Due to the Napa County Declaration of a Public Health Emergency over Coronavirus we have cancelled our Tuesday, April 7, 2020 lecture with artist Akea Brionne Brown (OS29).
Akea Brionne Brown (OS29)
01/31/20
Jodie Mack
01/31/20
Due to the Napa County Declaration of a Public Health Emergency over Coronavirus we have cancelled our Tuesday, March 17, 2020 lecture with artist Jodie Mack.
Sandra Ono - CANCELLED
01/31/20
Please join us for a lecture with artist Sandra Ono.
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Sandra Ono’s sculptural work is informed by biology and physiology. Her choice of materials and forms arise from interests in the consequences of what we consume, and inversely, what consumes us. She frequently employs synthetic and ubiquitous, utilitarian products such as plastic bags, re-contextualizing these materials to create non-functioning, organic and corporeal forms which examine experiences of the human body, granting dimension to internal states.
Lisa Rybovich Crallé
01/31/20
Please join us for a lecture with artist Lisa Rybovich Crallé.
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Lisa Rybovich Crallé is an interdisciplinary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research focuses on corporeality and embodied experience in relation to sculpture, installation, and performance. Her work has been presented at Cornell University, the Manetti Shrem Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Berkeley Art Museum, Syracuse University, Mills College, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Land and Sea, and Field Projects, among other venues. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Ox-Bow, Arteles, and the Bubec Sculpture Studio. In addition to her studio practice, Lisa teaches at Berkeley City College and co-organizes Heavy Breathing, a series of experimental artist-led movement seminars.
Eric Veit (OS10)
01/31/20
Please join us for a lecture with artist Eric Veit (OS10).
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Eric Veit’s work deals with abstract principles such as the organization of information, relationships between human nature and non-human nature, cognition and categorization, fiction as opposed to truth, and the passage of time. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and recently at Bel Ami, Los Angeles; Motel, New York; Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo; Carl Louie, London, Ontario; Rear Window, New York; Exo Exo, Paris; Parisian Laundry, Montreal; Jack Hanley, New York; SpazioA, Pistoia; Interstate Projects, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
Audrey Snyder (OS17) and Joe Riley
09/17/19
Please join us for a lecture with Oxbow alumni artist Audrey Snyder (OS17) and Joe Riley.
Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The Oxbow School Dining Hall, 530 Third Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Audrey Snyder (b. San Francisco, 1991) is an artist and chef based in the U.S. Her engagement in these practices finds footing in seeds, soil, and geological time. She has a BFA from the Cooper Union (2013) and participated in the Interdisciplinary Art & Theory Program (2018-19), Fresh Kills Field R/D program (2017-18), and was a fellow of the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship (2018-19). Her collaborative work with the collective Futurefarmers has exhibited widely, including the Guggenheim Intervals (2011), Artes Mundi 7 and Sharjah Biennial 13. In 2019, her project CAMPAGNA/CAMPANA/CAMPO was awarded first prize from the Rural Design Lab in San Potito Sannitico, Italy.
Anneli Henriksson (OS19)
08/25/19
Please join us for a lecture with Oxbow alumni artist Anneli Henriksson (OS19).
Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Using a sardonic approach to exploring existentialism, Anneli Sanaye Henriksson's work engages with countercultural production of the recent past in order to examine an aesthetic manifestation of melancholia. She creates spaces that reflect ritualistic or symbolic attempts to resist the power of bourgeois hegemony. Through self-publishing, drawings, comics, garments and textiles, she challenges perceived boundaries between object, action, and place. By positioning the viewer in a space of global environmental, political, and social angst, the work invites the viewer to ask themself: Ever look at a flower and hate it? Henriksson was born in 1991 in Palo Alto, CA. She attended the Oxbow School in 2009 and received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Henriksson currently lives and works at the feminist art collective the Dirt Palace in Providence, Rhode Island.
Bessma Khalaf
08/25/19
Please join us for a lecture with artist Bessma Khalaf.
Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Born in Iraq, Bessma Khalaf emigrated to San Diego, California in 1990 just two years after the end of the Iraq/Iran war and just before the first Gulf War - those years of her childhood are not lost in the work.
Balancing mischievousness and malice, Khalaf’s processes of degradation (burning, smashing, consuming, etc.) explore the boundaries of landscape, place, and image. Khalaf proposes that beyond the nihilism of destruction, voids and absences possess generative possibilities, either in nature or in her practice. Figuratively and pictorially, voids carve an ambiguous space in the representation of landscape and the documentation of performance. Entrenched in process, Khalaf mixes mysticism, futility, and endurance when pitting herself against the overwhelming vastness of her surroundings, and the largeness of the romantic landscape.
Kamrooz Aram
08/25/19
Please join us for a lecture with artist Kamrooz Aram.
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Kamrooz Aram (b. 1978, Shiraz, Iran) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Aram’s diverse practice often engages the complicated relationship between Modernism and the so-called decorative arts. Through a variety of forms including painting, collage, drawing and installation, Aram has found the potential for image-making to function critically in its use as a tool for a certain renegotiation of history.
Robin Hill
08/25/19
Please join us for a lecture with artist Robin Hill.
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 7:00 — 8:30pm
Location: The CIA at Copia Theater, 500 First Street, Napa, CA
Artist Biography
Robin Hill is an artist whose work focuses on the intersection between drawing, photography, and sculpture. Her recent work takes on a collaborative sensibility, where objects and materials which have been rejected by others have served as starting points for acts of transformation.
The underlying conceptual thread that moves throughout her work is her interest in collection, extraction, re-presentation, and in transforming seemingly inconsequential matter and into meaningful statements about matter itself, which ultimately becomes a mediation on time. She strives to give shape to nuance and to relocate familiar things in an unfamiliar order. While handmade might best describe her early work, hand-altered is a more apt description for the work she is doing today.
