2004 Exhibitions
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Kirsten Stromberg Title: Desire Inspired by post-feminist discourse and Buddhist philosophical inquiry, Stromberg's paintings and installations question forms of desire, conflict and identity in both western and eastern thinking. Working with shifts, gaps, silence and double structures she points to that which is hidden and destabilizes the known. Dates: December 11 - 22, 2004 Reception: Saturday, December 11, 5 pm - 8 pm Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Laura Gest Winder Title: The Sacred Side of Cheap and Tacky Objects, installations and eight thousand Peeps herald the sacred side of cheap and tacky. Winder, a shopper-gatherer, says an interactive Chocolate Shrine is also involved. Dates: November 1 - 16, 2004 Reception: Saturday, November 6, 5 - 8 pm Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm Saturday/Sunday, November 13 - 14, Noon - 4 pm Closed Veteran's Day, November 11 |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Hannelore Fischer Title: vision into form , MFA Graduate Exhibition Fischer is an abstract visionary painter. With her MFA graduate exhibition "VISION INTO FORM" Fischer presents with over twenty new paintings of how her inner experience takes on form through an intuitive painting process. The compelling radiant biomorphic shapes lure the viewer with bright colors and rich texture. The images resemble vast galaxies or tiny cells and can be read as both. Her sensuous painting style and gestural fluidity create a mood of celebration. Frequently she uses tall and narrow canvases which act as portals for her inner mystical experience. Fischer often works in multiples that complement the expansive, borderless quality of her work. Dates: October 17 - 29, 2004 Reception: Saturday, October 23, 5 - 8 pm Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm |
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Rapture: Exploring the 21st Century Alumni Exhibition 2004 Dates: September 29 - October 14, 2004 Reception: Saturday, October 2, 5 - 7 pm Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Wasil Bakowicz Title: Wasil, MFA Graduate Exhibition Wasil, an object oriented installation of signs and symbols, invites the visitor to experience a most unique encounter with themselves as they move through an environment of painted sculptures displayed on the wall, floor and in the air. It is truly a show to be enjoyed on many levels. Dates: August 30 - September 10, 2004 Reception: Saturday, September 4, 5 - 8 pm Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm, and Monday, September 6, noon - 4:00 pm |
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Death: Artists Confronting Mortality
Death is a universal reality. This exhibition will explore artists - reactions to death as grief, rage, fear, elegy, transformation and mystery. The links between the inevitability of death and issues of identity and community are reflected in the artists work.
The exhibit will include works by the following artists: Thomas Akawie, Berkeley; Pamela Bonino, Palm Springs and San Francisco; George Herms, Los Angeles; Sally Larsen, San Francisco; Bernie Lubell, San Francisco; Fred Martin, Oakland; Craig Nagasawa, Berkeley; Sarah Nichols, Vallejo; Irene Pijoan, Berkeley; Bill Rosen, Berkeley and New York; and Michael Wingo, Los Angeles.
Exhibition: August 4 - 26, 2004 Reception: August 7, Saturday, 7 - 9 pm Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday, 11 am - 5 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, August 14 - 15, 21 - 22, noon - 4 pm |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Ron Moore Title: Just for Fun Moore's work is truly "Just for Fun." In this realm where steel is whim-sically transformed into figures and mechanical devices, a sense of theater that tickles our fancy emerges. Moore invites us to enter and play! From a colorful machine, appropriately titled, Goin' Nowhere, to a reclining female figure with a horse galloping along the gentle curve of her hip, the artist treats us to a visual balance carefully struck between movement and sensuous languor and the joys of simply being a metallic figure. Exhibition: July 19 - 30, 2004 Reception: Saturday, July 24, 4 - 6:30 pm Gallery Hours: Monday to Friday, 11 am - 5 pm |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Reiko Fujii Title: A Sparkle on the Ancestral Sea of Time Asian American artist Reiko Fujii explores issues about her identity in relation to her family, her Japanese ancestry and her American upbringing in her MFA show. Through a combination of sculpture, video, performance and installations, Reiko expresses feelings arising from her own memories and experiences of her family. Reiko's Glass Ancestral Kimono, accompanied by videos of a profound journey, an installation of artifacts from her family's internment during World War II, part of a barn wall with her grandmother's chalk writing and her bronze and glass masks will be on exhibit. Dates: July 8 through 16, 2004 Reception: Sunday, July 11, 2 - 5 pm Performance: Sunday, July 11, 3 pm |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Jennifer Shifflet Title: Within the Between The body of work for this show is made up of color-field influenced internal landscapes that explore the relationship between matter and spirit. Exhibition: May 17 - 28, 2004 Reception: Saturday, May 22, 5 - 8 pm Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Ruth Block Title: Inner Dialogues "Inner Dialogues" are large-scale paintings and monotypes offering a range of images from boldly colorful figuration to the barely discernible and subtle velvety darks of deep space. All are intriguing, mysterious and layered with hidden elements and possibilities. The viewer is invited to share in the experiential conversations of discovery and reflection of what it is like to be consciously alive on this planet at this time in history from a personal or emotional/psychological perspective. Exhibition: February 21 - March 4, 2004 (Open February 21 and 22 by appointment only) Reception: Saturday, February 28, 5 - 8 pm |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Mary Lamboley MFA Graduate Exhibition Title: in parentheses (from habit to habitat) Inspired by author Virginia Woolf, Living Systems Theory, and Buddhism, Mary Lamboley witnesses personal and cultural patterns through the cycles and traces of nature. In her upcoming graduate MFA thesis exhibition, in parenthesis (from habit to habitat), she addresses the connections between conflict, growth, and identity, to ideas pertaining to the wild, the domesticated and the extinct. Exhibition: February 2 - 17 Reception: Saturday, February 7, 5 - 8 pm Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm (open Presidents' Day) and Saturday and Sunday, February 14 & 15, 1 - 5 pm |
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Susan Shanti Gibian Title: The Wisdom of the Heart pantings, installation, photographs, sculpture The ephemeral and transient qualities of life and death are woven into the installations, paintings and sculptures of Susan Shanti Gibian. Through a process of deep listening and attentiveness to the wisdom of the heart and the earth, she incorporates the teachings of Kashmir Shaivism, Vedanta and principles from other spiritual traditions and Indigenous cultures from around the world. Her work is a celebration of our sacred relationship with the earth, with each other and with ourselves. Exhibition: January 12 - 29, 2004 Reception: Sunday, January 25, 4 - 6 pm; Artist Talk: 3 pm |
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MFA Graduate Exhibition Rivers paintings are informed by her exploration of plants in their various stages of growth and decay. These paintings contain a world unto themselves that seem utterly self-sufficient, beautiful, handsome, lyrical, threatening and seductive all at the same time. Dates: November 3 - 13 Reception: November 8, 4 - 7 pm Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm Info: 510.649.0499 Cost: Free |
Past Events Beyond the Studio: Community Collaborations
Open to all A&C students and faculty and the general public
Instructor: Sharon Siskin
Guest Artist Lectures
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Seyed Alavi
Seyed is an artist who uses language to create poetic artworks that take the form of installations and community-based site specific public artworks. In his public projects he has worked in collaboration with young people, to create murals using words and phrases inspired and created through interactions in schools and community centers. Some of these projects include Words by Roads in Oakland, Poetry Garden in San Francisco, Forgotten Language in Palo Alto and an installation of words in the windows of the San Rafael library sponsored by Marin Public Artworks. He recently returned home to Oakland from a six-month residency in Kyoto, Japan. He has taught art throughout the Bay Area including University of California at Davis. Please visit Seyed's website before his lecture at www.netwizards.net/~here2day.
Debra Lewis
Debra is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy University Transformative Arts Program. She is currently directing programs, including inter-generational and visual arts, for low-income senior citizens at Mandana House, in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. She is looking for volunteers and JFK students interested in projects at this site.
Claudia Bernardi
Claudia is an Argentine artist working in printmaking. In 1990 she received the first of many California Arts Council Artist in Residence grants to teach printmaking to refugees and survivors of torture from Latin America at the Oakland Catholic Worker, a refugee shelter in East Oakland. She has also worked as a member of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, exhuming remains of the victims of state violence in Argentina, Ethiopia and El Salvador. She has recently returned from El Salvador where she worked on new community arts projects with the residents of Parquene. She currently teaches at California College of Arts and Crafts.
Susan Leibovitz Steinman
Susan is an artist, writer, lecturer and curator who explores the relationship between ecology, public art, community action and feminism. She has written a San Francisco Public School manual for integrating the teaching of art and recycling, and develops special environmental art projects for inner city elementary schools and public art commissions. Her work reveals the inherent interconnectedness of personal, local and global ecosystems. Susan recently completed two public art projects with the City of Oakland and is currently involved in several other public art projects with the National Park Service that involve land reclamation in their process and final outcome. She is co-founder of WEAD, Women Environmental Artists Directory and wrote the compendium the "Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art", Susan Lacy, editor.
- All lectures begin at 7:30 PM
- John F. Kennedy University Arts Annex, Studio #2,
- 2956 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley
- Lectures are Free, Open to the Public and
- Wheelchair Accessible
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Through the Light
John Anderson Richard Bowmanv Lee Mullican Gordon Onslow Ford |
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Fred Martin |
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Numinous Flesh The Visionary Art of Alex Grey JFKU was proud to host this exhibit of one of today's finest visionary artists, whose work has been seen in galleries worldwide. |