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Currently:
IN-FLUX: Recalibrating the Unknown - 3/21/2024 - 5/12/2024
At The Museum of Northern California Art (MONCA)
features works by 170+ SFAI alumni, staff, and faculty and is curated by Jeremy P. H. Morgan.
With the 2022 closure of San Francisco Art Institute - a bedrock of contemporary American art education for 150 years - as a backdrop, this exhibition will encourage and invite artists to consider the role of art as a means of revealing possibilities within the current dynamic fusion of social, environmental, economic and epidemiological challenges.
"The theme of "INFLUX" invites us to consider the complexities of our present moment and reflect critically on our experiences. For those of us involved in this exhibition, our connection to the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) runs deep, as students, staff, or faculty. The illustrious history of the school is part of our lived reality, shaping our perspectives and practices. We remember what a wonderful “cauldron of creative activity” San Francisco Art institute actually was while celebrating a sense of an unfolding and redefining of the SFAI community’s traditions and concomitant visions". Jeremy Morgan (curator)
Link: https://www.sfartistsalumni.org/influx
Recently:
Artist in Residence at Joya: AiR in Andalusia, Spain.
Joya:AiR is a cultural and sustainable destination in the heart of rural Spain. It facilitates an international network of artists and writers whilst simultaneously breathing life into an arid zone struggling against the combined forces of climate change, global markets and land degradation. The Joya: AiR programme was founded by Simon and Donna Beckmann with the intention of making a strong cultural destination within a Spanish rural context. They believe that dynamic and sustainable creative activity is the backbone to regenerating land that has been slowly abandoned over the last fifty years. Cortijada Los Gázquez is remote, being 15km from the nearest village, however as a creative hub there is always an inspirational environment of knowledgeable and informed thinking around all creative disciplines.
The Space Between a two person show by Eric Araujo and John Felix Arnold
Aquarius Project Space
June 10th-June 30th 2023
Opening Reception June 11th, 4-8pm
11-16 Wyckoff Ave, Ridgewood, Queens, NY, 11385
The exhibition is by appointment only. For viewing appointments, press opportunities, inquiries, and more information please email aquariusviewings@gmail.com
Eric Araujo and John Felix Arnold have developed a life-long bond as artists, friends, and recent studio mates, which continues to be seen in the dialogue between their evolving bodies of work. Through different approaches, materials, and visual languages, they confront similar core questions and issues in their artmaking. Their new exhibition, The Space Between, presented at the Aquarius Project Space, offers them the opportunity to create a multidisciplinary spatial conversation, leading to new perspectives on questions they both grapple with in their respective practices and lives. Through a combination of sculpture, painting, and drawing, Araujo’s selection of work deals with the human condition, ego, and self evolution. Arnold’s selection, rooted in drawing based mixed media and sculptural installation, centers on the idea of transformation through lived experience, expanding into contemplations on armor, movement, and spirituality. This show is a window into the layered connection of these two artists, and therein a nod to the power of long term dialogues between friends and peers throughout art history.
This evolving exhibition will be presented in the spirit of the kunsthalle, wherein creative experimentation and the expansion of artist’s practices are given fertile ground to come to life in often more fluid and unfixed ways.This exhibition offers a more informal foundation, where the artists are at liberty to shift the space and the dialogue between the works and create activations during the duration of show.
CHASHAMA
340 E 64th St. NY, NY 10065
November 18th 2022 - January 6th 2023
What’s he building in there? An exercise in humility is a solo exhibition that brings together sculptural objects that come from the desire to make things that are not derivative or intentionally reference or conceptualize something other. They are not topical and don’t speak to anything that is happening in the world now. In a time when the world is reeling back from a pandemic after taking stock of what matters most and attempting to maintain some semblance of sanity from the frequency of negative news it’s important to relearn how to feel, how to interpret, and to take a break. While art is a vital and valuable vehicle for the telling of the history of our time these works are not for that. They are abstract, formal, reductive, elegant, taking cues from parametric architecture and biomorphic forms found in nature while hearkening to traditional furniture making processes but heed the unconventional for their outcome.
www.chashama.org