Peter Williams: Walls, Screens
June 29 to August 18, 2017
Reception Thursday July 13, 2017 at 5:30 pm; Artist Talk at 6:30 pm
Peter Williams is a New Media artist originally from Canada. Specializing in generative and interactive art, he makes tactically unstable works that complicate and hybridize place in physical, digital and augmented situations. Media are elastic and chimerical, more and more resembling us. Through his art, Williams struggles with this recursion. His works have been presented in Asia, Canada, Europe, the U.K. and USA at venues such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), The Lumen Prize Exhibition, SIGGRAPH Asia and the Association of Computing Machinery Conference on Human Computer Interaction (ACM SIGCHI). He is currently Assistant Professor of New Media Art at California State University, Sacramento.
May 11–June 23, 2017
Benjamin Rosenthal (b. 1984, New York, NY, lives and works in Lawrence, Kansas) holds an MFA in Art Studio from the University of California, Davis and a BFA in Art (Electronic Time-Based Media) from Carnegie Mellon University. His work has been exhibited internationally in such venues as the Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany), High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary (Chicago, IL) FILE Electronic Language International Festival (São Paulo, Brazil), Vanity Projects (New York, NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina(Nov,i Sad, Serbia), and online via the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum (Is.CaM), among others. Pulling from a variety of fields in the humanities and sciences, he questions the authenticity of our physical experience in an age where the boundaries between reality and the virtual become indistinguishable. Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of Expanded Media, in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas where he teaches Video Art, Performance Art, and interdisciplinary practices.
Jessica Gomula creates collaborative intermedia artwork which addresses socially conscious subject matter. Through video and animation projects, live performances, and responsive systems, her projects creatively respond to the physical and social character of an environment in an effort to bring diverse people together to inspire, and be inspired. 
Instinct/Extinct is a multi-disciplinary contemporary art installation that explores and celebrates the Pacific Flyway, a migratory path stretching from Alaska to Argentina. The exhibition reveals the biology and beauty of the phenomenon through a range of lenses, including wildlife habitats, agriculture, recreational commons, and conservation stories.
Paul Taylor is a multimedia artist based in the San Francisco Bay area. His work explores the effects of increased digital immersion on our perceptions of and interactions with our surroundings and each other, and has been included in group exhibitions and screenings throughout the United States and abroad.
Matthew Gottschalk is a multi-disciplinary artist who’s practice involves puppetry, sculpture, painting, video/sound and photography. He has shown throughout the Bay Area and internationally. His awards and honors include the Jay DeFeo Prize in 2012 from Mills College, a 2009/2010 Fellowship for New Media from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, and the Yale-Norfolk 2007 Summer Arts Fellowship. Matthew is currently based between the Bay Area and the Foothills of Northern California.
Alyssa Lempesis works from imaginative speculation on uncanny ecologies. Her work merges the natural and the fantastic to create animated scenes of a world that exists somewhere between the unknown and the familiar, the present and the future.
As an activist, educator and artist of Native American, Xican@ and queer roots I have found community and culture to be my greatest artistic inspiration. To create with the collective minds of unique individuals is a practice that brings to me a great spiritual catharsis; a feeling of joy and power tied to the realization of what people working together can accomplish when in harmony: a home, a shared reality, justice, and healing. As such, my art practice is primarily tied to mediums that necessitate community participation: filmmaking, video art, performance, large-scale installations, and curating.