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Glenn Kaino: Bridge
Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. Each is a casting of the outstretched right arm of Tommie Smith, the American winner of the men’s 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. During the medal ceremony, Smith bowed his head […]
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process. […]
Inner Vision: Judy Ledgerwood’s Monotypes
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes. Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and […]
Inner Vision: Judy Ledgerwood’s Monotypes
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes. Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and […]
Sarah Smelser: Sandia
Sarah Smelser's "Sandia" images filter her experience of the desert environments of the American Southwest, its particular qualities of light, heat, emptiness and expansive spaces of the landscape through an abstract sensibility.
Array: A Woodcut Opus by Rupert Deese
"Array" are twenty circular woodcuts by Rupert Deese, the series unfolded over seven years: Array 700 appeared in 2005, followed by Array 350 and Array 500 in 2006, with the project culminating in Array 1000 in 2012. Each print divides the circular field into a distinct tiling system. Beginning with nine equal radial divisions, Deese further organizes the space through additional radial lines and […]