EXHIBITION

Hudson River Museum

‘From Julie Buffalohead and Kiki Smith to Walton Ford and James Prosek, the artists in this exhibition represent another stage in the evolution of animal art.’

‘Wild animals have been present in art since the first artists painted images on cave walls or carved figures in stone tens of thousands of years ago. Today’s artists continue to use animal imagery as a way to address humanity’s interconnectedness with the natural world. Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art, explores the meaning of these creative expressions within the context of contemporary art. Featuring a diverse group of more than forty artworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s permanent collection, the exhibition offers a wide range of styles in a variety of media, divided into four thematic sections: Tradition, Politics, Science, and Aesthetics. These realms act as overlapping chapters, investigating the ways we use animal imagery to tackle human concerns and responsibilities.’

‘The title of this exhibition is a play on Charles Darwin’s concept of natural selection from his pivotal writing, On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin’s ideas contributed much to the development of wildlife art in the late nineteenth century, as artists began to represent animals in natural habitats, enacting natural behaviors. From Julie Buffalohead and Kiki Smith to Walton Ford and James Prosek, the artists in this exhibition represent another stage in the evolution of animal art: choosing to represent animals in alternative, unnatural spaces—spaces more often directly linked to civilization than to wilderness.’

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art is organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Generous support provided by Art Bridges.

Featured Artists

Troy Abbott • Timothy Berg and Rebekah Myers • George Boorujy • John Buck • Julie Buffalohead • Mark Dion • Mark Eberhard • Dave Eggers • Juan Fontanive • Walton Ford • Scott Fraser • Peter Gerakaris • Gillie and Marc • Penelope Gottlieb • Starr Hardridge • Nicola Hicks • Dennis Hlynsky • Barbara Kassel • Zoe Keller • Wendy Klemperer • Kollabs, Anke Schofield and Luis Garcia-Nerey • Emily Lamb • Ruth Marshall • Wendy Maruyama • Robert McCauley • William Morris • Marc Petrovic • James Prosek • Shelley Reed • Preston Singletary • Allison Leigh Smith • Kiki Smith • Shawn Smith • Lauren Strohacker and Kendra Sollars • William Sweetlove • Leslie Thornton • Paul Villinski • JenMarie Zeleznak

EXHIBITION

Mt. San Antonio College, Diana Berger Gallery, Building 1BC-10

‘“Color/Form” is intended to bring emphasis to the depths ceramic artists must go to obtain successful color schemes in their work.’

Participating Artists: Joan Takayama-Ogawa, Mike Helke, Kat Hutter and Roger Lee , Jose Flores Nava, Jeff Mitchell, Rebekah Myers and Tim Berg, Kevin Snipes, Amy Santoferraro

Curated by Katie Queen & Nikki Lewis

Opening Reception: Thursday September 14. 2023. 4:00 - 7:00pm

EXHIBITION

Fuller Craft Museum

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit. To mark this occasion, Fuller Craft Museum presents Lagomorphs: Rabbits and Hares in Contemporary Craft. Rabbits and hares have long inspired creative expression, from ancient Chinese decorative arts to illuminated medieval manuscripts to Albrecht Durer’s Young Hare and Jeff Koons’s Rabbit. Fuller Craft’s multi-media exhibition showcases the range of characters and attributes that we humans bestow on these marvelous creatures, spotlighting the physicality, symbolism, and conceptual possibilities of the lagomorph order.

Happy to have Now you see it… (special edition) and Against the Tide (special edition) included in this virtual exhibition. Check out the link below to view the exhibition.

The Chan Gallery of the Pomona College Art Department presents Kindling: Art and Environmentalist Awakenings, a virtual exhibition showcasing artwork by members of the Claremont community. Kindling represents both destruction and awakening; it denotes a material to be burned and an action of ignition, instigation. This exhibition hopes to spark, feed, or reignite flames of awareness--it presents work intended to bring our threatened environment to the forefront and inspire action for its defense.Kindling brings together artists from across the country, all of whom share ties with Claremont and the surrounding area. The vast geographic and thematic scope of their work bonds and holds together thanks to their common experiences in Southern California and shared concern for our global natural environment.

An exhibition on the importance of the natural world would be incomplete if it did not include a land acknowledgment. We acknowledge that the Claremont Colleges reside on the land of the Gabrielino/Tongva people. The Tongva people are the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar, including all of the Los Angeles Basin and the South Channel Islands.

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In its 30th year, Art Miami maintains a preeminent position in America's modern and contemporary art fair market and is g​lobally recognized as a primary destination for the acquisition of the most important works from the 20th and 21st centuries​.

Opening Reception: TBD

We are happy to be included in the exhibition, Off Menu!, at the Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, CA. Stop by if you are in the area.

Bedford Gallery exhibits the work of modern and contemporary artists. The Gallery is dedicated to providing the public with opportunities to learn about visual arts through public programs that are varied, accessible, challenging, and educational. Its mission is to provide exhibitions and other programs that both reflect and engage the diverse audiences of the entire Contra Costa region. With 3,500 square feet of exhibition space, Bedford Gallery is the largest community-based visual arts facility between the Bay Area and Sacramento.

Opening Reception: TBD

In honor of its esteemed fifty-year history, Fuller Craft Museum presents the exhibition Striking Gold. This invitational exhibition marks the institution’s “golden anniversary” as it probes the storied history of gold as an artistic material as well as its cultural, historical, and political associations. The inclusion of gold in the selected works reveals clear intention and purpose, rather than being used for purely decorative effect. In each case gold serves as the subject, as well as a material property of the work.

The exhibition is co-curated by Suzanne Ramljak, an art historian, writer, curator, and former editor of Metalsmith magazine, and Beth McLaughlin, Fuller Craft’s Chief Curator of Exhibitions and Collections.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 31st, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

If you are in Denver please check out work at the Birdwatcher exhibition at Visions West Contemporary. Birdwatcher will feature the work of artists are Troy Abbott, Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers, Rachel Denny, Adonna Khare, Enrique Gomez De Molina, Malia Landis, Shelley Reed, Mariko Paterson.

Opening Reception: January 24, 4-6pm

An exhibition featuring works by faculty and staff in the arts at The Claremont Colleges that almost all came in via our intercampus mail system or was hand delivered.

A variety of media are represented including books, collage, digital printing, drawing, mixed media, photography, painting, Risograph printing, screen printing, sculpture, and weaving.

Participating artists:
Mark Allen and Paul Morgan, Kim Alexander, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers, Johanna Breiding, Kareem Collie, Steve Comba, Gabriel Garcia, David Hendren, Carmine Iannaccone, Yi Kai, Fred Leichter, Cynthia Madrigal, Tristan Marsh, Jessica McCoy, Sandeep Mukherjee, Michael O’Malley, Shannon Randolph, Amy Santoferraro, Linda Shimoda and Todd Shimoda, Mercedes Teixido, Lily Yang

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In its 29th edition, Art Miami maintains a preeminent position in America's modern and contemporary art fair market and is g​lobally recognized as a primary destination for the acquisition of the most important works from the 20th and 21st centuries​.

Opening Reception: October 5, 2018

Making a Difference: Social and Political Activism in Clay will bring together a wide range of artists working in clay who directly address current events through their projects. At this moment of political uncertainty and a seeming turn of popular opinion toward negativity, fear, and isolation, we want The Clay Studio to counter these notions using our curatorial platform by amplifying the voices of diverse artists. Having a publication to document this exhibition will be especially powerful at this moment with the support of CraftNOW Philadelphia. CraftNOW’s Programming Committee, consisting of curators and makers representing over a dozen other exhibiting institutions, has adopted Making a Difference as the theme for the city-wide initiative in Fall 2018.  Through collective marketing and exposure, The Clay Studio will have the opportunity to share the Making a Difference narrative beyond our familiar audience.

Opening Reception: September 2, 2018 1-3pm

Curator: Tim Berg

The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) is proud to present The Incongruous Body, curated by Tim Berg who brings together fourteen artists who represent, stylize, hybridize, and deconstruct the human body to starkly different comic effect. Their work is politically poignant and socially engaging; it uses observational humor and storytelling; it challenges the status quo; it defies logic; it misdirects; it exploits cultural iconography and historical references, and most of all it lays bare the inner workings of their wit. In this exposure, it invites the viewer to revel in the awkward, to embrace the weird and to scrutinize a little bit too closely themselves and the world of which we are all a part.

Featured Artists:
Robert Arneson, Molly Anne Bishop, Jeremy Brooks, Pattie Chalmers, Viola Frey, Future Retrieval, Alessandro Gallo, Taehoon Kim, Beth Lo, Elana Mann, Kristen Morgin, Kim Tucker, Matt Wedel, and Yoshitomo Nara

Image: Alessandro Gallo, “Chris”

Opening Reception: TBA

Discursive features work—ranging from functional to sculptural, from performance to site-specific—created by UO faculty and visiting artists who participated in the 2016 Summer Craft Forum at the UO. During this two-week event, the participants – all of whom work in craft media, such as ceramics, metalsmithing, fibers, and printmaking – occupied UO studios to make art. During this period, they also engaged in group discussions about “craft” and its relationship to the discrete disciplines represented by the group and their individual practices. Discursive is, then, both the culmination of what was an extraordinary forum and an opportunity to deepen inquiry about contemporary craft discourses on campus and beyond. Artists whose works are featured in the exhibition include Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers, Noah Breuer, Sonja Dahl, Jovencio de la Paz, Brian Gillis, Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Anya Kivarkis, Ben Levy, Charlene Liu, Ian McDonald, Jeanne Medina, Stacy Jo Scott, and Lori Talcott. The exhibition is made possible with funding from the School of Art + Design and a JSMA Academic Support Grant.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January, 20 3-5 pm, Nichols Gallery

MANIFESTO: A Modest Proposal is in opposition to grand, utopian declarations that amount to little more than holiday wishful thinking. MANIFESTO: A Modest Proposal demands the concrete and achievable instead of the pious platitude. We are taking the word at its word; we have ambitions and we plan to make these manifest. The words, images, and sounds that we make will become the foundation, pillars, and pediment of our future. Yet MANIFESTO: A Modest Proposal is focused on the here and now, on effective and attainable solutions to the profusion of sociopolitical, cultural, economic, and environmental issues that plague our lives and about which we can no longer remain silent...

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Opening Reception: Saturday, August 12, 6-9pm

Historically, museums have long been at the forefront of presenting and preserving our cultural values through their exhibitions and collections. Artists have reflected and documented what is happening in their communities and in society. Through their artwork, they have the opportunity to encourage contemplation, conversation, and/or action on some of the most important issues of our lifetime. With that said, AMOCA has invited artists from across the country to “serve notice” on a range of issues including: capital punishment; environmental protection; freedom of speech; gender equality; human rights; immigration; racism; wildlife protection; and women’s rights.

The White Box at the University of Oregon in Portland
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 23, 6 pm

Nichols Gallery
Opening Reception: January 26, 5-7 pm

This exhibition focuses on the legacy of the Pitzer College Art Field Group and its dedication to progressive ideas around environmentalism and art. Work made by Tim Berg, Sarah Gilbert, Tarrah Krajnak and Jessica McCoy will be discussed in the context of work made by Carl Hertel, David Furman, Michael Woodcock, Kathryn Miller and Paul Faulstich that have contributed to the conversation.

Co-curated by Bill Anthes and Ciara Ennis