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Upcoming Exhibitions June 18−August 3, 2008 Divine Visions Worldly Lovers 
Curated by Robert J. Del Bontà The diverse deities of South Asia are major themes in Indian painting but romantic love also plays a large role in the intensely-colored, and often small-scale, works. Both of these themes can be seen repeated often in the Janeff collection of Indian paintings. This Bay-Area collection, which includes work from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, highlights many styles and trends found in Indian art. Indian artists constantly played with various painting approaches— conflicting ones such as realism and abstraction—and often within a single work. Perhaps confusing at first, upon closer inspection this layering of artistic conventions can be subtle and sophisticated. With the advent of the Mughal style, associated with a Muslim dynasty founded in the sixteenth century and ultimately ruling most of North India, European realism was introduced, particularly in the portrait tradition. The accomplished academic style developed in Mughal ateliers combined Indian and Persian styles with Western realism. Charlotte Schulz’s charcoal drawings invite the viewer to explore strange composite architectural spaces in which dreams blend with memory and reality. Fragments of buildings are tethered together, and interior unfolds into exterior and back again. The spaces she renders appear to be unpopulated, allowing the viewer to easily step in as protagonist. 
Curated by Thomas Trummer The selection of work navigates big ideas, including the question of why specific events happen as they do, when the potential for any number of possible outcomes exists in the universe. The phrase ”an insufficiency in our screens” introduces each title in this series of drawings, as Schulz explores an interest in both metaphysical and physical "screens," and how they filter experience and mediate information in our everyday lives. Charlotte Schulz lives and works in Beacon, New York. This exhibition was organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The Life and Times of Sarah McEneaney: Curated by Melissa Feldman
Sarah McEneaney September 6–December 7, 2008 The Offering Table: Activist Women Artists from Korea Seven artists from the Seoul-based group Ipigim participate in the rediscovery of women's traditions and history in The Offering Table: Activist Women Artists from Korea.
The ambition of these artists is to raise awareness about the emerging feminist art movement that is taking place in Korea to challenge patriarchal Confucian beliefs. They share a strong desire for socio-political change stemming from personal experiences with issues that still plague women in the work and domestic spaces. Often working as a group under the name Ipgim which imprecisely translates to “air,” they have been invited to participate in numerous projects including the Busan (Korea) Biennale in 2004 sharing the stage with the world famous Guerilla Girls. As successful individual artists they have been shown in major galleries and participated in group shows in Korea as well as China, Japan, United States, Germany and France. Their art resonates as women sharing a common history of struggle to find voice in the still male-centric society. Kwak Eunsook Ginger Wolfe-Suarez: AS LONG AS YOU LIVE I WILL LIVE Curated by Jessica Hough Ginger Wolfe-Suarez: AS LONG AS YOU LIVE I WILL LIVEpulls together the artists solo works along-side works made with her mother, Jeanne Moen Wolfe. Wolfe-Suarez’ is an artist who has a pluralistic practice rooted in conceptual art-making, writing, and organizing. Her work is informed by feminist ideas, histories, and theories, and often addresses alternative ways of understanding history. For this exhibition the artistrecreates banners and other symbols from the suffragist and equality movements, which were either burned, destroyed, or lost. Through research the artist uncovered accounts of violence and courage amidst an equality movement, which was both revolutionary and ultimately flawed. The resulting installations are an inquiry into the history of women’s activism at this moment. Wolfe-Suarez is based in the East Bay. She is founder of InterReview, an experiential art collective and journal on the history of conceptual art, and has been the Editor of for the past six years. Jeanne Moen Wolfe, lived in the bay area during the Vietnam War and was a part of the peace movement. She now lives in Georgia.January 14−March 22, 2009 Painting the Glass House: Curated by Jessica Hough, director and Mónica Ramirez-Montagut, assistant curator of architecture and design, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum A sleek modern house that floats on an iceberg, or a glass building nestled into idealized painted landscape, are backdrops for surreal emotional dramas and are some of the images to be seen in a sixteen-artist group exhibition that invites viewers to reconsider modern architecture. The artists featured in the exhibition are interested not only in the potential of utopian A sleek modern house that floats on an iceberg, or a glass building nestled into idealized painted landscape, are backdrops for surreal emotional dramas and are some of the images to be seen in a sixteen-artist group exhibition that invites viewers to reconsider modern architecture. David Claerbout, Bordeaux Piece, 2004 Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert, Paris/New York The artists featured in the exhibition are interested not only in the potential of utopian |
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The Life and Times of Sarah McEneaney represents the artist's West Coast debut and features 16 paintings from 2000 to the present. McEneaney works in the Medieval medium of homemade egg tempera on wood with a miniaturist's view that encompasses the grandeur of nature, socio-political issues, personal trauma and fantasy as well as the life of an artist, a working woman, a home and pet owner, and a community activist. McEneaney lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.
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