2017
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2017 Artist Recipients
The San Diego Art Prize committee selected 2 established San Diego artists who then chose emerging artists to feature in the final exhibitions. The 2017 San Diego Art Prize recipients Cy Kuchenbaker with Rizzhel Mae Javier and Alexander Kohnke with FU/RICH exhibited at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla.
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Deborah Klochko, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Photographic Arts
Debra Poteet, Collector Hugh Davies,PhD, Director Emeritus, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Julio M. Romero, Artist Melinda Chiment, Executive Director, The AjA Project |
Cy Kuchenbaker
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Cy Kuchenbaker is an experimental filmmaker and photographer who works with software; digital video; analog and digital photography; and the written word. He received his MFA in film direction from the California Institute of the Arts in 2006, was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004 and served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Lithuania from 2000-2002. His experimental videos have been shared broadly online by platforms such as The Atlantic magazine, Designboom, Journal Du Design and more. Most recently his work was featured in PhotoViz, an artbook publish by Gestatlen, edited by Nicholas Felton, that featured cutting edge work in the area of photo visualization. The themes of Kuckenbaker’s work vary but include American identity; time based narrative; bureaucracy and capitalism; and human vision. Cy Kuckenbaker is a full time faculty member at San Diego City College where he teaches film.The Cardinal Directions is a photo and video series focused on his relationship to the city of San Diego and his need to orient himself within its narrative. Created with handmade stereo cameras that take hours to expose an image; the unpredictability of the cameras and the long exposure times demand meditation and invite randomness; a rebellion against the formalized, tourist oriented, narrative of the city.
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Rizzhel Mae Javier
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Rizzhel Mae Javier is an artist and educator from San Diego and the Founder of Bridge. She is an advocate for arts education and is always looking for opportunities to bring visual arts into the community. Rizzhel uses photography in her personal work, which exist in sculptural forms, to make objects that explore memory, human interaction and relationships. She teaches photography with The AjA Project, with displaced children and incarcerated youth, and video at Pacific Arts Movement as Instructor for their Documentary Short Film program Reel Voices. Rizzhel Mai Javier Keep the Channel Open with MikeSakasegawa, Espisode 46. Class not dismissed, Part !: Teaching artists to gight the good fight, Rizzhel Mae Javier San Diego City Beat by Rachel Michelle Fernandes, March 20, 2018
Alexander Kohnke
Alexander Kohnke's work observes and visualizes the underlying, raw forces of life in our everyday existence. Using a wide range of media and armed with a keen aesthetic and a sense of
humor, Kohnke works in drawing, photography, printmaking and video to create work that is both personal and universal. He was born in Germany, lived in Belgium and Switzerland before moving to Los Angeles in 1994 and San Diego in 2014. He holds a BFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. The art work of Alexander Kohnke has been shown in San Diego and L.A., most recently at a solo exhibition at Airlock Gallery in San Marcos. Alexander Kohnke Keep the Channel Open with Mike Sakasegawa, Espisode 28 and hear Kohnke speaking about this work on The Artist Odessey. Fu/Rich
FU/RICH is a collaboration between artists Victoria Fu and Matt Rich. Fu works primarily in video and image-based installation, while Rich is a painter. Their collaborative practice is a coming together of aesthetic sensibilities and working processes, visible through the combined palettes and textures--from film-grained gradients and painted brushstrokes to frayed canvas threads. Fu (b. Santa Monica, CA) received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History/ Museum Studies from USC, and BA from Stanford University; Rich (b. Boston, MA) received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BA from Brown University. They met at Skowhegan in 2010, and embarked on this studio partnership for a solo exhibition at The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI, this past May. The show traveled to Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA, this past summer, and will travel to University of Massachusetts Boston, MA in March 2018. They live, work and teach in San Diego.
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