San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

Deux Nids (detail), 2003, Mezzotint, 300g Hahnemülhe paper, Courtesy of the Artist

Cardinale Project Room
Feb. 23 - May. 18, 2013

Judith Rothchild: Black Magic

An exhibition of exquisite mezzotint prints by this notable American-born, France-based artist.

Val Britton, Intimate Immensity (detail), 2012, Mixed media collage, Courtesy of the Artist

Focus Gallery
Feb. 23 - May. 18, 2013

Val Britton: Intimate Immensity

An immersive site-specific installation of collaged works on paper that draws on the language of maps to create imaginary landscapes that depict physical and psychological spaces.

Exhibition view, Photograph by David Pace

Main Gallery
Mar. 2 - May. 25, 2013

parallax: an apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight […from Greek parallaxis, from parallassein, to change] American Heritage Dictionary

Sugarsaltlead (detail), 2013, lead, wire, sugar, salt, 11 x 70 x 2", Courtesy of Chandra Cerrito Contemporary

Focus Gallery
Jun. 1 - Sep. 7, 2013

Mari Andrews: Over, Under and Inside Out

An exhibition of sculptural installations assembled from natural and man-made materials

It’s back! Our annual exhibition featuring the next new talent on the horizon

Main Gallery & Cardinale Project Room
Jun. 8 - Sep. 14, 2013

NextNewCA

Just picked! California’s freshest crop of emerging talent!

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The gallery is available for weekend and evening cocktail receptions, business meetings and social events.

In the Print Center: Book Arts, June 29 & 30

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Black Magic includes approximately two dozen mezzotints with subject matters ranging from nature, still life and food, to travel, street scapes and objects drawn from everyday living.
A mezzotint print–from the Italian mezzo ("half") and tinta ("tone")–is known for the luxurious quality of its tones. The mezzotint process was first developed in the printmaking center of Amsterdam in the second quarter of the seventeenth century. In this type of intaglio (non-relief) print, subtle gradations of light and shade, rather than lines, form the image. Mezzotint prints have a remarkable capacity to convey texture, and are noted for their velvety black shades.
Judith Rothchild has been producing mezzotints and illustrated books since 1996. She studied drawing, painting and printmaking at the Boston University Tanglewood Summer program, Sarah Lawrence College, Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and the Academie für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. She has made hundreds of mezzotints as well as 26 artist books with her partner Mark Lintott under the name of Editions Verdigris. Judith’s work has been exhibited at more than thirty solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, and is in numerous public collections, including: The Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford, England; The Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The New York Public Library; and The Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
Judith regularly leads courses in mezzotint printmaking at the Maison de la Gravure at Castelnau, near Montpellier, and has presented internationally on the topic. In Febriary 2013, she led a weekend-long mezzotint printmaking workshop at the ICA's Print Center.

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In July 2012 the ICA initiated an exhibition program called Sandbox Projects that provides opportunities for West Coast artists to create and exhibit experimental artworks in the ICA’s Focus Gallery. A curatorial committee assembled by the ICA reviewed thirty six artist submissions and awarded the first Sandbox Projects commission to San Francisco-based artist Val Britton.
Britton’s mixed media abstractions draw on the language of maps and the exploration of space, abstraction and geography—literal and emotional. She is interested in exploring the tension between chaos and imposed order, the concrete and the imaginary, the known and unknown. For Britton, mapping serves as a metaphor for searching. Collage, drawing, painting, staining, printing, and cutting paper are Britton’s methods for navigating the blurry terrain of memory and imagination.
Intimate Immensity is an immersive collage-like installation that resembles exploded paper road atlases suspended in space. The installation includes large-scale drawings that hang on the wall as well as hundreds of scavenged and recycled segments of paper and meticulously cut paper pieces that hang from strings suspended from ceiling rafters, crisscrossing the space.
According to Britton, much of her work has been influenced by a longing to connect to her father, a long haul cross-country truck driver who passed away when she was a teenager. Based on road maps of the United States, routes her father often traveled, and an invented conglomeration, fragmentation, and abstraction of those passageways, Britton’s works on paper help her piece together the past and imagine parts unknown.
Val Britton received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts. Her work is held in public collections including the New York Public Library, the New York Historical Society, and the Library of Congress. She has exhibited her work at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn, Intersection for the Arts and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in San Francisco, CES Contemporary in Laguna Beach, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Katonah Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Sleek Magazine (Berlin), Invisible City (Melbourne), Artweek, Elephant, and The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine Harmon. She has been awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation, the Jentel Artist Residency Program, the Oregon College of Art and Craft, Caldera, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Recology, and Kala Art Institute. The recent recipient of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, she lives and works in San Francisco.
About the ICA’s Sandbox Projects: In the Silicon Valley, technologists use the term “sandbox” as a figurative place to experiment with new code or ideas. In a similar spirit, the ICA’s Sandbox Projects is a program that supports emerging and mid-career artists to experiment, take risks and develop works that would not otherwise be realized. Open to all media, the program encourages site responsive, ambitious, architectural and large-scale works. Recipients are awarded an honorarium to design, create and complete their projects.
Sandbox Projects is supported in part by a grant from the Applied Materials/Arts Council Silicon Valley Excellence in the Arts grant.

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Opening Reception March 1, 6pm-8pm All welcome <a href="uploaded/files/brittonguide.pdf" target="_blank">Download the Exhibition Guide</a> "In The Make" interview and photo essay of Val in her studio. <a href="http://inthemake.com/val-britton/" target="_blank">Great read. </a> Read the reviews: <a href="http://www.artanimalmag.com/val-britton/" target="_blank">Art Animal</a> <a href="uploaded/files/art2013.pdf" target="_blank">art ltd</a> <a href="http://www.squarecylinder.com/2013/04/val-britton-san-jose-institute-of-contemporary-art/" target="_blank">Squarecylinder.com</a> <a title="Val Britton: Intimate Immensity" href="https://vimeo.com/61817881" target="_blank">Go behind the scenes. Watch Val Britton create her work in the gallery. Click here for video link. </a>View a slideshow of images from the exhibition. Click on the slideshow link below.<a title="Val Britton: Intimate Immensity" href="https://vimeo.com/61817881" target="_blank"> </a> 

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Whether by photographing environments they have constructed or through deconstructing and reworking photographs they have taken, the artists in Parallax Views offer the viewer a new line of sight. Faced with the contemporary overload of images, these artists have altered, blended, and re-mixed their photographs in order to offer revitalizing views of the world. In contrast with straight photography, each of these works show evidence of some kind of modification – occurring either before or after the image capture.
Liz Hickok, Lori Nix and Tracey Snelling fabricate miniature worlds and document them photographically, creating disorienting alterations in scale. One has a sense of dislocation while entering improbable, dreamlike landscapes. In the works of Elizabeth Bryant, Alex Clausen and Laura Plageman, the interplay between sculptural and photographic information brings about perplexing compositions. Through disruption, reorganization, and an oscillation between image and object, these works synthesize more than one vantage point. By digitally altering their photographs, Allison Hunter, Matthias Geiger and Georg Kuettinger create changes in observational position. Hunter relocates and reinterprets her subjects, Geiger “allows past, present and future moments to appear simultaneously”, and in Kuettinger’s works multiple perspectives are stretched, shifted and compressed.
In the works of Kathryn Dunlevie, Elise Irving, Jennifer Williams, and Patrick D. Wilson, photographs are used as raw material for handmade constructions. Dunlevie and Irving investigate apparent inconsistencies in time and space and explore ideas of multiple realities and unseen dimensions. Williams’ compositions are meant to show the viewers what they are missing, and Wilson strives to create works that contain a depth within the surface. Seen as a group, these artists’ works offer a multifaceted vision of our time, a map with an array of possible routes.

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Opening Reception March 1, 6pm-8pm All welcome Exhibiting Artists: <a href="http://www.elizabethrbryant.com/wp/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Bryant</a> <a href="http://www.alexclausen.com/index.html" target="_blank">Alex Clausen</a> <a href="http://www.kathryndunlevie.com/#%21bio/c4k6" target="_blank">Kathryn Dunlevie</a> <a href="http://www.matthiasgeiger.com/" target="_blank">Matthias Geiger</a> <a href="http://lizhickok.com/" target="_blank">Liz Hickok</a> <a href="http://www.allisonhunter.com/" target="_blank">Allison Hunter</a> <a href="http://www.eliseirving.com/" target="_blank">Elise Irving</a> <a href="http://www.georgkuettinger.de/" target="_blank">Georg Kuettinger</a> <a href="http://www.lorinix.net/" target="_blank">Lori Nix</a> <a href="http://www.photolp.com/" target="_blank">Laura Plageman</a> <a href="http://traceysnelling.com/home.html" target="_blank">Tracey Snelling</a> <a href="http://www.jennifer-williams.com" target="_blank">Jennifer Williams</a> <a href="http://www.patrickdwilson.com" target="_blank">Patrick D. Wilson</a> <a href="uploaded/files/pv_exhibitionguide.pdf" target="_blank">Download the Exhibition Guide</a> View Exhibition images on Flickr slideshow 

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Mari Andrews is known for delicate, haiku-like sculptures that she has been making for the past 20 years. Her “three-dimensional drawings” combine collected natural objects like seeds, leaves, moss and stones with linear man made materials, such as metal wire. Many of the materials are found on the artist’s frequent nature walks around the San Francisco Bay Area  and the Sierras. Many of Andrews’ works are small-scale and intimate worlds onto themselves, shown individually or in large groupings. Over, Under, and Inside Out is an inquiry into natural and artistic elements. “The installation is a paring down of materials to a more essential level than I’ve used in the past,” states Andrews. “I’m investigating how to work with less embellishment, using substances for what they are and what their associations might suggest.”  In this installation Andrews uses a variety of raw, basic elements including lead, steel, coal, willow, salt and sugar, and constructs ways to create new associations as well as common ones.  Some of the works are a   veritable encyclopedia of her studio elements and nature’s menagerie. Other works embody natural processes, and still others suggest transformation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Mari Andrews earned her BFA from the University of Dayton OH and her MFA from Otis Art Institute of Parson’s School of Design, Los Angeles.  Her work is in the collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME.  Andrews has exhibited extensively throughout California and the US, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Bolinas Museum, the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, and the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.  She has also exhibited her work internationally in Japan, Isreal, and England.  
Mari Andrews: Over, Under and Inside Out is generously supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. <a href="uploaded/files/summer_2013_nextnewca_mari_andrews_final.pdf" target="_blank">Press release PDF</a>

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The ICA is honored to present NextNewCA, an exhibition that marks the debut of 15 of California’s best new artists. The show features a sampling of works by 2012 MFA graduates and 2013 MFA candidates from 11 MFA programs across the state including:  University of Southern California (UCSC), San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), California College of the Arts (CCA), Claremont Graduate University (CGU), Mills College, California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), San Francisco State University (SFSU), San Jose State University (SJSU), University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), University of California Berkeley, and Stanford University. Featured artists were selected from among more than 100 candidates and include: Barbara Boissevain, Kate Bonner, Daniel A. Christopher, Missy Engelhardt, Chris Engman, Liam Everett, Sarah Frazier, Jennifer Groft, Rhonda Holberton, Joe Lloyd, Keegan Luttrell, Atilio Pernisco, Christopher Reynold, Dimitra Skandali, and Sean Talley. NextNewCA presents a unique opportunity to view an exhibition of MFA work presented in a broader statewide    context.  In the past, NextNew exhibitions at the ICA featured MFA students from the Bay Area. However, as the ICA expands its exhibition programme to showcase artists from throughout the state, NextNewCA represents a significant step in that direction.  The works in the show reflect broad perspectives present in the contemporary artistic landscape that explore innovative approaches to new media, installation, photography, painting, drawing and sculpture.
The works also present a variety of conceptual and aesthetic themes.  Stanford’s  Rhonda  Holberton’s sculptures and SJSU’s Barbara Boissevain’s photographs illuminate environmental concerns. SFSU’s Sarah Frazier’s paintings and Mills’ Keegan Luttrell’s pieces represent emotions surrounding elements of danger. CalArts’ Christopher Reynolds and UCSC’s Daniel A. Christopher’s works explore the viewer’s physiological responses to and physical interfaces with the pieces. Challenging traditional two-dimensional art into three-dimensional forms are CCA’s Liam Everett’s paintings, SFAI’s Missy Engelhardt’s works on paper, and CCA’s Kate Bonner’s sculptural photocopies. USC’s Chris Engman’s photographs record actions and elaborate processes, while SJSU’s Jennifer Groft confronts domesticity through her materials and techniques. Focusing on both similar and contrasting compositions and forms are CGU’s Joe Lloyd’s paintings and Cal’s Sean Talley’s sculptures and drawings.
 
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Mari Andrews: Over, Under and Inside Out

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