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Mirage at Apple Park

Photo Credit: Iwan Baan

Photo Credit: Iwan Baan

Artsource Consulting is delighted to announce the opening of Mirage, a public sculpture by artist Katie Paterson and architectural studio Zeller & Moye. Located in the olive grove adjacent to the Visitor’s Center at Apple Park, Mirage (2023) includes over four hundred glass columns that weave through and amongst the olive trees. The pillars of pure cast glass are made with sand collected from deserts across the Earth. Mirage has been cast in whole single glass cylinders – each 6′ 7″ high – by expert glass makers, with guidance from material scientists. Unique glass recipes were formulated for each desert resulting in  pillars with subtle variations of color and texture. Innovative methods of working with glass at this scale were invented, in combination with techniques from the origins of glass making.

Photo Credit: Iwan Baan

Photo Credit: Iwan Baan

Together the columns combine the world’s deserts transformed into liquid-like material, flowing like a dune shaped by the wind. Mirage is a global artwork. In the spirit of co-operation, sand was sustainably collected, in partnership with UNESCO, geologists and communities across the world’s desert regions. The artwork celebrated each of the lands from which it is created, and the people who nurture, conserve, and sustain these lands.

Mirage has a strong material presence, connecting to the elements and reflecting the environment. In daytlight the sculpture varies in iridescence, and in the evening it gently glows. The experience of watching the light fall through becomes a form of meditation; time standing still. Visitors can interact with the artwork, walking alongside and through, where the glass appears to subtly melt into the landscape, like a desert mirage.

Mirage creates a moment of pause, inviting all visitors to slow down, and tune into the immensity and preciousness of our planet. Nothing of its kind exists anywhere else on Earth.

Explore the artwork:

www.mirage.place

Photo Credit: Iwan Baan

Photo Credit: Iwan Baan

“Sand, so ubiquitous across Earth, is a marker of time. Mirage creates an experience of being enveloped by Earth’s sublime spaces. Each piece of glass is a portal to otherworldly landscapes. The artwork is dreamlike: the colors are contemplative, and the glass has a natural radiance, creating infinite reflections. Our hope is that Mirage creates a sensory experience that will ignite the imagination, connect visitors to the vastness of the Earth, and its precious wilderness.” Katie Paterson

“Visitors experience Mirage by walking along columns that reveal stories of the world’s deserts. The sculpture unfolds piece by piece, through gradually shifting in color, surface texture and material consistencies.” Christoph Zeller

“The structure is designed in balance with nature. The glass bars are arranged as a series of curved walls that meander through the grid of olive trees defining semi-enclosed space similar to an interior garden. The spatial composition activates the existing park landscape by creating an unexpected social and contemplative gathering place for visitors and staff to relax, to lay down on the grass, to have a picnic or play.” Ingrid Moye

Photo Credit: Iwan Baan

 

About Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson (born 1981, Scotland) is widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation. Collaborating with scientists and researchers across the world, Paterson’s projects consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time and change.  Combining a romatic sensibility with a research-based approach, conceptual rigor and coolly minimalist presentation, her work collapses the distance between the viewer and the most distant edges of time and the cosmos. Her artworks make use of sophisticated technologies and specialst expertise to stage intimate, poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment.

Katie Paterson has exhibited internationally, from London to New York, Berlin to Seoul, and her works have been included in major exhibitions including Turner Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, Tate Britain, Kunsthalle Wien, MCA Sydney, Guggenheim Museum and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

www.katiepaterson.org

About Zeller & Moye

Zeller & Moye was founded by Christoph Zeller (born 1974, Germany) and Ingrid Moye (born 1984, Mexico) as an architectural studio that operates with an interdisciplinary and global approach, with offices in Mexico City and Berlin. Their practice covers a wide range of typologies and scales, from object design to large buildings, working frequently at the boundaries of architecture, art and design. Zeller & Moye’s projects aim to engage with the public realm and address social and sustainability issues while seeking for opportunities to go beyond boundaries and striving for the unexpected.

The studio has won the Panamerican Architecture Biennial of Quito in 2020, has been awarded as Design Vanguard by Architectural Record in 2023, and was recognized as one of the 100 influential designers worldwide by AD magazine. Christoph Zeller and Ingrid Moye are program directors of the Visiting School Mexico for the Architectural Association London. As writers, lecturers and guest critics at various universities they frequently contribute to the discourse on architecture and design.

www.zellermoye.com

Photo credit: Hunter Kerhart

Mirage at Apple Park, 10600 N Tantau Avenue, Cupertino, California. Open every day, free to everyone.

Mirage is located adjacent to the Apple Park Visitor Center. The artwork is slightly set back from the street and pedestrian pathways. It has three entrances and pathways which are fully accessible. The Apple Park Visitor Center is open 10-6 daily, Monday through Saturday, and open 11-6 on Sundays.

To Do List: September

Richard T. Walker “This, as it Isn’t (mountain #2), 2022 ” pigment prints in artists’ frames. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

September 7 to October 21 – Richard T. Walker: Never Here/Always There at Fraenkel Gallery:  Incorporating photography, video, music, sculpture, and performance, Richard T. Walker continues his exploration of the relationship between the individual and the changing natural world. In eleven new works, Walker reorders the elements of the environment, upending assumptions about humankind’s place in nature by embracing futile connections to the vast landscape. A public reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, September 9, from 1:30–4 pm. Fraenkel Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street in San Francisco.

 

Arleene Correa Valencia “Yaaoma” Repurposed textiles on canvas, pheasant and peacock feathers. Image courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery.

Ongoing to November 4 – Arleene Correa Valencia: Naces Así, Naces Prieto. No Naces Blanco / You Are Born Like This, You Are Born Brown. You Are Not Born White:  Arleene Correa Valencia creates paintings, textiles, and drawings that reflect on patterns of migration and family separation. Her recent work is inspired by the letters that she wrote to her father as a child, during a period when her father had migrated to the United States while Correa Valencia remained in Mexico. Correa Valencia draws on her family’s archives and correspondence to craft a visual language that considers the politics of visibility and the complexities of undocumented immigration. Catharine Clark Gallery is located at 248 Utah Street in San Francisco.

 

 

Left: Julia Goodman “Farther and Farther (III)” 2023, Watercolor on hand formed paper. Pulp made from different color repurposed bedsheets and t-shirts. Right: Klea McKenna “Untitled (cascade)” from the series Rainbow Bruise, 2023, Unique photographic relief. Embossed silver gelatin photogram and fabric dye. Images courtesy of EUQINOM Gallery.

September 7 to October 28 – Vessel: Julia Goodman & Klea McKenna at EUQINOM Gallery:  Vessel brings together two artists, and long-time friends, for the first time in a two person exhibition at EUQINOM.  Julia Goodman and Klea McKenna are both Bay Area-based artists whose work centers time and its relationship to our human experience. While working in markedly different mediums, the artists overlap in their innovative and intimate relationship to their material processes, which are shaped by years of experimentation and adaptation. In their textural and low relief works, they also share subject matters – short and long time, bodies, human connection, caretaking, and transformation. Vessel is a presentation of two artists using their personal experiences to explore the sublime in the hard work of caring for and carrying on for each other, our children, and future generations. The opening reception is on Saturday, September 9 from 1:30-4 pm. EUQINOM Gallery is located at 49 Geary Street in San Francisco.

 

Top: Adia Millett “Untitled” Bottom: Heesoo Kwon, “Leymusoom Garden”. Images courtesy of SJICA.

September 16 to February 18 – Adia Millett: Wisdom Keepers and Heesoo Kwon: Leymusoom Garden: Following Naked Dancing and Long Dreaming at the San Jose ICA:  Adia Millett explores the parallels and interplay between a craftswoman and a warrior. In both cases “martial arts” is an intricate set of techniques and skills used with the intentions of protecting, preserving, and building a community and its culture. While the tools used in this process differ for the soldier and the quilter, put side by side a shared story is revealed, providing a new perspective of our ancestral past, and perhaps our future. Power, endurance, and resourcefulness reveal the cultural interplay between tribal war and post-slavery reconstruction. As exhibited by the title, the characters and tools crafted in this exhibition act as keepers of knowledge, guidance and keen judgment. Heesoo Kwon explores her spiritual journey connecting Korean shamanistic and indigenous perspectives to the land with her female ancestors. Her multimedia installation extends the queer feminist utopian digital space of Leymusoom to the mysticism of the garden, deepening her connection to the land and women’s freedom and desire. Opening reception Saturday, September 16th 5-8pm. SJICA is located at 560 South First Street, San José.

 

Miguel Arzabe “Puma Roja” woven acrylic on canvas and linen. Image courtesy of Johansson Projects.

September 16 – Miguel Arzabe: Animales Familiares at Johansson Projects: Red pumas, shark whales, and flamingos are among the animals populating Oakland-based artist Miguel Arzabe’s exhibition at Johansson Projects.  Emerging from the abstracted surfaces of his painting-weavings, Arzabe’s creatures form a contemporary bestiary that expands on a genre that spans European Middle Age illustrated books to the watercolors of Mexican modernist Francisco Toledo. Yet, whereas such artistic predecessors reflect imagined mythological beasts, Arzabe presents more familiar specimens, as declared by the title of one of the show’s anchoring pieces. Opening reception Saturday, September 16, 12-3pm. Johansson Projects is located at 2300 Telegraph Avenue in Oakland.

 

 

Top: Rupy C. Tut “Placing Self” 2023. Bottom: Patrick Martinez “Serpents (Welcome to the Jungle)” 2022, stucco, neon, mean streak, ceramic, acrylic paint, spray paint, latex house paint, ceramic tile and tile adhesive on panel. Images courtesy of ICA SF.

September 23 to January 7 – Rupy C. Tut: Out of Place and Patrick Martinez: Ghost Land at ICA SF: Out of Place, a solo exhibition of paintings by Rupy C. Tut dives deeper into experimenting with new surfaces, materials, and scale. Through her practice, she preserves historic methods of making pigments, creating delicate works inspired by traditional Indian painting—also known as miniature painting. Tut is process-driven and includes personal meditations on the nuances of hybrid identity, belonging, and cyclical time. Patrick Martinez exhibits a diverse practice, ranging from painting to mixed media and neon. His exhibition will highlight his “landscape” paintings: works that evoke the topography of personal, civic, and cultural loss. These large-scale works excavate urban histories as abstractions of the Los Angeles landscape, incorporating recognizable materials like distressed stucco, spray paint, window security bars, vinyl signage, ceramic tile, and neon. Martinez layers imagery inspired by graffiti, activism, and Mayan and Aztec symbolism to recount the overlooked stories of California residents—particularly concerning their resilience in the face of gentrification. The ICA SF is located at 901 Minnesota Street in San Francisco.

To Do List: July/August

Nobuyuki Takahashi “From the Window of a Running Train” acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of Rena Bransten Gallery.

July 8 to September 9 – Nobuyuki Takahashi: Lyrics of Sea Horizon at Rena Bransten Gallery:  Nobuyuki Takahashi plays with expansiveness and depth using the sea horizon as a unifying, recurring element. Utilizing intentional placement of the horizon line both as a conceptual anchor and as a compositional framework, he creates balance both within each painting, and within the group of works together. Rena Bransten Gallery is located at Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street in San Francisco.

San Francisco Art Book Fair logo.

July 14 to 16 – The San Francisco Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Project: The San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) is a free annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of printed material from independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world. The fair places the unique history and perspectives of the Bay Area in conversation with national and international publishing communities. SFABF features artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, zines, printed ephemera, and artists’ multiples. Minnesota Street Project is located at 1275 Minnesota Street in San Francisco.

 

Christopher Robin Duncan “Sound in Time (Summer)” sun and time on blue fabric, thread, African Mahogany, speaker, amp, sound piece, power cord, speaker. Image courtesy of Rebecca Camacho Presents.

Ongoing to July 29 – Christopher Robin Duncan: Seasons at Rebecca Camacho Presents: Duncan debuts an ensemble of two- and three-dimensional objects mapping the passage of time and its inherent aftermath. Rooted in the observation and application of natural elements, such as the sun, the moon and the ocean as conceptual and compositional prompts for both visual and sound-based media, Duncan has historically operated parallel practices, adjacent to and informed by but siloed from one another. His most recent works shift these boundaries, cross-pollinating time-based exposure paintings with an immersive audio experience. The exhibition centers on a suite of four sound paintings; winter, spring, summer, and fall. Rebecca Camacho Presents is located at 794 Sutter Street in San Francisco.

 

 

Richard Misrach “Cargo Ships (January 11, 2022, 5:02pm)” 2022, pigment print. Image courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery.

Ongoing to August 12 – Richard Misrach: New Old Pictures/New New Pictures at Fraenkel Gallery:  This exhibition of large-format photographs marks the debut of his new series, Cargo, atmospheric studies of maritime traffic that raise questions about international commerce and the supply chain upon which the world now depends. Also on view will be works made from recently discovered negatives produced throughout Misrach’s near five-decade career. Fraenkel Gallery will be hosting a book signing with the artist on Saturday, July 29, from 2 to 4pm and is located at 49 Geary Street in San Francisco.

 

Courtney Desiree Morris “I Want to go Home” black and white photograph. Image courtesy of Berkeley Art Center.

August 12 to September 23 – Rabbit Hole curated by Adrianne Ramsey at Berkeley Art Center: Rabbit Hole is a group exhibition curated by Adrianne Ramsey that takes a deeper look at the significance of space and the subtle and obvious ways that we engage with it on a daily basis. Featuring a wide range of materials and theoretical approaches, the participating artists – Fred Marque Dewitt, Mark Harris, danielle nanos-luz, Courtney Desiree Morris, Arleene Correa Valencia, and Connie Zheng – are united by a conscious engagement with today’s cultural moment, in which numerous social factors – ranging from a global pandemic to widespread civil unrest to an increasingly acrimonious political landscape – have converged to produce a heightened urgency for artists to utilize space as a means of empowerment. The exhibited artworks, all of which were made in the last two years, challenge, explore, and reflect upon our interactions with the spaces we enter and call attention to, as well as their own impacts on ourselves and society. Berkeley Art Center is located at 1275 Walnut Street in Berkeley.

 

Guadalupe Rosales “Drifting on a Memory (a dedication to Gypsy Rose)”, 2022 (detail). Images courtesy of SMOMA.

August 3 to February 19, 2024 – Sitting on Chrome: Mario Ayala, Rafa Esparza and Guadalupe Rosales at SFMOMA: In this collaborative exhibition, artists Mario Ayala, Rafa Esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales engage the visual language of lowriders and explore cruising as a practice of resistance and community visibility. From pinstriped, stylized exteriors to lush, upholstered interiors, these customized cars are modified over time by drivers, their families, and communities for the sake of joy and visual pleasure. Designed to be seen, they express individual and collective identities and transform public spaces. Related performances by Rafa Esparza will occur during the run of the exhibition. SFMOMA is located at 151 3rd Street in San Francisco.

To Do List: June

L: Isaac Julien “Black Madonna / New Negro Aesthetic” Inkjet print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag R: Jeffrey Gibson “I DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOUR LOVE” Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, archival pigment prints on cotton, acrylic paint, two vintage beaded panels, vintage beaded belt buckle, vintage silver charm, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin. Images courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery.

June 1 to July 22 – Isaac Julien: Once Again…(Statues Never Die) and Jeffrey Gibson: Once More with Feeling at Jessica Silverman Gallery:  Isaac Julien’s exhibition is inspired by the historical relationship between Alain Locke, a Harlem Renaissance philosopher, and Albert C. Barnes, a philanthropist known for championing African material and visual culture. Jeffrey Gibson will premiere nine new collages, incorporating found objects and images, beadwork, and textiles into intricate arrangements. Drawing on his Cherokee and Choctaw heritage throughout his varied practice, Gibson has turned to collage as a medium towards both self-discovery and inquiry into consumption, empowerment, and non-Western modes of relating to one another. The artist collects offcuts, paper scraps, objects, and imagery and stores them over decades in his studio. He assembles these disparate items to create new works, relating forgotten materials to the fractured history of Native peoples. Jessica Silverman Gallery is located at 621 Grant Avenue in San Francisco.

 

L: Eamon Ore Giron “Infinite Regress CXV (study 1)” mineral paint and flashe on linen, C: Libby Black “Chanel”  charcoal and paint on paper, R: Teresa Baker “Two”  oil pastel on paper. Images courtesy of Anthony Meier Gallery.

June 1 to August 1 – What’s That About curated by Saif Azzuz at Anthony Meier Gallery:  This group exhibition curated by artist Saif Azzuz includes Bay Area artists whose practices have intersected with Azzuz’s during his time in the region. As evidenced by its title, the exhibition pushes back—through a direct and somewhat humorous acknowledgement—against the all-too-common practice of asking artists to explain what their work is about. By foregrounding the work’s physical properties and eschewing its conceptualization, Azzuz  invites a more personal approach to the works on view, prompting viewers through the very absence of an ideational conceit to look more closely, think more deeply, and directly engage with the materials, processes, and emotional effects that cohere in each piece.  Anthony Meier Gallery is located at 21 Throckmorton Avenue in Mill Valley.

 

L: Rex Ray “Cyphellae” painted and cut paper on oil. R: Zuzana Licko “Intersecting Figure #33” jacquard weaving. Images courtesy of Gallery 16.

June 2 to July 22 – Rex Ray and Zuzana Licko at Gallery 16: In the early 1990s, the San Francisco Bay Area was the epicenter of computer-based design. These two artists helped shape the future while straddling the fields of fine art and graphic design. Zuzana Licko founded Emigre magazine with her husband, fellow typographer and graphic designer Rudy VanderLans, in 1984. Emigre set the standard for digital typography and design and led to the creation of the Emigre Fonts type foundry, which is credited for being the first digital type foundry. Rex Ray (1956-2015) began his career as a graphic designer but soon devoted his studio practice to the making of handmade fine art. Ray was a beloved San Francisco artist and designer and major cultural force in the Bay Area. He was recognized worldwide for his distinct compositions, saturated colors, and unapologetic devotion to beauty. Gallery 16 is located at 501 3rd Street in San Francisco.

 

Guests bid on artwork at a previous auction.

Tuesday, June 6, 6 to 10 pm – Headlands Center for the Arts Benefit Art Auction at Fort Mason Center: Headlands’ Annual Benefit Art Auction features work by emerging and established artists and Headlands Alumni as well as unique, only-at-Headlands experience packages. With a silent auction culminating in the live auction and gala on June 6, this fundraising event supports the big ideas and innovative work that Headlands makes possible. Purchase tickets to the event here.

 

Gordon Parks “Untitled, Harlem, New York” archival pigment print. Image courtesy of McEvoy Foundation for the Arts.

June 16 to September 2 – What Are Words Worth? at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts: This exhibition explores the expansive holdings of artworks in the McEvoy Family Collection that engage language, literature, and typography. The exhibition’s title, borrowed from lyrics in the Tom Tom Club’s 1981 song “Wordy Rappinghood,” references the poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Expanding upon this playful reference to poetry, the modern and contemporary photographs, paintings, and prints on view examine the many fascinating ways that words can stimulate imagination and creativity. McEvoy Foundation for the Arts is located at 1150 25th Street in San Francisco.

 

L: Alicia McCarthy “Untitled” acrylic and spray paint on panel. R: Muzae Sesay ”Rare Salmon” oil, oil pastel, vinyl emulsion, acrylic, and colored pencil on canvas. Images courtesy of Pt.2 Gallery.

June 24 to July 29 – Alicia McCarthy and Muzae Sesay at Pt.2 Gallery: Pt.2 Gallery is featuring two solo shows by Oakland based artists. Alicia McCarthy engages with the immediate world around her and uses a decidedly focused color palette on mixed-media panels. Sincere and intense but also playful, McCarthy transforms found wood surfaces into bursts, geometric blocks of color and woven patterns that are often emphasized by text and spray paint. Muzae Sesay’s artistic focus derives from a relentless commitment to understanding our collective relationship to space, memory, community, and the perceived truths within them. His current work connects with the feelings that arise from testing the absoluteness of the strict and rigid aspects of physics and pragmatism found in architecture, design, and our built environment. Utilizing skewed perspectives of space and shape collapsed into two-dimensional planes of color, he creates surreal geometric interiors, exteriors, landscapes, and structures—presenting a situation in which to be experienced and explored. Pt.2 Gallery is located at 1523b Webster Street in Oakland.

 

Amy Elkins “Mishopshno/Carpenteria, Coastal Bluffs” photograph. Image courtesy of SF Camerawork.

Ongoing to August 5 – Forecast 2023 at SF Camerawork: This is SF Camerawork’s annual survey exhibition. Each year SF Camerawork invites an esteemed jury of artists, curators and critics to select and showcase the work of emerging imagemakers, with an eye toward current movements, trends and concerns in contemporary photography. This year, Bay Area artists Ashima Yadava and Minoosh Zomorodinia have selected the work of Mary Campbell, Harvey Castro, Amy Elkins, Shao-Feng Hsu (Juror’s Choice Award), Kei Ito, and Helia Pouyanfar from over 180 entries from around the world. SF Camerawork is located at  Fort Mason Center for Arts, 2 Marina Blvd, building A in San Francisco.

 

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