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September 9-24, 2010
Sandi Escobar
Es-can-da-lo
Reception: September 11, 3–5pm
Music by Trompe L’oeil KittenIn the lobby during Rogue Theatre's
The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
Sandi Escobar received her MFA from CSU Chico in May 2010 and writes:
"I find myself elbow deep in work that could not have happened at a different time or location. Now is a time to question normality and embrace my "otherness." I am a child of split language—English+Spanish=Espanglish—divided between traditional, contemporary, and popular cultures. I am a product of my family history and present environment. It is this split strand to which I connect my own experience with language and culture. Though we do not all speak the same language, we can empathize, recognizing our common structure. I speak two languages interchangeably, yet when the words come from my mouth they are one. Several cultures come together through my experiences. I love the individual soul who may exist within either body. This is the only way I know how to exist."
Upcoming
- September 9-24
Sandi Escobar
Es-can-da-lo
- October 6–16, 2010
Butte County Water Color Society Exhibition
- October 21–November 13
Libo Li & Megan Moore
- November 18–December 2
Brad Thiele
- December – January • Haley Hughes, Eyes in the Men’s Room
- January 13–February 5, 2011 Dominic Francisco Odbert
- Feb 10 – Mar 5, 2011
CONSTRUCTS
The Ceramic Sculpture of Monica Van den Dool and Karl McDade
Upcoming
October 6—16, 2010
Butte County Water Color Society Exhibition
Reception – October 8, 6–9pmCall to Artists
Butte County Watercolor Society: Annual Juried Watermedia Exhibition
October 6 – 16, 2010
$1900 in awardsThe Butte County Watercolor Society (BCWS) wishes to invite all water media artists to apply for entry in its Annual Juried Watercolor Exhibition. Cash awards totaling $1900 will be given. The exhibition will be held at the 1078 Gallery in Chico, CA. This juried watermedia exhibition is a competition open to all living artists working with watermedia on paper. Please contact the Butte County Watercolor Society for a prospectus either by e-mail at buttecws@gmail.com or by sending a #10SASE with $.44 postage to:
Butte County Watercolor Society
Attn: Amber Palmer
1430 Esplanade Suite 15
Chico, CA 95926There is a non refundable entry fee of $15 per image for BCWS members and $20 per image for non-members. Up to 5 entries per artist may be submitted. All entries must be received by August 2, 2010. The reception is 6-9pm, October 8, 2010, at the 1078 Gallery (820 Broadway, Chico, CA 95928).
Dolores Mitchell (www.doloresmitchell.com) will serve as the juror of this exhibit. She earned her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History and her Ph.D. in Art History at UCLA. Mitchell has recently retired from teaching at California State University, Chico, where she had been a professor of Art History for over 30 years. She was a founding owner and currently is a member of the Avenue 9 Gallery Art Guild in Chico. As a writer of articles critiquing art and artists for local magazines, she has recently been published in a national magazine featuring her paintings reflecting the art and culture of Northern California.
Image: Dolores Mitchell's Red Sails, Cornwall, watercolor
Butte County Watercolor Society was founded in 2007 and is preparing for the Fourth Annual Members Show. Benefits of membership include opportunities to exhibit work through galleries, museums, and local venues. Once a month, the members gather for workshops, critiques, and networking. Membership fee is $35 per year. For more information, please call (530) 570-7343.
October 21—November 13
Libo Li and Megan Moore
Reception: Friday, October 22, 6-8pmLibo Li and Megan Moore were the second and third place winners respectively in the 1078 Gallery’s International Juried MFA Exhibition Wanted: Wall Work February 25 –March 20, 2010.
Libo Li
Libo Li writes:About her life I was born and raised in mainland China, I grow up in a village with mountains around, I used to play in a old dragon kiln (big wood kiln) site, sliding in a piece of shard of big pot. And now clay became one of my favorite material for my art, it feels so natural for me.
About her art I intend to make replicas of ceramic objects I found in classical paintings and pictures from all countries and all times in history. Often times, painters(and photographers) put ceramic pots (vase, plate, water jar, bowl, cup......) in their paintings and photography. By reproducing the ceramics objects in three dimensional form I intend to show the aesthetic conflicts of different periods and cultures. My bonsai trees project have three parts, one part-tiny mini bonsai pots showing in the gallery space on pedestals, one part outdoor by tile pieces on streets in front of trees, building, people, everything in the environment, to show the interesting proportion turned out from nature and artificial objects.
From her c.v.
Born: 1983, Hunan Province, China
Education:
2000-2004 Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China. BFA
2004-2005 China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. MFA
2007 Mashiko Taogei Club, Mashiko, Japan, Exchange Study
2008-2010 Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA. MFAWorking Experience:
2005-2008 The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China. Studio Manager
2008-2010 Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA. Instructor as Teaching AssistantSolo Exhibitions:
2009, The Sculpture Gallery, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
2008, C2 Gallery, The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China (catalogue)Group Exhibitions:
2010, 6th Annual FRESH ART Exhibit, Summit Art Space, Akron, Ohio (The Second Place)
2010, Wall Work, National/International Juried MFA Exhibition 1078 Gallery, California, USA (The Second Place)
2010, Annual Student Work Competition, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA (The Second Place)
2009, Clay MFA, Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2009, One Person, One Cup. C2 Gallery, The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
2008, Zhujizhan Gallery, Shanghai, China. . .
Megan Moore
Megan Moore writes:
About her life In 2004, I received BAs from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Art Studio with emphasis in photography, and in Communication with emphasis in mass media. I returned to my home town of Chico, CA, in 2006. I am currently a 2nd year MFA student at California State University, Chico.
About her art Is “beauty” a dirty word? Does aesthetically driven work have a place in contemporary art? Who is doing such work and how can I learn from them? What makes work interesting or culturally relevant? These are the questions that drive my current art practice. I am here, at this point in the conversation, after realizing that what truly motivates me is aesthetics. Balance, texture, harmony, and pattern are the tools I use to explore the intangible relationships that add up to the beautiful. Process is key. By continually following a basic system of production (print, cut, assemble and repeat), I enter a groove or mental space where I feel free to explore and build my work. I have created a collection of etching plates, each teaming with different images that I use as a starting point to create small, obsessive layers on paper that is so thin it rips in the wind. These fragile beginnings are the building blocks that grow and morph into complete images comprised of hundreds of pieces.
From her c.v.
website: www.onemooremegan.com
EDUCATION 2011 Masters of Fine Art, Printmaking, California State University, Chico 2004 Bachelors of Arts, Studio Art and Communication, UC Santa Barbara JURIED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Paper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
RE:(rebound, recycled, repurposed, reused), Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
Wanted: Wall Work, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
15th Annual Janet Turner Student Print Competition, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
2009 14th Annual Janet Turner Student Print Competition, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
2008 13th Annual Janet Turner Student Print Competition, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CASOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SOLO INDICATED BY *)
2010 Spring 2010 MFA Show, CSU, Chico 3rd Floor BMU Gallery, Chico, CA
Self Taught and Not, Avenue 9 Gallery, Chico, CA
2009 *New Works, CSU, Chico 3rd Floor BMU Gallery, Chico, CA
Two Views / Two Printmakers, Laxson Fine Art Gallery, CSU, Chico
Spring 2009 MFA Show, CSU, Chico 3rd Floor BMU Gallery, Chico, CA
2004 Between the Sheets Artists Book Show, UC Santa Barbara, CA PROFESSIONALEXPERIENCE
2010 Teaching Assistant- 2D Design, CSU, Chico
2009 Teaching Assistant- Beginning Print with Prof. Eileen Macdonald, CSU, Chico
2008 Printer’s Assistant, CSU, Chico Monoprint Workshop, Chico, CAAWARDS
2010 3rd Place. Wanted: Wall Work, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA.
2009 David and Shari Hopper MFA Achievement Award, CSU, Chico
Marion Epting Purchase Award, 14th Annual Janet Turner Student Print Competition, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CAPERMANENT COLLECTIONS Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
November 18—December 2
Brad Thiele
somewhere in the middle of...
December 23, 2010 – January 8, 2011
Haley Hughes
Eyes in the Men’s Room
The Threat, 2010, oil and collage on canvas (60”x60”)
Haley Hughes was born in Paradise, CA, in 1984. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Eyes in the Men’s Room centers on visual transformation (masculine to feminine, negative to positive) and reveals the beauty of nature in a narrative style. It will include oil and acrylic paintings; small drawings; a sculpture made from a “giant crunched-up piece of metal farm equipment from a friend’s farm outside of Chico painted into a crystalline peacock”; and at least one night of performance featuring a collaboration with Hughes’ sister Muir Hughes (founding member of the fashion, textile, and performance artist collective Chikoko), local bands, and actors from New York (Dylan and Lizzie Latimer, Jesse Karch among others) who will be in town over the winter holidays.
She writes about this show:
Inside the bud that hides inside the most rare and precious flower, there is, undoubtedly, a horrendous murder taking place. My work is concerned with nature, but not merely nature as “natural” nature—rather, I reveal nature in its tensions, violence, sorcery, contradictions, and beauty. I believe that all things are connected to their shadow or their irreducible other, their wicked double—and that artists can only do justice to the images they seek when they dare to touch the demon in the eye. That is what produces the just image, and it is my artistic goal.Hughes has had several solo exhibitions in Brooklyn (Grace and Tillary St. Exhibition Spaces); had numerous group exhibitions in New York and Brooklyn (Under Minerva, Live with Animals, and No Galleries; Flushnik Studios; Gigantic Art Space); been involved with sound+performance+set design in Brooklyn (Dome Theatre Company, The Birds Nest Free103point9 Radio Station, No Gallery); and been published in Eisenhower cover art (Roaratorio Records, Minneapolis) and Beached; Breached (Mare Liberum Manifesto Free Seas Collective/Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn). She is the studio and installation manager for Tara Donovan Studios in Brooklyn. (2008 MacArthur Fellow/“Genius Award” Tara Donovan, represented by The Pace Gallery, New York, since 2005 and by Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, since 2007 and married to Robbie Crawford of Chico, CA, with whom she’s parents of twins Cecil and Hank.)
A view of Haley Hughes’ studio at Grace Exhibition Space
January 13—February 5, 2011
Dominic Francisco Odbert
Petting Zoo
Installation
(with Tree Beast, a video by Neil Scott)
Reception: January 15, 5–7 p.m.
Born and raised on a farm in Sacramento, Dominic Odbert grew up herding cows, feeding pigs, and planting crops. His brother and he built multi-room forts out of hay barrels, stacked firewood into hollow shelters, and constructed “wild and crazy” bikes out of anything they could find. His grandfather taught him the basics of welding. Odbert graduated in 2008 with a B.A. in Fine Art (concentration: sculpture and furniture) from San Diego State. He studied photography in Sydney at the University of Technology and has been working mostly in video, photography, and installation. He has exhibited at various venues in Glasgow, Sacramento, and San Diego and participated with a Wang Foundation Scholarship in the Poverty Alleviation Program in southern rural China.
He writes: The need to decorate and make something my own is my only desire. I want to be able to show people what’s happening in my mind without having to sit down for a cup of coffee. To me, the couch is a pile of wooden sticks tied together with plastic bandages. The front door is a piece of plexi-glass found in a ditch. The carpet is twenty pounds of popped popcorn, making one of the most comfortable edible floors you ever set food on....I’m trying to create the dream within the dream that you had last night.
Feb 10 – Mar 5, 2011
CONSTRUCTS
The Ceramic Sculpture of Monica Van den Dool and Karl McDade
The term “constructs” refers to jects formed by assembling and combining parts, and describes the shared process of ceramic artists Karl McDade and Monica Van den Dool
as they create, accumulate, compose, and edit their work into completion.
Although their themes and formal experiments are quite different, Karl McDade and Monica Van den Dool share a raw aesthetic, a medium that allows for endless experiments in shape, texture, and color, and an interest in the compositional freedoms and possibilities of the “construct”.
Karl McDade’s collages on clay are structed of layers of silk screened imagery, and explore topics as diverse as war, politics, our environment and sex. These collages are as much a mirror of the human condition as they are light hearted and humorous juxtapositions of familiar images. His sculptures share these themes and compositional approach, as Karl combines both familiar and unexpected elements to create narrative.
Right: "Framed" Ceramic and Wood, 2006, 48x48x24"
Monica Van den Dool’s recent work is inspired by the genre of still life painting (functioning traditionally as a reminder of mortality) and particularly by the compositions of Chardin. Simplified but realistic three- dimensional representations of game animals are forcefully combined and contrasted with cartoonishly glazed and artificially bright and vibrant elements (dripping oranges, bright yellow canaries, flowing drips). The glazed elements are generally pushed into the wet clay of the larger sculpture, and the entire sculpture is dried, fired, and re-fired together, resulting in many cracks and stresses. This process and the whole jarring composition are meant to correlate with the complexity and strain of our attempt to understand our mortality in its entirety.
Left: "With Daisies" ceramic, mixed media, 2010, 32x23x12”
March 10-April 2, 2011
Exile Paintings
Rouben MohiuddinReception: March 10, 5–7 p.m. (Talk at 6)
Rouben Mohiuddin teaches interior design for the Department of Art and Art History at CSU, Chico. Starting in 1997 as a tribute to his father, Mohiuddin has made a series of paintings culminating in 2010. He writes about this very personal exhibit:
I was born in the early seventies, carried in my mothers womb during our war of liberation. Her
departure from East Pakistan was a journey which had an unknown direction. My father, a Bengali from
East Pakistan, at the time was an officer in the rank of captain serving in the Pakistan military. He had
the misfortune of being held prisoner in Pakistan until released two years post liberation. I met my father
for the first time at the age of two. In 1996 my family was exiled to the U.S. A decade later my father was extradited back to Bangladesh on political grounds.
As I watch our country in the search of truth, I ponder what is to come. I have sensed a disturbing start of an unfinished revolution. Commentators, politicians, and foreign diplomats often lament at the endless politics of conflict in Bangladesh and express their inability to understand why, in a country that has no significant ethnic, linguistic, or religious divide, there exists such a divisive and destructive political process. It is suggested that as there is no real reason for this ruinous political cycle in Bangladesh, politicians should change the way their practices for the greater good of the country.
