some gallery pics

There are many fantastic works in the student gallery this residency.
Here are just a few...
Scott Cantrell
Dennis Hart
Susan Holt
Kate Renner
Tariq Gibran
Some other residency pics...

Residency Lectures

Guest artist (and CalArts professor) Shirley Tse, lectured about her body of work and talked about her studio practices and creative processes. It was a profoundly interesting lecture, as Shirley unraveled the deep impact and connection between manufactured materials, globalization, and foreign exchanges. Here is a link to Shirley's website. http://shirleytse.net/

Lecture by guest artist, Mary Lum. Mary talked about her creative processes, involving collecting various things, shooting photos which reveal relationships, and arranging. Here is a link to some of Mary's work. http://www.frederieketaylorgallery.com/2009Jan.html

A fascinating lecture by our artist-in-residence, Leslie Hewitt. Leslie spoke about her work with 3rd cinema, Project Rowhouse, and some of her photographic works, such as her Riffs series. Here is a Whitney Biennial 2008 link showing some of her work. http://www.whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_hewitt

Faculty Contemporary Art Historian and Pomona State (CA) professor, Marie Shurkus lectured on the topics of Relational Aesthetics and Affective Labor. Truly fascinating. This lecture was very profound for me and for that reason. I will be shifting away from feminist studies this semester and toward relational aesthetics and affect. I am interested in exploring how the role of the viewer in art occurs as both performer and audience to produce affect. By doing so, the viewer's body becomes part of the form of the work. To investigate this further I will be extensively studying a specific work by Felix Gonzales-Torres. More to come on this topic... no doubt.

Faculty, artist and CalArts professor, Ashley Hunt walked us through his current video project. It is a project which explores and gives voice to the tragic loss of forgotten prisoners during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. As the video progresses, it becomes apparent that the prisoners were not the only ones forgotten...
Ashley narrated the video in person while sitting at a desk in the front of the room. This "in room" narration was very powerful and added to the meaning of the work. Here is Ashley's website. http://www.ashleyhuntwork.net/

Faculty Art Historian and International School of Photography professor (NY), David Deitcher, lectured on artist/educator Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Here is a Crown Point link to check out more. http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/rollins Here is Tim Rollins website link. http://www.diacenter.org/kos/

opening reception

Last night was the opening reception of the gallery spaces here at the residency. There are so many intriguing works to see and interact with. This is my first time exhibiting work which falls under the umbrella term of "installation". The video projection is difficult to see in the photograph. It is a projection of combined three sequences and web-appropriated images which run on a loop.
More pics of other works from the gallery coming soon....