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San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

November 12 - February 26, 2012

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560 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113
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One Thing Leads to Another: Seriality in Works on Paper Jaq Chartier, work in progress
One Thing Leads to Another presents contemporary prints and drawings by artists who address process and repetition in their works. The exhibition highlights works created in the ICA Print Center by several of its talented Artists-in-Residence and simultaneously celebrates the art of printmaking and the ICA’s Print Center itself. One Thing Leads To Another will highlight and contextualize four of the ICA Print Center’s Artists-in-Residence including Modesto Covarrubias, Christel Dillbohner, Linn Meyers and Theodora Varnay Jones. Additionally, works by Mari Andrews, Brad Brown, Jaq Chartier, Amy Ellingson, Lea Feinstein, Robin Kandel, Anthony Ryan and Kim Rugg will be presented. Through repetitive and sometimes systematic processes, the exhibiting artists generate a varied visual vocabulary where one work informs the next one and so on. Drawing on various disciplines, such as music, language, mathematics and architecture, and employing minimal materials such as paper, pencil and ink, the artists present the expansive possibilities that repetition yields in developing a series of works. “As humans, we can relate to methodical repetition in imagery. We find ourselves lost in the recurring marks and mesmerized by the unexpected patterns it produces,” explains Susan O’Malley, ICA Curator and Print Center Director. “The physical act of repeating a mark over and over invokes the elemental and primal practice of mark-making, and thus is connected to the long lineage of human creativity,” adds O’Malley. Printmaking lends itself to repetition: In the printmaking process, artists work in diverse ways on the surface of a plate, which ultimately is the object that is placed on the press. In the development of a series, artists can duplicate and alter the properties of the plate, then repeat the printing process. Re-use of the plate inevitably creates repetition in a series; this rhythmic repetition suggests motion and draws the viewer’s attention through the series. Repetition is inextricable to this practice, and yet difference is key to the creation of a series, since variation and development, and not reproduction, are sought. With the extraordinary works on paper in One Thing Leads To Another, the ICA intends to explore creative repetition and its relationship to the development of a series of works.