up the fwy from sfmoma: manetti shrem

“The qual­i­ty of light which is so char­ac­ter­is­tic of the Cen­tral Val­ley be­came a very im­por­tant fac­tor.” —Roland Pe­ter­son

On Sun­day, 13 No­vem­ber 2016 an­oth­er world-class mu­se­um opened on north­ern Cal­i­forn­ian soil – as UC Davis held a rib­bon cut­ting cer­e­mo­ny un­veil­ing the Jan Shrem and Maria Manet­ti Shrem Mu­se­um of Art.

The museum’s 44,000-square-foot space sig­na­ture fea­ture is a 50,000 square-foot ‘Grand Canopy’ of per­fo­rat­ed alu­minum tri­an­gu­lar beams, sup­port­ed by 40 steel columns. The building’s de­sign is light-filled, porous and pairs hand­some­ly with the ad­ja­cent Mon­davi Cen­ter.

In day­light, the ex­pan­sive canopy cre­ates the gra­di­ent shad­ow so in­te­gral to the cam­pus’ graph­ic iden­ti­ty. The fo­cal point through­out the cer­e­mo­ny was the col­or­ful un­du­lat­ing chain wrapped around the canopy and main en­trance de­signed by UC Davis alum­na Lisa Ry­bovich Cral­lé. This chain served as the rib­bon for the event and was a site-spe­cif­ic in­stal­la­tion con­tain­ing 500 soft chain-links strung to­geth­er. Each link was made by com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers in a se­ries of work­shops held at Sacramento’s Verge Cen­ter for the Arts – the build­ing which housed Axis Gallery’s FLOMM SEPTt EX­PÉRI­MEN­To last year. The piece sym­bol­i­cal­ly re­in­forces the theme of the arts be­ing a uni­fy­ing force.

Every­thing about the Manet­ti Shrem Mu­se­um seems steeped in the Cen­tral Val­ley light that Pe­ter­son cred­it­ed as his en­dur­ing source of in­spi­ra­tion. This is a mu­se­um whose core val­ues are mak­ing and teach­ing art. 

Its lec­ture halls, class­room, and stu­dio space are open to every­one, even non-ma­tric­u­lat­ed students. 

And a phrase on a con­tri­bu­tion box touts uni­ver­sal ac­cess to the arts as not only a part of the UC Davis tra­di­tion but also our own.

 

The three in­au­gur­al ex­hi­bi­tions include:

Out Our Way
13 No­vem­ber 2016 – 26 March 2017
Show­cas­es the de­vel­op­ment of the UC Davis Art De­part­ment dur­ing its for­ma­tive years. Fea­tur­ing works from renowned fac­ul­ty like William T. Wi­ley, Roy De­For­est and Roland Petersen. 

Pia Camil: A Pot for a Latch
13 No­vem­ber 2016 – 19 Feb­ru­ary 2017
An im­mer­sive par­tic­i­pa­to­ry art in­stal­la­tion by Mex­i­co City-based artist Pia Camil. The piece is an amal­gam of mer­ca­dos (Mex­i­can out­door mar­kets) and Na­tive Amer­i­can pot­lach­es, or gift­ing feasts. Per­son­al ob­jects hang from each pan­el via hooks, shelves, and fix­tures. The ca­coph­o­ny of ob­jects beck­on the viewer’s en­gage­ment and im­bues the en­tire space with a sense of the cer­e­mo­ni­al. Ob­jects run the gamut from a kitsch naked one­sie to a mov­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal screen print. Vis­i­tors are in­vit­ed to ex­change a per­son­al ob­ject for those dis­played in the in­stal­la­tion on des­ig­nat­ed days. 

Chris Sol­lars – Hoof & Foot: A Field Study
13 No­vem­ber 2016 – 19 Feb­ru­ary 2017
A video in­stal­la­tion that jux­ta­pos­es im­agery of hoof and foot to­geth­er to delve into the sym­bi­ot­ic re­la­tion­ships be­tween an­i­mals and stu­dents on the UC Davis campus.
 

For more in­for­ma­tion, hours, col­lec­tions and MOR, please vis­it the Manet­ti Shrem web­site.
 
 

—louis her­nan­dez

Flom­mist Louis Her­dan­dez is ob­sessed with go­ing Bauhaus and be­com­ing The Ma­chine. Prefer­ably a drill press. Copy­right © 2016 Louis Hernandez.

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