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DEPARTMENT OF
ART & ART HISTORY
PROFESSIONAL ART EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES
Creating and Collecting: New Faculty Work
and Collection Acquisitions for the de Saisset Museum
September 19 ~ November 18, 2016
OPENING RECEPTION Friday, October 7 | 5 ~ 7p.m.
These exciting side-by-side exhibitions showcase recent work by the
Department of Art and Art History studio faculty and collaborative work
between the Department’s art historians, de Saisset Museum, and Santa
Clara University students.
Over the past ten years, our students have collaborated with the de Saisset
Museum and the Department of Art and Art History on six acquisition
projects, selecting thirty-three artworks for the Museum’s permanent
collection. Many were developed as Acquisition for Diversity projects,
to help the Museum pursue its dedication to acquiring works of art that
showcase artists and communities that are under-appreciated and
under-recognized.
CURATED EXHIBITION
April 3 ~ 28, 2017
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, April 13 | 5 ~ 7p.m.
This curated group exhibit will be judged by John Seed. John Seed is
a professor of art and art history at Mt. San Jacinto College in Southern
California. Seed has written about art and artists for Arts of Asia, Art
Ltd., Catamaran, Harvard Magazine, International Artist, Hyperallergic
and Poets and Artists.
His interests and specialties include Bay Area Figurative art, contemporary
figurative art and Hawaiian, Philippines, and Southeast Asian art of the
19th and 20th centuries.
Recent studio faculty artworks, produced in a wide variety of media,
address a range of contemporary issues in art and society. The contemporary
themes include such topics as self-expression, technology’s place in
art, immigration and race, human interactions with nature, and the impact
of gender and consumer society on our sense of self.
Together, these two exhibitions provide a window on the visual arts at
Santa Clara University.
AMER KOBASLIJA: Visiting Artist Exhibition
January 9 ~ March 10, 2017
OPENING RECEPTION Tuesday, March 7 | 5 ~ 7p.m.
Originally from Banjaluka in Bosnia, Amer Kobaslija (b. 1975) fled his
war-ravaged homeland in 1993 to a refugee camp in Nuremberg, Germany.
Later he traveled to Düsseldorf, where he attended the Kunst Akademie. In
1997, Kobaslija was offered asylum by the United States and immigrated
to Florida. There in Sarasota he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the
Ringling College of Art and Design. In 2003 he went on to pursue a Master
of Fine Arts degree at the Montclair College of the Arts in New Jersey and
has since established his base in New York City.
A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow for painting, Kobaslija has had numerous
one-person exhibitions in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
and New Orleans. He is represented by George Adams Gallery in New York
where he has had seven solo shows in the last decade, including the 2015-
16 traveling survey exhibition “Amer Kobaslija: Places, Spaces.” In conjunction
with this exhibition, George Adams Gallery published a comprehensive
monograph on Kobaslija’s art and life. Kobaslija’s paintings have
been reviewed and reproduced in numerous publications including The
New York Times, Art in America, ARTNews, Art & Antiques, New York
Magazine, New York Time Out, The Village Voice, The Florida Times Union,
The San Francisco Chronicle and The Japan Times.
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