San Jose ICA Presents Nine Bay Area Artists in its NextNew Exhibition |
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| Written by rubin |
| Saturday, 30 May 2009 04:11 |
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 Artists represented in the exhibition include Michelle
Blade, Colette Campbell-Jones, Misako Inaoka, Vanessa Marsh, Carson Murdach,
Sandra Ono, Ryan Pierce, Rebecca Rothfus, and Michael Ryan. This year's NextNew artists are recent graduates of regional MFA programs who reflect on 'green' as source material for their ideas and work. "One of the distinguishing characteristics of this year's show is how the artists have succeeded in marrying their conceptual goals with their chosen materials," explains Cathy Kimball, ICA Executive Director. On view is work in a range of mediums, including miniature sculptures of invented creatures by Misako Inaoka, and Michael Ryan's life-size floating, breathing specters on life-support. Painters Michelle Blade's, Carson Murdach's and Ryan Pierce's richly-rendered paintings depict apocalyptic dreamscapes, post-industrial landscapes, and historically-referenced seascapes devoured by urban sprawl. Digital photographic collages by Colette Campbell-Jones and mixed media pieces by Vanessa Marsh shine a spotlight on the intentional and unintentional footprints left by visitors in once remote and uninhabited natural settings. "The big, unwieldy topic of green encompasses everything from re-using lunch bags to halting global warming," muses ICA Assistant Curator, Susan O'Malley. "To successfully tackle this theme we selected artists who are remarkable in part by how they personalize the topic and keenly engage the viewer by presenting curious combinations of beauty and destruction, natural and man-made materials, and classic and contemporary subject matter." Visit The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at : http://www.sjica.org/ Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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