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Coming up at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
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New Exhibitions Opening in May

 



Cassandra Straubing: A Fragile Narrative                  May 23 – Sept. 12, 2015
Amy M. Ho: Red Rooms                                                   May 23 – Sept. 12, 2015
Naomie Kremer: Age of Entanglement                        May 31 – Sept. 19, 2015

 


The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art will open three new exhibitions by three Bay Area women in the ICA galleries next month. Beginning on May 23, Cassandra Straubing: A Fragile Narrative in the Focus Gallery and Amy M. Ho: Red Rooms in the Cardinale Project Room, will be on view to the public. On May 31, the third and largest exhibition, Naomie Kremer: Age of Entanglement in the Main Gallery, will open to the public. 
 

Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee: Passage                  May 31 - Oct. 31, 2015
 

Beginning May 31, Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee: Passage will be featured in the ICA's facade windows.   



OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, May 31, 1pm to 4pm

 
TAKE NOTE! Opening Reception to be held on new date and time! Four exhibitions will open with a reception on Sunday, May 31, from 1pm to 4pm. The public is invited and admission is free. 
 
Cassandra Straubing: A Fragile Narrative will explore the sociological aspects of working-class garments and tools of blue-collar labor, and how the objects might symbolize a person’s economic and social position as well as their gender role. The exhibition will include pieces the artist created by employing multiple glass-forming techniques such as blowing, hot forming, and casting. Straubing’s exhibition is presented in conjunction with the 44th Annual Glass Art Society conference to be held in San Jose from June 5-7, 2015. 
May 23 - Sept. 12
For Amy M. Ho: Red Rooms, the artist will create a hyper-artificial environment that envelops the viewer and transforms the sense of space by projected light and shadows. Red Rooms is a two-channel video projection that was created by the artist photographing two views of a miniature architectural model lit in two different ways -- one lit from in front and another from behind. 
May 31 - Sept. 12
Naomie Kremer: Age of Entanglement will include video, hybrid paintings and hybrid sculptures. Combining large-scale, intensely colored abstract paintings with video projections, Kremer creates hybrids that blur the distinction between the two mediums and alter the physical relationship one normally has to painting. A consistent underlying principle in Kremer’s work has been a disruption of the painted surface. 
May 31 - Sept. 19
Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee: Passage is composed of used coffee filters that have been dried, ironed, color treated and stitched together into organic forms. The Los Angeles-based artists will arrange the forms into clusters to create an installation reminiscent of a floral environment in the ICA front windows.
May 31 - Oct. 31
ICA Live! 
Margaret Noble: Resonating Objects


Friday, May 1, 6pm-10pm
Free Admission!

San Diego-based artist Margaret Noble will present three sound sculptures for ICA Live! with which visitors are invited to interact. To make the pieces, Noble used a filing box filled with index cards rigged with individual audio; an old leather suitcase with interior compartments that emit sound when uncovered; and a hand-activated music box - each of which Noble has fashioned into what she calls “resonating objects.” 

Learn more about ICA Live!, and view the 2015 schedule here.

Talking Art
Artists Using Technology to Increase Visibility


Thursday, May 14, 7pm
 
Speaker: Daniel Milnor, Photographer at Large, Blurb Inc. 

With a vast percentage of the world connected through modern technology, the opportunity for artists to capitalize on technology is real. Milnor will present approaches on how to navigate through the overabundance of technology-based tools available for artists. Learn more about Talking Art and view the 2015 schedule here


$5, Members
$10, Non-Members
FREE for Students

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Naomie Kremer: Age of Entanglement is generously supported in part by Alan and Doris Burgess. Cassandra Straubing: A Fragile Narrative, Amy Ho: Red Rooms and Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee: Passage are generously supported in part by the ICA Director’s Circle.
 
The ICA gratefully acknowledges support from the Office of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Jose, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Silicon Valley Creates, and its many members and donors.

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
560 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Hours: Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, 12pm-5pm
(408) 283-8155

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