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Pro Arts Gallery

January 25 - February 26, 2011

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150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Oakland, CA 94612
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2 x 2 Solos Chris Fraser, One Line Drawing the Ceiling of the Mills College Art Museum 5:56pm, Light installation, Variable, 2010
Curated by Xiaoyu Weng Reception: Friday, February 4, 6 - 8 pm Oakland-based artist Chris Fraser creates large-scale installations that explore visible light’s relationship to image making. Informed by optical devices from the early nineteenth century, his work brings attention to the way in which artists not only create images but also impose rules for how their work is to be seen. For his first solo exhibition at Pro Arts, Fraser brings together videos, pinhole photographs, and a darkened room in which changing stripes of color correspond to the ambient light in the surrounding gallery. The common element uniting all three groupings is an investigation of the physical body’s role in constructing images from light. Chris Fraser received his BA in history from the University of California, Davis and his MFA in studio art from Mills College. He is a recipient of the Jay DeFeo Prize, is currently a graduate fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and will be featured in Bay Area Now 6 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Xiaoyu Weng is an independent writer and curator based in San Francisco. About 2 x 2 Solos 2 x 2 Solos is a series of solo exhibitions featuring new work commissioned from four accomplished emerging artists based in the Oakland/Bay Area. The program recognizes artistic excellence and supports the freedom to create challenging and noncommercial work. It provides a platform for cutting-edge, risk-taking art and situates artists in a critical contemporary art context. Supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2 x 2 Solos engages multiple layers of the region’s arts ecology by providing institutional and monetary support for artists, curators, and writers in the Oakland/Bay Area. About Pro Arts Pro Arts supports the arts within communities by serving the ongoing needs of artists. This Oakland-based arts organization provides critical access to contemporary art in the region and serves as a regional hub for arts activities, independent curated exhibitions, advocacy, and capacity-building artist services. Pro Arts’ visual arts programming showcases for the best new work made in the Oakland/Bay Area, including cutting-edge, risk-taking contemporary art, and important works by artists representing under-served populations and communities of color, and working artists. Pro Arts provides fiscal sponsorship to artists and professional services matching artists with community partners. Additionally, Pro Arts’ Youth Fellows program integrates arts education, exhibitions, arts training, and youth development. Last year Pro Arts exhibited 690 artists and produced 62 events drawing an annual audience of 72,000.