On View: New Work from Kala features works in a variety of media by artists affiliated with Kala Art Institute. A diverse selection of works available for purchase can be seen throughout our facility including the Mercy & Roger Smullen Print and Media Study Center.

On View: New Work from Kala
Kala Gallery, May 18-September 15, 2012
Artists' Reception: Friday, May 18, 2012, 6-8pm (open to the public)

Artists: Luca Antonucci, Carrie Hott, Mary Anne Kluth, Robin McCloskey, Anne McGuire, Nora Pauwels, Boris Scherbakov, Linda Simmel, Gail Tarantino, Noah Wilson & Lena Wolff
                    
Curated by Mayumi Hamanaka

Kala Art Institute Gallery:
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
510-841-7000

Tours of the Kala studio, gallery, and print-and-media study center are available by appointment.

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Kala Art Institute invites you to experience Kala-fornia: State of the Art 2, a two-week exhibition of works by prominent California artists. The exhibition opens Thursday, April 12, and culminates on the night of Saturday, April 28th with a lively Gala Auction, featuring fine wine and exquisite foods. Channel 5 newscaster and artist, Dana King, will be the Mistress of Ceremonies. Proceeds support the educational and cultural programming of Kala Art Institute, a non-profit arts organization located in West Berkeley. For thirty-eight years, Kala’s artist residency programs, gallery exhibitions, lectures, classes and innovative youth arts-outreach in public schools has served an ever-expanding community. Kala’s international Fellowship and Artists-In-Residence programs continue to play a pivotal role in facilitating the creation of new work by artists in all media.

The exhibition Kala-fornia: State of the Art 2 opens to the public on April 12th with a Preview Party and silent bidding beginning at 6:00 pm. Works in a variety of media by over 100 contemporary California artists will be on view leading up to the Gala Auction on April 28th. At this year’s auction we are pleased to be honoring Special Guest Artists Deborah Oropallo and Rupert Garcia for their contributions to the Bay Area art world and beyond. The exhibition and auction features works by acclaimed artists including Christopher Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Squeak Carnwath, Willard Dixon, Katherine Westerhout, Binh Danh, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hung Liu, Lewis De Soto, Catherine Wagner and John Roloff. A number of works by both emerging and established artists in a wide range of prices round out this exciting exhibition and auction. In addition to original artworks, art-related items will be included in both live and silent auctions, such as a chance to bid on a private tour of legendary Crown Point Press with founder Kathan Brown. This is a very special opportunity to visit this influential San Francisco fine print publisher, gallery and independent bookstore.

Please join Deborah Oropallo and Rupert Garcia, along with Dana King and Honorary Co-chairs Sharon and Barclay Simpson at the 2012 Kala Art Institute Gala Auction, Kala-fornia: State of the Art 2, Saturday, April 28th, from 6:30-9:30 pm. And don’t miss the exhibition opening and preview party on Thursday, April 12, from 6-8 pm. Silent bidding starts on April 12 and continues through the Gala on April 28.

For a complete list of artists, additional auction items and to buy tickets, please see http://kala.org/ or call Kala Gallery 510-841-7000

Artists: Beth Fein, Joyce Ertel Hulbert, Carol Ladewig, Nancer Lemoins, Shannon Milar, Hisaharu Motoda, Molly Palmer, Seiko Tachibana, Peter Tonningsen and Noah Wilson
 
Exhibition Dates: September 2 - November 27, 2010
Artists' Reception: Thursday, September 2, 6:00 – 8:00 pm

 

Title: Kala AIR Talk: Hisaharu Motoda & Molly Palmer
Location: Kala Gallery,  2990 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley, CA 94702
Date & Time: Wednesday, August 18, 7pm

Kala’s Residency programs present a series of artists’ talks by our current Artists-in-Residence.

Visiting from Japan, Hisaharu Motoda draws cityscapes in ruin based on photographs of real architectural structures in modern cities. In a drawing he creates an imaginary ruin of the city and then transfers it to a litho stone, presenting an analytical and objective view of the scene. In his cityscapes, the past, present and future exist all at once and blur the border between fiction and reality. Hisaharu was the recipient of the The Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists of Agency for Cultural Affairs Grant, and prior to Kala, he spent nine months in Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded various printmaking prizes in Japan, and his work has been presented at Borsos City Museum in Hungary, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and many others. http://hisaharu-motoda.petit.cc/

Molly Palmer has described her work as ‘the real world concentrated, magnified and flattened, with the saturation turned up until some of the lines become blurred.’ Many of her paintings, drawings and prints originate in everyday encounters or objects, which are shuffled through a prism of intentional daydream and momentary misinterpretation. Isolated from their everyday context and suspended in vibrant color fields or ambiguous architectural settings, they take on a heightened significance that obscures their original function. Molly graduated from Goldsmith’s BFA program in 2007 and spent the next three years exhibiting, performing and screening works at London galleries including 291 Gallery, The South London Gallery, Royal Academy and Whitechapel Gallery. http://www.mollypalmer.net/

Kala Fellowships are awarded annually to nine innovative artists working in printmaking, photography, book arts, installation, video and digital media. Fellowship artists are selected from a competitive field of applicants from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia. Recipient artists receive a financial award and up to six-months residency at Kala’s studio facility followed by an exhibition of their new work. The Kala Gallery is proud to present the second of our two-part exhibition series, Residency Projects, featuring work by our 2009-2010 Fellowship artists. The Kala Directors in association with juror Larry Rinder, Director of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, selected the artists. Residency Projects Iwas presented earlier this summer with new works by Kala Fellows Val Britton, Chris Duncan, Katy Higgins, Laura Paulini and Bassem Yousri.

Exhibition Dates: September 2 – October 9, 2010

Artists' Reception: Thursday, September 2, 6-8pm 

Gallery Address: 2990 San Pablo, Berkeley, CA  94702  

Gallery Hours:  Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 5:30pm; Saturday, Noon – 4:30pm