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September 11, 2013

Department Photos – 2013

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September 10, 2013

[av_one_full first] [av_textblock ] James Cathey The goal of my work as a sound artist and a photographer is to document the dance between the organic and the synthetic. I love the juxtaposition of textures and the tension between nature and human habitation. The patterns...

September 10, 2013

Graduates 2015

[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”] Matt Allison photo by Corry Arnold My work is about cultivating moments of unexpected synergy. I’m constantly assembling and reassembling the things I collect from the world around me; always in search of some combination that expands my understanding of it....

June 25, 2013

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June 24, 2013

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April 24, 2013

Glass Box Gallery

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March 12, 2013

Arts Colloquium – Fall 2013

April 4 - June 6, 2013 The UCSB Department of Art & College of Creative Studies presents The COLLOQUIUM, beginning on Thursday, April 4th. The COLLOQUIUM offers a wide range of voices exploring the topics of contemporary art, theory, and cultural production. Presentations are provided by emerging and established visiting artists, as well as members of UCSB's own distinguished Art faculty. All lectures are free and open to the public, held every Thursday of the Spring quarter, from 5:00 to 6:50 at Buchanan Hall 1910.<div><hr /></div><div>April 4:</div><div>Faculty Speaker: Marko Peljhan</div><div><div><div>TWO POLAR VISIONS AND A WAR </div><div>Marko Peljhan is a conceptual artist acclaimed for his complex projects based on researching and designing methods of environmental and socio/political observation and reflection using sensing and information technologies.</div><div>Peljhan is the recipient of many prizes for his work, including the 2001 Golden Nica Prize at Ars Electronica together with Carsten Nicolai for their work, polar, and the UNESCO Digital Media Prize for Makrolab in 2004. During 2008, Peljhan was appointed as one of the European Union Ambassadors of Intercultural dialogue. His work has been exhibited internationally at multiple biennales and festivals (Venice, Gwangju,Brussels, Manifesta, Johannesburg, Istanbul), at the documenta X in Kassel, several ISEA exhibitions, several Ars Electronica presentations and major museums, such as the P.S.1 MOMA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, ICC NTT Tokyo, YCAM Yamaguchi, Van Abbemuseum and others. From 2009 on he is the one of the series editors of the Arctic Perspective Cahiers series (Hatje Cantz and API). He holds joint appointments with the Department of Art and the Media Arts & Technology graduate program at the University of California Santa Barbara, and was appointed as Co-Director of the University of California system-wide Institute for Research in the Arts in 2009.</div><div><a href="www.ladomir.net">www.ladomir.net</a></div></div></div>April 11: Faculty Speaker, Laurel Beckman Space Available: opportunities for the head and heart<img style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" src="https://i.imgur.com/GtCwmat.png" alt="" width="350" height="205" />Working with and nurturing eccentric positions and spaces, Laurel's work highlights perception, uncertainty, and public display. Attending to themes at the crossroads of consciousness + social conditions, meta-physics + science, Laurel’s practice investigates perceptual phenomena, stage and screen space, the built and imagined environment, language, and affect. Employing a range of media and distribution strategies, her projects often enlist commercial, neglected, and civic spaces in efforts to contribute meaningfully to the cultural landscape. Beckman’s public and video projects have been presented/screened in Palestine, Australia, India, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Toronto, Macau, and throughout the United States. She is a professor of art at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she engages with her lively students, pampers her small dog, and plays the occasional ukulele.<a style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;" href="https://www.laurelbeckman.com/">www.laurelbeckman.com</a> April 18: Keith Boadwee <img src="https://i.imgur.com/mrC70kn.jpg" alt="" /> Keith Boadwee studied at UCLA in the late 80’s where he worked with Paul McCarthy and Chris Burden who have both been influential on his practice. Boadwee’s works have primarily used photography as a tool to document/distill performance based activities. Notable exhibitions include the Venice Biennial, the New Museum’s “Bad Girls”, MOCA Los Angeles’ Portfolio of Photography curated by Cindy Sherman, Bay Area Now 3, Orange County Museum of Art’s “15 Minutes of Fame: Portraits from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol” and PS1’s “Into Me/Out of Me”. For the last 4 years, he has worked with his collaborative CLUB PAINT producing paintings and drawings that explore his continued fascination with the body, actionism, expressionist painting, sex, humor, and abjection. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at White Columns, New York, Steven Wolfe Fine Art, San Francisco, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans as part of Dan Cameron’s Prospect 1.5, Niklas Schechinger Fine Art, Hamburg and Paradise Garage, Venice CaliforniaB.A. UCLA 1989 M.F.A. U.C. Berkeley 2001 April 25: Jesse WilsonJesse Lee Wilson is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Wilson’s practice grows out of the intersection of social engagement with design, architecture, and contemporary art. Working primarily in processes that blur the line between painting and sculpture, graphic design or photography, he seeks to use the representation of an object as a device to investigate what is most essential in the object’s identity. Graphic symbols and illustrative images play key roles in his investigations. Wilson’s work primarily employs materials utilized in industrial and construction applications, which he puts to work in ways that subvert their pedestrian nature and allow for flux within a given composition, in homage to the ways a material life may be re-invented.Upon completing his MFA at UCSB in 2005, Wilson received several design commissions for his installation work at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts. Wilson moved to NYC in 2006 and worked as lead sculpture fabricator for artist Jeff Koons. After his blue chip art factory experience, Wilson began collaborating with architect, Jeremy Edmiston <a href="https://www.systemarchitects.net/profile_je.html">https://www.systemarchitects.net/profile_je.html</a> of SystemsArchitects on the design and installation of a community hosting venue for All Saints Church in Manhattan.Wilson has recently initiated a pilot project, Pathways Art Program in collaboration with System Architects, through a grant from the Hope for New York fund. Many of Wilson’s current projects engage artists who are homeless or in transitional housing, exploring opportunities for their expression of identity and personal narrative as a vehicle to engender dignity and empowerment through a creative practice. May 2: Ken Rinaldo(co-sponsored by MAT) Ken Rinaldo is an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He has been working at the intersection of art and biology for over two decades working in the catagories of interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging.His works have been commissioned and displayed nationally and internationally at museums, galleries and festivals such as: The Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth Australia, Exit Festival France, Transmediale Berlin, Germany, ARCO Arts Festival Madrid, Spain, The OK Center for Contemporary Art, ARS ELECTRONICA, Austria; The Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; The Australian Center for Photograhy; The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago; The Home Show, Seoul, Korea; V2 Dutch Electronica Arts Festival, Rotterdam, Holland; Image Du Future, Montreal, Canada; Siggraph, Los Angeles; The Exploratorium, San Francisco. He was the recipient of first prize for Vida 3.0 an international competition on Artificial life, an Award of Distinction from Ars Electronica in 2004 for the work Augmented Fish Reality, an Honorable Mention in 2001 at Ars Electronica Austria for Autopoiesis and has received numerous grants and awards including an Ohio Arts Council Grant, and 3 Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affaires grants. Rinaldo's work has been reviewed and edited in numerous publications and books including: Digital Art by Christiane Paul, Contemporary, ArtByte, NY; Art Press, Paris; Tema Celeste Contemporary Art, Italy; Circa Magazine, Ireland; Information Arts: Intersections of Art Science and Technology by Steve Wilson; The New York Arts Magazine; Virtualities: Television Media Art and Cyberculture by Margaret Morse; Leonardo Digital Salon, SF; Artweek, SF; Wired Magazine, SF; International Design, NY; Intercommunication # 7, a Critical Anthology of Interactive Artists, Japan; Artificial Intelligence Magazine, SF, Superdesigning Number 5, Japan and A minima Portugal. Rinaldo's work has been featured on TV and radio in Austria, Italy, Spain, Singapore, England, France, Sweden, Germany, Japan. Portugal and Finnish Public TV, as well as featured onThe Knowzone a Syndicated television show on the Arts and Sciences, National Public Radio, BBC TV and Radio, CNET television coverage of "Delicate Balance", 1994 and a one half hour special on "The Flock" for The Future, Canadian Broadcasting Corporaration; 1994.<a style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;" href="https://kenrinaldo.com/index.html">https://kenrinaldo.com/index.html</a>May 9: Faculty Speaker: George Legrady + MAT GradsGeorge Legrady holds a joint appointment in the Department of Art and the Media Arts & Technology graduate program where he is director of the Experimental Visualization Lab. His research and teaching are currently focused on data visualization funded by a Robet W Deutsch Foundation fellowship, and a robotic actuated multi-camera system funded by a National Science Foundation grant. His artwork in interactive, digital media explores the intersections between culture, narrative and emerging technologies with installations featured internationally in Asia, Europe and North America at places such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2001); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2005); the International Center for Photography, New York (1994), Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (2007) and other places. Legrady had a retrospective of his analog to digital artworks at the National Gallery of Canada, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in 1997. His commission for the Seattle Public Library is one of the few digital artworks to collect and parse data since 2005. "We Are Stardust" realized in collaborative with the NASA Spitzer Science Center at Caltech was featured at the Art Center College of Design (2008) and the Vancouver Winter Olympics in winter 2010.<a style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" href="https://www.georgelegrady.com/">https://www.georgelegrady.com/</a>May 16: Annie Lapin Things and Ings Annie Lapin's recent practice re-imagines the painted image as a stage for the dialectic of signs and materials. The resulting paintings simultaneously engage memory and phenomenological perception by fragmenting and flattening art historical allusions through material and formal interjections. Her work exudes a mysticism and a romanticism, while self-consciously referring to it's own construction. In this way, Lapin's paintings operate in the divide between the school of materialist deconstruction and the neo-idealist school of young artists whose work, despite roots in crude materiality and self-conscious absurdism, plays with a post-ironic emphasis on spiritualism, psychology and ritual in art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and institutions including: the Nerman Museum in Kansas City, Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, Annarumma Gallery in Naples, Italy, Josh Lilley Gallery in London, UK, and will have her first solo museum exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in fall 2013 in Greensboro, North Carolina. May 23: Christian Waldvogel Weltenblicke — From Beyond the Horizon<img style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5;" src="https://i.imgur.com/UMuVwtP.jpg" alt="" />Christian Waldvogel is a conceptual artist who deals with humanity as a species, on a planet and in the universe. He operates on the assumption that understanding the «world» as such, that having a real sense of its properties and character as a sphere orbiting a star, enables his audience to achieve the sense of context necessary to become truly global citizens. Aside from conducting an ongoing series of thought experiments which cover the time span from the early renaissance to an uncharted future, he engages in cooperations with molecular biologists, physiologists, the Swiss Air Force, or NASA astronauts. He works to reflect, paraphrase and enhance the systems he lives in, and to provide his audience with the tools to do so as well, encouraging them to look at life from an outside perspective, with a critical distance. In this sense, Waldvogel’s work could be defined both as a toolkit for a reality-checkup, as well as a poetic extension of humanity's urge to expand both knowledge and territory. When the Swiss Federal Art Council presented him with a 2011 Swiss Art Award, they said: «The way in which Waldvogel realizes his idea [...] shows the artist taking control — not with the hubris underlying technology-based attempts to conquer the universe, but using a poetical approach that extends the reach of art to the universe or, rather, to human thought about the universe.» Waldvogel holds an MSci in architecture from the ETH Zurich and RISD, and his work has been exhibited in museums and institutions internationally, most notably as the official Swiss contribution to the 9th Architecture Biennale in Venice. He is a three time recipient of the Swiss Art Award, and the author of two monographs, both of which have received medals in the prestigious Leipzig competition. He has taught and lectured worldwide, and he is a member of the Swiss Institute in Rome and a Co-Chair of the ESA Topical Team Arts & Science. May 30: UCSB Second Year Art Grads June 6: Faculty Speaker: Kim Yasuda Professor Yasuda's site-specific installations incorporate a range of media to activate both interior exhibition and outdoor public space. Her three-dimensional works investigate the relationship between identity and location within the modern landscape. Yasuda's current investigations center on ways in which creative practices influence social transformation. Her work has been presented in exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada) Camerawork Gallery (London); the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York); The Whitney Museum of American Art (Connecticut) and MIT List Gallery (Boston). She has been the recipient of visual arts fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, US/Japan Foundation, Howard Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation in Sculpture and Anonymous was a Woman Foundation. Most recently, Yasuda has worked with students and faculty from across campus as part of the "Friday Academy", a project-based curricular initiative that enlists a cross-disciplinary team of faculty, students and community professionals to work on off-site community programming. Through the FriAc, Yasuda and her students have worked on a public art program for farm-worker housing in Oxnard, CA, the repurposing of shipping containers into affordable housing, a storefront renovation and streetscape banner redesign for downtown Isla Vista, CA. Most recently, Yasuda is developing a post-graduate community arts incubator to support recently-degreed graduates in creating sustainable models for their work. Yasuda currently serves on the national advisory board as executive vice chair for the academic consortium, Imagining America, a network of 95 colleges and universities committed to publicly engaged scholarship through the arts, design and humanities, developing policy and advocacy platforms that impact the arts and higher education.<a style="font-size: 13px;" href="https://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/yasuda/">https://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/yasuda/</a>

November 19, 2012

Artists Resources

Resources for artists:https://www.gyst-ink.com/resources/resourcescontents.phphttps://www.fracturedatlas.orghttps://www.artisthelpnetwork.com/index.asp Funding:https://www.ucira.ucsb.edu, https://www.ucira.ucsb.edu/grants/what-we-fund-grant-types/https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/funding-opportunities/https://www.cciarts.orghttps://blackrockarts.org/grantshttps://www.puffinfoundation.orghttps://creative-capital.orghttps://www.cranbrookart.edu/library/research/grants.htmhttps://libraries.cca.edu/learn/research/grantshttps://www.scholarshipsandgrants.us/art-scholarships/ Mixed opportunities, exhibitions, funding:https://www.nyfa.org/default_mac.asphttps://www.callforentry.org/index.phphttps://www.lvartscommission.com/artist-opportunities/https://www.wooloo.orghttps://rhizome.org/announce/opportunities/https://artdeadline.comhttps://www.artdeadlineslist.com Residency opportunities:Alliance of Artist Communities https://www.artistcommunities.orgThe Anderson Ranch Artists' Residency Program https://www.andersonranch.org/residencies/index.php?page=residency-overviewBeltway Poetry Quarterly “the most complete listing anywhere of Artist Residency Programs in the US and abroad” https://washingtonart.com/beltway/resid1.htmlBemis Center for Contemporary Arts Artist Residency Program https://www.bemiscenter.org/residency/Blouin Art Info “Top 10 Residency Programs Around the Globe” https://www.artinfo.com/news/story/13832/emerging-artists-top-10-residency-programs-around-the-globeCalifornia College of the Arts https://www.cca.edu/students/careers/student-resources/residenciesCranbrook Academy of Art Library https://www.cranbrookart.edu/library/research/residencies.htmDjerassi Resident Artists Program https://www.djerassi.org/The Hammer Museum's Artist Residency Program https://hammer.ucla.edu/residencies/residenciesISLAND Hill House Artist Residency Program https://artmeetsearth.org/artistresidency.htmlJentel Artist Residency Program https://www.jentelarts.org/Kala Art Institute Artist-in-Residence Program https://www.kala.org/air/air.htmlLower Manhattan Cultural Council https://www.lmcc.net/residenciesMesart’s List of Artist Residencies https://www.mesart.com/art/Resources:Artist-in-Residency_ProgramsNew York Artists Online https://www.newyorkartists.net/art-residencies.htmlOx Bow Artist Residencies https://www.ox-bow.org/experience/residencies/artist-residenciesRecology SF Artist in Residence Program https://www.recologysf.com/AIR/index.htmResArtis Worldwide Network of Artist Residencies https://www.resartis.org/en/Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program https://www.rair.org/index.htmSkowhegan Artist Residency https://www.skowheganart.org/Wexner Center for the Arts Artists Residencies https://www.wexarts.org/about/residencies/

August 21, 2012

Colloquium Fall 2012

September 27-December 6, 2012 The UCSB Department of Art & College of Creative Studies presents The COLLOQUIUM, beginning on Thursday, September 27th. The COLLOQUIUM offers a wide range of voices exploring the topics of contemporary art, theory, and cultural production. Presentations are provided by emerging and established visiting artists, as well as members of UCSB's own distinguished Art faculty. All lectures are free and open to the public, held every Thursday of the Fall quarter, from 5:00 to 6:50 at Embarcadero Hall or Pollock Theater.<hr /> 9/27/2012 Richard Ross Richard Ross is a photographer and professor of Art at UCSB. His most recent work, Juvenile In Justice, turns a lens on the placement and treatment of American juveniles housed by law in facilities that treat, confine, punish, assist and, occasionally, harm them. Ross has been the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Fulbright Program. Ross's work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London; National Building Museum, Washington D.C; Aperture Gallery, New York; and ACME. Gallery, Los Angeles <a href="https://www.richardross.net">www.richardross.net</a> 10/4/2012 Jane Mulfinger & Stephanie Washburn Jane Mulfinger is an artist, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at UCSB. She is an avid collector of human artifacts, engaging her audience in visceral and perceptual reflections on the significances of human activity in site-specific installations, performance, and sculpture. Publications have included Flash Art (Italian version), Art and Design, Contemporary Visual Art, Untitled, The Economist, The Times (London) and The Guardian. Most recently, she has collaborated with artist/writer Stephanie Washburn on a series of papers and exhibitions based on their mutual interest in humor in contemporary art. <a style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt;" href="https://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/mulfinger/">www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/mulfinger/</a> Stephanie Washburn works in various media including drawing, painting, photography, and video. In her latest series Reception, Washburn combines domestic everyday materials and televised imagery to stage a series of photographs. She received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara, where she teaches painting. Washburn has been included in exhibitions at Davidson Art Center; Los Angeles Municipal Gallery; Museum of Art, Design, and Architecture; and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She is represented by Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. <a href="https://www.swashburn.com/">https://www.swashburn.com/</a> 10/11/2012 Eric Beltz Playfully macabre and fiercely humorous, Eric Beltz¹s hypnotically detailed drawings recast stories and characters from colonial American history in a grayscale psychedelia. Beltz is represented by Acuña-Hansen Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. He received his MFA in 2004 from UC Santa Barbara, where he currently teaches drawing and painting. His work has been featured in Flaunt Magazine and in several group shows in Los Angeles, New York, and England. <a href="https://ericbeltz.com/">https://ericbeltz.com/</a> 10/18/2012 Daniel Eisenberg Daniel Eisenberg is a documentary and experimental filmmaker and faculty in the Film Video and New Media Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. His work deals with subjects of history, memory, and trauma as well as how events themselves are disrupted, dislocated and reconsidered. His work has been exhibited/screened at Museum of Modern Art, NY; University of Amsterdam; Goldsmiths College, University of London; Musee National d'Art Moderne, and more. <a href="https://www.danieleisenberg.com/">https://www.danieleisenberg.com/</a> 10/25/2012 Amir Fallah Amir H. Fallah is an artist, creative director and publisher of the contemporary arts magazine Beautiful/Decay (<a href="https://www.beautifuldecay.com/">https://www.beautifuldecay.com/</a>) His own works range from painting, drawing and sculpture, evoking a similarly fresh, brightly colored aesthetic that addresses a nexus of idiosyncratic topics. His exhibits include shows at Cherry And Martin, 31 Grand, Overtones, The Third Line, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and The Sharjah Biennial. <a href="https://www.amirhfallah.com/index.php">https://www.amirhfallah.com/index.php</a> 11/1/2012 Kevin Appel Kevin Appel is an artist based out of Los Angeles and a Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies at the University of California Irvine. Appel's artwork occupies spaces within and between the practices of abstract painting and architecture. His current paintings are large abstractions painted on large-scale printed photographs of Appel's own taking. His recent solo exhibitions include Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City (2012), ACME. Gallery, Los Angeles (2009), and Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland (2008). <a href="https://kevinappelstudio.com/">https://kevinappelstudio.com/</a> 11/8/2012 Sam Durant Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand. His work has been included in the Panamá, Sydney, Venice and Whitney Biennales. Durant teaches art at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. <a href="https://samdurant.com/">https://samdurant.com/</a> 11/15/2012 Gerard Minakawa <a style="font-style: normal; color: #2f65a5; font-family: Arial, Verdana, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.minakawa.com">www.minakawa.com</a> 11/29/2012 Ellen Rothenberg Ellen Rothenberg's work is concerned with the politics of everyday life and the formation of communities through collaborative practices. Her installations and public projects often employ the iconography of social movements and their residual documents to interrogate contemporary political engagement and social dialogue. Her work has been presented in the US and Europe at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; the Royal Festival Hall, London; and the Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. <a href="https://www.ellenrothenberg.com/">https://www.ellenrothenberg.com/</a> 12/6/2012 Lucy Raven Lucy Raven is an artist, filmmaker, writer and editor based in New York. She primarily works with animation and the moving image. Her recent photographic animation, China Town, has been screening at art, film, and industrial sites internationally, most recently at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Bradford International Film Festival, UK; and the Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada. Her work was also included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Raven teaches at the School of Visual Arts in the Art Criticism and Writing Program. <a style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt;" href="https://artcriticism.sva.edu/?faculty=lucy-raven">https://artcriticism.sva.edu/?faculty=lucy-raven</a>

August 17, 2012

Graduates 2014

James Cathey <img src="https://i.imgur.com/1VXei.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" />The goal of my work as a sound artist and a photographer is to document the dance between the organic and the synthetic. I love the juxtaposition of textures and the tension between nature and human habitation. The patterns of decay and erosion that occur in the environment, despite the efforts of humans to contain it, are to me extremely compelling. I am fascinated by the accomplishments and failures of adaptation, which resonate on both the macro and micro levels. The beauty and chaos of growth and degeneration have influenced my work both in sound and visual art for many years.After composing many soundscapes and capturing the patterns of growth and decay, it was only natural that I progressed into filmmaking. My background in construction, electronics, and fabrication compliments and enables my desire to successfully integrate my treated films into an installation framework. I wish to further establish the visual medium as a non-linear, yet personal experience that can emphasize and promote the frail beauty of the natural world.www.zendebris.com Cathy Ellis<img src="https://i.imgur.com/SILIK.jpg" alt="" width="380" height="500" />In these paintings idealism and disaster coexist with more everyday concerns like eating, sleeping, work and recreation. I begin with a landscape or architectural structure that captures my attention. This area then becomes a stage where I introduce a loose narrative based on common human experiences, both real and imagined. My current body of work consists of two dimensional paintings that use bright color and a combination of figurative and abstract elements. I use color to impart a cultural vernacular: burlesque red, astro-turf green, hunter orange, dirty-pool blue. I live by the Laguna de Santa Rosa, a flood plain of nearly seventy-five hundred acres. Water all around me makes its way to the sea, not in a nice rushing river, but by seeping slowly in oily puddles, listing in gullies by freeways, and shimmering in endless flooded fields. This backdrop of water informs my paintings, providing a backbone onto which my imagination moves forward.<a style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;" href="https://cathyellis.org/home.html">www.cathyellis.org</a> Clare Little<img src="https://i.imgur.com/Mwc5T.jpg" alt="" />My work reflects time spent during my formative years in Las Vegas Nevada. Las Vegas is a place where exotic dessert landscape blends into an ever-changing skyline and it is a place where construction mirrors the earth’s regenerative nature, decomposition and growth. This relationship between the feral and the tame has become my focus of exploration. As a fine artist I strive to explore the majestic within the domestic, utilizing construction materials, along with household furniture, to reconstitute interior domestic space into fantastical woodland scenes. <a style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: normal;" href="https://clarelittle.com/">https://clarelittle.com/</a> Maria Rendon<img src="https://i.imgur.com/9ekuM.jpg" alt="" />My visual inquiry stems from the economic, social and cultural inconsistencies I observed while growing up in Mexico City. I am interested in investigating these discrepancies by juxtaposing extremes.Working within this framework of extremes, my most recent work, triggered by a personal experience, investigates how abnormalities in brain function alter human personality and consciousness. In this series of work, I seek to evoke notions of disjointment, absence, and incoherence by inhibiting my practice – drawing with my left hand and using tools and materials that I wouldn’t normally use, such as thread and syringes. Through these interventions in process, I endeavor to build “connections” with my paralyzed (now deceased) mother: bridging the distance that exists between her and me, and expressing the simple feelings that she can no longer emote.My ultimate goal is to continue a visual exploration between: the present and the absent, the normal and the abnormal, the weak and the powerful, the haves and the have-nots through painting and spatial studies.https://www.mariarendon.net Sommer Roman Sheffield<img src="https://i.imgur.com/M323d.jpg" alt="" />I’m interested in the arena where the creative impulse and the event of renewal emerge from distressed circumstances. Using discarded objects and textiles, I create sculptures and environments that lay witness to the intersection of regeneration, resilience, survival, and the imagination. I notice, select, manipulate, and rearrange otherwise neglected materials or gestures of the everyday, laying witness to their regenerative capacity. Used clothing, domestic textiles, old furniture, discarded house paint, and human hair are my materials of choice. They are physically tangible, colloquial items charged with history and story. These materials reference domestic spaces, shelter, body, labor, and craft. My practice is spirited by the textile heritage of my female ancestors, the natural world, domesticity, Art-Brut, and Surrealism. <a href="https://www.sommerroman.com">www.sommerroman.com</a>