The San Jose Museum of Art celebrates its thirty-fifth anniversary with the publication of this major book featuring selections of contemporary art from the Museum’s rapidly growing permanent collection. Established in 1969, the San Jose Museum of Art has become one of the leading arts institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area. This 264-page publication features a selection of what the Museum believes to be the best regional, national, and international visual art of our time. Noteworthy among the more than 100 artists featured are: Ruth Asawa, Gregory Barsamian, Romare Bearden, Ruth Bernhard, David Best, Elmer Bischoff, Barbara Bloom, Joan Brown, Alexander Calder, Enrique Chagoya, Jay DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, James Doolin, Viola Frey, Andy Goldsworthy, Gronk, Edward Hopper, Mildred Howard, Hung Liu, Frank Lobdell, Richard Misrach, Nathan Oliviera, Tony Oursler, Alan Rath, Roger Shimomura, Jennifer Steinkamp, Larry Sultan, Masami Teraoka, Bill Viola, and William Wiley. Each spread in the book features a full-page color artwork accompanied by an in-depth essay that appeals to both the general public and scholars alike. Selections: The San Jose Museum Permanent Collection is authored by Susan Landauer, JoAnne Northrup, Ann Wolfe, and Lindsey Wylie.

Selections: The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection

Landauer, Susan

Northrup, JoAnne

Wolfe, Ann

Wylie, Lindsey

San Jose Museum of Art

American artist Leo Villareal (born 1967) is the most prominent light sculptor among a younger generation of light artists. In 1997, having abandoned his work with interactive television, Villareal began to pursue a more systems-based approach, devising complex light sculptures in which he combined strobe lights, neon, and most recently, LED bulbs activated by the artist's own extraordinary custom-made software. The effect of these bulbs, and the software that steers their flickering patterns, is cumulative and magical: thousands of tiny white LEDs may resemble a starry night as seen in a planetarium (Villareal installed this work in the windows of the Peter Jay Sharp Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music), while tubes of colored LEDs masked by a diffuser give a softer effect that resembles something like a Monet painting of water lilies set in motion. This volume accompanies the first museum survey of Villareal's hypnotic and exhilarating light sculptures at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Leo Villareal

Hart, Sara

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Starry Eyes: The Art of Jennifer Steinkamp JoAnne Northrup, Dave Hickey, Dan Cameron 
This monograph celebrates the pioneering work of Jennifer Steinkamp, an artist for the digital age. 
Steinkamp’s work consists largely of installations, abstract and figurative projections that blur the lines between the virtual and the concrete. Trained in animation and computer graphics, Steinkamp’s art exists only in code, her computer serving as the paint, the palette and the brush. The book includes essays tracing Steinkamp’s career and providing an introduction to her unique methods. Other topics discussed in the book are Steinkamp’s work in the context of the burgeoning field of animation and her work in relation to the paintings of Monet and Pollock, showing how her work takes impressionist and expressionist art to the next, inevitable, step. 
JoAnne Northrup is a Senior Curator of the San Jose Museum of Art. 
Dave Hickey is an award-winning art critic. 
Dan Cameron is a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

Jennifer Steinkamp

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Prestel Pub

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