San José Museum of Art

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Opening Celebration | Motherboards and Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot

handmade wired sculpture of a motherboard and adobe mud scrapped on a panel with embossed text cututuk

From left to right: Installation view of This Space Is for Lost Time: Hương Ngô at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, August 10–October 3, 2024. Photo by Tom Van Eynde.; Christine Howard Sandoval, Phonological Sketch II, 2024. Adobe on blind embossed paper mounted to panel, 23-3/4 x 17-3/4 x 5 inches. Image courtesy parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles. © Christine Howard Sandoval. Photo by Ed Mumford.

Opening Celebration: 6–9pm • Member Reception: 6–7pm
$5 after 5pm • Free for members

This spring, you’re cordially invited to the opening of Motherboards and Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot.

 

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Motherboards

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Motherboards explores the foundational contributions of women’s work to the technology industry. Featuring artists from California and beyond, the exhibition maps an extensive network of women’s work in technology, connecting Silicon Valley’s laboratories and garages to vital work performed at looms, desks, kitchens, and assembly lines across the globe.

Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot

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Working with land-based materials, Christine Howard Sandoval excavates the conflicting knowledge systems and histories that are held in archives, architecture, and the land itself. Move the Plot brings the artist’s practice home to San José, where she grew up.