R WE MAKIN' IT
Artist: Cate White MFA candidate
Exhibition dates: October 28 - November 19, 2011
R We Makin’ It is an anarchic multi-media installation with drawing, painting, sculpture and video that chronicles the spectrum of human experience from degeneracy to redemption - sometimes hysterical, sometimes poignant, often philosophical, often banal, mostly funny.
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MEMENTO MORI
Artist: Jennifer Jervis MFA candidate
Exhibition dates: November 28 - December 17, 2011
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BUMPS & GAPS
Exhibition dates: October 3 - 22, 2011
In her Master of Fine Arts Graduate solo exhibition Bumps & Gaps, Hadley Williams uses pre-fabricated materials such as bubble wrap, cashmere, plastic packaging, pom-poms, antique prints, comics and correction tape. In each painting a single form usually a circle, bump or rectangle, is repeated to create an abstract field of accumulation. Inspired by Minimalist artwork and also by craftwork, Williams explores the relationship of conflicting elements, such as control and flexibility, knowing and not knowing, the mind and the body, self and other. Tension between the attractive and the gross, the machine made and the handmade, linearity and roundness, repetition and variation, perfection and imperfection, anxiety and calm is embodied in each piece. Over twenty paintings ranging in size from 10 x 10 inches to 58 x 98 inches will be on display. www.hadleywilliams.com
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BLOOD IS MERE DECORATION - A RITUAL FOR LIBERATION
Exhibition dates: October 13 -15, 2011
Performances held at The Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco
Blood is Mere Decoration: A Ritual for Liberation is a multimedia performance that dramatizes the connection between mass incarceration and America’s heritage of slavery. Artist Anthony Julius Williams combines interactive ritual, electronic music, butoh dance, video projections and conversation to compel the audience to question their role in the prison industrial complex.
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WHEN THE BARN BURNS DOWN
Exhibition dates: August 22 – September 16, 2011
The installation exhibition When the Barn Burns Down is a cosmogonic dreamscape which explores themes of inner and outer experience, wildness and domesticity, nature and self. The two-room installation environment involves animation, drawing, sculpture, and sound, designed to activate the senses.
Installation artists often create a realm with a message, an alternate universe, a maker's utopia. In this work, Eugenia Mitsanas creates a world in which you are invited to howl at the moon and immerse yourself in an olfactory experience, while exploring the psycho-auditory effects of binaural beats.
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ORIGIN OF BELIEF
Exhibition Dates: July 5 - July 23, 2011
Tara Maria Ford is fascinated by what we believe and how this informs the way we are in the world. Tara considers herself an investigator as she paints inner landscapes, photographs moments in time, and interviews people on the street. She asks questions that push the boundaries of personal perspective and beliefs.
Origins of Belief is an exhibition of paintings, photographs, video, and live interviews (at the reception) that aspires to inspire a conversation about personal beliefs in the moment.
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GRADUATE EXHIBITION 2011
Exhibition Dates: May 31 - June 24, 2011
An exhibition of the works of the 2011 Arts and Consciousness Graduates.
Master of Arts in Transformative Arts
Catherine Baumgartner
elizaBeth Benson
Cat Caracelo
Todd Donahue
Virdell Hickman
Jonathan Jay Levine
Lorraine Luna
Margaret Ann Rohde
Denise Schwab
Bethany ChristineTrombly
Master of Fine Arts
Kathy deRosas
Tara Maria Ford
Jennifer Jervis
Emma Leona Mankin - Morris
Eugenia Mitsanas
Eric Cyganik Morgan
Amie Louise Spitler
Anthony Julius Williams
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Odyssey of Transformation:
A Quest for the Genuine
Exhibition Dates: April 22 - May 21, 2011
With wax, pigment, tissue paper and oils, Claudia Marseille, Jenn Shifflet, and Ellen Vogel, three alumni of JFK University’s Arts & Consciousness program, explore the spaciousness and sensuality of their materials discovering multiple constellations of self and other, human and nature.
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Arts & Consciousness Faculty Exhibition 2011
Exhibition Dates: March 18 - April 16, 2011
This annual Arts & Consciousness exhibition displayed the works of the following faculty members:
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Level to Level
Exhibition Dates: February 17 - March 12, 2011
Level to Level is an installation of paintings and videos by MFA Graduate Erik Cyganik Morgan that journey character consciousness and transportive landscapes through the intersections of time, movement, color and sound.
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SecondNature
Paintings by Emma
October 28 - November 20, 2010
SecondNature is a series of paintings and other works that cross the bodies of women with those of animals. The pathos and emotional drama created by these juxtapositions causes a tension which reflects on the status of women, the state of the environment, and the contemporary human condition.
For more about the artist, visit www.emmamankin.com.
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ABSENCE PRESENCE
Installations: A playful landscape of the ephemeral
September 29 − October 23, 2010
Absence Presence by artist Kathy deRosas is an exhibition that creates a playful, evocative and poetic landscape of the ephemeral. Working with the transient and sensuous qualities of disparate materials such as pom-poms, honey and dirt deRosas reveals the very delicacy of time.
Along with the ephemeral, Absence Presence also explores the merging of the personal and political in the artist’s ongoing series entitled Oakland Projects. Through site-specific ritual, deRosas observes and documents the economic and environmental changes occurring in and around her neighborhood. Her site-specific art brings change and transformation of various sites in Oakland through partnerships in the Oakland community.
Kathy deRosas lives in Oakland and exhibits her work in Bay Area venues, such as a one person exhibit at the Sanchez Art Center Pacifica, CA (2009). She has partnered with The Crucible, Edna Brewer Middle School and Oakland Public Works Creek to Bay Clean Up Day, 2010. She is an MFA candidate at John F. Kennedy University’s Arts & Consciousness Program, Berkeley, CA
For more information visit: www.kathyderosas.com.
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Distillations: Meditations on the Japanese American Experience
August 17 - September 18, 2010
Reiko Fujii, Lucien Kubo, Shizue Seigel, and Judy Shintani
Four Sensei women artists draw from personal, family, and collective narratives to explore the complex legacies of the Japanese American experience through collage, assemblage, glass, painting, photography, word, found objects, installation, video and performance.
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2010 Graduate Exhibition
June 17 - July 30, 2010
Participating artists are the following degree candidates:
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
Kenna Marie Allen, Carolyn J. Martin, Joan L. Otler, Deonora Raposo Pedro
Karen Rainer, Jody Stegman, Sarah Dorothee Theismann, Stuart Allen Walker
Master of Arts in Transformative Arts Degree
Richard Bacon, Kaari A. Diefenbacher, Ceylan Fadiloglu, Maureen Patricia Green
Christina Maureen Hoepke, Princilla Pierre, Naomi Ruth Raine, Savita Kailyn Skye
Master of Fine Arts Degree
Kimberley Anne Campisano
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WEAD's 15th Anniversary Exhibition
May 12 - June 12, 2010
This exhibition is a re-dedication to WEAD's original commitment to support women's unique contributions to the fields of environmental and social justice art. A goal of this exhibition is to educate its audience to the depth of thinking and breadth of material approaches in contemporary women's activist art strategies and production.
The participating artists include:
Krystle Ahmadyar
Estelle Akamine
Sylvia Algire
Pamela Blotner
Dianna Cohen
Lauren Elder
Linda Gass
Dee Hibbert – Jones
Lisa Kokin
Robin Lasser
Violeta Luna
Linda Mac Donald
Barbara Milman
Liz Merolla
Juana Alicia Montoya
Janice Nakashima
Adrienne Pao
Marella Pedersen
Praba Pilar
Daphne Ruff
Judith Selby - Lang
Danielle Siembieda
Maryly Snow
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The ART of Transformation
March 30 - May 7, 2010
Held in conjunction the JFK University's Celebration of 30 Years of Holistic Studies, this exhibition featured the work of:
All of these artists, each in their own way, have discovered the power of arts to transform the consciousness of both individuals and communities. Through the act of creation, feelings and thoughts of the past find their way to the surface where they can be transformed. It is this deep release that allows a person or an entire community to regain a part of the wholeness that may have vanished as a result of a challenging life experience.
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Arts & Consciousness Faculty Exhibition
February 19 - March 24, 2010
An exciting exhibition of recent work by current faculty of the Arts & Consciousness program. This year's show includes performance, video, painting, installation, sculpture, digital, and pastel media.
Artists
Thomas Becker
Seth Eisen
Margaret Lindsey
Peter London
Jeremy Morgan
Sharon Siskin
Mary Webster
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Alumni Exhibition 2009
November 13 - December 16, 2009
The Alumni Exhibition 2009 was a show of work created by graduates from the Masters in Transformative Arts and Masters of Fine Arts programs in the Department of Arts & Consciousness, Berkeley Campus - John F. Kennedy University. This year's exhibition, juried by Jeremy Morgen, Professor, San Francisco Art Institute and Graham Stewart, Professor, University of North Umbria - School of Design, presents work in a cross section of media such as: paint, pastel, sculpture, photography, video, printmaking, fiber, and installation.
For details on other past exhibits, please see the link under "Related Downloads."
For information on upcoming Gallery events, please visit the "Events" page.