Hanging in the Balance at CCAS Through April 1st

This is the last week of our exhibition Hanging in the Balance: Ten Emerging Chinese Artists. The Sacramento Bee's Victoria Dalkey described the various works in the show as alternately "hilarious," (Jia Zhixing's photos) "quirky and unsettling," (Chen Wei's drawings--see an example below) or "hypnotically beautiful" (Zhifei Yang's film Day Dreams). Read Dalkey's full review here, and don't miss your chance to see this rare show of international art.

To enhance your experience of the exhibition, you have the opportunity to attend a special lecture this Thursday, March 29 at 7pm. Titled "New Art from New China," the lecture will be given by Katharine Burnett, Associate Professor of Art History at UC Davis.

The show closes this Sunday, April 1st, so be sure to come and visit us this week!

Final Week of Light Matters

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.

Christina is here,

and Gretchen is too!

Okay, so maybe we are not very good poets but we do know good art! Come visit us during the last weekend of Light Matters, which ends Sunday, February 13, and start your Valentine’s Day early. What better to start kindling all the warmness of Valentine’s than to transport to Paris or any of the other fabulous cities on display in Christina Seely's cityscapes in her Lux series photographs? Don’t have a Valentine’s? That’s okay! Bring a friend instead and discuss the “accidental works of art” captured in Gretchen Skogerson’s work titled, Drive Thru,...or maybe you should just stop by for the love of art! 

Hope to see you at CCAS this weekend and be careful of Cupid’s arrows!

CCAS in collaboration with Lumens Light + Living presents: Chrome-A-Zone

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January 1, 2011                                                                                                   Mariana Moscoso

Lumens Light + Living                                                                        Telephone:  916.444.5585

2028 K Street                                                                       E-Mail: lumens.artoflight@gmail.com
Sacramento, CA 95811

Showroom Hours:  Mon – Fri 10am-6pm; Sat 10am-5pm

The Art of Light: Chrome-A-Zone

January 3, 2011 – February 28, 2011

Lumens Light + Living and The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento’s Gallery Associates Mariana Moscoso and Stacey Wong are pleased to present Chrome-A-Zone, a photography exhibition by the Sacramento photographer Donald Satterlee. In this series, Satterlee’s photographs of custom classic automobiles recontextualize the curves of ornate fenders and hood ornaments into an anthropomorphic experience.

Donald Sattlerlee works as a commercial advertising photographer in the Sacramento area and produces many of the images seen in ads, brochures, annual reports and billboards around Northern California. In Satterlee’s Chrome-A-Zone series, he challenges our perception of custom cars by capturing the classic lines of polished chrome and the shimmer of metallic paint and transforming them into anthropomorphic figures.  The way light reflects on the automobiles’ surfaces is emphasized by sensuous curves, animating the images and bringing them to life.

About the “Art of Light” series:

Lumens Light + Living has invited Mariana Moscoso and Stacey Wong from The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento to collaborate on a series of exhibitions called The Art of Light.  In this yearlong series, we will explore how artists have taken the concept of light, to create a unique visual experience using both traditional and nontraditional media.  The visual possibilities of light are infinite and only limited by the artists’ unique experience.

Opens Monday, January 3, 2011

Closes: Sunday, February 28, 2011

Artist Reception: Thursday, February 10, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Free

Now Open on Wednesdays+Christina Seely's Lecture

Starting today, we are expanding our hours to include Wednesdays from 12-5. Come by and see us!

And don't forget, photographer Christina Seely will be lecturing at CCAS tomorrow, Thursday January 13th, at 7pm. The lecture is free to current CCAS members and students and general admission is $5.

Seely's current show at CCAS, Lux, consists of nighttime photographs of some of the world's largest metropolises, demonstrating the vast amount of artificial light emitted by large human settlements. Based on a NASA map of the night earth (see it here), Lux focuses on cities in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan.

Writes Seely, "For most of human history, man-made light has signified hope and progress within local and global arenas. In this project, light also paradoxically denotes regression or transgression--an index of the complex negative human impacts on the health and future of the planet."

Come to the lecture tomorrow night at 7pm to hear more about this intriguing project.

Light Matters Opening

Light Matters 

A Two-Person Exhibition of Photography and Video by Christina Seely and Gretchen Skogerson

Opening at CCAS this week

Christina Seely

Both artists take the artificial light of the nighttime urban environment as a primary inspiration for their projects. Christina Seely's LUX, a large-scale photo series, features nighttime photographs of cities in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. Her beautiful and haunting representations of these cities brings us an awareness that this illumination comes at a high cost to our environment and urges us to reconsider the way of living that contemporary society has created. Gretchen Skogerson's Drive Thru is a single channel high-definition video that looks at the impact of natural disaster on the man-made environment. Drive Thru presents nighttime views of shattered illuminated commercial signage from the aftermath of 2004's Hurricane Ivan in Miami.

Come and see us!

Second Saturday Opening Reception
January 8/ 6 - 9 pm

Christina Seely Lecture
January 13 / 7 pm*

Gretchen Skogerson Lecture
February 10 / 7 pm*

Second Saturday Closing Reception
February 12 / 6 - 9 pm

* Free to current CCAS members and students/ general admission $5.