April 2017
Artist lecture with Roger Ballen
Join us on Wednesday, April 12, in the Stauffacher Theatre on the SFCC campus for an artist lecture with Roger Ballen. This event is free and open to the public.
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Anne Austin Pearce: Gallery Talk
Pearce’s installation titled “Leaving Alone” links five separate artworks through a blending of poetry, nature, and art. The exhibition introduces a large, free-form mural inspired by the myth of Icarcus. Other components are influenced by authors Margaret Atwood and Virginia Woolf. Each work or group of works probes a different branch of the overarching story, about the fragility of life, the desire for security, and the necessity of conscience.
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Artist-led Gallery Talk with Brandon Reese
Contingent Structures: Recent Ceramics by Brandon Reese until May 27, 2018 Artist-led gallery talk on Thursday, April 5, at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. Contingent Structures: Recent Ceramics by Brandon Reese until May 27, 2018 Artist-led gallery talk on Thursday, April 5, at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.
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Gisela Colon: Exhibiting Artist’s Lecture
Join us for Gisela Colon's artist lecture on Thursday, October 25, at 6 p.m., in the Stauffacher Theatre. Free and open to the public. Los Angeles-based artist Gisela Colon is well regarded for her meticulously fabricated, glowingly iridescent wall sculptures, referred to as “pods.” These are large-scale, three-dimensional, non-representational objects, asymmetrical and biomorphic in shape, with perfectly smooth surfaces. The sculptures are made from blow-molded acrylic plastic, laminated and layered with iridescent and fluorescent pigments. They provide a perceptual experience…
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Rebecca Hutchinson: Tranquil Bloom Sedalia
In conjunction with the exhibition Particle & Wave: PaperClay Illuminated, Rebecca Hutchinson (whose work is included in that show) will construct a site-specific installation in the Daum Museum’s Scott Gallery. Hutchinson’s sculptural assemblages are influenced by ecosystem dynamics and environmental concerns. Although her installations do not replicate nature, they reference the nesting and colonization of insects and birds, the search for space by plants, and massed floral motifs found on antique textiles. Hutchinson uses paperclay made from up-cycled materials (used…
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Particle & Wave: PaperClay Illuminated
Particle & Wave: PaperClay Illuminated is a groundbreaking exhibition featuring 45 artists from across the globe who incorporate paper pulp and organic fibers into their clay. The artists choose paperclay for its adaptability, tensile strength, translucency, and ecological and sustainable characteristics. The medium also increases freedom of expression for the artists, who reveal a breadth of technique, concept, and form. The works divide between figural and structural abstraction, with a few flirting with ceramics’ utilitarian traditions. The participating artists address…
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Rebecca Hutchinson: Exhibiting Artist’s Lecture
Join us for Rebecca Hutchinson's artist lecture on Thursday, November 7, at 6 p.m., in the Stauffacher Theatre. Free and open to the public. Hutchinson will present an illustrated lecture concerning her Daum-specific installation Tranquil Bloom Sedalia. She will also tie her work into the companion exhibition Particle & Wave: PaperClay Illuminated, and discuss the advancement of paperclay as a medium that both she and the 44 other artists in that exhibition have found to be well suited to a…
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Jane Booth: Virtual Artist’s Talk
Virtual artist's talk in conjunction with the exhibition Jane Booth: Instinct. Jane Booth, artist, in conversation with Daum Director Thomas Piché Jr. Thursday, October 22, at 2 p.m. Live on the Daum's Facebook page www.facebook.com/daummuseum Available to view on the Daum's website and SFCC's YouTube channel after the event. Jane Booth is exhibiting a selection of recent, encompassing paintings in her inaugural showing at the Daum Museum. In her studio, surrounded on all sides by the gently rolling landscape…
Find out more »February 2022
Dialogues with Mother Earth: Drawing to Save the Planet
Dialogues with Mother Earth: Drawing to Save the Planet is an installation by artist Erica Daborn that provokes reflections on the relationship between 21st century societal values and the ways in which they have contributed to the degradation of our environment. The primary elements in this project are ten mural-sized narrative drawings in charcoal that captivate the imagination of the audience and provide entry points where scientific facts alone fail. The monumental drawings place the viewer into the future, looking…
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Erica Daborn Gallery Talk
Erica Daborn will have an artist-led gallery talk on Thursday, June 2, at 6 p.m. followed by a reception. Free and open to the public.
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