Fall ’04 News & More from the Art Alumni Group
Art letter Art Alumni Group Benefit Show “The Bauhaus was not Our House” for Worth Ryder Gallery Berkeley School Symposium a great success
orth Ryder Gallery has hosted some world- A symposium for alumni, “The We hadn’t intended to hold the symposium class shows over the years, despite a minimal operating Bauhaus Was Not Our House”, on a Saturday when the Cal football team would Wbudget and an aging building. Please join the Art Alumni was held in Kroeber Hall on be playing a home game, but a change in schedule October 25. The purpose was to tripped us up. Despite the difficulty and expense Group in our effort to raise funds to help make improve- review and examine the nature of parking near the campus, we had an audience ments to the Worth Ryder Gallery so it can continue of instruction in drawing and of over sixty people. We were lucky in that the Jim Melchert to serve the department and the community. painting in the Art and Art faculty club is open to alumni for lunch on foot- Over 40 members of the Art Alumni Group will be History Department from the late 30s to the ball days; all of us were welcomed there, which late 50s, a time when there were two wings to allowed us to sit together and talk informally showing their work in the salon-style exhibit and sale. the Art Department, painting and art history. before returning to Room 160 in Kroeber Hall September 14-October 1, 2004,Worth Ryder Gallery, The philosophical basis for for the afternoon session. that instruction owed much Sculpture Symposium Scheduled The symposium continued Kroeber Hall. Work is for sale by silent auction; net for October 2004. to the teaching of Hans with a panel discussion in An alumni symposium is being planned proceeds benefit the gallery. Hofmann (1880-1966) which two alumni conversed for October 23, 2004 on the first five making the University of with a current member of the Opening Reception: Friday, September 17, 5-8:00 PM years of sculpture as a new wing of California at Berkeley the Art Practice faculty at UCB: the Art department. It will focus on the Hours:Tuesday through Friday Noon-4 PM; in addition, home of Bay Area formalism. Fred Martin, painter and edu- work and instruction of the sculptors Saturday, September 18, Noon-4 PM The day began with a lec- cator who for many years was on the faculty between 1959 and ture on Hofmann by alumnus Director of the San Francisco 1964, principally, Sid Gordin, Dick Closing Party: Friday, October 1, 5-8:00 Last chance Robert Beetem, former profes- Art Institute; Barbara Rogers, O’Hanlon, Julius Schmidt, Jacques to bid! Artwork may be removed from Gallery after sor of art history at the Professor of painting at the Schnier, Harold Paris, Pete Voulkos, University of Wisconsin University of Arizona in the event. and Willard Zogbaum. Among the where he was also director of Tucson; and Greg Niemeyer speakers and participants in the Participating Artists Include: the university art museum. who teaches film and elec- discussions will be Bruce Beasley, Vera Armand MA ’58 David Molesky BA ’99 Gardiner McCauley, a painter tronically generated image- Paula Busch BA ’72 Eric Hiss BA ’90 Stephen deStaebler, Nancy Genn, and former chair of the art making. They spoke with Jerry Cannizzaro BA ’82 Monica Bryant MFA ’93 Erik Gronberg, Jim Melchert, and department at Stevens College, such spirit that their debate Bill Dallas BA ’74 Carol Brighton Connie Wirtz. Eileen Downey BA ’59, MA ’60 Marcy Freedman BA ’72 took us on an illustrated tour was engaging and provocative. For more information, check the John Ferrell BA ’74 Rebecca Bird BA ’02 of the basic drawing course In the announcement for website at www.calartalumni.org Cynthia Innis BA ’91 Laura Stanley BA ’85 Art 2A that preceded all studio the symposium, people were Christine Lando BA ’77, MFA ’83 Karen Heilman Bearson BA ’85 activity during that period. It invited to bring three slides Theresa Marable BA ’96 Lynne Rutter BA ’85 was a course that nearly every- Hugo Kobayashi is making a very of their art work to deposit in Kara Maria BA ’93 MFA ’98 Linda Gottesfeld low-budget film documentary about Gloria Matuszewski BA ’69 Barbara Brinkley BA ’68 one in the hall had once taken. a carousel tray. We closed the Mary Maughelli MA ’59 Sandy Eastoak As evidence of how that Pete Voulkos. He is seeking people afternoon by screening them Alex McMath MA ’70, MFA ’71 Lorene Anderson MFA ’90 instruction guided the with stories about Voulkos, especially as people took turns talking Margie Newman BA ’48 Susan Anson BA ’62 progress of their work stories that take place during the early briefly about what they had . Theo Dapp Samuels BA ’38 Linda Edwards BA ’70 throughout their careers, two 70’s or before. If you would like to be brought. We were pleased to Larry Stefl MFA ’83 Helen Licht BA ’77 artists showed slides of what part of this project please contact see how actively so many older Roy Tomlinson MFA ’91 Barbara Morris MA ’86 Hugo at fi[email protected]. Yuriko Yamaguchi BA ’75 Deborah Oropallo MFA ’83 they had done and, for that alumni are still painting. The Shalene Valenzuela BA ’94 Stephanie Peek MFA ’96 matter, are continuing to do day ended with a reception in Marilyn Waligore BA ’81 Laura Raboff BA ’69, MA ’73 as professionals. These were Pat Adams, now Worth Ryder Gallery and the opening of an Gurdon Miller III BA ’68 Sonya Rapoport MA ’49 retired from teaching at Bennington and Yale, exhibition of works on paper by alumni from Laura Siegel BA ’69, MA ’71 Lee Dabney Adair BA ’56 MA ’57 and Sonja Rapoport whose path over the years the 1940s and 1950s on loan from the Berkeley led from painting to digital imagery. Art Museum. —Jim Melchert
A Conversation about Painting: Christopher Brown and Joel Isaacson —excerpted from a review by Karen Lee , BA ‘63 ne of a series of scholar, is the former chair of the knew in Paris 1904-1914 direct, full of authority, with a Another “Conversation” “Conversations” about art issues, University of Michigan Art (Picasso, Matisse, Delauney and sense of wholeness. As you about Art... focusing on works in the History Department. Cézanne) in his use of relative paint, you create hierarchies The next in this series of events museum’s collection, was held at Two paintings by Hans spatial properties of color and through composition and O at the Berkeley Art Museum will the Berkeley Art Museum in Hofmann, “Interior Comp- the cubist disruption of the details.” Brown feels Hofmann take place on November 21, May. Curator Sherry Goodman osition” 1935 and “Table with picture plane. doesn’t totally succeed, “These 2004. Join us as we welcome presented artist Christopher Green Vase and Red Flowers” To Brown, Hofmann’s paintings are too divided artist John Zurier MA ’83 in Brown and art historian Joel 1936, provided a lively compari- rectangles and grid-like structure between still life painting and the conversation with art historian Isaacson. Brown is the former son as they were based on the seem precursors to grid paintings modern idiom.” As Hofmann Todd Olson, PhD. chair of UC Berkeley's same subject, an interior with a of the 1950s and beyond. For worked, however, he was able to Check the website Department of Art Practice; blue rectangle/canvas. Isaacson him, “Hofmann is concerned distance himself from copying calartalumni.org for details. Isaacson, Ph.D. ’67 Art and Art noted the paintings reflected the with issues of speed; he paints life to making abstractions that History, a noted Impressionist influence of painters Hofmann fast—these paintings...are belong to themselves. continued on page 2 From Our President Department News
The department looks forward to an exciting new year Kevin Radley, Director of the Worth Ryder Gallery, Dear Friends and Fellow Alumni: with the return of Loren Partridge as Chair of the Art reports that this fall the Artists Alumni Group is It’s been a busy and fruitful Practice Department for 2004-2005 and the hiring sponsoring one of the most exciting events the Art year for the Art Alumni Group. of two new faculty members. Anne Walsh, formerly a Department has seen in many years. This year’s Alumni Last fall’s Symposium was professor of Studio Art at the University of California, exhibition will be a benefit for the gallery itself. The an inspiring success! I am Irvine and Editor of X-Tra in Los Angeles. Her work proceeds of sales will help finance much-needed thrilled that The Symposium includes video installations, text works and curatorial upgrades and improvements. Lynne Rutter, Stephanie Committee is planning another for October 23, projects in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Detroit and Peek, Louis DeLuco, John Ferrell,Theresa Marable, the and I heartily encourage you to participate. has been shown at the LA County Museum of Art, the AAG committee and artists contributing to the Other lectures and events are in the works, Santa Monica Museum of Art, the New Museum of exhibition are to be thanked for their remarkable providing opportunities for alumni to share Contemporary Art, NYC, and a solo exhibition in efforts to make this event a success. ideas and experiences. Utrecht, Holland. “Archive”, a collaborative project This April we launched our own website: with Chris Kubick that gives a “voice” to deceased Upcoming Shows at Worth Ryder Gallery www.calartalumni.org where we post the latest artists has most recently been included in the Whitney September 14-October 1 information on upcoming events, as well as PDF Biennial, 2002. Michelle Lopez, a sculptor with a B.A. Art Alumni Group salon show and benefit sale. files of many of our publications. This site will in Literature and Art History from Barnard College, Artists Reception: September, 17, 5-8 PM include AAG members’ work, and links to Columbia University, New York, 1992, MFA, Painting Closing Auction and Party: October 1, 5-8 PM museum websites, resources, alumni websites, etc. and Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, 1994. Michelle October 6-15 Our volunteers are monitoring our new data- has had solo shows with Feature Inc., NY, Deitch Group Exhibition of first year Graduate Students base to eliminate redundancies and out-of-date Projects, NY, LA Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Reception: October 5, 4-7 PM addresses. The database includes over 6,100 grad- Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, and group shows with October 20-November 5 uates in art and art-related majors. Assembling this Brooklyn Museum, Public Art Fund Commission, and Somewhere Elsewhere: Group Exhibition of list was a huge task, and thanks are due to the was a part of the 2000 Greater New York exhibition Contemporary Muslim and Arab Artists curated by California Alumni Association, the Development at P.S.1/MOMA, where a leather-covered car (“Boy,” Sam Makhoul. Reception: October 19, 4-7 PM Office, and our own Dee Levister.We are also deeply 1999) was on display. Lopez currently is working on November 9-23 indebted to Louis DeLuco, who donated his time new sculptures of morphed animated-based forms as Yer Cool, No Yer cool, No Yer really Cool, No Yer and computer savvy to creating the Filemaker Pro colored, shiny sculptures. She is interested in object- Really Freaking Cool: An exchange show between database, and who is the architect of our site. hood, architectural applications to sculpture, 3-D- UCB and Cal Arts Graduate Students Program I’m looking forward to September’s salon-style rendering capabilities, and the exploration of sculptural Reception: November 8, 4-6 PM show and sale at Worth Ryder Gallery (Sept.14 - possibilities in the technological realm through simu- December 1-9 Oct.1), from which we hope to raise money to lations of real objects in space. Honor Studio Show/Art 8 help make improvements to the gallery space. It In addition to this good news is the refurbishing of Reception: November 30, 4-6 PM is my further hope that the event will bring our Print Studios in August and also the refunding of Featured Exhibitions for Spring 2005 include: together a community of alumni from all eras of Artsbridge for 2004-2005. This important program is Faculty Show February 9-March 4 and Triviality of the department’s history and show the students administered by the Consortium for the Arts to use Games: A New Media Exhibition curated by Greg and community who attend this gallery, the rich, the arts to bring other academic discipines alive for Niemeyer, and Exhibition on Health Disability and eclectic, and original work our alumni produce! students in public schools. Every year UCB art students Representation curated by Katherine Sherwood It’s been nearly 20 years since I graduated from are awarded scholarships to teach in the Oakland Cal. I’ll be honest with you, it took this long for me school system. Continued private support is needed For more information refer to the department website to fully appreciate what I gained here. I am hon- to augment the funds received from the state. at http//art.berkeley.edu/. ored to take the reigns as this year’s president of We look forward to a response from the alumni! Gallery Hours Tuesday-Friday 12-4 PM the Art Alumni Group. My involvement in this Contact Lia at 510.642.7703. group has been most rewarding; it has given me a sense of community and purpose to reconnect with the school where I learned so much about art, and even more about life. Faculty News —Lynne Rutter BA ’85 Former department Chair Christopher Brown showed Gallery in Oakland in July, and at Gallery 18 in his latest work at the John Berggruen Gallery in San New York in September. Former department Chair Congratulations to Dora Wedekind BA’04 this year’s Francisco in May, as well as painting a heart for the Jim Melchert had a solo show of his latest ceramic recipient of the Alumni Award which is given each Hearts in San Francisco project over the summer; his work at Gallery Paule Anglim and at the Revolution year to a graduating senior selected by the faculty. paintings will be exhibited at the Friesen Gallery in Gallery in Ferndale, Michigan. Mary Lovelace O’Neill Seattle in February and March ’05. Squeak Carnwath’s was honored as the 2004 Distinguished Lecturer in Conversations continued from front page exhibition “Paper Trail” was shown at John Berggruen Visual Arts at the David C. Driskell Center for the Isaacson said Hofmann moved forcefully toward Gallery in the fall of ’03; she particpated in Hearts in Study of the African Diaspora at the University of abstraction. “Ebullient, energetic abstraction, playing San Francisco. Solo exhibitions can be seen at Oakland Maryland. Last fall Greg Niemeyer’s video installation with gobs of paint. He was working in these paintings Art Gallery, Oakland, CA in October; Olin Art Gallery, was shown at IDEA Gallery’s “Promise of Progress” toward rectangles and painting activity—all process.” Kenyon College, Gambier, OH (Nov-Dec ’04); Paulson in Austin, TX. Kevin Radley produced two performance Brown discussed the language of painting. “I read Press, Berkeley, CA, May ’05. Her work is included in works in April. Re:Love; a performative musical cele- them in terms of opposites. Art speaks in dualities, group exhibitions at: San Jose ICA (through Sept 17, bration of the first global satellite broadcast. The spontaneous or premeditated, active or passive, etc.; ’04); Heritage Bank, San Jose, CA (through Nov 5, ’04); performance took place in the Worth Ryder Gallery the play between intellectual and spontaneous, body Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (through and was a collaboration between Radley and students and mind…Art uses a language of forms, colors, images, Oct 3, ’04); Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, in the department. Love Circle Revolution; a non- which try to expand discussion. Like rubber bands, the Claremont, CA (Oct 30-Dec 19, ’04;). Robert Hartman sanctioned performance intervention at the Yerba art stretches until it breaks. Again and again the artist had a solo exhibit of his new infra-red photographs Buena Center in San Francisco. This summer Jane must work until s/he succeeds in creating the most at the Triangle Gallery in SF this spring. Randy Hussong Rosen had a solo show of her sculpture and drawings tension without breaking…Speed and spontaneity launched his website this year hotrodrandy.com, and at Braunstein- Quay, San Francisco. Sculpture by can’t be planned, they have to happen.” had two shows in the fall of ’03. ‘Elements of the Hot Richard Shaw was included in “Revealing Influences” at Isaacson responded: “The push-pull creates an Rod Rodeo’ featuring genetically engineered horse- the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco. activated surface. Hofmann plays the canvas like a harp, power, at the di Rosa Preserve Gatehouse Gallery; Katherine Sherwood had a solo exhibit at Gallery with interplay of surface and depth. He is fascinated and ‘Get Off' at Off the Preserve in Napa, CA. Randy Paule Anglim in May ’04 and at the Locks Gallery with the two-dimensional stretch of the picture plane.” collaborated with fellow UCB Faculty Kevin Radley in Philadelphia; she is featured in “Visionary Hofmann came to U.C. Berkeley from Germany and featured the large scale piece titled “One Million Anatomies” at the National Academy of Science in in the 30s where he had been director of a renowed Watt Karaoke Elvis on Viagra.” Hussong’s 2002 piece Washington, DC in September '04. She is co-organ- art school. Hofmann’s teaching was systematic and titled “Hercules” is now on permanent display at the izing the “Blind at the Museum” conference at methodical; setting up series of overlapping rectangles, Oakland Museum. Karl Kasten has written a history of Berkeley Art Museum, March 11-12, ’05, and he insisted students reproduce them with exact cali- the Art Department, which is scheduled for publication co-curating the exhibit with Elizabeth Dungan. brations from one to the next. His teaching was in the in the University Chronicle this fall. His paintings and A survey of paintings by the late Wendy Sussman tradition of analytical Bauhaus school. drawings are featured in a show at Joyce Gordon was shown at Gallery Paule Anglim in August. their work was also exhibited at the Fresno Art Museum in MFA ’93 has been teaching art at Ursuline High School in Alumni News 2003. Christin Coy BA ’74 participates in Open Studios in Santa Rosa for the past two years, and was recently awarded Yuriko Yamaguchi ’75 Look for Sonya Rapoport’s MA ’49 article describing her Marin County. who now lives outside the High School Art Teacher’s Fellowship Award from Web project “Smell Your Destiny” published in Leonardo, Washington DC was in a group sculpture show this spring Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. During her 5 week summer residency Monica worked in the painting a Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences at the Schneider Museum at Southern Oregon University and Technology, volume 37, Number 3. An exhibit of in Ashland. The Theresa Hak Kyung Cha BA ’75, MFA ’77, independent study program in addition to taking a graduate course in digital photography. www.monicabryant.com. small abstract paintings by Pat Adams BA ’49 was held this show, “The Dream of the Audience”, that originated at the Emily Duffy BA ’93 finished her project “Braball” in August summer at the Bennington Museum of Art in Vermont. Berkeley Art Museum continues to travel. It opened in Vienna, Austria in May. Susan Chorpenning MFA ’79 has 2003 at SOMARTS Cultural Center in San Francisco. had three solo shows this year! “Pictures of an Exhibition” Work by Kara Maria BA ’93, MFA ’98 was included in shows MTA Metro has commissioned Walter Askin BA ’51, MA ’52 at Arnaud Lefebvre Gallery, Paris, France, in January; “Fiat at the Kala Art Institute, Berkeley and Catherine Clark to create posters for Pasadena on display throughout Los Lux”, site-specific installation and sculpture at Jim Kempner Gallery, San Francisco. www.karamaria.com. Kevin Bean Angeles. There was a Jay De Feo show at the Whitney Fine Arts, New York; and “February 30th”, a site-specific MFA ’95 had a solo show of paintings at Charles Campbell Museum in NYC last fall. Paintings by Inez Storer,’55 are installation at Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles opened in Gallery in San Francisco with a catalog and is teaching at exhibited in solo shows at Louisiana Tech, Anne Reed Galley, May, 2004. Randy Hussong MA ’79 (see Faculty News). Stanford. www.kevinbean.com. Mark Grotjahn MFA ’95 had Ketchum, ID, Gallery Materia, AZ, and The National a solo show of his paintings at Stephen Friedman Gallery in Museum of Jewish American History, Philadelphia. Nancy New York. Work by Kyungmi Shin MFA ’95 was included in Thompson Jacobson BA ’51 spends her time gardening and Kevin Radley MFA ’81 (see Faculty News). Andy Black MA ’83, a group show “Close Calls” at Headlands Center for the Arts, painting in Orinda. The Di Rosa Preserve has honored MFA ’84 had a solo show of his paintings on paper at Triangle Carla Paganelli MFA ’96 Sausalito. Late in the spring had a Paul Wonner MFA ’53 as “Elder Artist of the Year” from 2004, Gallery in San Francisco; large paintings will be included closing show at her Dutch Boy Bldg. studio and moved to a and a large showing of his work was exhibited at the Di in a group show there in August. Rick Arnitz BA ’75 MFA ’82 new studio in Oakland. Stephanie Peek MFA ’96 was in a Rosa Gatehouse Gallery in Napa July and August; the John contributed a heart to the “Hearts in San Francisco” project group show of large paintings at Triangle Gallery in August; Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco held a solo exhibition this summer. Sandy Eastoak is currently working on a large she teaches as an off-site painting advisor at the SF Art of his paintings in January. project entitled “Islands: Painting the Spirit of the Pacific Institute. A solo show of her paintings will be shown at the Northwest” which includes paintings, drawings, and linocuts. Friesen Gallery in Seattle in March and April 2005. Works from the series were shown this winter at Open Space Work by Walter De Maria MFA ’60 occupies several rooms at www.stephaniepeek.com. Paintings by Stephanie Sanchez Gallery in Taos, NM, and at her two recent solo shows in Dia Beacon. Mark Di Suvero’s BA ’62 (Philosophy) show at MFA ’97 were included in “4 Views,” Terrence Rogers Fine Sebastopol, CA. www.sonic.net/~sandoak. Jerry Ellen Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Limited in London runs Art, Santa Monica, CA, and in “The Political Landscape” at Cannizzaro BA ’82 had several pieces in the “Mightier than through September 10; he had an exhibition at John the Barnsdall Park Municipal Gallery, LA, and at DUMBO the Sword” show at the Marin Civic Center during the Berggruen Gallery in the fall 2003. The Board of Directors Art Center in Brooklyn, NY. “Paintings of Stephanie Sanchez” summer, which featured work by the Golden Gate/Marin of the University of Arizona presented Barbara Rogers MA ’63 can be seen in American Artist Magazine, June ’04. Charles branch of the National League of American Pen Women. with the Extraordinary Faculty Award at the Fall Convocation Linder MFA ’97 had a solo show of new work at the Brian John Zurier MFA ’82 had a solo show at Gallery Paule Anglim of The College of Fine Arts. A one-person exhibition of Gross Gallery in SF during June, his gallery LincArt exhib- and is teaching at Stanford and CCA. This summer Deborah her paintings at the Dosi Gallery in Pusan, Korea opened ited a group show next door, and his work was included in Oropallo MFA ’83 decorated a heart for the “Hearts in San September 17; she will be there for the opening and be the “Revealing Influences” at the Museum of Craft and Folk Francisco” project; her solo show “Replica” was at Stephen visiting artist at The National University of Pusan. A catalog At in San Francisco. Gabriela Tapia BA ’98 has been a junior Wirtz Gallery in January-February. Hugo Kobayashi BA ’83 has been published with the exhibition. Wayne Campbell’s high school teacher for the past 6 years, and has a Master of will have a one person show of his latest oil paintings, this BA ’67, MA ’68, MFA ’69 scuplture/contracting firm in NY is the Sciences with an emphasis in Mathematics in Education. November at Hang, San Francisco. In November Shirin building a garage for Jerry Seinfeld’s car collection in South She is working on her doctorate. Work by Elizabeth Demaray Neshat MFA ’83 showed work at the International Center of Hampton. Mary Heilmann MFA ’67 showed paintings at the MFA ’99 was included in “The Sixth Annual Altoids: Photography and had a stunning installation at Asia House, Hauser & Wirth Gallery in London, January and February; Curiously Strong Collection” at The Luggage Store in San both in New York; her film “Rapture” was shown at the a retrospective (with a performance, lecture and catalog) was Francisco. David Molesky BA ’99 is currently exhibiting with UCLA Fowler Museum and her work was included in the shown at Secession, Association of Visual Artists Vienna the Winfield Gallery in Carmel and the Lisa Coscino Galleries Culturgest, Lisbon, the Photobiennale, Moscow, and the Secession, in Vienna last year. Check out her book The in Pacific Grove and Los Angeles. www.davidmolesky.com. All Night Movie (1999)! Paintings by Joel Isaacson PhD ’67 Espace Recamier, Paris. Donald Faesel MFA '84 exhibited (Art History) were shown in “We the Artists” at We The paintings through Brian Gross Gallery and is teaching at 2004 has been a busy year for Tia Factor MFA ’01, who People in Oakland in the spring. A show of Charles Simonds Santa Rosa College. The Brick House Gallery in Sacramento attended an art residency in March at the Vermont Studio BA ’67 recently exhibited a solo show by Karen Heilman Bearson work that opened at the Ivam Institute of Modern Center, Johnson, VT, and showed work in a number of Art in Valencia, Spain last fall went on to Toulouse in the BA ’85. Lynne Rutter BA ’85 took a break from her mural exhibitions including “Blue In Green” for the Neighborhood South of France. The Otis College of Art and Design in business to do some traveling, visiting Paris, Barcelona, and Parks Council (NPC) in San Francisco; “Trabajos del LA did a 35-year survey of work by Eugenia Butler BA ’68 parts of Southern Africa. Lynne also painted a 5 foot tall Corazon” at The Lab, San Francisco; and “Advance to Go” this year entitled “Arc of an Idea: Chasing the Invisible”. fiberglass heart for the “Hearts in San Francisco” project. at the Oliver Art Center, CCA, Oakland. Tia spent the Joe Slusky MA ’69, who teaches in the Department of www.lynnerutter.com. Oriane Stender BA '86 had a solo summer teaching Art 117at Cal. A digital video by Claudia Architecture at UCB, had a solo show of his sculpture at show at Gallery Paule Anglim in SF this spring. Nancy X.Valdes MFA ’01 was shown in “Space Available” at the Elliot ’87 spent her summer in Costa Rica “making art and Stanford Art Spaces this year. San Francisco Art Institute and also in the Front Window at soaking up sun.” AAG is still awaiting a postcard. Katherine San Jose ICA and is teaching at Stanford. The Headlands Van Dyke BA ’87 has painted a heart for Hearts in San George Ernstson MFA ’71 had a show of aluminum/plexiglass Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA has honored Veronica Francisco. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa sculptures at Axiom Arts in Santa Monica last winter. de Jesus MFA ’03 and Kirk Stoller MFA ’04 as MFA awardees; Frances McCormack MFA ’86 Rosa, CA exhibited paintings by www.ernstsonart.com. Leslie Cheney-Parr BA ’69, MA ’71 Veronica Duarte MFA ’98 and Cindy Imhoff ’01 are affiliate this summer; she has been teaching at the SF Art Institute had a solo exhibition of her work at Washington State artists at the Headlands. University in the Spring of 2004. She was also accepted for for over 15 years. the NWWS 64th Annual exhibition at the Art Institute of OTHER ALUMNI Tom Rose has a show of fabricated structures Eric Hiss BA ’90 writes in: “All my big news this year is Seattle with a full sheet watercolor, titled “Tidepool XXVI- has a show at Gensler in Washington, DC through September. Marcy Freedman personal in that I got married, bought a house, and my wife Pink and Green.” www.cheneyparr.com. The Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia exhibited BA ’72 and I are expecting a son in the fall.” Check out Eric’s work went on to get her MA in Modern Art History from sculpture by Bob Strini this year. First Contemporary Art Devin Siglock ’04 at www.eh21.com. Cynthia Innis BA ’91 was a recipient of Princeton, and raise two sons. (Her eldest is showed Karel Nel’s “Status of Dust” in November and a Kala Fellowship for 2003 with a group exhibition at Kala Film Studies.) Marcy currently lives in Croton-on-Hudson, December in its galleries in New York and London. Based in Berkeley in July. 2004 was her third summer teaching NY, and has been showing her video, photography, and in Johannesburg, Nel is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the painting at the UCB Art Department Summer Session. assemblage art. Her solo show, “Childhood Obsessions” University of Witwatersrand; and he travels for six months Laura Shirley Tse MFA ’91 had a solo show at the Murray Guy opens in September 18 at The Studio, Armonk, NY. a year in the Pacific region, and New York City. Stephen Raboff BA ’69, MA ’73 was awarded a residency at the Gallery in New York; her sculpture was included in Wilmoth had a show called “The Subduction Zone” in May, Claire Ragdale Foundation for the Winter/Spring session of 2004. “Topographies” at the San Francisco Art Institute. at the Butterfly and Lighthouse Gallery in Pacific Grove, CA. Ragdale is a nonprofit, internationally acclaimed artists’ Cotts MFA ’92 took part in the two weekends of open studios community in Lake Forest, IL. Linda Simmel BA ’71 had a during June this year. See her illustrations in a new children’s We want to hear about you and your classmates. Send us current show of her new work at the Takada Gallery in SF from book “The Remembering Stone”. New father Jeff King news.The back page has the web address and more contact info. mid-June through July. Carl Dern MA, MFA ’72 and his wife MFA ’92 showed at the Artists Gallery of SFMOMA during 2004 ArtLetter was produced by: Editor: Stephanie Peek; Assistant Editor: Lynne Rutter; Graphic Design: Meg Coughlin; ArtLetter Design: David Asari; Writers: Jim Melchert, Marie have created a heart for Hearts in San Francisco; June and at Arts Benicia in Benicia, CA. Monica Bryant Karen Lee, Lynne Rutter; Special thanks to Brian Mealins for printing this and our past issues. AT 12 NON-PROFIT University of California at Berkeley Art Alumni Group ORGANIZATION - U.S. POSTAGE Alumni House Berkeley, California PAID CALIFORNIA ALUMNI Return Service Requested ASSOCIATION
Department of Art Staff Art Alumni Group Officers 2004-2005 Practice Faculty Judith Coyote President: Lynne Rutter BA’85 and Staff Department MSO Vice President/Treasurer: John Ferrell BA’74 Department Chair Dee Levister Secretary: Monica Bryant MFA’93 Loren Partridge Graduate and Website Administrator: Louis DeLuco BA’74 Professor of History of Art Undergraduate Advisor and Italian Studies Symposium Committee: Jim Melchert, Jude Bell Financial Assistant Faculty Emeritus Professors Emily Howard Mary Lovelace O’Neal Art Alumni Group Advisory Board Front Office Assistant Richard Shaw Pat Adams ’49 Katherine Sherwood Lesley Baker Senior Mechanician, Walter Askin ’51,MA’52 Assistant Professors: Ceramics Nancy Genn Greg Niemeyer Tim Higbee Barbara Rogers MA’63 Michelle Lopez Senior Mechanician, Print Wayne Campbell ’67, MA’68, MFA’69 Anne Walsh Teresa Smith Bryan Rogers MA’69, MS ’69, Ph.D ’69 Senior Mechanician, Connie Korematsu Wirtz ’70 Senior Lecturers Sculpture Gary Bell ’70, MFA’72 Randy Hussong Preetam Mukherjee Dorothy Goldeen ’72 John McNamara, Programmer Analyst, Video Kevin Radley and ATC labs Mary Heilmann MA’67 Craig Nagasawa Deborah Oropallo MFA’83 Jane Rosen Luz Marina Ruiz ’83, MA’85, MFA’86
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Art Alumni Group Congratulates the Class of 2004 University of California at Berkeley Department of Art Practice New Website!
MFA candidates Abigail Gordon Robert Richert The Art Alumni Group now has its own Laura Ball Shi-Yee Her Dominique Ryba website. www.calartalumni.org Check in Anastasia Faiella Susan Higo Rebecca Sanders Amy Harrison Michelle Huber Nedim Secibovic regularly to find the latest information Andrew Martin Nathan Huebert James Sierra on upcoming events, members’ gallery, Minh Nguyen Lily Simonson Brandon Jacob-Mills meetings, etc. Molly Springfield Azin Jalali Monique Smith Kirk Stoller Jirat Jirasetpatana Rachel Smith Courtney Jones Marc Snegg BA candidates Angela Kellett Yi-Yun Sun Ashley Aarts Ross Khalsa Sandra Tang Suzanna Aguayo Yasmin Khan Linda Taylor Stay inTouch. Get Involved. Bita Azizi Anna Khayrullina Cherie Techaphaibul Here’s how to reach us: Thao-Nguyen Hoang Hanjo Kim Alex Trochez Bui University of California Lois Kim David Tullis Jannie Young Yoon Art Alumni Group Michael Koehle Josh Tyquiengco Chang c Derrick Lau Vanessa Vobis ⁄o Department of Hsiang-Yun Chou Duoc Le Dora Wedekind Janice Chow Art Practice Erika Wilson Vicky Ying-Ying Choy Michelle Lee Kroeber Hall, Andrew Winegarner Lesley Chu Mei Ying Li Berkeley, A metal heart bearing the names of same-sex newlyweds by Deborah Sidney Mannion Cynthis Innis BA ’91 Joanne Mee Hae - “Snow and Sand” 1999 Joseph McDivitt Oropallo MFA ’83 is on display in San Francisco City Hall through October Chung oil on canvas 18" x 22". Katherine McNiel as part of the “Hearts in San Francisco” project. This project also featured Heidi Marie Clemens Joshua Colwell Helen Miller hearts decorated by local artists including Rick Arnitz MFA ’82; former Matthew Constatine Noritaka Minami [email protected] department chair Chris Brown, professor Squeak Carnwath, Carl Dern Agustin Contreras Daisy Moon www.calartalumni.org MFA ’72 and his wife Marie, Kara Maria MFA ’98, Lynne Rutter BA ’85, Vikki Cruz Terrence Moore Kiran Nigam and Katherine Van Dyke BA’87. The hearts are on display all over the City Tramaine Marie Fill out the form below (with a tax deductible De Senna Nicole Olitt donation,if you can!) and help update our directory! and will be auctioned at an event in November. For more information see Edward Debaufre Lucy Pasternak www.heartsinsf.org. Raul Gonzalez Alys Meadow Presley
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Art Alumni Barbara Desmond Alex McMath Wendy Warren Yes, I want to stay involved. Members 2004 Tia Factor Jim Melchert James Watton Interested in This is a partial list… Jennifer Faist Christine Miller Jeffrey Weiss Please keep me on your mailing list. Lee Dabney Adair Jessica Goodman Martha Murray Margitta Welsh Sally Allen Terry Hatcher Patrick Neil Gary Westford Susan Allen Florence Hauser Alice Nelson Here are my annual membership dues of $25 to support Endowment? Tom White Casey Chalem Mary Heilmann Hanne-Lore Nepote Art Letter and AAG events. Stephen Wilmoth Remember the Anderson Olivia Hernandez- Margie Newman Connie Wirtz Here is my tax deductible donation toward fundraising and Eleanor Anderson Black Jo-Ann Nielson Department of Art Natalie Angelillo Eadwynne Hoffberg Jeanne O’Connor further support of the Art Dept. Art Alumni Practice when Walter Askin Elizabeth Hook Rosalie O’Donnell Donors 2003 Karen Heilman Perry Hu Pamela Ohlsen $1,000 $500 $100 $50 $25 Other Eleanor C. Anderson Bearson Jean Ija Deborah Oropallo planning your estate. Natalie M Angelillo Robert Beetem Nancy Jacobson Heather Patterson Please make checks payable to Art Alumni Group. Hannah Bjork Hannah Bjork Carol John Elaine Pector The next generation Christopher Carter Send this form with your contribution and any news to: Maria Blacker Carol Joy John Perkins can really use your Elizabeth Blake Isabel Kahn James Perrizo Warrington Colescott Art Alumni Group c/o Dept. of Art Practice Sylvia Brown Wynn Kapit Elizabeth Pillsbury Susan Cooper
CLIP AND SEND 345 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3750. support! Monica Bryant Karl Kasten Carol Ponsaran Tona Cornette Judith Burke Monique Keehan Robin Repp Florence Hauser Current address information: Paula Busch Alice Martinelle Kett Lynne Rutter Eadwynne Hoffberg For more information Barbara Campbell Jeff King Mark Salser Elizabeth Hook name years attended /degree/year Christopher Carter Jean Koch Theo Dapp Samuels Carol John please contact: Marcia Cary Cynthia Kroll Martha Saxby Wynn Kapit address Office of College Relations Enrique Chagoya Mary Lavezzo Julie Shaw Alice Martinelle Kett Leslie Cheney-Parr Virginia Leach Edith Smith Virginia Leach Franz Chien Karen Lee Editha Hayes Spencer College of Letters & Lisa Lum Susan Chorpenning Marilyn Levine Harold Spencer Science Alex McMath city/state/zip Ann Christenson Jerry Ellen LoCoco Claudia Steel Charlene Milgrim 510 643 1964 Warrington Colescott Lisa Lum James Storey Jo-Ann Nielson phone giving ls.berkeley.edu Susan Cooper Theresa Marable Kazuye Suyematsu @ Tona Cornette Kara Maria Andie Thrams Stephanie Peek e-mail Marla Crane Gerald Markovitz Baylor Trapnell Mark Salser Susan Dannenfelser Jain McClain Jantje Visscher Wendy Warren Paulette Dauber Virginia McCray Marilyn Waligore Jeffrey M. Weiss