Art and Art History

Binh Danh (Associate Professor of Photography) Awarded the William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art

Binh Danh, Associate Professor of Photography, is the inaugural recipient of the William Collins Smith Auburn Award for Advancing American Art. The $25,000 annual award, presented by the The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, honors an American artist or scholar-practitioner who has significantly impacted the American art scene in the spirit of the university's modernist collection strength, grounded in creativity, innovation and experimentation

Under One Moon Immersive Video Mapping Exhibition

Illuminate SJ Now!!! features 3 SJSU Faculty, Staff & Alumni: Cynthia Cao (former SJSU Thompson Gallery Coordinator), Sabrina Kwong (Alum, BFA Digital Media Art), Robin Lasser (Photography Faculty), with an original score by Troy Truong. Chopsticks Alley Art is pleased to present Under One Moon, an immersive experience celebrating the traditions of the Mid-Autumn Festival. This unique blend of contemporary visuals, poetry, and music highlights the moon's significance among various cultures and histories.

Join us September 6th at 7:00-7:30 pm for the Moon Festival Performances and Procession with Lion Dance & Viet Steps Dancers, plus free lanterns throughout the evening

Un Puente Sobre El Río San Juan: A Story of Borders

Featuring San José-based artists, Irene Carvajal (Lecturer, Pictorial Art) and Imara Osorno (SJSU Alum - BA in Studio Practice), this exhibition examines the overlooked conflict between Nicaragua and Costa Rica’s border along the San Juan River. Their collaborative work transcends divisions through painting, video, and site-specific installation.

Opens First Friday Sept 6 12-5 with DJ sets in the evening 7:30 & 8:30

Timna Naim (MFA, Spatial Art) included in Root Division's exhibition, Introductions

Established in 2007, Introductions is one of Root Division’s signature exhibitions, showcasing the talents of twelve emerging Bay Area artists without gallery representation. Artists are selected through a rigorous review process by a panel of three prominent arts professionals based on the conceptual and formal strength of their work. The resulting exhibition provides a snapshot of the Bay Area’s artistic landscape featuring a diverse range of media and subject matter."

"Exhibition Dates: August 14 – September 21, 2024. Second Saturday Reception: September 14 | 7-9 pm

Group Exhibition: In the Manner of Paul Kos featuring Rhonda Holberton (Associate Professor Digital Media Art)

Rhonda Holberton's animation, Siphon, will be included in a group exhibition at Anglim Trimble (San Francisco) honoring the conceptual artist Paul Kos.

On view Saturday Saturday August 7th - Saturday, October 26. Opening Reception Saturday August 14th 4-6pm

New Work by David Bayus (Lecturer DMA MFA)

Telematic Media Arts presents: Performance Anxiety, Painting, Sculpture, and Film by David Bayus (Lecturer DMA MFA). Featuring a new animated film, which tells a playful personal story of insecurity, anger, and the difficulties in love, while speaking to generational changes in romantic relationships, the politics of domestic labor, and contemporary uncertainties about the role of men in a post-feminist world.

On View September 14th - November 9th, 2024 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 14th, 2024, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Closing Reception: Saturday, November 9th, 2024, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Lyn Dao (Lecturer Spatial) in Group Exhibition: Politically Charged at Blue Line Arts

Lyn Dao (Lecturer Spatial) has two works in the exhibition. Blue Line Arts presents Politically Charged every four years to coincide with the US presidential election.

The show runs from August 31 – October 12, with an opening reception on September 21 from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm that includes live music and refreshments.

Chelsea Stewart (MFA Spatial Art) receives Murphy & Cadogan Scholarship Award

The Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award and the Edwin Anthony and Adalaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarships help fuel the forward-thinking visual arts movement that makes the Bay Area unique. Established in 1986, these awards further the development of Bay Area MFA students and foster the exploration of their artistic potential. The winners of the Murphy Award and the Cadogan Scholarships receive financial awards (award amounts to be determined when applications reopen) and displays their work in a professionally curated group exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center.

On view November 2–December 6, 2024. Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony Friday, November 1, 6–9 PM

Interstitial Echo: A tribute to Richard Mayhew

Montalvo Arts Center: July 19th, 2024 Sunset "Interstitial Echo" is a real-time audio & video synthesis performance by Andrew Blanton, Peter Nyboer, and Xiao Wu paying tribute to artist Richard Mayhew and the history of Montalvo as an epicenter for visionary experimentation and research.

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SJSU 2024 MFA Exhibition: Disruption Invites Reconciliation

The Liftoff exhibition & accompanying catalogue showcases work by nine artists, all MFA graduates of San José State University, presenting a reciprocity of vision and energy catalyzed by the artists' engagement in the program. As the artists have worked to describe their own work, they acknowledge a distinctive push-and-pull informing their process—abstraction/figuration, process/product, personal/political, mystery/knowing, chance/control, constraints/expanse. At the same time, they have identified an intention to reconcile these polarities through the forces of harmony and unity.

On view May 31 - June 21, 2024 at San José Works

In a Grove, Anglim/Trimble

Pictorial faculty, Donald Feasél, included in a group exhibition at Anglim/Trimble, In a grove, a gathering of artists utilizing abstraction to create rapturous states of vision marked by the qualities of the sensorial and perceptual. Curated by Dean Smith, the exhibition includes work by Thomas Akawie, Brad Brown, Mason Dowling, Donald Feasél, Renée Gertler, Robin McDonnell, and Nancy White.

Please join us for a reception on Saturday, January 13 from 4-7 pm in our first-floor gallery at Minnesota Street Project. In a grove is open through February 24.

Through the Dreamhouse

Brea Art Gallery 1/27-3/22: "Through the Dreamhouse" is a group exhibition which delves into the symbolism and power of domestic spaces, using both traditional and unconventional mediums to examine intimate and introspective aspects of a household. This exhibition includes 5 of Lynn Dau's works (Lecturer, spatial arts).

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Vienna Study Abroad success!

Our 192 - Architecture, Art, and Design in Vienna took place for the first time.

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6 Exhibitions

1.ICA San José and Montalvo Arts Center, March 23 - August 11. P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao 2.TNOC (The Nature of Cities) Festival June 4-7 (Berlin) Ice Ships Weep Film Trilogy, Berlin, Germany. 3.Big Basin Redwood State Park Public Art Commission, Art About, June 15-Opening Reception. Permanent Collections. 4.Plattsburgh Museum of Art, solo exhibition, August 27-December 15. Ice Ships Weep and the Theatre of Water Reclamation. Room - size immersive video projections and sculptures, series of large-scale photographs, and sound works.

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Roundtable Discussion in Grey Room 94, Winter 2024, pp. 20–49, "Roundtable on Warhol v. Goldsmith"

Liz Linden contributed to a roundtable on Fair Use and Copyright just published in Grey Room, with Amy Adler, NYU School of Law, and Noam M. Elcott, Columbia University, Lionel Bently, Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge, Susan Bielstein, University of Chicago Press, Johanna Burton, Director, MOCA, Los Angeles, Martha Buskirk, professor, Montserrat College of Art, Jane Ginsburg, Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia, Branden W. Joseph, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia University, Joan Kee, professor of the history of art, University of Michigan, Liz Linden, artist, Rebecca Tushnet, Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard, Graeme Williams, photographer, Winnie Wong, professor of rhetoric, UCBerkeley.

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Shannon Wright was in the DeYoung Open, and is slowly building the installation version of the piece.

Shannon Wright made this digital drawing, "Salon Après Tetris (5 Seconds of Fame)" specifically in response to the deYoung Open call for entries. She built the scene (minus the figure) in Rhinoceros and painstakingly redrew all the parts and the person in Adobe Illustrator. The piece is a vector drawing of an installation piece that she has been building on her sabbatical in addition to another project. The installation was accepted into Untitled Miami Beach but she had to change the plan because it's going to take a while to build all 25 tetris frames. She worked on numerous other projects on my sabbatical also.

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