November Artists-in-Residence: Jim Berenholtz And Gregangelo

Every month the museum invites artists to install and demonstrate their art form at the de Young. This interactive program enables visitors to meet artists and gives the artists an opportunity to work with the public. Artists working in various media are encouraged to apply.
Artists are on site Wednesday-Sunday, 1:00-5:00 p.m. (until 8:45 p.m. on Fridays).
RA-Balisk, The Temple of the New Sun
Artists in Residence Jim Berenholtz (Hu Ra Designs) and Gregangelo (Velocity Circus) create a multi-media theatrical adventure through a solar temple. Explore the mysterious inner sanctum of the temple with archetypal wall paintings, three-dimensional altars, and dazzling special effects integrated into the interactive installations. The temple art is based primarily on ancient Egyptian icons, motifs, and symbols, and also incorporates influences from other solar-worshipping, pyramid-building civilizations, such as those of ancient Mexico and Central and South America. Traditional iconography is interpreted with a contemporary sensibility, making RA-Balisk not an ethnographic documentation of something that might have existed in the distant past, but rather a vibrant, living, sacred space that brings the ancient artistic spirit forward to the present and into the future...
Friday, November 13
6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Opening Reception in the Kimball Education Gallery