Sjma Podcast

Artist Eric Fischl spoke at the San Jose Museum of Art on October 25, 2012, at the opening celebration for the exhibition: "Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting." Joining him in conversation were Lynn Orr, curator in charge of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and Jodi Throckmorton, associate curator at SJMA and co-curator of the exhibition.

Sound Mix for Leo Villareal at the San Jose Museum of Art Melodic Shapes by James Healy (Escape Art, Air Texture) Repeating sonic structures, creating melodic shapes, may form iconic pathways into abstract thought. Tracklisting: Loscil "Fern and Robin", Antonio Trinchera "Just To See You Tomorrow", bvdub "I Knew Happiness Once", Mike Chillage & Pentatonik "Hypothermia", Antonio Trinchera "The Wind Make Himself", Schwanbeck "Glow", Aquadorsa "Daylight Fading Into Evening Silence", Ulf Lohmann "Kristall", Antonio Trinchera "Voce Falena", Ulf Lohmann "My Pazifik", John Barry "Out of Africa", Klimek "for Michael Gira and Vladmir Ivanovich", Loscil "Hyphae" Escape Art: The Art of Escape

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode for the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection curator Heather Green talks about the ideas behind the exhibition and the Anderson art collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art Oct. 13, 2007 - Jan. 6, 2008. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. Instead

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode William Allen speaks about his large scale painting, Half a Dam, in the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art October 13, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. Instead we find images of pollution

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode William T. Wiley talks about his marker and watercolor work on paper in the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art October 13, 2007 - January 6, 2008. He also sung an original song, that accompanies the episode, to us. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scene

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode Charles Arnoldi speaks about his stick sculpture in the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art October 13, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. Instead we find images of pollution and alienation t

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode Carole Seborovski talks about two drawings she has in the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art October 13, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. Instead we find images of pollution and alienation

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode Sam Richardson talks about his cast resin sculptures in the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art October 13, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. Instead we find images of pollution and alienati

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode Vija Celmins speaks about her two drawings in the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art October 13, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. Instead we find images of pollution and alienation that mi

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode Harry W. Anderson speaks about the Anderson art collection, philanthropy and several of the artists in the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art October 13, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. I

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to offer this audio tour to compliment your visit to the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Art Collection. In it you will hear commentary by curator Heather Green, interviews with several of the artists in the exhibition, and insight into the collection provided by Harry W. Anderson himself. You can download it to your iPod or other audio device for your next visit to the museum! In this episode Harry W. Anderson speaks about the Anderson art collection, philanthropy and several of the artists in the exhibition De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection; on view at the San Jose Museum of Art October 13, 2007 - January 6, 2008. Broadly defined, to denature is to change the character or condition of something. In the milieu of contemporary painting, sculpture, and work on paper seen in this exhibition, it is the connection between artist and nature that has changed. Gone are the romantic vistas and picturesque scenes of traditional landscape painting. I

The San Jose Museum of Art is pleased to be the only West Coast venue for the critically acclaimed exhibition Martin Ramirez. The exhibition runs from June 9 - September 9, 2007. In this podcast Martin Ramirez: Three Perspectives, we speak with three people closely associated with this exhibition. Brooke Davis Anderson is the director and curator of The Contemporary Center of the American Folk Art Museum in New York and was responsible for organizing the Martin Ramirez exhibiton. Kristin Espinosa, sociologist, researched the life and recorded the biography of Martin Ramirez. And Matt Pasto is the son of Tarmo Pasto, the artist and psychologist, who was responsible for discovering and encouraging the work of Martin Ramirez.

Our final podcast in the Artist of the Week series focuses on the California painter Helen Lundeburg (1908-1999). Lundeburg's painting "Untitled (Red Line)" recently came into the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art. For this episode we interviewed Tobey C. Moss, owner of the Tobey C. Moss Gallery. As a close friend of Lundeburg's, and also her representative, Moss was able to provide an intimate look into the life and art of this often overlooked artist. Thanks for listening to all of our Artist of the Week podcasts. Keep a look out for an Artist of the Month podcast, probably with a with a different title though! During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the

Chained to the office for this episode of Artist of the Week, we headed into the recording studio where we conducted phone interviews with two Bay Area art professionals. The subject of the interviews was Benicia based artist Manuel Neri, whose sculpture "Untitled (Kneeling Figure)" recently came into the SJMA collection. First up, we interviewed art critic and San Francisco Institute of Art professor Mark Van Proyen, who has written a catalog essay for Neri's upcoming show at Hackett-Freedman Gallery in San Francisco. Then we turned to the co-owner of the Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Tracy Freedman, to shed some personal insight on the artist who the gallery has represented for 7 years now. During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visi

We traveled to Oakland for this episode of Artist of the Week where we were invited into the studio of Amy Kaufman to discuss her artistic process and her piece, "Ice and Shoots" in the SJMA permanent collection. In her bright and welcoming studio we were able to see recent paintings and drawings in various states of progress. We also spoke with the San Jose Museum of Art's Chief Curator, Susan Landauer, who was able to put Kaufman's art into context with the Bay Area art scene and shed some insight on Kaufman's artistic abilities. During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works first hand with the audio. However, these are enhanced podcasts

For week 5, we focus on artist Richard Misrach and SJMA’s recent acquisition "Untitled", from the series On the Beach, photographed by Misrach. For the podcast we spoke with gallery owner Robert Mann who represented Richard Misrach for over 20 years and even traveled with him several summers through the desert Southwest. In addition, we interviewed geologist, SJMA board member and Misrach collector, Peter Lipman who shares his personal insight on Misrach’s work. During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works first hand with the audio. However, these are enhanced podcasts and if you own an iPod that displays pictures or if you view the podcas

Ruth Asawa is the artist featured this week on our Artist of the Week PodCast whose tied-wire sculpture "Untitled" recently came into our collection. For the episode, we traveled to San Francisco to speak with Curator of American Art and Director of Contemporary Programs, Daniell Cornell, at the De Young Museum. Daniell Cornell worked closely with Asawa to curate and plan her retrospective exhibition "Contours in the Air". In addition, we spoke by phone with Aiko Cuneo, Ruth Asawa's oldest daughter, who spoke with us about what life was like living with such a prolific and renowned artist. During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works fi

This week we interviewed Rick Arnitz in his live/work studio in Oakland, CA. We were treated to a tour of his studio after the interview where we saw recent works he was producing for an upcoming exhibition at Stephen Wirtz Gallery. During the interview he discusses his painting, a recent SJMA acquisition, called "Who Won What When and Where". In addition, we spoke to gallery owner Stephen Wirtz who has represented Arnitz for more than 10 years. During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works first hand with the audio. However, these are enhanced podcasts and if you own an iPod that displays pictures or if you view the podcast in iTunes, you

Our second artist is Jack Zajac. We went to Santa Cruz, CA where Zajac lives and works to speak with him. In his studio, we were treated to a tour of his artwork and after we sat down with him in his home to speak about his travels, his art and his process. Providing extra insight is JoAnne Northrup, Senior Curator at SJMA, who helped bring "Falling Water, Santa Cruz XXIV" into our collection. During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works first hand with the audio. However, these are enhanced podcasts and if you own an iPod that displays pictures or if you view the podcast in iTunes, you will be able to view images from the collection a

Our first artist is Hung Liu. For the podcast we went to Hung Liu's studio to discuss her painting "Shoah" which recently came into SJMA's collection. In addition we spoke with her husband, art critic, Jeff Kelly. During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show. The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri. We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works first hand with the audio. However, these are enhanced podcasts and if you own an iPod that displays pictures or if you view the podcast in iTunes, you will be able to view images from the collection and images from the interviews. But you can also just listen to the audio and enjoy the insight that each podcast will provide. If you have any comments or questions please email: pod