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SJMA acquires major Catherine Opie photograph
July 14, 2010 by San Jose Museum...
The San Jose Museum of Art recently acquired a major photograph by Catherine Opie, a gift of the Lipman Family Foundation. Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina is from the “Domestic” series, which Opie produced while traveling for two months across the country in her motor home. Opie captured lesbian couples engaged in commonplace activities—sitting around the kitchen table or lounging in the backyard pool.
Chris Jordan photographs from "Midway: Message from the Gyre" portfolio on view at SJMA
July 12, 2010 by San Jose Museum...
A lawyer turned environmental activist, Chris Jordan sees his work as a way to shed light on the silent degradation of nature ordinarily invisible to the eye. He traveled to the Midway Atoll, an extremely remote island in the North Pacific Ocean, 2,000 miles from the nearest land. Although the Island is a wildlife refuge, it has proved vulnerable to manmade pollution.