Hilton Als curates exhibition of CE artists in Cedarville
Serpente 2 by Bertha Otoya, c. 2008, mixed media, 25 x 33 inches
Modoc County’s premier contemporary art gallery, Studio 540 features a selection of works by CE artists in Creativity Explored with Hilton Als, on view from August 4 to August 27, 2023. This exhibition is organized by renowned writer and curator Hilton Als, who recently concluded an exhibition at CE in San Francisco called Figuratively Speaking. The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, collage, and embroidery, and all featured works were made between 2004 and 2022. See the exhibition from Thursdays to Mondays from 1:00 to 5:00 PM.
Featured artists: Ada Chow, Ana Maria Vidalon, Andrew Li, Bertha Otoya, Daniel Green, Douglas Sheran, Elana Cooper, Evelyn Reyes, John Patrick McKenzie, José Nunez, Thomas Pringle, and Walter Kresnik.
About Hilton Als
Hilton Als is best known for the strikingly fresh and insightful journalism he has produced as a staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker magazine and for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is the author of several books and serves as a teaching professor at UC Berkeley and associate professor of writing at Columbia University. Recently, Als has curated a number of celebrated exhibitions including Alice Neel, Uptown at David Zwirner Gallery, New York, and Joan Didion: What She Means at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Opening Reception
Friday, August 4
5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Celebrate the opening of Creativity Explored with Hilton Als at Studio 540, coinciding with Cedarville’s First Friday monthly festival.
Public Screening and Lecture
Saturday, August 5
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Join us at Studio 540 for a public screening of the recently released documentary You Always See Myself by Electric Park Films. The screening will be followed by a lecture, “Exploring Outsider Art,” by James Linnehan, Professor of Art History at Berkeley City College.