SARATOGA, Calif. — Montalvo Arts Center’s Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program is proud to announce its most recent Lucas Artists Fellowship awards to 33 artists of exceptional talent from across the US and the world. This distinguished group includes individuals from 16 countries working in the fields of visual arts, architecture, urbanism, and design. This includes visual arts media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, film, design, and printmaking, as well as artists working in the fields of performance, social practice, and sound art. These Fellows were born or reside in the following countries: the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, South Africa, Argentina, South Korea, Spain, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Taiwan, the Philippines, Italy, Venezuela, and England. Every three years, by discipline, the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) invites a distinguished panel of international nominators to identify up to three emerging, mid-career, or established artists who have the potential to become significant voices of their generation. These artists then pass through a highly selective jury process. Each artist selected is awarded three months in the Lucas Artists Residency over three years, with the ability to return multiple times. Lucas Artists Fellows are also welcomed to bring collaborators into residence with them. This represents significant ongoing support for an artist’s work over a three-year period. Located within a 175-acre public park and historic property in the heart of the Silicon Valley in California, the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) is an interdisciplinary creative incubator and cultural producer dedicated to investing in artists from all disciplines and geographical locations and to supporting the creative process and sharing of ideas. The LAP provides artists with time and space to develop new work, take risks, and forge collaborative partnerships. The LAP also supports artists as they engage the community in critical conversation through the creation and presentation of new work and varied public program offerings. This approach is grounded in Montalvo’s belief that artists’ voices enrich our world and serve as a catalyst for debate about issues important to us all. Montalvo houses the oldest artist residency program on the West Coast of the US, hosting artists since 1939. The new LAP facility at Montalvo was inaugurated in late 2004 and has hosted over 1,000 artists from more than thirty countries since its opening. The LAP’s campus comprises 11 free-standing, state-of-the-art artist studios and residence spaces designed by artist-and-architect collaborative teams, and a Commons and Library. As part of this selection, Montalvo inaugurates a new residency fellowship in collaboration with Santa Clara University, through the generous support of Charmaine and Dan Warmenhoven. The first Fellow of this collaboration is Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist Rafa Esparza. “The Lucas Artists Residency Program is the soul of Montalvo,” said Executive Director Angela McConnell. “It is one of the key ways in which we reaffirm our mission to engage the community in the creative process and has gained us international recognition as a creative incubator and a model of curatorial practice.” Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program Director Kelly Sicat said, “We look forward to welcoming this truly remarkable group of artists into the creative community of the Lucas Artists Program. We are honored to have the opportunity to support their practice in such an incredible facility, and to be able to share their work with the greater Silicon Valley community.” The 2019 Visual Arts jury has awarded Lucas Artists Visual Arts Fellowships to the following artists:
2019 Visual Arts Selection JuryBinh Danh
Binh Danh (MFA Stanford; BFA San Jose State University) emerged as an artist of national importance with work that investigates his Vietnamese heritage and our collective memory of war. His technique incorporates his invention of the chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images appear embedded in leaves through the action of photosynthesis. His newer body of work focuses on nineteenth-century photographic processes, applying them in an investigation of battlefield landscapes and contemporary memorials. A recent series of daguerreotypes celebrated the United States National Park system during its anniversary year. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The DeYoung Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the George Eastman Museum, and many others. He received the 2010 Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, and in 2012 he was a featured artist at the 18th Biennale of Sydney in Australia. He is represented by Haines Gallery (San Francisco) and Lisa Sette Gallery (Phoenix). He lives and works in San Jose and teaches photography at San Jose State University. Read more. Nellie King Solomon Nellie King Solomon is not interested in making traditional paintings. She instead experiments with materials to see what they can say about painting. Solomon's background in architecture and Supergraphics has laid a foundation for her work. She studied architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, and holds a BA in Art from University of California Santa Cruz and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She has taught at Stanford University and California College of the Arts and has worked as an artist assistant to David Ireland, and in architectural restoration on the Palazzo St Polo in Venice. She lived in Paris, Venice, Barcelona, and New York City before returning to California. Solomon’s work has been featured in Art in America, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Art Practical, Wallpaper, Harvard Review, ArtBlitzLA, Zyzzyva, and Architectural Digest, among other publications. She has exhibited at The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Crocker Art Museum, Bolinas Museum, Brian Gross Fine Art, Braunstein/Quay, The Battery, Ochi Projects LA, Ochi Gallery Sun Valley, N’Namdi Contemporary in Chicago, Detroit, and Miami. Her work is collected by Steve Wynn, Blue Shield, Visa, Yves Béhar, Sabrina Buell, and The UC Berkeley Art Museum. Read more. Betti-Sue Hertz Betti-Sue Hertz is a contemporary arts curator, writer, and educator working at the intersection of visual art, transcultural exchange, and socially relevant issues. Her current highlights include being the Public Arts Director at TLS Landscape Architecture for Lion Mountain Park in Suzhou, China; Project Curator at Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis; and Co-Director of On Susan Sontag: Media, Modernity & Morality, a San Francisco Art Institute lead multi-venue season of programs that will take place in the fall of 2019. Hertz was Director of Visual Arts at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 2008–2015, where she curated numerous exhibitions that often focused on global art and political agency. In 2019, she was appointed as director and chief curator of the Wallach Art Gallery. Read more. Takeshi Moro Takeshi Moro was born in Japan, raised in the UK, and currently works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Moro studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and holds a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University. He completed his MFA graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Moro’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and Serlachius Museot (Finland). His work resides in the permanent collection at Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), as well as in various private collections. Read more. Rory Padeken Rory Padeken is Assistant Curator at the San Jose Museum of Art. He is currently developing exhibitions with Diana Thater, Richard Misrach, and Tabaimo. In 2013, he led SJMA’s curatorial team on the museum’s largest and most ambitious exhibition program to date, Around the Table: food, creativity, community, which included 30 artists, 18 commissions, and 43 community partners. He has also curated several exhibitions from SJMA’s permanent collection and served as curator of record for traveling exhibitions from museums across the nation. Prior to his first appointment at SJMA as curatorial assistant, he was the Achenbach Graphic Arts Council Fellow at the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He received a BA in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts, San Francisco. His MA thesis focused on British artist Tacita Dean. Read more.
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8/21/2021 11:00:07 am
Dear committee at Montalvo Arts,
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