July 9 to September 3, 2015
Reception Thursday, July 9 at 6:30pm.
August 24 to October 3, 2015.
Reception Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 5:30 pm with Artist Talk at 6:00 pm.
The Perfect
Inspired by Jørgen Leth’s “The Perfect Human” and utilizing audio from the film, Kohnke extends and juxtaposes his critique on the human ideal into our daily environments. For as much as we focus on ourselves and how we could improve or become more “perfect”, we also idealize what nature should look like by encouraging specific ecosystems and disposing of others. Who ultimately benefits? Are we flexible enough in our ideologies and efficiencies to allow for change and evolution around us?
The Anthropocene has taught us that humans and nature are not as separate as we thought. Kohnke intends to explore our struggle in seeking perfection around us through scrutinizing cultural ideals and historical identity.
Elisabeth Kohnke is a visual artist working primarily in installation, video and photography. Her interests reside in ecosystems, self-reflexivity, post-humanism and memory. Kohnke received a BA from Mills College in electronic music and video. Since the early 2000’s she has performed and collaborated with many bay area artists, dancers and filmmakers. Starting in 2007, she managed the Experimental Media Arts program at Stanford University until she left in 2014 to pursue an MFA in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Elisabeth was born in Monterey, California and currently lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Rachel Clarke: Amalgamated Spaces
October 8, 2015 to November 21, 2015
Reception Thursday October 8, 2015 at 5:30 pm with Artist Talk at 6:00 pm
*The gallery will be closed on November 11, 2015 in observance of Veteran’s Day
Rachel Clarke (born Shropshire, UK) is an artist, writer, curator and and educator living in Sacramento, CA. Clarke is Professor of New Media Art in the Art Department at California State University, Sacramento.
Her work – intertwining themes of nature, culture, and technology – has been shown in galleries, museums, new media art festivals and film screenings nationally and internationally. She has recently shown at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz Austria; Aggregate Space in Oakland, CA; WORK Detroit, MI; and Currents International Festival of New Media in Santa Fe, NM.
Commissions include Crocker Mosaic, a new media participatory artwork created in collaboration with composer Stephen Blumberg for the opening of Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum extension in October 2010. Working in collaboration with Sacramento Metropolitan Art Commission she was artist and co-curator for an NEA funded augmented reality public art project, Broadway Augmented located in the Broadway Corridor in Sacramento, that launched in fall 2014.
