Remembering is Everything features commissioned works by six American artists. In the fall of 2012, all of the artists were shown an original video created by the curators as a prompt to memory. Then, each was asked to formulate a response using the video’s structure and elements to create works that centered on their remembrances. The artists were asked to consider the video as they would any other witnessed event; and after they viewed the video, it was destroyed….read more
can’t take it with you presents new works by multimedia artist Jorge Garcia on display in the Peephole Gallery…read more
Alter Space presents a week-long open studio for current artist-in-residence Joshua Hagler. Following his three month residency, Hagler presents “In The Box Beneath The City,” an experimental graphic novel in progress, during which he invited acquaintances and colleagues to be interviewed. While every interviews are varied, each interviewee is asked the same first question: “How do you plead?”read more
While You Were Gone… investigates the replacement of history through the lens of local memory as situated by artists Adam Joseph Brochstein, Caleb Jagger, and Greg Stimac. The phenomenology of memory is one that is represented in many forms, through oral retelling, photography, written document, and film. These artists are looking at isolated locations to record the contemporaneous societies present in these particular small towns as well as how this has affected general Americana. Significantly while these places still subsist, they, in a way, exist to serve the memory of what they once were…read more
The Individualized Major program presents an interdisciplinary exhibition of ideas about other places, getting lost, wandering, and the possibility that the wrong place is exactly where we need to be. Behold souvenirs and wonders from distant lands: distant in time, distant in space, and existing only in the mind. The participating artists transform the gallery space into a giant cabinet of marvels including dioramas, films, and fantastic tales chronicling the thousand realms of wonder that lie beyond our familiar experience: the New World, the Old World, outer space, alternate versions of the everyday world, flights of fancy, and places you’ve never been…read more
In What’s Left Behind, the traditional white-walled gallery has been transformed through layers of print and paint to create the fictional setting of an abandoned house. Serving as a backdrop for works by an exciting group of artists, this immersive environment features paintings, drawings, sculpture and print that bring the abandoned walls to life…read more
In Glass Donkey Desert, Alter Space’s first Peephole Gallery Exhibition, multimedia artist Morse Cosmos maximizes the potential of non-traditional art materials while challenging both the viewer’s curiosity and sense of perception. Presented as a series of intimate dioramas, Cosmos’ creates both playful portals which might be best described as ethereal and elemental, and explores sculpted figuration that hints at a darker, more mysterious narrative….read more
Come join us for an amazing night of live performances by the incredibly talented Mariee Sioux, Emily Jane White, and Odd Bird. These wonderful musicians will be marking the close to the exhibition What’s Left Behind. Tickets for this intimate showing are limited, so make sure to get yours early….read more
As part of the exhibition What’s Left Behind artists Maja Ruznic and Imin Yeh spend an entire work day deconstructing The Ball, a three-year collection of discarded man made detritus, scraps, and trash. The organized processed by-product will be available for sale at the end of the 8-hour work session…read more
Alter Space presents a one-of-a-kind comic book workshop taught by Eisner-nominated graphic novelist, Matt Silady. From story creation to page layout and publication tips, this workshop is designed for both the beginner comic creator as well as experienced writers and artists looking to maximize the potential of the comic book medium. If you’ve ever dreamt of writing or drawing a comic, this workshop is for you…read more
Diane Cluck and Kyle Field of Little Wings will be opening our first annual mini-fest with live performances on June 15th! This years festival takes place within the exhibition What’s Left Behind, where the traditional white-walled gallery has been transformed through layers of print and paint to create the fictional setting of an abandoned house…read more
As part of our continuing commitment to the promotion of local contemporary arts, we have invited artist Matthew Endler to serve as Alter Space’s first guest curator. Endler brings with him a group of emerging artists responding to the overwhelming impact of technology and internet culture on our lives. Collectively, their work examines the only world that many of the participating artists have known, visually shaped by evolving screen technologies and the complicated relationship between the physical body and mercurial nature of electronic space…read more
Alter Space is excited to announce our inaugural exhibition “Shifter”, a multi media, group exhibition exploring actions of restless transformation. The transformative process can take on many forms including the physical, social, and spiritual, yet it’s principal characteristic is that of movement – of energy and change. Shifter brings together a diverse group of artists whose works shift and transform materially and conceptually. Works included in this exhibition present us with new viewpoints on the everyday and capture physical shifts in process, perspective and the body…read more
Christina La Sala’s exhibition of new works, ABAAB, invites the viewer into a world layered with pattern. Whether readily distinguished through our senses or hidden beneath unperceivable mystery, pattern remains a permeating aspect in life. La Sala’s creations and interpretations reveal a glimpse of her relationship with pattern – a guide for further exploration…read more
Alter Space is proud to host its first event, Dissemination, a one night interactive gathering organized by Graduate Fine Arts Students from the California College of the Arts. As part of Joyce Grimm’s course “Making Things Happen,” artists Melissa Dickenson, Wes Fanelli, Benjamin Marlowe, and Lauren Taylor, as well as other invited artists, create an event which celebrates the forms through which individuals both learn and teach their surrounding communities…read more