April 19 - May 13, 2005

Kim Yasuda: reschool

Kim Yasuda is a visual artist and professor of Spatial studies in the Department of Art, University of California at Santa Barbara. Her gallery installations and outdoor public projects investigae the link between identity and place, expanding nortions of public and private experience and the particular physical and cultural conditions that govern them. Her installations incorporate photography, digtial video, appropriated and fabricated elements that function to shift meaning within the existing context.

As a returning SJSU alumnus from the class of '83, yasuda re-engaged her former role as a undergraduaTE at student more than 20 years later. Soliciting the current spring '05 term course assignments from the art department faculty, yasuda generated works that are integrated into her installation at the Thompson Gallery. Using the class assignments as a point of departure, Yasuda hopes that the outcome is somewhat indistinguishable - who is really the student and who is the professional? here, Yasuda questions the standard professional trajectory of the contemporary artist - a role that hasbecome scripted by the academy to produce a certain kind of practionaler.

Resuscitate, 1998 multiple media installation	Unspoken (shikata ganai), 1995 multiple media installation

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march 18 - april 8, 2005

katherine sherwood

Over the twenty-plus years of Katherine Sherwood’s painting career, her imagery has grown from precisely rendered literal motifs to powerfully spontaneous expressions of a desire to intuit one’s fate. Her graphic shapes are made by gestures of dripping paint based on medieval luck talismans. Within the painted surfaces of the canvas, Sherwood layers circles of rice paper with images of vessels of the brain. These angiograms belong to an expanding visual language that fascinates the artist. Defined by new technology, the angiograms are part of the bank of imagery based on scientific pursuit, things that cannot really be seen with our unassisted eyes. Sherwood’s paintings beautifully play with our striving to know more, to control our future.

The artist has exhibited her work broadly, including the Whitney Biennial (1998) and two recent solo shows in Los Angeles and Philadelphia. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Adeline Kent Award from the San Francisco Art Institute and a NEA Artist Fellowship. Ms. Sherwood is currently a Professor at the School of Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley. She is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco.

attracts business 2004 28" x 24" mixed media on canvas	missed step 2004 26" x 40" mixed media on canvas	secret agent 2003/2004 52" x 48" mixed media on canvas

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For additional information concerning the gallery program and visiting artist lecture series, contact:

Jo Farb Hernandez, Director
Natalie and James Thompson Galleries
San Jose State University
School of Art and Design,
ART 129A
San Jose, CA 95192-0089
telephone: (408) 924 - 4328
fax: (408) 924 - 4326