Reynolds Gallery Exhibits Archive

The Reynolds Gallery hosts numerous exhibitions throughout the school year. Enjoy the scope of our past efforts to bring high quality shows featuring student and professional artists from the around the country to the Stockton campus.

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High School Scholastic Art Exhibit

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery in collaboration with the Valley Sierra California Arts Project is proud to present the 2013 Scholastic awarded artwork from the Central Valley and South Bay areas of California.

Established in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, for nine decades have given students 7th through 12th grades, the opportunity to be recognized for their artistic talents. In fact, over the past 90 years the Awards have grown into our nation's largest, longest running program supporting student achievement in the visual and literary arts, and has an impressive legacy of being the first to acknowledge creative talent. These aspiring young artists show the enormous creative potential of our area's youth. Past awardees have included artists such as Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon.

The show is presented by The California Arts Project, which became a member of the Alliance Regional Affiliate Network in 2010. Located at the University of the Pacific, the Valley Sierra California Arts Project, a regional site of the California Arts Project, was established in 1994 as a part of the California Subject Matter Projects and is hosted by the University of the Pacific.
Con-Struct-Ed: new work by Levente Sulyok

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery welcomes contemporary artist, Levente Sulyok's, Con-Struct-Ed, an exhibition of painting, drawings, and sculpture that addresses our current economic situation, which started with the 2008 financial crisis.

The body of work in the exhibit began with Sulyok collecting a list of financial slogans from institutions connected to the subprime mortgage crisis. The backdrops of the paintings in the exhibit are based on stills from Sergio Leone's western films, which idealize the west as the land of the free but also portray it to be violent and lawless, full of morally ambiguous characters motivated by money alone.

Levente Sulyok grew up in Hungary, watching these films dubbed in his native tongue. Sulyok's interest in these films lies in his observations that the fictionalized notions of the west, questions about individual agency, utter violence and greed, and the notion of the "man with no name," all describe our current corporate landscape.

During the January 8th opening reception, Levente Sulyok will give an artist lecture 7:00-8:00 p.m. in lecture room 209, adjacent to Reynolds Gallery. All events are free and open to the public.
Metamorphosis: Competitive Juried Student Exhibition

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery presents Metamorphosis, a student-juried competition and exhibition featuring works by current Pacific students. Three first place awards for two-dimensional, three-dimensional and video categories of entries are announced at the November 30th reception.

Metamorphosis centralizes on the theme of change, which can be exemplified in material transformation, emotional catharsis, directional alteration and other permutations of any form of change. Because of the open-ended nature of the theme, Metamorphosis, it was chosen at the subject of this exhibition.

While using the medium of their own choosing, this exhibition inspires students to interpret unrestrained by defined limits, the theme of metamorphosis. Many artworks included in the show demonstrate the concept that original materials used, have been transformed into a new form entirely. Multiple sculptures are constructed of recycled computer parts, transformed into large sculptures such as a fish bowl, or a rotary phone.

Student work chosen for Metamorphosis include drawing, traditional and digital painting, found objects, photography and video. Additionally, artworks by the jurors seniors form the Studio Arts Seminar class, are incorporated into the exhibit.
Housework, Gender and Subjectivity: Cultures of Domesticity

University of the Pacific

Housework, Gender and Subjectivity: Cultures of Domesticity is an exhibition inspired by the work of early feminist artists and is curated by independent scholar/artist/curator, Molly Hankwitz. It focuses upon domestic space as a site for the investigation of multiple aspects of gender from the experience of real women.

Opening Reception & Panel: October 29 in the Art History Lecture Hall adjacent to the gallery. Exhibition curator Molly Hankwitz leads a panel discussion on work in the exhibit with housework and domestic space as topic in art, domestic materials and domesticating ideas in women's art practices. The panel is presented with artists Annetta Kapon and Heidi Kumao.

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:

Across many cultures, the role of the wife, the daughter, and duties of domestic labor within the household from cleaning to cooking to childcare and sex are frequently expected from women. In dominant western media, especially commercial advertising, the stereotype of the perfect "housewife," her duties and commitment to products remains a powerful ideology despite progress in feminism to speak alternatives. This stereotype has been the object of significant comment and critique for women artists in the history of art.

Installation, video and new media on view:

Maria Ezcurra's art is both humorous and sharply critical of domestic work, the universalization of housewife imagery vis-a-vis global media, and the oppression of Latin American women. Perfect Housewife's Wardrobe (2008) is a series of large photographs in which the artist enacts scenes from the patriarchal home. In Liminal Beings (2011) partly embodied household technologies are petite collage works made from magazine and mailer images collected by the artist.

Annetta Kapon's art looks at women's labor in the form of a non-traditional installation, Cornucopia (2010) made from baguettes, women's clothing, and a plastic laundry basket, which literally spills forth from the corner of the gallery in an act of nurturance and giving. The work suggests a delicately controlled, even silent, at home and alone, notion of women's labor, which speaks to the private realm of the household.

Heidi Kumao's Cinematic Machines, Holding Pattern (1999) and Kept (1993) are glimpses of cinema and memory. Comprised of zoetropes, projectors, screens, a child's chair, and small coffee table, these pieces explore repetition and scale, use cinematic conventions and ordinary furniture to express the psychoanalytic dimensions of gender.

Annie Abrahams' new media work, Domestic Dancing (2007), designed for the computer screen in html and with sound files, contrasts artistic pleasure with the conventional domesticated subject to suggest a transformation in historic time for women.

A selection of videos, which use household objects, food, household materials, domestic sounds, and elements of cinema to explore gender and domestic space will continuously loop in the gallery space.
5 Contemporary Japanese Photographers

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery is honored to announce as its October 2012 exhibition, a selection of 50 photographs made by five of Japan's most influential contemporary photographers:
Tetsuya Noda
Toshio Shibata
Masao Yamamoto
Tokihiro Sato
Nobuhiro Fukui

The artworks displayed demonstrate a wide range and mastery of photography characteristic of contemporary artists. The delicate and subtle tonality within the prints by Masao Yamamoto, the "diaristic" creation by Tetsuya Noda, and "directorial" with strange occurrences of light created by Tokihiro Sato's light box prints are poetic, humorous and mysterious in their execution and presentation.

The photographs of Toshio Shibata and Nobuhiro Fukui remarkably combine the finer points of documentary content and pictorial formalism. Shibata applies his facility with black and white and color photography as he explores the re-engineered landscape. Fukui, brings light to the night with his color photographs mounted between layers of acrylic plexiglass and the affect is bold and unconventional; he represents a distinctly contemporary attitude and quest among photographers in search of new forms of presenting the photograph.

Co-curated by University of the Pacific Professors Robert Coburn, Conservatory of Music and Daniel Kasser, Department of Art and Graphic Design, this exhibition grew out of Professor Coburn's 2011-12 Fulbright Residency in Tokyo, Japan and the generous support of the Fulbright Scholars Program, the Japan-United States Educational Commission in Tokyo, art galleries in Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Francisco. This exhibition is an opening event leading to the Conservatory of Music's Festival of Japanese Music and Culture, October 20 - 26, 2012.
The Courage to Remember

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery proudly opens the 2012-2013 exhibition schedule with, The Courage to Remember, photos from the Holocaust 1933 - 1945, on view August 28 through September 21, with a special reception on Wednesday, September 12, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

This traveling exhibit is based on the internationally acclaimed Courage to Remember Holocaust exhibit of the Museum of Tolerance, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The Foundation for California first made the traveling exhibit available to California communities in 1991. Two decades later its message is still relevant. "The timeless message of 'never forget' provides a link between generations, using history to empower each generation to resist ignorance and stand up for what is right," stated Rodney Wilson, a member of the Foundation's Board.

"We are delighted and honored to present The Courage to Remember at University of the Pacific," said Dr. Merrill Schleier, Professor of Art History at University of the Pacific. "The lesson of the Holocaust ties together the past to the present, teaching the dangerous and destructive impacts of ignorance, hate and intolerance."

Two identical versions of this exhibit are currently traveling throughout California, appearing in libraries, schools, community centers and in other public venues as a result of a grant to the Foundation by SNCF.

"Two decades after we designed this exhibit, its lesson is still vital to peace at home and abroad," stated Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
Unveiling Momentum: Senior Class Exhibition

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery and the Art and Graphic Design Senior class present, Unveiling Momentum, an exhibition of art and design works on view April 10 through May 6. Please join us for an Artists' reception Wednesday, April 18, 2012 and enjoy an evening of art and refreshments.

This exhibition unveils issues that the students observe are prevalent in our world today and share with the viewers their fresh perspective. Included in Unveiling Momentum are graphic design works, paintings, prints, mixed media installations and videos.
Brett DeBoer: BBBA (Brett's Big Biking Adventure)

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery presents, BBBA: Brett's Big Biking Adventure, an exhibition of digital paintings inspired by encounters and observations from a solo cross-country trek by bicycle taken during the summer of 2010. Graphic Design faculty and artist Brett DeBoer explored much of rural America while pedaling and camping his way across the country.

Prof. DeBoer will discuss specific stories and images from this road trip that serve as context for the exhibition during the gallery talk on the evening of March 15th. BBBA offers an approach to digital photographic imagery as a part of the creative process initiated by events from the trip.

Artist's Statement:
These "digital paintings" represent a portion of work inspired by a cross-country bicycle trip that I took during the summer of 2010. The resulting pieces are not about bicycling, but instead, the result of close observation of objects, settings, and their detail and texture. The journey by bicycle imposed a pace, a context, which encouraged this type of observation and reflection. The majority of the images begin as photographic studies, which are manipulated by collaging or digitally drawing/painting into them with the purpose of revealing something new. In the end the object that originated this investigation is often difficult to discover or is hidden as a result. The final work is more about broad subjects such as awe, wonder, discovery, mystery, fragmentation, and time than it is about specific individual objects, or places. Please enjoy!
2012 Scholastic Young Artists' Awards Exhibit

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery in partnership with the Valley Sierra California Arts Project proudly present the regional 2012 Scholastic Art Award winners.

For the last 89 years, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have been recognizing teenagers, 7th through 12th grades, with exceptional artistic talent across the nation. These aspiring young artists show the enormous creative potential of our area's youth. Past awardees have included artists such as Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon.

The show is presented by, The California Arts Project, which became a member of the Alliance Regional Affiliate Network in 2010. Located at the University of the Pacific, the Valley Sierra California Arts Project, a regional site of the California Arts Project, was established in 1994 as a part of the California Subject Matter Projects and is hosted by the University of the Pacific.
Dimen in Transition

University of the Pacific and Marie Lee

The village of Dimen, home to the Kam people of China, has been secluded from the world for countless generations. This isolation has allowed the Kam to develop a unique culture and maintain their ancestor's heritage without interruption. Now, the tumultuous changes of modernity have begun to reach Dimen, and over the past several decades the Kam have found themselves caught in between maintaining their cultural roots and assimilating the values of mainstream Chinese culture. In an attempt to preserve the old and document the new, students and faculty from the Department of Art and Graphic Design (formerly Department of Visual Arts) here at Pacific have captured the changing times in photography, film, writing and drawing.

Professor Marie Lee, whose passion for the Kam culture spearheaded this project, presents research into the intricate and secret arts and crafts of Dimen's matriarchs. Professor Jennifer Little contrasts the lives of traditional village families with their counterparts, who left the village for the city. Student Joanne Kwan explores the lives of young Kam people, reflecting on her own roots and defining the role of cultural identity and preservation of cultural values in today's terms. Finally, student Anastasya Uskova provides a brief, unfiltered glance at the village as seen through the eyes of Kam children using a disposable camera for the first time.

Together these projects explore a world both beautiful and rugged, and Dimen's transition, physically and culturally, into a new age.
Expose: Juried Student Exhibition

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery welcomes, Expose, a student-juried competition featuring works by currently enrolled Pacific students.

This exhibition is meant to provoke artists to consider the broad implications of exposure. "Exposed" may suggest revelation, without shelter or protection, vulnerability, display, disclosure or any other theme that the artist sees as evoking the exhibitions title.

Jurors are Pacific Seniors: Amanda Zimmerman B.F.A Studio Arts, Jennifer Sese B.F.A. Studio Arts, Clifton Thammavongsa B.F.A. Studio Arts, Lia Santini, B.A. Studio Arts and Jane Frost self-designed B.A. Visual Studies.

Awards:
Paige Logsdon, Painting: Past, Present, Future
Eric Koester, Video: Escape to the Universe

Honorable Mention:
Joanne Kwan, Character Posters
Morgan Andre, Lost in Hopelessness
Jordan Ritz, Industrial Ballet

Juror's Statement:
This exhibition seeks to expose the artistic abilities of the students at the University of the Pacific. Expose is a collection of paintings, ceramics, video art, and photography that invites the viewer to examine the different style of each artist. The range of interpretations within this exhibition is vast and engaging.

Creativity and craftsmanship were an intricate part of the consideration of each piece of art for acceptance into the Expose exhibition. The collection of artwork not only had to be strong enough to stand alone, but also had to work as a group. The artwork in Expose is a brilliant representation of the many talented students at Pacific. With each student's distinct style, there is no indication of monotony.

The jurors greatly appreciate the efforts and time of all the artists involved in the Expose Exhibition.
Ness: Multimedia Installations

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery is delighted to present, Ness, an exhibition of multimedia installations. Ness features the work of Kristin Beal Degrandmont and Annie Strader. The title for this exhibition, Ness, the artists described as a space of ambiguity or an in between or subliminal psychological space. It is this space where something has "ness" that it maybe "like" something without being the exact thing that they examine their work.

Annie Strader uses familiar materials such as soil, salt and wax to create sculptures and installations that examine traditional expectations of materials while revealing the complicated relationships between the social and psychological dimensions of material conditions and physical circumstances. For this exhibit she will create two new works on site using dirt, salt and digital projection.

Kristin Beal will create Ground Control, a work that utilizes the stop-motion process as a stand in for the viewers blinking eye. Using two screens, the videos of different durations are looped; the same images are never side-by-side in order to dismantle any linear time-line. As a child in Kansas, Beal's family spent many weekends traveling across the expansive horizon, visiting relatives. The outside of the car became another world, the car being like a membrane, a new skin. This homeland flew by in a cinematic fashion allowing Beal to project stories onto those familiar, but unknown places.
Short Window: An Exhibition by Visiting Faculty

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery presents, Short Window, an exhibition of works by the current Studio Art and Graphic Design visiting faculty.

This group exhibition features work from: Sunshine Cobb, Ilena Finocchi, Michael E. Leonard, Deanna Hunt and Jill Vasileff.

Short Window, features painting, drawing, sculpture, and ceramic work by artists of varying disciplines. Sunshine Cobb presents vessels of many types and colors. Ilena Finocchi's playful and decorative ceramic sculptures have underlying social-political themes. Renaissance Gardens of Italy are represented through Deanna Hunt's expressive representational paintings. Michael E. Leonard presents a four-decade window of his work as a medical illustrator, graphic designer and fine artist. Minimalist, nonobjective paintings comprise a 24 foot long piece by Jill Vasileff. The show represents work that was prepared and will be exhibited through a short window of time.
DeltaFusion: Celebrating Community

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery is pleased to present DeltaFusion: Celebrate Community, an exhibition of large-scale puppets, masks, costumes and video from the DeltaFusion pageant.

Giant puppets came to life in DeltaFusion, a cultural celebration at Victory Park in Stockton July 23, 2011.

After two and a half years of planning, an idea pursued by Theatre Arts chair Cathie McClellan and Art and Graphic Design professor Brett DeBoer came to fruition with the first ever DeltaFusion festival. DeltaFusion combined displays of visual and theater arts with music, creating a pageant of larger-than-life puppets.

Faculty from Studio Art, Graphic Design and Theater Arts along with Pacific students joined with the Haggin Museum, the Cultural Heritage Council of San Joaquin County, students and faculty from Delta College, local artists, and other community members to collaborate on the parade and pageant that took place at Victory Park in Stockton. Fun began with a parade around the park followed by a pageant that told the story of Stockton and the Delta region. Ongoing cultural and musical performances continued throughout the rest of the day. For the 1,000-plus in attendance, the day was a true fusion of culture and community.

This food, fun and free art-filled event was sponsored by the Haggin Museum and the University of the Pacific, supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Stockton Arts Commission and also celebrated the 161st anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Stockton.
REACT: Senior and Junior Exhibition

University of the Pacific

The Department of Visual Arts senior class of 2011 brings REACT, an exhibition of their art and design works on display in the Reynolds Gallery.

Simultaneously, the junior class presents an exhibition of their work in the Art Center Studio Building Foyer Gallery, across from the Reynolds Gallery.

The show, composed of ten seniors and three juniors, explores themes to build awareness, and call for a variety of community action. Their individual contributions are connected through a specific verb they each have chosen, which represents their work.

"We hope to educate and excite individuals through art, while exhibiting the skills we've learned in our time at Pacific." — Taylor Sutton, B.F.A. Graphic Design, 2011

The exhibition presents a reaction to the issues which the students recognize are extensive in our world today. REACT includes photographs, graphic design works, ceramics, prints, mixed media, fashion, and videos. Through this diverse exhibition the students offer to the viewer, their perspective on these compelling topics.
Valley Impressions: Historic Block Prints and Watercolors by William S. Rice

University of the Pacific

Valley Impressions: Historic Block Prints and Watercolors by William S. Rice on view from March 1 - April 5, 2011, is curated by Rice's great-granddaughter, University of the Pacific senior, Marie-Clare Treseder '11 with a presentation by the artist's grandson, Carl Rice Treseder, during the during the March 17th reception.

Valley Impressions: Historic Block Prints and Watercolors features 38 original works by the artist, a large portion generously loaned by the artist's daughter Roberta Rice Treseder, from her private collection.

Noted painter and printmaker William S. Rice (1873-1963) longed to preserve the natural beauty of turn-of-the-century California through his art. In 1900, Rice traveled from Pennsylvania to Stockton to serve as Supervisor of Art for the city's public schools. While living in Stockton, Rice became captivated by the local landscape. He spent a lifetime capturing our region's visual wealth.

Rice's influential prints and watercolors mark his love affair with the Central Valley. They also show his use of the Japanese printmaking technique to respond to our region's topography, marrying the western landscape to eastern artistic ideas. His subject is always nature in all its variations, celebrated at a moment when California's natural resources and virginal landscapes seemed inexhaustible.

Since his death, W.S. Rice has become an increasingly celebrated artist, most recently showcased at the San Francisco Legion of Honor exhibition Japanesque: The Japanese Print in the Era of Impressionism. His work is housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the Achenbach Collection for Graphic Arts, New York Public Library, Haggin Museum of Stockton, the Crocker Art Museum of Sacramento, and Worcester Art Museum.

This exhibition shows Stockton and the surrounding area through the eyes of a master. It provides an exclusive opportunity to experience watercolors, color block prints, and black and white block prints from the largest single collection of W.S. Rice's work. The show includes prints and watercolors from rarely seen private collections, as well as several of Rice's personal effects. Rice's great-granddaughter Pacific senior Marie-Clare Treseder is a double major in Visual Studies and Philosophy. Treseder was assisted with this project by Dr. Bett Schumacher, Prof. Dan Kasser and Dr. Merrill Schleier.
2011 Scholastic Young Artists' Awards Exhibit

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery and the Department of Visual Arts with the Valley Sierra California Arts Project are proud to present, Celebration Exhibition, the regional Scholastic Art Award winners for high school students.

The Awards recognize student achievement in the visual and literary arts in 29 categories, graphic design, fashion, comic art, photography and more. Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the longest running, most prestigious recognition programs for creative teenage students grades 7-12.

Celebration Exhibition is the preliminary exhibit to the statewide Scholastic Arts show in Los Angeles. From Los Angeles this exhibit goes on to the national Scholastic Show in New York City.

Located at the University of the Pacific, the Valley Sierra California Arts Project, a regional site of the California Arts Project, was established in 1994 as a collaborative partnership between the University and the County Offices of Education of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Amador, and Calaveras counties.
Kirk Crippens: Foreclosure USA

University of the Pacific

This solo exhibition of San Francisco Bay Area photographer Kirk Crippens documents the home foreclosure crisis of 2008 and 2009, with particular focus on Stockton, CA.

Crippens explains that he chose Stockton as the subject of his Foreclosure, USA series in 2009 as it became a center of the housing foreclosure crisis in America:

In the first quarter of 2009, one in every twenty-seven housing units in the area received a foreclosure notice, against a national rate of about one in one hundred and fifty-nine. Foreclosure, USA explores Stockton's foreclosed homes and the abruptly suspended housing developments in its hardest hit neighborhoods. It also documents the "foreclosure industry" and businesses affected by the housing crash. A city that twice received the All America City award from the National Civic League as it converted large tracts of farmland into "homes" can surely teach us much about truly sustainable development. It is hoped that the project will promote dialogue about sustainable economic growth in local communities everywhere and educate us about the real cost of the unquestioned American dream.

In the last few years, Crippens has had solo exhibitions of his Foreclosure, USA series at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery and RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco, CA. They were both positively reviewed, including an interview on KALW radio for Cross Currents. Additionally, he was invited to speak at San Francisco PhotoAlliance, opening for John Pfahl. Crippens also won the Blue Earth Prize for Best Project Photography for his Foreclosure, USA series and was nominated for the Fleishhacker Foundation's Eureka Fellowship Program for 2011 - 2013.
Marie Hannigová Lee: "Scalpel, please..."

University of the Pacific

In "Scalpel, please..." Visual Arts Professor, Marie Hannigová Lee dissects, analyzes and re-contextualizes mundane objects and experiences to challenge the viewers' preconceived notions. She aims at stimulating her audience to break out of the passive mode of receiving information and not processing it.

"I am an artist and I am a designer but I am a communicator foremost." - Marie Hannigová Lee

Hannigová Lee's work strives to bring the irregularity and expressiveness of human touch back into computer design. Abstract in nature, the works are to be interacted with and explored by the viewer. A dialog occurs, a two-way relationship, a conversation, and exchange of ideas. It is a dialog between the artist and the piece, and the piece and the viewer. It is an interaction between the computer-generated impulse and human sensibility. And lastly, it represents one cultural identity interacting with another.

Marie Hannigová Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Art, College of the Pacific, where she teaches graphic design. She has exhibited her work in the United States, Hong Kong, China as well as her native Czech Republic.
Sightseers: Photographs by Jennifer Little

University of the Pacific

"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation." - Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

The Reynolds Gallery presents the second in our Fall 2010 faculty exhibition series, with Visual Arts Professor Jennifer Little's new series of photographs titled, Sightseers.

Jennifer Little's Sightseers series documents tourists in a wide variety of locations, emphasizing both the overabundance of spectacles in our society and the overabundance of people photographing them.

Weaving together themes of alienation, technology, advertising and media imagery, Little's work shows these influences not only on what people choose to photograph, but how they photograph.

By chronicling familiar tourist places, such as the observation deck, nature preserves, urban areas and botanical garden, Little's photos reflect how landscape is marketed as a spectacle for tourists to photograph. The view itself has been turned into a commodity.

Jennifer Little is Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Art, College of the Pacific, where she teaches photography. She has exhibited her work across the United States, including The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO, Jay Etkin Gallery in Memphis, TN and Stanford University's Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery.
Trent Burkett and Monika Meler: Pots and Prints

University of the Pacific

Pots and Prints is the first in a series of faculty exhibitions presented during the Fall 2010 semester. Pots and Prints features ceramics, sculpture and prints by Visual Arts professors, Trent Burkett and Monika Meler.

Trent Burkett's artwork reflects an appreciation for functional objects from the strictly everyday to the more eccentric sculptural aspects of experiencing objects. His work incorporates an aesthetic of both organic/gestural qualities, as well as architectural/human invented forms. As a result, Burkett creates a dynamic equilibrium between the sculptural aspects and the conventions of functionality.

As a native of Brodnica, Poland, Monika Meler cites the fall of the Berlin wall as one of the most important events in recent history, not only for social and political reasons, but for contemporary art as well. Her work explores cherished memories from her childhood and their elements of invented landscapes and events. Meler's artwork negotiates the tension between past, present, and future in everyday life.
STEP OUT/STEP IN : Class of 2010 Senior Exhibition

University of the Pacific

The Senior Class of 2010 in the Department of Visual Arts present Step Out/Step In, an exhibition of their art and design works at the Reynolds Gallery.

Step Out / Step In features graphic design and studio art seniors: Brooke A. Cashion, Yolanda E. Cunningham, Lauren Friedrich, Samantha J. Kowalski, Glynnis Koike, David Mayman, Ivan J. Rocha, Christine Strain. Simultaneously with the senior show, the junior class presents, Seen/Unseen, a display of their works in the foyer gallery of the Studio building across from the Reynolds Gallery.

Step Out / Step In:

Brooke Cashion
B.F.A. Studio Art
The focus of my senior project is about the relationship between people and the objects they use to prepare and enjoy food. The individual pieces of pottery are conceived to promote a lifestyle of simple satisfaction and locality and produced to emphasize the sense of touch among useful utilitarian forms. I believe my ceramics speaks to the user and emphasizes that it is made to appeal to their hands, to provide a larger sense of nourishment.

Yolanda Cunningham
B.F.A. Studio Art
My Senior Exhibition is titled Atonement: Manifestation. The over-arching theme of my senior project is an extension of earlier artworks exploring the personal consequences of drug addiction. I have selected the transitive verb manifestation to guide my art making process. The Manifestation series expands my explorations to include atonement, following earlier work about guilt and reconciliation.

Lauren Friedrich
B.F.A. Graphic Design
I design to generate a concept driven message that changes and informs our outward perceptions of the world. My Spicebox packaging project shows how people connect through culture and history by the migration of spices. Coming from different regions around the world, my spices bring out the flavorful history of the specific cultures that has produced them. We share our recipes, traditions, andour history with others, giving us a broader perspective of the world around us.

Samantha Kowalski
B.F.A. Graphic Design
I believe that good design should be driven by considerations for audience and concept. All of my works are concept driven, meaning that I strive for a thorough understanding of what I am designing and whom it is for. The work that I will be showing for my senior exhibition will be works that are my own personal favorites during my time at Pacific. My works show my concern for typography, good composition, use of the grid, and my explorations in color. All the works I create center around the techniques of visual communication. I strive to make a connection with the viewer and to propose that they act on something. Ultimately, I want to create designs that are memorable and just simply beautiful.

Glynnis Koike
B.F.A. Graphic Design
There is a certain beauty in the art of stories. There is, without a doubt, a great power in words and it is this power and wonder that I hope to convey in my series of designs. I have a wide range of styles that I use as a result of all my different influences. Some historical ones include Baroque design and ornamentation, Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus (in relation to their typography), Japanese prints, and a bit of Plakastil. In a way, I suppose I am always attempting to merge the two opposing forces together: simplicity with a burst of intricate images on the side. In addition, I also like to merge Eastern traditions with the West. Each design was given my full attention and research in order to reach the best solution possible.

David Mayman
B.F.A. Graphic Design
I believe design has the ability to perform a function in the most efficient, beautiful, and essential way. I favor simplicity. I think there is something beautiful about the essential, the design stripped down to its core. With all the power of design, I believe I have a responsibility to ensure that my designs help people, help our world, and therefore foster a better future.

Ivan Rocha
B.F.A. Graphic Design
As a designer, I always try to design with intent and reason, so the concept and message is very important in my work. My goal is to engage my audience in a genuine and meaningful dialogue. My approach varies from one design to another and is in essence a response to the subject matter. However, the initial brainstorming phase is a step I try to keep consistent. I will often spend a greater portion of the design process researching, planning, experimenting and sketching before I do anything on the computer. This brainstorming phase is the most tedious and nerve-wrecking part of my process, but it gets to the heart of what I love about design. With every project I push myself to learn new techniques and pull from my experience ways to improve.

Christine Strain
B.F.A .Studio Arts
For my senior project I have been given the opportunity to create a public artwork for the St. Joseph Hospital Foundation's ""A Star is Born"" capital campaign. The artwork is a large-scale donor recognition mural featuring the spirit of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta environs, the integrity of the fine arts and a unique opportunity to assist the Foundation's practical need to attract patronage and recognize 375 patrons for its newly constructed Patient Pavilion. Each star embedded in the sky of the painting will recognize a patron's donation and children born in the new facility.
Kay Kang: Resonance

University of the Pacific

"A central theme in my art — and issue in my life — is the alienation/assimilation of the immigrant in a foreign culture. As a Korean woman in the U.S., I have been confronted not only with obvious issues of race, language and geography, but I have also struggled with the cultural conflict that exists for women born in Asian cultures who must learn to cope with a new and startling social model in the West." — Kay Kang

Kay Kang was born in Seoul, Korea, and now lives and works in San Francisco. Resonance explores her journey to assimilate within American society, as well as the struggles historically experienced by women in Korea. Her work interrogates the disappointment that often greeted the birth of girls in Korea, and the traditional custom of giving girls male names. Kang is also interested in examining her own position as an artist and a woman who exists between two cultures. Resonance will include installation sculptures, paintings, and mixed media art.
Daniel Kasser: Western Technosites

University of the Pacific

Western Technosites features 25 photographic prints from a series Visual Arts Professor Daniel Kasser will soon publish as a book, as well as a new installation piece titled "The Law of the Spade." The subject of the Western Technosite series is the Western landscape whose appearance, culture, and mythology has been routinely re-shaped by the introduction of large-scale technologies. The development of the American West has produced large tracts of industrial and post-industrial terrain generally looked upon as banal, depreciated, and polluted. But, for Kasser, many of these sites are layered with artifacts and stories of American's optimism, symbols of our progress and the evidence of our efforts to "reclaim" wilderness in pursuit of individual and national comfort and wealth.

During the February 21, 2010 reception for Western Technosites, Professor Kasser will be on hand to answer your questions about this fascinating new work.

There is also the chance to hear the artist discuss his work on the Insight Radio program on Jan. 19th, 2010 at 10 am! Find Insight on Capital Public Radio: 91.3 Stockton/Modesto, 90.9 Sacramento, 90.5 Tahoe/Reno, and 88.1 Quincy.
Between: new media works by Rachel Clarke

University of the Pacific

The Reynolds Gallery presents Between, a fascinating multi-media installation of solo works by CSUS Professor Rachel Clarke, and collaborative works, with audio composition and design by M. Azevedo on view Nov. 11 - Dec. 14.

Between is a multi-media interactive installation that investigates ideas about art, identity and technology. The gallery space is transformed into our home, and our personal pasts are staged using sound and video. As a new media artist, Rachel Clarke combines digital and traditional media within her installations to interweave themes of nature and culture. Her work has been exhibited internationally and throughout the United States.

Rachel Clarke is Editor-in -Chief of the New Media Caucus international journal, Media-N, and is Associate Professor of Electronic Art at California State University, Sacramento.

M. Azevedo studied art history and currently works at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento. His is a music technology specialist working in audio recording and technology.