PALO ALTO, CA.- Viewers of the Palo Alto Art Center’s latest exhibition, The Sheltering Sky, are invited to look skyward through artworks that provoke discussions of time, weather, the stars, climate change, the horizon line, and notions of heaven. The free exhibition runs from January 19- April 7, 2019.

“This exhibition explores the awe that we, and specifically the artists included, experience when looking skyward,” says Palo Alto Art Center Curator Selene Foster. “With its immensity, immateriality, and variability, the sky has been an enduring subject in art history, fascinating and challenging generations of artists.”

The Sheltering Sky is a multi-media exhibition of images navigating the far reaching, upward gaze of contemporary artists. The exhibition features three site-specific installations. Artist Sukey Bryan transformed both the front and back of the Art Center building itself. Val Britton transformed the Glass Gallery into an explosion of paper, speaking to the sky and fields of stars above. Brooklyn artist Demetrius Oliver uses familiar objects like tea kettles, light bulbs, and umbrellas to investigate the cosmos from the vantage point of the artist’s studio and the space of the gallery.

Other artists participating in the exhibition include: Matthew Baum, Val Britton, Adrian Landon Brooks, Eiko Borcherding, Sukey Bryan, Linda Connor, Sarah and Joseph Belknap, Ala Ebtekar, Jenifer Kent, Chris McCaw, Vanessa Marsh, Anna Von Mertens, Pieter Laurens Mol, Demetrius Oliver, Katie Paterson, Dario Robleto, Camille Seaman, and Hiroshi Sugimoto.

The Palo Alto Art Center is a place to discover art. See, make, and be inspired because everyone is an artist. Created by the community, for the community in 1971, the Palo Alto Art Center provides an accessible and welcoming place to engage with art. The Palo Alto Art Center serves approximately 140,000 people every year through a diverse range of programs.

The Palo Alto Art Center, Division of Arts and Sciences, City of Palo Alto is funded in part by grants from Silicon Valley Creates and the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation. The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation gratefully acknowledges support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Yellow Chair Foundation, private donations, and members.