Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

The Turner is thrilled to host the 10-year anniversary and first West Coast edition of the Screenprint Biennial. Featuring the work of 23 contemporary artists from across the country, this exhibition brings cutting-edge printmaking to Northern California and celebrates the diverse and important story of screenprint today.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Chico State Women's Philanthropy Council.

Thursday, September 12, 5:30-7:30 PM

Join us for a conversation between Biennial founder Nathan Meltz, visiting artist Sheila Goloborotko, and Turner Curator Rachel Skokowski from 5:30-6:30pm (Performing Arts Center, Room 134), followed by an opening reception at the Turner. Both events are free and open to the public.

Nathan Meltz uses printmaking, animation, sculpture, and performance to comment on the infiltration of technology into every facet of life, from politics and food, to family and war. His solo exhibitions include the gallery at Atelier Presse Papier, Trois-Rivières, Canada, the Shircliff Gallery at Vincennes University, Indiana, Southern Illinois University’s Vergette Gallery, GRIDSPACE, New York, the University of Florida–Jacksonville’s Andrew Brest Gallery, and Noise Gallery, Ohio. His international exhibitions include the 16th International Printmaking Triennial Graphica Creativa Triennial, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio De Janiero, Brazil, and more. In 2014 Meltz founded the Screenprint Biennial, an exhibition and organization that seeks to showcase a range of screenprint-based art applications, from framed, editioned prints to installation, sculpture, video, ephemera and posters. Meltz is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of the Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Sheila Goloborotko, Ecosistema. Screenprint on hand-cut mylar, UV invisible ink.

Sheila Goloborotko grew up under the hardship of a dictatorial military regime in Brazil. In her 20s, as a Jewish, Latinx, and out-of-the-closet lesbian, she left her homeland as a refugee, making Brooklyn, NY, her home. Since 2015, she has been based in Jacksonville, Florida where she is a Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Design at the University of North Florida. For decades, she has sustained a restless, relentless auto-ethnographic multidisciplinary practice that allows singular ideas to emerge in the guise of numerous artistic actions. Resulting works transgress the boundaries of mediums and employ symbols of transience, impermanence, and stasis—the Life and Death of natural systems—founding documents, language, and democracy. She weaves these subject matters—an amalgamation of our human connection and collective history—to create single pieces that often develop into groupings—changeable, shifting, active, unsettled. With a sense of emergency, her work serves as sites for our shared Humanity, holding space for resistance, resilience, and poetic activism: it is cathartic, honest, self-searching. It invites us to find meaning and to engage in important questions about our relationship with nature, information, and one another.

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Roger Shimomura, Enter the Rice Cooker, 1994. Color screenprint. Gift of Jacki McCann.

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