Past Art Lectures and Events
Jonathan Ryan
Artist Talk
Wednesday, February 21st @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111 and via zoom
Jonathan Ryan was born in 1989 in Buffalo, NY. He received his BFA from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 2011 and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA in 2014. Ryan has exhibited across the US and Europe, including four solo shows at the Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
Jonathan Ryan's compositions are pictorial puzzles, evoking either a distant future or some remote corner of our current world. Drawing inspiration from ancient ruins, industrial landscapes, and the backgrounds of digital video games, the artist affixes sifted sand and decomposed granite directly to his work-creating built-up surfaces that interact with the paint in intricate ways. Ryan renders plateaus, crater-like indentations, and hillocks with delicate shading, evoking the visual effect of trompe l'oeil-a kind of 3D optical illusion used throughout art history.
Artist Talk
Wednesday, February 21st @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111 and via zoom
Jonathan Ryan was born in 1989 in Buffalo, NY. He received his BFA from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 2011 and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA in 2014. Ryan has exhibited across the US and Europe, including four solo shows at the Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
Jonathan Ryan's compositions are pictorial puzzles, evoking either a distant future or some remote corner of our current world. Drawing inspiration from ancient ruins, industrial landscapes, and the backgrounds of digital video games, the artist affixes sifted sand and decomposed granite directly to his work-creating built-up surfaces that interact with the paint in intricate ways. Ryan renders plateaus, crater-like indentations, and hillocks with delicate shading, evoking the visual effect of trompe l'oeil-a kind of 3D optical illusion used throughout art history.
Whitney Bedford
Artist Talk
Tuesday, November 7th @ 5:00 pm in the Atkinson Gallery, Humanities Room H202 and via zoom
Organized in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), Bedford’s work is currently on view as part of the exhibition Inside/Outside (June 11— February 8, 2024) at SBMA.
Artist Talk
Tuesday, November 7th @ 5:00 pm in the Atkinson Gallery, Humanities Room H202 and via zoom
Organized in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA), Bedford’s work is currently on view as part of the exhibition Inside/Outside (June 11— February 8, 2024) at SBMA.
Whitney Bedford is an artist who was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, but has lived in Los Angeles, by the beach, most of her life. She feels that a constant sense of travel, a love of art history, a new rooted amazement at flora and fauna, and a fulcrum of a visible horizon line have most directed her work. She is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles, Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago), Miles McEnery (NYC), Art Concept (Paris), and Starkwhite (Auckland/ Queenstown/Melbourne). Bedford received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. She was the winner of the 2001 UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennale and received a Fulbright Graduate Fellowship from Hochschule der Kuenste, Berlin in 1999. She has had solo exhibitions at Art:Concept, Paris, France; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York; and Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; the Jewish Museum, New York; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. Bedford’s work is included in the collections of Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium; Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France; Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, among others.
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Manuel López
Artist Talk
Wednesday, November 1st @ 3:00 pm in the MacDougall Administration Building Auditorium Room A211 and via zoom
Artist Talk
Wednesday, November 1st @ 3:00 pm in the MacDougall Administration Building Auditorium Room A211 and via zoom
Manuel López’s (b.1983, East Los Angeles, CA) drawings and paintings are informed by his immediate surroundings. Each piece is a careful examination of elements found around his environment: books, records, boxes, houseplants, various elements from his home, his neighborhood, and studio. López relies on observation, memories, materiality, touch, and presence to evoke a feeling of familiarity in the compositions. Manuel López
grew up in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles. He attended East Los Angeles College, transferred to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where he earned his BFA in painting and drawing. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions in institutions, galleries, and museums nationwide including Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Youngbloods; Quotidian, Los Angeles, CA, Gardens;
Last Projects, in Los Angeles, CA; Now(n) person, place, or thing; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, in Chicago, Il,Dark Progressivism; The Built Environment, at the Museum of Art and History, in Lancaster, CA; Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Friends Do Not Fear, at New Image Art, in West Hollywood, CA; Dia de los Muertos Exhibit at Self-Help Graphics, Boyle Heights, CA; Surface Place at Abrazo Interno Gallery at The Clemente, New York, NY; Spill at the Betty Rymer Gallery,Chicago, IL SAIC Undergrad Exhibition,at Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, Solo Exhibition- So Mundane and incomplete (Some drawings and paintings); at Eastern Projects, Los Angeles, CA. He lives and works in East Los Angeles and is represented by Charlie James Gallery. Artist Instagram: @meaunl_lpoez
grew up in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles. He attended East Los Angeles College, transferred to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where he earned his BFA in painting and drawing. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions in institutions, galleries, and museums nationwide including Ni de Aqui, Ni de Alla, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Youngbloods; Quotidian, Los Angeles, CA, Gardens;
Last Projects, in Los Angeles, CA; Now(n) person, place, or thing; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, in Chicago, Il,Dark Progressivism; The Built Environment, at the Museum of Art and History, in Lancaster, CA; Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Friends Do Not Fear, at New Image Art, in West Hollywood, CA; Dia de los Muertos Exhibit at Self-Help Graphics, Boyle Heights, CA; Surface Place at Abrazo Interno Gallery at The Clemente, New York, NY; Spill at the Betty Rymer Gallery,Chicago, IL SAIC Undergrad Exhibition,at Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, Solo Exhibition- So Mundane and incomplete (Some drawings and paintings); at Eastern Projects, Los Angeles, CA. He lives and works in East Los Angeles and is represented by Charlie James Gallery. Artist Instagram: @meaunl_lpoez
Cameron Patricia Downey
Artist Talk
Wednesday, September 13th @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Administration Building Lecture Hall Room A-211 and via Zoom
Cameron Downey is an anti-disciplinary artist and environmental scientist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They mediate concepts and bounds of world-building and survival artistry by way of Black, fantastical and precarious spaces and forms. Cameron uses sculpture, film, photography, the written and the performed to engage and engulf a language of epics out of the minutiae.
Artist Talk
Wednesday, September 13th @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Administration Building Lecture Hall Room A-211 and via Zoom
Cameron Downey is an anti-disciplinary artist and environmental scientist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They mediate concepts and bounds of world-building and survival artistry by way of Black, fantastical and precarious spaces and forms. Cameron uses sculpture, film, photography, the written and the performed to engage and engulf a language of epics out of the minutiae.
Gabriela Ruiz
Artist Talk
Thursday, September 7th @ 4:30 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111 and via Zoom
Gabriela Ruiz is a self-taught artist whose practice blends diverse forms of expression and media, including sculpture, video, painting, and apparel design. Within her work, she uses a variety of color palettes to create vivid and vibrant environments that function as installations, settings for performances, or as backdrops for fashion shoots. Her sculptures incorporate found objects and industrial materials, such as thrift store furniture and insulation foam, and investigate ideas of home and self and our relationship to environments around us. Strongly influenced by growing up in LA’s San Fernando Valley to immigrant parents from Mexico, Ruiz’s practice is a reflection of the DIY work ethic she was raised under, the vibrancy of Mexican cultural and artistic traditions, and her exposure to subculture and fantasy at a young age as a means to escape the realities of daily life.
Artist Talk
Thursday, September 7th @ 4:30 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111 and via Zoom
Gabriela Ruiz is a self-taught artist whose practice blends diverse forms of expression and media, including sculpture, video, painting, and apparel design. Within her work, she uses a variety of color palettes to create vivid and vibrant environments that function as installations, settings for performances, or as backdrops for fashion shoots. Her sculptures incorporate found objects and industrial materials, such as thrift store furniture and insulation foam, and investigate ideas of home and self and our relationship to environments around us. Strongly influenced by growing up in LA’s San Fernando Valley to immigrant parents from Mexico, Ruiz’s practice is a reflection of the DIY work ethic she was raised under, the vibrancy of Mexican cultural and artistic traditions, and her exposure to subculture and fantasy at a young age as a means to escape the realities of daily life.
Natasha Wheat
Artist Talk
Wednesday, April 26th @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111
Natasha Wheat is an artist whose diverse body of work explores social experience as a sensual phenomenon that is riddled with hierarchical complexity. Her objects, installations, and interventions engender and disrupt materials, often existing as traces of violent experience. Recent works examine the collapse of human created belief systems, and the spaces between our confinements within civilization and evolutionary wildness.
Wheat is the founder of Project Grow, an art studio and urban farming program based in Portland, Oregon, that collaborated with developmentally disabled adults and investigated the intersection of food, value systems, society, and physical contact with the earth as a form of de-institutionalization. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as The Detroit Art Museum, the Wattis, The Museum of Folk and Craft Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum, Roberts Projects and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her studio is in Los Angeles, CA.
Artist Talk
Wednesday, April 26th @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111
Natasha Wheat is an artist whose diverse body of work explores social experience as a sensual phenomenon that is riddled with hierarchical complexity. Her objects, installations, and interventions engender and disrupt materials, often existing as traces of violent experience. Recent works examine the collapse of human created belief systems, and the spaces between our confinements within civilization and evolutionary wildness.
Wheat is the founder of Project Grow, an art studio and urban farming program based in Portland, Oregon, that collaborated with developmentally disabled adults and investigated the intersection of food, value systems, society, and physical contact with the earth as a form of de-institutionalization. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as The Detroit Art Museum, the Wattis, The Museum of Folk and Craft Art San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum, Roberts Projects and The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her studio is in Los Angeles, CA.
Alberto Lule
Artist Talk
Wednesday, March 15th @ 4:00 pm in-person in the SBCC Administration Building Lecture Hall Room 211
Lule began making art while serving a thirteen-year sentence in a California Prison. He uses readymades and mixed media installations to examine and critique mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex in the United States, particularly the California prison system. Starting from his origins as a graffiti artist and writer, Lule draws on his own experiences in prison to create artworks that explore institutional roles of gatekeepers of knowledge, authorities of culture, and administrators of discipline and punishment.
Through his activist artworks, Lule brings awareness to the prison industrial complex, mass incarceration, and ICE camps. After serving his prison sentence, he enrolled in SBCC Transitions, a program providing guidance and access to college for individuals released from the criminal justice system. As a full-time student at SBCC, he excelled in his art classes and completed a prestigious internship with the SBCC Atkinson Gallery, sponsored by the SBCC Foundation. He graduated from SBCC in 2018 and was invited to be the student speaker at commencement. He transferred to UCLA, where he earned a BA in 2020 and worked at the Hammer Museum. He is currently enrolled at the University of California, Irvine, where he is earning a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Artist Talk
Wednesday, March 15th @ 4:00 pm in-person in the SBCC Administration Building Lecture Hall Room 211
Lule began making art while serving a thirteen-year sentence in a California Prison. He uses readymades and mixed media installations to examine and critique mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex in the United States, particularly the California prison system. Starting from his origins as a graffiti artist and writer, Lule draws on his own experiences in prison to create artworks that explore institutional roles of gatekeepers of knowledge, authorities of culture, and administrators of discipline and punishment.
Through his activist artworks, Lule brings awareness to the prison industrial complex, mass incarceration, and ICE camps. After serving his prison sentence, he enrolled in SBCC Transitions, a program providing guidance and access to college for individuals released from the criminal justice system. As a full-time student at SBCC, he excelled in his art classes and completed a prestigious internship with the SBCC Atkinson Gallery, sponsored by the SBCC Foundation. He graduated from SBCC in 2018 and was invited to be the student speaker at commencement. He transferred to UCLA, where he earned a BA in 2020 and worked at the Hammer Museum. He is currently enrolled at the University of California, Irvine, where he is earning a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Aaron Spangler
Artist Talk
Wednesday, February 22nd @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111
AARON SPANGLER was born in 1971 in Minneapolis, MN. He received a BFA in 1993, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and currently lives and works in Park Rapids, MN
He is a sculptor and printmaker best known for his monumental, monochromatic carved wooden sculptures and for resuscitating and contemporizing the traditional art of bas relief who reimagines the traditional medium and technique of woodcarving with a contemporary eye. Starting with solid blocks of basswood, Spangler carves detailed scenes and motifs into large, figurative bas-reliefs and freestanding sculptures, which he then covers in black graphite and gesso. The monochromatic surface provides an impartial yet inscrutable base from which to interpret the meaning of his enigmatic, often surrealistic scenes and figures, which grapple with issues such as the strife and remnants of war and imperialism.
Artist Talk
Wednesday, February 22nd @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111
AARON SPANGLER was born in 1971 in Minneapolis, MN. He received a BFA in 1993, from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and currently lives and works in Park Rapids, MN
He is a sculptor and printmaker best known for his monumental, monochromatic carved wooden sculptures and for resuscitating and contemporizing the traditional art of bas relief who reimagines the traditional medium and technique of woodcarving with a contemporary eye. Starting with solid blocks of basswood, Spangler carves detailed scenes and motifs into large, figurative bas-reliefs and freestanding sculptures, which he then covers in black graphite and gesso. The monochromatic surface provides an impartial yet inscrutable base from which to interpret the meaning of his enigmatic, often surrealistic scenes and figures, which grapple with issues such as the strife and remnants of war and imperialism.
Vivian Storm and Angel Daemon
Lecture and Performance
Tuesday, January 31st @ 3:00 pm in the Atkinson Gallery Room H-202
Lecture and Performance
Tuesday, January 31st @ 3:00 pm in the Atkinson Gallery Room H-202
Guided By Plants: The Indigenous Oaxacan Diaspora, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Contemporary Art
Research Symposium
Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College
Thursday, October 20 - Saturday, October 22, 2022
Panelists: Jackie Amézquita, Tania Candiani, Deana Dartt, Dalia Garcia, Javier Gutiérrez, Sarah Rosalena, Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Dyani White Hawk
Featuring a performance by Wendy Cabrera Rubio: La nueva ciencia de la nación mestiza / The New Science of Mestiza Nation
Hosts: Tanya Aguiñiga, John Connelly, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Frederick Janka, Audrey Lopez
Workshops: Guided By Plants Book Club, Exploring augmented reality as a tool for social justice with Nancy Baker Cahill, and Cochineal Lab 1.0 with Porfirio Guitérrez (at Bell Arts Factory in Ventura)
We invite you to participate in a three-day research focused symposium for the forthcoming exhibition at Santa Barbara City College’s Atkinson Gallery for the 2024 edition of Pacific Standard Time: Art + Science + Los Angeles, an initiative of The Getty Foundation. The exhibition is curated by John Connelly, Frederick Janka, and Audrey Lopez. Artist Advisors are Tanya Aguiñiga and Porfirio Gutiérrez, with consultants Matt Guilliams and Dalia Garcia. Exhibition partners include Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Santa Barbara Office of Arts & Culture, Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and the Bell Arts Factory.
As we start to move forward with exhibition and catalog planning, we’re inviting SBCC Campus communities, artists, and colleagues to explore with us how our exhibition touches on color and technology, language and traditional knowledge sharing, sound and performance, through the lenses of migration, plants, and the land.
We are interested in weaving knowledge, restoring affective and ecological connections across time and space, and centering artists’ first-person perspectives. We are uplifting traditional knowledge and locating the science in traditional craft practices. We seek to support the undoing of institutions that have taken this information by intentionally building community, reciprocity, and acknowledgement. We are celebrating learning from family, shepherding the knowledge forward and supporting future generations. We are centering healing, medicine, weaving as building community, freedom, and creative labor over commercial labor.
The full three-day hybrid remote and on-site symposium will take place on the Santa Barbara City College Campus, and there is no cost to participate. Each day will begin with individual presentations and a panel discussion, followed by lunch, then a workshop – structured as a creative lab – to explore the morning’s ideas, exchanges, and learnings.
We are offering live interpretation in Spanish and Mixteco, as well as live closed captions. Please email our gallery director John Connelly at [email protected] for more information. Thank you!
The research phase of this project has received major funding from The Getty Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Santa Barbara City College Foundation, the David Bermant Foundation, and the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation.
Daily Schedule:
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Welcome
Indigenous Protocols
Morning Session:
Embed & Exchange - an artist’s residency - A 360 degree conversation exploring the unique strategy to host one artist in another artist’s studio. During our research, project artist advisor Tanya Aguiñiga hosted fellow artist advisor Porfirio Gutierrez in her Los Angeles studio, then Porfirio hosted Tanya in his Teotitan del Valle studio in Oaxaca, Mexico. Curator Audrey Lopez has documented the exchange in an ongoing series of interviews for our forthcoming publication, while Javier Gutiérez was commissioned to photograph the exchange in Oaxaca.
Performance by Mexico City based artist Wendy Cabrera Rubio: La nueva ciencia de la nación mestiza / The New Science of Mestiza Nation
Alfonso Caso, founder of the National Indigeous Institute (1948) in Mexico, will give us a path to linking genomics with practices of cultural anthropologists and rural doctors strongly linked to the scientific modernizing project of the state. Those in attendance will have the privilege of witnessing a practical demonstration of Indigenous health policies under the post-revolutionary regime.
Lunch break
1:30 - 2:30pm
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202
Workshop: Guided By Plants Book Club - an opportunity to join the research team in exploring the broad spectrum of research materials and publications informing the future exhibition.
Research Symposium
Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College
Thursday, October 20 - Saturday, October 22, 2022
Panelists: Jackie Amézquita, Tania Candiani, Deana Dartt, Dalia Garcia, Javier Gutiérrez, Sarah Rosalena, Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Dyani White Hawk
Featuring a performance by Wendy Cabrera Rubio: La nueva ciencia de la nación mestiza / The New Science of Mestiza Nation
Hosts: Tanya Aguiñiga, John Connelly, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Frederick Janka, Audrey Lopez
Workshops: Guided By Plants Book Club, Exploring augmented reality as a tool for social justice with Nancy Baker Cahill, and Cochineal Lab 1.0 with Porfirio Guitérrez (at Bell Arts Factory in Ventura)
We invite you to participate in a three-day research focused symposium for the forthcoming exhibition at Santa Barbara City College’s Atkinson Gallery for the 2024 edition of Pacific Standard Time: Art + Science + Los Angeles, an initiative of The Getty Foundation. The exhibition is curated by John Connelly, Frederick Janka, and Audrey Lopez. Artist Advisors are Tanya Aguiñiga and Porfirio Gutiérrez, with consultants Matt Guilliams and Dalia Garcia. Exhibition partners include Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Santa Barbara Office of Arts & Culture, Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, and the Bell Arts Factory.
As we start to move forward with exhibition and catalog planning, we’re inviting SBCC Campus communities, artists, and colleagues to explore with us how our exhibition touches on color and technology, language and traditional knowledge sharing, sound and performance, through the lenses of migration, plants, and the land.
We are interested in weaving knowledge, restoring affective and ecological connections across time and space, and centering artists’ first-person perspectives. We are uplifting traditional knowledge and locating the science in traditional craft practices. We seek to support the undoing of institutions that have taken this information by intentionally building community, reciprocity, and acknowledgement. We are celebrating learning from family, shepherding the knowledge forward and supporting future generations. We are centering healing, medicine, weaving as building community, freedom, and creative labor over commercial labor.
The full three-day hybrid remote and on-site symposium will take place on the Santa Barbara City College Campus, and there is no cost to participate. Each day will begin with individual presentations and a panel discussion, followed by lunch, then a workshop – structured as a creative lab – to explore the morning’s ideas, exchanges, and learnings.
We are offering live interpretation in Spanish and Mixteco, as well as live closed captions. Please email our gallery director John Connelly at [email protected] for more information. Thank you!
The research phase of this project has received major funding from The Getty Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Santa Barbara City College Foundation, the David Bermant Foundation, and the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation.
Daily Schedule:
Thursday, October 20, 2022
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Welcome
Indigenous Protocols
Morning Session:
Embed & Exchange - an artist’s residency - A 360 degree conversation exploring the unique strategy to host one artist in another artist’s studio. During our research, project artist advisor Tanya Aguiñiga hosted fellow artist advisor Porfirio Gutierrez in her Los Angeles studio, then Porfirio hosted Tanya in his Teotitan del Valle studio in Oaxaca, Mexico. Curator Audrey Lopez has documented the exchange in an ongoing series of interviews for our forthcoming publication, while Javier Gutiérez was commissioned to photograph the exchange in Oaxaca.
Performance by Mexico City based artist Wendy Cabrera Rubio: La nueva ciencia de la nación mestiza / The New Science of Mestiza Nation
Alfonso Caso, founder of the National Indigeous Institute (1948) in Mexico, will give us a path to linking genomics with practices of cultural anthropologists and rural doctors strongly linked to the scientific modernizing project of the state. Those in attendance will have the privilege of witnessing a practical demonstration of Indigenous health policies under the post-revolutionary regime.
Lunch break
1:30 - 2:30pm
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202
Workshop: Guided By Plants Book Club - an opportunity to join the research team in exploring the broad spectrum of research materials and publications informing the future exhibition.
Friday, October 21, 2022
Location: SBCC Administration Building Auditorium, Room: 211 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Morning Session with Sarah Rosalena, Wixárika, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara based Artist; Deana Dartt, Coastal Chumash, Museum Professional & Consultant; Tania Candiani, Mexico City based Artist; Jackie Amézquita, Los Angeles based Artist
Location: SBCC Administration Building Auditorium, Room: 211 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Morning Session with Sarah Rosalena, Wixárika, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara based Artist; Deana Dartt, Coastal Chumash, Museum Professional & Consultant; Tania Candiani, Mexico City based Artist; Jackie Amézquita, Los Angeles based Artist
Lunch break
Location: SBCC Administration Building Auditorium, Room: 211 and via Zoom
1:30 - 2:30pm
Workshop: Exploring augmented reality as a tool for social justice with Nancy Baker Cahill
Location: SBCC Administration Building Auditorium, Room: 211 and via Zoom
1:30 - 2:30pm
Workshop: Exploring augmented reality as a tool for social justice with Nancy Baker Cahill
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Morning Session: Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Director, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico; Dalia Garcia, Tequio Youth Organizing Manager, Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP); Dyani White Hawk, Sičangu Lakota, Minnesota based Artist
Location: Bell Arts Factory, 432 N Ventura Ave, Ventura, CA 93001
1:30 - 2:30pm
Lunch break
Workshop: Cochineal Lab 1.0 with Porfirio Guitérrez (at Bell Arts Factory in Ventura) - you are invited to visit the first iteration of a series of lab spaces conceived of and implemented as a part of the research phase of our project.
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Morning Session: Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Director, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico; Dalia Garcia, Tequio Youth Organizing Manager, Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP); Dyani White Hawk, Sičangu Lakota, Minnesota based Artist
Location: Bell Arts Factory, 432 N Ventura Ave, Ventura, CA 93001
1:30 - 2:30pm
Lunch break
Workshop: Cochineal Lab 1.0 with Porfirio Guitérrez (at Bell Arts Factory in Ventura) - you are invited to visit the first iteration of a series of lab spaces conceived of and implemented as a part of the research phase of our project.
SPANISH TRANSLATION:
Guiado por las plantas:
la diáspora indígena oaxaqueña, conocimiento ecológicos tradicionales y arte contemporáneo
Simposio de investigación
Atkinson Gallery en Santa Barbara City College
jueves, el 20 de octubre - sábado, el 22 de octubre del 2022
Participantes: Jackie Amézquita, Tania Candiani, Deana Dartt, Dalia Garcia, Javier Gutiérrez, Sarah Rosalena, Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Dyani White Hawk
Con la actuación de Wendy Cabrera Rubio: La nueva ciencia de la nación mestiza / The New Science of Mestiza Nation
Anfitriones: Tanya Aguiñiga, John Connelly, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Frederick Janka, Audrey Lopez
Talleres: Guiado por las Plantas Grupo de Lectura, explorando la realidad aumentada como una herramienta para la justicia social con Nancy Baker Cahill, Laboratorio de Cochinilla 1.0 con Porfirio Gutiérrez (en Bell Arts Factory en Ventura)
Les invitamos a participar en un simposio de tres días centrado en la investigación para la exhibición en la Atkinson Gallery de Santa Barbara City College para la edición 2024 de Pacific Standard Time: Art + Science + Los Angeles, una iniciativa de The Getty Foundation. La exposición está comisariada por John Connelly, Frederick Janka, y Audrey Lopez. Los asesores de artistas son Tanya Aguiñiga y Porfirio Gutiérrez, con consultores Matt Guilliams y Dalia Garcia. Los socios de la exposición incluyen a Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Santa Barbara Office of Arts & Culture, Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, y Bell Arts Factory.
A medida que comenzamos a avanzar con la planificación de nuestro exhibición y catálogo, estamos invitando a las comunidades, artistas y colegas de SBCC a explorar con nosotros cómo nuestra exhibición toca color y la tecnología, idioma y el intercambio de conocimientos tradicionales, el sonido y el actuación, a través de los lentes de la migración, las plantas y la tierra.
Estamos interesados en el conocimiento de tejer, restaurar conexiones afectivas y ecológicas a través del tiempo y el espacio, y centrar las perspectivas en primera persona de los artistas. Estamos elevando el conocimiento tradicional y ubicando la ciencia en las prácticas artesanales tradicionales. Buscamos apoyar el deshaciendo de instituciones que han tomado esta información mediante la construcción intencional de comunidad, reciprocidad y reconocimiento. Estamos celebrando el aprendizaje de la familia, impulsando el conocimiento hacia adelante y apoyando a las generaciones futuras. Estamos centrando la curación, la medicina, el tejido como construyendo la comunidad, libertad y trabajo creativo sobre el trabajo comercial.
El simposio híbrido remoto y en persona completo de tres días se llevará a cabo en Santa Barbara City College Campus, y no hay costo para participar. Cada día comenzará con presentaciones individuales y un panel de discusión, seguido de un almuerzo, luego un taller - estructurado como un laboratorio creativo - para explorar las ideas, los intercambios y los aprendizajes de la mañana.
Estamos ofreciendo interpretación en vivo en Español y Mixteco, incluyendo subtítulos en vivo. Comuníquese con la Atkinson Gallery para obtener más información y solicitar adaptaciones específicas: John Connelly [email protected]
La fase de investigación de este proyecto ha recibido financiación significativa de la Getty Foundation. Santa Barbara City College Foundation, the David Bermant Foundation, y la Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation han brindado apoyo adicional.
Para registrar en la participación remota (link de Zoom), visita nuestro perfil
Guiado por las plantas:
la diáspora indígena oaxaqueña, conocimiento ecológicos tradicionales y arte contemporáneo
Simposio de investigación
Atkinson Gallery en Santa Barbara City College
jueves, el 20 de octubre - sábado, el 22 de octubre del 2022
Participantes: Jackie Amézquita, Tania Candiani, Deana Dartt, Dalia Garcia, Javier Gutiérrez, Sarah Rosalena, Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Dyani White Hawk
Con la actuación de Wendy Cabrera Rubio: La nueva ciencia de la nación mestiza / The New Science of Mestiza Nation
Anfitriones: Tanya Aguiñiga, John Connelly, Porfirio Gutiérrez, Frederick Janka, Audrey Lopez
Talleres: Guiado por las Plantas Grupo de Lectura, explorando la realidad aumentada como una herramienta para la justicia social con Nancy Baker Cahill, Laboratorio de Cochinilla 1.0 con Porfirio Gutiérrez (en Bell Arts Factory en Ventura)
Les invitamos a participar en un simposio de tres días centrado en la investigación para la exhibición en la Atkinson Gallery de Santa Barbara City College para la edición 2024 de Pacific Standard Time: Art + Science + Los Angeles, una iniciativa de The Getty Foundation. La exposición está comisariada por John Connelly, Frederick Janka, y Audrey Lopez. Los asesores de artistas son Tanya Aguiñiga y Porfirio Gutiérrez, con consultores Matt Guilliams y Dalia Garcia. Los socios de la exposición incluyen a Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Santa Barbara Office of Arts & Culture, Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP), Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, y Bell Arts Factory.
A medida que comenzamos a avanzar con la planificación de nuestro exhibición y catálogo, estamos invitando a las comunidades, artistas y colegas de SBCC a explorar con nosotros cómo nuestra exhibición toca color y la tecnología, idioma y el intercambio de conocimientos tradicionales, el sonido y el actuación, a través de los lentes de la migración, las plantas y la tierra.
Estamos interesados en el conocimiento de tejer, restaurar conexiones afectivas y ecológicas a través del tiempo y el espacio, y centrar las perspectivas en primera persona de los artistas. Estamos elevando el conocimiento tradicional y ubicando la ciencia en las prácticas artesanales tradicionales. Buscamos apoyar el deshaciendo de instituciones que han tomado esta información mediante la construcción intencional de comunidad, reciprocidad y reconocimiento. Estamos celebrando el aprendizaje de la familia, impulsando el conocimiento hacia adelante y apoyando a las generaciones futuras. Estamos centrando la curación, la medicina, el tejido como construyendo la comunidad, libertad y trabajo creativo sobre el trabajo comercial.
El simposio híbrido remoto y en persona completo de tres días se llevará a cabo en Santa Barbara City College Campus, y no hay costo para participar. Cada día comenzará con presentaciones individuales y un panel de discusión, seguido de un almuerzo, luego un taller - estructurado como un laboratorio creativo - para explorar las ideas, los intercambios y los aprendizajes de la mañana.
Estamos ofreciendo interpretación en vivo en Español y Mixteco, incluyendo subtítulos en vivo. Comuníquese con la Atkinson Gallery para obtener más información y solicitar adaptaciones específicas: John Connelly [email protected]
La fase de investigación de este proyecto ha recibido financiación significativa de la Getty Foundation. Santa Barbara City College Foundation, the David Bermant Foundation, y la Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation han brindado apoyo adicional.
Para registrar en la participación remota (link de Zoom), visita nuestro perfil
Programa:
jueves, 20 de octubre del 2022
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Bienvenidos
Protocolos indígenas
Sesión de la mañana: Embed & Exchange - la residencia de una artista - una conversación de 360 grados explorando la estrategia única de alojar a un artista en el estudio de otro artista. Durante nuestro investigación, la asesora de artistas del proyecto Tanya Aguiñiga recibió a su colega asesor de artistas, Porfirio Gutierrez, en su estudio de Los Angeles, luego Porfirio recibió a Tanya en su estudio de Teotitlán del Valle studio en Oaxaca, México. La curadora, Audrey Lopez, ha documentado el intercambio en una serie continua de entrevistas para nuestra próxima publicación, mientras Javier Gutiérez recibió el encargo de fotografiar el intercambio en Oaxaca.
Con la actuación de Wendy Cabrera Rubio: La nueva ciencia de la nación mestiza / The New Science of Mestiza Nation
Alfonso Caso, fundador del Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1948) nos dará un recorrido sobre los vínculos de la genómica con las prácticas de los antropólogos culturales, y médicos rurales fuertemente vinculados con el proyecto científico modernizador de la capital. Los acompañantes tendrán el privilegio de ver una demostración práctica de las políticas de salud indigenista bajo el régimen posrevolucionario.
Descanso de almuerzo
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202
1:30 - 2:30pm
Taller: guiado por las plantas grupo de lectura - una oportunidad para unirse el equipo de investigación en la exploración del amplio espectro de materiales de investigación y publicaciones que informan la exhibición.
jueves, 20 de octubre del 2022
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Bienvenidos
Protocolos indígenas
Sesión de la mañana: Embed & Exchange - la residencia de una artista - una conversación de 360 grados explorando la estrategia única de alojar a un artista en el estudio de otro artista. Durante nuestro investigación, la asesora de artistas del proyecto Tanya Aguiñiga recibió a su colega asesor de artistas, Porfirio Gutierrez, en su estudio de Los Angeles, luego Porfirio recibió a Tanya en su estudio de Teotitlán del Valle studio en Oaxaca, México. La curadora, Audrey Lopez, ha documentado el intercambio en una serie continua de entrevistas para nuestra próxima publicación, mientras Javier Gutiérez recibió el encargo de fotografiar el intercambio en Oaxaca.
Con la actuación de Wendy Cabrera Rubio: La nueva ciencia de la nación mestiza / The New Science of Mestiza Nation
Alfonso Caso, fundador del Instituto Nacional Indigenista (1948) nos dará un recorrido sobre los vínculos de la genómica con las prácticas de los antropólogos culturales, y médicos rurales fuertemente vinculados con el proyecto científico modernizador de la capital. Los acompañantes tendrán el privilegio de ver una demostración práctica de las políticas de salud indigenista bajo el régimen posrevolucionario.
Descanso de almuerzo
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202
1:30 - 2:30pm
Taller: guiado por las plantas grupo de lectura - una oportunidad para unirse el equipo de investigación en la exploración del amplio espectro de materiales de investigación y publicaciones que informan la exhibición.
viernes, 21 de octubre del 2022
Location: SBCC Administration Building Auditorium, Room: 211 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Sesión de la mañana con Sarah Rosalena, Wixárika, artista basado en Los Ángeles y Santa Bárbara, Deana Dartt, Coastal Chumash, Profesional y consultora de museo, Tania Candiani, artista basado en Cuidad de México; Jackie Amézquita, artista basado en Los Ángeles
Location: SBCC Administration Building Auditorium, Room: 211 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Sesión de la mañana con Sarah Rosalena, Wixárika, artista basado en Los Ángeles y Santa Bárbara, Deana Dartt, Coastal Chumash, Profesional y consultora de museo, Tania Candiani, artista basado en Cuidad de México; Jackie Amézquita, artista basado en Los Ángeles
Descanso de almuerzo
Location: SBCC Administration Building Auditorium, Room: 211
1:30 - 2:30pm
Taller: explorando la realidad aumentada como una herramienta para la justicia social con Nancy Baker Cahill
Location: SBCC Administration Building Auditorium, Room: 211
1:30 - 2:30pm
Taller: explorando la realidad aumentada como una herramienta para la justicia social con Nancy Baker Cahill
sábado, 22 de octubre del 2022
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Sesión de la mañana: Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Director, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico; Dalia Garcia, administrador organizadora de Tequio Youth, Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP); Dyani White Hawk, Sičangu Lakota, artista basado en Minnesota
Location: Bell Arts Factory, 432 N Ventura Ave UNIT 101, Ventura, CA 93001
12:30 - 2:30pm
Descanso de almuerzo (en Bell Arts Factory en Ventura)
Taller: Laboratorio de Cochinilla 1.0 con Porfirio Gutiérrez (en Bell Arts Factory en Ventura) - estás invitado a visitar la primera iteración de una serie de espacios laboratorio concebidos e implementados de parte de la fase de investigación de nuestro proyecto.
Location: Atkinson Gallery @ SBCC Humanities Room: 202 and via Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pm
Sesión de la mañana: Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, Director, Museo Textil de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico; Dalia Garcia, administrador organizadora de Tequio Youth, Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project (MICOP); Dyani White Hawk, Sičangu Lakota, artista basado en Minnesota
Location: Bell Arts Factory, 432 N Ventura Ave UNIT 101, Ventura, CA 93001
12:30 - 2:30pm
Descanso de almuerzo (en Bell Arts Factory en Ventura)
Taller: Laboratorio de Cochinilla 1.0 con Porfirio Gutiérrez (en Bell Arts Factory en Ventura) - estás invitado a visitar la primera iteración de una serie de espacios laboratorio concebidos e implementados de parte de la fase de investigación de nuestro proyecto.
Evelyn Contreras
Artist Talk and Demonstration
Wednesday, October 19th @ 4:00 pm in the Atkinson Gallery
Evelyn Contreras (born in Santa Barbara; lives and works in Southern, California) received her BFA in Printmaking from CSU Long Beach (CSULB), Long Beach, CA in 2016 and her MFA with a concentration in Printmaking from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018.
Contreras’ work creatively engages printmaking in multimedia formats. In this exhibition, a series of cinematic flip book machines made from abstracted black and white prints will be installed in the gallery in three neon-green viewing stations, featuring paint, vinyl and glowing UV light. Her sculptural corner work “Suspension”, 2021 made of acrylic, wood and paint resembles a sci-fi Rorschach inkblot that includes a digital monitor displaying a kinetic, custom designed GIF landscape. While her newest body of work transfers these architectural GIF landscapes into the handheld popular cultural format of a stereoscopic viewfinder. Threading the boundaries between high and low cultural references, Contreras’ work incorporates both Chicano cultural lexicons while referencing both high and low aesthetic art movements such as Suprematism, Non-objective art and Op-Art engaging thoughtful investigations on the hierarchies of aesthetics.
Artist Talk and Demonstration
Wednesday, October 19th @ 4:00 pm in the Atkinson Gallery
Evelyn Contreras (born in Santa Barbara; lives and works in Southern, California) received her BFA in Printmaking from CSU Long Beach (CSULB), Long Beach, CA in 2016 and her MFA with a concentration in Printmaking from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018.
Contreras’ work creatively engages printmaking in multimedia formats. In this exhibition, a series of cinematic flip book machines made from abstracted black and white prints will be installed in the gallery in three neon-green viewing stations, featuring paint, vinyl and glowing UV light. Her sculptural corner work “Suspension”, 2021 made of acrylic, wood and paint resembles a sci-fi Rorschach inkblot that includes a digital monitor displaying a kinetic, custom designed GIF landscape. While her newest body of work transfers these architectural GIF landscapes into the handheld popular cultural format of a stereoscopic viewfinder. Threading the boundaries between high and low cultural references, Contreras’ work incorporates both Chicano cultural lexicons while referencing both high and low aesthetic art movements such as Suprematism, Non-objective art and Op-Art engaging thoughtful investigations on the hierarchies of aesthetics.
Tamar Siegfried Rosa Halpern
Artist Talk
Wednesday, September 14th @ 4:00 pm in-person in SBCC Humanities Lecture Hall Room H-111 and via zoom
Tamar Siegfried Rosa Halpern (born 1979 in Los Angeles; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) received her BFA from the College of Santa Fe, NM in 2003 and her MFA from Columbia University, NYC in 2005.
In experiencing Halpern’s dynamic, time-based paintings, prints and sculpture one recognizes these are narrative, cinematic works made for and in the physical dimension - the fragmented images and texts that comprise these artworks give insight into their most intimate thoughts about process and practice. A series of images printed on silk or plexiglass plates dissolve into each other - the composition constantly varying and influenced by the materiality of plates, light in the room, the viewer’s position, and objects around. The imagery is photographic, aspects of it are recognizable: hair, a hand, toes, folds of fabric, foliage, but it has been splayed apart and left open for questioning.
Gabriella Sanchez
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 @ 2:00 pm via Zoom
Gabriella Sanchez (b.1988) is a self-directed learner, a fan of sci-fi, and a multidisciplinary artist. As a painter she employs a range of artistic expression from abstraction to portraiture, with a particular focus on both form and language within the perspectives of art, design, and psychology. This is done to reexamine, re-image, and reimagine themes from her own life and the life of her loved ones which address issues of class in relation to: labor, race, addiction, gender, education, imprisonment and system-induced death. She does this through a lens which incorporates public archives alongside personal imagery and narrative. Her art practice focuses on art-making as a tool for survival and a tool for coping with survival.
Sanchez received a BFA in 2011 from Point Loma Nazarene University and began exhibiting her paintings and works on paper in 2016. Her work has been exhibited at spaces such as LACMA, Jeffrey Deitch (New York and Los Angeles), Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles), Páramo Galeria (Guadalajara), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA), Stems Gallery (Brussels), LMAK Gallery (New York), and the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, CA. Sanchez has exhibited in international art fairs including Frieze Los Angeles, Zona Maco in CDMX, EXPO Chicago, and the Armory Show in New York, NY. Her work is in notable collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the JP Morgan & Chase Collection, and numerous private collections. Gabriella Sanchez lives and works in Los Angeles.
Wednesday, April 20, 2022 @ 2:00 pm via Zoom
Gabriella Sanchez (b.1988) is a self-directed learner, a fan of sci-fi, and a multidisciplinary artist. As a painter she employs a range of artistic expression from abstraction to portraiture, with a particular focus on both form and language within the perspectives of art, design, and psychology. This is done to reexamine, re-image, and reimagine themes from her own life and the life of her loved ones which address issues of class in relation to: labor, race, addiction, gender, education, imprisonment and system-induced death. She does this through a lens which incorporates public archives alongside personal imagery and narrative. Her art practice focuses on art-making as a tool for survival and a tool for coping with survival.
Sanchez received a BFA in 2011 from Point Loma Nazarene University and began exhibiting her paintings and works on paper in 2016. Her work has been exhibited at spaces such as LACMA, Jeffrey Deitch (New York and Los Angeles), Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles), Páramo Galeria (Guadalajara), the Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA), Stems Gallery (Brussels), LMAK Gallery (New York), and the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, CA. Sanchez has exhibited in international art fairs including Frieze Los Angeles, Zona Maco in CDMX, EXPO Chicago, and the Armory Show in New York, NY. Her work is in notable collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum, the JP Morgan & Chase Collection, and numerous private collections. Gabriella Sanchez lives and works in Los Angeles.
Keith Mayerson
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 @ 4:00 pm via Zoom
Keith Mayerson (b. 1966, Cincinnati, OH) is inspired by symbols of American history and pop culture, and depicts familiar figures who have impacted the country’s consciousness, in addition to personal scenes and his abstract “iconscapes.” His work allegorizes themes of resilience, determination, and the “American dream.” Iconic images, heroes, places, and events are rendered luminous and transcendent through Mayerson’s micro-managed brushwork and coloring. His subjects are often selected for their backstories and cultural impact; in Mayerson’s paintings, they embody contemporary national feelings and sentiments. While his formal features hint at a French Impressionist influence, his images could be seen to recall the work of Symbolists in their spiritual components, cultural commentary, and review, in addition to being inspired by the more visionary aspects of American Modernists and the Old Masters.
Keith Mayerson studied Semiotics and Studio Art at Brown University and received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and is now Professor of Art and Chair of Painting Drawing, and Printmaking at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. Mayerson’s work was prominently featured in the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art with a solo show My American Dream, the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum’s inaugural downtown show, America is Hard to See. His recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York (2021); Elaine de Kooning House Foundation, East Hampton (2019); Marlborough Gallery, New York (2019); and the Bridge, Bridgehampton (2019).
His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; American University Museum of Art, Washington DC; The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts; UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
Photo Credit: Bob Perkoski Copyright: ©2017
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 @ 4:00 pm via Zoom
Keith Mayerson (b. 1966, Cincinnati, OH) is inspired by symbols of American history and pop culture, and depicts familiar figures who have impacted the country’s consciousness, in addition to personal scenes and his abstract “iconscapes.” His work allegorizes themes of resilience, determination, and the “American dream.” Iconic images, heroes, places, and events are rendered luminous and transcendent through Mayerson’s micro-managed brushwork and coloring. His subjects are often selected for their backstories and cultural impact; in Mayerson’s paintings, they embody contemporary national feelings and sentiments. While his formal features hint at a French Impressionist influence, his images could be seen to recall the work of Symbolists in their spiritual components, cultural commentary, and review, in addition to being inspired by the more visionary aspects of American Modernists and the Old Masters.
Keith Mayerson studied Semiotics and Studio Art at Brown University and received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and is now Professor of Art and Chair of Painting Drawing, and Printmaking at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. Mayerson’s work was prominently featured in the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art with a solo show My American Dream, the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum’s inaugural downtown show, America is Hard to See. His recent solo exhibitions include Karma, New York (2021); Elaine de Kooning House Foundation, East Hampton (2019); Marlborough Gallery, New York (2019); and the Bridge, Bridgehampton (2019).
His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; American University Museum of Art, Washington DC; The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts; UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, California; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
Photo Credit: Bob Perkoski Copyright: ©2017
Kelly Akashi
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 4:00 pm via Zoom
Material tactility, its possibilities, limitations, and transformation form the core of Kelly Akashi's practice. Originally trained in analog photography, traditional processes and the materiality of documents continue to inform and fuel her sculptural explorations. Working in a variety of media, such as wax, bronze, fire, glass, silicone, copper, and rope, Akashi investigates the capacity and boundaries of these elements and their ability to construct and challenge conventional concepts of form.
Born in 1983 in Los Angeles, Kelly Akashi currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. The artist graduated with a MFA from University of Southern California in 2014. Akashi studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and received her BFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2006.
Kelly Akashi’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; CC Foundation, Shanghai; X Museum, Beijing; The Perimeter, London; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Sifang Museum, Nanjing, among others.
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 4:00 pm via Zoom
Material tactility, its possibilities, limitations, and transformation form the core of Kelly Akashi's practice. Originally trained in analog photography, traditional processes and the materiality of documents continue to inform and fuel her sculptural explorations. Working in a variety of media, such as wax, bronze, fire, glass, silicone, copper, and rope, Akashi investigates the capacity and boundaries of these elements and their ability to construct and challenge conventional concepts of form.
Born in 1983 in Los Angeles, Kelly Akashi currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. The artist graduated with a MFA from University of Southern California in 2014. Akashi studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and received her BFA at Otis College of Art and Design in 2006.
Kelly Akashi’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; CC Foundation, Shanghai; X Museum, Beijing; The Perimeter, London; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Sifang Museum, Nanjing, among others.
VANESSA WALLACE-GONZALES
Wednesday, October 13th @ 2:00 pm via Zoom
Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales is an Afro-Latinx and Ventura, California artist who uses elements of mythology to explore her identity and personal experiences. She began this exploration during her attendance at the Maryland Institute College of Art and carried it on in exhibitions in Oxnard, Ventura and Los Angeles, California, New York City, Baltimore, Maryland, and Florence, Italy. Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales is attracted to mythology because it rides the line of reality and fantasy to tell the story of a people. Her passion has brought her to think of her own creation. With all the nuances that form her identity, Vanessa has come to begin thinking of herself not just as one but a universe of beings in which the entirety is her.
Wednesday, October 13th @ 2:00 pm via Zoom
Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales is an Afro-Latinx and Ventura, California artist who uses elements of mythology to explore her identity and personal experiences. She began this exploration during her attendance at the Maryland Institute College of Art and carried it on in exhibitions in Oxnard, Ventura and Los Angeles, California, New York City, Baltimore, Maryland, and Florence, Italy. Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales is attracted to mythology because it rides the line of reality and fantasy to tell the story of a people. Her passion has brought her to think of her own creation. With all the nuances that form her identity, Vanessa has come to begin thinking of herself not just as one but a universe of beings in which the entirety is her.
MARK THOMAS GIBSON
Wednesday, October 6th @ 2:00 pm via Zoom
Mark Thomas Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL) received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. He is represented by Fredericks & Freiser in New York, M+B in Los Angeles and Loyal in Stockholm. In 2016, he co-curated the travelling exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo. Gibson has released two artist books, Some Monsters Loom Large (2016) and Early Retirement (2017). Mark Thomas Gibson's personal lens on American culture stems from his multipartite viewpoint as an artist—as a black male, a professor, and an American history buff. These myriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through languages of painting and drawing, revealing a vision of a dystopian America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story.
Wednesday, October 6th @ 2:00 pm via Zoom
Mark Thomas Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL) received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. He is represented by Fredericks & Freiser in New York, M+B in Los Angeles and Loyal in Stockholm. In 2016, he co-curated the travelling exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo. Gibson has released two artist books, Some Monsters Loom Large (2016) and Early Retirement (2017). Mark Thomas Gibson's personal lens on American culture stems from his multipartite viewpoint as an artist—as a black male, a professor, and an American history buff. These myriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through languages of painting and drawing, revealing a vision of a dystopian America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story.
SARAH ROSALENA BRADY
Wednesday, September 15th @ 2:00 pm via Zoom
Sarah Rosalena Brady (Huichol) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Los Angeles. She is Assistant Professor of Art at UC Santa Barbara in Computational Craft and Haptic Media and affiliated faculty at the Center for Responsible Machine Learning. She was recently given the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant, the Steve Wilson Award from Leonardo, the International Society for Art, Sciences, and Technology, and the Craft Futures Grant from Center for Craft. Her research focuses on Indigenous scholarship and mentorship in STEAM. She has presented her work and research at places such as LACMA, Blum and Poe, Getty Museum, New Wight Gallery, Ars Electronica, and SOMArts Cultural Center.
Wednesday, September 15th @ 2:00 pm via Zoom
Sarah Rosalena Brady (Huichol) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Los Angeles. She is Assistant Professor of Art at UC Santa Barbara in Computational Craft and Haptic Media and affiliated faculty at the Center for Responsible Machine Learning. She was recently given the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant, the Steve Wilson Award from Leonardo, the International Society for Art, Sciences, and Technology, and the Craft Futures Grant from Center for Craft. Her research focuses on Indigenous scholarship and mentorship in STEAM. She has presented her work and research at places such as LACMA, Blum and Poe, Getty Museum, New Wight Gallery, Ars Electronica, and SOMArts Cultural Center.
KATHERINE ANDREWS
Wednesday, April 28th @ 4:00 pm via Zoom
Kathryn Andrews (b. 1973, Mobile, Alabama) channels the legacies of both pop art and minimalism, often juxtaposing readymades and found imagery (such as certified film props and licensed photographs) with fabricated, meticulously finished forms. The reflective surfaces of Andrews’s work call attention to the act of looking and reveal the ways in which images and cultural symbols are rooted in the physical world. Through such combinations, she examines latent power dynamics in acts of desire and consumption, and addresses the implied violence of dominant image histories from a feminist perspective, opening up new, more critically aware ways of seeing. Her work takes shape in a variety of media, including sculpture, large-scale printmaking, and performance; the viewer’s body is always an implied, and often direct, subject of her practice.
Andrews was the subject of the travelling solo exhibition Kathryn Andrews: Run for President at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2016) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago (2015). Other solo exhibitions include Field Station: Kathryn Andrews, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing (2017); Sunbathers I & II, High Line, New York (2016); Kathryn Andrews, TC: Temporary Contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2014); and Special Meat Occasional Drink, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2013). Among her recent group exhibitions are In Production: Art and the Studio System, Yuz Museum, Shanghai; Graphic Pull: Contemporary Prints from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Chapel Hill; Mad World, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2018); Good Dreams, Bad Dreams: American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2016); NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2015); The Los Angeles Project, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2014); and Made in L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012). Andrews lives and works in Los Angeles.
NARSISO MARTINEZ
Wednesday, April 21st @ 4:00 pm via Zoom
Narsiso Martinez’s drawings and mixed media installations include multi-figure compositions set amidst agricultural landscapes. Drawn from his own experience as a farmworker, Martinez’s work focuses on the people performing the labors necessary to fill produce sections and restaurant kitchens around the country. Martinez’s portraits of farmworkers are painted, drawn, and expressed in sculpture on discarded produce boxes collected from grocery stores. In a style informed by 1930s-era Social Realism and heightened through use of found materials, Martinez makes visible the difficult labor and onerous conditions of the “American farmworker,” itself a compromised piece of language owing to the industry’s conspicuous use of undocumented workers.
Narsiso Martinez (b. 1977, Oaxaca, Mexico) came to the United States when he was 20 years old. He attended Evans Community Adult School and completed high school in 2006 at the age of 29. He earned an Associate of Arts degree in 2009 from Los Angeles City College. In the fall of 2012 Narsiso earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University Long Beach. In the spring of 2018 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach, and was awarded the prestigious Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. Martinez lives and works in Long Beach, CA.
Wednesday, April 21st @ 4:00 pm via Zoom
Narsiso Martinez’s drawings and mixed media installations include multi-figure compositions set amidst agricultural landscapes. Drawn from his own experience as a farmworker, Martinez’s work focuses on the people performing the labors necessary to fill produce sections and restaurant kitchens around the country. Martinez’s portraits of farmworkers are painted, drawn, and expressed in sculpture on discarded produce boxes collected from grocery stores. In a style informed by 1930s-era Social Realism and heightened through use of found materials, Martinez makes visible the difficult labor and onerous conditions of the “American farmworker,” itself a compromised piece of language owing to the industry’s conspicuous use of undocumented workers.
Narsiso Martinez (b. 1977, Oaxaca, Mexico) came to the United States when he was 20 years old. He attended Evans Community Adult School and completed high school in 2006 at the age of 29. He earned an Associate of Arts degree in 2009 from Los Angeles City College. In the fall of 2012 Narsiso earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University Long Beach. In the spring of 2018 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting from California State University Long Beach, and was awarded the prestigious Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. His work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. Martinez lives and works in Long Beach, CA.
ADRIANA ARRIAGA
Studio Visit
March 10th, 2021 @ 4:00 pm Pacific Time (US and Canada) via zoom
Studio Visit
March 10th, 2021 @ 4:00 pm Pacific Time (US and Canada) via zoom
ADRIANA ARRIAGA - BIOGRAPHY
Born 1994 in Santa Barbara, CA
Lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA
EDUCATION
2019 M.F.A. Design | UC Davis
2017 B.A. Design Studies | San Jose State University
2015 A.A. Studio Art | Santa Barbara City College
Adriana Arriaga is a designer who dedicates her work to building meaningful relationships and community through design. She received a BA in Design Studies at San Jose State University in 2017 and an MFA in Design at UC Davis in 2019. Arriaga is known for making colorful illustrations that reflect her personal cultural and social experiences.
In the spring of 2019, Arriaga presented her MFA thesis exhibition Designing in Color: Graphic Design Through a Xicana Lens, at UC Davis’s new Maria Manetti Shrem Museum which included multiple instances of her giant wheat-paste and paper posters and a mobile art distribution system labeled “Adriana La Artista” and modeled on street vendors’ food carts. In September of 2020 she was featured in The Santa Barbara Independent in the article “La Artista Adriana Arriaga: Next Generation Chicanx Art in Santa Barbara”. She currently works in marketing where she finds different ways to connect with people through visual design.
Photo: Daniel Dreifuss/Santa Barbara Independent
http://www.adrianaarriaga.com/
Born 1994 in Santa Barbara, CA
Lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA
EDUCATION
2019 M.F.A. Design | UC Davis
2017 B.A. Design Studies | San Jose State University
2015 A.A. Studio Art | Santa Barbara City College
Adriana Arriaga is a designer who dedicates her work to building meaningful relationships and community through design. She received a BA in Design Studies at San Jose State University in 2017 and an MFA in Design at UC Davis in 2019. Arriaga is known for making colorful illustrations that reflect her personal cultural and social experiences.
In the spring of 2019, Arriaga presented her MFA thesis exhibition Designing in Color: Graphic Design Through a Xicana Lens, at UC Davis’s new Maria Manetti Shrem Museum which included multiple instances of her giant wheat-paste and paper posters and a mobile art distribution system labeled “Adriana La Artista” and modeled on street vendors’ food carts. In September of 2020 she was featured in The Santa Barbara Independent in the article “La Artista Adriana Arriaga: Next Generation Chicanx Art in Santa Barbara”. She currently works in marketing where she finds different ways to connect with people through visual design.
Photo: Daniel Dreifuss/Santa Barbara Independent
http://www.adrianaarriaga.com/
TM DAVY
Studio Visit
March 3rd, 2021 @ 4:00 pm Pacific Time (US and Canada) via zoom
Studio Visit
March 3rd, 2021 @ 4:00 pm Pacific Time (US and Canada) via zoom
TM DAVY - BIOGRAPHY
Born 1980, New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2002
BFA, The School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
T.M. Davy's representational paintings are intimate studies of light, figure, and the interplay between them. Subject matter ranges from portraiture to studies of botanicals, landscape and animals. Recent works closely examine candles' illumination of his subjects' faces, a practice which has grown out of his intimately detailed still lifes and portraits. Reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance style, Davy's aesthetic is built on warm realism and close attention to atmosphere and texture.
Davy’s works have been featured in performances by Sarah Michelson at The Kitchen, the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art, all in New York. He has exhibited at institutions including Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Tate Modern, London, X Initiative, New York, and galleries in America and abroad. He was also awarded the BOFFO Artist Residency in Fire Island in 2012.
http://www.tmdavy.com
Born 1980, New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2002
BFA, The School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
T.M. Davy's representational paintings are intimate studies of light, figure, and the interplay between them. Subject matter ranges from portraiture to studies of botanicals, landscape and animals. Recent works closely examine candles' illumination of his subjects' faces, a practice which has grown out of his intimately detailed still lifes and portraits. Reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance style, Davy's aesthetic is built on warm realism and close attention to atmosphere and texture.
Davy’s works have been featured in performances by Sarah Michelson at The Kitchen, the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and the Museum of Modern Art, all in New York. He has exhibited at institutions including Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Tate Modern, London, X Initiative, New York, and galleries in America and abroad. He was also awarded the BOFFO Artist Residency in Fire Island in 2012.
http://www.tmdavy.com
(l) Tanya Aguiñiga, Cosas que Sangran, 2020. Braided cotton rope, cochineal dye, heckled flax.
(r) Porfirio Gutiérrez, Ritual Series. Textile dyed with cochineal insects. Photographed on the main plaza in Teotitlán del Valle Oaxaca. Photograph: Javier Lazo Gutiérrez.
Atkinson Gallery Art Talk
Introducing Cosmovisión Indígena: The Intersection of Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Art
Via Zoom Webinar
February 24th, 2021, 4:00 pm
Introducing Cosmovisión Indígena: The Intersection of Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Art
Via Zoom Webinar
February 24th, 2021, 4:00 pm
Featuring:
Tanya Aguiñiga, artist and craftsperson, Los Angeles
Porfirio Gutiérrez, artist and craftsperson Ventura, CA & Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico
John Connelly, Director, Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara
Frederick Janka, Executive Director, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai
Audrey Lopez, Ph.D., Public Art & Engagement Curator, Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture, Santa Barbara
You are invited to a group discussion with lead artist advisors and exhibition curators on the upcoming exhibition project that is part of Pacific Standard Time (PST) an initiative of the Getty Foundation with arts organizations throughout Southern California. This is an opportunity for the SBCC community and our greater regional audience to learn more about our exhibition project.
Event is closed captioned. Interpretation in English, Spanish, Mixteco, and Zapotec will be provided. Se proporcionará interpretación en inglés, español, mixteco, y zapotec a través de Zoom.
Focused on the intersection of art and science, the next Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA opening in 2024 will be the third regional collaboration in the Getty's Pacific Standard Time series. This iteration will present an ambitious range of exhibitions and public programs that explores the connections between the visual arts and science, from prehistoric times to the present and across different cultures worldwide.
Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College is the recipient of a two year research grant for the following proposed project: Cosmovisión Indígena: The Intersection of Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Art.
Mesoamerican dyeing and weaving are often categorized as crafts, a designation that obscures the scientific and technical knowledge that these processes require. Focusing on the production of traditional red dye (carmine) from the cochineal insect, Cosmovisión Indígena will trace the history, science, and contemporary uses of the cochineal dye-making process, while exploring the mythology, ritual, and storytelling used to preserve and pass on this traditional knowledge. The project will establish an art lab and learning garden in Santa Barbara as well as a community research space in Oxnard, serving members of the Mixtec, Zapotec, and other indigenous communities from Oaxaca, Mexico, who have settled throughout Ventura County. There, younger Oaxacan-American artists will be able to learn the science, technology, and art of dyeing and weaving from experienced practitioners. The final exhibition will display pieces created in both sites alongside curated artworks by contemporary artists and community members.
Register here in advance for this webinar:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Contact: [email protected]
Tanya Aguiñiga, artist and craftsperson, Los Angeles
Porfirio Gutiérrez, artist and craftsperson Ventura, CA & Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico
John Connelly, Director, Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara
Frederick Janka, Executive Director, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai
Audrey Lopez, Ph.D., Public Art & Engagement Curator, Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture, Santa Barbara
You are invited to a group discussion with lead artist advisors and exhibition curators on the upcoming exhibition project that is part of Pacific Standard Time (PST) an initiative of the Getty Foundation with arts organizations throughout Southern California. This is an opportunity for the SBCC community and our greater regional audience to learn more about our exhibition project.
Event is closed captioned. Interpretation in English, Spanish, Mixteco, and Zapotec will be provided. Se proporcionará interpretación en inglés, español, mixteco, y zapotec a través de Zoom.
Focused on the intersection of art and science, the next Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA opening in 2024 will be the third regional collaboration in the Getty's Pacific Standard Time series. This iteration will present an ambitious range of exhibitions and public programs that explores the connections between the visual arts and science, from prehistoric times to the present and across different cultures worldwide.
Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College is the recipient of a two year research grant for the following proposed project: Cosmovisión Indígena: The Intersection of Indigenous Knowledge and Contemporary Art.
Mesoamerican dyeing and weaving are often categorized as crafts, a designation that obscures the scientific and technical knowledge that these processes require. Focusing on the production of traditional red dye (carmine) from the cochineal insect, Cosmovisión Indígena will trace the history, science, and contemporary uses of the cochineal dye-making process, while exploring the mythology, ritual, and storytelling used to preserve and pass on this traditional knowledge. The project will establish an art lab and learning garden in Santa Barbara as well as a community research space in Oxnard, serving members of the Mixtec, Zapotec, and other indigenous communities from Oaxaca, Mexico, who have settled throughout Ventura County. There, younger Oaxacan-American artists will be able to learn the science, technology, and art of dyeing and weaving from experienced practitioners. The final exhibition will display pieces created in both sites alongside curated artworks by contemporary artists and community members.
Register here in advance for this webinar:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Contact: [email protected]
Amanda Ross-Ho
Artist Talk
Via Zoom Webinar
(please click on the link below for a recording)
Wednesday, November 18th, 4:00 pm
Amanda Ross-Ho lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Southern California and has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Her work draws from a broad hierarchy of structures, mapping connectivity within the overlapping ecologies of personal and collective phenomena.
Her evolving personal language combines forensic and theatrical gestures, diagramming the reflexive relationships between production, presentation, and the social contracts of viewership. Her sculpture, painting, photography, installation, and most recently, public works have been exhibited widely, nationally and internationally. She is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Irvine.
Solo exhibitions include Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, Hoet Bekaert, Belgium,The Pomona Museum of Art, Mitchell-Innes and Nash New York, The Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, Netherlands, the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, The Approach, London, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, and Mary Mary, Glasgow, and Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway. Group exhibitions include Artists Space, New York, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The New Museum, New York, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by Slavs and Tatars. She has presented commissioned public works at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, City Hall Park, New York City, the Parcours Sector of Art Basel Switzerland, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Ross-Ho's work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, ArtReview, Modern Painters, Art in America, Flash Art, Art + Auction, and Frieze among others.
Ross-Ho will present a zoom webinar lecture on her work and practice on Wednesday, November 18th at 4:00 pm (PST). Register here for the talk.
Photo: Sebastian Micke.
Artist Talk
Via Zoom Webinar
(please click on the link below for a recording)
Wednesday, November 18th, 4:00 pm
Amanda Ross-Ho lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Southern California and has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. Her work draws from a broad hierarchy of structures, mapping connectivity within the overlapping ecologies of personal and collective phenomena.
Her evolving personal language combines forensic and theatrical gestures, diagramming the reflexive relationships between production, presentation, and the social contracts of viewership. Her sculpture, painting, photography, installation, and most recently, public works have been exhibited widely, nationally and internationally. She is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of California, Irvine.
Solo exhibitions include Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, Hoet Bekaert, Belgium,The Pomona Museum of Art, Mitchell-Innes and Nash New York, The Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, Netherlands, the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, The Approach, London, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, and Mary Mary, Glasgow, and Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway. Group exhibitions include Artists Space, New York, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The New Museum, New York, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by Slavs and Tatars. She has presented commissioned public works at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, City Hall Park, New York City, the Parcours Sector of Art Basel Switzerland, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Ross-Ho's work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, ArtReview, Modern Painters, Art in America, Flash Art, Art + Auction, and Frieze among others.
Ross-Ho will present a zoom webinar lecture on her work and practice on Wednesday, November 18th at 4:00 pm (PST). Register here for the talk.
Photo: Sebastian Micke.
Muna Malik
Artist Talk
Via Zoom Webinar
(please click on the link below for a recording)
Wednesday, October 14th, 4:00 pm
Muna Malik is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her current work focuses on creating poetic imagery around the narratives of women of color and refugees using abstract paintings and interactive sculpture.
Her work has been exhibited at Northern Spark Arts Festival, MCAD, Artworks Chicago and The University of Minnesota-Humphrey School of Public Affairs. She was the billboard artist for North Carolina for the "For Freedoms 50 State Initiative." She recently completed exhibitions at the Band of Vices Gallery LA, Annenberg Space for Photography LA with Photoville, the International Center for Photography with "For Freedoms", Somaal House of Art in MN, and MOCA Geffen in Los Angeles. Her latest collage series was featured by Vogue and i-D Magazine. The Ojai Institute, Ojai, CA and The "River to River" Festival at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), NY. Malik's ongoing project Blessing of the Boats will be on view at Atkinson Gallery at SBCC from October 23rd - December 11th, 2020.
Malik will present a zoom webinar lecture on her work and practice on Wednesday, October 14th at 4:00 pm (PST). This project at Santa Barbara City College is partially supported by a Removing Barriers to STEM Success Title Ill Federal Grant.
Photo: Travis Matthews
Artist Talk
Via Zoom Webinar
(please click on the link below for a recording)
Wednesday, October 14th, 4:00 pm
Muna Malik is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, CA. Her current work focuses on creating poetic imagery around the narratives of women of color and refugees using abstract paintings and interactive sculpture.
Her work has been exhibited at Northern Spark Arts Festival, MCAD, Artworks Chicago and The University of Minnesota-Humphrey School of Public Affairs. She was the billboard artist for North Carolina for the "For Freedoms 50 State Initiative." She recently completed exhibitions at the Band of Vices Gallery LA, Annenberg Space for Photography LA with Photoville, the International Center for Photography with "For Freedoms", Somaal House of Art in MN, and MOCA Geffen in Los Angeles. Her latest collage series was featured by Vogue and i-D Magazine. The Ojai Institute, Ojai, CA and The "River to River" Festival at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), NY. Malik's ongoing project Blessing of the Boats will be on view at Atkinson Gallery at SBCC from October 23rd - December 11th, 2020.
Malik will present a zoom webinar lecture on her work and practice on Wednesday, October 14th at 4:00 pm (PST). This project at Santa Barbara City College is partially supported by a Removing Barriers to STEM Success Title Ill Federal Grant.
Photo: Travis Matthews
Manjari Sharma
Artist Talk & Book Signing
Humanities Building
Lecture Hall, Room 111
February 26th, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Manjari Sharma (1979, born and raised in Mumbai, India) makes work that is rooted in portraiture addressing the issues of identity, multiculturalism, and personal mythology. Sharma's work has been awarded, published and exhibited internationally. She has been included in group and solo shows at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Kunst Museum De Moritzburg, Halle, Germany; Asia Society, Houston, TX and Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta. Sharma has guest lectured and critiqued at The School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Rubin Museum of Art, AsiaSociety, and The School of Visual Arts. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her first monograph is slated to be released in December 2019 by Nazraeli Press. Sharma currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA.
After her talk, at The Atkinson Gallery, Sharma will be signing a limited quantity of books entitled Darshan (Edition of 500), a series consisting of nine elaborately constructed photographs of Indian Gods and Goddesses. Hardcover, 210 mm x 153 mm, 16 pages, 13 duotone plates, 1 original signed photograph. Each book includes a removable, signed and original print measuring approximately 127 x 128mm.
Artist Talk & Book Signing
Humanities Building
Lecture Hall, Room 111
February 26th, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Manjari Sharma (1979, born and raised in Mumbai, India) makes work that is rooted in portraiture addressing the issues of identity, multiculturalism, and personal mythology. Sharma's work has been awarded, published and exhibited internationally. She has been included in group and solo shows at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Kunst Museum De Moritzburg, Halle, Germany; Asia Society, Houston, TX and Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta. Sharma has guest lectured and critiqued at The School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Rubin Museum of Art, AsiaSociety, and The School of Visual Arts. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her first monograph is slated to be released in December 2019 by Nazraeli Press. Sharma currently lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA.
After her talk, at The Atkinson Gallery, Sharma will be signing a limited quantity of books entitled Darshan (Edition of 500), a series consisting of nine elaborately constructed photographs of Indian Gods and Goddesses. Hardcover, 210 mm x 153 mm, 16 pages, 13 duotone plates, 1 original signed photograph. Each book includes a removable, signed and original print measuring approximately 127 x 128mm.
Cole M James
Artist Talk
Humanities Building
Lecture Hall, Room 111
November 15th, 2019
10:00 am - 11:30 am
The work of Cole M James is that of a negotiator, navigating the African Diaspora, circling the expanse of queerness and fumbling through womanhood. James’ interdisciplinary work explores the intersections between digital production and the analog collections of lived experiences. James was born in Chicago and raised in Moreno Valley, California. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Cal State San Bernardino and Masters in Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University. James currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Cole M James is currently artist in residence at the Ojai Institute. Her exhibition 3 Movements opens Saturday, November 16, and is on view through February 29, 2020. Click on the button below for more details.
Artist Talk
Humanities Building
Lecture Hall, Room 111
November 15th, 2019
10:00 am - 11:30 am
The work of Cole M James is that of a negotiator, navigating the African Diaspora, circling the expanse of queerness and fumbling through womanhood. James’ interdisciplinary work explores the intersections between digital production and the analog collections of lived experiences. James was born in Chicago and raised in Moreno Valley, California. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Cal State San Bernardino and Masters in Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University. James currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Cole M James is currently artist in residence at the Ojai Institute. Her exhibition 3 Movements opens Saturday, November 16, and is on view through February 29, 2020. Click on the button below for more details.
photo courtesy of The Channels photographer Nate Stephenson
Oak Group Panel Discussion
February 27, 5pm, H111
A panel discussion featuring Oak Group artists Marcia Burtt, Kevin Gleason, and Arturo Tello will be held Wednesday, February 27, 5pm, in SBCC Humanities Building, Room 111. Oak Group artists are passionate about nature and are committed to preserving local lands for wildlife, recreation, ranching, and farming. Working with conservation groups and landowners, Oak Group artists record the beauty of these endangered landscapes to draw public attention and to help generate funds to protect them. To date, Oak Group sales of $3 million have supported these goals.
February 27, 5pm, H111
A panel discussion featuring Oak Group artists Marcia Burtt, Kevin Gleason, and Arturo Tello will be held Wednesday, February 27, 5pm, in SBCC Humanities Building, Room 111. Oak Group artists are passionate about nature and are committed to preserving local lands for wildlife, recreation, ranching, and farming. Working with conservation groups and landowners, Oak Group artists record the beauty of these endangered landscapes to draw public attention and to help generate funds to protect them. To date, Oak Group sales of $3 million have supported these goals.
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Politics of Access & Visual Sound:
An ASL/English bilingual discussion with Alison O'Daniel and Rezenet Moges-Riedel November 2, 4pm, A211 Alison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker working across sound, narrative, sculpture, installation, and performance. O’Daniel, who is hard of hearing, wears hearing aids, and lip-reads, explores sound and its perceived absence as a central concept in her work. She received her BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from University of California, Irvine. She has recently exhibited, screened, and performed at the Ford Theater with FLAX French Los Angeles Exchange, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Art in General (NY), UCLA Hammer Museum, The Drawing Center (NY), Top-kino (Austria), Centre d’Art Contemporain Passerelle (France), and the Aspen Art Museum. She has also completed artist residencies at the Wexner Center for the Arts (OH) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME) among others. Additionally, she received several awards including a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, Art Matters Grant, Franklin Furnace Fund Fellowship, and a California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship. Rezenet Moges-Riedel is a university lecturer at California State University, Long Beach who teaches in the program of ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures (ASLD). She has a BFA in illustration and a masters in linguistic anthropology and is currently pursuing her doctorate in education at California State University, Northridge. Presented in cooperation with the American Sign Language program at SBCC |
Alison O'Daniel
Rezenet Moges-Riedel
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Tia Blassingame Artist Talk
September 27, 5pm, PS 101
Tia Blassingame is a book artist and printmaker exploring the intersection of race, history, and perception. Utilizing printmaking and book arts techniques, she renders racially-charged images and histories for a nuanced discussion on issues of race and racism. Blassingame holds a B.A. from Princeton University, M.A. from Corcoran College of Art + Design, and M.F.A. in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and MacDowell Colony. Her artists' books and prints can be found in library and museum collections around the world including Havard University, Library of Congress, Stanford University, and State Library of Queensland. Her writing is featured in Freedom of the Presses: Artists' Books in the 21st Century, a Booklyn publication. Blassingame teaches Book Arts at Scripps College and serves as the Director of Scripps College Press, a student experimental letterpress and bookbinding laboratory.
September 27, 5pm, PS 101
Tia Blassingame is a book artist and printmaker exploring the intersection of race, history, and perception. Utilizing printmaking and book arts techniques, she renders racially-charged images and histories for a nuanced discussion on issues of race and racism. Blassingame holds a B.A. from Princeton University, M.A. from Corcoran College of Art + Design, and M.F.A. in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design. She has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo and MacDowell Colony. Her artists' books and prints can be found in library and museum collections around the world including Havard University, Library of Congress, Stanford University, and State Library of Queensland. Her writing is featured in Freedom of the Presses: Artists' Books in the 21st Century, a Booklyn publication. Blassingame teaches Book Arts at Scripps College and serves as the Director of Scripps College Press, a student experimental letterpress and bookbinding laboratory.
Montecito Memorial
Solid to Liquid, Liquid to Solid by Lily Pon
Friday, April 13, 4:30pm, Winslow Maxwell Overlook
Members of the public are invited to attend a memorial for Montecito, Solid to Liquid, Liquid to Solid, created by artist Lily Pon on Friday, April 13, at 4:30pm at the Winslow Maxwell Overlook at Santa Barbara City College. Made of clay created from mud from Montecito, the memorial artwork includes over three thousand individual hand-formed ceramic flowers of varying natural colors arranged to create the negative space of a human resting in the fetal position.
After the debris flow in Montecito, Lily Pon, a student in the Art Department at Santa Barbara City College was deeply reminded of the vulnerability of human life and inspired by the strong sense of community that she witnessed in the aftermath of the tragedy. "Mud was utmost in our minds after the recent tragedy in our community,” the artist observed. She felt the need to incorporate this, often innocuous, yet sometimes deadly, substance into her work. Carefully sifting mud from Montecito, Lily Pon made her own clay with which she crafted the memorial.
The artist says, “This piece was made with care for the people who lost their loved ones and also to honor the people who help each other out during such difficult times. From this tragedy, we learned we need to appreciate everything we have and show love to the people we cherish while they are here. After the tears of remembrance we shed for those we've lost, we can be strong together and face the unpredictability of life.”
During the event on Friday, members of the community will be invited to help form the memorial by adding additional ceramic flowers to the arrangement. Team members from the Santa Barbara Response Network and 805 Hope volunteers will be on hand to offer trauma support as needed. After the memorial ceremony which is co-presented by the SBCC Wellness Connection, the Atkinson Gallery will host the opening reception for the Annual Student Exhibition rom 5pm-7pm. Both events are free and open to the public.
Solid to Liquid, Liquid to Solid by Lily Pon
Friday, April 13, 4:30pm, Winslow Maxwell Overlook
Members of the public are invited to attend a memorial for Montecito, Solid to Liquid, Liquid to Solid, created by artist Lily Pon on Friday, April 13, at 4:30pm at the Winslow Maxwell Overlook at Santa Barbara City College. Made of clay created from mud from Montecito, the memorial artwork includes over three thousand individual hand-formed ceramic flowers of varying natural colors arranged to create the negative space of a human resting in the fetal position.
After the debris flow in Montecito, Lily Pon, a student in the Art Department at Santa Barbara City College was deeply reminded of the vulnerability of human life and inspired by the strong sense of community that she witnessed in the aftermath of the tragedy. "Mud was utmost in our minds after the recent tragedy in our community,” the artist observed. She felt the need to incorporate this, often innocuous, yet sometimes deadly, substance into her work. Carefully sifting mud from Montecito, Lily Pon made her own clay with which she crafted the memorial.
The artist says, “This piece was made with care for the people who lost their loved ones and also to honor the people who help each other out during such difficult times. From this tragedy, we learned we need to appreciate everything we have and show love to the people we cherish while they are here. After the tears of remembrance we shed for those we've lost, we can be strong together and face the unpredictability of life.”
During the event on Friday, members of the community will be invited to help form the memorial by adding additional ceramic flowers to the arrangement. Team members from the Santa Barbara Response Network and 805 Hope volunteers will be on hand to offer trauma support as needed. After the memorial ceremony which is co-presented by the SBCC Wellness Connection, the Atkinson Gallery will host the opening reception for the Annual Student Exhibition rom 5pm-7pm. Both events are free and open to the public.
Spring 2018 Art Department Lectures
Esther Ruiz, Thursday 2/22, http://www.estherruiz.com/index.html
Liz Nurenberg, Friday 2/23, http://www.liznurenberg.com
Andrew Martin, Friday 3/16, http://www.martinporcelain.com
Greg Kozaki, Thursday 3/22
HK Zamani, Monday 4/9, http://www.hkzamani.net
Andy Coolquitt, Wednesday 5/9,http://www.coolquitt.com
Esther Ruiz, Thursday 2/22, http://www.estherruiz.com/index.html
Liz Nurenberg, Friday 2/23, http://www.liznurenberg.com
Andrew Martin, Friday 3/16, http://www.martinporcelain.com
Greg Kozaki, Thursday 3/22
HK Zamani, Monday 4/9, http://www.hkzamani.net
Andy Coolquitt, Wednesday 5/9,http://www.coolquitt.com
Artists Laura Krifka and Heidi Kumao with gallery director Sarah Cunningham
Herself Panel Discussion
with Laura Krifka and Heidi Kumao
Friday, January 26, 4:00pm, H111
Laura Krifka received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2010 and her BFA from Cal Poly University SLO in 2008, following earlier studies at Newbold College in England and Avondale College in Australia. She has shown at L.A. Louver’s Rogue Wave Program, Torrance Museum of Art, and Beacon Arts in Inglewood as well as Seven and Untitled in Miami, Zroboli in Chicago and Vast Space Projects in Las Vegas NV. She has had solo shows in Los Angeles and New York City and is represented by BravinLee Programs in New York. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Westmont Museum of Art, Art Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Her work has been covered in the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, Art Pulse Magazine, Artillery Magazine, HiFructose, Beautiful Decay and New American Paintings. She Lives in Ventura California and is an Instructor of Painting at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Heidi Kumao has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, AAUW (American Assn. of University Women), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including one-person exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Arizona State University Art Museum, and Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ArtPapers, and Sculpture Magazine and is in a number of private and public collections including The Exploratorium, Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Light Work. Her film, “Swallowed Whole,” received awards for “Best Experimental Film” at the Female Eye Film Festival, Humboldt International Film Festival, and the Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival. She is an Associate Professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
with Laura Krifka and Heidi Kumao
Friday, January 26, 4:00pm, H111
Laura Krifka received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2010 and her BFA from Cal Poly University SLO in 2008, following earlier studies at Newbold College in England and Avondale College in Australia. She has shown at L.A. Louver’s Rogue Wave Program, Torrance Museum of Art, and Beacon Arts in Inglewood as well as Seven and Untitled in Miami, Zroboli in Chicago and Vast Space Projects in Las Vegas NV. She has had solo shows in Los Angeles and New York City and is represented by BravinLee Programs in New York. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Westmont Museum of Art, Art Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Her work has been covered in the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, Art Pulse Magazine, Artillery Magazine, HiFructose, Beautiful Decay and New American Paintings. She Lives in Ventura California and is an Instructor of Painting at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Heidi Kumao has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, AAUW (American Assn. of University Women), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including one-person exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Arizona State University Art Museum, and Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ArtPapers, and Sculpture Magazine and is in a number of private and public collections including The Exploratorium, Houston Museum of Fine Arts and Light Work. Her film, “Swallowed Whole,” received awards for “Best Experimental Film” at the Female Eye Film Festival, Humboldt International Film Festival, and the Seoul International Extreme-Short Image & Film Festival. She is an Associate Professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Gráfica América
lecture by Gabriela Martinez
Wednesday, November 1, 4:30pm, Administration Building Room 211
Gabriela Martinez, artist printmaker and Associate Vice President of Education at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA, will talk about the establishment of collective printmaking workshops in the Americas, with a focus on Mexico, and their role in both dismantling and establishing cultural and national identities through both government supported as well as renegade movements.
lecture by Gabriela Martinez
Wednesday, November 1, 4:30pm, Administration Building Room 211
Gabriela Martinez, artist printmaker and Associate Vice President of Education at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA, will talk about the establishment of collective printmaking workshops in the Americas, with a focus on Mexico, and their role in both dismantling and establishing cultural and national identities through both government supported as well as renegade movements.
Rafa Esparza Lecture
October 25, 2017, 4:30pm, A211
Rafa Esparza’s recent installations have centered largely on the making of adobe bricks, produced in collaboration with the artist’s father and others in the area of northeast Los Angeles surrounding the Los Angeles River. The brick-making technique employed by Esparza is used throughout Mexico, and notably it was the method his father used to build his first house in Mexico before he immigrated to the United States. Adapting this material to the conditions of exhibition and display is part of a broader tendency that Esparza engages throughout his practice. The artist’s work in this arena considers the many forms of evolution within local and indigenous cultural production that have taken place alongside and adjacent to the narratives of Western art, including histories of sculptural installation and performance.
Las instalaciones recientes de Rafa Esparza se han enfocado principalmente en la producción de ladrillos de adobe, producidos en colaboración con el padre del artista y otros en el área al noroeste de Los Ángeles, alrededor del Río Los Ángeles. La técnica de producción de ladrillos utilizada por Esparza se utiliza en todo México, y notablemente, es el método que utilizó su padre para construir su primera casa en México antes de emigrar a los Estados Unidos. Adaptar este material a condiciones de exposición y exhibición forma parte de una tendencia más amplia que Esparza utiliza a través de su práctica. La obra del artista en esta área considera las distintas formas de evolución dentro de la producción cultural local e indígena que han ocurrido al lado de y junto con los relatos del arte Occidental, incluyendo historias de instalación escultórica y performance.
Text courtesy of the artist and the Hammer Museum at UCLA / Image courtesy of the artist, LACE Projects and the LA Times
Sponsored by the SBCC Foundation
October 25, 2017, 4:30pm, A211
Rafa Esparza’s recent installations have centered largely on the making of adobe bricks, produced in collaboration with the artist’s father and others in the area of northeast Los Angeles surrounding the Los Angeles River. The brick-making technique employed by Esparza is used throughout Mexico, and notably it was the method his father used to build his first house in Mexico before he immigrated to the United States. Adapting this material to the conditions of exhibition and display is part of a broader tendency that Esparza engages throughout his practice. The artist’s work in this arena considers the many forms of evolution within local and indigenous cultural production that have taken place alongside and adjacent to the narratives of Western art, including histories of sculptural installation and performance.
Las instalaciones recientes de Rafa Esparza se han enfocado principalmente en la producción de ladrillos de adobe, producidos en colaboración con el padre del artista y otros en el área al noroeste de Los Ángeles, alrededor del Río Los Ángeles. La técnica de producción de ladrillos utilizada por Esparza se utiliza en todo México, y notablemente, es el método que utilizó su padre para construir su primera casa en México antes de emigrar a los Estados Unidos. Adaptar este material a condiciones de exposición y exhibición forma parte de una tendencia más amplia que Esparza utiliza a través de su práctica. La obra del artista en esta área considera las distintas formas de evolución dentro de la producción cultural local e indígena que han ocurrido al lado de y junto con los relatos del arte Occidental, incluyendo historias de instalación escultórica y performance.
Text courtesy of the artist and the Hammer Museum at UCLA / Image courtesy of the artist, LACE Projects and the LA Times
Sponsored by the SBCC Foundation
Hellen Ascoli Lecture
October 19, 2017, 2:30pm, A211
Hellen Ascoli is a Guatemalan artist, weaver and educator investigating material culture as a way to understand relationships and identity. Her studio practice stems from an emotional and analytical engagement to materials, body and space, which are used to map and understand complex relationships, systems of power and economics. In her education practice Ascoli seeks to create spaces of dialogue and reflexion in art spaces and classrooms by questioning the level of participation and interaction of viewer and student.
Since moving back to Guatemala in 2012 she teaches at Francisco Marroquín University and her projects include designing a mediation program for the 19th and 20th Paiz Biennal. Since 2014 she has been developing the education program for Museo Ixchel of Indigenous Dress, where she currently is Director of Education.
Co-sponsored with the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
October 19, 2017, 2:30pm, A211
Hellen Ascoli is a Guatemalan artist, weaver and educator investigating material culture as a way to understand relationships and identity. Her studio practice stems from an emotional and analytical engagement to materials, body and space, which are used to map and understand complex relationships, systems of power and economics. In her education practice Ascoli seeks to create spaces of dialogue and reflexion in art spaces and classrooms by questioning the level of participation and interaction of viewer and student.
Since moving back to Guatemala in 2012 she teaches at Francisco Marroquín University and her projects include designing a mediation program for the 19th and 20th Paiz Biennal. Since 2014 she has been developing the education program for Museo Ixchel of Indigenous Dress, where she currently is Director of Education.
Co-sponsored with the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
How I Made It In The World of Art: Art Career Panel
October 18, 2017, 4:00pm, A211
A panel of artists and art historians will share their education and career journeys, and how they have been able to make a living using their artistic talents.
Guests include:
Co-sponsored with the School Career Center at SBCC
October 18, 2017, 4:00pm, A211
A panel of artists and art historians will share their education and career journeys, and how they have been able to make a living using their artistic talents.
Guests include:
- Mehmet Dogu, Exhibition Designer for the Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB
- Miki Garcia, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, soon to be Director at the Arizona State University Art Museum
- Monica Wiesblott, Photographer and Printmaker
- Rafa Esparza, Independent Fine Art Professional, SBCC Artist-in-Residence
Co-sponsored with the School Career Center at SBCC
Artist Talk with Tanya Aguiñiga
April 26, 2017, 4:30pm, PS101
Tanya Aguiñiga, a prominent social practice artist from Tijuana, Mexico, will discuss her involvement in MCASB's public art initiative, takepart | makeart within the broader context of her work as an artist, designer, and craftsperson. Aguiñiga holds an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from San Diego State University. In her formative years she created various collaborative installations with the Border Arts Workshop, an artists' group that engages the languages of activism and community-based public art. Her current work uses craft as a performative medium to generate dialogues about identity, culture, and gender while creating community. This approach has helped Museums and non-profits in the United States and Mexico diversify their audiences by connecting marginalized communities through collaboration. Aguiñiga is a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts, a NALAC and Creative Capital 2016 Grant Awardee. She has been the subject of a cover article for American Craft Magazine and has been featured in PBS's Craft in America Series.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and the Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College.
IMAGE CREDIT: Portrait of the artist ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.tanyaaguiniga.com
April 26, 2017, 4:30pm, PS101
Tanya Aguiñiga, a prominent social practice artist from Tijuana, Mexico, will discuss her involvement in MCASB's public art initiative, takepart | makeart within the broader context of her work as an artist, designer, and craftsperson. Aguiñiga holds an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from San Diego State University. In her formative years she created various collaborative installations with the Border Arts Workshop, an artists' group that engages the languages of activism and community-based public art. Her current work uses craft as a performative medium to generate dialogues about identity, culture, and gender while creating community. This approach has helped Museums and non-profits in the United States and Mexico diversify their audiences by connecting marginalized communities through collaboration. Aguiñiga is a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts, a NALAC and Creative Capital 2016 Grant Awardee. She has been the subject of a cover article for American Craft Magazine and has been featured in PBS's Craft in America Series.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and the Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College.
IMAGE CREDIT: Portrait of the artist ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.tanyaaguiniga.com
Artist Talk with Stephanie Washburn
March 22, 2017, 4:30pm, PS101
Stephanie Washburn, who joined the SBCC Art Department in Fall 2016, works in various media including drawing, painting, photography and video. Her work explores the relationship between an image, its materiality, and the psychology and body of a viewer. Recent projects use the flat screen as a support for various physical and performative gestures. She then documents, as either photographs or video, resulting combinations of material and digital information, posing a real physicality as the dramatic player in both the digital spectacle and her own hybrid image making. Washburn received her BA from Wesleyan University, CT and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Recent exhibitions include ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA; Claremont University, Claremont, CA; and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is in various collections including MCA San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Agnes Gund Foundation.
This exhibit is presented in coordination with the Office of Loss Control exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery.
IMAGE CREDIT: Portrait of the artist ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.swashburn.com
March 22, 2017, 4:30pm, PS101
Stephanie Washburn, who joined the SBCC Art Department in Fall 2016, works in various media including drawing, painting, photography and video. Her work explores the relationship between an image, its materiality, and the psychology and body of a viewer. Recent projects use the flat screen as a support for various physical and performative gestures. She then documents, as either photographs or video, resulting combinations of material and digital information, posing a real physicality as the dramatic player in both the digital spectacle and her own hybrid image making. Washburn received her BA from Wesleyan University, CT and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Recent exhibitions include ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA; Claremont University, Claremont, CA; and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is in various collections including MCA San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Agnes Gund Foundation.
This exhibit is presented in coordination with the Office of Loss Control exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery.
IMAGE CREDIT: Portrait of the artist ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.swashburn.com
Artist Talk with Armando Ramos
March 8, 2017, 4:30pm, PS101
Armando Ramos, who joined the SBCC Art Department in Fall 2016, is an artist and designer who creates comically irreverent images drawn from his jumbled youth. In his work, pop culture, mass media, religious iconography, and quotidian observations are civilly canonized as high-relief sculptures, minimalist interventions, and absurd juxtapositions that question the largeness of these larger-than-life embodiments. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and graduate studies at Montana State University. Ramos has been an artist in residence at The Richard Cartier Studios, Napa, CA; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and at California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. He was recently awarded the Individual Artist Grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Virginia Brier Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Studio Couture, Detroit, MI; Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI; and the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND.
This exhibit is presented in coordination with the Office of Loss Control exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery.
IMAGE CREDIT: Portrait of the artist ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.armandoramosiii.com
March 8, 2017, 4:30pm, PS101
Armando Ramos, who joined the SBCC Art Department in Fall 2016, is an artist and designer who creates comically irreverent images drawn from his jumbled youth. In his work, pop culture, mass media, religious iconography, and quotidian observations are civilly canonized as high-relief sculptures, minimalist interventions, and absurd juxtapositions that question the largeness of these larger-than-life embodiments. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Kansas City Art Institute and graduate studies at Montana State University. Ramos has been an artist in residence at The Richard Cartier Studios, Napa, CA; Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; and at California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. He was recently awarded the Individual Artist Grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Virginia Brier Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Studio Couture, Detroit, MI; Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI; and the North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND.
This exhibit is presented in coordination with the Office of Loss Control exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery.
IMAGE CREDIT: Portrait of the artist ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.armandoramosiii.com
Artist Talk with Bean Gilsdorf
February 15, 2017, 4:30pm, PS101
Bean Gilsdorf is an artist, writer, and editor who combines the methods of each to produce hybrid objects, performances, texts, and installations. Her projects have explored and destabilized historical narratives using the central technique of appropriation: she manipulates images from mass-market history books to make sculptures, textile flags, and videos that expose the weaknesses of dominant narratives through imitation and parody. Gilsdorf's work has been included in exhibitions at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco, CA); American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA), and the Holter Museum of Art (Helena, MT), as well as exhibition spaces in Poland, England, Italy, China, and South Africa. She has been nominated for SECA Award (SFMOMA, San Francisco), and for the Anonymous Was A Woman Award (New York). For the international online art journal, Daily Serving, Bean Gilsdorf serves as the Editor in Chief, as well as the author of the bi-monthly arts-advice column "Help Desk". Her critical writing and interviews have been included in publications such as Art21 Magazine, Artforum, Art Practical, BOMB, Frieze, and The Miami Rail. In 2011 Gilsdorf received her MFA from California College of the Arts (CCA) and currently lives in Warsaw, where she is a 2016-2017 Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and the Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College.
IMAGE CREDIT: Portrait of the artist ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.beangilsdorf.com
February 15, 2017, 4:30pm, PS101
Bean Gilsdorf is an artist, writer, and editor who combines the methods of each to produce hybrid objects, performances, texts, and installations. Her projects have explored and destabilized historical narratives using the central technique of appropriation: she manipulates images from mass-market history books to make sculptures, textile flags, and videos that expose the weaknesses of dominant narratives through imitation and parody. Gilsdorf's work has been included in exhibitions at Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco, CA); American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA), and the Holter Museum of Art (Helena, MT), as well as exhibition spaces in Poland, England, Italy, China, and South Africa. She has been nominated for SECA Award (SFMOMA, San Francisco), and for the Anonymous Was A Woman Award (New York). For the international online art journal, Daily Serving, Bean Gilsdorf serves as the Editor in Chief, as well as the author of the bi-monthly arts-advice column "Help Desk". Her critical writing and interviews have been included in publications such as Art21 Magazine, Artforum, Art Practical, BOMB, Frieze, and The Miami Rail. In 2011 Gilsdorf received her MFA from California College of the Arts (CCA) and currently lives in Warsaw, where she is a 2016-2017 Fulbright Fellow in Creative Writing.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and the Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College.
IMAGE CREDIT: Portrait of the artist ARTIST WEBSITE: http://www.beangilsdorf.com
POETRY READING at the ATKINSON GALLERY
November 7, 2016, 7pm
On Monday, November 7, the Atkinson Gallery will present “Picture Nature: Poems Inspired by Art & Environment,” a reading of original poems inspired by visual artworks and the natural world featuring three authors and members of SBCC’s English Department: professors David Starkey and Chella Courington and adjunct faculty instructor Emma Trelles. The reading is held at the gallery in conjunction with Los Angeles River: Urban Reclamation --an exhibition running through December 2, 2016, by artist Devon Tsuno that presents an embedded perspective of Los Angeles River watershed.
Emma Trelles is the author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and a finalist for Foreword Reviews Indiefab poetry book of the year. Her poems and prose appear or are forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Miramar, Four by Two, Rare Feathers: Poems on Birds and Art, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Verse Daily, the Best American Poetry, Best of the Net, the Miami Herald, and others. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and she has taught creative writing at the Sanibel Island Writers Conference, Florida International University, and The Center for Writing & Literature in Miami. She programs the Mission Poetry Series -- a biannual reading held at Antioch University Santa Barbara -- that features regional and national award-winning poets.
David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2010 Poet Laureate and is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College. He has published seven full-length collections of poetry, most recently It Must Be Like the World (Pecan Grove, 2011), Circus Maximus (Biblioasis, 2013) and Like a Soprano (Serving House, 2014), an episode-by-episode revisioning of The Sopranos TV series. In addition, over the past twenty-eight years he has published more than 400 poems in literary journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, American Scholar, Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012) will soon be in its third edition and is currently one of the best-selling creative writing textbooks in the country.
Chella Courington is the author of four poetry chapbooks, four flash fiction chapbooks and a novella. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and an MFA in poetry. Her poetry and stories appear in numerous anthologies and journals, including SmokeLong Quarterly, Non-Binary Review, The Los Angeles Review, and The Collagist. Coming from Blue Lyra Press in February is a collection of flash fiction, What Women Do. Reared in the Appalachian South, she now lives in Santa Barbara with another writer and two literary cats.
November 7, 2016, 7pm
On Monday, November 7, the Atkinson Gallery will present “Picture Nature: Poems Inspired by Art & Environment,” a reading of original poems inspired by visual artworks and the natural world featuring three authors and members of SBCC’s English Department: professors David Starkey and Chella Courington and adjunct faculty instructor Emma Trelles. The reading is held at the gallery in conjunction with Los Angeles River: Urban Reclamation --an exhibition running through December 2, 2016, by artist Devon Tsuno that presents an embedded perspective of Los Angeles River watershed.
Emma Trelles is the author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and a finalist for Foreword Reviews Indiefab poetry book of the year. Her poems and prose appear or are forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, Miramar, Four by Two, Rare Feathers: Poems on Birds and Art, Poet Lore, The Rumpus, Verse Daily, the Best American Poetry, Best of the Net, the Miami Herald, and others. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, and she has taught creative writing at the Sanibel Island Writers Conference, Florida International University, and The Center for Writing & Literature in Miami. She programs the Mission Poetry Series -- a biannual reading held at Antioch University Santa Barbara -- that features regional and national award-winning poets.
David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2010 Poet Laureate and is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College. He has published seven full-length collections of poetry, most recently It Must Be Like the World (Pecan Grove, 2011), Circus Maximus (Biblioasis, 2013) and Like a Soprano (Serving House, 2014), an episode-by-episode revisioning of The Sopranos TV series. In addition, over the past twenty-eight years he has published more than 400 poems in literary journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, American Scholar, Antioch Review, Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry East, Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012) will soon be in its third edition and is currently one of the best-selling creative writing textbooks in the country.
Chella Courington is the author of four poetry chapbooks, four flash fiction chapbooks and a novella. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and an MFA in poetry. Her poetry and stories appear in numerous anthologies and journals, including SmokeLong Quarterly, Non-Binary Review, The Los Angeles Review, and The Collagist. Coming from Blue Lyra Press in February is a collection of flash fiction, What Women Do. Reared in the Appalachian South, she now lives in Santa Barbara with another writer and two literary cats.
Artist Talk with Khvay Samnang and Erin Gleeson
November 4, 2016, 4pm, PS101
Please join us for a presentation by internationally-acclaimed Cambodian artist Khvay Samnang and Erin Gleeson, curator and scholar of contemporary art from Cambodia. The artist and curator will discuss the exhibition Bloom Projects Exchange Series: Khvay Samnang, Footprints of Yantra Man, currently on view at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) in the context of the artist’s practice in which he addresses controversial public issues in Cambodia’s history through poetic and performative interventions in drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Bloom Projects Exchange Series: Khvay Samnang, Footprints of Yantra Man is co-organized by Erin Gleeson, artistic director of Sa Sa Bassac and independent curator, and Brooke Kellaway, associate curator at MCASB. The exhibition is part of a three-year Exchange series presenting solo projects focused on programmatic collaborations with small-to mid-sized “off-centered” art organizations in cities across the globe.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and the Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College.
November 4, 2016, 4pm, PS101
Please join us for a presentation by internationally-acclaimed Cambodian artist Khvay Samnang and Erin Gleeson, curator and scholar of contemporary art from Cambodia. The artist and curator will discuss the exhibition Bloom Projects Exchange Series: Khvay Samnang, Footprints of Yantra Man, currently on view at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) in the context of the artist’s practice in which he addresses controversial public issues in Cambodia’s history through poetic and performative interventions in drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Bloom Projects Exchange Series: Khvay Samnang, Footprints of Yantra Man is co-organized by Erin Gleeson, artistic director of Sa Sa Bassac and independent curator, and Brooke Kellaway, associate curator at MCASB. The exhibition is part of a three-year Exchange series presenting solo projects focused on programmatic collaborations with small-to mid-sized “off-centered” art organizations in cities across the globe.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and the Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College.
Devon Tsuno
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 4:30pm, Physical Science Building Room 101
Devon Tsuno’s abstract landscape paintings, made with spray paint and acrylic on handmade papers and canvas, focus on the Los Angeles’ bodies of water and native vs non-native vegetation.Tsuno has exhibited internationally, recent solo exhibitions include Occidental College (Los Angeles), Roppongi 605 (Tokyo), PØST (Los Angeles), and Azusa Pacific University (Los Angeles). Tsuno’s work has been featured in notable group exhibitions in the US at the Hammer Museum Venice Beach Biennial, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Torrance Art Museum, Sam Lee Gallery, Carl Berg Gallery, Monte Vista Projects, Ruth Bachofner Gallery and Summercamp's ProjectProject. Tsuno was the artist in residence at Chloë Flores FB, and Stichting Kaus Australis in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He was awarded a 2014 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship for Visual Art. Since 2003, Devon has worked as the founder/director of Concrete Walls, an artist-run curatorial project that focuses on building community by facilitating collaborations, educational projects, and group exhibitions throughout Southern California. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Tsuno received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2005 and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2002.
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 4:30pm, Physical Science Building Room 101
Devon Tsuno’s abstract landscape paintings, made with spray paint and acrylic on handmade papers and canvas, focus on the Los Angeles’ bodies of water and native vs non-native vegetation.Tsuno has exhibited internationally, recent solo exhibitions include Occidental College (Los Angeles), Roppongi 605 (Tokyo), PØST (Los Angeles), and Azusa Pacific University (Los Angeles). Tsuno’s work has been featured in notable group exhibitions in the US at the Hammer Museum Venice Beach Biennial, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Torrance Art Museum, Sam Lee Gallery, Carl Berg Gallery, Monte Vista Projects, Ruth Bachofner Gallery and Summercamp's ProjectProject. Tsuno was the artist in residence at Chloë Flores FB, and Stichting Kaus Australis in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He was awarded a 2014 California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship for Visual Art. Since 2003, Devon has worked as the founder/director of Concrete Walls, an artist-run curatorial project that focuses on building community by facilitating collaborations, educational projects, and group exhibitions throughout Southern California. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Tsuno received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2005 and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2002.
Interview with Ed Inks
Wednesday, March 16, 5pm, Physical Science Building Room 101
Born the fourth of six children, the artist grew up in Uniontown, a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania. He earned his BS in Art Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his MFA in Sculpture from Carnegie Mellon University. After working in Botswana with the Peace Corps, Inks taught at various colleges and universities before joining the Art Department at SBCC in 1991. He will retire in May after 37 years of teaching art, 25 year here at SBCC. As a teacher, Inks says, “It is my job to set each student on a path of discovery -- encouraging clarity in the communication and development of personal concepts.” Art Department Chair Christopher Bates says, “With his expertise and dedication as an artist teacher, Ed has generated an enduring culture of inquisitiveness, rigor, and creativity here in the Art Department at SBCC—a legacy to which we all remain gratefully committed.”
Wednesday, March 16, 5pm, Physical Science Building Room 101
Born the fourth of six children, the artist grew up in Uniontown, a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania. He earned his BS in Art Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his MFA in Sculpture from Carnegie Mellon University. After working in Botswana with the Peace Corps, Inks taught at various colleges and universities before joining the Art Department at SBCC in 1991. He will retire in May after 37 years of teaching art, 25 year here at SBCC. As a teacher, Inks says, “It is my job to set each student on a path of discovery -- encouraging clarity in the communication and development of personal concepts.” Art Department Chair Christopher Bates says, “With his expertise and dedication as an artist teacher, Ed has generated an enduring culture of inquisitiveness, rigor, and creativity here in the Art Department at SBCC—a legacy to which we all remain gratefully committed.”
Hannah Frieser: Documentary Photography as Social Change Agent
Wednesday, October 28, 4:30pm, A211
Hannah Frieser is the co-founder of Converging Perspectives, a new initiative that promotes dialogue about contemporary photography, its practitioners and innovative exhibitions from an international perspective. She was director of Light Work for nine years and served in various positions for the Society of Photographic Education for more than a decade. Frieser regularly curates exhibitions with leading contemporary photographers, such as Suzanne Opton and Adam Magyar. Her essays on photography have been published internationally.
More information can be found at www.hannahfrieser.com and www.convergingperspectives.org.
Hannah Frieser is the co-founder of Converging Perspectives, a new initiative that promotes dialogue about contemporary photography, its practitioners and innovative exhibitions from an international perspective. She was director of Light Work for nine years and served in various positions for the Society of Photographic Education for more than a decade. Frieser regularly curates exhibitions with leading contemporary photographers, such as Suzanne Opton and Adam Magyar. Her essays on photography have been published internationally.
More information can be found at www.hannahfrieser.com and www.convergingperspectives.org.
John Connelly
April 24, 2015, 4:00pm in A-211
John Connelly spent his formative years at Andrea Rosen Gallery working closely with important contemporary artists like Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wolfgang Tillmans and Andrea Zittel. His gallery John Connelly Presents began as a curatorial initiative in 2001, with group exhibitions that included then emerging artists such as Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Wade Guyton, Ryan McGinley, and Kelley Walker. Connelly is a co-founder of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and served as the Director of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation from 2010 - 2014. After relocating from New York to California, Connelly formed Connelly & Light, a full service art advisory firm, with Kimberly Light. Connelly will discuss his work in the field and specifically the malleable nature of Felix Gonzalez-Torres' work.
John Connelly spent his formative years at Andrea Rosen Gallery working closely with important contemporary artists like Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wolfgang Tillmans and Andrea Zittel. His gallery John Connelly Presents began as a curatorial initiative in 2001, with group exhibitions that included then emerging artists such as Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Wade Guyton, Ryan McGinley, and Kelley Walker. Connelly is a co-founder of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and served as the Director of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation from 2010 - 2014. After relocating from New York to California, Connelly formed Connelly & Light, a full service art advisory firm, with Kimberly Light. Connelly will discuss his work in the field and specifically the malleable nature of Felix Gonzalez-Torres' work.
Sylvester Okwunodu Obgechie
April 8, 2015, 5:00pm in PS-101
In his talk, Dr. Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie will investigate how Yinka Shonibare uses particular textiles to interrogate contemporary cultural identity, and the hidden histories of transnational engagements woven into the fabrics that he uses as a signature element of his art.
Dr. Ogbechie, a professor of art history at UC Santa Barbara, specializes on the arts and visual culture of Africa and its Diasporas, especially in terms of how art history discourses create value for African cultural patrimony in the age of globalization. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for best scholarly publication in African studies), Making History: The Femi Akinsanya African Art Collection(Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2011), and editor of Artists of Nigeria (Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2012). He is the director of Aachron Knowledge Systems, and founder and editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. He organized and coordinated theFirst International Nollywood Convention and Symposium (Los Angeles, June 2005) that evaluated new media in contemporary African Visual Culture from the perspective of the internationally acclaimed Nigerian Video Film Industry. He subsequently founded the Nollywood Foundation in 2006 to formalize study and research of this phenomenon and produced annual international Nollywood conventions from 2005 to 2009.
Ogbechie has received several fellowships, grants and award for his work from the Getty Research Institute, American Academy in Berlin, Rockefeller Foundation, Institute for International Education, Smithsonian Institution and a consultancy for the Ford Foundation. He was the 2010 Consortium Professor of the Getty Research Institute and served as guest editor for a History of Photography special issue on African Photography. His current project focuses on the politics of cultural patrimony debates as it affects demands for the repatriation of African cultural patrimony held in Western museums and institution. His research is widely published and he has lectured and consulted on African and African Diaspora arts for major museums in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Ogbechie received his BA and MA from the University of Nigeria and his PhD from Northwestern University.
In his talk, Dr. Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie will investigate how Yinka Shonibare uses particular textiles to interrogate contemporary cultural identity, and the hidden histories of transnational engagements woven into the fabrics that he uses as a signature element of his art.
Dr. Ogbechie, a professor of art history at UC Santa Barbara, specializes on the arts and visual culture of Africa and its Diasporas, especially in terms of how art history discourses create value for African cultural patrimony in the age of globalization. He is the author of Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press, 2008: winner of the 2009 Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association for best scholarly publication in African studies), Making History: The Femi Akinsanya African Art Collection(Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2011), and editor of Artists of Nigeria (Milan: 5 Continents Editions, 2012). He is the director of Aachron Knowledge Systems, and founder and editor of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. He organized and coordinated theFirst International Nollywood Convention and Symposium (Los Angeles, June 2005) that evaluated new media in contemporary African Visual Culture from the perspective of the internationally acclaimed Nigerian Video Film Industry. He subsequently founded the Nollywood Foundation in 2006 to formalize study and research of this phenomenon and produced annual international Nollywood conventions from 2005 to 2009.
Ogbechie has received several fellowships, grants and award for his work from the Getty Research Institute, American Academy in Berlin, Rockefeller Foundation, Institute for International Education, Smithsonian Institution and a consultancy for the Ford Foundation. He was the 2010 Consortium Professor of the Getty Research Institute and served as guest editor for a History of Photography special issue on African Photography. His current project focuses on the politics of cultural patrimony debates as it affects demands for the repatriation of African cultural patrimony held in Western museums and institution. His research is widely published and he has lectured and consulted on African and African Diaspora arts for major museums in the USA, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Ogbechie received his BA and MA from the University of Nigeria and his PhD from Northwestern University.
Maria Rendón
March 11, 2015, 4:30pm in PS-101
Maria Rendón lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA. Her previous solo exhibitions include shows at the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico, and at Mount St. Mary's College and Random Gallery, both in Los Angeles. Her work was featured in Crave, an art, food and social experience, at the Contemporary Arts Forum (now the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara) in 2012. She has also been in many group exhibitions at venues including the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Lotusland, Gallery Nucleus and Santa Monica College. In her work as an illustrator, Rendón has received awards from American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers. Her work has been commissioned by many businesses including American Airlines, Capitol Records, Dow Jones, Harvard Business School and NPR.
Maria Rendón lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA. Her previous solo exhibitions include shows at the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico, and at Mount St. Mary's College and Random Gallery, both in Los Angeles. Her work was featured in Crave, an art, food and social experience, at the Contemporary Arts Forum (now the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara) in 2012. She has also been in many group exhibitions at venues including the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Lotusland, Gallery Nucleus and Santa Monica College. In her work as an illustrator, Rendón has received awards from American Illustration, the Society of Illustrators and the Society of Publication Designers. Her work has been commissioned by many businesses including American Airlines, Capitol Records, Dow Jones, Harvard Business School and NPR.
Gail Levin
March 4, 2015, 4:30pm in PS-101
Dr. Gail Levin is Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is an art historian specializing in art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with diverse research interests that include the work of Edward Hopper, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Judy Chicago, women artists, Jewish artists, Chinese emigre artists, and contemporary art of the United States, Europe, and Japan, as well as American Studies and the cinema. Her books include Lee Krasner: A Biography, Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artist, and Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography.
Levin served as curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and as guest curator at the Museum of Modern Art and other venues. Also an artist, her photographs are included in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; The Pollock-Krasner House, and Study Center of the Stony Brook Foundation of the State University of New York in East Hampton, NY; and the Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York.
Gail Levin received a B.A. from Simmons college, and M.A. in Fine Arts from Tufts University, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
Dr. Gail Levin is Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women Studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is an art historian specializing in art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with diverse research interests that include the work of Edward Hopper, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Judy Chicago, women artists, Jewish artists, Chinese emigre artists, and contemporary art of the United States, Europe, and Japan, as well as American Studies and the cinema. Her books include Lee Krasner: A Biography, Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artist, and Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography.
Levin served as curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and as guest curator at the Museum of Modern Art and other venues. Also an artist, her photographs are included in the collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; The Pollock-Krasner House, and Study Center of the Stony Brook Foundation of the State University of New York in East Hampton, NY; and the Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York.
Gail Levin received a B.A. from Simmons college, and M.A. in Fine Arts from Tufts University, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
Kenyon Hansen
February 20, 2015, 4:00pm in A-211
Kenyon Hansen grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and in 2005
received a BFA from Finlandia University. He has been an artist-in-residence at Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts, and the Archie Bray Foundation where he was awarded the Lincoln Fellowship. In 2013, he was selected as an Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly. Kenyon currently resides in Hancock, Michigan where he's a full time potter, and adjunct instructor at Finlandia University.
Kenyon Hansen grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and in 2005
received a BFA from Finlandia University. He has been an artist-in-residence at Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts, and the Archie Bray Foundation where he was awarded the Lincoln Fellowship. In 2013, he was selected as an Emerging Artist by Ceramics Monthly. Kenyon currently resides in Hancock, Michigan where he's a full time potter, and adjunct instructor at Finlandia University.
Jillian McDonald
January 23, 2015, 4:00pm in A-211
Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist who divides her time between Canada and New York. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Pace University. For over 10 years, Jillian McDonald has been creating work that simultaneously embraces and critiques the genre of horror films. Her solo shows and projects include the Esker Foundation in Calgary, Air Circulation in New York, and Hallwalls in Buffalo. Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions including the Whitney Museum's Artport in New York and the Edith Russ Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg, and was the subject of a 2013 radio documentary by Paul Kennedy on CBC's IDEAS. McDonald has received grants and commissions from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, Soil New Media, Turbulence.org, the Verizon Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Experimental Television Center, and Pace University. She has also attended several international residencies including the Glennfiddich International Residency.
Jillian McDonald is a Canadian artist who divides her time between Canada and New York. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Pace University. For over 10 years, Jillian McDonald has been creating work that simultaneously embraces and critiques the genre of horror films. Her solo shows and projects include the Esker Foundation in Calgary, Air Circulation in New York, and Hallwalls in Buffalo. Her work has also been shown in group exhibitions including the Whitney Museum's Artport in New York and the Edith Russ Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg, and was the subject of a 2013 radio documentary by Paul Kennedy on CBC's IDEAS. McDonald has received grants and commissions from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, Soil New Media, Turbulence.org, the Verizon Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Experimental Television Center, and Pace University. She has also attended several international residencies including the Glennfiddich International Residency.
Rebecca Bollinger
November 12. 2014, 4:00pm in A-211
Rebeca Bollinger's work fluctuates between flat space and objects, painting, sculpture and moving images. She uses archives as source material for new works in ceramics, sculpture, drawing, photography, sound, installation, and video.
Bollinger has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as Art in the Anchorage (New York); the California Biennial (Orange County Museum of Art); Bay Area Now (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); and 010101: Art in Technological Times (SFMOMA.) She has had solo exhibitions at Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Feigen Contemporary (New York), Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco), and Walter Maciel Gallery (Los Angeles). She has participated in group exhibitions at Ballroom Marfa, Asian Art Museum, Angles Gallery, the de Young Museum, Museum Fridericianum, Hunter College, Krannert Art Museum, SFMOMA, and Pacific Film Archive, among others. Bollinger is a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the James D. Phelan Award in Video, a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, and the Artadia Award. She is a faculty member at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Rebeca Bollinger's work fluctuates between flat space and objects, painting, sculpture and moving images. She uses archives as source material for new works in ceramics, sculpture, drawing, photography, sound, installation, and video.
Bollinger has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as Art in the Anchorage (New York); the California Biennial (Orange County Museum of Art); Bay Area Now (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); and 010101: Art in Technological Times (SFMOMA.) She has had solo exhibitions at Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Feigen Contemporary (New York), Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco), and Walter Maciel Gallery (Los Angeles). She has participated in group exhibitions at Ballroom Marfa, Asian Art Museum, Angles Gallery, the de Young Museum, Museum Fridericianum, Hunter College, Krannert Art Museum, SFMOMA, and Pacific Film Archive, among others. Bollinger is a recipient of a SECA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the James D. Phelan Award in Video, a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation, and the Artadia Award. She is a faculty member at California College of the Arts (CCA)
Robyn O'Neil
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Robyn O’Neil was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1977, and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. Her work was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. O’Neil has had several traveling solo museum exhibitions in the United States, and has been included in numerous acclaimed group museum exhibitions both domestically and internationally. She also received a grant from the Irish Film Board for a film written and art directed by her entitled “WE, THE MASSES” which was conceived of at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School.
Her work is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery in New York City, Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, and Western Exhibitions in Chicago.
Carl Baratta
October 24, 2014, 4:00pm in A-211
Carl Baratta is a painter currently based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in Painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Baratta has exhibited internationally including exhibitions at Hughes Gallery in Sydney, Australia, J2 gallery, Tokyo Japan and Darke Gallery, Houston, Texas. Of his work, Baratta says, "I am constantly investigating different ways of compressing multiple moments into a single scene, a common conceit of manuscript, alchemy and Sienese imagery. It is my intention to create drama within the construction of spatial shifts, clashing color palettes, nameless characters, and strange landscapes to create a sense of mystery and drama. Ultimately I wish to express what I love about looking at all the images I come across so that the viewer will be as excited about them as I am.
Carl Baratta is a painter currently based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in Painting from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Baratta has exhibited internationally including exhibitions at Hughes Gallery in Sydney, Australia, J2 gallery, Tokyo Japan and Darke Gallery, Houston, Texas. Of his work, Baratta says, "I am constantly investigating different ways of compressing multiple moments into a single scene, a common conceit of manuscript, alchemy and Sienese imagery. It is my intention to create drama within the construction of spatial shifts, clashing color palettes, nameless characters, and strange landscapes to create a sense of mystery and drama. Ultimately I wish to express what I love about looking at all the images I come across so that the viewer will be as excited about them as I am.
Tif Sigfrids
October 3, 2014, 4:00pm in A-211
Living and working in Los Angeles, Sigfrids has a special fondness for small spaces (and the small works that fit inside these spaces). She opened her eponymous gallery in 2013 with an exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Joe Sola titled Portraits: An Exhibition in Tif Sigfrids' Ear. The show was precisely that, six microscopic portraits that fit inside a small gallery nestled in Sigfrids' ear for the duration of the exhibition. Prior to opening her own gallery, Sigfrids was the director of Thomas Solomon Gallery where she initiated the project space, Tif's Desk, which was a series of regularly rotating exhibitions that took place inside of her glass topped desk.
Living and working in Los Angeles, Sigfrids has a special fondness for small spaces (and the small works that fit inside these spaces). She opened her eponymous gallery in 2013 with an exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Joe Sola titled Portraits: An Exhibition in Tif Sigfrids' Ear. The show was precisely that, six microscopic portraits that fit inside a small gallery nestled in Sigfrids' ear for the duration of the exhibition. Prior to opening her own gallery, Sigfrids was the director of Thomas Solomon Gallery where she initiated the project space, Tif's Desk, which was a series of regularly rotating exhibitions that took place inside of her glass topped desk.
Mel Davis
Wednesday, May 7, 4:30, A-211
Mel Davis received her BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and her NFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She had solo exhibitions and is represented by both Eleanor Harwood Gallery (San Francisco) and Larry Becker Gallery (Philadelphia). She has had additional solo exhibitions at Cecile Moochnek Gallery (Berkeley), NavtaSchulz Gallery (Chicago), and Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco). Her work has been reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out Chicago, Art in America and San Francisco Art Magazine.
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Mel Davis received her BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and her NFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She had solo exhibitions and is represented by both Eleanor Harwood Gallery (San Francisco) and Larry Becker Gallery (Philadelphia). She has had additional solo exhibitions at Cecile Moochnek Gallery (Berkeley), NavtaSchulz Gallery (Chicago), and Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco). Her work has been reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out Chicago, Art in America and San Francisco Art Magazine.
meldavis.peachpitpie.com
Megan Geckler (video pending)
Wednesday, April 30, 4:30, A-211
Upon first look, Megan Geckler’s work seems to be digital in nature; the colors are vibrant and unreal. Most of her installations are created with flagging tape, a mass-produced colorful plastic ribbon utilized on construction sites and assembled by hand alongside crews of assistants. Geckler has been exhibiting in galleries, museums and alternative spaces since 1998, with many shows in the United States including solo shows at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Creative Artists Agency, and the Pasadena Museum of California Art among others. She has also worked with commercial clients such as Urban Outfitters, Nike and Target. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her MFA from Claremont Graduate University.
http://www.megangeckler.com
Upon first look, Megan Geckler’s work seems to be digital in nature; the colors are vibrant and unreal. Most of her installations are created with flagging tape, a mass-produced colorful plastic ribbon utilized on construction sites and assembled by hand alongside crews of assistants. Geckler has been exhibiting in galleries, museums and alternative spaces since 1998, with many shows in the United States including solo shows at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Creative Artists Agency, and the Pasadena Museum of California Art among others. She has also worked with commercial clients such as Urban Outfitters, Nike and Target. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and her MFA from Claremont Graduate University.
http://www.megangeckler.com
Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers
Wednesday, March 19, 4:30-5:30pm, A-211
A multimedia studio art collaborative based in Claremont, CA, Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers aim to distill the stereotypical perceptions and associations within our culture into visually compelling objects, sculptures and installations. Whether they create an installation describing the impending doom of the dinosaurs or a valise filled with gold lucky charms their iconography is drawn from the animals, objects and/or situations that operate as commonplace tropes within our culture. Jointly Berg and Myers have participated in multiple solo exhibitions including An embarrassment of riches (2013) and On the brink (2011) both at Dean Project Gallery in New York, NY, and As Luck Would Have It (2009) at Nääs Konsthantverk Galleri in Göteborg, Sweden. Over the years Berg and Myers have also participated in numerous group exhibitions in the US, Mexico, South Korea, Qatar and Kuwait. Berg works as an Associate Professor at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA and received his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2003 and BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2000. Myers received her BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2000 and continued her studies in graphic design at the California College of the Arts.
http://www.myersbergstudios.com
A multimedia studio art collaborative based in Claremont, CA, Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers aim to distill the stereotypical perceptions and associations within our culture into visually compelling objects, sculptures and installations. Whether they create an installation describing the impending doom of the dinosaurs or a valise filled with gold lucky charms their iconography is drawn from the animals, objects and/or situations that operate as commonplace tropes within our culture. Jointly Berg and Myers have participated in multiple solo exhibitions including An embarrassment of riches (2013) and On the brink (2011) both at Dean Project Gallery in New York, NY, and As Luck Would Have It (2009) at Nääs Konsthantverk Galleri in Göteborg, Sweden. Over the years Berg and Myers have also participated in numerous group exhibitions in the US, Mexico, South Korea, Qatar and Kuwait. Berg works as an Associate Professor at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA and received his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2003 and BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2000. Myers received her BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder in 2000 and continued her studies in graphic design at the California College of the Arts.
http://www.myersbergstudios.com
Ann Diener – February 5, 2014
Artist
Ann Diener received her BA from UCLA and an MFA from UCSB. Her primary practice is drawing and her work has been widely exhibited. One person exhibitions include Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, The Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB, Electric Works Gallery San Francisco and The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.
She has been included in group shows at Otis College of Art and Design, the Torrance Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco, The Riverside Museum, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Edward Cella Art and Architecture and Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara as well as Bank Gallery, Domestic Setting, Acuna Hansen Gallery and the Municipal Gallery all in Los Angeles. She was included in Art on Paper at the Weatherspoon Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and her work has been shown in art fairs in Miami, Berlin and London.
She was a resident artist at The American Academy in Rome and had a residency at Kaus Australis in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. While at UCSB, she twice received the Abrams Prize as well as a fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
The work has been reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, The SF Weekly, Artweek, Art Ltd., Art on Paper, the Santa Barbara News-Press and Santa Barbara Independent.
She has been included in group shows at Otis College of Art and Design, the Torrance Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco, The Riverside Museum, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Edward Cella Art and Architecture and Jane Deering Gallery, Santa Barbara as well as Bank Gallery, Domestic Setting, Acuna Hansen Gallery and the Municipal Gallery all in Los Angeles. She was included in Art on Paper at the Weatherspoon Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and her work has been shown in art fairs in Miami, Berlin and London.
She was a resident artist at The American Academy in Rome and had a residency at Kaus Australis in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. While at UCSB, she twice received the Abrams Prize as well as a fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
The work has been reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, The SF Weekly, Artweek, Art Ltd., Art on Paper, the Santa Barbara News-Press and Santa Barbara Independent.
Rebecca Morris – November 15, 2013
Artist
Rebecca Morris lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BA from Smith College (1991), her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1994) and attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1994).
Morris was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008) and has also received awards from The California Community Foundation (2013), The City of Los Angeles (2013), Tiffany Foundation (1999), The Durfee Foundation (2005), Art Matters (1996), the Illinois Arts Council (1996) and The Faculty Lecturer/ Performer Award at Pasadena City College (2009).
Morris is represented by Galerie Barbara Weiss (Berlin, Germany) and is the author of Manifesto: For Abstractionists and Friends of the Non-Objective.
A solo survey exhibition of her paintings was held at The Renaissance Society (Chicago), in 2005, a catalogue was published in conjunction. Additional solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Lingen (Germany); Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago); Harris Lieberman, (New York); Galerie Barbara Weiss (Berlin); The Santa Monica Museum of Art (Santa Monica).
Group exhibitions include: The Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (Switzerland); Friedrich Petzel (New York); The Hessel Art Museum (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York); The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); Night Gallery (Los Angeles); Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan (New York); Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York); Midway Contemporary Art (Minneapolis); Participant Inc. (New York); Grieder Contemporary (Zurich); and Donald Young Gallery (Chicago).
Morris has lectured at numerous colleges and graduate programs including: Columbia University; USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts; The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; The University of Chicago; UCLA; California College of The Arts; Otis; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; The University of California at Riverside; The University of California at Irvine; Claremont Graduate University; The Savannah College of Art; The University of Illinois at Chicago; The School of Visual Arts; Cal State LA; Smith College; and co-organized the lecture series “Talks on Painting”, in Los Angeles.
Morris is a Professor of Painting at Pasadena City College.
Morris was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008) and has also received awards from The California Community Foundation (2013), The City of Los Angeles (2013), Tiffany Foundation (1999), The Durfee Foundation (2005), Art Matters (1996), the Illinois Arts Council (1996) and The Faculty Lecturer/ Performer Award at Pasadena City College (2009).
Morris is represented by Galerie Barbara Weiss (Berlin, Germany) and is the author of Manifesto: For Abstractionists and Friends of the Non-Objective.
A solo survey exhibition of her paintings was held at The Renaissance Society (Chicago), in 2005, a catalogue was published in conjunction. Additional solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Lingen (Germany); Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago); Harris Lieberman, (New York); Galerie Barbara Weiss (Berlin); The Santa Monica Museum of Art (Santa Monica).
Group exhibitions include: The Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (Switzerland); Friedrich Petzel (New York); The Hessel Art Museum (Annandale-on-Hudson, New York); The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); Night Gallery (Los Angeles); Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan (New York); Mitchell-Innes & Nash (New York); Midway Contemporary Art (Minneapolis); Participant Inc. (New York); Grieder Contemporary (Zurich); and Donald Young Gallery (Chicago).
Morris has lectured at numerous colleges and graduate programs including: Columbia University; USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts; The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; The University of Chicago; UCLA; California College of The Arts; Otis; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; The University of California at Riverside; The University of California at Irvine; Claremont Graduate University; The Savannah College of Art; The University of Illinois at Chicago; The School of Visual Arts; Cal State LA; Smith College; and co-organized the lecture series “Talks on Painting”, in Los Angeles.
Morris is a Professor of Painting at Pasadena City College.
Siobhan McBride – November 8, 2013
Artist
Siobhan McBride was born in Seoul, South Korea and currently lives in Miami. She received her MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. Using gouache on a small scale, she is interested in depicting views of a strange, yet familiar, world imbued with a sense of anxiety and anticipation. She has been an artist in residence at the Roswell Artist in Residence Program, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program, Yaddo, Jentel, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been shown recently at NURTUREart, the Pelham Art Center, DC Moore, and Eight Modern.
David Jien – October 30, 2013
Artist
David Jien makes intricately detailed drawings on paper about an allegorical future. A future, in which a cast of protagonists (the whoriders, led by their king, Yasha Moshia) fight and defend against the evil and conniving lizard men, commanded by their beautiful prince Adin Shakran. In a way, the characters function as self-portraits. Through them, David can express his deepest hopes, concerns, regrets and desires. He is a whorider, he is a lizard man. Jien graduated from Art Center College of Design and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He has had 2 recent solo exhibitions at Richard Heller Gallery and his work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro), Art Platform (Los Angeles) The Barker Hangar (Santa Monica) Beginnings Gallery (Brooklyn), Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco) and LA Mart (Los Angeles).
Alika Cooper – October 23, 2013
Artist
Liv Aanrud – September 18, 2013
Painter and Textile Artist
Liv Aanrud grew up on a small farm in Wisconsin. She received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire, WI her MFA from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She has recently exhibited at the Underdonk Gallery (New York, NY), Abteilung AIM (Berlin) and the Shore Institute of Contemporary Art (Long Branch, NJ). Of her work, she states, "There is a quiet tempo that fundamentally shapes how I understand life. This is where my mind’s eye lingers when I begin to paint, when I take a piece of the known world and follow it into uncertainty. A form emerges underneath the painted surface in a tug of war where size often yields to intent. I like modest might, self-conscious usurpation, when a painting captures the moment right before authority is asserted. In these curious events I search for something strangely familiar, and sincere. These are pictures of the natural, or rather, how the natural might be created."
Matthias Merkel Hess – April 17, 2013
Ceramicist
Matthias Merkel Hess (Cedar Rapids, IA, 1978) received a BS in Journalism and a BA in Environmental Science from the University of Kansas before pursuing his MFA in Ceramics from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work was recently included in A Thousand Hours at Jane Deering Gallery in Santa Barbara and in solo exhibitions at ACME and Las Cienegas Projects, both in Los Angeles. His work has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and the New York Times.
http://www.merkelhess.net
http://www.merkelhess.net
Julian Kriemer - March 6, 2013
Observational and Abstract Painter
Painter and critic Julian Kreimer is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design at Purchase College (NY). He received his BA in Art History from Princeton University (NJ), his MA in Painting from Chelsea College of Art in Design (London), and his MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited widely. In 2013, his paintings will be featured in a solo exhibition at Weeknights Gallery (NY) and group shows at Denison University (OH) and Printed Matter (NY). His artwork has been reviewed in Bomb Magazine, Art New England andTimeOut New York. Kreimer's feature articles and reviews have been published in Art in America and Modern Painters Magazine. He is the recipient of several awards and fellowships including funded residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center.
Claudia Pérez-Pavón – March 1, 2013
Visiting and Exhibiting Mexico City Painter
Claudia Pérez-Pavón (Mexico City, 1967) studied Philosophy and Fine Arts in Mexico City and in Florence, Italy. She has received numerous awards including the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA)'s Young Artist Fellowship in 2000-2001, and it's biggest honor, the National System of Creators Fellowship, for 2012-2014. She was also unanimously selected by the jury to receive the most prestigious painting prize in Mexico, the X Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial. Additionally, she has participated in more than 50 shows, including single and group exhibitions throughout Europe and Latin America.
Christopher Ulivo - February 13, 2013
Artist and Professor of Painting at Santa Barbara City College
Christopher Ulivo (Staten Island, NY, 1977) received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. He has exhibited extensively with solo exhibitions at Susan Inglett Gallery (NY) and group exhibitions including First Contact at Field Projects (NY),Nature, Once Removed: The (Un)Natural World in Contemporary Drawing at Lehman College (NY), andTales of Wonder and Woe: Fable and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Art at Castle Gallery (NY). Ulivo is also co-curator of the currently traveling exhibit, In Search Of..., which has been on view at Rhodes College (TN), Kansas University (KN) and North Branch Projects in Chicago, IL. He has received artist in residence fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, the Hall Farm Art Center and the Abrons Art Center. His work has also been reviewed inTimeOut New York, The Brooklyn Rail, Philadelphia Weekly, and Art New England.
http://christopherulivo.com.
http://christopherulivo.com.
Amir Fallah - September 19, 2012
Artist and publisher of Beautiful Decay Magazine
Amir H. Fallah is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Amir received his B.F.A. from The Maryland Institute College of Art and his M.F.A from UCLA in 2005. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Exhibits include shows at Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Sharjah Biennial 2009, LA Louver, The Third Line, Gallery Wendi Norris, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, Cherry And Martin, 31 Grand, Frederieke Taylor gallery, Mary Goldman Gallery among others.
He has been a visiting lecturer at a range of respected institutions, including Columbia College, USC, UCLA, Cleveland Institute of Art, California State University, University Of New Mexico, Otis College Of Art, and Maryland Institute College of Art.
He has been a visiting lecturer at a range of respected institutions, including Columbia College, USC, UCLA, Cleveland Institute of Art, California State University, University Of New Mexico, Otis College Of Art, and Maryland Institute College of Art.
Eric Beltz - April 26, 2012
"High Definition Drawing"
Dr. Joy Kunz - February 8, 2012
"Persistence and Non-Objective Art- A Brief History"
Keith Puccinelli - November 16, 2011
"Sweet Cream, Sour Fool"
Miki Garcia - October 12, 2011
Executive Director at Contemporary Arts Forum
Miki Garcia has been the Executive Director at the MCASB since 2005, where she has curated exhibitions such as Flights from Wonder (2012); Michele O'Marah: Video Portraits and Home Show, Revisited (2011); Parallax: Peter Rostovsky and Paul Winstanley (2010), Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine (2010), An Expanded Field of Possibilities (2009), Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surf (2007-08), and Marc Swanson: Beginning to See the Light (2007) among several other group and solo projects with local, national, and international artists.
Previously, Garcia worked at the Public Art Fund, New York, NY and at the Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego, CA. She has also participated as guest curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY and as a lecturer and panelist for various organizations including California Community Foundation, Art Matters Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Garcia holds a MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, TX and a BA in Art History from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Previously, Garcia worked at the Public Art Fund, New York, NY and at the Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego, CA. She has also participated as guest curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY and as a lecturer and panelist for various organizations including California Community Foundation, Art Matters Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Garcia holds a MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, TX and a BA in Art History from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.