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Hatch Gallery proudly presents 13 artists of different mediums, who comprise roughly half of the artists to be shown in the 2009 season. While PREVIEW 09 will illustrate the variety of work that Hatch will be showing this year, it is also serving as the foundation step towards building a cohesive, albeit seasonal, trajectory of art shows at Hatch Gallery.

Our hope is that through implementing this seasonal schedule, the exhibitions will have a greater ability to dialogue with the audience throughout the course of the year.

Artists:
Tim Brown, Ross Campbell, Nate Crane, Michael Deane, Jason Tyler Grace, Evan Holme, Stephanie Martinez, Nat Russell, Peter St. Lawrence, Mark Inglis Taylor, Jamie Spinello, Derek Weisberg and David Wilson

Artists Reception: Thursday, March 26, 6-8pm

A group of nine California College of the Arts students collaborate in exhibiting new work at Oakland's Hatch Gallery. Media ranges from painting, drawing, photography and design as artists explore the idea the temporary. What is lasting? How does the concept of impermanence affect and influence the existing individual?

Curated by instructor Michele Pred, the show is an opportunity for developing artists to gain direct experience within an active gallery space.

Manifest Destination surveys expansion as an afterthought of western development and social icons. Employing video installation, sculpture, and painting to evoke feelings of nostalgia - the viewer becomes implicated as a member of a collective history inherited from the ideologies of development.

Artists: Ross Campbell, Scott Hove, Jake Longstreth

January 1st - February 7th 2009

PREVIEW 09

March 21-April 11th, 2009

While It Lasts

April 4 - April 26, 2008

Manifest Destination

March 7 - March 30th, 2008

Naturations

NATURATION is an exhibition of Miguel Arzabe and Evan Holm, two artists whose work draws inspiration from the growth and development processes of the natural world. The selected paintings and drawings of Miguel Arzabe explore an introspective wilderness experience, juxtaposed with urban cognizance, which intends to induce subliminal iterations of disparate knowledge that progress into candid explorations of the human condition. Relating both in contrast and affinity to Arzabe's work are the sculptures of Evan Holm, which exist as hybrids of everyday human objects consumed by a seemingly natural growth pattern. Holm's work attempts to speak towards the beauty found in organic growth and to the subtle possibility of human objects finding grace through existing in the living world around us. To speak about Naturation, it is important to think in the real meaning and, maybe, in the etymological origin of this word. The word Naturation, is a neologism and it is based on the Latin terminology "Natura", that means nature in its wider sense. This idea contains a wide concept, because it implicates involving the urban and rural life in an environment where the nature recovers the protagonism, through exaltation of plant species that improve our life conditions in a sustainable way.

Artists: Miguel Arzabe, Evan Holm

February 1 - March 14, 2008

Extramundane

EXTRAMUNDANE is an exhibition of Cayetano Ferrer’s most recent work involving public space, architecture, and surveillance, as an act and an experience. Partly focused on work made in or about Ferrer's hometown of Las Vegas, NV, this show is manifested through various media and approaches. Sculpture, photographs, and video installation provide the viewer with insight into the constant flux of the built environment and the interplay of objects and time. Ferrer exposes the relationship between the built and the rebuilt, exploring the delicate matters of history and memory as the present paves over the recent past. His work is a gentle push/pull between permanence and obsolescence, inviting consideration of environmental evolution and mutation as processes that emerge out of small-scale habits of human intervention.

opening May 1st through May 30th:

closing May 30th! 2-8pm

YOU WOULDN'T KNOW CONTEMPORARY ART IF IT SLAPPED US IN THE FACE

new work by:
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ROSS CAMPBELL
MALIEA CROY
SARINA EASTMAN
STEPHEN KEY
CAT LAUIGAN
AMY MORRELL
EMMA SPERTUS
JEFF STRATFORD

Contemporary art is not modern, it's present-day. The understanding of which requires involvement in a dialogue that has not been relegated to the understood, thereby rendered a-quiescent. In other words, the less you know you know the more you don't know you have to learn. In better words, the more you know you don't know the better you know you must learn, and still be humbled by movement; e.g. the present-day.
So this is confusing, as it should be. The art world is reflecting on itself within the global economic climate; " I have to lose weight" says the art world, "I have too many shoes and my head hurts. Who are all these people studying me anyway? They only want my body...sigh, not what's inside."

Neccesarily we have responded to this sentiment by producing a media blurring, identity shifting and all around voluntary fugue state composed of video, painting, drawing, animation and sculpture performing on a platform of group installation. Group drawings for sale by the square foot and an environment which twists and turns on itself up until the doors open @ 6pm on May 1st. And there will be a May Pole.

This exhibition is sponsored by John Keats.

"I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason-Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge. This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."

-Keats

Becoming Non-Object
Nathaniel Crane & Michael Deane

Opening Thursday, June 4th : 6 - 9pm
Through June 27th

To mark the arrival of summer and the beginning of a year long series of 2 person shows, Hatch Gallery is proud to present 'Becoming Non-Object' - an exhibition of new paintings, sculpture and video installation by bay area locals, Nathaniel Crane and Michael Deane.
'Becoming Non-Object' is an exhibition centered around the intentional shift of the object as the subject, to the object as the reference point for viewing the energy and influences around it that make up the context for its understanding. Blurring the boundaries of art and mysticism, these two artists reveal a myriad array of energies and the mysterious invisible influence of dark matter.

Nathaniel Crane, whose work is shown in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and the bay area, is known primarily for his renditions of cars and buildings detailed with Victorian patterns of smoke and exhaust, an expression of his interest in the beauty of decay as an organic effect of societies existence. Nathaniel’s 2006 Yerba Buena Center show, with his collective known as Irresistible Small Creatures, marked a developmental turning point where he began to move out of his familiar graphic figurative style and began exploring more abstracted ideas of shape, color, energy and time in his paintings. Becoming Non-Object will exhibit over 20 of his never before seen paintings and animations that draw influence from his interest in astrophysics, color theory and chess.

Michael Deane follows a widely developed interdisciplinary process within his art making. Blurring the lines between sculpture, video, installation and painting - Michael takes, manipulates and reforms his materials and subjects into cohesive and lively entities that exist as both cause and effect towards his creative process. For his video work, Michael manipulates his footage on both an analog and digital level, 'finishing' them through a process of re-engineering the physical and time based elements while recording the process and including their development as an organic and time based purpose. Much like reading a book with the authors notes penciled in, Michael’s artwork exposes and describes itself, providing a multi-faceted experience when viewing his creations. Michael has shown extensively nationally, and has been the recipient of many awards including SFAC’s Construct 3 - installation award. Becoming Non-Object will exhibit a group of never before seen multi-media works greatly influenced by Michael’s interest in image capturing technology, analog video effects and 3D collage

BROZONE LAYER
Mark Inglis Taylor & Porous Walker

Opening Friday, July 3rd : 5 - 9pm
Through August 1st

Hatch Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new drawings and sculpture by Mark Inglis Taylor and Porous Walker. Sharing an ability to summon an endless supply of humor (and drawings) - Porous and Mark have teamed up to produce an installation of epic proportions, composed of nearly a thousand drawings as well as sculpture, video, and performance. Their work travels freely between the banal and irreverent to the insightful and heartfelt, literally surrounding the viewer and encapsulating them in a layer of moments.