Posted by cafpress on: Mon 14th Nov, 2011

Friday, November 18, 7 pm

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

The artist Stephanie Dotson will be speaking on the conceptual territory of printmaking echoed in non-print work.

Stephanie Dotson subverts the narratives inherent in her processes with a mad arsenal of working techniques to create a new patois where opposing realities parallel narratives from her own life.

Solo exhibitions of her work include the Three Walls Gallery in Chicago, Vox Populii in Philadelphia, and Trace Gallery in Athens, GA. She has completed several artist residencies including the Bemis Center in 2004 and has received full Joan Mitchell fellowships to residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in 2007 and the Atlantic Center for the Arts In 2010. Dotson is presently Chair of the art department at the Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, CA, where she lives and works in her studio. Stephanie studied poster and print arts in Havana, Cuba as a student in 2006, where she plans to return in Summer 2010 as the director of her printmaking study abroad program.

ADMISSION IS FREE

The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and pays tribute to artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.

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Posted by cafpress on: Thu 27th Oct, 2011

Friday, November 4, noon - 1 pm at Storke Plaza, UCSB

Join us on Friday Nov. 4th, 12p-1p when KCSB, Neighborhood Public Radio and YOU will occupy your FM dial with Picnic Revolution, an INTERACTIVE radio-art installation in Storke Plaza on the UCSB Campus.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=236957949694940

Neighborhood Public Radio will use looping broadcast streams and analog synthesizers to generate a live sound composition that will be broadcast on a low power FM frequency. Your battery operated radios will be our amplification for a quadrophonic mix of sound swirling around the square.

Participate in real-time and add your voice (or other sounds) to the mix by calling our 800-number from your cell phone and Occupy the Airwaves with us!

Join us from 12pm-1pm in Storke Plaza and bring a radio and portable phone if you can. We need you to add your voice to this participatory, community art project. Make your own media!

That's Friday November 4th from 12-1 at Storke Plaza.

Come early to grab a good spot!

KCSB 91.9 FM presents Neighborhood Public Radio, in collaboration with Free Karate of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the communities of UC Santa Barbara & beyond!

Picnic Revolution is part of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum's Wireless art exhibition honoring KCSB's 50 Years of People-Powered Radio.

CAF’s exhibition Wireless is a collaboration between KCSB 91.9 FM, New Noise Music Foundation, and Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum on the occasion of KCSB’s 50th anniversary and the New Noise Digital Music Conference & Festival 2011. Visit sbcaf.org, kcsb.org, and newnoisesb.com for more information.

Image: Neighborhood Public Radio, Park Park Revolution, 2011, Site-specific performance MOCA, Los Angeles , CA. Photo: Mark Woodworth

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 21st Oct, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 7 pm

Influential theater and film director Peter Glantz presents his multi-media solo performance, Being Impossible. With original unreleased music by Baltimore musicians Twig Harper and Dan Deacon, Glantz performs an ongoing, ever-changing show, featuring pure love, humor, colorful videos, and interstellar travel about a student’s journey to the sun. On both stage and screen, Peter has a signature whimsical visual style that combines a total commitment to fun and capturing the spirit and truth of the subject, story, or song.

Support for Forum Lounge 2011-2012 is generously provided by: the National Endowment for the Arts, Andrea Lang Fund, Daniel Clark, Endevermusic Productions, the Franciscan Inn, KCSB, Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara Winery,and Therese Schweidler. Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s 1st Thursday.

ADMISSION IS FREE

Teaser:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VoUaRqgiVI

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Posted by cafpress on: Tue 11th Oct, 2011

Friday, October 14, 7 pm

“Information overload leads to pattern recognition” Marshall McLuhan

Harry Reese will be speaking on his recent work and ideas, highlighting particular visual, conceptual, and perceptual patterns that appear in or accompany the various projects he has made or participated in over the last three decades.

Harry Reese is a Professor in the Department of Art and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Associate Dean of the College of Creative Studies. In partnership with his wife Sandra Liddell Reese, he publishes limited edition books and prints for their Turkey Press & Edition Reese imprints. He has received grants and significant recognition from a number of organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. ADMISSION IS FREE

The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and pays tribute to artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 7th Oct, 2011

The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum announces our annual open Call For Entries!

Online Applications Accepted: September 1 - October 14, 2011

Call For Entries (CFE) is an annual juried exhibition that encourages artists from the local community to produce newly commissioned work and is open to visual artists of all mediums currently living and working in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo Counties. Applicants may not be closely affiliated with CAF or have participated in a past CFE exhibition.

Three to six artists will be selected by a panel of jurors made up of artists and art professionals to exhibit new work in a group exhibition held at CAF in 2012. The panel of distinguished jurors includes: Grace Kook-Anderson, Curator at Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; John Spiak, Director/Chief Curator of the California State University, Fullerton, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA; Shane Tolbert, Past CFE Artist, Houston, TX; and Geoff Tuck, Independent Art Writer, Los Angeles, CA. Selected artists will work with a curator through series of studio visits to propose and create new work.

Visit http://www.sbcaf.org/exhibitions/opportun.html for up-to-date details and online application.

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 15th Jul, 2011

Friday, July 22  - Saturday, July 23, 6 pm - 6 pm
From Dusk 'til Drawn: 24-Hour Drawing Rally
Closing Reception: Sunday, July 24, 4 - 6 pm FREE to attend and purchase remaining artworks.

CAF is pulling an all-nighter for this 2nd annual, unique 24-hour drawing extravaganza! For only $5, you are invited to join us at this event, where you can watch artists and dabblers drawing and making art, and even participate in the fun! All drawings made will be sold to the public at one of four affordable prices ($25, $75, $150, and $300 plus tax); proceeds and tax will be divided among the drawers and CAF.  Drawing is broadly interpreted and works by artists of all disciplines, skill levels, and ages are expected to grace the walls throughout the 24-hour event, so drop by more than once to see it all unfold or scoop up that one-of-a-kind work. 

Support for From Dusk 'til Drawn provided by: Art Essentials, Buttonwood Winery, CASA Magazine, City 2.0, Craft Essentials, Crushcakes, The Graphic Vendor, Kalyra Winery, Renaud's Patisserie & Bistro, Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara News-Press, Savoy Café & Deli, Trader Joe's.

Saturday, July 23, 10 am - 1 pm

Before heading to CAF on the Upper Arts Terrace to check out the art created overnight as a part of From Dusk 'til Drawn: 24-Hour Drawing Rally, join in the doodling yourself with an interactive drawing project in Paseo Nuevo Mall's Center Court.

More info: http://www.sbcaf.org/programs/FDTD/index.html

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Posted by cafpress on: Mon 13th Jun, 2011

Thursday, July 7, 7 pm

Artists Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman present a mash-up of live music, video, and staged theatrics, in a choreographed array of live shredding, extreme feedback, youtube bombardment, ecstatic dance moves, and Sunday morning cartoons. The short performance works range from absurd inspirational lectures, to musings on contemporary internet culture, to introspective meditations on metal guitar shredding technique, all couched within a lo-fi, intentionally awkward 'performance art' aesthetic. Their newest performance delves into the world of tween culture and the current obsession with the infinite hall of mirrors known as "forever young".

Jacob Ciocci is an artist and current Eyebeam Fellow notably regarded as one third of the American art collective Paper Rad.  He is also a prolific producer of music, installations, websites, and animations. David Wightman is completing his Ph.D. in music composition at UCSD, where he teaches courses on popular and contemporary music. Some of his many music projects include: Fortress of Amplitude, Powdered Wigs, and Chariots of Fire. Together Jacob and David form like Voltron in the high-NRG electronic music band Extreme Animals and have toured the country every summer for the past 8 years presenting their music, videos, and art.

Support for Forum Lounge is generously provided by: Andrea Lang Fund, Daniel Clark, Endevermusic Productions, the Franciscan Inn, KCSB, the Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara Winery, and Therese Schweidler.  Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s 1st Thursday.
ADMISSION IS FREE

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 3rd Jun, 2011

Thursday, June 16, 7 pm
smART Talks: Betsy Gallery, Mosaic Images and Demonstration
Combining classical handmade Italian glass smalti and 24 karat gold tesserae with recycled porcelain, ceramics and found objects, Betsy Gallery’s contemporary mosaics give new meaning to this ancient craft. The incorporation of noble materials and historical, psychological, and literary references transform what was once considered a craft into art of the highest caliber. Betsy’s formal training began at the Art Institute in Chicago, and her mosaic studies have taken her to Mexico, Spain and Italy.

The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and pays tribute to artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.
ADMISSION IS FREE

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 10th Sep, 2010

Friday September 24 7 pm 

F.A.T/LAB Choreographed Culinary Performance

Don't miss out on an amazing opportunity to be part of a collaborative project with current Call For Entries artist, Alejandro Casazi! Casazi’s body of work comprises a diverse range of media (including printmaking, installation, sculpture, video, sound, photography, and works on paper) and may be described as an effort to understand the elemental experiences of human beings (breathing, heartbeat, taste, etc.). Often, the artist’s final product is achieved through collaboration with experts in fields outside the visual arts. F.A.T/LAB (Food, Art, and Technology) is a collective, made up of Alejandro Casazi (Visual Artist), Joel Chapman (Principal Chef), and Christopher Jette (Music Composer), that creates performative culinary experiences. Their work harmonizes sensory experiences (The Visual, The Sound, The Taste) in a carefully choreographed project that highlights the basic human activity of eating.  Guests will engage in this “maximalist” dinner event, where an overstimulation of the senses will collide with every dish, taste, sound, and visual element. The installation, on view August 07 – October 03, 2010 as part of  Call For Entries 2010, is a staging area for the dinner but also contains photographs, sound, and video projections to be included during the performance. Tickets to attend are $300/person and can be purchased through check or by phone 805-966-5373 x 105. Ticket price directly funds the artists' efforts. Please include your name, address, phone, email, and allergies to specific ingredients or intolerances in the mail or message with payment. Seating is very limited, so reserve your spot(s) and don't miss out!  Visit: http://www.fatlabcollective.com/ to learn more about the collective and this one-of-a-kind project. 

Special thanks to: Municipal Winemakers, Santa Barbara, CA

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Posted by cafpress on: Thu 2nd Sep, 2010

Thursday, October 7, 7 pm

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, FREE

Explore your senses with sonicSENSE’s multimedia performance and Mylar Corridor. 

Barney Haynes and Jennifer Parker’s sonicSENSE fuses the creative possibilities of computers with traditional visual art processes to generate a unique space for sharing, questioning, and experiencing avante-garde art. Haynes and Parker will use live internet data to track light, sound, and air pollution and combine it with video projection, sub-sonic transducers, speaker film, web cams, biometric readers, and performance to create a full-sensory sound art installation. Where a typical viewer might have an emotional or visual reaction to a work of art, sonicSENSE endeavors to capture this chemistry on a more literal level with voluntary interactive biometrics. In addition, the audience may walk through sonicSENSE’s vibrating and mirror-like Mylar Corridor to experience visual and sound bending distortions.

This performance also takes place at the same time as a sonicSENSE installation at UCSB’s College of Creative Studies and represents Forum Lounge’s collaborative possibilities, with the community. 

Barney Haynes is an Artist and Professor in the M.F.A. Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco/Oakland,CA. Jennifer Parker is a Sculptor and Professor at the University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.

About the Forum Lounge Series: Forum Lounge is a series of free, unique, performance-based events, ranging from the theatrical to the avant-garde that are normally found only in large metropolitan venues, and that reflect CAF’s mission to sustain and encourage the artistic process by presenting art in the form of exceptional music, dance, video, and other multi-media to our community.

Support for Forum Lounge is generously provided by: Endevermusic Productions, the Franciscan Inn, KCSB, Santa Barbara Winery, and the Santa Barbara Independent. Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s 1st Thursday.

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Posted by cafpress on: Tue 24th Aug, 2010

Thursday, September 2, 4- 8 pm Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum FREE

Turning the inside out, artist James Gilbert transforms CAF into an unexpected underwear factory in which the private and intimate go public.

Artist James Gilbert will set up a temporary sewing shop in the CAF gallery and sew several hundred real size pairs of unique, industrial, plastic, transparent underpants, which will amass in huge sculptural piles around him. The sculptures (representing media information) become more present throughout the performance. This accumulative performance addresses ideas of privacy, anonymity, and identity in relation to the huge amounts of intimate personal information posted daily on Facebook, YouTube, Google, and other mass media.

Gilbert is a Los Angeles-based artist who works across mediums creating drawings, installations with video, and performative art. These works comment on social themes, including identity and anonymity in a media-saturated culture where privacy has been eroded by reality television, social networking sites, and 24-hour news cycles. Gilbert has exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally in the United States and Asia. Recent 2010 exhibitions include a large scale, site-specific, solo installation including fifteen videos at the Dallas Contemporary Museum and Platform4 in Aalborg, Denmark, with upcoming projects in Los Angeles and Colombia.

About the Forum Lounge Series: Forum Lounge is a series of free, unique, performance-based events, ranging from the theatrical to the avant-garde that are normally found only in large metropolitan venues, and that reflect CAF’s mission to sustain and encourage the artistic process by presenting art in the form of exceptional music, dance, video, and other multi-media to our community.

Support for Forum Lounge is generously provided by: Endevermusic Productions, the Franciscan Inn, NEA, KCSB, Santa Barbara Winery, and the Santa Barbara Independent. Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s 1st Thursday.

Curator's Note:

This month's Forum Lounge featuring multimedia artist James Gilbert (whose most recent exhibition in Dallas received critical acclaim) invites the viewer to participate in a miniature mass production exercise. Gilbert's performance is somewhat atypical Forum Lounge in the fact that it is less a timed, finite, ephemeral event than an almost personal display of artistic production in which the viewer plays a critical role. Gilbert--perched atop a platform in CAF's front entrance--methodically produces and reproduces various versions of his see-through plastic underwear, allowing them to accumulate in a pile beneath his feet. By encouraging viewers to hang the underpants in the gallery's breezeway, Gilbert asks us to question ideas about intimacy and transparency, as he literally airs his laundry as public exhibition. 

--Heather Jeno Silva

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 6th Aug, 2010

Call For Entries 2010: Graham Bury, Alejandro Casazi, Madelaine Frezza, Laura Krifka, Christine Morla, and Shane Tolbert

Opening: Saturday, August 7, 7-9PM
On View: AUG. 8 – OCT. 3, 2010

The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum is pleased to announce Call For Entries 2010 featuring new work by local area artists: Graham Bury, Alejandro Casazi, Madelaine Frezza, Laura Krifka, Christine Morla, and Shane Tolbert.

Call For Entries (CFE) is an annual juried exhibition that encourages artists from the tri-counties to present newly commissioned work. Applicants were selected in Fall 2009 by a panel of jurors made up of artists and art professionals currently working in the visual arts field including: Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Barton Miller, Artist and Studio Art Professor, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA; Yasmine Mohseni, Curatorial Director, The Art of Elysium, Los Angeles, CA; and Adrian Rivas, Co-founder, g727, Los Angeles, CA.

More information on how to apply this coming Fall for next year's CFE will be available soon via: http://www.sbcaf.org/exhibitions/opportun.html

Special thanks to: Municipal Winemakers, Santa Barbara, CA; Myopia Design + Photography, Santa Barbara, CA; Specialty Color Services, Santa Barbara, CA; and Wayne McCall & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA.


Bloom Projects: Keith Puccinelli, the foul stain of we

Santa Barbara-based Keith Puccinelli uses an irreverent quick wit, modest materials, and tableaux to broach the conflict between the preciousness of life and man’s disregard for life during times of war, to create a kind of carnival of sorrow. The strong juxtaposition of materials and a passion for wordplay often brings a sense of humor to glaze or emphasize the serious or tragic presented in the work.

Special thanks to Brush & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA; and Wayne McCall & Associates, Santa Barbara, CA.

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