#VisitingArtistLecture

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Visiting Artist Lecture with Amir Fallah today at 5pm

If you are free this afternoon, it would be well worth your time to hear Los Angeles based artist Amir Fallah talk about his work at 5pm today at the Carpenter Center. Check it out!

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Visiting Artist: Meital Yaniv

We are excited to have Los Angeles based artist Meital Yaniv join us next week to speak about her work on Thursday, November 2nd at 4:30pm. Plan to meet in Rood 51 for her lecture.

After her remarks, she will be available to meet with 2-3 students for studio visits. Please let me know ASAP if you would be interested in meeting with Meital.

Born in 1984, in Tel-Aviv Israel, Meital Yaniv is an interdisciplinary visual artist writer and filmmaker. Yaniv’s practice is built on a visual dialogue that bridges the personal and political conditions at the core of her origin. Yaniv conceives alternative practices for re-experiencing traumatic events through mirroring the other. Together with Eve LaFountain and Ali Kheradyar, Yaniv initiated the conversation series, Feminism Today in May 2013. Her work has been exhibited at Last Projects, Pøst, Photo LA, Cirrus Gallery, Shulamit Gallery, Raid Projects and For Your Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Yaniv holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Images from top:

This poster images comes from a still from a 12 hour durational performance project with Ali Kheradyar called “Monsters In Their Eyes”.

This is an image of a performance called “Home is a circle in the sand.”

“Spectrum for an Untouchable” book by Meital Yaniv

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Gregory Michael Hernandez and Scott Young 

We are excited to welcome our first visiting artists of the semester, artists Gregory Michael Hernandez and Scott Young, who will be discussing their site specific collaborative project “Decalogue Chapel” on view on the Biola campus as part of the Earl and Virginia Green gallery exhibition “Being There: Landscape, Memory, and Monument” last month.

Learn more about the project on the artists website here. 

We will meet in our regular classroom, Rood 51, to hear the lecture the first part of class on Tuesday, October 10th at 4:30pm.

Images from top:

3 images from the Biola University version of the Decalogue Chapel

1 image of documentation from the Joshua Triennial version of the Decalogue Chapel during performance by Scott Young

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Julia Barbee, Thursday May 18th

We are excited to welcome Julia Barbee, a Portland based artist, to join our Culmination and Senior Seminar classes this week to lecture about her work. Please plan to meet in Rood 51 on Thursday May 18th, at 7:30pm to learn more about Julia. 

After the lecture, Julia will be available to meet with students for studio visits. (Please let me or Joe know if you are interested in having a studio visit ASAP!)

Julia Barbee is a Portland-based artist who uses her body and autobiographical experience as a catalyst for her ephemera, film, social media, performance and installation work. She has been included in exhibitions in New York, Tacoma, Los Angeles, and Portland. She is a Biola art department alum.

Julia Barbee currently has work in the exhibition “Artist Mother” at South Bay Contemporary in San Pedro, on view through May 20th. From the show press release: “Many artists are confronted with the challenge, “What do my identities of both artist and mother mean for my practice?” The birth of a child is like an earthquake that shakes up the status quo. Though destructive to existing conditions, earthquakes can bring forth gold trapped in quartz.   Like gold-producing tremors, the emergence of a child can be both a positive and disruptive force upon one’s art practice. The work of artists in Mother Naturalist, Julia Barbee (Portland), Camilla Løhren Chmiel (Norway), Megan Schvaneveldt (Montana) and Calida Rawles (Los Angeles) are a response to this challenge.”

You can follow along with Julia’s practice on her blog as well as her website. 

Julia also co curates spaceness, a celebration of time, space and the unknown through experimental art, media and performance that takes place annually in Seaside, WA.

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Visiting Artist Lectures: Brian Porray, Kyla Hansen, Thursday May 11th

We are excited to welcome Brian Porray and Kyla Hansen, both Los Angeles based artists, to join our Culmination and Senior Seminar classes this week to lecture about their respective work. Please plan to meet in Rood 51 on Thursday May 11th, at 7:30pm to learn more about Brian and Kyla. After the lectures, the artists will be available to meet with students for studio visits. (Please let me or Joe know if you are interested in having a studio visit with either Brian or Kyla ASAP!)

Brian Porray employs elements of Futurism and Op art to create explosive compositions that are part painting, part collage. Applying paint, printed paper, and tape to large-scale canvases and panels, the artist conjures a mash-up of dizzying patterns and colorful forms that often radiate from a central compositional point. He draws from his background in graffiti art to produce architectural landscapes that resemble computer graphics and include spray-painted details. “My paintings aren’t really abstract at all,” Porray says, “but more like psychedelic landscapes filled with broken technological assemblages.”

Brian Porray lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He received his MFA in 2010 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally, most recently: Plant People, GAR Gallery in Galveston TX, NOW-ism: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection in Columbus OH, Everyday Abstraction: Contemporary Abstract Painting, Drake University in Des Moines IA, Dazed and Confused, Eric Firestone Gallery in East Hampton NY. This fall he will be included in Abstracted Visions: Information Mapping; from Mystic Diagrams to Data Visualizations, at Cerritos College Art Gallery in Norwalk CA. His work has been written about in Modern Painters magazine, The Los Angeles Times, ArtPulse magazine, Las Vegas Weekly, New American Paintings, and numerous online blogs. He is a 2010 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA award and was a 2012 fellow at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE. His work is held in many public and private collections including the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation in Los Angeles CA and The Pizzuti Collection in Columbus OH.

Kyla Hansen traces the migration of meaning, mashing up cultural signifiers of place to create absurd objects and physical spaces that employ the hazy nature of belief, memory, and nostalgia. Hansen is interested in the exportability and malleability of experiences both culturally (through objects in movies, music, and media) and personally (through memories that change over time). Her sculptures explore the elusiveness of realness, creating slippery spaces, where the real and fake overlap, and certainty and uncertainty intermingle.

Kyla Hansen is a Los Angeles‐based sculptor who combines found objects, handcrafts, and Hollywood prop-­‐house materials in a scrappy language from desert suburbia. She received her Masters of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University in 2012 and her Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2009. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Greater Los Angeles Area, including Five Car Garage, Western Project, Torrance Art Museum, WEEKEND Space, the University of California, Long Beach, Raid Projects, UCLA New Wight Gallery. She was included in the exhibition Bloody Red Sun Fantastic LA, a survey exhibition of emerging Los Angeles based artists at Piasa Auction House, Paris France. Her work has been recognized in several publications including Modern Painters Magazine’s 24 Artists to Watch in 2013. Hansen lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Kyla and Brian also collaborate on a business project incorporating functional ceramic objects and exotic xerophytic plants. Read more about the unique pairings of ceramics and plants in this bit of press on the project from last year. Check out grogclayco!

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Cindy Rehm, Thursday May 4th

We are excited to welcome Cindy Rehm, a Los Angeles based artist, to join our Culmination and Senior Seminar classes this week to lecture about her work. Please plan to meet in Rood 51 on Thursday May 4th, at 7:30pm to learn more about her work. She will be available to meet with students after her lecture for studio visits. (Please let me or Joe know if you are interested in having a studio visit with Cindy ASAP!)

Cindy Rehm’s interdisciplinary practice moves between the genres of drawing, performance, and video. Rehm’s works focus on symbolic images and performative actions that address the complex relationship between the female body, representation, and myth. Her projects are informed by texts drawn from printed ephemera, literary criticism, and the history of women’s art and writing. These forms depict private and collective experience and allow Rehm to follow multiple threads through aesthetic, feminist, and psychological readings.

Cindy Rehm is a Los Angeles based artist and educator. She is the co-founder of Craftswoman House, which recently launched Temporary Residence, a series of feminist centered roving projects staged in public and private spaces. She is the founder and former director of spare room, a DIY installation space in Baltimore, MD that presented over twenty site-specific projects over a three-year span.  

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Allison Stewart, Thursday April 13th

We are excited to welcome Allison Stewart, a Los Angeles based artist, to join our Culmination and Senior Seminar classes this week to lecture about her work. Please plan to meet in Rood 51 on Thursday April 13th, at 7:30pm to learn more about her work and she will join in our critiques for the day following the lecture.

Allison Stewart grew up in Houston, Texas and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.  She received her MFA in Photography from California State University Long Beach and her BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History from the University of Houston.  Her work explores the construction of American identity through its relics, rituals, and mythologies.  Her work has been shown in gallery and museum spaces internationally, including The Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, The Torrance Art Museum, The New Mexico History Museum, Houston Center for Photography, SITE: Brooklyn, and Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.  In 2015 she was a Houston Center for Photography Fellowship Honorable Mention and in college was awarded the Ellen Battel Fellowship at Yale university. Her work is included in the Rubell Family Collection, The New Mexico History Museum Palace of the Governors Photo Archive, and private collections.

In addition to her photography practice, Allison is also an active member of the Association of Hysteric Curators. 

The Association of Hysteric Curators (AHC) envelops a fluid, evolving, trans-generational group of women who gather to discuss contemporary feminism and the historicity of the term. They seek to explore notions of female protest and the presence of gendered articulations through a non-hierarchical structure based in dialogue and exchange. The AHC has been in the news recently for their involvement in a recent protest in support of Ana Mendieta. Read more about this protest from the LA times here.

Allison is also currently working on a project in collaboration with Los Angeles based artist Mary Anna Pomonis, also a member of AHC. Their collaborative project, Resurrecting Matilda, is featured in this month’s Artillery magazine. Check it out here.

Image above is from Allison Stewart’s website of a project called “Bug Out Bag”.

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Visiting Artist Lecture Schedule for Fall 2017

I would strongly suggest you attend as many of these lectures as you can, a big benefit that you are able to access as members of the CSULB art community. One the best ways I found to help me understood what it meant to have a point of view as a young artist was through hearing other artists talk about their work.

All lectures happen at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the other side of campus, with the first one coming up next week.

Check it out!

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Diedrick Brackens

I’m pleased to announce our first Visiting Artist Lecture of the semester is coming up next week. We are fortunate to have Diedrick Brackens, one of the artists featured in “Text(iles): The Text is a Fabric” currently on view in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery on campus, join us to discuss his work.

The lecture is scheduled for next Thursday, September 8th from 4:30 to 5:30pm in our regular classroom, Rood 51.

Los Angeles-based Diedrick Brackens makes weavings that incorporate techniques drawn from European tapestries, West African weavings, and Southern quilts. Brackens has worked through political protest and personal pain in creating compositions that incorporate joy, pleasure, and imagination.

He has had solo exhibitions at Johansson Projects in Oakland, Conduit Gallery in Dallas, and Pacific Sky Gallery in Eugene. His works have been included in group exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum, SOMArts in San Francisco, and Work Gallery at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, among others.

Learn more about his work on his website: diedrickbrackens.com

Diedrick will be available to meet for studio visits with a few Senior Seminar/ Culmination students after the lecture, so be sure let me know ASAP if you are interested in meeting with him.

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Visiting Artist: Meeson Pae Yang

We are so excited to welcome Meeson Pae Yang, a Los Angeles based artist to lecture about her work coming up on Tuesday, April 24th, at 7:30pm in Rood 51. 

Meeson Pae Yang’s work explores the convergence of science, technology and mythology into a thickly layered stratum of images and objects reflecting systems within nature.  Intersections and parallels in systems become unfolding metaphors and imagery to dissect and explore. Much of the work begins by extracting simple elements and then expanding, repeating, and extending these components into transmuted conglomerations.

The process of the work involves a methodical collecting of artifacts, images, and sounds to synthesize and compress into expansive visual fields. Working in a variety of media from painting, video, sculpture and installation, each medium is a tool to process natural phenomena from the microscopic to the macroscopic. ____________________________

Meeson Pae Yang was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She received her B.F.A from the University of California Los Angeles and an M.F.A from the California State University of Long Beach. Yang’s solo exhibitions and projects have been shown internationally and nationally at Galerie Kashya Hildebrand (Zurich, Switzerland), ArtHK (Hong Kong, China), ARCO (Madrid, Spain), Contemporary Istanbul (Istanbul, Turkey), Peter Millard & Partners (London, UK), Artertain (Seoul, South Korea), LAUNCHLA (Los Angeles, CA), and Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro, US). Her group exhibitions include FuXin Gallery (Shanghai & Miami), Galerie Agentur 162 (Essen, Germany), Eli Klein Fine Art (New York, NY), Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), and Harvard University’s Carpenter Center (Cambridge, MA). Yang is a recipient of the James Irvine Foundation’s California New Visions Award, the Durfee Foundation’s ARC award, the Hans G. and Lordis W. Burkhardt Foundation Award, AHL Foundation Award, and the Beverly Alpay Award. Her work is in the permanent collections of Ace Gallery (Los Angeles), Dallas World Trade Center, as well as many private collections. Yang’s public art projects include Le Meridien Hotel (Zhengzhou, China), Royal Caribbean International Ltd (Papenburg, Germany), Phoenix Biomedical University Campus (Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture), M&D Properties (Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission), LAX International Airport (Department of Cultural Affairs), Ontario Airport (Department of Cultural Affairs), and Mobile Exhibits (Arts Council for Long Beach. Yang has been featured in Sculpture Magazine, Art Ltd Magazine, Vice:The Creators Project, Theme Magazine, New Scientist, the Korea Times, and the Los Angeles Times.

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After her lecture, Meeson will be available to meet with a few artists for studio visits. Please email me ASAP if you are interested in having a studio visit with our Visiting Artist.

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Visiting Artist Lecture with Rodney McMillian on Tuesday @ 5pm

If you have time tomorrow, check out the next Visiting Artist Lecture. (Lectures are held in the Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts.)

Image above:

work by Rodney McMillian

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FYI: Artist Lecture by Barbara McCarren & Jud Fine, Today, 5pm

In conjunction with their exhibition at the University Art Museum here on campus that opening this weekend, artists Barbarab McCarren and Jud Fine will be presenting a lecture on their work today at the Carpenter Center.

More details about the exhibition, from the press release:

“Jud Fine and Barbara McCarren are the first to say they are “poles apart” in their creative process. Fine begins with “clarity” and arrives at “complexity” while McCarren begins with “complexity” and arrives at “clarity.” It is by no means a natural or easy effort for this artistic dyad to work from opposite poles. Their choice of subject matter inevitably parallels the significant role that forces of opposition play in the process of creation.

Sixteen collaborative artworks by McCarren/Fine will be on view in AND/OR. In their long-running collaborative endeavor, Continental Edge Dwellers, McCarren/Fine address land (the beach), water (the sea), and the line of division (the coastal shore). To dwell on the continental edge is to occupy some of the most exclusive and expensive space on the planet, as well as the most fragile and threatened. Unique conditions arise at the edge to affect individuals living there, but also the entire world. For both artists, the impenetrability of the sea versus the intimacy and comfort of a land-based society speaks metaphorically to human constraint and provides the two with an infinite field for imaginative expanse. Two works from their Currency series will be re-created for the first time in Southern California. In these works, the artists consider global conflicts and economic intrigues through the mandala configurations of facsimile currencies. “

Check it out, if you can. I’m sure it will be inspiring....

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Crisis Averted! 

The unexpected cancellation of Mark Dutcher’s Visiting Artist Lecture last week was pretty heartbreaking. However, there is good news. 

The lecture has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 18th at 3:20 in Rood 51!

Be there, because, you know, it could change your life.