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For Immediate Release
01/16/13
L.H. Horton Gallery
The San Francisco Foundation and SOMArts Cultural Center Present
The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition
January 17 - February 8
(Stockton)
The San Francisco Foundation and the SOMArts Cultural Center present the Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, hosted by Delta Center for the Arts LH Horton Jr Gallery, January 17–February 8, 2013. All events are free and open to the public.
The exhibition features twenty-one of the most promising regional Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates across all disciplines of the visual and media arts. Funded by The San Francisco Foundation, administered by SOMArts Cultural Center and juried by Adrian Arias, Justin Hoover and Mildred Howard, this award generously supports scholarship and artistic production by providing annual tuition awards of $4,000 for each of these outstanding students and affording them this exhibition opportunity.
Justin Hoover, Curator and Gallery Director for SOMArts Cultural Center, makes this statement about this year's exhibition: “Each artist brings their own sensibility, community, direction, hopes and visions to each work and expresses a unique moment in their aspiring careers full of potential, playfulness and perseverance.”
“The exhibition provides audiences the opportunity to experience new perspectives on a variety of contemporary art practices. One selection of artists explores the tension between formal composition and the sculptural nature of the painting as an object, while another engages the indefatigability of the line as source for drawing and installation. A solo artist reframes social sculpture as a process of community building and engagement as she moves beyond the gallery and explores the city through participatory walking tours as a creative process. Photographers play with the space between reality and fiction and vice-versa, and exhibiting filmmakers use the lens as a way to reinterpret who they are in a multifaceted world of cultural traditions, personal complexities and social taboos, all alongside a large-scale installation of sound art created as a space of architecture, tactility and topography.”
“What underlines and unifies this exceptional cohort of emerging artists, regardless of medium, practice or field of expertise, is a shared alchemy of hope, will and determination, paired with formal excellence, risk-taking and distinguished creative aptitude.”
Exhibiting Artists
Theresa Baker Amber Fawn Keig
Dan Battle Sahar Khoury
Mika Boyd Keegan Luttrell
Tristan Cai Elizabeth Moran
Ji Eun Chun Yan Yan Mao
Amber Crabbe Kate Lee Short
Missy Engelhardt Dimitra Skandali
Nancy Ivanhoe Michal Wisniowski
Beckey Kaye Momo Yao
Film Screening & Arts Lecture - Tillie Lewis Theatre
February 7th, 12:30-2pm - Free to the Public
Justin Hoover, Curator, SOMArts Cultural Center
Fatema Abdoolcarim, videographer
Seamus Harte, videographer
David Olson, videographer
The LH Horton Jr Gallery is a non-profit organization and premier exhibition space in the city of Stockton. The primary mission of the Gallery is to promote the exhibition of quality and culturally diverse artwork in support of our students’ education and the community at large. The Gallery offers excellent exhibition opportunities to local, regional, and national artists, lenders and guest curators. The Gallery presents artists’ work in all media, with no thematic or geographic restrictions. The annual SJDC Student Art Exhibition & Awards Competition is held at the end of Spring Semester.
The Gallery is located on the ground floor of Shima Center, and is wheelchair accessible. Admission is free and open to the public. Recommended parking is available in the Shima lot for a fee of $2. Tours are welcome and gallery talks may be addressed by contacting gallery director, Jan Marlese, at:
(209) 954-5507, or jmarlese@deltacollege.edu.
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