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2 x 2 Solos: Chris
Fraser
Curated by Xiaoyu
Weng
Exhibition Dates January 25 - February 25,
2011
Reception: Friday, February 4, 6 - 8 pm
Oakland, CA:
Pro
Arts presents 2 x 2 Solos: Chris Fraser, curated by Xiaoyu Weng, on view January 25 - February 25,
2011 at Pro Arts' gallery in downtown Oakland.
Oakland-based artist Chris Fraser creates large-scale installations that
explore visible light's relationship to image making.
Informed by optical devices from the early nineteenth century, his work
brings attention to the way in which artists not only create images but also
impose rules for how their work is to be seen. For his first solo exhibition at
Pro Arts, Fraser brings together videos, pinhole photographs, and a darkened
room in which changing stripes of color correspond to the ambient light in the
surrounding gallery. The common element uniting all three groupings is an
investigation of the physical body's role in constructing images from
light.
Chris Fraser received his BA in history from the University of California, Davis and
his MFA in studio art from Mills College. He is a recipient of the Jay DeFeo
Prize, is currently a graduate fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and
will be featured in Bay Area Now 6 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Xiaoyu Weng is an independent writer and curator based in San
Francisco. She received her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of
the Arts, is the inaugural 101 Curatorial Fellow at the Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts and currently directs the Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium
in San
Francisco.
About 2 x 2
Solos
2 x
2 Solosis a series of solo exhibitions featuring new work commissioned from four
accomplished emerging artists based in the Oakland/Bay Area. The program
recognizes artistic excellence and supports the freedom to create challenging
and noncommercial work. It provides a platform for cutting-edge, risk-taking art
and situates artists in a critical contemporary art context. Supported, in part,
by the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, and The Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2 x 2 Solos engages multiple layers of
the region's arts ecology by providing institutional and monetary support for
artists, curators, and writers in the Oakland/Bay
Area.
About Pro Arts
Pro Arts supports the arts within communities by serving
the ongoing needs of artists. This Oakland-based arts organization provides
critical access to contemporary art in the region and serves as a regional hub
for arts activities, independent curated exhibitions, advocacy, and
capacity-building artist services. Pro Arts' visual arts programming showcases
for the best new work made in the Oakland/Bay Area, including cutting-edge,
risk-taking contemporary art, and important works by artists representing
under-served populations and communities of color, and working artists. Pro Arts
provides fiscal sponsorship to artists and professional services matching
artists with community partners. Additionally, Pro Arts'
Youth Fellows program integrates arts education, exhibitions, arts training, and
youth development. Last year Pro Arts exhibited 690 artists
and produced 62 events drawing an annual audience of
72,000.
For
more information please contact: David Huff, Exhibitions Coordinator:
David@proartsgallery.org or
510.763.4361
Image: Chris Fraser, One Line Drawing the Ceiling of the Mills College
Art Museum 5:56pm, Light installation, Variable,
2010
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