Pictured: Melanie Roschko, Space Available & Robin Tripaldi, Bifurcate

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Artist talk featuring Melanie Roschko & Robin Tripaldi about their work in Synesthesia.

Pictured: Robin Tripaldi, Deja Blue, quad Encaustic, 12 x 48in

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Encaustic demonstration with Robin Tripaldi in Synesthesia.

Pictured: Carlos Luna James, ASTROLOGICAL DEITIES

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A roundtable discussion exploring the themes of the exhibition and artists practice. Featuring Carlos Luna James, Ismael de Anda III, and Eugene Ahn.

Pictured: Jennie E. Park

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A roundtable discussion exploring the themes of the exhibition and artists practice. Featuring Chenhung Chen, Jennie E. Park, and Ibuki Kuramochi

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Introduction by video artists Leslie Foster, Jody Zellen, Karen Hochman Brown, and Liberty Worth with a post-screening talkback.

Pictured: Joseph Carrillo, The Arcade Fantasy, Music for synthesizers, guitar, bass, drums, and orchestra – 4 min, 40 sec loop, scrylic on wood board, with decorated headphones and griffin claw holders

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A short artist talk followed by a presentation of original compositions. Featuring Joseph Carrillo.

Pictured: Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend, Grid Poem (Where) (left) & Carol Shaw Sutton, Heart Open (right)

Free artist talk presented as part of the Creative Community Gatherings series.

Two exceptional artists with diverse practices in conversation regarding their work and the unusual methods they utilize to make art. Carol Shaw Sutton is a fiber sculpture artist and Susan Stinemuehlen-Amend a glass artist, both have internationally reputations for their creative vision and mastery of diverse materials. Carol gathers natural materials to transform into sculptural work, she weaves and composes with fiber, wood, feathers and other natural forms while Susan utilizes glass to reveal and make invisible the compositions that she creates with light and ink.

Carol Shaw Sutton‘s work often consists of poetically narrative objects and installations utilizing both ancient and modern processes that require a labor-intensive commitment with the goal of simultaneously valuing and transcending the concept of time. These address the deep human concern for harmony and release through our bodies into nature and the mysterious beyond.

“I’ve been working with fiber since the age of five in a family where there was very little textile tradition, therefore no oversight or rules. This gave me immense freedom to find my own way, as I learned from everything I saw, including our gardener as he, magically tied the loose cut vines with nothing but themselves! Since art school where I learned the usual array of mediums, I greedily took every course in what was then pejoratively called primitive or non-western art history. I saw indigenous cultures from all over the world use EVERYTHING growing around them to make wildly beautiful, mythic and evocative works. To this day, fiber with all its processes, materials and history has filled me with a deeply humble respect and has provided me a language to embody a coherent self as part of nature. My current work, shown here, is loosely titled Staying Alive, referring to my own personal and our collective challenges during this time in America, in the world and in our aging bodies. I’ve found solace and meaning in the simple act of stitching, wrapping, looping, or weaving with materials that have a life span, as do we. While doing this work, I watch my brain struggle, investigate, negotiate and then loosen while working towards moments of discovery and joy.”   – Carol Shaw Sutton

Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend was trained as a painter, she approach glass through that lens. Conceptually, she think as a surrealist, combining unlikely images to create a new narrative.

No matter how many permutations her work has taken, there are still elements of the 12th Century techniques of stained glass. After completing countless commissions she pulled away from “good design” and let the wash of the unconscious lead her choices of glass and imagery.

Pictured: Susan Amorde, Wounded Baggage I

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Join us for a discussion with Tension/Form artists Bob Privitt and Susan Amorde.

Bob Privitt, Master of Fine Arts, Indiana University, taught art at the college and university level for 40 years. Now retired from Pepperdine University after 25 years, he served there most recently as Artist-in-Residence. Privitt’s works have been chosen by jury for inclusion in over 100 national and regional exhibitions and received awards in over one-third of them.

Susan Amorde is a Los Angeles-based sculptor and artist, she has a BFA from Long Beach State University, CA. She delights in combining materials and media in new ways, such as bronze, found objects and vintage suitcases. Susan finds inspirations from strong women and champions environmental awareness and social justice. She has been exhibiting her works in local and national exhibitions since 2000 at such venues as Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA; The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA; Mesa College, San Diego, CA; and Pink Dog Gallery, Ashville, NC.

Pictured: Anne Bedrick, Standing Tall

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Join us for a discussion with Tension/Form artist Anne Bedrick.

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Artist Talk with the artists featured in E Pluribus Unum: Richard William Barnett, Daggi Wallace, and Kerstin Zilm. Artists will talk about the individual and collaborative process of preparing for this exhibition and discuss their work, its origination and message.

Image from Phoenix Family Performing Art Collaborative

Opening celebration for the Echoes of Nature: Works by Contemporary Chinese Artists exhibition.

Opening celebration for the Echoes of Nature: Works by Contemporary Chinese Artists exhibition.
Saturday, June 4th from 11am–8pm

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Dr. Haiqiong-Deng
Demo: Traditional Folk Instruments
Languages: English and Mandarin
June 6th @ 6:30pm

Dr. Haiqiong Deng is the director of Chinese Music Ensemble at Florida State University. She is an Award-winning zheng master and has given lectures and performances throughout North America and China for audiences of all ages.

Dr. Haiqiong Deng is a master player of the 21-string Chinese guzheng and a veteran practitioner of the 7-string guqin culture. Dr. Deng has also expanded her musical expressions through the exploration of diverse world music traditions. Her collaboration with master Indian sitarist, Nalini Vinayak, led to the 2011 release of the album—Stringing Echoes: Classical Indian Music by Sitar and Chinese Zheng—a CD that, for the first time in history, combined Chinese zheng, Indian sitar, and tabla on classical Indian Music. Her world music-influenced compositions include Layered Fantasy: for Indonesian Gamelan and Chinese Zheng (2014); Kora: for Intercultural Band Omnimusica (2018); and Guru (2020).

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Pictured: Nan Liu, Orchids, Ink and Color on Xuan Paper, 22×18″, 2011

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Dr. Nan Liu 刘楠
Demo I: Traditional Chinese ink painting: flowers, birds, and landscapes (Shanshui hua, 山水画)
Talk: Traditional Chinese ink painting
Languages: English and Mandarin
June 8th @ 6:30pm

Dr. Nan Liu is the associate art professor at Florida A&M University. Nan was born and raised in China, where he graduated from Nan Kai University (Beijin) with a B.F.A. and Capital Norman University (Bijing) with an M.A. in Art Education. He has lived in Florida for nearly 20 years and in that time he has completed both a master of fine art degree in painting and a Ph.D. in art education at Florida State University.

Nan has explored various art forms in recent years, including drawing, watercolor, tempera, and oil painting and his subjects range from figures to landscapes. His artworks have been exhibited across the United States among public institutions, museums, and galleries. Many of his paintings and drawings are in private collections and his work has been lauded regionally and nationally.

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Pictured: Nan Liu, www.liunanart.com

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Dr. Nan Liu 刘楠
Demo II: Chinese calligraphy
Talk: Chinese calligraphy
Languages: English and Mandarin
June 9th @ 6:30pm

Dr. Nan Liu is the associate art professor at Florida A&M University. Nan was born and raised in China, where he graduated from Nan Kai University (Beijin) with a B.F.A. and Capital Norman University (Bijing) with an M.A. in Art Education. He has lived in Florida for nearly 20 years and in that time he has completed both a master of fine art degree in painting and a Ph.D. in art education at Florida State University.

Nan has explored various art forms in recent years, including drawing, watercolor, tempera, and oil painting and his subjects range from figures to landscapes. His artworks have been exhibited across the United States among public institutions, museums, and galleries. Many of his paintings and drawings are in private collections and his work has been lauded regionally and nationally.

www.liunanart.com

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Dr. Kuiyi Shen 沈揆一 from University of California San Diego

Lecture: Modern Chinese Art History (part I)

Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM, June 11, 2022

Languages: English and Mandarin

Kuiyi Shen is Professor of Asian Art History, Theory, and Criticism, Vice Chair and Director of Ph.D. Program. His teaching and writing has focus on Chinese and Japanese art with an emphasis on modern and contemporary Chinese art and Sino-Japanese art exchanges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He received a BA in fine arts from the Shanghai Normal University and an MA and PhD in art history from the Ohio State University. Prior to his 1989 relocation to the United States, Kuiyi Shen served as the director of the art book department at the Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House. Shen taught at Ohio University, State University of New York at Buffalo, Rice University, and University of Oregon before joining the UCSD faculty. [ Continue reading ]

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Dr. Julia Frances Andrews 安雅兰 from The Ohio State University

Lecture: Modern Chinese Art History (part II)

Time: 2:00PM-3:00PM, June 11, 2022

Languages: English and Mandarin

Julia F. Andrews, a specialist in Chinese art, was the first American art historian to conduct dissertation research in China after formal establishment of US-China relations in 1979. Her first book, Painters and Politics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979 (University of California Press,1994), which she wrote during her early years at Ohio State, won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) for the best book of the year on modern China. Her more recent book, Art of Modern China (co-authored with Kuiyi Shen), published by the University of California Press, 2012, received the biennial Humanities Book Prize of the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in 2013. [ Continue reading ]

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Dr. Hui-shu Lee 李慧漱 from University of California Los Angeles

Lecture: Art of the Brush: Looking at Chinese Painting

Time: 1:00PM-2:00PM, June 18th, 2022

Languages: English and Mandarin

Chinese art historian Dr. Hui-shu Lee will give a lecture on pre-twentieth-century Chinese art history. She is a professor at University of California, Los Angeles.

Hui-shu Lee received her doctorate degree from Yale University in 1994 after first studying at National Taiwan University and working in the National Palace Museum. Her field of specialization is Chinese painting and visual culture in the pre-modern era, with a particular focus on gender issues. She also works extensively on representations of place, cultural mapping, and garden culture. Among her publications are Exquisite Moments: West Lake & Southern Song Art (New York: China Institute, 2001) and Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010). She is currently working on two book projects: transference of gender persona in Chinese painting and representations of West Lake in visual culture of the post-Song era. [ Continue reading… ]

Pictured: Victor Wang, The Hero – Chinese Artist Qi Baishi, 2016, charcoal and wash on canvas, 72″x48″

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Victor Wang 维克托·王
Demo: Charcoal Wash Technique in Figurative Painting
Talk: Contemporary oil painting: The Heroes: Chinese Artist Qi Baishi
Languages: English and Mandarin
June 18th at 3 pm to 6 pm

Victor Wang will give a brief overview of his approach to figurative painting, describing his selection of subject and his handling of paint before he demonstrates his use of the traditional charcoal wash technique.

Victor Wang grew up in Northern China and graduated BFA from The Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, one of three top art institutes in China. After graduation he taught there for four and a half years and was sent to The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a visiting scholar.

He earned his MFA in Fontbonne University. He currently lives in St. Louis, where he teaches painting, drawing and graduate critique classes as a full professor at Fontbonne University. He has exhibited widely across the country and internationally and has won various awards for excellence, including awards for both painting and art instruction.

Victor Wang has been shown nationally and internationally. The figures in his paintings serve as vehicles to convey the human experience, representing the emotional tension and psychological drama of life’s turning points. The images portrayed in his art are provoked by the childhood memories and past experiences that represent the memories of his life.

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Pictured: Yu Ji, From Eldridge Streets, charcoal & conte, 42” X 58”, 2012

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Yu Ji 计宇

Yu Ji, also known as Ji Hongyu had his undergraduate study in drawing and painting at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China (1977-81). He came to the United States in 1983 and studied at State University of New York College at New Paltz, where he earned his MFA degrees in painting/drawing (1986) and in printmaking (1989). As a scholarship recipient, he participated in the La Napoule Art Foundation’s figurative painting workshops in France (1985) and at University of New Hampshire (1986). He was also awarded the Charles H. Revson fellowship for his post-graduate study at New York Studio School (1986-87).

Having been involved in studio teaching, Yu Ji’s university tenure includes teaching positions at the Senior High School of Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing (1981-83), Southern Utah University (1989-94) and Eastern Illinois University (1994-99). Currently he is teaching life drawing and painting at California State University, Long Beach (1999-Present). In addition to an active participation in visiting artist programs to many art schools across the country, he has traveled to China during recent years as a visiting artist to a series of fine art institutes that includes Guangzhou, Tianjin, Hubei Academies of Fine Arts, Hebei Normal University, Northeast Normal University, and Beijing Collage of Clothing and Fashion Design. He has also helped establish an exchange program between California State University in Long Beach and China’s fine art academies in Guangzhou and Tianjin.

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A classical figurative draftswoman and art historian, Dr. Aihua is originally from Beijing, China. She began her art training at an early age, and then pursued a professional education at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. After this she immigrated to the United States, and studied art at Cal Lutheran University and classical figurative sculpture at Academy of Art University, San Francisco. She holds a Ph.D. in art history and visual culture from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. [ Learn more ]

Pictured: Mian Situ, Dream of Butterfly, 46″ x 36″, 2021

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Mian Situ 司徒绵
Demo: figurative painting- a traditional lady who dresses up in a traditional costume
Talk: The academic approach to history painting – from subject, to models….. to finish!
Languages: English and Mandarin
July 23rd from 3 pm to 6pm

Mian Situ will give a brief overview of the academic approach to painting figures from different eras before demonstrating his technique. This talk and demonstration will take place in the gallery.

Born in Southern China, Mian Situ received his formal art training in his native homeland of Guangdong, formerly Canton. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Guangzhou Institute of Fine Art, and subsequently earned a Masters in Fine Art. Mian’s paintings reflect his upbringing in the rural countryside of his native China. His deep-toned impressionistic paintings of the backcountry often focus on people going about their daily lives in their small villages and farming communities.

Mian’s artistic versatility is also evident in his exquisite portraiture, as well as his more recent works inspired by western historical themes and American landscapes. Since 1995, he has been recognized with many national art awards. During the 2003 Masters of the American West show at the Gene Autry Museum, he was honored with three major awards: the Thomas Moran Memorial Award (in recognition of exceptional artistic merit), Artists’ Choice Award and Patrons’ Choice Award. He has also won the Award for Excellence for Master Signature Members for his painting, “Helpful Hand”.

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Pictured: Carlos Grasso in the Studio

Artist Talk with Carlos Grasso. Grasso will discuss his work in the exhibition COLORSPACE.

Pictured: Carlos Grasso, Center of Colorspace Room

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Visual Perception of Art

Art is in the eyes of the beholder. Great painters learned their craft through experience, with little knowledge of visual perception. Today we understand why Mona Lisa’s smile seems so elusive, why Matisse’s wild color palette “works”, and why Picasso didn’t need to paint within the lines. Jerry Clifford will discuss visual perception – showing how the eye and brain form visual images. Through classical and modern artwork, we will get a new look at some familiar masterpieces. We will look especially at works by Carlos Grasso from the Gallery’s current Colorspace exhibit. Join us for a fascinating and fun look into the world and science of visual arts.

Jerry Clifford, Ph.D.

Jerry spent over 40 years as a scientist and educator after receiving a PhD in Nuclear Physics at Iowa State University. As an Air Force officer, he taught physics at the Air Force Academy, worked on nuclear weapons programs, studied particle beams for Reagan’s Star Wars, and worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Jerry has taught physics and astronomy at CSU Channel Islands from 2004 to today, where he still teaches adult learners in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Talk with Jo Lauria, juror for Collectors Choice 2021. Watch the recording of the talk here.

Jo Lauria is a Los Angeles-based curator, author, and educator who received her curatorial training at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She is a specialist in the fields of craft, design, and decorative arts.

Lauria is the organizer of many museum-based surveys and national touring exhibitions and has authored more than sixteen major publications in her field. She received the 2016 American Ceramic Circle Book Award for Ralph Bacerra: Exquisite Beauty, and the Silver Muse Award from the American Association of Museums for the documentary Color and Fire (2000).

Currently, Lauria is the Adjunct Curator of the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, CA) and is completing a monograph on modernist architect William F. Cody with coauthors Catherine Cody and Dr. Don Choi (Monacelli Press, June 2021).

Pictured: Christine Huhn, Corral at Sunset

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Mojave: Vistas
June 5, 2021 at 1 pm on Zoom
Panel Discussion to launch the Mojave exhibition.

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Featuring: Mollie Doctrow (printmaker), Britney Penouilh (Mixed Media), Allanah Vokes (Digtial Media), Natalie Larsen (Drawing) and Christine Huhn (Photography).

This panel discussion will explore the many different ways that artists have approached this magnificent desert as a source of inspiration and a journey of creative discovery. The panel features a diverse range of artists whose techniques cover traditional methods of making art such as woodcut and drawing to the modern approaches of digital and mixed media artists.

Pictured: Gabriel Thorburn, Desert Sunset

Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 1pm on Zoom

Featuring: Gabriel Thorburn and Bob Killen

This talk features two artists who have spent many years working in the blistering heat of the desert. Thorburn and Killen have been instrumental in the development of creative opportunities for artists to be resident in the Mojave National Preserve, over the years they have enable many artists to make a temporary home in the desert.

What has the impact of the residency been on the Preserve and how they see the desert and what has the impact of the desert been on these artists? Gabe and Bob will reflect upon their own creative practice and the impact of sharing their passion for the desert with dozens if not hundreds of artists. They will pick highlights from the years and if possible, show the last impact of the residency on those artists work.

Image: Stan Shebs

Preserving the Mojave Preserve: Its Purpose, What Its for, and the Real and Potential Disturbances That Could Threaten It

Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 1pm on Zoom

Join Ranger Phillip Gomez and explore the wondrous beauty and challenges or threats that are impacting the Preserve — most significantly, climate change, which poses the greatest menace to its continued existence.

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Pictured: Dani Dodge, Untitled 1

The Digital Desert
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2021 at 1pm
Panel Discussion for the Mojave exhibition

Featuring: Dani Dodge, Allanah Vokes, Kristine Paiz

This talk will discuss the ways that new and mixed media artists explore the desert landscape. The desert is a powerful source of inspiration for artists of all media, however, it is only through digital and mixed media artworks that the full richness of the environment can be captured and rendered into an artwork. The panel will talk about their own creative response to the desert and the tools that they use to make their work.

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Mojave

June 5th – July 31st, 2021

Curated by Mollie Doctrow and Gabriel Thorburn

Featuring artists who have participated in the The Mojave National Preserve Artists- in-Residence program, the exhibition depicts a variety of interpretations of the magnificent landscape, history, culture, ecology, and geology of the Mojave National Preserve.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Perceive Me Talk with Kristine Schomaker

Artist, curator and muse for the Perceive Me exhibition, Kristine Schomaker, will talk about her inspiration for the project and the journey it has taken her on. She created a series of photographers of herself, naked in her shower, this simple creative act set in motion a project which would engage over 80 artists in creating an outstanding body of work that reflects upon beauty and worth, and asks questions of where artists choose to turn their gaze and what artists see when they look for beauty in the human form.

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Pictured: Jesse Standlea, “Stretch, Weight, Relaxed, Proud, Twisted”

Title: Sculpture Panel Discussion
Date: August 28th
Time: 1 pm
Featuring: Debbie Korbel, Susan Amorde, and Jesse Standlea

This panel discussion will feature Debbie Korbel, Susan Amorde and Jess Standlea in a conversation about creating three-dimensional work within the Perceive Me Exhibition. As an artform sculpture is unique in its use of mass and space, it is to be viewed from all sides, and it entices audiences to touch the surface of the work to feel it’s texture and solidity.

Pictured: Janet Milhomme, “Naissance d’une Femme”

Title: Making / Giving
Date: September 18th
Time: 1 pm
Location: ONLINE
Featuring: Daggi Wallace, Nurit Avesar, and Janet Milhomme

This talk will consider the parallels between making art and the giving of gifts. Each of the artists in the Perceive Me Exhibition created work as an act of generosity, responding to Kristine Schomaker’s ask for work and celebrating her bravery in giving so deeply of herself.

This artist talk will feature three artists with varying degrees of connection to Studio Channel Islands who gave work into the Perceive Me exhibition. These artists created their work in anticipation that it would be taken and shown in galleries around the state to audiences who would not necessarily be familiar with their work only to find their work returning to them and being presented to an audience who are very familiar with their work.

Daggi Wallace is an artist in residence at Studio Channel Islands, she is an internationally collected and award-winning artists. Nurit Avesar is a former artist in residence, she is a mixed media artist who has presented exhibition in collaboration with several of our other artists in residence. Janet Milhomme has exhibited at the SCIart Gallery on several occasion. The artist will talk about their relationship to the theme of the exhibition, and about the liberation of creating work for a project which would be separated from them.