the United States and abroad.  Wolberger received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and was a recipient of the Murphy Fine Arts and the Schmidt Family Foundation Fellowships.  His installations and sculptures have been shown in galleries and museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Orange County Museum of Art, CA, and the San Jose Museum of Art, CA

“I am drawn to familiar objects, objects known to us from ordinary domesticity,” says Wolberger of his work.  Wolberger is interested in exposing aspects of daily life that are normally overlooked.   By physically inverting, slicing, or enlarging these objects, his art exposes aspects of life that we choose not see; in this regard, Wolberger shows the “familiar” in a new light, giving the subject new context and uncovering hidden or unexplained significance in the iconic objects from which he draws.

Image Above

Yoram Wolberger

Toy Soldier #3 (Crawling Soldier)

[72" x 60" x 24"

December 1, 2005 - February 26, 2006

Julia Couzens and Peter Stegall

Strange Fascination and Paintings and Constructions

Strange Fascination: New Sculpture by Julia Couzens in the West Gallery and Peter Stegall: Paintings and Constructions in the East Gallery from December 1, 2005 through February 26, 2006. Couzens’ exhibition will continue to grow and inhabit the space throughout the show with the artist creating the piece over three months. Stegall’s work will explore relationships of space and the “powerful playing field of color.”

Born in Auburn, California, Julia Couzens received her M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis in 1990. She has received national recognition and critical acclaim since the early 1990’s including the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship in Visual Arts award for innovative work in sculpture. She has been a lecturer and an artist-in-residence at numerous colleges and universities and her work has been widely shown throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan, including at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in San Francisco, Crocker Art Museum and Oakland Museum.

Unprecedented in Sacramento, a component of the CCAS exhibition will be Couzens’ residence in the gallery to continue work on Strange Fascination. Over the three-month installation, the exhibit will grow, suggesting a parasitic relationship to the space. By continuing to work in the gallery Couzens gives the public the opportunity to witness her creative process and the progression of her relationship to this mutating work.

Stegall earned his M.A. in Art from California State University, Sacramento. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and an Adolf and Esther Gotleib Foundation grant. His work was recently included in the Crocker Art Museum exhibition Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction.

Since the early 1970’s, Stegall has been exploring concepts about color, form and space while experimenting with differing scales from small watercolors to medium range paintings and in the 1990’s large door panels. As a painter he has been most interested in pattern and symmetry, aspects of positive and negative space and the “powerful playing field of color.”

Image Above Right:

Julia Couzens

Strange Fascination

[Installation 2005-2006]

Image Above Left:

Peter Stegall

September 15 - October 30, 2005

Diane Richey-Ward and Jiayi Ling

Investigations/Collaborations/Expressions

Diane Richey-Ward and Jiayi Ling will be exhibiting three installations at CCAS. Their collaborative installation entitled Cinetique Procession incorporating video, transparencies and drawing, will be shown along with Jiayi Ling’s piece Las Vegas, China, which features suspended silk panels and video. Diane Richey-Ward will also show a number of three-dimensional wall pieces that highlight drawing, sculpture and transparent images. Their work examines the integration between works on paper, video and transparencies to explore the effects of how light travels through media with varying opacities.

August 6,2005 - September 11, 2005

Christopher Brown

New Work

Recognized for his large scale, intensely colored paintings based on photographs, the internationally known Bay Area artist earned his M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis in 1976. Brown, an Illinois native, came west in 1973 to study with the impressive faculty at Davis that included Wayne Thieb aud, William Wiley, Robert Arneson and Roy De Forest. His style balances abstraction and figuration with a variety of texture and depth.

Brown began exhibiting his work publicly in 1977. He earned his first solo show in 1980 at the Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco. Since that time, he has had numerous exhibitions, both in this country and abroad. This will be his first exhibition at CCAS. Brown lives and works in Berkeley.

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Artist Christopher Brown lectures to attendees at CCAS' Artist Lecture Series

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