Event Listing - Museums
Tue Nov 25, 2008 - Sun Feb 15

This End Up: The Art of Cardboard


Tel. 408.271.6840
Website
$8

Location
Date and Time
San Jose Museum of Art
110 S. Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113 map
cross street: San Fernando
district: San Jose (Downtown)

Tue Nov 25, 2008 (11am-5pm)
Wed Nov 26, 2008 (11am-5pm)
Fri Nov 28, 2008 (11am-5pm)
Sat Nov 29, 2008 (11am-5pm)
Sun Nov 30, 2008 (11am-5pm)

Description
In fact, many of the most highly esteemed artists, like Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Gehry, Joan Brown and Manuel Neri, have experimented with cardboard as an artistic material. Both relatively inexpensive and ubiquitous, cardboard affords artists the ability to work on a large-scale that might not be otherwise possible. In this exhibition, artists challenge the limits of cardboard by investigating topics ranging from formal concerns to social commentary and engineering. Oakland-based artist Scott Hove paints and embellishes cardboard transforming its dull, brown surface to a delectable, pink, frosted cake. Exploring the sculptural quality of cardboard, Tobias Putrih carefully carves the material revealing organic forms with dynamic surfaces. Ranging from large scale installation to two-dimensional objects, this exhibition demonstrates the almost endless artistic possibilities of this everyday material.

-sjmusart.com