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Pro Arts Gallery

March 8 - April 9, 2011

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150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Oakland, CA 94612
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2 x 2 Solos Taro Hattori
Oakland-based artist Taro Hattori's immersive installations deconstruct social systems that impose control. His current project at Pro Arts, commissioned as part of the 2 x 2 Solos program, addresses themes of confinement, labor and immigration through the construction of a series of walled structures and their subsequent dismantling by day laborers. The exhibition features structural remnants and video documentation of the performance. This project is a continuation of Hattori's ongoing investigation into contradictory ideas that have found an untenable equilibrium in society. By connecting psychological processes and materials, the artist presents a stage on which relationships and affiliations are readdressed. 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.
2 x 2 Solos Taro Hattori