Weston Teruya: Miniature Possibilities | YBCA Bay Area Now 6

Artist Weston Teruya creates miniature worlds in paper sculpture to expose hidden histories. For Bay Area Now 6, he reconstructs a historical "Poor Farm" in Downey, CA to trace societal dynamics in spatial arrangement.

About Weston Teruya:
Weston Teruya works primarily in drawing and sculpture. In his work, he reconfigures the arrangements of images and objects from the built environment to examine how they shape social relationships and imagine how those dynamics might be transformed. Weston received an MFA in Painting and Drawing and MA in Visual & Critical Studies (Visual Criticism) from California College of the Arts. Weston Teruya has exhibited artwork at Patricia Sweetow Gallery and Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, the de Saissett Museum in Santa Clara and the di Rosa Preserve in Sonoma. In 2011, he is exhibiting at Pro Arts in Oakland and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Weston has had residencies at the Montalvo Arts Center and Oliver Ranch Studio Artist Residency and was a recipient of a 2009 Artadia grant. He is a part of the Curatorial Committee at Southern Exposure and is curating a show there in early 2011.

About Bay Area Now 6 at YBCA:
Bay Area Now debuted in the summer of 1997 as a much needed platform for assessing the state of the visual arts in the San Francisco/Bay Area region, and to bring to the public's attention the work of exceptional artists active in the local art scene. Throughout the triennial's almost fifteen-year history it has continued to be the barometer of what is happening in the arts by placing new work into the limelight making it available to the general public. At each historical juncture, Bay Area Now has played a significant role in providing a platform, by marking the interplay between contemporary art and other innovative activities that have come to define the region.

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