C.K. Itamura: Capacity
November 15 β January 10, 20226
SFArtsED is thrilled to unveil a new mini exhibition series featuring rotating bi-monthly showcases of Artist Mentorsβ works, paired with short interviews about their teaching and art practice. Presented adjacent to our gallery space upstairs at 1275 Minnesota street, the display will be visible during the buildingβs normal open hours, 11am β 6pm Tuesday through Saturday. For the first iteration of πππππππ£π / ππ§πππ©πππ we welcome SFArtsED Artist Mentor C.K. Itamura who has taught with SFArtsED as part of the SFUSD Libraries Artist-in-Residence Program, SFArtsED summer, and various other programs.
Capacity appreciates three definitions of the word “capacity”: a specified role or position; the amount that something can produce; and the maximum something can contain. Puzzling together one-hundred and fifty individual pastel on wood drawings into a singular mass, C.K.Itamura offers a meditation on: an individualβs capacity for independent agency within groups; the capacity limitations of time, space and energy which cause either stagnation, overwhelm, or growth in a personβs life depending on non-action, reaction or actions taken; and on Dunbar’s* number, a measurement of the cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships.
About the Artist:
C.K. is a Yonsei, Nikkei interdisciplinary artist based in California. Her conceptual, interactive and performance art serves to engage intergenerational audiences in the exploration of observation, contemplation and expressive imagination.C.K. is a recipient of the Discovered Award for Emerging Visual Artists of Sonoma County, a recipient of the inaugural Boundless Residency of Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the founder and publisher of Kanreki Press, the editor of Chottohon magazine, a co-founder of Book Arts Roadshow, an artist/director on the board of Berkeley Commonplace, and a former director of San Francisco Center for the Book.
C.K. is an Artist-in-Residence of San Francisco Unified School District Library Department, an Artist Mentor of San Francisco Arts Education Project, a Teaching Artist-Lead of Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, and works with schools, libraries, organizations and museums to to create and provide: professional development art-making workshops for educators; hands-on art-making workshops for students; and to make art-making accessible to the general public.
