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Navigating the New
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Bay Area Currents 2013
Selections by Michael Schwager
Professor of Art History and Museum Studies
Director of the University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University
Exhibition Dates: July 2 - August 9, 2013
Artists' Reception: First Friday, July 5, 6-8pm
Artists' Talk: First Friday, August 2, 6.30pm
 Oakland, CA: Pro Arts is pleased to present Navigating the New: Bay Area Currents 2013. T his juried exhibition features work selected by Michael Schwager, Professor of Art History & Museum Studies and Director of the University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University. Bay Area Currents is a critically acclaimed exhibition showcasing the region's top emerging artists. Each year a small number of artists are selected by a nationally recognized curator to represent a snapshot of the energetic and risk-taking work made in the Bay Area today.
Featured Artists:
Chandra Baerg, Elizabeth Bennett, Jennifer Brandon, Madelyn Covey, Katie Dorame, Rodney Ewing, Julie Garner, John Hundt, Monica Lundy, Chelsea Pegram, Anna Simson, Patricia Thomas, Chris Thorson, Stephen Whisler, Shannon Wright
Navigating the New is on view July 2 - August 9, 2013 at Pro Arts' gallery in downtown Oakland. An Artists' Reception is scheduled on Friday, July 5, 6-8pm. The Artists' Talk will take place on Friday, August 2, 6.30pm. Exhibition and events are free and open to the public.
About the Juror: Michael Schwager is Professor of Art History and Museum Studies and Director of the University Art Gallery at Sonoma State University. He was Curator of the di Rosa museum in Napa from 2003 to 2009. Prior to joining the Sonoma State faculty in 1991, Michael held positions at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Richmond Art Center, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
For more information please contact:
Amy Spencer, Program Coordinator / Curator: amy@proartsgallery.org or 510-763-4361  Images: (top) Stephen Whisler, Drone War 1, 2012, Courtesy of the Artist and Chandra Cerrito Contemporary; (above l-r) Patricia Thomas, Breach of Containment, 2011, Courtesy of the Artist; Anna Simson, Portrait of Ayn Rand as a Gay Teenager: 2, 2013, Courtesy of the Artist; Shannon Wright, All-Terrain Ass-Kicker, 2008, Courtesy of the Artist and Mulherin-Pollard Projects; Monica Lundy, 023 (from the series "House of the Strange Women"), 2013, Courtesy of the Artist and Tomey Tourell Fine Art
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Pro Arts
150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza,
Oakland, CA 94612
(at Oakland Art Gallery)
www.proartsgallery.org
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| Supporting the arts within communities by serving the ongoing needs of artists. Pro Arts provides critical access to contemporary art in the region and serves as a regional hub for arts activities, independent curated exhibitions, advocacy, arts education and capacity building artist services - fiscal sponsorship to artists and professional exhibition services matching artists with community partners. We produce 22 exhibitions annually, exhibit over 580 artists, and reach an annual audience over 72,000.
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