Detours Tahoe City

Detours: Tahoe City 2011 is an art exhibition of site specific art by a group of California based artists in Tahoe City, organized by local Tahoe artist Jane Jenny through North Tahoe Arts.  You can find a map of the project at North Tahoe Arts, the Visitor’s Center and all along the main street.  Then proceed to take a walking tour and find the artworks. The online map is here.

Opening Reception: August 5, 2011, Heritage Square and North Tahoe Arts, 4 – 7 pm.  Open to the public, so please join us!

Detours: Tahoe City 2011 is an exhibition of 14 artists from California which takes place in downtown Tahoe City, CA during the months of August and September, 2011.  A public opening reception will take place on August 5, 2011 from 4pm to 7pm with performances, music and refreshments at Heritage Square dovetailing the First Friday Opening at North Tahoe Arts down the street. Maps will be available throughout Tahoe City for the self-guided tour.

This genre of art making is called Site-Specific Installation Art and artwork will be placed in public sites throughout Tahoe City including the streets, sidewalks, gardens, businesses and beaches. The artists are Karen Atkinson (Los Angeles, CA), Donna Brown (Valencia, CA), Bernard Brunon (Los Angeles, CA), Matt Driggs and Janet Owen, (Los Angeles, CA), Niobe Burden (Tahoe City, CA), Nancy Ganucheau (Los Angeles, CA), Jane Jenny (Carnelian Bay, CA), Connie Hatch (Santa Paula, CA), John Hogan (Los Angeles, CA), Emily Joyce (Los Angeles, CA), Tucker Neel (Los Angeles, CA), Sally Osborn (Tahoe City, CA), Carole Sesko (Truckee, CA), Eve Werner (Truckee, CA).

The exhibit will be a self-guided walking tour of artwork located throughout Tahoe City.  Maps will be placed conveniently in and about downtown Tahoe City including the Visitors Center and North Tahoe Arts as well as along the main street of Tahoe City and will provide detailed information of where each artwork is located, as well as a short description of each artists’ project and a bio.  You can also find a map here on the site, as well as a download of the map.

Detours: Tahoe City is brought to you by North Tahoe Arts, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with a mission to support the arts in the North Tahoe-Truckee communities through exposure, education and participation. www.northtahoearts.com.  Jane Jenny is an installation artist herself and has organized two other ‘Detours’ exhibitions; one in Venice Beach, CA and a second located in downtown Los Angeles.  She describes her commitment to this particular genre of art making as a labor of love.  Jane lives half time in Carnelian Bay and often volunteers around town including directing and teaching at Kid’s Art Camp at Rideout Community Center.

Although installation art is not very new, it took art outside the two-dimensional space of painting and brought it into real space. It’s history can be traced back to the time of Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptual art in the early 1900’s. On a slightly different level, site-specific installation art takes into account the ‘place’ or context where the work is installed including but not limited to the history, the inhabitants, the myths, the architecture, the environment, etc.  This is the first exhibit of this kind to hit the streets of Tahoe City and the folks around town are very excited!  This project is suitable for all ages and will offer some exciting and interesting ways of looking at art for both tourists and locals alike.

There is a concurrent reception the same night at North Tahoe Arts located at 380 N. Lake Blvd.  You can pick up a map there, or at the Visitors Center next door.

Please contact Jane Jenny for further details or questions about this project at jane[at]jennyent.com.  PR inquiries welcome, and images are available upon request.

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