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Megan Mueller - UCSB

www.meganmueller.com

Instagram - @megamueller

Informal Statement/Some words not meant to make sentences:

 24 :: hour  :: invitation :: beating :: gravity :: constructing :: speed :: vigorous :: combinations :: archaic :: outcome :: located :: under :: an :: event :: thunderous :: footsteps :: syncing :: pretend :: cheering :: rescued :: time :: indicate :: start :: practicing :: periphery  

 Description of Images:

 Mueller_Camo  

Krista Bonelli

CSUN

Informal Statement:

My name is Krista Bonelli and I am a current graduate student at California State University, Northridge. I am working towards a Master of Arts degree and my current focus is painting and sculpture. I enjoy sharing my knowledge with other people and my goal is to become a professor of fine art.

My work speaks about several facets of habitual behavior: the struggle with addiction, compulsion and rituals, the struggle of the individual, loss, family and memory. Compulsion, habitual behaviors and repetition control our daily lives. Some habits are productive, while others can cause destruction.

 Website URL:

www.krista-bonelli-art.com

 Description of the Images:

        Loss: When people smoke inside of the home over a long period of time the walls change colors, which often goes unnoticed until paintings or photographs hung on the wall are removed. What remains is a frame of filth around the original colored wall in the shape of what hung there originally.

Philip Košćak

MA '15 Interdisciplinary & Pilgrimwitchery

California State University, Northridge

From a re-imagined Kermit to a thrift shop deer covered in glitter, I augment, manipulate and multiply these images to create symbols and metaphors of sexuality, hybridity, otherness, and sameness. In a more human form, Kermit becomes ambiguous, allowing me to blur the lines of race, gender, and sexuality.

  http://philipkoscak.com

https://instagram.com/philipkoscak

Naomi Tarle

CSUN

www.naomitarle.net

Boundaries teem with possibility. Between art and writing, history and current events, personal memory and inherited memory, bread and salt, mask and face.

Events considered history define the future. History is not a book to read, it is everyday.

I am afraid everyday, yet everyday I rise, and everyday I think about banal things such as a dry patch on my leg needing lotion, and whether I will rake the leaves today, and how I should eat more vegetables, and where to buy new pajamas, and everyday I think about relatives murdered in the Holocaust, and strangers stripped and gassed, and my grandparents fighting as Partisans, and thousands of dead children in Syria, and raped women in Darfur, and everyday I hover within the grey of these boundaries and try and try and try.

  Me with pink light-up wand from 99cent store.

 Studio process shots (from finished works):

 Casting small plastic farm animals.

  Baking bread in shoes.

  Bread baked in shoes.

  Salt prints using sunlight.

   Soaking sweater in salt water.

 Current work in progress process shots:

 Cow and bone and watch parts.

Farnaz Sabet

Claremont Graduate University MFA

I traveled about 7500 miles to get to Los Angeles and lived in it for about 376,272,000 seconds which 337,651,200 of that was spent on studying and getting a higher degree. I am a dreamer and an adventurer. I am not afraid of going out alone at night in dangerous places but I am scared of being alone in a dark room. I am afraid of burning my skin by fire but yet I work with fire. I take risks and want to explore and experience everything first hand. I imagine the impossible and make it a possibility.