Worth Ryder Art Gallery

UCB Art Practice Sussman Lecture: John Zurier is TONIGHT at 7:30pm

John Zurier
Inaugural Wendy Sussman Memorial Lecture in Painting

7:30 PM • 160 Kroeber Hall

reception to follow at 9 pm in conjunction with
2012 Wendy Sussman Undergraduate Prize in Painting:
Julie English and Anjali Rao
at Worth Ryder Art Gallery, April 18-28

In his paintings, John Zurier attempts to achieve the maximum sense of color, light, and space with the most simple and direct means. His mostly monochrome works have a strong physicality that derives from his interest in the materiality of both paint and support.

Zurier's paintings have been shown in recent exhibitions including Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, UC Berkeley Art Museum; TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles; The 7th Gwangju Biennial: 2008 Annual Report, Gwangju, South Korea; to: Night, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY, in conjunction with “Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and CCA: 100 Years in the Making, Oakland Museum of California. Recent one-person exhibitions have been shown at Peter Blum Gallery, New York; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Galeria Javier López, Madrid. Zurier is Eminent Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts. He received both a BA in Landscape Architecture and MFA in Painting from University of California at Berkeley.

Upcoming events:

EXTRA PULP: Honors Studio Exhibition
May 2-12
Reception Wednesday, May 2, 4-7 PM

UCB Art Practice Class of 2012 Senior Show
May 16-18

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Richard Shaw: 40+ Years of Students and Nathaniel Klein: Friendship Park open April 5

Richard Shaw: 40+ Years of Students

April 5-28, 2012 | Reception Thursday, April 5, 4-7 pm

This exhibition, in honor of Richard Shaw's 40+ years of teaching at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute, is open to all of Richard's former students and assistants. Small works (and small egos) welcome. The reception will celebrate Richard on the occasion of his retirement from the Department of Art Practice. In addition to his influence on generations of students, Shaw is one of the most respected and collected artists in contemporary ceramics.

Friendship Park: Video by Nathaniel Klein

2011-12 Haas Scholar and Art Practice major Nathaniel Klein presents an experimental video and art show exploring the U.S./Mexico border as it is situated temporally, spatially and psychically. Focusing on three primary sites: the San Ysidro border checkpoint, the “Friendship Park” monument that marks the starting point of the U.S./Mexico border, and the Sonoran Desert, Nathaniel Klein’s work draws on the writings of Gloria Anzaldua on the concept of a political border as both a physical and psychic space. He uses Anzaldua’s theories as a base for investigating how the histories of the U.S./Mexico border are embodied by the people who pass through it, and by various sites along its path. Also inspired by the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, who centralizes questions of subjectivity, framing, language and translation, Klein applies Trinh’s conceptual framework and explores the relationship between the stories and rhetoric used to describe geographical borders, and how both have shifted and/or remained stagnant over time.

Upcoming:

2011-12 Wendy Sussman Undergraduate Painting Award: Julie English and Anjali Rao
April 18-28

Inaugural Wendy Sussman Lecture in Painting: John Zurier
Monday, April 23, 7:30 PM
160 Kroeber Hall

Honors Studio
May 2-12

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Edgar Heap of Birds, Evolutionary Insight and Sphere of Influence Opening February 15

Image: Edgar Heap of Birds, "Dead Indian Stories: Geronimo," 2011. Monoprint. 15 x 22 inches.

Edgar Heap of Birds
Dead Indian Stories :: Personal Notes

The artworks of celebrated artist HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS include multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large-scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture. At Worth Ryder Art Gallery, he will exhibit 16 monoprints from his recent series "Dead Indian Stories" and 16 monoprints from "Personal Notes" which offer an introspective counterpoint against the former's political activism.

Heap of Birds will give a special Wednesday night Visiting Artist Lecture in 160 Kroeber Hall at 7:30 PM, preceded at 7 pm by a short film about "Wheel," 2005, installed at Denver Art Museum.

Co-sponsored by Native American Studies. The Art Practice Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, the Bonwitt-Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment, and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.

Evolutionary Insight
Renee Adams * G. Craig Hobbs * John Hundt * Misako Inaoka * Tara Tucker * Curated by Amber Stucke

The theory of evolution has nearly as much controversy over it today as when Darwin published Origin of Species. EVOLUTIONARY INSIGHT is a show not to emphasize the controversies within the theory of evolution, but to bring to attention artists' connection to the science of evolution. Through rigid explorations, keen observations, close investigations, and insightful imaginations, artists Renee Adams, G. Craig Hobbs, John Hundt, Misako Inaoka, and Tara Tucker will bring new insights into our perceptions and understandings of how to look at the environment around us.

Sphere of Influence
Sarah Hotchkiss * Bean Gilsdorf * Ida Rödén * Rachel Dawson

SPHERE OF INFLUENCE is an exhibition of new works by four artists created expressly for the Worth Ryder Art Gallery. Using the site's close proximity to the Berkeley Art Museum as a curatorial starting point, Rachel Dawson, Bean Gilsdorf, Sarah Hotchkiss, and Ida Rödén selected works from the 2009 exhibition "Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye" for source materials. As artists who regularly use appropriation in their practices, the challenge was to find and follow links between their individual choices, creating a circular pattern of connections and influences.

Special thanks to Berkeley Art Museum for additional support of this exhibition.

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Spring 2012 UCB Art Practice Visiting Artist Lecture Series

**all lectures are held in 160 Kroeber Hall**

MONDAY February 13 • Kianga Ford

Kianga Ford is a artist whose projects, which combine installation and site-specific strategies, often highlight the intersections between media and space. Her work engages sounds inherent capacitiesfor creating immersive fields and technologies, like Max MSP, that have been specifically designed toenhance the spatial dimensions of media work. Though her current concerns gravitate organicallytoward sound, her training, teaching, and practice have all focused on concept-directed forms, andshe continues to work across a broad range of media, from more traditional new genres, like video and performance, to collaborations in mathematics and new architectural media.

Most recently, she has received grants to support new projects from the LEF Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, the Harpo Foundation, California Community Foundation, and Creative Capital. The grant from Creative Capital supports her largest scale project to-date: Walking Home is a cross-country walk from Southern California to her childhood home in Central Florida that brings Kianga into direct conversation with communities across the U.S. Ford is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts/New Genres at Parsons The New School for Design, before which she was at Massachusetts College of Art where she was Assistant Professor in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). She holds an MA and ABD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA from Georgetown University.

WEDNESDAY February 15 • Edgar Heap of Birds • Co-sponsored by the Department of Native American Studies
preceded by a short film on "Wheel," 2005 installation at Denver Art Museum, at 7 pm

Edgar Heap of Birds The artworks of HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS include multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

Heap of Birds received his Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1979), his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (1976) and has undertaken graduate studies at The Royal College of Art, London, England. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts (2008).

The artist has exhibited his works at The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, Hong Kong Art Center, China, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia and Grand Palais, Paris, France. Heap of Birds represented the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian at the 52^nd Venice Biennale in June 2007 with a major collateral public art project and blown glass works, titled “Most Serene Republics.”

MONDAY March 19 • Mario Ybarra Jr. and Karla Diaz

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Mario Ybarra Jr. is an artist whose work operates as examinations of conflated and excluded social norms, often examining complete environments, histories and narratives. Ybarra’s visual dialogues expose an autobiographical context that is unique to southern California but universal in concept. He received an MFA from University of California Irvine and a BFA from Otis.

Karla Diaz is a writer, performer, artist and educator, also born and raised in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts. A former Plaza/CAP (Community Arts Partnership) student, she uses collaborative and pedagogical approaches to working with artists and communities.

Both Ybarra and Diaz have exhibited internationally in major museums and galleries from California to Cairo, including MOCA, LACMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate, the Getty, and many more. In 2002, Ybarra and Diaz were co-founders of the artist-collective Slanguage, where Diaz now oversees exhibitions and programming.

MONDAY April 23 • John Zurier • Inaugural Wendy Sussmann Memorial Lecture in Painting

In his paintings John Zurier attempts to achieve the maximum sense of color, light, and space with the most simple and direct means. His mostly monochrome works have a strong physicality that derives from his interest in the materiality of both paint and support.

His work has been shown in recent exhibitions including Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, UC Berkeley Art Museum; TRANSformal, Pharmaka, Los Angeles; The 7th Gwangju Biennial: 2008 Annual Report, Gwangju, South Korea; to: Night, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY, in conjunction with “Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and CCA: 100 Years in the Making, Oakland Museum of California. Recent one-person exhibitions have been shown at Peter Blum Gallery, New York; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadlephia, and Galeria Javier López, Madrid. Zurier is Eminent Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts.

He received both a BA in Landscape Architecture and MFA in Painting from University of California at Berkeley.

The UCB Art Practice Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, the Bonwitt-Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.

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Wednesday February 15: EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS at UCB Art Practice

EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS

Dead Indian Stories::Personal Notes

FEBRUARY 15-MARCH 3 I RECEPTION WEDNESDAY FEB 15, 4-7 PM

Followed by VISITING ARTIST LECTURE

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 I 7:30 PM I 160 KROEBER HALL

preceded by a short film on "Wheel," 2005 installation at Denver Art Museum, at 7 pm

Co-sponsored by the Department of Native American Studies

The artworks of HOCK E AYE VI EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS include multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

Heap of Birds received his Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1979), his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (1976) and has undertaken graduate studies at The Royal College of Art, London, England. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts (2008).

The artist has exhibited his works at The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York, New York, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, Hong Kong Art Center, China, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia and Grand Palais, Paris, France. Heap of Birds represented the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian at the 52^nd Venice Biennale in June 2007 with a major collateral public art project and blown glass works, titled “Most Serene Republics.”

The Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, the Bonwitt-Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.

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Introductions: 2012 First Year MFA Show

Introductions: 2012 First Year MFA Exhibition

January 25-February 11, 2012

Opening Wednesday, January 25, 5-8 PM

Exhibiting Artists:

Dru Anderson

Dusadee Huntrakul

Erin Johnson

Sahar Khoury

Jess Rowland

Sean Talley

The Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley is pleased to debut our MFA class of 2013. Introductions: 2012 First Year MFA Exhibition provides an opportunity to preview the work of these six emerging artists, who make art in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, assemblage, installation, sound and video.

Dru Anderson is currently deconstructing and reconstructing dreams using pastels as her medium. Her installation at Worth Ryder includes paintings and sculptures.

Dusadee Huntrakul works conceptually with found objects and installation. He also draws and builds things.

Utilizing video, audio, writing and sculpture, Erin Johnson's work examines the roles faith, technology, and desire play in communication. Recently, she has explored the entangled histories of the Spiritualist Church and the telegraph.

Sahar Khoury constructs formal, figurative, and architectural structures out of salvageable materials. She employs paint-dipping, cloth-wrapping, papier-mâché, and silkscreen in her installations, which vacillate between excessive ornamentation and skeletal.

Jess Rowland's artwork is Sound, Neuroscience, Video and Concept. She uses homemade electronics to integrate voice into everyday objects, made to mix and re-mix methods, ideologies, things that aren’t supposed to go together, into a whole which breaks artificial boundaries; breaks functionality or subverts it.

Made from unassuming materials such as plaster and graphite powder, Sean Talley's sculptures and drawings display a heightened aesthetic concern that recalls the formal inquiries of 20th century art practices.

High-resolution images of each artist's work can be downloaded here.

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So Low Show opens Wednesday

SO LOW SHOW

November 30-December 10

Opening Wednesday, November 30, 4-7 PM

Valerie Carbajal
Markham Johnson
Nathaniel Klein
Jessica Kreck
Nancy Ledesma
Alyssa Lempesis
Bliss Morton
Anjali Rao
Ariel Ruby
Stephanie Smith

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Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Patty Chang

PATTY CHANG

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 I 7:30 PM
102 WURSTER HALL

Since her sensational appearance on the New York art scene in the late 1990s with performance art and performance-based video works, Patty Chang has continually explored the limits of our physical and psychological comfort zone. Originally trained in painting, she is now primarily known for videos and photography documenting her own performances. Using her body as a medium of expression, she employs satire to question contemporary gender issues and to lead viewers to reconsider the popular image of China in the West and in Asia.

Patty Chang was born in San Leandro, California, in 1972. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Chang's latest solo exhibitions include “The Product of Love,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2009); and “Die Ware Liebe,” Arratia, Beer, Berlin, Germany (2009); recent group exhibitions include “Chewing Color: Patty Chang, Kate Gilmore, Marilyn Minter,” MTV HD Screen, Times Square, New York (2009); “The F Word,” The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada (2008); “You Are My Mirror 1 (Je T’aime Moi Non Plus),” FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France (2008).

Image: Patty Chang, Captain, 2005. Video still.

The Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the The Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, The Bonwitt – Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.

February 13• Kianga Ford

February 15 • Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds • Co-sponsored by Native American Studies

160 Kroeber Hall

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Worth Ryder Art Gallery closed Tuesday 11/14

The Worth Ryder Art Gallery will be closed on Tuesday, November 14 in observance of the UC Berkeley-wide strike and day of action.

The Occupy Cal general assembly has endorsed the transformation the campus into an “Open University” in order to mark our opposition to the privatization of the university and also as a means of promoting the possibility of free and democratic education.

Below, please find a schedule of events for Tuesday’s strike and day of action:

12 p.m. A convergence on Sproul
(High) Noon – 2 p.m. Teach-outs at the Open University on Sproul
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m Rally on Sproul against Police Brutality and Privatization
2:30 p.m March (destination TBA)
5 p.m. General Assembly

Please consider lending your presence and support by participating in these events.

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Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell

TED PURVES AND SUSANNE COCKRELL

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 I 7:30 PM
155 KROEBER HALL

Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves create social art projects that investigate the overlay of urban and rural systems upon the lives of specific communities. They ask questions about the nature of people and place as seen through social economy, history and local ecology. The collaboration began with Temescal Amity Works (2004-07), a public project which facilitated and documented the exchange of backyard produce, conversation, and collective biography within the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, CA.

In addition to their collaborative practice, Purves and Cockrell are both professors at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Purves was the founder of CCA's MFA Area for Social Practice, and continues to be one of the lead professors for the central workshop within that curriculum. They have received a Creative Work Fund grant from the Elise and Walter Haas Foundation, a Visual Arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation, an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, as well as support from the Oakland Office of Cultural Affairs and California College of the Arts.

The Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the The Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, The Bonwitt – Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.

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UCB Art Practice Sussman Lecture: John Zurier is TONIGHT at 7:30pm

Richard Shaw: 40+ Years of Students and Nathaniel Klein: Friendship Park open April 5

Edgar Heap of Birds, Evolutionary Insight and Sphere of Influence Opening February 15

Spring 2012 UCB Art Practice Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Wednesday February 15: EDGAR HEAP OF BIRDS at UCB Art Practice

Introductions: 2012 First Year MFA Show

So Low Show opens Wednesday

Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Patty Chang

Worth Ryder Art Gallery closed Tuesday 11/14

Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell