Chapman Represented at Olympic Games

Yasmine Say, the branding specialist who Chapman Art 393 Sustainable Design Students worked with while in London on their study abroad course, shows off her Chapman spirit during the Olympics waving one of the banners given to her as a gift. She enjoyed her experience creating the aesthetic for the games and wrote to the department in an email with this photo. Ms. Say will be joining us as a visiting Professor in Spring 2013 and we're excited for her arrival and can't wait to hear all of her highlights!

Professors Hebron and Berens Awarded Mid-Career Fellowships

Professor Micol Hebron and Professor Stephen Berens were both awarded the prestigious California Community Foundation Getty Fellowship for mid-career artists for 2012. Ten mid-career and ten emerging artist fellowships were awarded (out of 388 applicants) and Chapman University is the only university represented by two of its faculty.

Professor Hebron was awarded a fellowship in support of her mixed-media work, performance art, collaborative projects, and interdisciplinary art, writing, and curatorial career. www.micolhebron.com 

Professor Berens was awarded a fellowship in support of his broad ranging photographic practice that includes 15 bodies of work since 2000 and his work on the art journal X-TRA, which he co-founded. http://www.stephenberens.com

Examples of artworks, artist statements and the biographies of the 2012 fellows are available online in the CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists virtual art gallery (http://my.calfund.org/artist-gallery/gallery/year-2012/).

 “The CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists is unique to Los Angeles, supporting local emerging and mid-career artists in advancing to the next level of professional development and ensuring a long-term, sustainable career in the arts in Los Angeles.

CCF fellows engage with the public, effect change through their art and add to the culture and diversity of L.A.  County.  They also contribute to the foundation’s mission of strengthening communities and building a better future for L.A.” California Community Foundation

Giant Leaps for Mankind

 























Assistant Professor, Dr. Justin Walsh will be giving a talk at 8:00pm on Thursday, August 9, at Machine Project, the space in Echo Park which is co-managed by Mark Allen (who did the studio review last year). It’s called “’Giant Leaps for Mankind’ and the Future of the Past,” and perhaps it’s timely given the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars last night.

Here’s a link to the talk: http://machineproject.com/archive/events/2012/08/09/giant-leaps-for-mankind-and-the-future-of-the-past/

Alumni Design Work

Graphic Design alumni, Simon Blockley '11 and Alison Connors '12, recently created some interesting work. Blockley designed a Dynastu Edition packaging for NBA2K13 which will be available to the public on October 2 and Connors did the artwork for O'Neil's "Totally" bag which can be purchased at numerous stores online.

Art Student Exhibition: Warped Spaces

Warped Spaces, August 13, 2012, is a solo exhibition of Julie Russo in the second level studio room of the Guggenheim Gallery that discusses how light, space, and time define our perception of reality. Warped Spaces will be open to the public for one night at a reception from 5:30pm-7:00pm.

Artist and student, Julie Russo works with lasers, mirrors, and fog to create the subjects for her series of photographs. The eight 30 by 45 inch prints display a versatile collection of angles, closeups, and movement around a precisely set-up, light sculpture that she photographed in the dark. Her photographs depict light as a physical object in space and how time and perspective can affect the way it is viewed. Warped Space questions Euclidean geometry, Newton’s laws of physics, and Einstein’s theory of relativity, but draws inspirations from materials used in LIGO, an instrument that detects ripples in space-time using a laser interferometer. 

Julie Russo, an Orange County-based artist, is a current junior at Chapman University, studying to earn her BFA in Art with a minor in advertising. After studying the intersection of art and science as a freshman and later becoming a teacher’s assistant for Professor Lia Halloran in this subject, Russo proposed to continue her investigation. Her written research proposal had her chosen from nearly fifty applicants to participate in Chapman University’s first official Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, where she spent ten weeks studying how art and science are intertwined with direction led by mentor Lia Halloran. Russo also received a creative grant from Chapman University to fund her project. Warped Spaces is the final product of Julie Russo’s culminated research and is her first solo display of her work.

For more information about the research project, artistic inspirations, and ten week project, check out her blog at surfwarpedspace.blogspot.com