San Diego Weekend Art Events: ‘Twenty Women Artists: NOW’, The 2021 Juried Biennial Exhibition and 'SD Practice'

Speaker 1: 00:00 This weekend. If you're looking to get out with friends and family, there are three art exhibits across the county showcasing artwork from artists motivated by the pandemic era and community related challenges, KPBS arts editor, and producer Julia Dixon Evans. His office week and has asked Alisandra Moctezuma who is the gallery director and professor of art at San Diego messa college to fill our listeners in on some of the go-to art events this weekend. Alisandra Speaker 2: 00:28 Welcome. Thank you so much for having me in the program. Speaker 1: 00:32 This weekend is the last to see the art exhibit 20 women artists. Now, what was the inspiration for this exhibit? Speaker 2: 00:40 This exhibit was actually planned by artists, Julia Gray on myself. In 2019, we were trying to present what were some of the issues affecting women currently, and then 2020 happened. And we had to shift that some of the topics and the themes that were going to be covered by the exhibition. So the exhibit became actually in a way, a record of 2020 as the pandemic year on. So the artists had to be sequestered in their studios because of the quarantine and they were dealing with topics that they were experiencing such as the pandemic, the virus, also George Floyd on the black lives matter movement on the protests for social justice topics like climate change on the fires that also were affecting some of these artists, the iconic role of unimportant role of women, and also they were dealing with just how to find hope during those difficult times. Speaker 1: 01:51 Can you tell us about one of the pieces in the exhibit that you personally connected with? I Speaker 2: 01:57 Really connected with a piece that was done by artists, Jillian Moss, and she actually created a mixed media piece that was about George Floyd on the protest on, in her pieces. She layered images of the hands holding the phones, which were recording in the tragic murder of George Floyd. And she also layered within it images of some of the words like breathe that were connected with that incident, that, that very traumatic incident. So she actually created this beautiful compositions on she incorporated flowers. So they became also a Memorial to what had happened. Mm. Speaker 1: 02:48 Uh, Sunday is the last day to see 20 women artists now at the Oceanside museum of art and the 2021 juried by any ill exhibition is hosting its closing reception. This weekend, the exhibit features artwork by 30 local artists. What can guests expect if attending the closing reception? Speaker 2: 03:09 It will be a great opportunity to see works by many of this artists, duke Winser, Melissa Walter, Stephanie bales, specie Goodstein, Griselda, Rosa Perry, Vasquez, Kelsey Overstreet, Sage Serrano, and many others. And I think after being shut away during 2020, it's one of the chances that we have to get out on CR artists in person and ask them questions about the exhibition on there's. A wide range of works on view in different media on this was juried by Sonya parks on Andrew up Speaker 1: 03:51 The 2021 juried biennial exhibition. Closing reception will be the Saturday from five 30 to 7:30 PM at the William D. Cannon art gallery in Carlsbad. Earlier this month, we spoke with Julia about SD practice, two exhibits that feature artwork, the city commissioned. It was part of the city's relief effort for artists during the pandemic. I understand some of the artwork of your former students is being showcased. Speaker 2: 04:18 I just went to see the exhibition and it's two different locations. So it's at the San Diego art Institute in Balboa park, and it's also at bread on salt. They spread half of the works at each location, and I was really thrilled and excited to see so many of our graduates, uh, represented in both locations on this are students who graduated and have gone on to, some of them have done their master's degrees. Some of them have gone on to a career making art on some of the alumni that are featured in this exhibition, Andrew Casad, uh, cloud the [inaudible] [inaudible], uh, NASEM Navab on Reinhard salvage, and they have, um, gone on to, um, study at UC San Diego state university. Um, and this is a really wonderful exhibition to see the breadth of works that are being, um, created here in San Diego. It was long overdue for the collection of the city to be expanded on. So this incorporates a hundred artworks into the civic arts collection on it's a very diverse, um, grouping of artists media on topics on many of these works will be permanently housed in some of our city libraries. SD Speaker 1: 05:49 Practice will be on display through September 5th at the San Diego art Institute in Balboa park and bread and salt and Logan Heights for details on these and more arts events and to sign up for the weekly arts newsletter, go to kpbs.org/arts. I've been speaking with Alisandra Moctezuma thank you so much for joining. Yes. Speaker 2: 06:10 Thank you very much for having me as I guess today.