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Thursday August 5th 2010 This event has concluded. |
| Where | CIIS Minna Street Center - 695 Minna Street at 8th Street - San Francisco, CA | | Map Link | Maps | | Time | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM | | Cost | $0.00. | | Organization Home | www.ciis.edu | | Event Page Link | Event Page |
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| Event Description |
Bay Area-based artist Jesse Houlding creates machines, models and installations using magnetism, light, time and other natural phenomena. Blurring reality, scientific inquiry and the machinations of our imaginations, the artist looks at perception and the construction of meaning. His references are broad, including physics, psychology, mechanics, conceptual and process-based art, the occult and Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
This solo exhibition will feature Houlding's Magnet Drawings, kinetic sculptures in which a series of magnets draw on sheets of paper with iron filings; light-based installations evolving from his Telluric Currents series; and truck drawings registering paths driven around the Bay Area. Taken together Houlding explores the line between sculpture and other media, creating sculptural machines that make drawings, marks that are registers of time, and light boxes that alter our perception of space. They are experiments in perception and time, abstracting lived experience and making visible the invisible. "I am interested in the ways we negotiate the mixture of anxiety and wonder we feel as we attempt to make sense of the world around us."
Jesse Houlding lives in Oakland and maintains a studio in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. A graduate of SFSU with an MFA in Printmaking, Jesse Houlding's work has been shown nationally, including a solo exhibition at Gallery Aferro in Newark, New Jersey titled "The One-Frame Cinema." In the fall of 2008 he transformed The Lab in San Francisco with his solo installation of "The Telluric Currents." He received the 2009 American Psychoanalytic Association Academic Fellowship.
The exhibition runs from August 5th through October 3rd, 2010.
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This is the visual arts exhibition arm of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Our focus is on the work of emerging and established artists taking integrative approaches to the social and ecological questions facing contemporary society. CIIS is a small urban university with a unique educational vision. We've grown to encompass 20 leading-edge graduate programs of international renown. |  | | | |
