Ever Gold [Projects]
The Internet Archive and Ever Gold [Projects] are pleased to announce part two of our Bay Area Visual Artist Exhibition Production Relief Grant, an online exhibition featuring the thirty grant finalists.
From June 29 – July 18, the exhibition, featuring one artwork by each artist, will be on view via the Ever Gold [Projects] website.
All Inquires: artistgrant@evergoldprojects.com
Artists:
Miguel Arzabe, Saif Azzuz, Liat Berdugo, Ajit Chauhan, James Chronister, Matthew Craven, Cannon Dill, Serena Elston, Joey Enos, Casey Gray, Alexander Hernandez, Oliver Hawk Holden, Jeremiah Jenkins, Kyle Lypka/Tyler Cross, Martin Machado, Rachel Marino, Christopher Martin, Lenworth McIntosh, Masako Miki, Nasim Moghadam, Guy Overfelt, Meryl Pataky, Maria Paz, Sofie Ramos, Alexander Rohrig, Joanna Ruckman, Jonathan Runcio, Miriam Stahl, Vanessa Woods, and Jan Wurm
Miguel Arzabe
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Miguel Arzabe (b. 1975, St. Louis, MO) lives and works in Oakland. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley. Drawing from modernism and the culture of his Andean heritage, Arzabe makes colorful and dynamic abstractions—paper weavings, paintings, videos—to recover moments of uncanny human interconnectedness. His work has been featured at Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Rencontres Internationales (Paris, Berlin), and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal); and in museums and galleries including MAC Lyon (France), MARS Milan (Italy), RM Projects (Auckland), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Marylhurst University (Oregon), Berkeley Art Museum, the de Young Museum (San Francisco), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has attended many residencies including Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, and Santa Fe Art Institute. Arzabe’s work is in the collections of the San Francisco Art Commission, Oakland Museum of California, Albuquerque Museum of Art, County of Alameda, Facebook, YouTube, CBRE, and numerous private collections.
Saif Senussi Azzuz
Saif Senussi Azzuz was born in Eureka, California (Wiyot) in 1987, grew up in Santa Rosa, CA (Wappo, Pomo), and currently lives in Pacifica, CA (Ohlone) with Lulu, Viola and Moya.
Liat Berdugo
Liat Berdugo (b. 1985, Philadelphia, PA) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work focuses on embodiment and digitality, archive theory, labor and new economies. As a resident artist at the Internet Archive this year, she has been working with the Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex collection—a set of over 57,000 Powerpoint slide decks from US military websites. This collection forms a strangely intimate view into the military’s inner workings, which increasingly seep into civilian life as our police forces are militarized against us. Berdugo’s work has appeared recently at Transmediale (Berlin), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), The MIT Museum (Cambridge), V2_Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam), The Luminary (St. Louis), The Institute of Network Cultures (Amsterdam), NAVEL (Los Angeles), The Wrong Biennale (online), and Telematic (San Francisco). She lives and works in Oakland, California, where she’s one half of the artist collective Anxious to Make and is an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco.
Ajit Chauhan
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@ajitttchauhan
Ajit Chauhan (b. 1981) lives in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. He works at Creativity Explored, reads a lot, listens to music, plays with cats, and practices tai chi. He is part of a small collective of poets and painters called Right Window Gallery—as forever member Kevin Killian would say, “SF’s #1 Gallery!” Chauhan has been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London, White Columns NY, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Asian Art Museum, UC Davis Museum, the Grimm Museum in Berlin, the SONS Museum in Kruishoutem, Belgium, Jack Hanley Gallery, Annarumma Gallery, SVIT Praha, and recently at the KMAC Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. He is this year’s recipient of the Tosa Studio Award.
James Chronister
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James Chronister (b. 1978) earned his MFA in 2004 from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he received the Richard K Price Painting Award. In 2010 Chronister was nominated for the SECA Award by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2013 he was awarded the Artist-In-Residence at the Lux Art Institute which was accompanied by a survey of his work from the years 2009-2013. Chronister has exhibited at Palo Alto Art Center, Burnet Gallery (Minneapolis), Eleanor Harwood Gallery (San Francisco), Circle Culture (Berlin), Interim (Oakland), Good Mother Gallery (Oakland), %100 Gallery (San Francisco), and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). His paintings have ranged in style from near photorealistic to large-scale abstraction. Currently a Charter Artist in the Minnesota Street Projects Artist Studio Program, Chronister lives in San Francisco, California.
Matthew Craven
Matthew Craven (b. 1981, Grand Rapids, MI) recently relocated to the bay after 12 years in New York and Los Angeles. Utilizing found images from textbooks along with his own geometric patterns, Matthew Craven’s collages and illustrations seek to create a new handmade universe, juxtaposing imagery from different cultures and time periods to celebrate commonalities. Photographs of archaeological remains and the natural world are overlaid on colorful tiled backgrounds drawn on the back of vintage movie posters, to create a hypnotic and mesmerizing vernacular of symbols and designs. Craven lives in Berkeley and works in Oakland.
Cannon Dill
Cannon Dill (b. 1991) is an American painter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has spent the majority of his art career in Oakland, California and has had multiple solo painting exhibitions. After attending California College of the Arts, Dill focused heavily on illustration which evolved into an interest in painting. By 2016, he concentrated exclusively on fine art painting, introducing new elements that differed from his detailed monochromatic illustrative work. His new style incorporated a combination of naïve figuration and “crunchy” abstraction.
Serena JV Elston
Serena JV Elston, Horn of Plenty, 2020. Single Channel Video with Audio 1:58. Edition of 3 (2 AP). $1500.
Serena JV Elston is an artist whose life question is: in this modern technological race for the new, what have we left behind that we should weave back in again? The narrative of her artwork deals with trauma and the dysfunction that persists throughout all levels of society. Her research-based practice investigates the disciplines of architecture, agriculture, and ancient history to search for those forgotten tools that connect us to the land, to the people, and to ourselves because in a world defined by its traumas art can be liberatory. Serena currently lives in Berkeley and has worked in Oakland for the past nine years. She is originally from New England.
Joey Enos
Joey Enos is the fourth generation of his family to reside in the Oakland Area. Growing up in Alameda, Joey was exposed to many local California artists going to the Oakland Museum. Those artists informed him to attend the Chicago Art Institute where he worked with the Hairy Who artists Karl Wursim and Gladys Neilson. Joey returned to California and obtained an MFA Art Practice degree from UC Berkeley in 2013. He has continuously has worked on his sculptural practice of incorporating personal languages into sculptures. In aid of his sculpture practice, he studied and became a local historian of the Emeryville Mudflat Sculptures. Because of recent events, Joey has lost his studio but is thinking creatively on how to further a sculptural practice as a Bay Area artist. With his family, he lives and makes art one block from where his great-great-grandparents lived in Emeryville, California.
Casey Gray
Casey Gray (b. 1983, Palo Alto, CA) is an contemporary artist working primarily as a still life painter, but also in sculpture, graphic design and site-specific murals. His work examines our collective entanglement with the dignity and reality of the everyday, and engages the symbolic potential of collected objects and ephemera to tell stories and inform identity. He often works in serial format, referencing historical painting tropes as a point of departure.
His work is characterized by his commitment to working with aerosol paints and laborious hand cut masking techniques, which result in a type of skewed realism. Gray received his MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2010, and his BA in painting and printmaking from San Diego State University in 2006. He has exhibited extensively across the United States and abroad, and has been published widely both in print and online media. Recent solo exhibitions include I Can Taste the Sun at Hashimoto Contemporary (San Francisco, 2020) and Still Blue Skies at Direktorenhaus (Berlin, 2019). He has lived and worked in San Francisco, California since 2008.
Video: Casey Gray Paints A Pear
(1 min version available upon request)
Alexander Hernandez
Alexander Hernandez is a mixed media artist, with an emphasis in textiles. He was born in Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca, Mexico, raised in Grand Junction, CO, and is currently living in the Sunset district of San Francisco. He attended Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Denver (BFA, Painting and Drawing, 2007) and California College of the Arts in San Francisco (MFA, Studio Art, 2012). His work explores multiple identities rooted in immigrant experiences, gender expectations, HIV+ survival, and queer sensibilities. He braids traditional quilting techniques with digitized prints, using colors and patterns that both clash and complement each other. His work embraces layers, unraveling threads, and raw edges—revealing truths about gender defiance and acculturation anxieties. He has participated in residencies at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA); SJ Museum of Quilts and Textiles (San Jose, CA); Root Division (San Francisco); Elsewhere Museum (Greensboro, NC); Mark Rothko Art Center (Daugavpils, Latvia); and the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT).
Oliver Hawk Holden
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@oliverhawk
Oliver Hawk Holden is a San Francisco based artist whose practice intertwines painting, sculpture, installation, and found objects to explore the anxieties and vulnerabilities of day-to-day life with humor. For the past few years, Holden has been exploring the process of carving wood and painting the surfaces, whether they’re 2D or 3D or somewhere in-between. He studied sculpture in school but found painting enjoyable, and has arrived at this laborious process that meets in the middle.
Jeremiah Jenkins
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@jeremiahjenkinsart
Jeremiah Jenkins is from the mountains of rural Tennessee. He has lived in the Bay Area for 15 years and is currently based in Berkeley. He is an artist, educator, and father. He has a BFA from East Tennessee State University and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. Jeremiah’s work has been shown locally, nationally, and is in multiple distinguished collections. Recently, Jenkins has exhibited at Tate Modern (London, 2018); Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto, 2018); Ian Stallings Fine Art (San Francisco, 2018); Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco, 2017); and Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill, 2017).
Kyle Lypka
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@tylers_phone
Kyle Lypka (b. 1987, Philadelphia, PA) and Tyler Cross (b. 1992, Lancaster, CA) met online in 2013. They live in Oakland, CA and make their work in Pope Valley, CA at Richard Carter’s artist residency. In 2016 they started making ceramic vases together as a way to spend time with one another. Kyle had been pursuing figurative sculpture and Tyler was studying design at SFAI. The vases led into a collaborative sculpture practice that they found provided novel possibilities while also solving some of the difficulties of being a lone artist in the studio. Their third body of collaborative sculpture was planned to be shown in May, but will now take place in September at Pt. 2 Gallery in Oakland.
Martin Machado
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@martinmachado
Martin Machado (b. 1980, San Jose, CA) is a visual artist based out of San Francisco, CA. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, 2007) and UC Santa Barbara (BFA, 2003). His artwork is largely influenced by his experience in maritime labor. For over a decade he has spent large portions of each year working at sea on international containerships and commercial fishing vessels in Alaska and California. These voyages and the crew he works with have become intertwined with the narrative of his artworks. At times documentary as well as fantastic, this work plays with the myths and realities of maritime labor. Themes of story-telling, globalism, ecology, colonialism, and the compression of time are common in Machado’s art. This recent body of work is the result of a more personal voyage—solo sailing a 26 foot boat from San Francisco to Sacramento to make and bring paintings for an exhibition at the Public Land Gallery. Though the voyage was successful and the artworks were delivered, the onset of the pandemic cancelled the show opening and resulted in a limited viewing. These works were done at home in quarantine when the two week voyage was finally complete. Machado’s art has been shown internationally and has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times Magazine, The Surfer’s Journal, Juxtapoz, and New American Paintings. He is a member of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, the Dolphin Club, and the Kvichak Setnetters Association.
Rachel Simon Marino
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Rachel Simon Marino (b. 1989, San Francisco) graduated with a BFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Since moving back to San Francisco she has explored, through a wide range of mediums, her fascination with the grotesquely festive aspects of Americana, ranging from vintage toys to county-fair junk food, and crumbling roadside attractions of years past. Her work often embodies a certain nostalgia for items that would normally be thrown out or slated for removal. Marino has shown work at Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco), Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco), and was an Artist in Residence at Recology San Francisco when the shelter-in-place order went into effect.
Christopher Martin
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@chrispymartin
Christopher Martin (United States, b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the African Diaspora. Driven by a desire to push southern history, Martin confronts aesthetic perceptions of contemporary injustice. Cotton fibers are the primary medium of storytelling in order to reclaim the roots of the Atlantic slave trade. Christopher’s hand-cut and sewn monumental tapestry banners in contrasted black and white images tell a surreal story of religion, captivity, and freedom. He has been awarded the first ever Artist-In-Residence from the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD AIR 2018), and has given lectures both in the United States and internationally.
Lenworth McIntosh
Lenworth McIntosh (b. 1987, Harmony Vale, Saint Ann, Jamaica), also known as Joonbug, works full-time as a visual creative based in Oakland, California—by way of Dallas, Texas and Jamaica, West Indies. McIntosh attended McMurry University in Abilene, TX (BFA, Graphic Design, 2009). He has carefully cultivated his skills for illustration and design; a quirky wit and hand-styled approach gives his work vibrant soul and character.
Masako Miki
Masako Miki has exhibited her immersive sculptural installations and detailed works on paper at institutions in the United States and Japan, including Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Lab (San Francisco), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco), and the de Young Museum (San Francisco). Inspired by Shinto’s animism, Miki is interested in crafting new mythologies concerning cultural identity as social collectives. Miki was a recipient of the 2018 Inga Maren Otto Fellowship Award from Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in New York, and the 2019 Master Artist Award and 2017 Artist Fellowship Award from Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California. She has been a resident artist at the de Young Museum (San Francisco), Facebook (Menlo Park), and Kamiyama Artists in Residency (Tokushima, Japan). Miki’s work is in collections of The Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, (New York), Facebook, Inc. (Menlo Park), Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (Redwood City), and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Miki’s collaborations include the LEGO group for their Rebuilding the World Project, San Francisco Art Book Fair, and Art and Action 2020 Census. Her work has appeared in Juxtapoz, Interior Design, Toyo Keizai, and other publications. She is currently developing a public art project in San Francisco and preparing her solo exhibition at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. She is a native of Japan and currently based in Berkeley, California. She is represented by CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions in San Francisco.
Photo by Andrew Paynter
Nasim Moghadam
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@moghadam_nasim
Nasim Moghadam was born in Tehran, Iran, and attended Azad University, Central Tehran Branch (BFA, Graphic Design, 2002). After moving to the United States in 2010, Moghadam attended San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, Studio Art, 2018). Moghadam has recently exhibited at Arion Press (San Francisco, 2019); Aggregate Space Gallery (Oakland, 2019); Foothill College (Los Altos, 2019); the Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, 2019); Kala Gallery (Berkeley, 2019); and Swell Gallery (San Francisco, 2018). Her work has been featured in The San Francisco Examiner and Art Practical.
Guy Overfelt
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Guy Overfelt, Destroy 2KYC, 2017. Single channel video 03:49, Edition of 3. $5,000.
Guy Overfelt (American, b. 1977) is a nonconformist who is known for his reinvestment in tradition art historical genres with a confluence of popular culture and an abundance of visually compelling and surprising and unexpected forms. Overfelt ceaselessly explores the intersection of allegory and everyday life.
Guy Overfelt was educated at the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA) and went on to receive his graduate degree from the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA). Overfelt’s work has been exhibited at Ever Gold [Projects] (San Francisco); Jack Hanley Gallery (New York); White Columns (New York); Ronald Feldman Fine Arts (New York); Oakland Museum of California; Guangzhou Triennial (China); St. Mary’s University (Halifax, Canada); and The Havana Biennial (Cuba). His work is included in the Berkeley Art Museum Collection and the JPMorgan Chase Collection. Overfelt has been the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship from The Fleishhacker Foundation (2014-15), a finalist for the SFMOMA SECA Award (2012 & 1998), Creative Capital (2005), Whitney Biennial (2002), and a recipient of an Artadia Award (2001). His work was featured in the documentary film Burning Rubber that aired on Bravo. Overfelt has been reviewed and featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Index Magazine, Paper Magazine, Time Out Kobe Japan, Time Out New York, The San Francisco Chronicle, Art Net, Art Papers, and Surface Magazine. In 2015-17 Overfelt was included in BLOW UP: Inflatable Contemporary Art, a traveling museum exhibition.
Meryl Pataky
Meryl Pataky is originally from South Florida, and moved to San Francisco in 2002 to attend the Academy of Art University. She fell in love with the tactile nature of sculpture and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture. An artist of many disciplines and mediums, Meryl focuses on the relationship between her own hands and material. Informing her material selection is a meditation on the elements of the periodic table from noble gases to metals and organics. She is aware of the history of her elements from their origins in the universe to their applications in culture and myth. The artist derives deeper meanings from these histories to add layers to her concepts. Both a personal and process driven narrative drive the work further forward. Meryl is currently working on exhibitions in Oakland, California, as well as curating the all-female, all neon exhibition entitled She Bends. The exhibition features female benders from around the world.
Maria Paz
Maria Paz (b. 1989, Quilpue, Chile) is a self-taught Latinx sculptor based in Oakland, California. Recently, Paz’s work has been exhibited at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Arts (San Jose, CA), Pt. 2 Gallery (Oakland, CA), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), Something Gallery (London, U.K.), and New Image Art (Los Angeles, CA). Her ceramic sculptures explore themes of immigration, ancestral reparations, and community healing. Paz was a finalist for the 2019-2020 TOSA Studio Award and has held workshops at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA). She was recently awarded the Bed Stuy Arts Residency in Brooklyn, New York and is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at Pt. 2 Gallery (Oakland, CA) opening in February 2021.
Out At Sea In My Dreams is a meditation on COVID-19, capitalism, and the very thin veil holding it all together. It’s an exploration of the grinding halt of the facade of the American dream. There are manifestations of connection and touch painted frantically on this piece; a calling for human contact.
Sofie Ramos
Sofie Ramos, sad celebrations, 2020. Digital video, sound 2:30. $1,200 (edition of 3). Courtesy of the artist and Guerrero Gallery.
Sofie Ramos (b. 1990, Cincinnati) is best known for her loud, over-the-top installations. She just finds shit on the sidewalk and paints it the brightest colors possible and piles it all on top of each other and then calls it art. Sofie grew up a neglected but overachieving middle child, which is perhaps why her work SCREAMS for attention. She got out of Ohio as soon as possible and studied Art with a capital A at Brown University (BA, 2013) and then UC Berkeley (MFA, 2015) in an attempt to appear legitimate, but perhaps instead regressed into an unhealthy obsession with furniture and frivolity. She lives and works in San Francisco, but her messes are spread all over the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Alexander Rohrig
Alexander Rohrig (b. 1982) grew up in Fremont and moved to Santa Cruz for college, but mainly to surf. After completing his education at the University of California in Santa Cruz (BA, 2003), Rohrig took a position as studio assistant to artist and sculptor Jane Rosen in 2009 on her ranch, a beautiful natural preserve high in the California mountains. Under Rosen’s tutelage and with his daily practice of drawing from these extraordinary surroundings, Rohrig developed a drawing style and vision all his own. Rohrig works in San Francisco as an art handler and lives and makes his artwork on a farm in Pescadero, a small agricultural town about 45 minutes south of the city.
Joanna Ruckman
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@ajoannaruckman
Joanna Ruckman is an antidisciplinary artist and activist whose work explores the intersection of social engagement and creative practice. Joanna’s work contemplates decoloniality, cultural complexities, and storytelling through adornment. In addition to formal gallery works, she creates in public spaces including: free posters offered while screen printing with SFPoster Syndicate, community murals and installations, and a mobile photo-booth and oral history collection through her Hair Stories project. Joanna is a candidate for an MA in Visual and Critical Studies at CCA, and received her MFA from SFAI in 2019. She earned her BA in Visual Arts and Cultural Anthropology from Brown University.
Artist Statement: White Masks
The mask is an armor, providing protection from things we fear. It conceals aspects of internal worlds from public worlds. Among our mass systemic inequities and the centering of whiteness, who has access to what kinds of masks? This work considers how whiteness is performed on and by our bodies.“White Masks”, is a series of visceral, surreal sculptures, which imagine how the masks of whiteness look and feel. Whiteness is simultaneously elegant and monstrous, familiar and abject, embodied and denied. It is time to face these masks.
Jonathan Runcio
Jonathan Runcio (b. 1977, Montreal, Canada) works in San Francisco, California. Solo exhibitions include GLASS IN THE GARDEN at Romer Young Gallery (San Francisco, CA); Blue Turns To Grey at Ratio 3 (San Francisco, CA); WIDE WIDE RUIN at The Popular Workshop (San Francisco, CA); 4X4 at Ebersmoore (Chicago, IL). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA); Romer Young Gallery (San Francisco, CA); XYZ Collective (Tokyo, Japan); Saint Mary’s College Museum Of Art (Moraga, CA); Walter and McBean Galleries at SFAI (San Francisco, CA); Cue Arts Foundation (New York, NY); Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, (San Francisco, CA). In 2011 he was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant. He was one of the owners and directors of CAPITAL, a contemporary art space in San Francisco, CA from 2015-2019.
Miriam Klein Stahl
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@miriamkleinstahl
Miriam Klein Stahl is a Bay Area artist, educator, activist, and illustrator of the New York Times-bestselling Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide. In addition to her work in printmaking, drawing, sculpture, papercutting, and public art, she is co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School, where she’s taught since 1995. As an artist, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work, creating portraits of political activists, misfits, radicals and radical movements. As an educator, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. Her work has been widely exhibited and reproduced internationally. Stahl is also the co-owner of Pave the Way Skateboards, a queer skateboarding company formed with Los Angeles-based comedian, actor, writer and skateboarder Tara Jepson. She lives in Berkeley, California with her wife, artist Lena Wolff, and their daughter and two dogs.
Vanessa Woods
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@vanessa_woods_studio
Vanessa Woods (b. San Diego, CA) lives and works in Pacifica, CA with her artist husband and three children. She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with an MFA with honors. Her artwork and films have been exhibited internationally including Stanford Art Spaces at Stanford University, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and The Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose. Woods has been the recipient of numerous awards including a Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship from the SF Arts Commission, a Film Arts Foundation Grant, and the San Francisco Art Institute’s MFA Fellowship. She has also been awarded residencies at Djerassi, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony and in Pont-Aven, France, through the Museum of Pont-Aven. Woods is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco.
Jan Wurm
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@janwurmcalifornia
Jan Wurm (b. 1951, New York) had barely passed from toddling when she began her travels. Having lived in California and Europe, Wurm honed an eye for social patterns and conventions. Paintings, drawings, and artist books examine daily life to reveal aspects of contemporary culture and personal relationships. Infused with saturated color and an energetic line, these works are both intimate and critical. Exhibited internationally, they are represented in collections such as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, New York Public Library Print Collection, Archiv Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna, and Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck. Settled in Berkeley, Wurm has taught, lectured, curated, and authored exhibition catalogues to expand contemporary art dialogue. A focus on climate change and mortality engendered a recent body of work making visible the loss both social and ecological.
Judges:
Hilde Lynn Helphenstein aka Jerry Gogosian (Curator, critic, and @jerrygogosian)
Drew Bennett (Artist and founder of the Facebook art program)
Andrew McClintock (Ever Gold [Projects])
Amir Esfahani (Internet Archive)
The fourth annual Internet Archive artist in residency exhibition, organized in collaboration with Ever Gold [Projects], has been cancelled this year—along with so many other visual art exhibitions in the Bay Area and across the globe. Part of the residency program involves Ever Gold and the Internet Archive providing participating artists with funds to support production costs to create their research project and the artworks they exhibit.
Typically, emerging artists creating a body of work for a solo or two-person exhibition at an art gallery pay for these production costs out of their own pocket, and wait for their dealers to place their finished artworks with collectors, patrons, or institutions to recoup this overhead.
With exhibitions cancelled and art sales slowing down to a crawl, these lost revenues compound for emerging artists who have already invested in production costs for said exhibitions–not to mention, most already being on a thin budget.
As this is a specific problem to practicing emerging artists which the artist in residency program is designed to support—Ever Gold and the Internet Archive have decided to use the funds allocated for this year’s residency program and create a relief grant to support other Bay Area artists with lost and out of pocket exhibition production costs.
This is made possible by additional funding from a Discretionary Award from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and individual contributions from Roselyne Swig, Bryan Meehan, Justin Shaffer, John Sanger, Sue Kubley, Tina Conway, and Maurice Kanbar, we have raised a total of $30,000 which we will be distributing through thirty $1,000 grants direct to artists.
All inquiries: artistgrant@evergoldprojects.com