Paul Harris was a CCAC faculty member from 1968 to 1992. 2025 marks the centenary of Paul Harris (1925–2018), a vanguard, multidisciplinary artist appreciated in his lifetime for his vibrant, floral patterned fabric and cloth sculptures, as well as bronzes and work on paper, and close, lifelong friendships with Phyllis and Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) as well as artist and writer Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) after meeting her at Hans Hofmann’s summer school in Provincetown in 1949. Quintessentially postmodern, Harris championed the new and nascent in contemporary American art across his paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures that were included in some of the most significant shows of the cacophonous 1960s and 1970s, while blurring the lines between Pop Art and French Modernism and working at the apex of the avant-garde vis-à-vis alternative materials and situating him alongside artists such as Claes Oldenburg (1929–2022), John Chamberlain (1927–2011), Andy Warhol (1928–1987), Eve Hesse (1936–1970)…
OUR NEWEST ARTISTS BOOK ACQUISITIONS ARE FROM LAND AND SEA, A SMALL PRESS BASED IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, RUN BY MARIA OTERO AND CHRIS DUNCAN (CCA ALUMNUS). FROM THE PUBLISHER: LAND AND SEA BEGAN DURING THE FINAL DAYS OF 2009 AND HAVE CONSISTENTLY BEEN PUBLISHING SMALL EDITIONS OF BOOKS AND RECORDS BY ARTISTS FROM THE BAY AREA AND BEYOND. UNDER THE SAME MONIKER, CHRIS AND MARIA ORGANIZE GATHERINGS THAT CELEBRATE THE ARTISTS THEY WORK WITH AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITIES THEY ARE A PART OF. LAND AND SEA ARE PROUD TO HAVE THEIR EDITIONS IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE SFMOMA, THE BERKELEY ART MUSEUM, STANFORD LIBRARY, AND THE NYMOMA.
Announcement for the Mathew Fox Art & Spirituality lecture with a performance by Russill Paul in Nahl Hall Oakland, CA, March 2, 1995
Sculptural sound installation that included daily bell-ringing ritual. File includes video documentation.
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