Blog for the Santa Monica College Pete & Susan Barrett Gallery
1.This exhibition is a collection of early wood sculptures as the title indicates. When were these pieces made? The majority of the work in this exhibition was made in the early 1970s. The earliest pieces were completed as I finished my BA and MFA degrees at UCLA. As a BA student, I primarily studied painting. [...]
Artists: Candida Ayala : Andy Manoushagian : Ofunne Obiamiwe : Jules Rochielle Sievert : Tory Tepp Presented at Santa Monica College Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery Exhibition: May 9 – June 6 Reception: May 9, 4:00-8:00pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday 12-5pm & Saturday 11am-4pm Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center 1310 11th Street, [...]
Tues, February 17 – Sat, March 21 Join us for an exhibit of remarkable travel journals and images of war and peace photographed by journalist Dan Eldon, who celebrated his life and death at age 22 as a creative activist, and whose art became a means of positive social change. Opening reception on Friday, February [...]
Upcoming four person faculty exhibit. Artist Statement My painting has always been concerned with the possibilities particular to painting. Issues of plastic form, flat shape, pictorial vs. illusionistic space, and the actual space of the object itself. Lately through my use of color and paint application I’ve attempted to infuse my paintings with a sense [...]
Upcoming four person faculty exhibit. CANDACE MAMMARELLA installation title: ‘experience b’ an installation of five [5], 4.5’x11’ drawings medium: *Sharpie* oil paint marker on clear vinyl 2007-2008, Intimacy involves the risk of violation. When one chances vulnerability with another, a particular sort of violence is expected, almost invited and definitely inevitable . . . yet [...]
Upcoming four person faculty exhibit. Artist Statement By utilizing abstracted imagery that remains open and slightly ambiguous, I seek to bypass or delay immediate categorization through language structures. Through the centralization of negation and reinterpretation, repainting and redrawing, and a sense of internalized place, I seek to sustain an associative dialogue within the work that [...]
Upcoming four person faculty exhibit. Proposal for 4 person show Tom Lundquist / 40 feet of wall space / Proposal Slide Title Dimensions PdC33 Poissons de Chant 33 “Hiding in Books” 35” X 41” PdC38 Poissons de Chant 38 “Taking turns on the Great Neon Mucha Mandala” 35” X 38” Bookmark:
Congratulations to Santa Monica College Professor, Anne Marie Karlsen. ———————————————————————– Hello everyone, I thought I would share with you all the installation that took place today of my newest Public Art Commission. The location is the new Los Angeles Public Library in Lawndale and was designed by the Architectural firm Gruen Associates. This is a [...]
Group Exhibit of art works concerned with the awareness & conservation of endangered species. Sharon Belkin, Alia El-Bermani, Steve Clark, Ronn Davis, Daniel Duplessis, Moira Hahn, Laurie Hogin, Linda Kallan, Linda Lyke, Gwynn Murrill, Ofunne Obiamiwe, Robin Palanker, Sarah Perry, Norma Smallbone, Ed Tarvyd, Marian Winsryg, & Peter Zokosky. Open: February 12 – March 8 [...]