Archive for April, 2011
Extra Credit The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) ArtHouse April 30 – May 1 2011 Free Admission
A weekend of art-making, exhibitions, art selling, artist talks, cultural connections, and more!
Please join us at ArtHouse, a free weekend event that will showcase all the great things that are going on at the ICA that benefit artists, members and our community at large, including:
The Print Fair: an open portfolio sale by more than 35 Bay Area printmakers 11am – 4pm each day
Printapalooza! morning and afternoon art-making workshops at the ICA Print Center*
AIR Print Exhibition: original works on paper by ICA Artists in Residence
Talking Art: lunchtime conversations and demonstrations with visiting artists
Exhibition Tours with ICA curators and exhibiting artists
Food! curbside lunches served up by gourmet food trucks The Louisiana Territory and No Way Jose
560 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113 408.283.8155
Extra Credit “American Vinyl” Jeanne Lorenz
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 30th, 6-9pm
Artist Talk and Closing Tea: Sunday, June 5th, 3-6pm
The Compound Gallery is pleased to present Jeanne Lorenz’s solo show “American Vinyl”. Jeanne Lorenz‘s fictitious last record store on the planet, “American Vinyl” comes to the Compound gallery. You are invited to rifle through bins of lushly painted record prints, and listen to the images of impasto oil painted records hung on the walls. Each record is laden with seemingly familiar phrases of a dead American moment.“Epic Tomorrow”, “Incandescent Past”, “Finite” and “Infinite” are titles which are found floating freely on the visual music and prompts human response.
Just as the entire musical experience of a record fabricates a multi-dimensional matrix of cultural reality, Lorenz’s paintings equally inspire the viewer to investigate this reality further— drawing us deeper into a familiar, yet lost America. Lorenz’s use of textures and monochromatic color harmonically produce music for our eyes, and her paintings imbibe the spirit of American pop culture. The vinyl record simultaneously evokes nostalgia, the fullness of music, and the simplicity of its own image. The unnoticed space between the grooves, which creates and defines meaning, is always in tension with the opaque and impenetrable nature of its surface.
Lorenz’s paintings layer the digital present under our analog past, so that we may witness the evolving technology that circles back to eternal modes of communication. Fascinated by industrial materials and cast off technology, Lorenz draws round connections between the cosmological engravings of Robert Fludd and the piles of American vinyl destined for the dumpster. Celestial and circular.
1167 65th Street Oakland, CA 94608 – (510) 817-4042 Open Thu-Sun 12pm-6pm
