March 3 - April 3, 2009
WILLIAM BRICE: A MEMORIAL EXHIBITION

Within a month before his death in March, 2008, Los Angeles artist William Brice selected a stunning group of drawings and paintings fro a solo exhibition at the Thompson Gallery. It was to be his last curatorial effort.

Brice, the son of comedian Fanny Brice and Julius "Nicky" Arnstein, was an influential teacher at UCLA from the early 1950s, finally retiring as a professor emeritus in 1991. Given his privileged upbringing-which included grand tours of European capitals with his familty and a private art tutor from the age of 130-he was introduced at an early age to arts and culture of all kinds. As mature painter, he became well known as an artist who explored abstraction on a grand scale, investigating the essential formalism and geometry behind natural, human, and man-made forms. Inspired even as a young boy by Picasso and Matisse, who were still active at that time, he provided an important and in-depth connection to European Modernism for his California students. Among those students who archived significant renown were Ed Moses and Charles Garabedian.

Brice's work is found in the permanent collection of such major museums as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This exhibition is provided courtesy the Estate of the Artist and LA Louver, Venice, CA.

January 27 - February 20, 2009

Spatial Arts Faculty Exhibition

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 mixed media; Rand Schiltz, mixed media; Cassandra Straubing, glass; Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, mixed media textiles; 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.

Job Farb Hernandez, Director
Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery

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