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“The Bauhaus Was Not Our House” for Worth Ryder Gallery Berkeley School Symposium a Great Success 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.
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