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.
January 28 to March 24, 2016
Reception Thursday February 11, 2016 at 5:30 pm with Artist Talk at 6:00 pm
*The gallery will be closed on January 18, 2016 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Christian Hali is a multidisciplinary artist. His work explores male identity, the domestic space, and the everyday.
“Everything is a performance. We perform for ourselves as much as we do for others.
I’m interested in how mediated images and narratives smuggle ideology through popular culture and mass media. How has that affected my perception of everything? I use the tropes and conventions of film/TV as a structure to explore the everyday, the domestic space, and reflect on the macro and micro.”
Christian Hali is an adjunct art & design instructor who has taught at California State University Stanislaus, Modesto Junior College, Art Institutes of California San Francisco and the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program in Los Angeles. Hali is an award-winning artist, art director, illustrator, and creative executive with ten years of production experience for MTV, Disney, Nickelodeon, and Daniel Ostroff Productions. He is a published illustrator with Simon & Schuster and Landoll Books, and his illustration is in the University California Santa Cruz library archives.