Caleb Duarte, an Oakland-based chicano artist, has been working with themes of “home”.  His latest project is a mix of sculptor and performance called “Casas Voladoras” (Flying houses).

Casas Voladoras is an ongoing collaborative performance art project focusing on experiences of global migration, mobility, the moving monument and oral histories specifically dealing with communities and recent immigrants from the Americas. It is a one-week intensive workshop using art and performance, ritual and moving theater for the empowerment in telling our own stories.

Performance art workshops will be held at the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, spring 2010.

His earlier works evoke a sense of emotion attached to the idea of “home”. He uses a mix of hand rendering and built pieces made from found wood, concrete, and gypsum board.

KQED SPARK did a segment on Caleb in 2007: click here.

December 15, 2009, 5:33pm  Comments

SPILT is a bold and unique exhibition, a diverse assemblage of inspired works from talented, new artists and designers working in an array of media — fine art, photography, architecture, furniture, fashion, video, music — where works are presented in an immersive and interactive context with the story, the challenges, the context, the inspiration, processes, and environment of the designers and artists vitally framing the exhibition itself. SPILT provides the audience with a stunning showing of inspired art and design, along with an intimate experience and connection with the artists and designers themselves.

Join us in Santa Monica this Saturday (Nov. 14) for the very first SPILT exhibit by our good friends Hunter Leggitt and Hans Walør.

We’ll be curating a SPILT show in San Francisco very soon, so look out for that!

November 13, 2009, 7:56am  Comments