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. [...]
Painting students from Santa Monica College are expanding the boundaries of their immediate community by participating in an exhibition entitled “Sense of Place: Chinatown, Los Angeles California”. 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 [...]
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. 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 [...]
Jenny Hagar, Tom Lundquist, C J Mammarella, & John Zarcone: Four person faculty exhibit of painting, drawing & digital prints Open – Monday, January 12 to Thursday, February 5, 2009 Reception – Friday, January 9, 6 – 9pm Bookmark: