The Blue Bay Printmakers: Back By Popular Demand show

Back by Popular Demand show

The Blue Bay Printmakers
Back By Popular Demand show
March 28 – April 29, 2011
Opening reception: Wednesday March 30, 5-8PM
Printmaking from A to Z in Thirty Minutes or Less Talk at 6PM

with work by CSP members Joan Finton, Ellen Yamada Tzvetin and Maj-Britt Hilstrom

Eddie Rhodes Gallery
Contra Costa College
2600 Mission Bell Dr.,
San Pablo, CA 94608

Gallery Hours:
Mon-Fri 10AM-3PM
April 18-22, please call 510-235-7800 x4262 for access appt.
Some evening hours available.

Exhibition catalogue available at 510-526-4314

Filed under: East Bay, Show Announcements, Uncategorized, Ellen Yamada Tzvetin, Joan Finton, Maj-Britt Hilstrom, San Pablo

WATER’S EDGE reception Friday April 1st

WATER’S EDGE: A trans-Pacific Printmakers Exchange
DATES:
 April 1 – April 30, 2011
RECEPTION:
 Friday April 1, 2011 6:30 – 8:00pm
HOURS:
            M-TH             9- 9:30pm
Fri             9- 6:30pm
Sat             9- 4:00pm
LOCATION:
 STUDIO ONE ART CENTER
365 45^th St. Oakland, CA 94609

Please join us for the opening of WATER’S EDGE: A trans-Pacific Printmakers Exchange on Friday April 1, 2011 at the STUDIO ONE ART CENTER in Oakland, CA.

Organized by LAURA SMITH, executive director of the HONOLULU PRINTMAKERS, twenty printmakers from Hawai‘i and California examine our littoral nature of existence.

HONOLULU PRINTMAKERS is a non-profit printmaking organization affiliated with HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS. In celebrating their 83rd year, ten invited Northern California artists from the CALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF PRINTMAKERS and/or KALA ART INSTITUTE were asked to consider what it means to share a nation but live an ocean apart.

The Opening Reception is on Friday April 1st from 6:30 – 8:00pm.
It being a First Friday come see what the “Oakland Art Murmur” is all about.
…A poetry reading in the Great Hall begins at 7:30pm

For more information and directions visit: www.studiooneartcenter.net

WATER’S EDGE  2011
A  trans-Pacific  Printmakers  Exchange

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STUDIO ONE ART CENTER
365 45th St.
Oakland, CA 94609

April 1 – April 30, 2011
Hours: M-Th 9 – 9:30pm
Fri     9 – 6:30pm
Sat    9 – 4:00pm

OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011
6:30 – 8:00pm
www.studiooneartcenter.net

Filed under: East Bay, Show Announcements, Announcements, Print Exchanges, Shows

In remembrance…Nathan Oliveira and Beth Van Hoesen

Two well-known and well-respected Printmakers passed away in 2010. Both of them were honorary members of the California Society of Printmakers.

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira, 1928-2010, born in Oakland, CA, exhibited with Bay Printmakers Society beginning in 1956. In 1968 Bay Printmakers and California Society of Etchers merged to become California Society of Printmakers. Oliveira  was awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership in CSP in 1993. A few images of his prints are located here with a long list of his exhibitions.

Beth Van Hoesen

Beth Van Hoesen, 1916-2010, is first mentioned in the CSP archives in 1958 when she helped organize a few exhibits, and in 1959 she was President of the Society. She was awarded Honorary Lifetime Membership to the CSP in 1996. A few of her etchings that were published by Crown Point Press in 1965 can be viewed on the Annex Galleries website. Some nice illustrations of her animal paintings and prints are seen on her Facebook page, as well as on the Nancy Dodds Gallery website.

Filed under: Historical, Link, Members, Remembrance, Beth Van Hoesen, Nathan Oliveira, Obit

Karen Towne has work in the Yosemite Renaissance show.

Cloud's Rest by Karen Towne

A woodcut titled “Cloud’s Rest” by CSP member Karen Towne has been selected to be part of the annual Yosemite Renaissance show. If you are in Yosemite this Spring, check out the show in the Yosemite Museum near the Visitor Center.

TITLE:  Yosemite Renaissance XXVI
DATES:  2/26/11 through 5/1/11
HOURS:  daily
LOCATION:  Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park

Website: www.yosemiterenaissance.org (has images from past shows but not the current one yet!)

Filed under: from a Member, Show Announcements, Yosemite Museum, Yosemite National Park

Anthony Ryan visits SF MOMA’s Shadow Shop

Imen Yeh and Nian Hua Workshop assistant John Watts

This week I visited the Shadow Shop at SF MOMA and became a participant in the “Nian Hua Workshop” a project of the San Francisco based printmaker and conceptual artist Imin Yeh. Those of you familiar with Imin Yeh’s work know that
she embraces an idea of the multiple print as merchandise.She brilliantly accessed
this aspect of printmaking in her graduate school project “Ben Jam” in which she produced 85 woodblock portraits of Benjamin Franklin and sold them for $100 dollars each. In theory the $8500 generated would have obviated the need for her to take out a federal Stafford loan for her degree at California College for the Arts.

This pragmatic, sardonic approach to art production dovetails perfectly with Stephanie Syjuco’s Shadow Shop project, a component of “The More Things Change” at SFMOMA through April 28. Artist Stephanie Syjuco has created a museum store with in the Museum. Functioning as a critique of the commercialization of the museum space (particularly during hard economic times), it s also a way for Syjuco to honor to the Bay Area Artist community that has nurtured her career. The sale of the 200 artists’ wares featured will result in 100% profit for the (local) artists involved. Nian Hua Workshop is a “live project” within Shadow Shop where Yeh enlists visitors to the exhibition be producers of a series of hand colored woodcuts the artist created specifically for the exhibition, images of (invented) beneficial deities for the Chinese New Year (Yeh has first hand experience with the sale of such “auspitious” cultural objects having worked in the store at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco). Far from sharing the glory of the artist’s accomplishment these visitors get a taste of the anonymity of assembly line production (they are assigned a number and given strict directions on how to execute their tasks). Aside from receiving part of the fruit of thire labors in the form of a print these workers do not enjoy the profits of the sale of said objects. Yeh’s ability to work in traditional printmaking forms while using them as a vehicle for her critique of consumerism and the commoditization of cultural difference is an inspiring lesson in the contemporary relevance of printmaking.

Nian Hua Workshop ended February 24 but you can still visit the Shadow Shop
until April 24 at SFMOMA.

Anthony Ryan at the shop

Filed under: Article, From the President, Museum, Products, San Francisco, Show Review