On Saturday, May 28, CCAS is putting on a tour of some of Oakland's artistic hot spots in conjunction with Marianna Stark, author of the San Francisco art blog The Stark Guide. The tour will start with a late morning viewing of the MFA thesis exhibition, Walking Forward Backwards, at Mills College. The group will eat lunch together at Bakesale Betty ($8-15 per person) before continuing on to a special guided tour of the Johannson Projects and the Chandra Cerrito and Krowswork galleries. The tour will finish around 2:30pm, after which a map of the Oakland Art Murmur District will be provided and tour goers will be encouraged to explore on their own.
This event is free to CCAS members. Non-members may join the tour for a price of $35, but if you become a NARM member today you will receive a free copy of the catalog for Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas (while supplies last).
Space is extremely limited, so register today! Reservations must be made by 5pm on May 24. To sign up, please call 916.498.9811 or email ccasacramento@gmail.com. The full flyer for the event is below, or you can view it full size on our website here. Hope to see you there!
The current exhibition at CCAS is Gay Outlaw: The Velocity of Ideas, a solo show of sculpture and a few small works on paper by San Francisco artist Gay Outlaw. Primarily regarded as a conceptual sculptor with a growing national reputation, Gay Outlaw works as an investigator of physicality, perception, memory, and materials. Her work revolves around combining inherent contradictions: sculptures that seem to be constructed of voids; photographs of false surfaces transformed into solid objects; images of holes, reversed, and cast in bronze and glass.
The show opened on April 5, and on Second Saturday, April 9 CCAS premiered a 30 minute video of a conversation between Outlaw and exhibition curator Chris Daubert. A highlight from the video is up on our YouTube channel and may be viewed below:
Daubert also wrote the catalog for the exhibition, which is available for purchase at CCAS for $14.95 ($9.95 for members). An excerpt from the catalog is available online here.
The show has been the talk of the town recently, with mentions in the Sacramento News & Review, Midtown Monthly, the Sacramento Bee's Friday Ticket, the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau website, Examiner.com and even the Newton Booth Neighborhood Blog. So what are you waiting for? Come and see for yourself what all the fuss is about!
As always the gallery is open 12-5, 6 days a week (Tue-Sun excepting Easter Sunday, the 24th) and the show is up through May 15. The artist will give a lecture ($5 entrance, free for members and students) at 3pm on May 14, and there will be a closing reception that evening from 6-9pm.
SN&R's Shoka described the show as "brain-explodingly good"--you don't want to miss this!
