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The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is pleased to present the first solo museum exhibition of Woody De Othello, an Oakland-based artist who creates colorfully glazed ceramics of anthropomorphized objects.

For his new installation, Breathing Room, Othello has re-envisioned the Museum’s gallery as an interior space padded with carpet and filled with large ceramic vessels that sprout arms, eyes, and hands rendered in gestures of both reverence and desperation. At first blush, these objects seemingly respond to the legacy of Bay Area Funk artists like Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, and others. …