Free Event:
California College of the Arts
Fall 2009 Biannual Interface Show
Friday December 11th
7PM – 10PM
California College of the Arts
Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center
5112 Broadway
Oakland Campus
Info: 510.594.3656
Interactive, kinetic, robotic, generative, and computer-based artworks. Hosted by the Media Arts Program.
MYRA MIMLITSCH-GRAY
“anti/icono/clastic”
Presented as part of CCA’s Design and Craft Lecture Series:
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 7 pm
OAKLAND CAMPUS, NAHL HALL
5212 BROADWAY (AT COLLEGE AVENUE)
Myra Mimlitsch-Gray is deeply interested in the polemics and possibilities of traditional craft in contemporary practice. She will discuss her recent residency at Kohler Co. and the two bodies of work she created there: one more domestic and utilitarian, the other more abstract and sculptural. The various modes of production available at the foundry presented new challenges and opportunities, opening up her studio practice, inspiring her to take a deep look at the divergent paths of tradition and innovation, and reaffirming her commitment to metalsmithing.
Mimlitsch-Gray is chair of the art department and professor of metal at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, call 415-703-9563 or visit online.
ANNE WILSON “Liminal Networks”
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 7 pm
OAKLAND CAMPUS, NAHL HALL
5212 BROADWAY (AT COLLEGE AVENUE)
Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based artist whose sculptures, drawings, Internet projects, and DVD stop-motion animations explore themes of time, loss, and social ritual. She uses found materials that are familiar and rich with cultural meaning, including table linens, bedsheets, human hair, lace, thread, and wire. Using pixelation and projection, dematerialization and reanimation, she works in a conceptual space, a liminal zone between drawing and object making, where social and political ideas overlap the material processes of handwork and industry. Her finished pieces remain liminal, in whatever new medium they enter.
Wilson holds an MFA from CCA and has exhibited in the United States, England, and Japan. Her work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. She chairs the Department of Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
