There is no art without you: Four Installations
Opening: Friday, September 2, 2016 6pm-9pm
Artist Talk facilitated by Lewis deSoto:
Thursday, September 22, 2016 7pm-8:30pm
About the Exhibition
Installation art requires a viewer to intervene in the space, or as Ilya Kabakov states, ‘The main actor in the total installation, the main centre toward which everything is addressed, for which everything is intended, is the viewer.” Installation art creates a place where we can experience things not as they are but how the artist intends. (It’s like a great short story.) The artist takes a grand human experience, too large on its own, and isolates it in a space for us to experience. Kate Lee Short’s Interstice gives access through sound and philosophy to contemplate death. Amy Ho’s Arch presents an illusionistic space that plays on what is real and alternatively what is seen creating a psychological rift. In Galexy NGC 3314, Centa Schumacher creates a space in which time slows, a connection to the universe and existence emerges. Nathan Byrne builds structures that bring us into an immersive sensorial environment. By placing the viewer at the center of the installations, these artists make it possible for us to access the infinite.
About the Artists
Amy M Ho
Amy M. Ho builds video and spatial installations that bring attention to our existence as both physical and psychological beings. She received her undergraduate degree in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills College. Amy received a Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grant in 2016, a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant in 2013 and was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Bay Area Now 7 in 2014. She was a 2013 fellowship artist at the Kala Art Institute, an artist in residence at the Lucid Art Foundation in 2014, and an artist in residence at Project 387 in 2015. Amy is currently the studio director at Real Time and Space and an art instructor at San Quentin State Prison.
www.amymho.com
Represented by Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Amy M. Ho builds video and spatial installations that bring attention to our existence as both physical and psychological beings. She received her undergraduate degree in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills College. Amy received a Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grant in 2016, a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant in 2013 and was included in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Bay Area Now 7 in 2014. She was a 2013 fellowship artist at the Kala Art Institute, an artist in residence at the Lucid Art Foundation in 2014, and an artist in residence at Project 387 in 2015. Amy is currently the studio director at Real Time and Space and an art instructor at San Quentin State Prison.
www.amymho.com
Represented by Chandra Cerrito Contemporary
Centa Schumacher
Centa Schumacher is a fine art photographer based in Oakland, California. She crafts specialty lenses that explore the transformation of light and the self. Inspired by occult groups, Schumacher looks into the unknown using the help of symbolic tools. In the place of a ritual knife or sacred cup, Schumacher has modified the lenses of her camera, fitting them with a crystal selected for its mystical properties. The light that passes through these sacred objects becomes abstracted into otherworldly videos, photographs, and installations. She received her BFA in Photography from San Jose State University, and her MFA from San Francisco State University. She is currently an artist in residence at Root Division.
www.centaschumacher.com
Centa Schumacher is a fine art photographer based in Oakland, California. She crafts specialty lenses that explore the transformation of light and the self. Inspired by occult groups, Schumacher looks into the unknown using the help of symbolic tools. In the place of a ritual knife or sacred cup, Schumacher has modified the lenses of her camera, fitting them with a crystal selected for its mystical properties. The light that passes through these sacred objects becomes abstracted into otherworldly videos, photographs, and installations. She received her BFA in Photography from San Jose State University, and her MFA from San Francisco State University. She is currently an artist in residence at Root Division.
www.centaschumacher.com
Kate Lee Short
Inspired by the acoustics of intimate spaces such as churches as well as the physical effects of low frequency noise, Kate Lee Short’s auditory installations envelope the listener within unexpectedly intimate surroundings. Her work alludes to the architecture of sacred spaces, the field of neuroacoustics and a long lineage of minimalist sculpture that implicates the body.
An artist who insists on subtlety, Kate’s works alternatively delivers seductive comfort and opposing feelings of unease by working with the way we as humans subconsciously use sound to process our surroundings. In keeping with Donald Judd’s monumental minimalist interventions her bold sculptures command the entirety of space they inhabit.
http://kateleeshort.com/Home/Home.html
Inspired by the acoustics of intimate spaces such as churches as well as the physical effects of low frequency noise, Kate Lee Short’s auditory installations envelope the listener within unexpectedly intimate surroundings. Her work alludes to the architecture of sacred spaces, the field of neuroacoustics and a long lineage of minimalist sculpture that implicates the body.
An artist who insists on subtlety, Kate’s works alternatively delivers seductive comfort and opposing feelings of unease by working with the way we as humans subconsciously use sound to process our surroundings. In keeping with Donald Judd’s monumental minimalist interventions her bold sculptures command the entirety of space they inhabit.
http://kateleeshort.com/Home/Home.html
Nathan Byrne
Nathan Byrne is a Bay Area artist. His work often captures a tone or moment that has passed: tributes to people in his life, visual manifestations of musings, or records of an event, absence or loss.
He then creates sensorial, immersive spaces and invites participants to engage with objects and each other to contemplate the connections. His Gratis Libre installed in San Francisco, became a temporary library for community members to receive or exchange books and to engage in conversation.
Nathan Byrne is a Bay Area artist. His work often captures a tone or moment that has passed: tributes to people in his life, visual manifestations of musings, or records of an event, absence or loss.
He then creates sensorial, immersive spaces and invites participants to engage with objects and each other to contemplate the connections. His Gratis Libre installed in San Francisco, became a temporary library for community members to receive or exchange books and to engage in conversation.
Further reading on Installation Art.
But is it installation art? by Claire Bishop
A wonderful conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Robert Irwin from "Take Your Time"
But is it installation art? by Claire Bishop
A wonderful conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Robert Irwin from "Take Your Time"