[AC]2 Gallery in collaboration with the FOR-SITE Foundation presents a gallery exhibition about a series of site-based projects by graduate students from California College of the Arts (CCA). With an experimental approach to site-specific work, eight San Francisco Bay Area artists respond to the specific qualities of the Sierra Nevada foothills with fresh eyes. The projects were conceived and created on 49 acres outside of Nevada City, California. Works address the layered histories of the land from pre-mining practices through contemporary, urban ecology. Investigations were led by visiting artists Vaughn Bell, Susanne Cockrell, Richard Walker and archeologist and historian Hank Meals in negotiating individual art practice with the circumstances of time and place. Artists include Llewelynn Fletcher, Kelly Lynn Jones, Cameron Kelly, Dorathy Lye, Brad Menninga, Rebecca Najdowski, Tiger Brooke and Jana Willinger.
CCA in the Field, Nevada City, 2008, photos courtesy of Nathan Lynch
In Collaboration
Jonathan Hawes/Emma Lee Young
September 12 – October 11
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 12, 6-9pm
In Collaboration pairs Land Art veterans Emma Lee Young and Jonathan Hawes in a multimedia exhibition of digital photographs, sculpture, and installation two years in the making. They present an intense dialogue between two artists working collaboratively to address the relationships between humans and nature, both the sublime, and the destructive.