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Welcome to the Ball of the Season: Art Ball 2024

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  My Friend with her Sculpture Costume Welcome to the ball of the season! Art Ball this year was a huge success with many festivities celebrating the art students and faculty along with the celebration of the ASL building. As a new art building is soon to be fully made, we celebrate the history of ASL and represent sculpture, ceramics, and painting/drawing students. There were so many amazing works displayed and yummy foods. As an art student, I was able to display my own works in the ASL building and showcase my studio loft space with more works of mine. Two of the upper-division classes, Experimental Painting and Drawing and Advanced Painting had the opportunity to show the public what we had been working on all semester. The seniors showcased their final paintings at the Else and Witt gallery for the Senior Show. The sculpture students had the honor of parading through Sac State campus with a live band with the costumes they made for their final projects. This was my first time ...
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MFA Candidate Exhibition 2024!

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  Master's of Fine Arts Studio Art Candidate Exhibition 2024; Sloane Cabrera, Ngan Nguyen, Kathy Page  A mixture of oil paintings, monotype prints, and installations, Master's art candidates Sloane Cabrera, Nan Nguyen, and Kathy page showcase a variety of amazing works to represent what they have been working on so far in this program. I was honored to be able to see each of the works in person, up-close and observing the hard work each of the MFA art students put in.  Sloane Cabrera, an MFA student who's concentration is on painting and drawing created a series of works that each involve a triptych outlook. Her paintings are said to be "existing between the irrational and the rational," Cabrera says. Her artistic practice revolves around creating paintings that idealize time, memory, and the inevitability of death. Through these ideas, her works takes her viewers into another realm consisting of dreamlike scenery, experiences, and memories that all include animal...
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A Trip to SFMOMA!

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Me looking at Gerard Richter’s 256 Farben (256 Colors), 1976, Oil on Linen Going to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was a very insightful experience seeing many great artworks I’ve never seen and some that I’ve learned in class. The exhibition's main mediums were paintings, sculptures, and mixed media with the theme of loss and remembrance in Germany in the 1960s. Every exhibition I saw was after the 1960s, however, the ones that I witnessed more were after the 1970s. Artists who were a part of the exhibitions were Gerard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Yayoi Kusama. The ones I will focus on will be Gerard Richter and Yayoi Kusama. Gerard Richter (German, b.1932), Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Picture), 1987, Oil on Linen  Gerard Richter was born in Germany in 1932 and created abstract works that started to develop in 1976. With this work of his, his process took layer by layer to finish, working slowly over time. He applied the paint and at times would scrape i...
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Alanna Anderson's "Painting With Rainbows" Student Exhibition Review

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Alanna Anderson, an art student at Sacranmento State, curated her own exhibition with her own paintings. She calls her exhibition "Painting with Rainbows" because of the fact that her works are very colorful, lively, and vibrant. After walking around the exhibition I was in awe of her painting style and the colors she used. Her art style is her very own and they each have an original story she created. "Little Park Date" I asked Alanna where she gets her inspiration from that inspires her work and she mentioned that she gets inspiration from video games, cartoons, and other artists' around her, but her main inspiration are video games that she plays to which she was able to create another realm of video game styles and characters. She excitedly said she wants to create her own video game someday with the art style she's developing. Her artistry stems from creating a scene and a character that goes along with that scene...
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The Re-Enactment of Fresno Sleezo 2024

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"Fresno Sleezo" was first performed by Vicki Hall and Steven Baim in 1970 at the CSU Fresno campus gallery. This performance piece was viewed by Judy Chicago's Feminist Art Program. Vicki Hall, a feminist performance artist, became Judy Chicago's teaching assistant in the last year of her MFA program at UCLA. Upon her frustration and anger with being the only female in the MFA program, she decided to chain herself to the floor in the exhibition space as a protest piece at UCLA during the fall of 1970. "Student in Chains" was a piece that was only performed once just like Fresno Sleezo. This reenactment of "Fresno Sleezo" is a performance that is slightly different than the first performance. The performance was done in silence which I thought was very interesting. When I first walked in it was already very silent and I felt that the performance had already started with the hostess giving us a ticket with only using her body gestures...
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Sooo, Why Is It So Funny??

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  My View of the Feminist Wit In 1970s Bay Area Art: She Laughs Back Artists in Conversation I attended the Artists in Conversation: Why's That So Funny? from the She Laugh's Back exhibition that was curated by Elaine O'Brian and made by 19 female artists. The artists in conversation were M. Louise Stanely, Lorraine Garcia-Nakata, and Kathy Goodell. Lorraine Garcia-Nakata is an SF resident and is known for her large-scale drawings/paintings. She produced 7 large-scale murals and is one of the 7 mural artists in Sacramento. Kathy Goodell is a professor in painting/drawings and has been in many galleries and magazines/articles. M. Louise Stanely is a lifetime adjunct and instructor. Each of them had the opportunity to show us their artworks and discuss their upbringing in the arts. They started off with having Lorraine go first in the discussion and started talking about her childhood. At about 5 years old, she knew about her passion for the arts. At the age of 13, she woul...
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"In Tune" By Amari Moore and Bryana Moore: Student Exhibition

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  In Tune Exhibition at the Witt Gallery in Sacramento State "In Tune" by Amari Moore and Bryana Moore are two sisters who worked together to create a harmonious exhibition that connects their faith and emotions. Amari Moore, a current art student at Sac State, is a painter who focuses on using oil paint and other mixed media in some of the paintings showcased at this exhibition. Bryana Moore, a Sac State Alumni, does photography. Both artists using different mediums work together to bring their stories and their inner selves to life. Within photography, oil paintings, poetry, and music, they have found beauty in becoming in tune with themselves. They ask us, "What are we in tune with?". Amari C. Moore and Bryana C. Moore,  In Tune , 2024, Poetry and Photography, 38"x 48" Me in front of the  Wall of Miracles  Throughout this exhibition, they asked us to bring headphones to experience not only visual enjoyment but also to listen to audios that make the artw...
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