Pathways: An exhibition about mapping, navigation, wanderlust and borders
Curated by Nanette Wylde
Opening Receptions: March 4 and April 1, 6–9 pm
Gallery Talks (performance*)
March 5: José Arenas, Caroline Landau, Melissa West, Carolina Cuevas*
March 12: Casey Jay Gardner, Kent Manske
March 19: Afatasi the Artist, Carolina Cuevas*, Neil Murphy
March 26: Minoosh Zomorodinia, Nanette Wylde
Exhibition Dates
March 4–April 1, 2022
Artists: Afatasi The Artist, José Arenas, Carolina Cuevas, Casey Jay Gardner, Caroline Landau, Kent Manske, Neil Murphy, Melissa West, Minoosh Zomorodinia
Nine Bay Area artists will be exhibiting in an interdisciplinary, themed exhibition at Art Ark Gallery in San Jose. The exhibition is curated by Nanette Wylde. It includes a wide range of media including artist books, conceptual works, glass, mixed media, painting, performance, printmaking, sculpture, sound, video, and installations. A collaborative, site specific vinyl installation for the gallery’s west facing windows is by José Arenas and Kent Manske.
The artists in Pathways are storytellers mapping a multitude of existential trajectories—creating, following and navigating pathways real and imagined. Their works reflect on human wanderlust surviving in a paradigm of accelerated cultural and technological development. They demonstrate a heightened awareness of the social, physical, and temporal borders that separate and unite us.
These artists are thinkers. They consider their connections to others and are reflective of the nuances of human memory and our relationships to specific locations. They are researchers exploring cosmic and human histories, present times, and the possibilities of the future. They are interested in science and the whys of our existence. Each one is deeply serious, yet they play with imagination and the absurd. As creators of contemporary culture they are allowing us to glimpse into their own interior spaces. Their works are actions reaching out to connect and find meaning in our shared human journey. They ask us to be curious, to embark upon wandering inquisitive adventures, and ultimately to question the worlds we live in.
About the artists
Afatasi The Artist (San Francisco) is showing a mixed media project in the tradition of Afrofuturism. José Arenas (born San Jose, lives Davis) exhibits new paintings on wood and a site specific vinyl installation in collaboration with Kent Manske. Currently a MFA candidate at CCA, Carolina Cuevas (Mountain View) presents in sound and video, and will be performing a new work in the gallery. Casey Jay Gardner (Berkeley) creates handmade, letterpress printed artist books in small editions. Caroline Landau (San Francisco) is exhibiting a painting paired with blown glass influenced by time in residency in Arctic regions. In addition to the collaboration with José Arenas, Kent Manske (Redwood City) is showing paper-based works in the form of sculpture, artist books, and a 13 foot wide screen printed and collaged wall installation. Neil Murphy (Burlingame) exhibits mixed media, otherworldly landscapes which focus on aspects of mental health. Melissa West (Watsonville) is a printmaker showing relief prints based on her pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago. Conceptual artist Minoosh Zomorodinia (Richmond) is exhibiting drawings and sculptural objects based on her walks in the Bay Area.
Catalog Available:
publishing.hungerbutton.org
For further information:
preneo.org/pathways/
[email protected]
Nine Bay Area artists will be exhibiting in an interdisciplinary, themed exhibition at Art Ark Gallery in San Jose. The exhibition is curated by Nanette Wylde. It includes a wide range of media including artist books, conceptual works, glass, mixed media, painting, performance, printmaking, sculpture, sound, video, and installations. A collaborative, site specific vinyl installation for the gallery’s west facing windows is by José Arenas and Kent Manske.
The artists in Pathways are storytellers mapping a multitude of existential trajectories—creating, following and navigating pathways real and imagined. Their works reflect on human wanderlust surviving in a paradigm of accelerated cultural and technological development. They demonstrate a heightened awareness of the social, physical, and temporal borders that separate and unite us.
These artists are thinkers. They consider their connections to others and are reflective of the nuances of human memory and our relationships to specific locations. They are researchers exploring cosmic and human histories, present times, and the possibilities of the future. They are interested in science and the whys of our existence. Each one is deeply serious, yet they play with imagination and the absurd. As creators of contemporary culture they are allowing us to glimpse into their own interior spaces. Their works are actions reaching out to connect and find meaning in our shared human journey. They ask us to be curious, to embark upon wandering inquisitive adventures, and ultimately to question the worlds we live in.
About the artists
Afatasi The Artist (San Francisco) is showing a mixed media project in the tradition of Afrofuturism. José Arenas (born San Jose, lives Davis) exhibits new paintings on wood and a site specific vinyl installation in collaboration with Kent Manske. Currently a MFA candidate at CCA, Carolina Cuevas (Mountain View) presents in sound and video, and will be performing a new work in the gallery. Casey Jay Gardner (Berkeley) creates handmade, letterpress printed artist books in small editions. Caroline Landau (San Francisco) is exhibiting a painting paired with blown glass influenced by time in residency in Arctic regions. In addition to the collaboration with José Arenas, Kent Manske (Redwood City) is showing paper-based works in the form of sculpture, artist books, and a 13 foot wide screen printed and collaged wall installation. Neil Murphy (Burlingame) exhibits mixed media, otherworldly landscapes which focus on aspects of mental health. Melissa West (Watsonville) is a printmaker showing relief prints based on her pilgrimage to the Camino de Santiago. Conceptual artist Minoosh Zomorodinia (Richmond) is exhibiting drawings and sculptural objects based on her walks in the Bay Area.
Catalog Available:
publishing.hungerbutton.org
For further information:
preneo.org/pathways/
[email protected]
