 5151 Pacific Avenue Stockton, CA 95207 |
Media Advisory |
For Immediate Release
09/20/2017
(Stockton, CA) Located on the campus of San Joaquin Delta College, the L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery presents, NeON2, October 5 – 27, 2017. The Gallery Reception is planned for Thursday, October 5, from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. A guest dance performance will be held at 6:00 P.M. by Delta College and the YAMECI Dance Company, Directed by Valerie Gnassounou-Bynoe. Dancers will move like kinetic sculpture, adorned with neon color body paint.
The Horton Gallery invited Ruth Santee, Co-Director of Oakland's Transmission Gallery, to curate the NeON2 art exhibition. Santee is also an artist and Art Professor at San Joaquin Delta College, teaching printmaking and 2D color and design. Santee has also taught at the California College of Art Extended Ed Program, UC Davis, Saint Mary's College, and Bakersfield College. Santee is a California based artist whose work has been exhibited in museum, non-profit and gallery venues. She received a BFA from the College of Santa Fe, NM and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Santee is a recipient of the Cadogan Fellowship Award from the San Francisco Foundation and a recipient of a commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Santee's work is in the permanent collection of the University of Oregon and the David Brower Center, Berkeley CA. Her work has been reviewed in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sacramento Bee.
Transmission Gallery is a contemporary gallery that promotes primarily regional and national figurative artists with an emphasis on Expressionism, California Funk and Socially Engaged Art. Transmission Gallery is a member of the Oakland Art Murmur and SF Art Dealers Association.
In 2016, Transmission Gallery presented an invitational exhibition of Neon Art with four of the five artists’ work showing in NeON2 — Bill Concannon, Roger Daniells, Shawna Peterson, and Bruce Suba, with Linda Sue Price joining Transmission Gallery this year. These artists work in the realm of physics and alchemy, harnessing neon, argon and, sometimes, krypton in colorful display and controlled light.
As veterans of working with these noble gasses, often in the commercial world, they've taken the opportunity to play with glass, chemical elements, power sources and other materials to execute their own creative visions.
For further information contact Jan Marlese, Horton Gallery Director jmarlese@deltacollege.edu,
209-954-5507.
