Artist of the Week 3 - Rick Arnitz

This week we interviewed Rick Arnitz in his live/work studio in Oakland, CA. We were treated to a tour of his studio after the interview where we saw recent works he was producing for an upcoming exhibition at Stephen Wirtz Gallery. During the interview he discusses his painting, a recent SJMA acquisition, called "Who Won What When and Where". In addition, we spoke to gallery owner Stephen Wirtz who has represented Arnitz for more than 10 years.

During the 8 week run of the exhibition "New Year, New Gifts", the San Jose Museum of Art will offer each week a podcast highlighting one of the artists in the show.

The artist in the series are: Hung Liu, Jack Zajac, Rick Arnitz, Ruth Asawa, Richard Misrach, Amy Kaufman, Helen Lundeburg and Manuel Neri.

We hope that visitors will download these podcasts and bring their iPods into the museum to experience the works first hand with the audio. However, these are enhanced podcasts and if you own an iPod that displays pictures or if you view the podcast in iTunes, you will be able to view images from the collection and images from the interviews. But you can also just listen to the audio and enjoy the insight that each podcast will provide.

If you have any comments or questions please email: [email protected]

The music from this podcast, “Clocks”, is by the band Casual Dots and is from their album Casual Dots. Check them out at www.killrockstars.com

Image of Stephen Wirtz provided by Alec Soth at www.alecsoth.com