Santa Monica College Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery

EDITH BAUMANN ~ COLLECTIVE PATTERN

Opening Reception for Edith Baumann: Saturday, January 30, 6 to 8pm

Exhibition: January 30 to March 6, 2010

Gallery Talk: Thursday, February 18 at 1:30 pm

The Barrett Art Gallery is located in the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center

at 1310 11th Street & Santa Monica Blvd., Room 101

Parking is free please enter parking lot from Santa Monica Blvd. between 10th & 11th Streets

• Photo: Courtesy of John Eden
Marian Winsryg, Gallery DirectorPete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery

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Gallery Contact: (310) 434-3434 / Director, Marian Winsryg

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Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery

Santa Monica College

The Barrett Art Gallery offers a look into the beginning of the career of Los Angeles sculptor Gwynn Murrill

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Gwynn Murrill: Early Wood Sculpture

Dates: September 1 ~ October 24, 2009

Reception for the Artist: September 12, 6 ~ 8 pm

Gallery Walk-through with the Artist: September 26, 2 ~ 3 pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday 12 ~ 5 pm, Saturday 11 ~ 4 pm

Gallery Contact: (310) 434-3434 / Director, Marian Winsryg

Gwynn Murrill began her exploration of form through sculpture in 1967 as a student at UCLA. Her first endeavor centered on carving a rocking horse from laminated blocks of two-by-fours she cajoled from workers at construction sites around Los Angeles. As she refined her technique, Murrill abandoned construction lumber and began carving life size cougars, coyotes, hawks, and other animals from laminated planks of Hawaiian Koa wood. In the mid 1980s, after receiving several prominent grants, she began casting her earlier forms in bronze. That first rocking horse fueled what became a remarkable sculpture career, punctuated by numerous public commissions, both here in Los Angeles and internationally.

Murrill states, “My interest lies in the fact that I use the subject as a means to create a form that is abstract and figurative at the same time. It is a challenge to try and take the form that nature makes so well and to derive my own interpretation of it.”

Highlighting works from the artist’s own collection, this exhibition will give the public a rare glimpse into the artist’s formative years during the 1970s and 80s, and her fascination with the animal forms, for which she is so well known.

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In an effort to broaden cultural awareness in the greater Los Angeles area, students in instructor John Zarcone’s painting class at Santa Monica College were asked to communicate the identity of a very specific neighborhood, L.A.’s Chinatown, by creating several representational oil paintings. The results will be on view at the Chinatown Heritage Center from June 6th-July 18th 2009.

There will be an opening reception for the artists on Saturday June 6th from 6 to 9 P.M. Students and faculty are invited to attend. Students and faculty are also encouraged to attend Chinatown Art-night, July 11th 6-9PM, when most of Chinatown’s art galleries will be open to the public for night time viewing.

Chinatown Heritage Center: 411 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CA 90012.

Hours: Wednesday-Friday 11 AM – 3 PM, Sunday 12 – 4:30 PM.

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Friday May 1, 2009
5:00p- 10:00p

3041 North Coolidge Ave, Elysian Valley, Los Angeles 90039

F.reecycled
R.esident
O.perated
G.arden
S.ystems

F.R.O.G.S., out of the LA River and back into the community! Shopping carts, wheelbarrows, anything with wheels, can be salvaged and repurposed as a mobile garden. We can clean up the neighborhoo, recycle junk and grow a garden all at once! For the project opening we are looking for residents of Elysian Valley or neighboring communities to claim an existing F.R.O.G.S. to take home and cultivate for a season, after which we will reassemble to feast on the fruits of our labor, take on new F.R.O.G.S. and enjoy the start of a new growing season. Together we can build and cultivate our F.R.O.G.S. to reclaim the streets with an ever evolving mobile garden network.

- Organized by Tory Tepp as part of the Otis College of Art and Design Public Practice MFA Degree Exhibition 2009 – p.i.e

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Open – Monday, January 12 to Thursday, February 5, 2009
Reception – Friday, January 9, 6 – 9pm

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Santa Monica College Art Mentor Program

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Otis Graduate public Practice Program

Otis MFA Public Practice Program Exhibit- Barrett Gallery
Open- Tuesday, May 12 to Friday, June 5
Reception- Saturday, May 9 (4 – 7pm)

Candida Ayala, Andy Manoushagian, Ofunne Obiamiwe, Jules Rochielle, & Tory Tepp

Come meet and mingle with the artists–the first students to graduate as part of the new MFA in Public Practices Program–at a group exhibit of works that are motivated, informed, and shaped by places, issues, and audiences, both internationally and locally. Opening reception on Saturday, May 9, from 4 to 7 pm.

Graduate Public Practice
The program, under the leadership of Suzanne Lacy, the renowned artist, educator, theorist of socially engaged public art and author of the influential Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, enriches an arts environment marked by a remarkable mix of art schools and a distinguished history of artistic innovation.

Participating graduate students explore new artistic strategies and practices based on observation, research, social commentary and activism, and visual and performance arts productions in the public realm. Students work in individual studios on a single significant project in collaboration with each other, community members, interdisciplinary scholars, and an internationally known faculty.

The program is housed at the 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica, a nonprofit residential arts institution for artists and organizations dedicated to issues of community and diversity in contemporary society. The College offers outstanding facilities in sculpture, painting, graphic arts, illustration, video, photography, computer-generated model-making and digital technology. An intimate class size supports mentorship, case-study learning, and production skills in installation, performance, process art, guerilla art and interdisciplinary projects. All students create a thesis integrating theory and practice in art, urbanism, civic life, or other subjects supporting a critical discourse on their work. Participants study with internationally known artists and theorists, do field internships with professional artists, and teach as assistants in Otis’s groundbreaking undergraduate Integrated Learning curriculum.

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Special Events
SMC Student Creative Activist
Film Festival & Panel

Join us for an evening of SMC student films and a lively panel discussion on creative activism with producers, directors, actors, and journalists. The panel will be led by Kathy Eldon, Director of the Creative Visions Foundation (www.creativevisions.org) and mother of photojournalist Dan Eldon, killed while covering the conflict in Mogadishu. An award will be presented for the best student film. Dan Eldon’s journals and photographs are on exhibit through March 21 at the adjacent SMC Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery. Art gallery will be open before the film festival.

Fri, March 13 • 7pm=2 0 • Free • The Edye Second Space • SMC Performing Arts Center

Barrett Art Gallery
SMC’s Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery is located at the SMC Performing Arts Center (Santa Monica Blvd. & 11th St., Santa Monica). For information and gallery hours, please call (310) 434-3434 or (310) 434-8204, or visit our gallery website (www.smcbarrettgallery.com). Exhibits and opening receptions are free.

Dan Eldon: Traveling Exhibit
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 22 as a creative activist and whose art became a means of positive social change. Opening reception on Friday, February 27, from 6 pm to 9 pm. A film festival and panel discussion with producers, directors, actors, and journalists on creative activism will also be held. Please see the SMC Stu dent Creative Activist Film Festival listing in Special Events for details.

SMC Student Creative Activist
Film Festival & Panel (See listing in Special Events for details)
Fri, March 13 • 7pm • Free • The Edye Second Space • SMC Performing Arts Center

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BBC Piece on Dan Eldon’s Manhattan Exhibition
BBC world produced this piece the second week of Dan’s images and art at their permanent home in NYC’s SoHo at the Candela/Decker Gallery.

Dan Eldon: The Art of Life

www.DanEldon.org

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