Visiting Artists

Fall 2007

September 12 : GLAMFA Artists' Panel

GLAMFA curator and sculpture MFA student James Adams will hold a panel discussion with five of the artists participating in the GLAMFA exhibiton on view in all the department galleries and various project spaces throughout the art department. GLAMFA opens September 9th at 4 pm and runs through September 20.

Participating artists: Jessica Curtaz (Claremont Graduate University), Patricia Montoya (UC San Diego), Kristine Thompson (UC Irvine), Mike HJ Chang (CalArts), Tristan Shone (UC San Diego).

GLAMFA is curated by CSULB graduate students and features work by current and recent MFA students from 13 art schools and university art departments including Art Center, CalArts, Claremont Graduate University, CSU Fullerton, CSU Los Angeles, CSU Northridge, Otis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UNLV, and USC.

 

September 26 : Alexis Smith; works on paper, sculpture/installation, public art

Alexis Smith is renowned for her collage-like works that incorporate found objects and images from book jackets, advertisements, and other printed matter. These works on paper address socio-political issues such as consumerism and the objectification of women with a hint of humor.

Smith is also known for her public art commissions, including the 560-foot-long Snake Path (1992) at UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection in La Jolla, CA; Taste (1997), a permanent wall installation at J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles; and a terrazzo floor for the Schottenstein Sports Arena at Ohio State University in Columbus, among others. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts awards and a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center. Smith has had solo exhibitions in cities throughout the United States. Dave Hicky curated Smith’s Red Carpet in Beau Monde, the Fourth International Biennial at Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. Smith is represented by Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles and by Artemisá Greenberg Van Dorená Gallery in New York.

 

October 3 : Jeffrey Smith; illustration

Smith is an internationally acclaimed illustrator who lives and works in Los Angeles. Smith obtained his B.F.A. degree from Art Center College of Design and M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in NY. His clients include Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Newsweek magazine, The New York Times, and the New York Times Magazine to name a few. He won numerous awards from Communication Arts journal, New York Society of Illustrators, Print journal, A.I.G.A., Society of Newspaper Design, Society of Publication Designers, and University & College Designers Association. Smiths’ work consistently appears in American Illustration and New York Society of Illustrators, where he received a Gold medal in 2004.

 

October 17 : Eleanor Antin; performance, film, installation

An influential performance artist, filmmaker, and installation artist, Eleanor Antin has been a notable presence on the American art scene since the late1960s. Antin investigates history—whether of ancient Rome, the Crimean War, the salons of nineteenth-century Europe, or her own Jewish heritage and Yiddish culture as a way to examine the present. Antin received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1997 and a Media Achievement Award from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in 1998. She has had numerous solo exhibitions, including an award-winning retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1999. This summer her work was seen in Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary Art as well as in Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany. Antin, a highly respected artist and teacher, is a Professor Emeritus in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. Antin is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in NY and Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, CA.

 

October 24 : Elliot Hundley; painting

Elliott Hundley creates collages from thousands of cut-up magazines, personal photographs, drawings, and a variety of commonplace objects including feathers, strings, and twist ties. With titles that often refer to classical drama and mythology, each work represents a fantastical world full of cryptic imagery and meaning.

Hundley’s solo exhibition in the Hammer Project Room, UCLA Hammer Museum, in 2006 was a phenomenal success. This year, his works have been included in Eden’s Edge: Fifteen L. A. Artists at the Hammer Museum and From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art at MOCA, Grand Avenue. Hundley lives and works in L.A. and represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York.

 

October 31 : Cat Chow; fiber

Elegantly simple in form, yet complex in construction, Cat Chow's labor-intensive work, which began as a series of garments, is fascinating for its intricacy and use of common materials in unexpected ways. She has exhibited in numerous design, art and contemporary craft shows, most notably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum at F.I.T. in New York. She was recently awarded an Urban Artist Initiative Grant from New York City and has been nominated for the Fashion Design Award of Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in 2007. Cat Chow currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

 

November 7 : Abdelali Dahrouch; video/new media, activist art

Abedelali Dahrouch is a conceptual media artist who lives in Los Angeles, and works between the U.S., France, and Morocco. Born in Tangier, and raised between Morocco and France, Dahrouch emigrated to the U.S. in 1984 to pursue multimedia art as a vehicle to address the political and social issues in which he was immersed as an activist and writer. His work engages transnational migration and U.S./European imperialism largely in relation to the Middle East and North Africa. Dahrouch graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with a Masters of Fine Arts degree.

Dahrouch was a fellow in residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York. He has exhibited his work in New York, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seville (Spain), Sophia (Bulgaria), and Tabor, Cimelice, Plasy and Prague (Czech Republic). His recent exhibitions include Desert Sin, Revisited at Montgomery Art Museum, Pomona College in Claremont, Somewhere Elsewhere, at Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkley, the BC Space Gallery in Long Beach, and Liquidation Total Art Space in Madrid, Spain. Dahrouch’s work is presented in Border Myths/Border Realities, at University Art Museum. The UAM exhibition runs from Nov. 8 to Dec. 16, 2007. 

 

November 28 : David Lowery; illustration/storyboards

David Lowery graduated from CSULB in 1982 with BFA in illustration. David began drawing in the entertainment industry and has since become foremost in the storyboarding field. With over 70 films to his credit, some of the films he's contributed on include: Indiana Jones 4, Jurassic Park 1, 2 and 3, Spider-man 1,2 & 3, Shrek, War of the Worlds, Bruce Almighty and Hook.

 

December 5 : Sandow Birk; printmaking, painting

Raised on the beaches of California and currently living and working in Long Beach, CA, Sandow Birk is a graduate of Otis/Parson's Art Institute. The majority of his work has dealt with contemporary American life. With an emphasis on social issues, frequent themes have included inner city violence, graffiti, various political issues, travel, prisons, surfing, and skateboarding, and most recently a series on "Death in America" and the war in Iraq.