John Klaiber Art Blog 5000

Eric Adjetey Anang One of my favorite parts about being an Art Student at Sacramento State is the opportunities I have had to work with and get to know visiting artist. Last year it was Shay Church this year it was Eric Adjetey Anang. (Artist Eric Adjetey Anang with student assistants Kojo Gaisie and Chris Duffy) Now this year I didn't get to work as closely on the project with Eric as I did with Shay but I will say this, I have never met a guy who smiles as much and seams as Jolly as Eric! Well Maby I have but even still, the dude is content, or somethin... just a really fun guy to be around and work with!  (Eric whering my dinosaur mask which is always a big hit with the next generation of Sculpture Students Chris's daughter Ameina Duffy)  (Jasmine with coffin) (Strange Dude (STRANGE ONE!!!)) (Hahaha)  (Strange One with Eric Anang and Darline Martinez who painted the picture on the Strange Ones mask) (Joy Bertinuson in coffin)  (Chris Duff

Tam Helenski I have known Tam for a little while now and one thing I can absolutely say is that she has some seriously deep understanding of not only her work but also the way of many artist, I think even more than many artist may know. Like Rubi Chishti she has investigated deeply into a world that can only be understood from within.  Its hard for me to quote Tam because the stuff is usually so deep. Most times I will record conversations or lectures like this. Unfortunately I left my recorder on and out side after our classes talk with visiting artist Eric Anang which was right before. What really stood out to me in this talk with Tam was her own struggle to explain her realizations in or with words. Very similar to Chishti there was a sort of disassociation or reassociation with the beyond. Her work is the offering. What is this life what is its significance, its loss its gain.  Tam's work that we viewed was layers upon layers of film, sound, water, tr

A long time ago in a gallery far far away... https://youtu.be/wr7NNo9LFDY Boom!!! Members of the Sculpture Club, The Art History Club, The Ceramics Club and the Form Club embarked upon an Epic and unprecedented Journey to the SF MOMA, or what is more commonly reffed to as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In the beginning of the day, I was planning to where this painting I bout from Alissa... from her student show on campus... but after careful consideration I decided against it.  Why do you ask? Well, I guess I don't always want to stick out like a sore thumb, therefore, sometimes, I assume the disguise of that of a normal earthling. Muhahahahaaaa!!!! After a few stops we had finally made it.   San Francisco!!! Wow!!! What a town!!! Honestly it was really hard to keep everyone in the club focused. Before I knew it they had run off in all different directions with absolutely no regard for schedule or policy. "Lets look at this buil

Ruby Chishti Talk Contemporary Art Blog Written by John Klaiber Artist, a different breed we are. In short this lecture was for me profound. Not only was Ruby's work exceptional but also her story, the way the art work reflected what was going on in her life while she was making it. I feel akin to her in many ways, and in many ways what she has experienced are foreign to me in my waking life. But through the truth of Ruby's Art I can get a sense of it. I have never lived in a war torn country, I have never lost my home and my family. I have never walked to a place where my families home once stood and found it replaced through war with something completely different. Loved ones lost, homeland changed. I can only imagine these things and honestly I don't really want to. I don't want to imagine Ruby there in that place filled with war torn emotions that must create as much interior wreckage as the twisted metal and broken rubble of her battle severed home. Right n