2013
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2013 Artist Recipients
The San Diego Art Prize committee selected two established San Diego artists who then chose emerging artists to feature in the final exhibitions. This year's recipients were James Hubbell with emerging artist Brennan Hubbell and Debby and Larry Kline with emerging artist James Enos exhibition at Anthenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla.
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Ann Berchtold, Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair
Charles Miller, Artist Daniel Foster, Executive Director, Oceanside Museum of Art Danielle Susalla Derry, Curator, Oceanside Museum of Art David Antin, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
James Hubbell
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James Hubbell, born in 1931, grew up in the eastern part of the USA. After graduating from high school he traveled extensively in Africa and returned through Europe. Viewing Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and experiencing that masterpiece first drew his interest to stained glass. He studied design and painting at Whitney Art School in New Haven, Connecticut, then served in Korea. Returning home, he studied painting and sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He took another year hitchhiking and exploring architecture and art in Europe. In 1958 he married Anne Stewart, a schoolteacher, and moved to the mountains in the backcountry of San Diego. They designed and built their home had four sons in the midst of continuous construction. Four of the eight buildings they eventually constructed burned in the Cedar Fire of 2003. The Hubbell’s have been working to bring them back and have also put the complex into their Ilan-Lael Foundation. It was interest in their handmade home that drew clients to Hubbell to design in architecture. He and his architect son work together. Hubbell’s studio has grown to 4-6 assistants and apprentices. They work in stained glass, forged iron, wood, cement and other materials. Hubbell has designed hundreds of commissions including doors, sculptures, fountains, and gardens. He has created restaurants, homes, chapels, schools, and parks, but is best known for the Chapel at Sea Ranch, California and the Doors of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. At the present time, he has become increasingly interested in parks and gardens as a way to link the human world to the world of nature. Some of the most recent work is the Gazebo Park in Shelter Island, a fountain at the City Complex on Coronado, and a large forged-iron gate at the Julian Multi-Use Library. James Hubbell’s work has become known through videos and publications and he now enjoys an. international reputation with work done in the United States, Mexico, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Philippines, Korea, Taiwan and China.
Brennan Hubbell
Brennan Hubbell (b. 1968) began creating art as soon as he could walk. Even as a kindergartener, he helped build Ilan-Lael, the art and nature center, which is now home to his parents Anne and James Hubbell and Hubbell Studios. Growing up in the country, he learned how to live and create in tandem with the outside environment. With the nature-loving seed planted at a young age he continued creating nature-based art through early adulthood. His work is wide ranging from large public sculptures to smaller commissions in a variety of materials including mosaic, wood, iron and often featuring water and light. He also works in video documentation. Brennan Hubbell is a student of people foremost and his art springs from his observations in humans in the natural environment. Hubbell attended Webb Academy in Claremont, California for high school, then went on to major in Fine Arts at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. In his twenties he studied permaculture in Oaxaca, Mexico under the instruction of Chuck Marsh, the North Carolina-based permaculturalist and designer. As a father of two young children, Brennan Hubbell hopes to pass on a love for art and nature to future generations.
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Debby and Larry Kline
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Debby and Larry Kline are collaborative artists with a focus on issues of justice. They pose provocative questions, challenge preconceptions and generally screw with context to make a point. They strongly believe that the process of experimentation leads to truly amazing things in the studio. The Klines have been featured in many solo exhibitions, including Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (San Francisco), California Center for the Arts Museum, La Casa del Túnel Art Center (Tijuana), Southwestern College Art Gallery, Mesa College Art Gallery and Athenaeum Music and Arts Library. Their work was featured in “Nature/Nation,” an international exhibition of environmental artists at Museum on the Seam (Israel), which involved traveling to Jerusalem and creating a 1 ton adobe structure on the roof of the museum. They have participated in The Center for Land Use Interpretation's residency program and were highlighted artists at BEYOND the BORDER: International Contemporary Art Fair and Art San Diego 2013 Contemporary Art Fair. Their work has received international acclaim and coverage in both fine arts and mainstream publications. They have been awarded three grants from The Gunk Foundation, NY, and grants from Potrero Nuevo Fund, San Francisco, and Center for Cultural Innovation, Los Angeles.
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James A. Enos
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James A. Enos is an artist and architectural designer producing narrative works that offer an alternative imagination of urban space. Focusing on questions of civic identity and collective strategies for social change, he offers a poignant critique toward addressing what he describes as the “fundamental aesthetic challenges facing North American cities.” By way of institutional performances, public programming, and via interdisciplinary visualizations, Enos pairs our erroneous and irrational conceptions of the 21st century landscape with provocations of reciprocity. He is the co-founder and director of The Periscope Project, a collaborative project platform, urban think tank, and former alternative space, and has served as North America project Director of Port Journeys for Spiral Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo & ZOU-NO-HANA Terrace, Yokohama. He has exhibited at the U.S. Pavilion in the13th Venice Architecture Biennale, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum Chicago, The San Diego Museum of Art, Gallery at CalIT2, The University Art Gallery UCSD, The Athenaeum Music & Art Library, and Oceanside Museum of Art, among others. Additionally, his work has been featured by Wired Design, KCET Los Angeles’s Emmy nominated Artbound Episode 1, and in publications such as Architext, and Architizer. He holds an MFA from The University of California San Diego, an M.Arch from The Newschool of Architecture, and a B.S. from Purdue University’s School of Technology.
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