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Exhibitions ● Past |
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May 8 - June 29
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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.
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March 10 - April 27 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.
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
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January 10 - February 24, 2008 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.
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Also sponsored in part by Mimi and Burnett Miller; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Bayard's Meadow, Jake Berthot, On Thursday, October 11, Craig N. Smith presented a lecture titled, Painterly Abstration and the Landscape.
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July 5 - August 26, 2007
Tar, Dust and Canvas
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.
On Thursday, July 12, Jack presented a gallery talk. To hear the presentation, please click <here>
Jack Ogden. Photo by Joy Bertinuson.
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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 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>
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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.
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:
The memorial titled, Untitled establishes a monument to the lost, a personal Composition for Authenticating Consciousness by Mike Crain.
Click here to visit Andrew Connelly's web site.
Click here to view Authenticating Consciousness on YouTube.
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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
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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.
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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),
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July 6, 2006 - August 27, 2006 Aspects of Humanity
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.
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May 6, 2006-June 26, 2006 James Albertson
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March 2, 2006 - April 30, 2006 A Survey of Work from 1998-2005 Yoram Wolberger
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Yoram Wolberger Toy Soldier #3 (Crawling Soldier) [72" x 60" x 24"
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December 1, 2005 - February 26, 2006 Julia Couzens and Peter Stegall Strange Fascination and Paintings and Constructions |
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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
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]
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September 15 - October 30, 2005
Diane Richey-Ward and Jiayi Ling Investigations/Collaborations
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.
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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
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.
Image Right: Artist Christopher Brown lectures to attendees at CCAS' Artist Lecture Series |
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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.
aud, William Wiley, Robert Arneson and Roy De Forest. His style balances abstraction and figuration with a variety of texture and depth.