New media artist Rachel Clarke will talk about art-making in the digital age, and how the
hardware and software tools she uses operate as both a medium and vehicle for self-expression. Clarke will show drawings, video, animation, and installation works, and will talk about how she weaves together themes, concepts, sound, and imagery in her multilayered practice.
Modernist artist, Mark Emerson, has successfully fused Op Art and Geometric Abstraction over the last twenty-five years. Join us as he takes us on a visual survey of his art and his utilization of color, space, form, boundaries and rhythm as his artistry has evolved during the course of his career.
Tom Killion creates Japanese-style woodcut prints of the California landscape. He will describe these striking images in story and poem from The Coast of California, The High Sierra and Walking Tamalpais, books co-produced by Tom Killion and poet Gary Snyder.
Tobias Schneebaum (1922-2005) was the foremost expert of the Asmat of New Guinea. He visited Papua and the Asmat in 1973 and served as an assistant to the curator of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress for the next decade. Schneebaum’s documentation of Asmat carvings provides the foundation of our understanding of the styles and meanings of Asmat art.
Ceramicist Annabeth Rosen, holder of the Robert Arneson Endowed Chair at U.C. Davis, builds complex, organic works out of a multitude of individual hand-crafted ceramic pieces. She notes that “Ceramics seems increasingly absurd in its medieval practice especially with the influence of new media and new technologies.
One of the West’s foremost landscape artists, Gregory Kondos will share his inspirational
landscapes of Yosemite, our Delta, and the French and Greek country sides. Using simple yet vibrant colors, he takes the light from the Impressionists, form and structure from Cezanne, and energy and painterly power from the Abstract Expressionists.
John Caswell reveals the science of moving art, exposes the intrigue of transporting objects internationally, and shares the joys and challenges of his thirty year career as a museum registrar.
Mr. Kaltenbach will discuss how events throughout his lifetime have impacted the development of his art. His meticulous craftsmanship in a variety of media has persisted throughout his evolving world view.
High school students from throughout the region were invited to participate in the Kingsley High School Art Show in partnership with the Mesa Verde High School Art Gallery. Works of art were displayed at the Art Gallery from April 8th through May 4th. At the closing reception on May 4th cash awards were presented to the winning artists as well as certificates. The Gallery is located on the Mesa Verde campus at 7501 Carriage Drive, Citrus Heights. Awards are funded through the Kingsley Art Club Education Fund (KACE).
Kingsley Award Art Show Winners:
First ($100): City Lights by Andrey Dorozhko (Mira Loma High School)
Second ( $75): Teyanis by John Simeon (Mira Loma High School)
Third ($50): Bird of Peace by Liz Tresvina (Mesa Verde High School)
Honorable Mention ($25): Vigil by Roxana Jonczyk (El Camino High School)
Honorable Mention ($25): Untitled by Colleen Woolcott (Woodland High School)
Honorable Mention ($25): Hope Glimmers by Michelle Mendonca
The juror for the Art Show was Anna Wagner-Ott, Associate Professor, California State University, Sacramento Department of Art.
The 2011 Merit Award Luncheon was held on Monday, May 16th in the Friedman Court of the Crocker Art Museum. Our Kingsley Merit Award is a valued recognition of community college art students in the Sacramento region. This year's speaker was Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick, Director of Education at the Crocker Art Museum.
2011 Merit Award Winners:
Heather Curtice, Sierra College
Rebecca Huber, Folsom Lake College
Lila Solorzano, Yuba College
Tedra Sparks, American River College
Kyler Spears, Cosumnes River College
Jen Stract, Sacamento City College
