Gareth Spor - CV & Artist Statement
Artist Statement
Often fixating on the physics of light, the cosmos, and the geometries of space and time, I work across a diverse range of media to explore the states of wonderment achieved when people contemplate things larger than themselves. My work is a means to feed my own curiosity and to share some of the wonderment I feel with others.
CV
Born 1977, Oxford, UK
Education
2008 MFA, California College of the Arts
2006 PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Thesis: Amacrine Cell Inhibition Refines the Spatio-Temporal Filtering Properties of Ganglion Cells
1999 BA, Hampshire College
Solo Exhibitions
2012
New Works, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA, January 7th - February 11th
2009
The Edge of Forever, NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Marcella Faustini
Stars are All Made of Us, Four Barrel Coffee, San Francisco, CA, curated by Alexandra Hodkowski
Group Exhibitions
2011
The Magic Mountain (collaboration with Piero Passacontando), NOMA Gallery, San Francisco, CA. curated by Marcella Faustini.
stacked/multiplied, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Katie Hood Morgan and Devon Bella
2010
Glow in the Dark, Please Touch Community Garden, San Francisco, CA, curated by Kota Ezawa
Musiacal Chairs, Magic Carpet Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Aimee Friberg
Mirror Images, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Charles Moffett
Survival Annex, Curiosity Shoppe, San Francisco, CA, curated by Aurora Crispin
2009
Exercises in Seeing, Queen's Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA, curated by Post Brothers
The First/Last Newspaper, in conjunction with Performa09, Port Authority, New York, NY, curated by Dexter Sinister and Raimundas Malasauskaus.
A Universe We Can Believe In, Tecoah Bruce Gallery, Oakland, CA, Curated by David Huff, Jackie Im, and Josephine Zarkovich.
Observatory, Collaborative solo exhibition with Christina Karns, DIVA, Eugene, Oregon
The Intimate, The Infinite & The Impossible, Magacin, Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Catherine Hemelryk
Black Market Type & Print Shop, Feldman Gallery, Portland, OR, curated by Joseph Del Pesco
Cal Jam Too, blankspace gallery, Oakland, CA, curated by Keith Boadwee
Paper Exhibition, Artists Space, New York, NY, curated by Raimundas Malasauskaus
2008
Dream On, Mission17, San Francisco, CA
Human Resources, The Company, Los Angeles, CA
Cynosure, Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA
History of Fishspace, Fishspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Star Gate, Swarm Gallery Project Space, Oakland, CA
TAIDE08, Helsinki Art Fair, Hensinki, Finland
Cut into Chaos, Mission17, San Francisco, CA
Cream, from the Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
CCA Thesis Show, San Francisco, CA
Cartes Flux3, Festival of New Media Art, Espoo, Finland
Hypnotic Show, Silverman Galley, San Francisco, CA, curated by Raimundas Malasauskaus
Sculpture Key West, Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, Key West, FL, juried by Mary Cerruti
The Rainbow Show, Cafe Royal, San Francisco, CA, curated by Alicia Escott, Christina Empedocles and Gareth Spor
2007
The Death Class with Kai Althoff, PLAySPACE gallery, San Francisco, CA
CCA Centennial All-College Honors & Scholarship Awards Exhibition, Oakland, CA
CCU Notebook Show, PLAySPACE gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Luke Butler
Mad Science, San Francisco, CA
Free Frisbee: Antarctica, McMurdo Library, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike and Gareth Spor
Cinema Gigante, San Francisco, CA
Supermarket 2007, Koh-i-noor, Stockholm, Sweden
VCU/CCA Exchange, Richmond, VA
Free Frisbee, Circus of Books, West Hollywood, CA, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike
2006
Free Frisbee, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike
2005
On the Beach, Printed Matter, NY, curated by Justin Lowe
2001
GenArt Summer Arts Festival, NY, curated by Jay Sanders
Curated Projects
2008
The Rainbow Show, Cafe Royal, San Francisco, CA, with Alicia Escott and Christina Empedocles
2007
Free Frisbee: Antarctica, McMurdo Library, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, with Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike
Optimism: A Natural Vector, Hardware Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Visual Haiku, UC-Berkeley, CA
Press
The First/Last Newspaper, Sixth Edition, Published by Dexter Sinister, in conjunction with Performa09
Gupta, Anjali, "The Unibomber Manifesto vs. William S. Burroughs' Cut-Up Machine." Art Lies. Number 62, Summer 09.
Dot Dot Dot Magazine, Volume 16, Published by Dexter Sinister
Cheng, DeWitt, "Eclectic Affinities, Three Artists Explore Art, Science, and Philosophy." East Bay Express. December 3rd, 2008
Clark, Cammy. "Key West exhibit takes art to a new dimension". Miami Herald. March 19, 2008
Mourra, Sarah. "'Visual Haiku' Dissemble Details from Askance Views". The Daily Californian. May 2, 2002
Major Collections
Frankel Foundation for Art
Honors/Awards
2008
Headlands MFA residency finalist
Toby Devan Lewis Award finalist
The People's Choice Award: Best by Air, Sculpture Key West
2007
Mad Science Residency, California College of the Arts
All-College Honors - Fine Arts, Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts
1998
Mechanisms of Behavior, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, Duke University
Publications
Felsen G, Shen YS, Yao H, Spor G, Li C, Dan Y. "Dynamic modification of cortical orientation tuning mediated by recurrent connections." Neuron. 2002 Dec 5;36(5):945-54.
Presentations
Spor G, Molnar A, Werblin F. "Amacrine Cell Inhibition Refines the Spatio-Temporal Filtering Properties of Ganglion Cells" at ARVO Annual Meeting 2006, Prog# 2675.
Spor G, Dan Y. "Nonlinear Dynamics of Orientation Tuning in Cat V1." at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2001, Prog# 285.2.
