2009 Department Scholarships Winner

Department of Art
2009 Department Scholarships


Arts Council Awards
Undergraduate: William Ruzicka
Post Grad: Kristy Carr
Incoming Graduate: Sara Alavikia


Dean’s Academic Achievement Awards
Junior: Edward Perkins
Senior: Erin Garrovillas
Graduate: Libby Gerby


Hans Burkhardt Memorial Awards
* Undergraduate: Irina Fedorova
Post Grad: Nicole Culver
* Graduate: Benjamin Keirn


Leyo Lopez Memorial Award
* Helen Yemanebrhan


Edwin R. Sievers Memorial Award
Katrina McElroy


Valerie and Steven Svec Memorial Award
Blanca Guerra


Michael Miller Photography Award
* Senior Standing: Ryan Carmody



*Honors Convocation submittal

MFA Open Studios & MA Exhibition

MFA Open Studios & MA Exhibition
Sunday, April 26, 2:00-6:00 pm

CSUN Art + Design Center
18111 Nordoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330
Park in Lot E6 at Halsted St. and Lindley Ave. ($5) MAP
(818) 677-2242 / CSUN.MFA@gmail.com

The CSUN Art Department invites you to the Second Annual MFA Open Studios & MA Exhibition. The event features the work of over 30 artists specializing in photography, painting, illustration, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, public art, video and printmaking.

Disney Inspires Day

March 23rd and 24th, forty three Cal State Northridge Students participated in Walt Disney Feature Animation studios Inspire Days Event this year. Students portfolios were reviewed by Disney Feature Animation Directors, Art Directors, Animators, Modelers, and Layout artist. Some of the top talent in the animation industry, Directors Ron Clements and John Musker, Legendary animators like Eric Goldberg and Andreas Deja, presented projects and gave advice to aspiring animation artist.

Alexandra Grant

ALEXANDRA GRANT
will be giving a lecture on her work Wednesday, April 1 @ 2:00pm in AC 331. Alex is
the first of Three Hans Burkhardt Honorary Speakers who will be
closing out the semester.

Parenthe(sees)

CSUN Photo Club presents
Parenthe(sees)
an exhibition showing the
unique perspectives of student photographers

March 9-12, 2009

Opening Reception
Monday, March 9, 5-7pm

Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Thursday 11am-5pm

West Gallery
Art and Design Center
California State University Northridge

Curated by Erin Garrovillas & Grace Probst
Faculty Advisor: Lesley Krane

csunphotoclub@gmail.com

Passion for the Possible Opening

All Photos taken by Julia Schlosser

On view now through April 4 in the Art Gallery is Passion for the Possible: The

Work of Sister Corita. The show is the first major retrospective in a decade of

the work of serigraph artist Sister Corita. Corita rose to prominence in Los

Angeles during the 1960s and is well known for her colorful, provocative

messages of hope and peace. Also famous for her inspirational pedagogical

methods as Professor of Art at Immaculate Heart College, Corita worked with

her students to produce dazzling 2 and 3-dimensional pop-art style artworks.

Guest curator Aaron Rose (Beautiful Losers) has transformed the gallery with

wall murals, a giant picture of Corita silk-screening as well as Corita’s images

and photographs of the time. The wall murals and box sculptures on view were

painted by art education professors Edie Pistolesi, Paula DiMarco and Ken

Sakatani and their students working under Rose’s direction.

Film director and graphic designer Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) led CSUN students

in a banner workshop, inspired by Corita’s teaching methods, in which they

designed and created 10-foot canvas banners which are now visible hanging on

the south wall of the Art Department.

A film screening of Rose’s documentary film about Corita’s life and two films by

Baylis Glascock, held in the Amer Theater, was well-attended by various CSUN

notables like Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication Dean Wm

Robert Bucker and Associate Dean Karen Kearns as well as actor Julian Sands,

who contributed to Rose’s film.

The opening reception for the exhibition, held on Valentine’s Day, featured silk-

screening stations led by designer Juliette Bellocq and CSUN students. Gallery

visitors were able to silkscreen Bellocq’s designs (inspired by Corita) onto small

cookie boxes and left for home with miniature Corita-esque box sculptures

filled with Valentines treats. A Ladies Choir comprised of members of the Silver

Lake music community sang songs inspired by Corita, one of which was featured

in Rose’s film. Red Hot Chili Pepper’s bassist Flea was spotted in the audience,

along with professors Lesley Krane, Peri Klemm, Samantha Fields and Patsy Cox.

Julia Schlosser

2009 CSUN Ceramics Guild Show

Job Opportunity

Undergraduate Studies 

Student Assistant Job Announcement

Web Assistant

Hours per Week: 8 to 12 (flexible M-F)

Hourly Wage: $10.00

Start Date: Immediately

Duties include: 

Pouring content into web templates.

Cropping, sizing, and ALT tagging photos for the Web. 

Limited creating of graphics for the Web.

Running XHTML validation checks

Running website link checks. 

Skills:

Working knowledge of Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

Knowledge of XHTML and CSS. 

Knowledge of Contribute and LecShare a plus. 

Must be reliable, organized and have great communication skills. 

Must follow through on all assigned tasks. 

Contact:

Gregory Mena

Phone: (818) 677- 2969

Email: greg.mena@csun.edu

Undergraduate Studies

California State University, Northridge 

Graphic Design Internship Opportunity

Company: Creative Impact Agency

Looking for Web Interns. Anyone who is interested, contact Danica Pupa

Danica Pupa

Creative Impact Agency

danica@cia-adv.com

www.cia-adv.com

818.981.7656 x 105

Graphic Design Job Opening

Company: Trigger Los Angeles

Looking for an Interactive Banner Designer. Any one who is interested, please contact Jacob Court. 

Jacob Court 

Art Director   Trigger

jacob@triggerla.com

310.921.7070 Main

310.921.7084 Direct 

Graphic Design Internship Opportunity

Company: EmbroidMe

About EmbroidMe: We specialize in embroidery, screen printing and promotional products.

We are looking for a Graphic Designer who is proficient with design, typography and related computer applications.

Please contact the Art Advisement office for more information.


art.dept@csun.edu

Christian Tedeschi "Levity" at the West Gallery

Christian Tedeschi's "Levity" exhibition will be featured at the CSUN West Gallery.

Opening reception: Saturday Fed 14th 1-4pm

Gallery hours: Monday - Saturday 12-4pm
Thursday open until 8:00pm

Exhibition runs until Feb 19th

West Gallery
Art and Design Center, Rm 201
18111 Nordhoff St.
Northridge, CA 91330-8299

"Connections"

“CONNECTIONS”
A collaborative exhibition between OVERTONES gallery and den contemporary art
on view at OVERTONES gallery through February 28, 2009.
Amir H. Fallah
Tim Forcum (CSUN Art Dept Faculty)
Cornia Gamma
Stas Orlovski
Margi Scharff
Amanda Sefton Hogg
Carole Silverstein
Coleen Sterritt
Alexis Weidig
Nicola Vruwink
Opening Night: SATURDAY, January 17, 2009; 7-10PM
Exhibition dates: January 17 – February 28, 2009
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“Connections” is a group exhibition of ten Los Angeles-based artists from OVERTONES and den contemporary art, featured at the OVERTONES gallery exhibition space. The artists are linked through a sequence of visual dialogs in art making, and the exhibition will include painting, work on paper, sculpture, and video.

Each artist has a singular vision and style, yet one connects to another in visual discourse reflecting contemporary consciousness about subjects ranging from nature to domesticity, and through use of text, patterning, collage, and craft, in works that include both abstract and representational imagery. Landscape and nature are represented in detailed paintings by Amir Fallah, Stas Orlovski, and Amanda Sefton Hogg. Elements from nature are also found in the sensitively assembled sculptures by Coleen Sterritt and Alexis Weidig. Use of craft in Nicola Vruwink’s crocheted cassette tape piece relates to
Margi Scharff’s intimate collages of discarded materials. Scharff’s arrangements are fashioned into mandala patterns, which connect to Gamma’s video installation of kaleidoscopic images of moving objects and people. The images layered in Gamma’s videos link to the layering of patterns and lines in the abstract works of Carole Silverstein’s meditative ink paintings on mylar and Tim Forcum’s dynamic oil paintings.

“Connections” provides the audience with a sense that, if one is open to seeing, relationships exist everywhere. In times of change like the World is experiencing today, the links between us are pathways to new opportunities and growth. The collaborative nature of the exhibition “Connections” and the artists presented, offer a visual space within which we can play, explore and find delight in the challenges that often come with the uncertainty of change.
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+ For additional information and images please contact Elizabeta Betinski at word@overtonesgallery.com
or Donna Enad Napper at info@dencontemporaryart.com

ecoLOGIC Exhibit

PRESS RELEASE: December 24, 2008

ecoLOGIC
A survey of Southern California artists, architects, and designers who pose aesthetic inquiries that express a unique logic, ecological reasoning or discourse.


Cypress College Art Gallery
9200 Valley View, Cypress, CA 90630
714.484.7133

January 28–February 29, 2009

Opening reception: January 28, 6–8 p.m.

Artists include: Calvin Abe, Kim Abeles, Samantha Fields, Sant Khalsa, Manfred Menz, Kathryn Miller, Lothar Schmitz, Glen Small, and Joel Tauber.

Curated by Patricia Watts, ecoartspace

Environmentalists often find it hard not to be sarcastic, or even angry, when working with individuals, organizations, and institutions that are ignorant of opportunities to protect the environment. The use of humor and metaphors is often employed by activists to point out playfully what is obvious to some, a way to open minds to new ideas. Artists have long pointed out the not-so-obvious through visual imagery, offering up symbols that can lead cultures to a new awareness. The following artists share this practice. Their work displays a type of logic that questions its viewers to think deeper and harder, and to make sense of what they present. An ecolOGIC, if you will.

Calvin Abe: ah'bé www.ahbe.com
ah'bé landscape architects, an award-winning, Culver City–based firm renowned for creating artful and ecologically sustainable urban infrastructure spaces, began a series of indoor art installations entitled Shreddings in 2003. Questioning our assumptions about what we do, this fourth iteration of recycled paper towers, or an abstract forest, furthers the dialogue on our current methods of waste disposal.

Kim Abeles www.kimabeles.com
Abeles creates poignant or apt signifiers of environmental conditions. In her Signs of Life series, which she started in 2004, she uses satellite photographs to pinpoint or map plant life as sculptural objects. Using model trees, she creates a magnified landscape of what little nature exists in urban areas.

Samantha Fields
Fields’s paintings depict nature’s extreme, environmental drama, unrestrained atmospheric landscapes, the sublime. She documents devastation from wildfires that questions our understanding of natural cycles and human impacts on the land. These dreamy, apocalyptic works remind us of our ability to forget that we live in a precarious, temporal world.

Sant Khalsa www.santkhalsa.com
Khalsa creates typologies of nature, as in her Western Waters series artworks, which describe the proliferation of water stores in the Southwest. Consisting of over two hundred stores to date, these black-and-white photographs of store facades and signage signal a trend: clean water is either a limited resource, or it is an economically driven commercial product.

Manfred Menz www.manfredmenz.com
Since 2004, Menz has created an ongoing body of work entitled Invisible Project. Documenting famous sites around the world, where snapshots are usually taken by tourists, his digitally enhanced large-scale photographs reveal only the locations’ plant life. By removing the built environment, the artist shows us the evidence of nature’s role in today’s world.

Kathryn Miller
Miller’s work is deeply rooted in environmental issues, concepts, questions, and concerns. As a keen observer of the natural world, she combines knowledge of art and biology to illuminate human impacts on ecological systems and native habitat. With her dry sense of humor and sense of the absurd, she invents advertisements of green denial.

Glen Small www.glenhowardsmallarchitect.com
Small, a visionary “outsider” architect and founding member of SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, developed a socially and environmentally responsible sensibility with his early projects in the 1970s, when he conceived of the Biomorphic Biosphere and Green Machine. His designs were inspired by his goal to transform the Los Angeles basin into a futuristic eco logical region.

Lothar Schmitz
Through sci-fi like laboratory dioramas and sculptural systems, Schmitz shows how we shape nature with our desire to bring order or progress to our lives. With coiffed domestic settings, interiorized gardens, we have sealed off the natural world and have become psychologically immune to its unrestrained aesthetic.

Joel Tauber www.joeltauber.com
In his video work entitled Sick-Amour, Tauber falls in love with a sycamore tree, an emblem of our fragmented relationship with nature. Struggling to assist the sycamore to survive in the middle of a parking lot, the artist becomes an eco-warrior, a guerilla gardener, a fake civic worker—all to save the tree.

Closing Reception: Saturday, February 29, 2009, 7–9 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.; Tuesday–Wednesday, 6–8 p.m. The gallery is closed Friday, except by appointment

For more information, please contact gallery director Paul Paiement at 714.484.7134

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