Archive for September, 2016

Harry Dodge will be speaking at the Carpenter Center on Tuesday, October 4th at 5pm. Mr. Dodge is an American sculptor, performer, video artist, and writer, whose interdisciplinary practice is characterized by its explorations of relation, materiality, the unnamable with a special focus on continuum and the “inbetween.” His solo and collaborative work has been exhibited at many venues nationally and internationally.

CSULB Painting Professor Fran Siegel has a solo exhibition entitled Reconstruction at the ACME Gallery in Los Angeles. The show runs from September 17 through October 22, 2016. Prof. Siegel continues her investigations of place through the activity of drawing on a massive scale. Shifting perspectives generate a sense of motion and time, and multiple viewpoints are pieced together by combining a cyanotype photographic process with layered collage and drawing. Through these works, she explores the evolution of settlement, migration, and exodus within the borders of the Los Angeles metropolis, and how this constant shuffling creates geographical space. Congratulations Professor Siegel!

Anna Sew-Hoy will be speaking at the Carpenter Center on Tuesday, September 27th at 5pm. Ms. Sew Hoy was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2008.  Solo presentations of Sew Hoy’s work have been mounted in galleries and numerous museums across the country. Her work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

Barbara McCarren and Jud Fine will be speaking at the Carpenter Center on Tuesday, September 13th, at 5pm. The artistic duo will be having an exhibition at the UAM entitled McCarren/Fine: And/Or which will run from September 10 through December 11, 2016.

CSULB Art History lecturer Dr. Julia Friedman curated an exhibition of artist Forrest Solis at Jamie Brooks Fine Art. The exhibition entitled Sleepers Redux is based upon a Gustav Courbet painting entitled “The Sleepers”, with Solis recreating the masterpiece as an allegory between art practice and art history. The exhibition will run from September 9 through October 23, 2016.

Gala Porras-Kim will be speaking at the Carpenter Center on Tuesday, September 6th, at 5pm. Ms. Porras-Kim is interested in how cultural objects and artifacts acquire meaning and value. She was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1984 and works primarily with drawing and sculpture. Porras-Kim’s academic background includes an MFA in art from California Institute of the Arts, as well as a BA in art and Latin American studies and an MA in Latin American studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.