April 2013
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March 2013
3 posts
Local fashionistas are part of a growing trend to... →
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Monterey County Weekly
In a recent virtual interview, CSU Monterey Bay professor – and style icon – Angelica Muro of the Visual and Public Art Department, whose outfits incorporate tweed, leather,hounds-tooth accents, vintage Dior, leather heals from Urban Outfitters, statement rings and nail polish colors, shared her thoughts on how fashion blogging is affecting our culture...
UPCOMING: Bookish Beasts: A Zine & Comic Fest
Bookish Beasts: A Zine & Comic Fest, April 14, 2013, Noon-6pm
The Club Lido Project (a collaborative project by Juan Luna-Avin and Angelica Muro) will be featured @ Bookish Beasts: A Zine & Comic Fest.
The Center for Sex and Culture presents: Bookish Beasts: A Zine & Comic Fest. 18+ APRIL 14th Noon - 6PM. Zines, comics and art by the Bay Area’s best creators of transgressive and...
UPCOMING: PHOTO ID @ The Santa Cruz Museum of Art...
March 30 – July 7, 2013: PHOTO ID
This Museum-wide photography exhibition is centered on the theme of identity, and loosely broken into three sub-themes: self, social and gender.
In the Art Forum Gallery on the 3rd floor, themes of gender and social constructs are developed in work like that of Jana Marcus, who shares work from her “Transfiguration” project, featuring...
January 2013
4 posts
UPCOMING: SPRING 2013 @ Self Help-Graphics, Los...
This exhibit will address Mexico’s current narco-wars, the underworld of crime, drug trafficking, and its related vices of sex trade, drug consumption and the resultant effects on its victims; the everyday men and women of Latin America, through poverty, addiction, and death.
http://www.selfhelpgraphics.com/about/mission
All Over The Map →
All Over The Map featured artworks, installations, artifacts, and collections around the themes of memory and history, and the mapping of time and space. It included works and artifacts by Claudia Bernardi, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Allan Kaprow, Faith Ringold and many others. There was also a series of exhibitions curated by Moira Roth and Annika Marie: among them, In Memory of The Poor Farm:...
October 2012
3 posts
Collective exhibition, until September 22nd 2012.
The collective exhibition You are breathing in it! Alternative Art Practices explores the latest practices and tendencies of the contemporary art in several geographical locations: Riverside, Los Angeles, San Jose and Chicago in the USA; Tijuana in Mexico and San Juan in Puerto Rico.
Thanks to installations, photographs, drawings, sculptures...
Centro de ancianos liga generaciones mediante arte...
Fuera de todo entorno tradicional que caracteriza a una exposición artística, cada tres meses, las risas alegres y discusiones animadas sobre arte llenan los pasillos del Bethany Center Senior Residence Housing.
El 20 de septiembre pasado, los residentes de este centro se reunieron con artistas y otros miembros de la comunidad para hablar de arte, cultura y política en lo...
Senior center bonds generations with art BY LAURA...
Every three months, the sound of light-hearted laughter and lively discussions about art fill the halls of what might at first seem an unexpected art show venue: the Bethany Center Senior Housing complex in the Mission.
On Sept. 20, residents of the Bethany Center mingled with artists and other community members to discuss art, culture and politics at Ruth’s Table’s eighth art exhibit, Finos...
September 2012
6 posts
Finos Detalles, featuring nine Bay Area artists whose practices and work emphasize the concept of the handmade. The title, which translates to “fine details” in Spanish, is taken from a hand-painted sign of a Mexican furniture store. Through a wide range of techniques, the artists explore personal and social issues that cross cultural boundaries.
Curated by Juan Luna-Avin,...
August 2012
13 posts
Finos Detalles: Handcrafted Practices and Works by Six Bay Area Artists
Curated by Juan Luna-Avin
@ Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
Finos Detalles is an exhibition featuring six Bay Area artists whose practices and work emphasize the concept of the handmade. The title, which translates to “fine details” in Spanish, is taken from a hand-painted sign of a Mexican furniture...
TRANSITORY ART
by Sugriel Reyes
April 29, 2011
Making my way out of the M line, as I get off at the Powell station, I pause before heading towards the stairs and see a drawing. Its captivity perfectly colors a memory that I have lived too often. The piece hangs on the BART wall, next to other advertisements which offer a range of subliminal messages from food delivery services to apparel...
Integral Education: The CIIS Blog DISPATCHES FROM...
THE NEW GENERATION OF CHICANA ART
By BECKY FARRAR
MARCH 17, 2011
“I use art as a tool for the transformation and education of our country,” said Favianna Rodriguezduring last Saturday’s ChicaChic Intergenerational Panel, hosted by The Arts at CIIS. “It’s a human right to have access to arts and culture.”
Rodriguez joined fellow ChicaChic artist Angelica Muro in conversation with local...
CHICO & CHANG Exhibition Gallery Guide (PDF) →
Chico and Chang @ SJICA was originally curated by Kevin B. Chen for Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
Supported in part by a grant from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Donor Circle for the Arts
http://www.sjica.org/uploaded/files/chicoandchang_guide.pdf
3.18 May the Force be with you
Chico & Chang
GROUP SHOW
JUN 16 - SEP 16
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
by Ellen Tani
The phrase El mundo es un buñuelo (translation: “The world is a handkerchief” or “It’s a small world”) appears to have been scrawled by a miniature graffitist on Tracy Snelling’s architectural diorama, Mexicalichina (2011), on view at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). Perched...
SAN JOSE EXHIBIT LOOKS AT IMPACT OF ASIAN CULTURE
Before there was Silicon Valley, there was the valley. As a western territory and wild frontier, the Bay Area has promised opportunity throughout its history, whether in gold, agriculture or technology. Along with these successes, however, are stories of class struggle and racial bias which are often excluded from the mainstream narrative.
Two new exhibits at The San Jose Institute of...
Domestic Disobedience: Mesa College Art Gallery →
July 2012
18 posts
WatchThis is a Takeover! A 10 Year Survey of Slanguage Jun 2 - Sep 2, 2012
http://www.zero1biennial.org/content/san-jose-institute-contemporary-art-1
Chico & Chang
GROUP SHOW
JUN 16 - SEP 16
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
by Ellen Tani
The phrase El mundo es un buñuelo (translation: “The world is a handkerchief” or “It’s a small world”) appears to have been scrawled by a miniature graffitist on Tracy Snelling’s architectural diorama, Mexicalichina (2011), on view at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). Perched like...
clublido:
Through September 16, 2012
A look at the impact of Latino and Asian cultures on California’s visual landscape
Pablo Cristi, Sergio De La Torre, Takehito Etani, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Clement Hanami, Mike Lai, Angelica Muro & Juan Luna-Avin, Favianna Rodriguez, Lordy Rodriguez, Tracey Snelling and Charlene Tan
Chico and Chang was originally curated by Kevin B. Chen for...
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http://www.riversideartmuseum.org/coming-soon/you-are-breathing-in-it-alternative-art-practices/
You Are Breathing In It! is the answer that Slanguage Studio founders Karla Diaz and Mario Ybarra, Jr. give when, upon visits to their studio, they are asked the inevitable question, ‘Where is your art?’ This groundbreaking exhibition at the Riverside Art Museum examines...
May 2012
22 posts
