We are head over heels with this new Whirligig Interview with Sinjin Jones. Jonesis a transmedia artist, storyteller, and poet interested in the connections between diverse media forms which allow him to combine these in interesting ways.
In 2019, shortly before the reality of a global pandemic, Jones became the Executive Artistic Director of The Pear Theatre in Mountain View, California, where he has implemented dynamic, engaging, and fresh programming that both surprises and challenges. You can read Nanette’s interview with Jones here.
Exhibition extended to August 14th
Visit Art Bias for these upcoming events and see our exhibition First Sunday Open Studios: Sunday, August 4, 12–4pm Art Speak Easy: Monthly Conversations about Art & Art Practice. Thursday, August 8, 6:30–8pm A Curatorial Conversation with Lance Fung and Lisa Solomon: Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 5:30–7pm
Table of Traits, variable print collage installation, collaborative project, 2024
an art life: kent manske & nanette wylde
July 2–August 14, 2024
Art Bias Gallery, Studio 114 1700 Industrial Road, San Carlos, California MAP
M–F, 9am–4pm, and by appointment. Email or Text Kent
Visual documentation of our audience participatory installation Preserves in the exhibition What’s Cookin’? at the Palo Alto Art Center through August 18. Visitors tie on tags with their answer to the question “What do you want to preserve?”
June 21, July 6, August 1
Allow yourself to soar
NY2CA Gallery in Benicia, California recently commissioned Kent for a permanent interior installation in honor of artist and gallerist Terry Twigg.
Kent Manske: Making Sense at NY2CA Gallery presents original prints and artist books from multiple bodies of work that demonstrate the conceptual breath and creative practice of an artist whose well-being requires making visual narratives about the nature of things and matters of conscious. The artist, Kent Manske, considers his art practice as serious play. His work addresses the challenges of our complex times while celebrating the opportunity to reflect, learn, provoke and be more resilient.
Work in this exhibition explores human behavior, the environment, biology, aging, morality, politics and knowledge systems through many lenses including curiosity, spectacle, wonder, and empathy. Manske’s highly symbolic works are visual records of thoughts, feelings, and fears that seek understanding and insight while contributing to the visual language system he has developed over the last four decades.
Kent Manske, from Existential Epistemologies, 2024
EVENTS
Saturday, March 23 Artist’s Talk: Printmaking, 3–4pm
Kent Manske will describe the process of making hand-pulled prints including screen printing, etching & intaglio, relief, lithography, collagraph, and monoprints. He will bring the printing plates and tools used to make prints. He will address what is an original print, what is a reproduction, and things to consider when investing in prints.
Saturday, April 20 Artist’s Talk: Artist Books, 3–4pm
Kent Manske will share a brief history of art that takes book form. He will use books in the exhibition to talk about conceptual and technical approaches to making artist books. He will talk about who collects artist’s books and why.
NY2CA Gallery One Year Anniversary Celebration, 5–7pm Live printing event. Take home a print. By email invite only. Subscribe to email list at ny2cagallery.com
Kent Manske, Filter, 2024
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
I regard what I do as serious play. Asking uneasy questions feeds my studio practice. How does one make sense of the complex times we live in (pandemics, genocide, glacial meltdown, global mass extinctions, artificial intelligence)? How do we grapple with systems of control (authoritarianism, disinformation, algorithmic prompts, book banning, loyalty oaths, teaching restrictions) that deny these realities? We have many challenges here at the top of the food chain.
Paying attention, not being reactionary, and staying grounded is challenging. It’s exhausting to be constantly trying to decipher fact from fiction, information from noise, genuine beliefs from tribal influences. Navigating reality can be disheartening, but cherishing the light sometimes requires exposing darkness—processing concerns and moral predicaments in creative ways.
The work in this exhibition explores human behavior, the environment, biology, aging, morality, politics and knowledge systems through many lenses including curiosity, spectacle, wonder, and empathy. Each work is a record of an investigation that gives form to complex issues and emotions. They seek not answers but larger conversations and continued points of intersection.
We hope to see you out there, making sense of your own complex and beautiful lives.
