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Ceramics Alumni Night Part 8: Kim Tucker, Curtis Arima, Anja Ulfeldt
Presented as part of CCA's Ceramics Lecture Series
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 7:15–9:15 pm
Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center, Oakland campus
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Three Ceramics alumni -- Kim Tucker (1996) Curtis Arima (1998), and Anja Ulfeldt (2002) -- show slides and discuss their careers and life after art school.
Kim Tucker
Kim Tucker's work is a rogue's gallery of characters who appear to be personal symbols that are having trouble staying in their own skin. Her tribe of subjects has been described as the ugly, the fat, the weepy, and the physically deformed. Her personal animal kingdom include skunks, opossums, snails with loudmouth ghosts, and reckless sweethearts. The figures struggle to fully express their thoughts, and thus are alternately empowered and made vulnerable. Oddball monsters and awkward lovers expose their humanness, their emotional turmoil, and their faults. Tucker's drawings and sculptures have been exhibited constantly in the Los Angeles area, including a one person show at L2 Kontemporary Gallery last May.
Curtis Arima
Curtis Arima is a metalsmith raised in the Bay Area. He is best known for his unique 3D surface treatment of acrylic wash on metal, which brings heightened surrealism to his work. His work ranges from organic forms, using the language of gardening as a metaphor for self and society, to formal explorations in sculptural objects, functional pottery, and jewelry. His work has been exhibited nationally, and recently at Gallery Flux in San Francisco; Yaw Gallery in New York; the Richmond Art Center; the National Japanese American Historical Society; the Oakland Museum of California Collectors' Gallery; and the Virginia Breier Gallery in San Francisco.
Anja Ulfeldt
Anja Ulfeldt's work references the life sciences and the human body through mechanical action and movement, drawing comparisons between the ways living organisms and machines operate. Like living cells, her installations use light, air, water, and electricity to become functional and interactive. Her work often involves the sensation of touch and the element of surprise. It can be playful, alarming, and sensual all at once. She intends to blur the line between life and something that mimics life through interaction, growth, movement, or decay. She lives in San Francisco and is also a photographer and the director of the Basement Gallery in Oakland.
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