Professors Berens & Hebron Help Celebrate X-TRA's 15th year

The art journal X-TRA, co-founded by Professor Stephen Berens, is celebrating its 15th year with 15 days of events at ForYourArt in Los Angeles http://x-traonline.org/x-tras-15-years-in-15-days/.

On Monday, October 1, Stephen Berens presents The Los Angeles Times and Me. A live performance based on the 1998 video of the same name. The video script is comprised of a series of text drawings that compare word usage between the articles Stephen Berens wrote for X-TRA in 1997 and the articles written about art by the four art critics of the Los Angeles Times during the same period.

On Tuesday, October 9,  Micol Hebron presents 1 Image 1 Minute, a live event in which invited participants select a significant photograph that they discuss for 1 minute. The inspiration for the 1 Image 1 Minute column in X-TRA was a similar project produced by Belgian director Agnès Varda (and later written about by Rosalind Krauss) for French television in 1983. In this live version for X-TRA’s 15th anniversary celebration, 30 Angelenos from various facets of the art world discuss an image they find interesting, inspiring, or thought-provoking.

BFA Studio Art Students at Camp Kamaji for Girls

Cassandra Kottman, BFA Studio Art '12, and Robbie Kociela, BFA Studio Art '13, spent their summer at Camp Kamaji for girls in Minnesota. Some of the great projects they got to work on with the girls were Ceramic gnomes, ceramic cupcakes, tin foil lanterns, action paintings, tape paintings, and animal plaster sculptures/monster sculptures

Painting on Edge II

Professor, David Lee, is featuring his work in the exhibit, Painting on Edge II, at the Den Contemporary. The exhibit will be open up until October 19, 2012. If you're interested in going to the opening reception it is tonight from 5-8pm.

Painting on Edge II is an expanded survey of new trends in Hard Edge Painting. Unlike the ideologically bound practices of modernism and postmodernism, the work in Painting on Edge shows a new openness towards the fabulation of Hard Edge painting without a readily identifiable ethos. This is perhaps best represented by the artists in this show that openly mix the gestural and the graphic, patterns and process, and systems and topology. While all of the works in this show attempt to rework the geometric tradition in one way or another, there is nothing dogmatic or orthodox about their approach.


Feel free to go the website: dencontemporaryart.com

Professor's Installation Featured in Cincinnati Enquirer and International Art Daily

Professor Stephen Berens' installation, along with Sol LeWitt's and Elizabeth Bryant's exhibitions at the Carl Solway Gallery were featured in the Cincinnati Enquirer and the international Art Daily.
See the article here: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=57672#.UFdta0T5AuF

Award Winning Designer Mentors Graphic Design Seniors

For the first time this year, senior Graphic Design majors and minors have the amazing and unique opportunity to get professional feedback and mentoring from award winning designer, Ty Mattson. BFA Graphic Design Alumnae, Jenn Peters '10, works with Mattson Creative and because of this, Mattson has since been very impressed with Chapman Graphic Design students and has been kind enough to offer his services.

Professor's Active Involvement in the Art World for Fall 2012

Professor Micol Hebron has numerous upcoming activities in the art world that she is involved in this Fall:

Hebron is one of the curators of "Curatorial Exchange" at Irvine Fine Art Center , which opens on September 7.

http://www.cityofirvine.org/cityhall/cs/finearts/exhibitions/current_exhibitions/default.asp

She also has artwork in "Fix it Up Too", a benefit exhibition for SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound) that will take place at Blum and Poe Gallery in Culver City on September 15.

http://www.sassas.org/

Hebron is the co-founder and member of the Fontbron Academy, which will be presenting it's third public lecture at MOCA on September 20 at 7pm.

https://www.facebook.com/FontbronAcademy?ref=hl

On October 4, she will be one of several hosts at the MAK Center for a public dialogue called "Artists and Institutions: Common Ground."

http://www.makcenter.org/MAK_Exhibitions_Upcoming.php#

In addition to curating, co-founding, hosting, and exhibiting her art, she is helping promote and build programming for the Berlin Collective LA faction which strives to connect and promote artists and artist activities in different cities that involve great people, opportunities, and non-commercial collaborative projects.

http://berlincollective.de/

Professor's Installation in Cincinnati Exhibit

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A new installation by Professor Stephen Berens opens along with two other interconnected exhibitions at the Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati on September 7 and remains up through December 22, 2012. Professor Berens’ Thinking of Pinturicchio (While Looking Out Sol LeWitt’s Windows) will run concurrently with Sol LeWitt: Editions and Structures, 1970-2005 and Elizabeth Bryant’s Sol LeWitt Studio Still Lifes.

Professor Berens’ installation was designed specifically for the Carl Solway Gallery. This project was shot while in residence at Sol LeWitt’s studio in Spoleto, Italy, during June of 2010. The project is a result of thinking about how both LeWitt and Pinturicchio, though working 500 years apart, had a number of concerns in common including the incorporation of the architectural space itself into the artwork. Over 200 images in this installation are printed on adhesive matte vinyl panels mounted directly on the walls.

Graphic Design Student's New Business: Limitless Lasers

Graphic Design student, Maneesh Sidhu '15, recently started a business with her older sister called Limitless Lasers. The company focuses on cutting, etching, and engraving and their biggest markets currently are custom industrial packaging, business cards, and custom iPhone cases. 

To see their website go to: Limitlesslasers.com

Student Awarded Creative Scholarship

Current BFA Art senior, Kellan Shanahan, was recently awarded the Paul Frizler Memorial Scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. The scholarship recognizes a creative scholar who has excelled in one (or more) of the disciplines of art, communication studies, dance, english, or theatre. Kellan was given the award based on his success in both academic and creative arenas, and for his interdisciplinary approach to art and anthropology. His practice as a sculptor addresses issues of cultural identity and mythologies latent in Western figurative sculpture. Kellan's senior exhibition of this work will be held next Spring.

A Student's Trip to Alaska

Graphic Design major, Sasha Netchaev '15, had the opportunity to travel to Alaska this summer. There she got to not only walk on a glacier and dog sled, but take some incredible photos of her trip as well!

Freshman and Transfer Welcome Reception

On August 21, The Art Department welcomed Freshman and Transfers to the program. The evening included introductions to faculty and fellow students, department tours, kiln fired pizza, and an insight into the department as a whole.

Alumnae at Seattle Television Station

BFA in GD major Madeleine Pisaneschi '10 is now part of the on air graphics team at the public television station KCTS 9 in Seattle, WA. Feel free to check out the website here: KCTS9.org.

Interview with Professor David Lee

Adjunct Professor and Collection Manager of Escalette Permanent Collection of Art, David Lee, had an interview with Colliding Worlds this past August. Check out the video on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFD10xA710c&feature=share&fb_source=message