CCAS Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento

In partnership with the the San Francisco Art Dealers Association, CCAS is sponsoring an insider's tour of San Francisco art galleries- with a twist: Where to find outstanding modern and contemporary art for under $1,000.

The Insider's Tour will be led by Marianna Stark, publisher of an online magazine devoted to the Sa...n Francisco visual arts scene called www.thestarkguide.com. Marianna is Co-Chair of SFMOMA's SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) and in that capacity serves as an Ex-Officio Trustee of the museum. She is a contributing editor of SFARTS.org, recommending ten "must-see" gallery shows each month. Over the years she has held leadership positions in many different arts organizations including ArtPoint, the young professionals' auxiliary of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, and ArtTable, the national leadership organization for women in the arts. In 2008 Marianna was hired as the Executive Director of the San Francisco Art Dealers Association. Marianna holds a B.A. in Art History from U.C. Berkeley.

The Insider's Tour is limited and FREE to Patron Level and higher CCAS memberships. Upgrade or join at the Patron Level and join us on May 30 in San Francisco.

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Dear Arts Supporter, Please join Joy Bertinuson, Skip Rosenbloom, and Burnett and Mimi Miller, as well as the Sacramento arts community, in honoring revered professor, collector, and philanthropist John Fitz Gibbon. Mr. Fitz Gibbon, along with his wife Jane, built one of the state’s most important collections of contem...porary California art. Along the way he supported countless artists, nurturing their creativity while sharing his enthusiasm for the excellent work created right here in California. During his tenure at California State University, Sacramento (Sac State) he was instrumental in bringing many of the young artists to the area and in hiring them to teach. His collection includes the work of numerous artists who benefitted from his support such as James Albertson, Robert Arneson, Clayton Bailey, Robert Brady, Julia Couzens, Roy De Forest, Stephen Kaltenbach, Irving Marcus, Manuel Neri, Jack Ogden, Nathan Oliveira, Joseph Raphael, Richard Shaw, M. Louise Stanley, Jack Stuppin, Wayne Thiebaud, Peter VandenBerge, and William Wiley, just to name a few! This is our fourth annual Spring event honoring a member and/or supporter of the Sacramento arts community. Previous honorees include artist professors James Albertson and Fred Dalkey, Art Correspondent for the Sacramento Bee Victoria Dalkey, and philanthropist business woman Jean Runyon. We will have a silent auction of outstanding art-including special donations from the personal collections of every member of the CCAS Board of Directors. John and Jane have generously donated copies of the lavishly illustrated catalog of John’s personal art collection, The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art, for the silent auction as well. This is a must-have for any Californian who is interested in contemporary art. Please join us on Saturday March 28th, 2009 from 4:00-7:00 pm, at the home of Gayle and Scott Govenar (details following registration).

Tickets: CCAS member price $20 per person / $30 per couple

Nonmember price $25 per person / $40 per couple
Starting February 28th, reserve your tickets online through PayPal by visiting www.ccasac.org or call (916) 498-9811 for more information. All ticket sales and silent auction proceeds will support the exhibitions, lectures, and activities of the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, including the Capitol Artists’ Studio Tour.

Also sponsored in part by: Midtown Monthly, Forward Observer, Governmental Advocates, Inc. ; PHC Medical; Wilson-Miller Communications Inc; David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; ; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.Read More

Detail of Bornea. 9"x9". Digital print on paper, burned, carbon paper. Photo by Berlier.

The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, is honored to present Divergent Timing, an installation of sculptural and sound works, in addition to video and drawing, by artist Terry Berlier.

Terry Berlier earned a Master of Fine Art...s degree from the University of California, Davis, in 2003, and since that time she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, throughout California including Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In addition, she has shown her work throughout the United States, with solo exhibitions in California and Ohio. She has also participated in important group exhibits internationally in Australia (a collaborative project with composer Luciano Chessa), Italy and Spain, including the “Wandering Library” Project at the Venice Biennale in 2003.

Berlier is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and scholarships, including a residency in Barcelona, Spain. She has taught at several colleges and universities in California including the California College of Arts, Sierra College, and the University of California at Davis, and at Santa Cruz. Berlier is currently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Stanford University.

Berlier’s recent body of work mines deep into the memory of time and the history that is preserved in the natural environment surrounding us. These clues reveal quasi-cyclical patterns of the past and remind us at the same time to question how we might use that evidence to move forward. Her work seeks to dissect and map time to expose and manipulate our understanding of cultural and environmental histories. These are spatially configured through interactions with sculpture, sound, video, installation and drawings. Found materials, vernacular and modern technologies, and detritus from everyday life are subverted. She questions how innovations are changing the way we perceive and interact with the world and whether we are coming closer to or farther from understanding each other and the world around us.

Terry Berlier will present a lecture at CCAS on Thursday March 12th at 7:00 pm.

Chris Daubert will present a lecture at CCAS on Thursday April 9th at 7:00 pm.

The lectures are free to CCAS members and students. Admission to lectures is $5 for non-members.

Also sponsored in part by: Midtown Monthly, Forward Observer, Governmental Advocates, Inc. ; PHC Medical; Wilson-Miller Communications Inc; David and Julie Bugatto; Phillip Cunningham; Gayle and Scott Govenar; Cheryl and Chris Holben; Mimi and Burnett Miller; ; Skip and Shirley Rosenbloom; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Dr. Harvey B. Wolkov; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

There will be an opening reception on Saturday March 14th from 6-9 pm, with a closing reception on Saturday April 11th from 6-9pmRead More