December 2020
Winter Greetings from
Jane Brucker Studio
Image above: Exterior view of Jane Brucker Studio outside of Los Angeles, CA.
CAMERA ISOLATA
by Naho Kawabe
The “Camera Isolata” is a project realized through a special grant for artists under the Sars-Cov-19 pandemic from the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung. The motto of this grant is “Art knows no shutdown” and it supports projects that take an artist’s approach to a world that is under lockdown 2020. Naho Kawabe invited Jane Brucker, along with the artists listed below, to participate in her video series.
Naho Kawabe paired the following six artists and invited them to participate in three experimental videos for “Camera Isolata”:
Jane Brucker, visual artist, USA
Miss Hawaii, musician, Japan
Henrik Malmström, photographer, Argentina
Setbyol Oh, light designer, Germany
Ziyun Wang, painter, China
Yohei Yama, painter, Vietnam
Naho created three communication-experiments / actions in three groups using the small online space of the “Camera Isolata.” In each case, two artists who have never met spent time together in this room, in quasi quarantine. Jane enjoyed her time paired with artist, Setbyol Oh (in video above). Six short texts about the participants and their recent lives during shelter-in-place accompany the video works.
Photo by James Fishburne: Exhibition view of Forest Lawn Museum courtesy of Judson Studios; Photo by Kyle Mickelson: Jane Brucker's "Through a Glass Darkly" Chair (detail view), Fragile Thoughts installation.
Forest Lawn Museum
Presents
JUDSON STUDIOS: STAINED GLASS FROM GOTHIC TO STREET STYLE
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 from 7:00 P.M. - 8:15 P.M. PST
As we await the opening of Brucker's work, Fragile Thoughts, as part of the survey exhibition, Judson Studios: Stained Glass from Gothic to Street Style at Forest Lawn Museum, Forest Lawn invites you to a very special virtual event celebrating the legacy of Judson Studios.
Fifth generation Judson Studios president David Judson and Los Angeles writer Steffie Nelson, co-authors of the new book, JUDSON: Innovation in Stained Glass (Angel City Press), will sit down for a conversation about the 124-year old Highland Park studio moderated by Forest Lawn Museum Director, James Fishburne.
More studio views…
Jane Brucker Studio welcomes its newest Studio Assistant, Lakka, a golden retriever puppy who joined us in September. Lakka is named after a Finnish herbaceous plant also called a 'cloudberry' whose amber-colored fruit is similar to raspberries or blackberries. Despite great demand as a delicacy the cloudberry is not widely cultivated, and is often made into jams or liqueur.
Excited to be back in Claremont, the pandemic has mostly meant to onset of long walks, a studio rebuild and the possibility of connecting with old friends and new someday soon.
Wishing all of you near and far the best for this winter season.
