January 31 - February 24, 2006

Spatial Arts Faculty Exhibition


Patricia Jauch, Delusory Souls: Anxiety, Pain, Pleasure, Fear, 2005

The School of Art and Design is delighted to present a special opportunity to view recent works by current faculty in the Spatial Arts area. Featured are a divergent group of artists who, although displaying a wide range of media, style, and technique, share an interest in working three-dimensionally and a devotion to teaching. This exhibition is both provocative and stimulating, revealing a variety of aesthetics and creative solutions to formalistic issues of shape, scale, and composition.

Participants include: David Kimball Anderson, mixed media; Patricia Jauch, mixed media; David Middlebrook, bronze and slate; Jeffrey Sarmiento, glass; Consuelo Jiménez Underwood, fiber with pins and beads; Monica Van den Dool, ceramics; Linda Walsh, mixed metals; Stan Welsh, mixed media ceramics; and Shannon Wright, mixed media.

Each of these artists individually has received noteworthy acclaim for their works. As a group, they combine significant successes in regional, national, and international exhibitions, public art commissions, and museum collections, as well as numerous grants and awards. We are delighted to have this opportunity to feature their thoughtfulness, craftsmanship, and vision in this special display.

David Kimball Anderson Quaker Ridge 2, 2003	Shannon Wright Galvanized Tree, 2004

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April 18th - May 19th, 2006

Oliver Jackson: Drawing/The Incised Line


Oliver Jackson, Untitled Collage (4.14.98), 1998

Oliver Jackson approaches his art with a mind open to expression and a hand graced with an impressive physicality. Although perhaps best known as a painter, during his forty-plus year professional career he has produced work in a remarkable variety of two- and three-dimensional media. In this exhibition, Jackson will display a selection of pieces loosely based on the print (both intaglio and relief) that are so expansively and perceptively treated, manipulated, and crafted, that image and content rather than technology become the focal point. Activating the surfaces with applied materials and color, these works, spanning some fifteen years, exude contemplation at the same time that they pulse with power. Combining figuration with abstraction, they demand time to view and get “past the eyes to an interior place,” as Jackson has said. The careful observer will be able to watch the evolution—or perhaps mutation—of both his conceptual and formalist explorations in this series. Using and re-using elements from the same “mother” prints, he explores the visual and thematic relationships among the works’ elements as he simultaneously seeks to provoke a parallel relationship with his viewers. Jackson wants the viewing of his works to fuel a process of discovery equivalent to his own experiential, hands-on process of creation. "

Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1935, Oliver Jackson was educated in the Midwest and began his teaching career there. He relocated to California in 1971 to become Professor of Art at CSU-Sacramento, a position which he held until he retired in 2002. He has served as a visiting artist or artist-in-residence at such esteemed institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago and Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fleishhacker Foundation, and has been a recipient of the Flintridge Foundation Award, among others. Jackson’s work is included in the permanent collections of most major U.S. museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums and Museum of Modern Art, and Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. We are appreciative to Anne Kohs and Associates for facilitating this special exhibition at the Thompson Art Gallery.

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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