Date: 1/13/2008 - 2/25/2008 (Tuesday-Friday and Sunday)
Time: 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Headlands Center for the Arts

Ticket Info: FREE
Opening Reception: February 3, 2-5PM.

Slide Show of Close Calls:2008

Headlands Center for the Arts is pleased to present Close Calls: 2008. This exhibition commemorating the best in Bay Area emerging art is now in its sixth year. Each year in January and February, while our Artist in Residence programs are in recess, we open our Project Spaces to host this exhibition as an effort to further support and showcase the great breadth of talent in our region.

Close Calls: 2008 provides another opportunity to highlight the extraordinary caliber of work being produced by Headlands applicants in the Bay Area, to build a community of peers among these artists and to engage them with Headlands’ audiences. This year’s exhibition is divided into two thematic groupings, dictated by trends apparent in the work of the selected artists. In the Eastwing Project Space, the works on view tend toward engagement with the artists’ physical environments, whether natural landscapes or manmade architectures. In the Westwing Project Space, the works engage with the artists’ social environments, which may include family, immediate community or the global network enabled by contemporary media. The forms these artworks take range from drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, film, video and interactive media.

Headlands Center for the Arts received an unprecedented 256 applications from visual, media and interdisciplinary artists to its prestigious and highly competitive California Artist in Residence (AIR) program in 2007. Of this pool, our funding enabled us to invite six to participate in the residency program in 2008. They were selected by Visual Arts jurors Leigh Markopoulos, then director of Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, and now Chair of the Curatorial Practice department at California College of the Arts, and Kathy Aoki, artist and 2003 Headlands AIR; as well as Interdisciplinary juror Svea Vezzone, Director of Swarm Gallery, Oakland; and Media Arts juror Trena Noval, an independent curator, writer, artist and educator based in Richmond.

Artists in Close Calls: 2008 also include finalists for the 2007-08 Tournesol Award, juried by Christopher Brown, painter and Eminent Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts; Laurie Reid, painter; and Mike Henderson, painter and Professor of Painting at University of California, Davis.

*Click Here to Download Program Director Anuradha Vikram's Essay on Close Calls:2008.

Close Calls: 2008 features the following 45 artists (Tournesol finalists denoted by *):


Carl Augé
April Banks
Kristine Branscomb-Fitzgerald*
Val Britton
Julie Chang
Mel Davis
Linda M. Ford & Pam Martin
Renée Gertler
Lori Gordon
Joshua Hagler*
Liz Hickok
Amy Hicks
Elyse Hochstadt
Desirée Holman
Amanda Hughen & Jennifer Starkweather
Helena Keeffe
Seth Koen
Bianca Kolonusz-Partee*
Christine Lee
Frederick Loomis
Jessamyn Lovell
Marksearch (Bruce Douglas & Sue Mark)
Jessica Martin
Sean McFarland
Brendan Monroe
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Scott Oliver
Laura Paulini
Job Piston
Thomas Plagemann
Mel Prest
Amy Rathbone
Jill Sylvia
Casey Jex Smith
Chris Sollars
Kal Spelletich
Weston Teruya
Lucrecia Troncoso
Anna Ura
Marie Van Elder
Andy Vogt
Matt Volla
Victoria Wagner
Richard T. Walker
Banker White

Close Calls: 2008 Installation 1/7/08