Art to See: Monster World & The Dog, the Tree and the Catfish @ Steve Turner

More fiber sculpture to see around Los Angeles....but these exhibition close soon (on February 10th) so if you have time this week, check these out!

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from the press release:

Monster World, a solo exhibition by Toronto-based Hannah Epstein that consists of a selection of brightly colored hooked rugs that depict a variety of monsters as imagined by the artist, whether derived from her study of folklore, her visual backlog of TV images, or from her interest in internet memes.

from the press release:

The Dog, the Tree and the Catfish, a three-person exhibition featuring works by Jacqueline Laurita Cortese, Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio and Diedrick Brackens. The title of the exhibition describes the prominent image within each artist’s work: Cortese—fur covered lifesize ceramic sculptures of dogs that resemble German Shepherds; Aparicio—a painting that is made from rubber, paint and tree residue that resembles the surface of a flattened tree; and Brackens—weavings that incorporate the image of a catfish. Each artist combines personal subject matter with highly developed skills to create their singularly beautiful and somewhat strange objects. Biography always informs an artist’s work (Cortese is from suburban Long Island; Aparicio, from a Salvadoran neighborhood in Los Angeles and Brackens, from Mexia, Texas) but in making strange versions of familiar images (a dog, a tree and a catfish),  each artist has signaled that far more is behind her/his work.

Insights opens this Thursday, 6pm to 8pm

The University Art Museum and the School of Art present the annual student exhibition, Insights 2017, featuring work by our own Asia and Bridgette (congratulations!!) along with other graduate and undergraduate students in the various CSULB art programs. The works were selected by guest jurors Lisa Henry, Susannah Magers and Ellen Surrey.

The Exhibition runs from Thursday May 11th to Friday May 26th.

Pretty gross is happening this Wednesday 4-6pm

Check out this project by Fiber Sculpture community member Siena Nahl happening on Wednesday from 4-6pm in the Chora Gallery at CSULB!

From the show inviite:

Art to See: April Bey @ Band of Vices

I’m looking forward to checking out this show by Los Angeles based artist April Bey. This show looks to be an excellent example of a contemporary approach to making art that thoughtfully incorporates fiber because material and process matter!

Check it out...

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2 artworks by April Bey included in the exhibition and the promo materiel for the show with pertinent details on the when and where...show opens this coming Saturday May 12th

From the press release:

“Made in Space is the brand or label we see on clothing and space helmets used by gender fluid universe travelers focused on anti-colonizing adventures.

Made in Space includes works from the AfroFuturist Womanism series, which explores female afrofuturistic millennial entrepreneurialism via social media and the Internet. Blerdy in nature, juxtapositions of Star Trek and hip-hop culture also manifest in this series. Looking to the future acts as a therapeutic excretory practice in dealing with current day issues around race and discrimination globally. West African knock-off Chinese wax fabric is hand sewn as text to connect black celebrity women with equally real women selling the fabric in the markets up and down the West African coast (Senegal, Nigeria, Benin, Togo and Ghana)—AfroFuturist memes.

This work is a focus but is part of a generalized exploration of the actual resilience of women as they navigate through high-impact experiences of the body, psyche and demands of womanhood. There’s an ironic hypocrisy in the expectations of women and specifically black women to be sovereign and robust while at the same time inept and emotionally weak/unpredictable when leadership roles are sought.

Material matters and process is essential—the process in all of the work directly emulates the labor women execute on a daily basis to persist—it is uniquely and defiantly “feminine” executed in aggressively “masculine” ways.There is sewing but into wood and resin. Each hole is hand drilled. Rule-based, all materials that intersect with the Hitarget wax fabric are MADE IN CHINA referencing Chinese neocolonialism currently rearing its head in parts of West Africa and The Caribbean. The needles, thread, fabric, needle threaders are all low-quality products MADE IN CHINA but that market to a target audience of souls living in poverty.

Senior Thesis Exhibition Schedule for Fall 2018

As we determined last week during class, the exhibition schedule for Senior Thesis Exhibitions next semester is as follows:

Week 1: Brianna Mcgroarty / Lu Zhang 

installation dates: 12/7 to 12/9, opening reception: 12/10, on view: 12/10 to 12/13, deinstall: 12/14

Week 2: Jacob Vasa / Claire Faulkner

installation dates: 12/14 to 12/21 (graduation night), opening reception: 12/17, on view: 12/17 to 12/21, deinstall: 12/24

Congratulations on all the hard work you did this semester defining your thesis projects! 

Now is the time to begin the process of creating and further developing the work during the summer break....

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If you need some inspiration, check out these Los Angeles exhibitions on view now around the town...

installation by artist Maren Hessinger now showing at Art and Practice until May 26th

Mindy Shapiro’s exhibition “Second Sleep” is on view at The Pit until June 10

Final Critique Schedule

As we determined in class last week, here is the critique schedule for our final project critiques coming up next week:

Monday May 7th:

Emillie, Grace, Jordan, Siena, Jianna, Annmariz, Kim, Jade, EV

Wednesday, May 9th:

Harumi, Sarah, Stephanie, Sage, Christian, Amy, Evelyn, Alex, Bryan

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2 images of work by artist Mary Little from her Los Angeles exhibition “The Shape of Cloth”, on view now through June 2nd at the Craft in America Center.

From the press release:

“Subdued and flawless, the sculptural fiber wall hangings of Mary Little will be on view in an exhibition at the Craft in America Center from April 21 through June 2, 2018. This group of meditative works stem from Little’s passion for the magical and metaphorical qualities of cloth. For this exhibition, Little will additionally be making a site-specific, three-dimensional fiber form suspended in the Center window that will complement the patterns and inspiration of her wall pieces. Little recently began investigating fiber spaces in her practice as an extension of the contemplative and poetic qualities she strives to achieve throughout her work. With her remarkable ability to maintain a balance between the delicate and striking, Little’s art flows between big emotions and subtlety.