Modesto Covarrubias' work is part of lone some, an exhibition seeking to inspire and provoke questions about what it means to experience loneliness, the exhibition's art works are featured on 25 independent public sites around the Bay Area.
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Knitting Chair, 2010-2020
Acrylic yarn, knitting needles, chair.
Knitting Chair is an on-going project that usually involves participation by anyone willing to contribute by sitting down and spending some time to knit. This iteration is a direct response to the Shelter-In-Place orders. Separated from any possibility of interaction, this work beckons for a time when we might participate together while distantly reminding us how much our “aloneness” is piling up all around us. Special thanks to presenting partner the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
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Hear, There and Everywhere, 2020
Archival digital print. The series of isolated lines of words in Hear, There and Everywhere may be seen throughout the Bay Area as part of the exhibition lone some. Each image suggests a search for meaning in isolation; with repeated words, mantras, prayers, poems, and lyrics, we summon the strength to work through our predicament. In Hear, There and Everywhere, when saying these lines out loud, we find the connection between understanding and knowing. |
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Meet the Artist
MODESTO COVARRUBIAS
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Modesto Covarrubias is a solo and collaborative artist whose work investigates the physical, psychological, and emotional connection to environments. His interdisciplinary practice employs a broad range of media including drawing, photography, installation, printmaking, textiles, and performance. He is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. His practice includes RoCoCo, an ongoing collaboration with fellow CCA Associate Professor KC Rosenberg. Covarrubias’ work has been included in exhibitions at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Galleria Civica in Modena, Italy; The Poor Farm in Little Wolf, Wisconsin; The Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York; and at the Oakland International Airport. His work has been featured at Oakland Museum’s Gallery 555, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), and in Oakland Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. A Bay Area native, Covarrubias lives in Berkeley and maintains a studio in Oakland, California.
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Modesto Covarrubias is a solo and collaborative artist whose work investigates the physical, psychological, and emotional connection to environments. His interdisciplinary practice employs a broad range of media including drawing, photography, installation, printmaking, textiles, and performance. He is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. His practice includes RoCoCo, an ongoing collaboration with fellow CCA Associate Professor KC Rosenberg. Covarrubias’ work has been included in exhibitions at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery; Galleria Civica in Modena, Italy; The Poor Farm in Little Wolf, Wisconsin; The Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York; and at the Oakland International Airport. His work has been featured at Oakland Museum’s Gallery 555, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), and in Oakland Magazine and San Francisco Magazine. A Bay Area native, Covarrubias lives in Berkeley and maintains a studio in Oakland, California.
Conversations Series
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(July 23, 2020) — What's Goin' On?
On July 23, lone some participant Modesto Covarrubias was joined by Chris Evans, Ernest Jolly, and Constance Lewis to discuss their practice, their projects, and coping in times of isolation, cultural shifts, and social pivot. |
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Related Programs
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FESTIVAL
Threads: Weaving Humanity On July 19, in a celebration throughout the Montalvo grounds, Montalvo premiered Threads: Weaving Humanity, featuring four newly commissioned works of textile by five artists whose work redefines fiber arts. These works were created to provide opportunities for contemplation, consideration and conversation on the meaning of our shared humanity, and what is necessary for humanity to thrive...This includes kindness, compassion, integrity, respect, empathy, forgiveness, and self-reflection. Read More >> |
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COMMISSION
Forgiveness, the Misplaced Grace In developing this work, RoCoCo asked: What does forgiveness look like? The form and materials of this sculpture explore the structure of forgiveness, suggesting that the process starts heavy, dark, uneven, and awkward. Layer by layer, it is gradually refined to a lighter, more transparent and reflective condition, until it achieves a state of grace. With this work, a revival of grace is envisioned, and the cultivation of a season of compassion. Read More >> |
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FESTIVAL
5 Hour Sculpture, A Pop-up Arts Festival In March 2016, Montalvo launched an open call for proposals for our annual summer Art on the Grounds festival. We asked would-be applicants, “if you had five hours to present a work of sculpture in a public park, what would you create?” The eleven works that were on view at the 2016 Arts on the Grounds program―featuring more than thirty-five artists and their collaborators from the Bay Area, Greater US, and beyond―represent the final projects selected through this process. Read More >> |
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