Klausner, Norton, and Patridge Galleries

Alice Hutchins: Magnetic Encounters	Curated by Merrily Peebles
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On Saturday, December 10, 2005 the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum will debut an exhibition of the
work of Alice Hutchins. A Santa Barbara resident, Hutchins is known for her transformable metal assemblages
from permanent industrial magnets. The artist’s work, based on indeterminacy, invites audience participation as a
means to re-interpret the spectator's role in the artistic process.

Hutchins’ concern with art as play endeared her to the Fluxus artists who immediately embraced her as one of
their own in the late 60s—one of the few female participants in the movement. Still working with magnets
today, at the age of 89, Hutchins is deeply devoted to the intention of “not doing exactly what you want, but rather to let go and see what happens.”

Hutchins has exhibited extensively in group and solo exhibitions throughout Australia, Europe and the United States. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery, London, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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Bloom Projects Series

Diluvian Jude Tallichet
Jude Tallichet Bear Rug, 2005 Cast iron 69X70X8inches Courtesy Sara Meltzer Gallery

In her first West Coast solo exhibition, Jude Tallichet presents two sculptures and one drawing commissioned by the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. Tallichet’s sculptural installations mine the iconic imagery of the American West, casting objects like wagon wheels, campfires, and hay bales out of precious or precious-looking materials such as aluminum and bronze. Her use of these materials reveals a bittersweet nostalgia for the integrity, even innocence, of these monumental sculptures. At SBCAF, Tallichet will exhibit two objects that explore the notion of personal and collective memory: Bear Rug, an almost six foot square rug cast in bronze and Campfire, a group of neon-lit logs act as iconic symbols of Americana. According to Tallichet, “All these images come from my childhood, a childhood so ‘ordinary’ and American that I have a hard time distinguishing personal memories from the primordial cultural soup that spawned them.”

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Call For Entries '04-'05: Intimate Acceleration, Kelly Hudak
Kelly Hudak Intimate Acceleration, 2005 Duratrans transparency Dimensions variable Courtesy the Artist

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum presents new work by Kelly Hudak, one of the three selected artists of the 2004-2005 Call for Entries program. In CAF’s Norton Gallery, Hudak prints images of vehicles in a state of transformation, in this case an airplane, onto Duratrans transparencies and suspends them aerodynamically from the ceiling.

A network of airplane cables and a swooping line electroluminescent cord strung across the gallery address a sense of gravity, evoking metaphors of flight, and reminding viewers of the sense of mortality created by transformative and revelatory changes in perspective.

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