The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) invites the public to attend the opening of two new exhibitions A Point Stretched: Views on Time and Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen on Friday, November 4. Visitors are welcome to join the First Friday celebration, 6–9pm, free admission for everyone. Food and drinks are available on-site at El Cafecito by Mezcal. Registration is available at sjmusart.org/fall2022.

SJMA members get first look at the exhibitions at the Member Preview on Thursday, November 3, 4–9pm.

A Point Stretched: Views on Time highlights artworks that stretch, compact, and warp viewers’ sense of time. Drawn primarily from the permanent collection, artworks in the exhibition consider human existence within broader timescales from the past to distant possible futures. Artists featured in the exhibition include Diana Al-Hadid, Harold Edgerton, David Huffman, Kahlil Robert Irving, Ranu Mukherjee, Patrick Nagatani, Sam Richardson, and Gail Wight, among others. The exhibition is organized by Nidhi Gandhi, curatorial and programs associate.

Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen features a new commission video by the artist, entitled Sunflower Siege Engine (2022). Hopinka explores the relationships between the settler colonial history of the United States and the current experiences of incarceration within Indigenous communities. Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen is a multi-sited exhibition taking place at SJMA and UC Santa Cruz. The exhibition is organized by Lauren Schell Dickens, Rachel Nelson, and Gina Dent as part of Visualizing Abolition, an art initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at University of California, Santa Cruz, and San José Museum of Art.

SUPPORT

A Point Stretched: Views on Time is supported by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with a generous contribution from the Lipman Family Foundation.   

Sky Hopinka: Seeing and Seen is supported by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous contributions from the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Operations and programs at the San José Museum of Art are made possible by generous support from the Museum's Board of Trustees, a Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of San José, the Lipman Family Foundation, the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Yellow Chair Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese, the SJMA Director's Council and Council of 100, the San José Museum of Art Endowment Fund established by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and The William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum dedicated to inclusivity, new thinking, and visionary ideas. Founded in 1969 by artists and community leaders, its dynamic exhibitions, collection, and programs resonate with defining characteristics of San José and the Silicon Valley—from its rich diversity to its hallmark innovative ethos. The Museum offers lifelong learning for school children and their educators, multigenerational families, creative adults, university students and faculty, and community groups. SJMA is committed to being a borderless museum, essential to creative life throughout the diverse communities of San José and beyond.

SJMA is located at 110 South Market Street in downtown San José, California. The Museum is open Thursday, 4–9pm; Friday, 11am–9pm; and Saturday through Sunday, 11am to 6pm. For up-to-date information about SJMA, visit SanJoseMuseumofArt.org. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, and free to members, college students, youth and children ages 17 and under, and school teachers (with valid ID). Admission is free from 6–9pm the first Friday of every month. For more information, call 408.271.6840 or visit SanJoseMuseumofArt.org.

Visitors 2 years and older are encouraged to wear a mask. SJMA will carefully and continually monitor the efficacy of these guidelines in real time and make further adjustments as needed.