Opening Reception: Wednesday September 9, 2009, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Exhibition Dates: September 7 - 12 2009
Gallery Details:
California College of the Arts
Irwin Center Gallery
5212 Broadway
Oakland CA 94618

A CCA group exhibition that explores its curiosities with notions of technology and science as it is twisted, probed, and played with through art.

Part I of a Senior Student Exhibition
BFA Painting and Drawing
California College of the Arts

Exhibition Information:

September 2009
Ruth Holly Branch
685 North Murray Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO 80915
719-597-5377

Ocotober 2009
Cheyenne Mountain Branch
1785 South 8th St. Suite 100
Colorado Springs, CO 80905
719-633-6278

November 2009
Rockrimmon Branch
832 Village Center Dr.
Colorado Springs CO 80919
719-539-8000

Pikes Peak Library District libraries
mon-thur: 10am-9pm fri & sat: 10am-6pm sun:closed

This summer - June 3 through the 23, to be exact - I have the extreme fortune and privelege to travel to Italy!

This has been a trip that I have fantasized about ever since taking Barabara Forbes' amazing Italian Art History course at CCA. I cannot say enough how she has influnced my passion for the Italian Renaissance and what still very much I feel I have to learn.

I will be making the trip with a group from CCA being led by Mariella Poli as we will start off in Rome and make our way to Ravenna, Padua, and Venice. I will be going off in a pair to Florence after the group trip ends.

I still cannot truely concieve of this monumental movement that will soon take place and am so grateful for the support from my family - and for Mary who was so great about finding plane tickets for me!

It will be unlike anything I have ever experienced - I am scared and excited and hope the sky will look after me.

I anticipate experiences that will move me to my core - and therfore you, as in anyone who is interested - can look foward to more visual and written remainders of my endeavors as they enrich my devleoping bodies of work.

I want to honor and acknowledge my “critters” – pull them out and see them – transform them to where they can become constructive devices rather than keeping them the debilitating tricksters they have been. They are a part of me and I need to face them. Armed with open focused making and with synchronicity on my side I can coax these minions of anxiety out and learn to handle them safely once they writhe and upon the page. I want to realize the unseen - to find a middle point between invisible and visible senses and emotion and explore and evoke hypersensitivity of perception. Exorcizing them - I want to give faces to my mean voices, anthropomorphize and personify them with visual characteristics, so that I may better identify them and the times they flare up. I want to feed the demons with something less harmful to myself – I will give them something better to do. I want to reflect on them and see how I have made them – to learn to give myself credit for making them and to stand in awe of their beauty and grotesque squirming. I cannot un-see what I have begun to see. I am left with the image the information to process – to deal with – to face. I am realizing that what I do with it is up to my choosing. It is now a moral and spiritual obligation to myself of making the conscious effort to confront my “critters”. I want to free myself, through power of decision and of vision, of their talons, of their tangles, of their buzzing – I want to see myself through their creation. I initiate opportunity for choice in deciding what to do with them. It is my tendency to fixate that I want to put to greater use – it accompanies my ruminating.
Exorcize through agency.

When I make, I experience how it feels to attain balance between intuition and control. I create through observing and allowing, the realm I enter is one of distanced intimacy. It is a state of auto imagination. Suspended with an open-focused-mind the work is an intermediary that quells anxious over-thinking. My ruminating is put to greater use; it is a mental web made manifest - made visual.

I dwell in introspection and channel my attention onto a small scale. What results is a concentrated mass of entanglement. In utilizing quick-find materials – scratch paper, ballpoint pen – I jot line down. I pin them down before they pin me - the lines. I let them emerge and feed off of one another. Their presence is faint and subtle, like the nuanced inner workings of an overactive thought pattern. By finding the line, I begin to see how they grow. I follow and let consciously be what is occurring – no dictations, no judgments.

In present feeling; in present doing; in present being; they come together. They come together on their own, in reassurance that they will always fit to become part of a greater formation. The entwined and twisted lines make sense of their own chaos. They germinate a pattern – an undulating, accumulating, organic order evolves. Synchronistically they find themselves interconnected – interwoven. Their movements are a reaffirmation of the larger whole.

The ways in which lines lead
gives me confidence to follow.

Introspection within small things that grow
coming from the inside out.
Open focused mind – a translator, an intermediary
quells anxious over thinking
ruminating
is put to a greater use.

Entwined and twisted lines
make sense of their own chaos.
A pattern - an undulating, accumulating,
organic order emerges.

No longer do tethers of thought pin me down
I pin them to the page
letting them emerge
letting them feed off one another
letting them be.

I can see them
and observe how they grow
no judgments
no dictations.
In present being
in present feeling
in present doing
they come together.

They come together
on their own –
reassurance that they will
always fit.

Synchronistic interweavings
interwoven,
interconnected.
Nurtured to grow
by directly,
by openly,
by presently experiencing.

Particles materialize –
taking shape, dissipating, conjoining,
resisting,
accepting,
simultaneously.

Consciousness does not mean control.
Observing and allowing, doing in a realm of distanced intimacy
in a state of auto imaging
and actual seeing –
I am suspended,
balanced.

Opening Reception: Thursday March 26, 2009, 6 - 8 pm

Oakland Art Murmur: Friday April 3, 2009, 6 - 10 pm

Exhibition Dates: March 20 - April 11 2009

Gallery Details: Hatch Gallery
492 23rd St.
Oakland, CA 94612
Wed - Fri: 4pm – 8pm: Sat: 1pm – 8pm
or by appointment.

www.hatchgallery.org 510-879-7382

A CCA group exhibition exploring the idea of transience. Taking place at Hatch Gallery in downtown Oakland.