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Current

February 25 –March 20, 2010
Wanted: Wall Work
National/International Juried MFA Exhibition
Juror: John Baca, MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
Reception February 26, 6-8 p.m., Juror’s Talk at 7 p.m.

Monique Belitz, Joshua Bindewald, Magi Calhoun, Chen Carmi, Sandi Escobar, Jongock Kim, Trevor Koch, Libo Li, Presley Martin, Megan Moore, Nicole Pietrantoni, Amie Rogers, Lisa Rosenstreich, Brad Thiele, Adam Weir

Upcoming

• February 25–March 20, 2010
  Wanted: Wall Work
  
  
• March 25–April 10 Jason Adkins & Gaby Wolodarski
  
  
• April 2010
  28th Annual Members Show and Birthday Party
  
  
• May 20–June 12
  Howard McCalebb
  
  
• June 17–July 10
  Nicholas Gagliardi
  
  
• July 22–August 14
  Marc J. McCay

Upcoming

March 25–April 10
Jason Adkins and Gaby Wolodarski
Reception: Friday, March 26, 5–7 p.m.
Music by Geoff Baker

Adkins

Jason Adkins was raised in the small northern California town of Hayfork. He received a BA in Spanish from Walla Walla University in 1998 and a BFA in Painting from CSU Chico in 2002. In 2007 he received an MFA in Pictorial Arts from San Jose State University (SJSU) and in fall 2007 joined the faculty at SJSU as a lecturer. Adkins has shown his work in the Bay Area and in 2008 attended an artist residency in printmaking at La Cieba Grafica in Mexico. He maintains an active studio practice in downtown San Jose. He writes, “These paintings are realized through doing and making; thought is informed by action, not the reverse. They tend to be gluttonous, needy and unapologetic; their wisdom is their idiocy and their hunger is their strength; and so they find parallels quite easily.”

Wolodarski – Mixed media installation

Gaby Wolodarski is a visual artist working in Oakland, CA, making painting, sculpture, installation, performance, video, and stage sets. She has a B.A. from UC Berkeley and has shown work at the DiRosa Preserve, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Lobot Gallery, Mission 17, RockPaperScissors Collective, Ego Park, and Southern Exposure. Wolodarski will be making an installation questioning how one sees in terms of how one thinks and feels, and vice versa.

28th Annual Members Show and Birthday Party

April 15 – May 1, 2010
Reception and Birthday Celebration
Saturday, April 17, 5–7pm

All categories welcome: wall, sculpture, installation, and performance.
All work must arrive ready to install.
Drop off: April 10 & 11, 12:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Pick up: May 2, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
820 Broadway, Chico, CA 95928
Please send a brief description (title, medium, and size) of the piece you plan to submit to info@1078gallery.org.
All current or renewal member submissions accepted. You may join or renew at the time of submission.

May 20–June 12
Howard McCalebb
Global Jungle & Marshall Plan
Reception: May 20, 2010, 5-7 p.m., talk at 6

Global Jungle

Marshall Plan

Howard McCalebb currently has dual residencies: one in Oroville, CA, and the other in Berlin, where he runs the gallery and artist residency Dadapost in an old factory in Berlin/Wedding. He earned his MFA in sculpture from Cornell in 1972 and his BA in sculpture from CSU Hayward (now called CSU East Bay) in 1970. In 1971, he participated in the Hobart School of Welding Technology 5th Annual Sculpture Workshop in Troy, OH.

McCalebb has taught at San Jose State, University of Massachusetts, University of North Carolina, Rutgers, Hunter, Cornell, Pratt, Parsons, and Amherst. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and in numerous international venues. He was invited by Romare Bearden to appear in the film Bearden Plays Bearden in 1981. His sculpture was featured in the historic Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century exhibition in Purchase, NY, in 2001, alongside works by Julio Gonzalez, Pablo Picasso, Anthony Caro, and David Smith. In 2003, he was one of the American artists representing the U.S.A. at the Sharjah International Biennial 6 in the United Arab Emirates. In 2001 he lectured at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. In 2005, he did a series of public sculpture projects in Bulgaria, Norway, and Lithuania. In 2008 he was commissioned for a large-scale public sculpture by the Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art for Intrude: Art and Life 366. In June 2009, McCalebb’s large-scale outdoor sculpture Butterfly was shown in Berlin at galerie Exile. Solo exhibitions include Kulturfabrikken in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Momenta Art, NY.

McCalebb will be showing two separate installations at his 1078 exhibit in May/June 2010. The Marshall Plan explores ideas consistent with his geometric sculptures. The main icons are rendered in high key (near primary) colors and are configured from within a matrix constructed by the Greek Golden Mean. There will be 20-30 mixed-media/collage/paintings that incorporate various aspects of American/German history, cultural references, and iconography. In Global Jungle, a sculpture installation of five 7-foot medallions featuring iconography from Western, Asian, and African cultures is mediated by two American pop images from the 1960s: the “happy face” and the “peace sign.” A number of 2-D mixed-media pieces will accompany this installation.

June 17—July 10
Nicholas Gagliardi
Mr. Marvel
Reception June 17, 5–7 p.m. (Talk at 6)

A visual history of the Mr. Marvel publication including most of the original work featured in its year-long existence as well as three-dimensional products used for some of the extras given each month. Video projections will occur in The Half.

July 22–August 14
Marc J. McCay
Reception: July 31, 5–7 p.m., (talk at 6).

Marc J. McCay is a professional artist in numerous mediums: printmaking, drawing, mixed media, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. He earned his MFA in printmaking at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2003 and his MA and BA in printmaking from Sacramento State in the ‘90s. He has had many solo exhibitions in many states including CA, AL, IN, WI, NH, MI, and KS, and his work is in many public and private collections throughout the United States. McCay has had residencies at the Coleman Center in Alabama and the Ox-Bow School for Art in Michigan. He has been the recipient of numerous scholarships, fellowships, and awards in Indiana, Wisconsin, and California.

McCay writes, “For over twenty years, I have created objects and installations that focus on transmitting my personal everyday observations to a larger audience. Overlooked or hidden traces of mark making are found throughout the urban environment. It is the layers of history found in the humble particulars that visually and intellectually inspire me: repetition and symmetry of tiled surfaces; iron stains etched into a floor; thin shallow lines that divide a city sidewalk; or haphazard attempts to eradicate graffiti on an overpass support wall.”