Enid Baxter Blader at CCAS

 
 (photo by Nick Kova)

1519 19^th Street, Sacramento CA 95811-5202                                                                     

e-mail:  ccasacramento@gmail.com       /   web:  www.ccasac.org          /            phone:  916.498.9811

Hours:  Thursdays-Sunday, 12-5 pm;
            Second Saturday of each month, 6-9 pm

Admission:  Free  

 

 

Smithsonian, Sundance and Getty Museum exhibited

filmmaker Enid Baxter Blader to present films at CCAS 

August 21^st at 2:00 

The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento will show three video works by Aptos, California-based artist Enid Baxter Blader on August 21 at 2pm.  A filmmaker, musician and painter, Blader’s work have exhibited at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, Sundance in Park City, Utah, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.  Currently an Assistant Professor of Digital Cinema at CSU, Monterey Bay, she also lectures internationally on apocalyptic media.  The work offers the viewer a glimpse of everyday apocalypses, which she defines as the ending of the familiar and the beginning of something new.  

 

In Local 909er (16 mm film and digital video, 30 minutes), Blader examines the rapid suburbanization and transformation of the geographic area of Inland Empire in Southern California.  The fast-growing population has resulted in master-planned communities, mega malls and “McMansions” replacing the once vast expanse of vineyards, orange groves and cow fields.  Secret Apocalyptic Love Diaries (video, 12 minutes) is an ongoing episodic series that Blader shot with her “Frankenstein Camera” made of parts from old TV cameras.  She describes Diaries as a “small-time apocalypse” about relationships.  An excerpt of Blader’s Planet Ord will be shown that documents the de-commissioned Fort Ord Army Base, which is now the site of the CSU, Monterey Bay campus.

 

Admission is free to current CCAS members and student; general admission is $5.00.  Seating is extremely limited, and will be on a first-come first-served basis.  Doors open at 1:30.

 

 

Sponsored in part by: Phillip Cunningham; Marilyn and Phil Isenburg, Nina Krebs; Midtown Monthly; Mimi and Burnett Miller; Ron Musser Photography; Raven’s Corner; Skip & Shirley Rosenbloom; James H. Smith; Paulette Trainor, ASID; Steven R. Moore, Rex Moore Electrical Contractors & Engineers.

 

The Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, founded in 1989, is a nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization/museum that is dedicated to the advancement and appreciation of new and experimental art by international, national, and regional artists.