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Smithsonian Institution https://museumonmainstreet.org/content/women-mind-water-podcast-series-julia-cr-gray-california
Women Mind the Water https://womenmindthewater.com/ podcasts feature inspirational women who share their passion for the ocean. They are artivists (artists and activists) who discuss their connection with the ocean and their ocean-inspired art. Through their stories and art, we hope to inspire YOU and move YOU to take action to protect the ocean.
Our latest podcast features sculptor Julia CR Gray. Julia uses slip-casting and hand-building methods to mold female forms that represent the strength and vulnerability of women. A dichotomy that Julia believes women’s bodies share with the ocean.
The biennial Crocker-Kingsley exhibition continues a tradition that began in 1926 through a collaboration between the Crocker Art Museum and the Kingsley Art Club. Established in 1892 by fifteen Sacramento women, the Kingsley Art Club supports arts and culture in the community. Since then, the exhibition has become a national juried competition hosted by Blue Line Arts.
This year marks the 81st Crocker-Kingsley exhibition, a show that attracts emerging and established artists. Past Crocker-Kingsley exhibitors include many of the premier names in California art, including Robert Arneson, Kathryn Uhl Ball, Elmer Bischoff, Fred Dalkey, David Gilhooly, Ralph Goings, Gregory Kondos, Roland Petersen, Mel Ramos, Ruth Rippon, Fritz Scholder, Jerald Silva, and Wayne Thiebaud.
This year, more than 2,428 entries were submitted for consideration, from which juror Emma Saperstein, Chief Curator and Director of Education at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA), selected 134 for display at Blue Line Arts in Roseville. The top five juried selections will receive cash prizes, with a total of $5,500 to be awarded during the opening reception. From this group, a team of Crocker Art Museum jurors will select five pieces—which may or may not have been accorded cash prizes—for display at the Museum between February 5 and April 30, 2022.
Curator’s 1st Place Selection
Sunrise Stories by Julia C R Gray
AMANDA KIDD-KESTLER:
“I keep coming back to this piece, and everytime I do, I see something new. This piece shows a mastery of ceramic handbuilding and glazing. The way every surface tells a story makes it read like a book. It is incredibly rich and complex. I love the ties to art history, and the creative use of the modular structure really works to enhance the artist's concept of untold lived experiences.
Absolute knock-out work. Love. Love. Love!"”
JUNIPER RAG Magazine: Julia C R Gray is one of the most prolific artists in our Juniper Rag community. She was awarded a spot in our Luscious Punch show in May of 2022 at CUSP Gallery in Provincetown, MA. Julia drove across country with over 40 sculptures for the New England show. We are very grateful for discovering artists like Julia C R Gray.
We are so thrilled that Amand Kidd-Kestler chose her work for top placement in this exhibition. Julia is a great example of an artist dedicated to her work and one who constantly evolves, striving to create work that is as intuitive as it is complex. We are so proud to support her as a person and a gifted artist. Many of her pieces found new homes in New England and one ventured all the way to Mumbai, India.
ART SD2022 at San Diego Convention Center 👉🏼 Booth 522.
My FIRST year exhibiting! Come on by and see my new ocean sculptures.
ART SD2022 at the San Diego Convention Center opens September 9-11, 2022.
San Diego Convention Center
Hall C, BOOTH 522
111 W Harbor Dr.
San Diego, CA 92101
FIRST LOOK FRIDAY
Friday, Sept. 9 | 12:00PM — 5:00PM
COLLECTORS’ VIP OPENING
Friday, Sept. 9 | 6:00PM — 9:00PM
WEEKEND FAIR HOURS
Saturday, Sept. 10 | 11:00AM — 7:00PM
Sunday, Sept. 11 | 11:00AM — 5:00PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 20, 5-8pm
September 2, 2022 Clay and Drawing Demo: Julia C R Gray will give a talk titled: Ocean Mystery in Ceramic Language and Clay Demo on building coral details. Lori Mitchell will conduct a drawing demo.
Talk Schedule:
4:30 - Lori Mitchell
5:30- Julia C R Gray
TWA's (Time for Women Artists) newest group show is “Turning Tides”. The group will showcase their individual visions of what the theme means to them: ebb and flow, change, transition, the sea—and more.
Opening Saturday, May 28th
— and runs for 2 weeks only —
Closing on Sunday, June 12, 2022 at CUSP Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Dreams and Daylight: through July 3, 2022.
Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN. March 5- May 29, 2022
The Unknown Nature of Being
Opening reception, Friday, April 8, 2022, 5-7pm.
April 8 @ 5:00 pm - May 29 @ 4:30 pm
Artists are invited to explore the connectedness of all living things, the life bond between humans and nature.
Tubac Center of the Arts
9 Plaza Rd, Tubac, AZ 85646
(520) 398-2371
The Bonita Museum & Cultural Center announces the National Sculpture Society (NSS) California exhibition in February and March of 2022. The exhibition features thirty-eight artworks by master California sculptors, members of the prestigious National Sculpture Society based in New York city. The NSS was founded in 1893 and is the oldest sculpture society in the United States, promoting the work of sculptors and architects who specialize in highlighting our natural world.
Reception: February 12, 2022 5:00 to 7:00pm. Limited space, RSVP required.
December 18, 2021- May 1, 2022. OMA is thrilled to present their fifth biennial, continuing the tradition of elevating the voice of Southern California artists and celebrating the best work from OMA’s Artist Alliance.
Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside, CA 92054
OMA: This exhibition represents only a small cross-section of our remarkable artist members. The competition was fierce— ultimately only 61 artworks were selected from nearly 900 entries by juror Alessandra Moctezuma, Professor of Art and Gallery Director at San Diego Mesa College. Although the exhibition is not themed, visual connections clearly emerge through the juror's choices, reflecting her aesthetic judgment and curatorial eye. When shown together, this broad cross-section of styles, interests, media, and approach reflects the diversity and multi- dimensionality of OMA’s artist community, and illustrates the story of artists in the Southern California region.
The female torsos of Julia C R Gray’s sculptural series, SHE-Shell Sea Wisdom, merge gold luster and pearlescent aqua glazes with colorful texturized bases resembling coral. Like a porcelain figure lost at sea and decorated with aquatic growth, her pieces seem fragile yet tempered by time. When given proper protection, our delicate coastal seas can rebound into healthy and vibrant ecosystems.
November 9 – December 15, 2021
Reception: Friday, November 12, 3 – 7 p.m., Art Gallery FA 103
Free Parking in Lot # 1. Park in STUDENT spaces ONLY.
Gallery Hours: T, W, TH 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Closed Mondays, Fridays, Weekends & Holidays. Closed Thanksgiving week Nov. 22 – 26, 2021. For additional information, please visit: https://www.sdmesa.edu/art-gallery or contact the gallery at (619) 388-2829.
Participating Artists:
Jenny Armer - Aurora Bewicke - Claudia Cano - Evan Chau - Cloud Club Collective
- David Contreras - Ty and Sam Creighton - Bronle Crosby - Alex DeCosta - Dana Edwards - Francisco Eme - Gabrielle Espina - Scott Gengelbach - Rosario Glezmir - Sofia Gonzalez - Chitra Gopalakrishnan - Julia C R Gray - Steve Harlow - Doug Harvey - Vijay Hingorani - Terri Hughes-Oelrich - Amanda Kachadoorian - Sophie Kamdar - Desiree Lawrence - Elena Lomakin - Santiago Lopez - Isa Medina -Teresa Mill - Michelle Montjoy - Kathy Nida - Elizabeth Parr - Omar Pimienta - Wendy Ponomarenko - Kim Reasor - Josie Rodriguez - Taylour Rudzinski - Elizabeth Salaam - Julia San Román - Sage Serrano - Jennifer Spencer - Elizabeth Tobias - Litzy Torres - Thuyduyen Jenny - Jennifer Vargas.
TWENTY WOMEN ARTISTS: NOW
Curated by Alessandra Moctezuma
March 13-August 1, 2021
704 Pier View Way, Oceanside, California 92054
Watch BEHIND THE EXHIBITION: TWENTY WOMEN ARTISTS: NOW
Watch Behind The Exhibition with curator Alessandra Moctezuma, artist Julia C R Gray, exhibitions manager Katie Dolgov, live streamed Thursday, April 22, 2021.
Modified: Living as a Cyborg 1st Edition
by Chris Hables Gray (Editor)
Cover: Julia C R Gray
Available on Amazon:
Building off the highly successful The Cyborg Handbook, this new collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces brings together a set of compelling personal accounts about what it means to live as a cyborg in the twenty-first century.
Human integration with complex technologies goes back to clothes, cooking, and language, but has accelerated incredibly in the last few centuries, with interest spreading among scientists, coders, people with sophisticated implants, theorists, and artists. This collection includes some of the most articulate of these voices from over 25 countries, including Donna Haraway, Stelarc, Natasha Vita-More, Steve Mann, Amber Case, Michael Chorost, Moon Ribas, Kevin Warwick, Sandy Stone, Dion Farquhar, Angeliki Malakasioti, Elif Ayiter, Heesang Lee, Angel Gordo, and others. Addressing topics including race, gender, sexuality, class, conflict, capitalism, climate change, disability and beyond, this collection also explores the differences between robots, androids, cyborgs, hybrids, post-, trans-, and techno-humans, offering readers a critical vocabulary for understanding and discussing the cyborgification of culture and everyday life.
Compelling, interdisciplinary, and international, the book is a perfect primer for students, researchers, and teachers of cyberculture, media and cultural theory, and science fiction studies, as well as anyone interested in the intersections between human and machine.
Cyborgs Are Us has been juried into the California Sculpture SLAM. The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art is proud the present California Sculpture SLAM, a California-wide juried exhibition featuring contemporary sculpture. This biennial exhibition represents the diversity of sculpture being created by artists across the state. Selections were made by art critic and LA Times Arts Editor Shana Nys Dambrot.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to concerns surrounding Covid-19 and the mandated shelter-in-place, the provisional dates for California Sculpture SLAM have been extended to November 1, 2020.
Reception for Exhibition: 20/20 Women of Vision
May 17, 2020
1020-B, Prospect St, La Jolla, California 92037
Exhibition through July 2020.