Art design newsletter 2013 final print

On behalf of the entire Art

and Design department

faculty and staff, I would

like to welcome you to an-

other exciting and produc-

tive year in Art and Design.

As I finish my first year as

chair of the department and

enter my second, I reflect

on all the wonderful activi-

ties and events we had last

year. The Spring semes-

ter ended with two very

successful senior exhibits.

First was the Studio Art

Greetings everyone!option exhibit followed by

the Design option exhibit.

Our department has grown

much since I first started as

assistant professor in 2006.

Because of our growth,

we have had to have two

separate exhibits for the

last three years and I am

sure this will continue to be

the case. I would also like

to remark that at com-

mencement, we had more

students participate and

graduate this year than in

the past. Our most recent

faculty addition, Professor

Ellie Zenhari, has contin-

ued to prosper as part of

out Art and Design family.

One highlight of her year

is the creation of the Art

and Design website: http://

cah.csudh.edu/art/, which

she designed and main-

tains. It is a truly beautiful

website and the envy of

the other departments and

programs. We always wel-

come visits from our alumni

whose works of art will be

showcased in the Alumni

Art and Design Exhibition,

and we very much look

forward to seeing you at all

our exhibits and events.

Jim KevilleChairArt and Design Department

The senior B.A. design

students’ exhibition

opened on May 6 in

the university gallery

featuring the work of 22

graduating seniors.

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n e w s l e t t e r

The senior B.A. studio

arts exhibition opened

on April 15 in the

university art gallery

and included painting,

drawing, and three-

dimensional work.

Professor Ellie Zenhari

C A L I F O R N I A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y D O M I N G U E Z H I L L S

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Guerilla Art/Conceptualization Class Projects

Congratulations to all of

our students who partici-

pated in Student Research

Day. A record number of

students presented diverse

and scholarly topics in

studio art, design and art

history. Included were the

following students and their

topics and faculty mentors:

Dalia Cornejo, Art and

Design, “Brand and Visual

Identity for Science Society

of CSUDH,” Faculty Men-

tors: Michele Bury and

Bonnie Tanaka, Art and

Design; Melissa Maz-

ariegos, Art and Design,

“Spare a Can or Two”

Hunger Campaign, Faculty

Art and Design Students Participate in Student Research Day

Mentor: Michele Bury,

Art and Design; Dalia

Cornejo, Art and Design,

“Destroy the Box” Project,

Faculty Mentor: Michele

Bury, Art and Design;

Elvia Martinez and Ruth

Morales-Mazariego,

Art and Design, “A Vi-

sual Presentation About

Homelessness,” Faculty

Mentor: Michele Bury, Art

and Design; Diego Ortiz,

Art and Design, “Mutatio

Garnilogia,” Faculty Mentor:

Jim Keville, Art and De-

sign; Fernando Landeros,

Art History, “The Children

of the Corn, Mexico’s

Very First Artists,” Faculty

Mentor: Kathy Zimmerer,

University Art Gallery and

Kirstin Ellsworth, Art and

Design; Anthony Wilson,

Art History, “Feminist Art

Condensed: Explaining the

‘How’ by Referencing the

Methods of Three Great

Artists from the Same Gen-

eration,” Faculty Mentor:

Kirstin Ellsworth, Art and

Design; Fernando Lande-

ros, Art History, “Finding

‘Akathisia’ in Van Gogh’s

In November of 2012,

“Spare a Can or Two,”

a food drive by Melissa

Mazariegos ’13 was part

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Brush Strokes,” Faculty

Mentors: Kathy Zimmer-

er, University Art Gallery

and Kirstin Ellsworth, Art

and Design. In the Creative

Arts category, three of our

students won first and

second place and were

invited to present at the

statewide student research

day at Cal Poly Pomona

from May 10–11, including

first place winner, Dalia

Cornejo, Art and Design

for her “Destroy the Box”

Project and in second place

Elvia Martinez and Ruth

Morales-Mazariego, Art

and Design, “A Visual Pre-

sentation About Homeless-

ness.” In second place in

Humanities & Letters II was

Fernando Landeros, Art

History, “Finding ‘Akathi-

sia’ in Van Gogh¹s Brush

Strokes,” Faculty Mentors:

Kathy Zimmerer, Univer-

sity Art Gallery and Kirstin

Ellsworth, Art and Design.

Student Research

Day winners

Dalia Cornejo,

Ruth Morales and

Elvia Martinez with

mentors Michele

Bury and Kathy

Zimmerer.

CSU Domingues

Hills Art History

Student Research

Day participants

Fernando Landeros,

Anthony Wilson.

into the LaCorte Hall visual

environment. Also included

were the “steps to gradu-

ation,” an Indian dancer

near the fire lane, a water

fountain environmental in-

stallation focusing on world

water needs, light bulbs

that hung over strategic

place in the art and design

department for more idea

creation, photographic

trees that grew out of the

real trees bordering the

sculpture patio, and on

the LCH pathway, signs

documented the cutting

down of the mature trees

in the Crenshaw corridor

for the transport of the

space shuttle Endeavor to

the Science Center in Los

Angeles.

Art 342 guerilla

art included

Spare A Can or

Two by Melissa

Mazariegos (left),

and Steps to

Graduation (far

right) by Haydee

Chan and Keelan

Countee.

of the series of guerilla art

projects by Michele Bury’s

conceptualization class.

The criteria was to make

activist art that blended

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Our design students con-

tinued to collaborate with

numerous departments

across campus in design-

ing posters for their events

including Theater and

Dance, Modern Languages,

Students Create Posters for Campus EventsLiz Moran ’14, Art His-

tory, was accepted into

is the CSU Abroad Arts

Program in Florence, Italy

for the academic year of

2013–2014.

Nate Lubben ’13 contin-

ued to make news with an

article about his work in the

LB Post http://www.lbpost.

com/life/2000001586-bun-

galow-showcases-talent-

of-lbcc-art, and an article in

the CSUDH Bulletin, which

has adopted one of his

photo collages as part of its

masthead.

38th International Symposium of Hispanic Literature

March 6–8, 2013

California State University, Dominguez Hills

Loker Student Union

Homage to Elena Poniatowska

Dalia Cornejo ’13 once

thought she should be

practical and pursue a

career such as teaching.

Senior Dalia Cornejo “Destroys the Box” to Relieve StressTry as she might to stick to

her original plans, a series

of events unfolded that led

to her passion, and in May

a graphic design career.

But in 2008, just about

ready to graduate, she

made another decision

based on her long-standing

interest in art by majoring

in graphic design. It would

mean an extended burden

on her family’s financial situ-

ation, but with her mother’s

support, she added a

second major. In 2011, her

mother filed for bankruptcy

and not long after, their

home went into foreclosure

and the family was evicted.

While the home and her

security were gone, not

all was lost for Cornejo.

The experience became

the inspiration for “Destroy

the Box,” which began as

an assignment for Inde-

pendent Study in Art (Art

494) taught by associate

professor of art and design

Michele Bury. Cornejo

created the experiential art

project in response to her

experiences with bank-

ruptcy, stress, and cancer

that took the life of an

admired uncle. “Destroy the

Box,” allows participants to

assemble boxes designed

in themes based on the

aforementioned issues and

then destroy them as a

cathartic exercise. Cornejo

earned the opportunity to

present her stress relief

project at the CSU system

wide Student Research Day

at Cal Poly Pomona on May

10 as a result of winning

first place in the creative

arts category at the CSU

Dominguez Hills Student

Research Day in February.

She recently accepted

a graphic design internship

with an international skin

care company, which has

offices in Carson.

Dahlia Cornejo’s

“Destroy the Box”

project won first

place in the cre-

ative arts

category at the

CSU Dominguez

Hills Student

Research Day in

February.

She even had a role model.

As a teenager, she admired

an uncle for being the only

one of 11 siblings to earn a

college degree and for be-

coming a professor. But a

different calling beckoned.

the double major graduated

Summa Cum Laude with

a Bachelor of Arts in Art

and Design and Spanish

Literature from California

State University, Dominguez

Hills, and is about to begin

Student News

English and Music. Jea-

nette Diaz ’13 designed

three posters for Theater

and Dance, English and

Music. Camelle Williams

’13 created one poster for

the Theater Department

and Keelan Countee

’14, was the poster con-

test winner for the 38th

International Symposium

of Hispanic Literature

organized by the Modern

Languages Department.

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The two Annual Student

Art and Design: B.A.

Graduates Exhibition

openings took place on

April 15 and May 6, 2013.

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faculty+staffnewsMichele Bury (Design)

was promoted to the rank

of full Professor, effec-

tive Fall 2013. She joined

Dominguez Hills ten years

ago and served as chair

of the department for five

years up until Spring 2012.

This academic year she

continues working on the

substantial curriculum

program modifications for

the Design option majors,

minors and certificates,

involving changes of over

20 courses, the redesign

of five courses, and the

creation of one new course.

Her current work as a

designer deals with social

justice and human rights;

she has been designing

and fabricating three-

dimensional typographic

posters illustrating articles

of the Universal Human

Rights Declaration.

mance event, the recreation

of Lita Albuquerque’s Spine

of the Earth at the Baldwin

Hills Scenic Overlook in

Culver City, CA. She acted

as a judge for Student Re-

search Day for the Art and

Design Department in the

morning session, as well as

Judge for the evening ses-

sion, poster submissions in

the Psychology Department.

Kirstin Ellsworth (Art His-

tory) published a review of

the book, West of Center:

Art and the Counterculture

Experiment in America,

Elissa Auther and Adam

Lerner, eds. Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota

Press, 2012 in the The

Journal of American Culture

35.3. She also served on

the Editorial Board for the

journal History Research.

She was a juror for the Los

Angeles Printmaking So-

ciety Members’ Exhibition

Man, Machine, and Nature

at the MOCA Pacific Design

Center, Los Angeles, CA

and Henry Ford Community

College Gallery, Detroit, MI

2013. She gave a public

lecture to the Los Angeles

Printmaking Society at

the MOCA Pacific Design,

Center, Los Angeles, CA

on January 20, 2013. Her

Lecture was titled, “Man,

Machine, and Nature.” Her

virtual conference presenta-

tion Printing the Machine in

the 21st Century: Printmak-

ers from the Los Angeles

Printmaking Society was

delivered to the 11th

International Conference

on New Directions in the

Humanities, June 19–21,

2013.

Gilah Yelin Hirsch (Studio

Art) exhibited her work in an

extended three-year solo

exhibition at Hebrew Union

College, Los Angeles. Eight

of her large paintings were

featured in Inner Journeys,

Outer Visions, Municipal

Art Gallery, Los Ange-

les, CA where one of her

paintings was selected for

Peter Clothier’s One Hour

One Painting. Her work

was presented by Cura-

tor Meg Linton in a tour

of her studio and home,

where the artist spoke

about her work, organized

as part of the exhibition,

Freeway Studies #1: This

Side of the 405, Ben Maltz

Gallery, Otis College of Art

& Design, Los Angeles,

CA. Her paintings were

also featured in 40/40—A

Historic Retrospective

Celebrating 40 Years of Art

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at the USC Hillel Gallery,

USC Hillel Gallery, Los

Angeles, CA. Her work

was again included in the

Santa Monica Museum’s

Incognito exhibition, as well

as in the Pacific Standard

Time exhibition, Ben Maltz

Gallery, Otis College of Art

& Design, Los Angeles,

CA. She also participated

in numerous lectures and

presentations ranging from

Imagery After Abstraction:

Filling the Void, Jewish

Art Salon & Kraft Center,

Columbia University, New

York, NY to Inner Journeys:

Outer Visions: A Conversa-

tion with Gilah Yelin Hirsch,

as well the artist panel

Contemporary Spiritual Art,

moderated by Betty Brown,

Municipal Art Gallery, Los

Angeles, CA.

Jim Keville (Studio Art)

has completed his first year

as Chair of the Art and De-

sign Department. He writes,

“It has been challenging yet

interesting work and I have

Elaine Brandt (Studio Art)

was a participant in the

January 22, 2012 perfor-

And Now We Are

Free, 2011 (right) by

Gilah Yelin Hirsch,

was one of eight

works featured ear-

lier this year in Inner

Journeys, Outer

Visions at Barnsdall

Art Center in Los

Angeles.

Elaine Brandt,

An Autopoetic

System, 2013.

learned how I can bring

positive developments to

our programs.” He looks

forward to continuing his

role as chair in the years to

come. He helped con-

ceive a collaborative clay

dance performance with

Dance professor Doris

Ressl involving three of

her students dancing on

clay forms. The dance was

performed at the Rod But-

ler Memorial Showcase of

the Art at CSU Dominguez

Hills on April 26, 2013. In

addition, Jim participated

in a group exhibit titled

Gleaming Apollo at Gallery

in The Huffington Post.

His work was included in

the group show California

Gold, Orange County, CA

and was part of the group

exhibitions at art fairs

ArtPad 2013, San Fran-

cisco, CA and Volta, New

York, NY. He took part in a

panel discussion at CSULB

concerning exhibiting and

careers after graduate

school.

David Parsons (Studio

Art) continues to organize

the monthly event Art Jam

Night, which is held every

fourth Friday of the month

from 7–9:30 pm at Sum-

mer Studios Arts Academy

in Lomita, CA. His 2009

community art mosaic

project involving both David

Parsons of Summer Stu-

dios and Betty R. Ziff of

Mosaic Alchemy, South Bay

Shines A Light has been

purchased and donated by

an anonymous couple to

be installed in August 2013

at the newly constructed

hospital emergency en-

trance at Harbor-UCLA. His

large wire blue giraffe was

installed at the Stephen

White Middle School Com-

munity Youth Garden in

Carson as of April 2013.

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desperados

Rafael Joseph Zepeda

Rafael Joseph Zepeda

desperados

825 in West Hollywood,

CA which ran from March

30–April 26, 2013. Two

of his works were shown,

including Polycheiria, 2012

and Speckled Pink Hand

Space, 2012. Jim will have

his third solo exhibit at

L2kontemporary Gallery in

Chinatown, Los Angeles,

CA opening February 15,

2014.

Greg Mocilinikar (Studio

Art) exhibited in a two-per-

son show with artist Andy

Kolar in Twice Removed

at Walter Maciel Gallery in

February/March 2013; Twice

Removed was reviewed

Fall 2012, and based on the

anonymous survey feed-

back results, the students

found the virtual camera

application very helpful.

Kathy Zimmerer (Direc-

tor, University Art Gallery)

was juror of the South Bay

Watercolor Society an-

nual exhibit at the National

Watercolor Society in San

Pedro, CA and led a ques-

tion and answer session on

the exhibit in June 2012.

She published the following

reviews: Clarence Hinkle,

Laguna Art Museum, La-

guna Beach, CA, ArtScene,

September, 2012; Rebecca

Jackrel and Will Burrard-

Lucas: The Wolf Project, G2

Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,

ArtScene, October 2012;

Ron Rizk: Paintings, Lora

Schlesinger Gallery, Los An-

geles, CA, ArtScene, March

2013. She also coordi-

nated with Leslie Fischer,

Curator, Collections and

Archives, LAUSD, the resto-

ration of the painting, The

Valley of the Santa Clara, by

Ralph Davidson Miller, Gift

of the Class of 1919, from

the Gardena High School/

LAUSD Collection of Cali-

fornia Impressionist Paint-

ings through the Painted

Light project supported by

the W.M. Keck Founda-

tion. She received an NEH

on the Road programming

grant for the exhibit Wild

Land: Thomas Cole and the

Birth of American Land-

scape Painting (January

thru March 2016).

Work by Jim Keville,

including Speckled

Pink Hand Space,

2012 was shown in

the exhibit Gleaming

Apollo at Gallery 825

in West Hollywood.

John Lionel Pierce

(Design) retired last October

as Art Director for the Of-

fice of Communications

and Public Affairs at CSU

Dominguez Hills after 13

years in that position. He

continues to work as a

freelance designer and

part-time lecturer in the De-

partment of Art and Design.

Among other projects, John

recently designed the cover

for Rafael Zepeda’s latest

novel, Desperados, World

Parade Books, 2013.

Ellie Zenhari (Design)

completely redesigned and

launched the new Depart-

ment of Art and Design

website in Fall 2012. She

has continuously updated

the website with new imag-

es and content. She served

as a juror for the California

State University Media Arts

Festival in the Experimental,

Animation and Music Video

categories in the Fall 2012.

She also has developed a

virtual camera application

to help photography stu-

dents understand abstract

photography topics and

functionalities through

direct interaction and

manipulation with a virtual

digital camera that provides

immediate visual feedback.

She tested the prototype in

her photography classes in

Field trip to Los Angeles County Museum of Art

On March 1, the Depart-

ment of Art and Design

took a field trip to the Los

Angeles County Museum

of Art, 80 students, faculty

and staff attended. Among

the permanent collection

installations and special

exhibitions the group

toured with their profes-

sors were Walter De Maria’s

2000 Sculpture, Michael

Heizer’s Levitated Mass,

Robert Mapplethorpe: XYZ

Portfolio, The Pavilion for

Japanese Art, Metropolis II

by Chris Burden and Ends

and Exits in the Broad Con-

temporary. All the tours and

field trips were arranged by

Kathy Zimmerer of the

University Art Gallery.

Field Trip to the Hammer Museum UCLA

The field trip to the Hammer

Museum UCLA on October

19 was a great success

with over 65 students and

many faculty attending. Two

different tours were booked

for the Hammer Museum

for Studio Art and Design.

For Design students, the

student educator led a

60-minute tour of De-

sign Now (an interactive

exhibit). For Studio Art and

Art History students: the

student educator led a 60

minute tour of A Strange

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Winston Hewitt Memorial Scholarship Brunch

A brunch honoring the

recipients of the Winston

Hewitt Memorial Schol-

arship was held in the

University Student Union

on December 1. The 2013

Winston Hewitt Memorial

scholarship winners in-

cluded Fernando Lande-

ros, Art History, Cary Son,

Studio Art and Yesenia

Flores, Design.

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Magic: Gustave Moreau’s

Salome and the permanent

collection of the Hammer

Museum (and tours of

Zarina: Paper Like Skin).

Most students saw all the

exhibits and were able to

talk individually with their

faculty member about the

works of art.

LA Press Field Trip

On April 30, 25 students

from John Lionel Pierce’s

Art 343 Prepress class vis-

ited LA Press in Gardena,

CA. Owner Kevin Kaing

took the students on a tour

of the facilities including

prepress, plate-making,

printing presses and bind-

ing. This is the fifth year Mr.

Kaing has hosted students

from the Art 343 Prepress

class.

Hewitt Memorial

scholarship winners

included Fernando

Landeros, Art

History and Cary

Son, Studio Art.

80 students, faculty

and staff from the

Art and Design

Department took a

field trip to the Los

Angeles County

Museum of Art.

Guest Speakers

In Art 100, Dr. Kirstin Ells-

worth hosted the following

guest speakers: In Asian Art,

she had Frank Ellsworth

bring his collection of Ukiyo-e

and other prints from Japan.

In the TV Art 100, she had

speakers from LACMA and

the Getty Villa as well as Jim

Keville, Associate Profes-

sor, Department of Art and

Design.

Professor Gilah Yelin

Hirsch hosted the following

guest artists in her advanced

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The Honors in the Major

brunch was held on May 9

to recognize outstanding

students in the department.

The students who received

honors in the major were:

Art History: Allison Amos,

Anthony Wilson Jr.,

Deseree Tamayo, Design:

Esmeralda Avila, Yesenia

Ruiz, Yesenia Flores,

Dalia Cornejo, Alejan-

dro Villamil, Carolyn

Swartz, and Studio Art:

Mary Puzo. Also students

participating in Student Re-

search Day were honored

including in the Creative

Arts: Dalia Cornejo (First

Place) Elvia Martinez and

Ruth Morales-Mazariego

(Second Place) Melissa

Mazariegos, in Studio Art,

Diego Ortiz, in Art His-

tory, Fernando Landeros

(Second Place) and An-

thony Wilson Jr., and the

Winston Hewitt Scholarship

winners including Fernan-

do Landeros, Art History,

Cary Son, Studio Art and

Yesenia Flores, Design.

Also honored was Liz Mo-

ran ’14 for being accepted

in the CSU Study Abroad

program for the 2013–2014

academic year. She will

study in Florence, Italy.

Honors in the Major Brunch

The Honors in the

Major brunch was

held on May 9 to

recognize out-

standing students

in the department.

The Design Portfolio Review

Day was held on May

13, 2013. All the design

portfolios by the 22 seniors

in Design were reviewed by

the following professionals:

Mark Aco, Senior Design-

er, Soohoo Design; Lisa

Tauber, Designer and Art

Director, Lisa Tauber De-

sign; Rachel Granneman,

Designer, University Com-

munications and Public

Affairs; Robert Yager,

Photographer; Amanda

McDermott, Designer;

Rebecca Biggers,

Designer; Shelly Miller,

Designer; Margaret Lee,

Designer; Manuel “Marty”

Romero, Designer; and

Brian Sorotsky, Designer.

Design Portfolio Review Day

painting class: alumnus

Joe Edward Grant talked

about his lush paintings,

Eric Myles ’87 gave a

presentation of his work

and talked about his career.

Also, Craig Antrim, a well-

known Los Angeles artist

and adjunct professor at

Harbor College, gave a lec-

ture about oils and acrylics,

their history and uses from

ancient to contemporary

times; and Charles Logan

’05, Claremont graduate

school MFA, talked about

his life in graduate school

and afterward. Another

alumni artist, Kevin Polk,

talked about his work as

well as artist Carlton Davis.

22 seniors met

with professional

designers in the

University Art

Gallery following

portfolio reviews

on May 13, 2013.

Newsletter editor:

Kathy Zimmerer

Newsletter design:

John Lionel Pierce

art+designgalleryThe Director of the Univer-

sity Art Gallery continued

to collaborate with other

departments on campus

including Theater and

Dance and the Department

of Modern languages in its

first two exhibitions. In Con-

tinua in Light, organized by

the Westmont Ridley-Tree

Museum of Art, the opening

night exhibition consisted

of a video installation that

was accompanied by a

student dance performance

choreographed by Doris

Ressl, Coordinator, As-

sistant Professor of Dance,

Department of Theatre and

Dance. Said Jim Keville,

Chair of the Art and Design

Department, “The open-

ing was very successful

and well attended. I hope

that the exhibit inspires our

students to explore other

genres and mediums of art

as witnessed in Continua in

Light.” The Day of the Dead

Altars and El Caballo exhibi-

tions opened on November

1, 2012 in celebration of

the Latin American holiday

“Dia de Los Muertos.”

Many students attended

the celebration in full “ca-

lavera” make-up, a few in

traditional Mexican attire,

with a surprise attendance

of the spitting image of

Frida Kahlo. Day of the

Dead bread and tradi-

tional Mexican candy was

enjoyed outside the gallery,

provided by Lambda Theta

Phi and Hermanas Unidas.

Dr. Miguel Dominguez,

Professor, Modern Lan-

guages and guest curator

of the exhibit, gave a tour of

the exhibition and explained

the significance of the Day

of the Dead altars. —Liz

Moran

University Art Gallery Schedule 2013–2014

Fall 2013

Art and Design Alumni

Exhibition

Student Showcase:

Photography

September 18–October 9

Opening: September 18,

5:30–7:30 p.m.

The exhibit will feature

eighty works of art in

varied media by 25 alumni

ranging from large-scale

ceramic sculpture to digital

photography. The exhibit is

presented by the College of

Arts and Humanities and is

sponsored by the Instruc-

tionally Related Activities

Committee of the Associ-

ated Students Inc.

Space and Substance:

Abstract Paintings

by Craig Antrim and

Ron Linden

October 23–

December 5, 2013

Opening: October 23,

5:30–7:30 p.m.

Both artists will participate

in a Q&A session at 6:00

p.m.

on October 23 in the art

gallery.

An exhibition featuring two

well known South Bay

artists, Craig Antrim and

Ron Linden, who both

work in an abstract mode.

Craig Antrim integrates

new techniques, color and

his love of symbols and

shapes in his luminous

abstract compositions. His

understanding of phi-

losophy, Jungian psychol-

ogy, Joseph Campbell

and Art History, influence

him. Ron Linden’s subtle

abstractions encompass

repeated geometric forms

and submerged lines and

contours; his abstractions

slowly reveal layers of

monochromatic color and

spare imagery. He uses

industrial materials like

resin, graphite, vinyl, gauze

and acrylic on create his

rich surfaces. The exhibit is

presented by the College of

Arts and Humanities and is

sponsored by the Instruc-

tionally Related Activities

Committee of the Associ-

ated Students Inc.

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The Art and Design

Alumni exhibition,

from September 18 to

October 9, 2013, will

feature eighty works

by 25 alumni ranging

from large-scale

ceramic sculpture to

digital photography.

On November 1, 2012,

the Day of the Dead

Altars and El Caballo

exhibition opening

featured students in

full “calavera” make-up

and a few in traditional

Mexican attire, with the

surprise appearance of

a Frida Kahlo look-alike.

Spring 2014

Ron Pippin:

Crossing the Axis,

A Survey 1985–2013

Camilla Taylor:

A Conversation,

Relief Prints,

Monoprints

and Sculpture

January 29–March 19,

2014

Opening: January 29,

5:30–7:30 p.m.

Two solo exhibitions

surveying the work of two

Los Angeles artists who

work in figurative imagery

in widely varying media and

styles ranging from found

objects in Ron Pippin’s

richly embellished assem-

blages to bronze and fabric

in Camilla Taylor’s stylized

sculptures. A survey of

Pippin’s vast and intriguing

work in assemblage will

include his ghostly model

ships, his sculptural animals

recreated out of discarded

skeletons, found objects

and other accouterments,

and other mythic figures

and vehicles. With his

obsession for lyrical detail

and his potent expression

of inner struggles, Pippin’s

archetypal figures and ani-

mals become visual poetry.

Multi-media artist Camilla

Taylor creates prints, illus-

trations, consumer objects,

sculptures and more,

drawing upon her interest

in the figure that she filters

through her unique design

aesthetic and concepts.

Her narrative prints,

multiples, and 3-D objects

center on dark, monochro-

matic figures that have an

anthropomorphic energy

all their own. She also is in-

volved in a dizzying array of

other projects including her

Portrait Project, her Paper

Craft series and her Among

Us series. The exhibitions

are presented by the Col-

lege of Arts and Humani-

ties and are sponsored by

the Instructionally Related

Activities Committee of the

Associated Students Inc.

Annual Student Art and

Design Exhibitions: B.A.

Graduates

Design

April 14–24 2014,

Opening: April 14,

5:30–7:30 p.m.

Studio Art

May 5–15, 2014,

Opening: May 5,

5:30–7:30 p.m.

Exhibitions highlighting

works of art by graduates in

Design and Studio Art.

A two-man show,

Space and Substance:

Abstract Paintings

by Craig Antrim and

Ron Linden, from

October 23 thru

December 5, 2013, and

two solo exhibitions,

Ron Pippin: Cross-

ing the Axis, A Survey

1985–2013, and Camilla

Taylor: A Conversation,

Relief Prints, Mono-

prints and Sculpture,

from January 29 thru

March 19, 2014.

1 2 a r t + d e s i g n d e p a r t m e n t n e w s l e t t e r

Mark Canto ’13,

Puppet Paranoia,

Acrylic, spray paint,

marker on wood.

Molly Puzo ’13,

Icarus,

Resin, yarn, wood,

mixed media.

1 2 a r t + d e s i g n d e p a r t m e n t n e w s l e t t e r

38th International Symposium of Hispanic Literature

March 6–8, 2013California State University, Dominguez HillsLoker Student Union

Homage to Elena Poniatowska

Keelan Countee ’14

poster for the 38th

Annual International

Symposium of Hispanic

Literature.