Enrique Chagoya: Adventures and Misadventures, Prints and Multiples 2002-2008
March 6 – April 26, 2009
The show will feature approximately 15 works published by different presses, including ULAE, Sharks Ink, Segura, Magnolia Press, Hui Press and Trillium.
Chagoya has been actively making prints for over 25 years, and his work in the medium has become increasingly experimental in terms of scale, mixed technique and even dimension, which is the focus of the current survey. The exhibition begins in 2002 with Chagoya’s “Enlightened Savage,” a set of 10 “soup cans” published by Trillium Press. Mimicking Campbell’s labels, Chagoya’s offerings include “Critic’s Tongue,” “Cream of Dealer,” and “Museum Director’s Tripe.”
The most recent – and most ambitious - works in the show are two examples of his latest codex, published by Magnolia Press in December. Titled “New Illegal Alien’s Guide to Critical Theory,” each work combines lithography and monoprint on 8 foot long sheets of amate paper. Two superimposed layers of images hand drawn and printed on plexi sheets give the work a rich and startling sculptural dimension. The exhibition also features two “Codex” prints published by Shark’s Ink. in 2004 and 2005, “The Ghost of Liberty,” and “Double Trouble (Anthropology of the Clone),” both commentaries on the Iraq war, as well as “Thinking of Ensor and My Cat Diego” published in 2007 by ULAE.
Born in Mexico City in 1953, Chagoya received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently resides in San Francisco and is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University. Chagoya's work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, LA County Museum, and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., among others. A career survey exhibition organized by the Des Moines Art Center traveled to the Berkeley Art Museum and the Palm Springs Desert Museum in 2008.
Organized by the George Adams Gallery
Ani Hoover: Up Down Around
Lightwell Gallery Project
February 26–June 20, 2009
Opening reception
Thursday, February 26, 5 to 7 pm
Reception is free and open to the public.
Ani Hoover’s lyrical repetition of circles in varying sizes and palettes in her abstract paintings produces fleeting impressions as lustrous pop colors buoyantly dance across the surface, bumping against or overlaid by circles that appear time-worn, reminiscent of urban decay or geological processes. Her Lightwell Project features a commanding series of vertical paintings thirty-feet high by five feet wide inspired by natural cycles of varying lengths—a day, a year, perhaps a millennium—cascading from ceiling to floor.
Painting Workshops (Center for the Arts)
Family Workshop, Saturday, April 25, 1 to 4 pm $5
Teacher Workshop, Wednesday, May 13, 6 to 9 pm $15
Adult Workshop (18 years +), Sunday, May 17, 1 to 4 pm $10
Hoover will teach various painting techniques she uses in her own art making process. Participants will experiment with color transitions, shape, and scale using inks, acrylic, and watercolor paint on synthetic YUPO paper.*
*Pre-registration is required and all supplies will be provided. Please call 829.3754 or email ginny@andersongallery.org for more information.
Saya Woolfalk: No Place
February 26–May 9, 2009
Opening reception
Thursday, February 26, 5 to 7 pm
Reception is free and open to the public.
No Place is a Technicolor society of lush abundance that Saya Woolfalk depicts in performance, video, and sculptural installations. Her alchemical process transforms detritus of our consumer civilization into polychromatic totems and bodysuits sprouting bulbous forms that blend with the vibrant landscape of her invention. She invites us to make a journey to No Place and witness its androgynous inhabitants enact empathetic explorations of self and other as a form of creative expression.
No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics Performance (First Floor Gallery)
Wednesday, April 15, 4 pm
Dancers from UB’s Department of Theatre and Dance:
Hilary Freeland, Lauren Palmieri, Krista Scimeca, Sara Senecal, and Brittany Sprung
Composer: Kevin S. McFaddin
Empathetic T-shirt Workshops (First Floor Gallery)
Saturdays: February 28, March 21, and April 11, 2 to 4pm
Workshops are free and open to the public and all supplies will be provided.
