The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) presents UNEARTHED: Found + Made, a new exhibition intermixing work by Oakland-born, LA-based contemporary artist Jedediah Caesar with the creative practices of two local amateur clubs-California Suiseki Society and San Francisco Suiseki Kai. Referring to an interest in geology as well as to the literal act of discovering and gathering materials from the California landscape, UNEARTHED: Found + Made draws new connections between distinct works of art and creative practices, highlighting process and shared appreciation. On view December 12 through April 24, 2016 in OMCA's Gallery of California Art, the exhibition is curated by Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture Christina Linden.
The exhibition includes approximately seven new works by artist Jedediah Caesar, who imitates geological processes in the process of making his sculptures, sometimes casting found material from the urban environment in resin and slicing these cast pieces to reveal the aggregated material within. Alongside Caesar's artworks, approximately twenty works by members of the California Suiseki Society and the San Francisco Suiseki Kai, two Bay Area clubs, reflect the art of suiseki-a traditional Japanese practice of carefully collecting, appreciating, and displaying stones from nature on carved wooden platforms.
This unique mash-up highlights the parallels in creative process and sensibility shared by the club members and the artist: each collects loose material from the landscape, and reworks and presents it for shared appreciation, creating something extraordinary from the ordinary. Through comparison, the exhibition generates conversation and mutual understanding around these two distinct yet similar creative processes.
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