2016
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2016 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 Shinpei Takeda with emerging artist Irma Sofia Poeter and William Feeney with emerging artist Richard Keely exhibition at Anthenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla.
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Jim Ruland, Writer
Melinda Chiment, Executive Director, The AjA Project Neil Kendricks, Artist and Film maker Norma Iglesias-Prieto, Professor at San Diego State University and Researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte Terri Hughes-Oelrich, City College Gallery |
Shinpei Takeda
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Shinpei Takeda is a Japanese artist based in TJ/SD area and Düsseldorf, Germany. He uses a wide range of mediums exploring the memory of human violence, particularly via the narratives of those in exile. His recent projects include two series Alpha Decay (2010-2012) and Beta Decay (2013-2015). He has made large installations in different sites across the world based on his 8 years of investigations, interviewing over 60 atomic bomb survivors living in the North and South Americas. Takeda is also a Founder and Creative Director of The AjA Project. This nonprofit started in 2001 is dedicated to working with resettled refugee children in San Diego using participatory photography. His recent documentary films include El Mexico mas Cercano a Japon (48mins/2008) about the first Japanese photographer of Tijuana in 1920s, and Hiroshima Nagasaki Download (73mins/2010). His recent publications include Alpha Decay: How can contemporary art express the memory of atomic bomb. He also leads Tijuana based noise punkformance unit “Ghost Magnet Roach Motel” in which he, two Mexican artists, and two American musicians join to punkform using sound.
Irma Sofia Poeter
Irma Sofia Poeter (1963) is a Mexican-American, multidisciplinary and self-taught artist that has lived most of her life on both sides of the San DiegoTijuana border. She currently lives in Tecate, Mexico. Her paintings, sculptures, photographs and art installations are made or intervened with garments, fabric, textiles and embroidery. These are materials she acquires from artisans, vintage stores or has brought back from her travels. Poeter lived in Oaxaca (2008-2010) where she worked on a project called Identidades Revestidas for the Museum of Textile of Oaxaca. She interviewed 40 migrants and told their stories using the indigenous dress of their hometown. She also made a series of seven dresses, one for each chakra, that were presented in London at the Oxo Tower during London Fashion Week (2015). They were presented as an art installation and as a performance piece. Irma Sofie Poeter has had 13 solo shows and more than 30 collective presentations in countries like Mexico, Cuba, England, Poland and the United States. She received an Honorary Mention from the Baja California Biennal (1995), a grant from the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes of Baja California (2001), the San Diego Art Prize (2016) and an art residency in Italy (2017). Irma Sofia Poeter is represented by La Caja Galeria in Tijuana, Baja, CA.
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William Feeney
William Feeney's art is about questions. He tries to tell a story, but gets hung up on details, which would be easy to gloss over. Feeney occupies those taken-for-granted aspects of the narrative, and presents objects that speak to questions he has fixated on. The result is his artwork occupies a space that exists between things. Feeney received a BFA from UMass, Amherst, and an MFA from UC Santa Barbara. He was awarded a California Arts Council Grant in 2003, a StartUP Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego in 2007, and a residency at Djerassi in Woodside, CA in 2014.
Richard Keely
Richard Keely is an artist and educator from Southern California. Originally trained as a painter, Keely’s work during the last twenty years has turned towards sculpture, photography and installation. With the sculptural work Keely is often concerned with transforming ordinary objects into visually dense wall pieces that have the potential to evoke an array of experiential possibilities. Richard Keely's Installation projects have included collaborations with Santa Fe based artist Lynne Hendrick, and his wife Anna O’Cain. With these installations Keely, Hendrick, and O’Cain explore ideas concerning the visceral side of accumulating, storing, preserving, and communicating ideas and information. Additionally Keely and O’Cain have collaborated on a large body of work on the topic of hurricane Katrina that includes photography, installations and film. Keely’s work has a national reputation including solo exhibitions at Gallery 4016 in Los Angeles and CAD/XO Gallery in Chicago and collaborations with Anna O’Cain for the Alt Picture Show, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Ben Maltz Gallery (Otis School of Art, Los Angeles), Art Around Adams and the Spruce Street Forum in San Diego. Additional collaborations with O'Cain include a Ceremonial performance Kat and Lilly Lee at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles and INSITE 2000 in San Diego. Richard has exhibited his work and given lectures at several well-known Universities and has been a “Visiting Artist” at Murray State University, Oberlin College and Montana State University. Currently Richard Keely is living in San Diego, CA. and is an Associate Professor of Art at San Diego State University, where he teaches sculpture for the School of Art and Design.
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