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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 20, 2009
HERE NOT THERE EXHIBITION OF SAN DIEGO ARTISTS TO OPEN SUMMER 2010 AT MCASD IN LA JOLLA
Museum will continue its history of exhibiting San Diego artists’ work
October 20, 2009
San Diego, CA— Here Not There, an exhibition of visual artists of San Diego County, will be on view June 6 through September 19, 2010 at MCASD in La Jolla. The exhibition will focus on the variety, strength, and vitality of individual contemporary art practices in this region.
San Diego’s visual arts have developed a critical mass of local talent. A number of factors have contributed to this: professional artists, often educated at the graduate programs offered by the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, have made this city their home. In addition, there is a lively alternative art scene that spans a range of areas from painting to furniture design, coupled with increased critical discourse. Here Not There will examine the broad range of media and approaches engaged by San Diego visual artists.
The exhibition will not adhere to thematic or media-specific categorization, and is developing in response to studio and gallery visits, and dialogue with local art practitioners. This includes investigation into the social networks through which individual artists coalesce—such as educational institutions like universities or colleges, commercial and alternative gallery spaces, and collectives and artists’ groups. With Here Not There, MCASD does not aim to reach definitive conclusions about the nature of artistic production in San Diego County; nor does the Museum expect to draw a single narrative illustrating notions of identity or regionalism. Rather, MCASD’s primary task is to chart as straight a trajectory as possible: from the artist’s studio to the exhibition space.
The process of research for the exhibition is underway. For more information about artist submissions for consideration for Here Not There, please visit MCASD’s Web site at www.mcasd.org/about/proposals.php. Artists must have established residency in San Diego County for consideration. Current art students at any level will not be considered. The deadline for submissions is January 1, 2010.
In the past 40 years, MCASD has organized six survey exhibitions of San Diego artists—notable among them are A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-Two Emerging Artists (1985), which surveyed visual arts, as well as theater, performance art, and fashion design, and Off Broadway: New Art from Downtown San Diego (2000); for a selected exhibition history, see below. San Diego artists have participated in numerous group exhibitions organized by MCASD, including the international group exhibitions Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection (2008); Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling (2007); and From Baja to Vancouver (2004). Additionally, MCASD has given solo Cerca Series exhibitions to San Diego artists throughout the program’s six-year history, and artists from the region are an integral part of the Museum’s collection.
Previous MCASD-Produced Exhibitions Focused on San Diego Artists
Off Broadway: New Art from Downtown San Diego
February 12 – May 13, 2000
Curators: Elizabeth Armstrong, Miki Garcia, and Toby Kamps
Stretching from San Diego Bay in the west to Barrio Logan in the east, Broadway Street traverses the city's historic, economic, and geographic heart. The busy thoroughfare connects MCASD Downtown (located at the intersection of Broadway and Kettner Boulevard) with a dynamic group of visual artists who make their studios and sometimes their homes in a variety of converted industrial and commercial spaces on or near the street. Often graduates of local art departments, artists working "Off Broadway" take a variety of different approaches, from lyrical searches for beauty and transcendent meaning, to science and technology-driven aesthetic experiments, to raucous critiques of popular culture. Some respond to their urban environment, others ignore it, but all are inspired by the nonstop energy and flux of downtown San Diego. Working independently and in collaborative teams, the artists in this exhibition—Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Roman de Salvo, Brian Dick, Randall Evans, Perry Vasquez, A Pollo 13, Shepard Fairey, and Melissa Smedley—regularly shared ideas and opinions, creating a loose-knit critical and supportive network.
Common Ground: A Regional Exhibition
November 5, 1995 – February 10, 1996
Curators: Louis Grachos, Andrea Hales, and Kathryn Kanjo
This exhibition highlighted the variety and excellence of works produced in the San Diego region and featured a range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video. Artists included in the exhibition were Wick Alexander, Eleanor Antin, Roman de Salvo, Derek Stroup, David Avalos, Amanda Farber, Raul M. Guerrero, and James Watts. Organized by MCASD’s curatorial team of Louis Grachos, Andrea Hales, and Kathryn Kanjo.
Satellite Intelligence: New Art from Boston and San Diego
June 9 – August 5, 1990
Curators: Hugh M. Davies, Lynda Forsha, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Sarah Bremser, Katy Kline, Dana Friis-Hansen
Boston and San Diego are like-sized cities located within a 300-mile radius of the largest and most important art centers in the United States: New York and Los Angeles. The premise of this exhibition was to select new work by artists from both cities in an inventive curatorial process combining unbiased openness with local expertise. The work of six artists from each city were shown together in the exhibition, which traveled to the List Visual Arts Center at MIT after its premiere at MCASD. The Boston artists were selected by the MCASD curatorial staff; the San Diego artists were selected by the List MIT director and curator.
The featured San Diego artists were Steve Ilott (painting), Richard Lou (photography), Jean Lowe (installation), Anne Mudge (sculpture), Elizabeth Sisco (photography/installation), and Deborah Small (sculpture/installation). The Boston artists were Gerry Bergstein (painting), John Devaney (painting), Abram Ross Faber (sculpture/installation), Timothy Hawkesworth (painting), Mags Harries (installation), and Cameron Shaw (sculpture). Curated by Hugh M. Davies, MCASD Director; Lynda Forsha, MCASD Curator; Madeleine Grynsztejn, MCASD Associate Curator; Sarah Bremser, MCASD Assistant Curator; Katy Kline, MIT Director; Dana Friis-Hansen, MIT Curator; catalog with essay by Ronald J. Onorato, former MCASD Senior Curator and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Rhode Island.
Civilians: Artists from San Diego
June 16 – October 9, 1988
Guest Curator: Dave Hickey
Featured in this exhibition were a group of San Diego-based artists who functioned outside of the institutional art world of museums and universities. The exhibition explored the artists’ stylistic concerns in light of their marginal association with the art world, an association to which each artist offered a unique response. Artists included in the exhibition were Michelle Burgess, Hans Feuerhahn, Russell Forester, Eugenie Geb, Robert Ginder, Li Huai, Jay Johnson, Dan Masters, DeLoss McGraw, Casey McLoughlin, Carl Peck, Harry Sternberg, and Salvador Torres.
A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-Two Emerging Artists
March 23 – April 28, 1985
Curators: Lynda Forsha, Burnett Miller, and Hugh Davies
This all-media, all-San Diego exhibition included works from the genres of sculpture, painting, photography, performance, installation, video, film, and fashion, as well as works whose boundaries were fluid between two or more media. The artists represented were:
Painting: Wick Alexander, Richard J. Baker, Merryl Berner Cicourel, Robert Glen Ginder, Raul M. Guerrero, Dietrich Jenny, Nancy Kay, Mark-Elliott Lugo, Roy David Rogers, Ellen Schreibman Salk, Michael William Schnorr, Ernest R. Silva, Peter Stearns, and Gillian Theobald. Sculpture: David Avalos, Kenneth Capps, Gary David Ghirardi, Jay S. Johnson, Jens Morrison, and Deborah Small. Fashion: Margaret Honda, and Carol Vidstrand. Film: Beth Accomando, Babette Mangolte, and Kevin Morrisey. Video: Carlos Anzaldua and Joyan Saunders. Installation: Frank D. Cole, Louis Hock, Mario Lara, Roy McMakin, and James Skalman. Performance: Philip-Dimitri Galas and Poyesis Genetica (Sara-Jo Berman, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Luke Theodore Morrison). Photography: Walter Cotten, Harley Gaber, Suda House, Fred Lonidier, Philip Scholz Ritterman, and Philip A. Steinmetz.
San Diego ’72
November 18, 1972 – January 7, 1973
This exhibition featured works by seven prominent San Diego artists: Russell Baldwin, John Dewitt Clark, Faiya Fredman, Mickey Malashock, John Rogers, Joyce Shaw, and Dorothy Stratton.
Exhibition Support for Here Not There
Here Not There is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Related programs are supported by grants from The James Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund, the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Institutional support for MCASD is provided, in part, by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
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MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO
Founded in 1941, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is the preeminent contemporary visual arts institution in San Diego County. The Museum’s collection includes more than 4,000 works of art created since 1950. In addition to presenting exhibitions by international contemporary artists, the Museum serves thousands of children and adults annually at its varied education programs, and offers a rich program of film, performance, and lectures. MCASD is a private, nonprofit organization, with 501c3 tax-exempt status; it is supported by generous contributions and grants from MCASD Members and other individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies. Dr. Hugh M. Davies is The David C. Copley Director at MCASD.
Institutional support for MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
KPBS is the official media sponsor of MCASD.
San Diego’s visual arts have developed a critical mass of local talent. A number of factors have contributed to this: professional artists, often educated at the graduate programs offered by the University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, have made this city their home. In addition, there is a lively alternative art scene that spans a range of areas from painting to furniture design, coupled with increased critical discourse. Here Not There will examine the broad range of media and approaches engaged by San Diego visual artists.
The exhibition will not adhere to thematic or media-specific categorization, and is developing in response to studio and gallery visits, and dialogue with local art practitioners. This includes investigation into the social networks through which individual artists coalesce—such as educational institutions like universities or colleges, commercial and alternative gallery spaces, and collectives and artists’ groups. With Here Not There, MCASD does not aim to reach definitive conclusions about the nature of artistic production in San Diego County; nor does the Museum expect to draw a single narrative illustrating notions of identity or regionalism. Rather, MCASD’s primary task is to chart as straight a trajectory as possible: from the artist’s studio to the exhibition space.
The process of research for the exhibition is underway. For more information about artist submissions for consideration for Here Not There, please visit MCASD’s Web site at www.mcasd.org/about/proposals.php. Artists must have established residency in San Diego County for consideration. Current art students at any level will not be considered. The deadline for submissions is January 1, 2010.
In the past 40 years, MCASD has organized six survey exhibitions of San Diego artists—notable among them are A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-Two Emerging Artists (1985), which surveyed visual arts, as well as theater, performance art, and fashion design, and Off Broadway: New Art from Downtown San Diego (2000); for a selected exhibition history, see below. San Diego artists have participated in numerous group exhibitions organized by MCASD, including the international group exhibitions Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection (2008); Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling (2007); and From Baja to Vancouver (2004). Additionally, MCASD has given solo Cerca Series exhibitions to San Diego artists throughout the program’s six-year history, and artists from the region are an integral part of the Museum’s collection.
Previous MCASD-Produced Exhibitions Focused on San Diego Artists
Off Broadway: New Art from Downtown San Diego
February 12 – May 13, 2000
Curators: Elizabeth Armstrong, Miki Garcia, and Toby Kamps
Stretching from San Diego Bay in the west to Barrio Logan in the east, Broadway Street traverses the city's historic, economic, and geographic heart. The busy thoroughfare connects MCASD Downtown (located at the intersection of Broadway and Kettner Boulevard) with a dynamic group of visual artists who make their studios and sometimes their homes in a variety of converted industrial and commercial spaces on or near the street. Often graduates of local art departments, artists working "Off Broadway" take a variety of different approaches, from lyrical searches for beauty and transcendent meaning, to science and technology-driven aesthetic experiments, to raucous critiques of popular culture. Some respond to their urban environment, others ignore it, but all are inspired by the nonstop energy and flux of downtown San Diego. Working independently and in collaborative teams, the artists in this exhibition—Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Roman de Salvo, Brian Dick, Randall Evans, Perry Vasquez, A Pollo 13, Shepard Fairey, and Melissa Smedley—regularly shared ideas and opinions, creating a loose-knit critical and supportive network.
Common Ground: A Regional Exhibition
November 5, 1995 – February 10, 1996
Curators: Louis Grachos, Andrea Hales, and Kathryn Kanjo
This exhibition highlighted the variety and excellence of works produced in the San Diego region and featured a range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video. Artists included in the exhibition were Wick Alexander, Eleanor Antin, Roman de Salvo, Derek Stroup, David Avalos, Amanda Farber, Raul M. Guerrero, and James Watts. Organized by MCASD’s curatorial team of Louis Grachos, Andrea Hales, and Kathryn Kanjo.
Satellite Intelligence: New Art from Boston and San Diego
June 9 – August 5, 1990
Curators: Hugh M. Davies, Lynda Forsha, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Sarah Bremser, Katy Kline, Dana Friis-Hansen
Boston and San Diego are like-sized cities located within a 300-mile radius of the largest and most important art centers in the United States: New York and Los Angeles. The premise of this exhibition was to select new work by artists from both cities in an inventive curatorial process combining unbiased openness with local expertise. The work of six artists from each city were shown together in the exhibition, which traveled to the List Visual Arts Center at MIT after its premiere at MCASD. The Boston artists were selected by the MCASD curatorial staff; the San Diego artists were selected by the List MIT director and curator.
The featured San Diego artists were Steve Ilott (painting), Richard Lou (photography), Jean Lowe (installation), Anne Mudge (sculpture), Elizabeth Sisco (photography/installation), and Deborah Small (sculpture/installation). The Boston artists were Gerry Bergstein (painting), John Devaney (painting), Abram Ross Faber (sculpture/installation), Timothy Hawkesworth (painting), Mags Harries (installation), and Cameron Shaw (sculpture). Curated by Hugh M. Davies, MCASD Director; Lynda Forsha, MCASD Curator; Madeleine Grynsztejn, MCASD Associate Curator; Sarah Bremser, MCASD Assistant Curator; Katy Kline, MIT Director; Dana Friis-Hansen, MIT Curator; catalog with essay by Ronald J. Onorato, former MCASD Senior Curator and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Rhode Island.
Civilians: Artists from San Diego
June 16 – October 9, 1988
Guest Curator: Dave Hickey
Featured in this exhibition were a group of San Diego-based artists who functioned outside of the institutional art world of museums and universities. The exhibition explored the artists’ stylistic concerns in light of their marginal association with the art world, an association to which each artist offered a unique response. Artists included in the exhibition were Michelle Burgess, Hans Feuerhahn, Russell Forester, Eugenie Geb, Robert Ginder, Li Huai, Jay Johnson, Dan Masters, DeLoss McGraw, Casey McLoughlin, Carl Peck, Harry Sternberg, and Salvador Torres.
A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-Two Emerging Artists
March 23 – April 28, 1985
Curators: Lynda Forsha, Burnett Miller, and Hugh Davies
This all-media, all-San Diego exhibition included works from the genres of sculpture, painting, photography, performance, installation, video, film, and fashion, as well as works whose boundaries were fluid between two or more media. The artists represented were:
Painting: Wick Alexander, Richard J. Baker, Merryl Berner Cicourel, Robert Glen Ginder, Raul M. Guerrero, Dietrich Jenny, Nancy Kay, Mark-Elliott Lugo, Roy David Rogers, Ellen Schreibman Salk, Michael William Schnorr, Ernest R. Silva, Peter Stearns, and Gillian Theobald. Sculpture: David Avalos, Kenneth Capps, Gary David Ghirardi, Jay S. Johnson, Jens Morrison, and Deborah Small. Fashion: Margaret Honda, and Carol Vidstrand. Film: Beth Accomando, Babette Mangolte, and Kevin Morrisey. Video: Carlos Anzaldua and Joyan Saunders. Installation: Frank D. Cole, Louis Hock, Mario Lara, Roy McMakin, and James Skalman. Performance: Philip-Dimitri Galas and Poyesis Genetica (Sara-Jo Berman, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Luke Theodore Morrison). Photography: Walter Cotten, Harley Gaber, Suda House, Fred Lonidier, Philip Scholz Ritterman, and Philip A. Steinmetz.
San Diego ’72
November 18, 1972 – January 7, 1973
This exhibition featured works by seven prominent San Diego artists: Russell Baldwin, John Dewitt Clark, Faiya Fredman, Mickey Malashock, John Rogers, Joyce Shaw, and Dorothy Stratton.
Exhibition Support for Here Not There
Here Not There is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Related programs are supported by grants from The James Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund, the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Institutional support for MCASD is provided, in part, by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
# # #
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO
Founded in 1941, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is the preeminent contemporary visual arts institution in San Diego County. The Museum’s collection includes more than 4,000 works of art created since 1950. In addition to presenting exhibitions by international contemporary artists, the Museum serves thousands of children and adults annually at its varied education programs, and offers a rich program of film, performance, and lectures. MCASD is a private, nonprofit organization, with 501c3 tax-exempt status; it is supported by generous contributions and grants from MCASD Members and other individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies. Dr. Hugh M. Davies is The David C. Copley Director at MCASD.
Institutional support for MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
KPBS is the official media sponsor of MCASD.