2015
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2015 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 Wendy Maruyama with emerging artist Peter Scheidt and Roy McMakin with emerging artist Kevin Inman exhibition at Anthenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla.
Catalogue Writers |
Alex Zaragoza, Freelance Arts and Culture Writer
Ginger Porcella, Executive Director, San Diego Art Institute Mark Murphy, Curator, Publisher, Designer Murphy Design Tara Centybear, Curator at San Diego History Center, freelance Curator for the La Jolla Historical Society, Artist, & Teacher at MiraCosta College |
Wendy Maruyama
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Wendy Maruyama is an artist and educator from San Diego, CA. She was the first woman to graduate with a Masters in furniture making from Rochester Institute of Technology. Maruyama’s early work combined ideologies of feminism and traditional craft objects. Her practice continues to move beyond the boundaries of traditional studio craft and into the realm of social practice. The wildLIFE project serves to illustrate the plight of elephants and rhinoceros, a cause that is very personal for Maruyama. She took a sojourn to Africa last year and met with zoologists and wildlife advocates to investigate the dangers of continued poaching of both elephants and rhinos. In recent years her work has taken a narrative direction, integrating images and text into shrine-like cabinet forms which add an additional layer of sensory experience for the viewer. Maruyama was an artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School in May 2013 and worked with both cold and hot glass for this body of work. The exhibition is made up of object-based works combined with a societal message about the dangers of poaching and the need to preserve animals in the wild. Maruyama has exhibited her work nationally, with solo shows in New York City, San Francisco, Scottsdale AZ, Indianapolis, IN Savannah GA, and Easthampton, NY. She has also exhibited in Tokyo, Seoul and London. Her work is included in permanent collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dallas Art Museum, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, AUS; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA; and the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA.
Peter Scheidt
Peter Scheidt’s recent studio furniture work interrogates furniture as a cultural and social formation. Theoretical reflection is important to his practice and he strives to create innovative work, which integrates theory and practice. He often operates in a realm of irony and contradiction, simultaneously respecting furniture’s long craft tradition but also working irreverently with furniture objects. As machines have changed production methods and materials, the difference in value between artisanal handwork and production work (by human hand or machine) has drastically increased. Manufacturing technologies, driven by desires of economy and profit, shape the image of the furniture we surround ourselves with - whether it is the design decisions made by a lone craftsman based on efficiency of labor, or driven by the bottom line of a big box store. By working with found furniture or found designs, he is able to begin a conversation with the viewer which is already loaded with rich history and meaning for both artist and audience. Scheidt graduated with a BA in critical media theory from Brown University and is currently a graduate student at San Diego State University. He has worked designing and building furniture independently and collaboratively since 2005.
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Roy McMakin
Roy McMakin is both an artist and accomplished designer. He runs his design company Domestic Furniture / Domestic Architecture out of Seattle. McMakin's furniture is often incorporated into his artwork. He combines form and function, furniture and visual art, to produce hybrid objects of clean, sensuous surface with humorous underpinnings. His work often plays with scale and language, inviting both visceral response and conceptual contemplation. In the text for Roy McMakin: A Door Meant as Adornment, Michael Darling writes; Poetic interconnections with the words "adore," "adornment," "ornament," and "store" make them ripe for McMakin's gamesmanship and allow him to conflate disparate concepts and uncover surprising connections. For McMakin, furniture and domestic architecture have long offered a framework within which to enact these contextual corruptions, bringing poetic play home to where it naturally and comfortably encounters the body on a daily basis." Roy McMakin has completed numerous commissions and architectural projects on the entire west coast including this small sample: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego International Airport, and Annenberg Community Beach House, City of Santa Monica. From 1986 to the present there is an extensive bibliography about his work from many publication including but not limited to: The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, The Statesman, and Riviera. Catalogs have been produced for show at Mathew Marks Gallery, San Diego State University, MOCA Los Angeles, Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Philadelphia, and Cooper Hewitt in New York. Roy McMakin is represented by Quint Gallery in San Diego.
Kevin Inman
Kevin Inman is a San Diego painter, focusing on landscape and cityscape oil paintings. Inman often works outdoors, making intimately scaled plein-air studies. These small works aim to capture the light, color, and atmosphere of a place and are used to gather information for studio works. For the past several years, Inman has blogged these daily painting efforts. Inman was born in Honolulu in 1980. Raised in a military family, he led a nomadic existence at duty stations around the US and in Japan. Inman studied at the Universidad de Valencia, Spain, received a BA from the University of Virginia, and a MFA from Radford University. He has exhibited in solo and group shows around the US. The Termite House painting above was recently included in the California Dreaming exhibition at the Oceanside Museum of Art.
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