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• Artist Tour with Stephanie Metz at the Triton Museum

  • When
    15 Dec 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Triton Museum, 1505 Warburton Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95050

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  Artist Tour with Stephanie Metz

  at the Triton Museum

  PACIFIC RIM SCULPTORS invites you to take a tour of the Triton Museum with PRS Artist Stephanie Metz!

  The Triton Museum of Art presents Stephanie Metz: In the Glow, an exhibition debuting a series of evocative fiber sculptures. Wool felt and body-like forms combined with reflected color explore themes of soft power, aesthetic perception, and the paradoxes of female life.

  The free-standing and wall-mounted sculptures and immersive installation transcend stereotypical notions of textile art as decorative and domestic. Metz uses a nuanced abstract visual language to allude to the contradictions of a woman’s experiences— vulnerability and resilience, internal and external perceptions, and working within and against gender biases and expectations. The felt material used to make the sculptures reflect these contradictions, embodying both the tender and the tough by being supple yet durable. 

  Sculpted from wool fibers compressed into freestanding dense shapes or sutured from pieces of thick, smooth industrial felt, Metz’s visceral organic forms incorporate carefully placed pink pigment. Pink, a color loaded with cultural and symbolic significance, highlights both conformity and resistance to gender binaries. Optical interactions between the white sculptures and reflected pink light reveal lines and contours and draw attention to the very act of seeing color. 

  A monumental stitched industrial felt sculpture at the center of the gallery invites visitors to immerse themselves ‘inside the glow’ created between the 16- by- 20- foot ‘curtain’ of undulating abstracted figurative forms and a wall of fluorescent pink paint. Stephanie Metz: In the Glow expands conventional definitions of the feminine and explores how edgy softness can hold space, command presence, and provoke thought.

  More about your visit:

  Sunday, December 15th will be a special day at the Triton Museum! 

  Not only do we have this tour with Stephanie Metz, but the museum is also hosting a free musical performance by Chromatic Music Academy in the Warburton Gallery from 10- 4pm. Come early for stay later after the tour to catch one of their amazing performances.

  Free parking and free admission into the museum.

  Location: Triton Museum, 1505 Warburton Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95050

  Bio:

  Stephanie Metz (United States, b.1976) creates sculptures that embody nuanced, contradictory ideas to offer viewers a means to connect, reconsider, and sit with complex realities. She uses nontraditional techniques in fiber-- stitching thick industrial felt and needle felting-- to create three-dimensional objects ranging from intimately sized to monumental scale, in forms that are both seductive and repulsive, muscular and yet elegant. Metz holds a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Oregon and she lives and works in the California Bay Area. Current exhibits include In the Glow at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, California and InTouch at the Mesa Contemporary Art Center in Arizona.

  
  

  
  

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• Public Art Commission Agreements: Legal and Practical Issues for Sculptors

  • When
    14 Jan 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Public Art Commission Agreements: Legal and Practical Issues for Sculptors

  This webinar will cover the full range of issues that are raised in Public Art Commission agreements. While the Commission Agreements offered by government entities and private developers can vary significantly, the issues that are important to sculptors are the same in both: Design approval, scheduling, the use of sub-contractors like fabricators, payment, copyright, risk of loss and insurance, indemnification, artists moral rights, and dispute resolution. All of these are important terms that should be included in Commission Agreements and will be discussed in detail

  Webinar host: MJ Bogatin - founding partner of Bogatin, Corman & Gold

  
  

  Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2024 | 12pm-1:30pm

  Webinar is a 1-hr presentation followed by a 30min Q & A.

  **Registration required in order to attend. Link to the webinar will be sent the week before the scheduled date.*

  
  

  About MJ Bogatin:

  M.J. Bogatin (“Bo”) is a founding member of the San Francisco Law Firm of Bogatin, Corman & Gold.  

  Bo was admitted to the California Bar in 1981.  He is a graduate of Duke University (B.A. 1975, cum laude); University of Essex, U. K. (M.A. in Comparative Literature, 1977); and University of Denver (J.D. 1980).  

  Since the founding of Bogatin, Corman & Gold in 1994 in San Francisco, Bo’s own practice emphasis has been Arts and Entertainment, including literary, performing, visual, and film arts transactions.  He regularly handles large-scale Public Art Commissions as well as Visual Artist Moral Rights claims. He has training and experience as a mediator, has served on the boards of directors of several Bay Area theatres, and is an officer and was a long-time President of California Lawyers for the Arts.  He speaks often at legal workshops on copyright, trademark and contract issues for artists. Last year his revision of the LEGAL GUIDE FOR THE VISUAL ARTIST was published by Allworth Press.

  
  

  About Bogatin, Corman & Gold:

  Bogatin, Corman & Gold is a boutique law firm known for its diverse practice areas and deep expertise. Specializing in entertainment and intellectual property law, labor and employment law, as well as commercial litigation and personal injury, the firm serves a wide range of clients, including creative artists, entrepreneurs, and individuals in employment disputes. Founded in 1995 by M.J. Bogatin, William Corman, and Andrew Gold, each partner brought years of experience in different legal fields. In 2016, Andrew Gold withdrew from the partnership but remains "of counsel" to the firm.

  M.J. Bogatin is renowned for representing prominent artists and performers, while William Corman is a nationally recognized advocate in labor and employment law. The firm’s wide-ranging expertise allows it to address multiple legal needs for clients, whether it's intellectual property, employment, or personal injury matters. With a focus on personalized service, Bogatin, Corman & Gold prides itself on being accessible and attentive to both legal and economic needs.

  To see more about Bogatin, Corman & Gold and services they've offer visit their website http://bcgattorneys.com/  

  If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to email us at events@pacificrimsculptors.org

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