This exhibition chronicles Del Bosque's life since the birth of her child two years ago. Through mixed media paintings, she documents both her awareness of the inner psychological experience of being a woman, mother and artist; and the outer, external experiences of daily life. The exhibit speaks to universal issues of community, personal identity, and the search for meaning which are common to us all.

Dates: December 5 - 19, 2005
Reception: Saturday, December 10
Artist Talk: 4 - 5 pm
Reception: 5 - 7 pm

I was trained as a painter and a printmaker and received a Cadogan award for painting in 2002, my first year of graduate school. At that time I began to see my paintings as maps of a multi-dimensional world I was compelled to enter. I needed a new tool for navigating this unknown turf; a pattern-breaking tool, a fearless ally and agent of change.

The Positive Universal Directional Cone manifested to relieve the symptoms of chronic hovering among other maladies. My visual work moved officially "off the wall". The cone and I have formed an alliance to build a new type of engine, one that reverses certain non-sustainable processes set in motion during the early phase of the industrial revolution. These engines are made largely of discard, material seen as too unsubstantial or too mundane by the culture of high technology to count as anything but functional dross. There in lays the magic.

My engine, "Breathe', is the largest and most complex of my new works. It collaborates with the Heinz building's elaborate air-duct system to bring oxygen to the entire gallery office complex. It is at once a filter, a beacon and an approachable oracle. You are invited to participate in its activation and also in the Cone Project, at selected times during each day of the exhibition.

The exhibition includes the engine "Breathe", journaled blueprints, video capture, (on reception eve only) and a new periodic table of elements.

You are invited to participate in the Cone Project to alleviate chronic hovering, daily at selected times. You will receive your own PUD Cone for home-work. Call the A & C Gallery for more information and specific times 510.649.0499 or email me directly at: coreyh8@earthlink.net.

Dates: October 31 - November 11, 2005
Reception & Video Screening: Saturday, November 5, 5:30 - 8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Monday, November 7, 6:30 pm
Artists Website: http://www.hitchcock-presents.com

Matthew Purdon's MFA graduate show takes place in a castle - not a physical one, but a symbolic one. Gallery visitors are invited to journey through this metaphorical castle as they interact with each other in the Royal Gardens, the Banquet Hall, the Moat and the Aviary. Their final destination is the Throne Room, in which Purdon will perform live every twenty minutes. Visitors may arrive at any time, but they should allow 45-90 minutes to complete their journey.

Trained as an actor, writer, director and painter, Purdon reflects upon his current work. "I have shifted from doing performance to using performance. I connect not just with my body in space, but by sensing my body as space. From here, I am able to reorganize physical space to awaken deep interior spaces. I embrace my audience through a dialogue of interaction."

Drawing upon influences from experimental theatre, performance art and contemporary social practices, Purdon continually experiments with new structures for performance. His work confronts the nature of our personal and social identities by exploring the boundary between installation and performance, artist and audience, self and other. The use of repeated, overlapping symbols in his work allows individuals to weave their own narrative meaning based upon their personal actions.

Dates: Thursday - Saturday, October 20 - 23, 2005, 7 pm - 10 pm

Media Contact: Matthew Purdon
msp@matthewpurdon.com
510.418.0816

A life size sculpture of a burnt winged man flies over your head in "Redemption", an exhibition by Andrew Kong Knight. Knight's mixed media, environmental sculptures focus on the themes of survival and regeneration.

Dates: October 3 - 13, 2005
Reception: Saturday, October 8, 7 pm - 10 pm, Featuring Live sound and music
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 - 6 pm

Marsh Road is located 5 miles south of Bodega Bay and 5 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean in northern California. This rural location resembles the landscape where Cathy Richardson grew up in Northern UK and the choice for this project was reciprocal between the artist and the land.

The exhibit presents a window on the artist's process of inquiry into the sense of belonging to place. The vastness of space and the intimacy of place coincide and space morphs into "place" as she explores themes of chance and randomness in the aqueous origins of life. Her phenomenological installations show experiments with water of the Estero and her "maps" illustrate her experiences of tracking this locale.

Time is a human construct and we continue the race against it. Our primary reality, our interdependence with the natural world, is in danger of being forgotten in the "race". Richardson's intent is that her work might trigger sensual connections to values of our being alive and "awake" to the animate earth and to the places where we dwell.

Dates: September 21 - 30, 2005
Reception: Saturday, September 24, 5 - 8 pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, September 29, 7:30 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 - 6 pm

Imagine that you are standing in a field of grass that suddenly diffuses into bands of pulsating energy. Although the experience might be fleeting, Lori Robinson's oil paintings capture these resulting shifts of light and color that often flood the sky and earth. Her work addresses the notions of space and emptiness and offers the viewer an oasis for contemplation.

Robinson's paintings are a combination of abstraction and representation, the play between the escapable and the visible, and are formatted on a vertical axis that metaphorically links heaven and earth.

Dates: September 6 - 16, 2005
Reception: Saturday, September 10, 6 - 9 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 - 6 pm

This exhibition looks at a spectrum of work by artists who have chosen to use their work as a site to contain an alter-ego or stand in for themselves. The varied works pose questions such as: Who am I? Why does anything matter? What defines the self and how can the self be illustrated? What roles and forms can the self be projected into? The artists in the exhibition use the lenses of pop psychology, therapy, self help systems, popular culture and contemporary spirituality to make works that contain varied facts of their inner lives.

Using mediums that range from painting to performance and video, the artists in Authentic Selves utilize intense self awareness to communicate larger truths, which are manifested through the conventions of self portraiture, cartoons, confessional speeches, and allegorical drawing. By employing humor, pathos, and existential dread in equal measures, the works seek to communicate a complex vision of "humanness".

Curator: Rebecca Katz
Artists: Alika Cooper, Clare Hebert, Rebecca Katz, Virginia Kleker, Susan van der Mellen, Ted Purves, Mark Rodriguez, Tim Sullivan, and Dan Perjovschi
Dates: August 10 - August 31, 2005
Reception: Saturday, August 13, 5 - 8 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 - 6 pm

Alluding to the physically-infused spirituality characteristic of medieval Christian women, "Praying with My Fingers" also describes Jackson's approach to art making as a many-tiered quest for guidance into her artistic, spiritual, and cultural identities. Her current work traces her efforts to feel for often invisible cultural structures that shape or distort women's self-perceptions: in particular, artistic and spiritual paradigms that occlude feminine realities. Using such disparate materials as tea leaves, white latex house paint, and hot glue, Jackson creates mixed media pieces that plumb these occlusions to evoke paradoxical readings of such concepts as desire, creativity, purity, transcendence, and union. Her work mourns and attempts to mend the self-devouring or strangely mis-grown consequences of thwarting these impulses.

Dates: July 25 - August 5, 2005
Reception: Saturday, July 30, 6 - 8 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, July 30, 5 - 6 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 - 6 pm

Dates: July 11 - 21, 2005
Reception: Thursday, July 14, 6 - 9 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

In this exhibition the artist, Ellen Fader, has captured the with beauty and finesse the qualities of three-dimensional world onto the two-dimensional world of the canvas as she adds and subtracts multi layers of wax and paint using the same enkaustikos process Homer described in his writing 2,800 years ago. This encaustic process hides and reveals over and over again the worlds revealed to the artist in her mind's eye.

Dates: June 27 - July 7, 2005
Reception: Saturday, July 2, 4 - 7 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

Artists: MA in Transformative Arts and, MFA candidates Ellen Fader MFA, Hannelore Fischer MFA, Jo Jackson MFA, Liz Konsella MFA, Gaelyn Lakin MFA, Lynlee Ari Lyckberg MFA, Susan Mellender MFA, Kate Moore MFA, Elise Morris MFA Yayoi Nagano MA, Thomas Pope MA, Cathy Richardson MFA Lori Robinson MFA, Lauren Schwartz MA, Kirsten Stromberg MFA Carol Venn MFA, Laura Winder MFA.

Dates: June 14 - 23, 2005
Reception: Friday, June 17, 7 - 9 pm
Ceremony: Friday, June 17, 8 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

Liz Konsella says of her work, "I love to create fantasy 'bedrooms' where people become unsure of time, space and reality. From there they can venture out on a journey to wherever my sculptures might take them."

While each of Konsella's beds were created for a specific mythical dream character and represent each one's unique state of mind, viewers can also literally try "sleeping" in several of the beds themselves, watching the changes in their own states of mind.

All of Konsella's bedroom installations embody a specific kind of emotional depth, intensity and strength that is not afraid of our cultural shadow, yet each also possesses its own version of light. From the vibrant grey zone that exists between the opposing worlds of imagination and reality, pleasure and pain, darkness and light, Konsella harnesses the rich energy contained in these psychological spaced as she creates one bed at a time in the hope of inspiring viewers to see beauty and divinity in every aspect of the human condition.

Dates: May 31 - Jun 9, 2005
Reception: Saturday, June 4, 7 - 10 pm
Artist Bed Demos: Saturday, June 4, 8 - 9 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

Lens-based art, encompassing both traditional and digital photography as well as film, video and video installation, is experiencing a boom at JFKU. This phenomenon places us right in step with what's happening in contemporary art today: photography and video have never been more popular, nor more exciting and inventive fields for exploration of all aspects of the human condition, from the ordinary to the almost painfully surreal.

Peripheral Vision aims to underscore the depth, diversity and sophistication of the lens-based work being produced in our own artistic community. This juried show, drawn from entries submitted by JFKU students, faculty and staff, features work that demonstrates a highly developed formal aesthetic and is characterized by the compelling use of these media to explore the concept of "peripheral,"-whether depicting an outer boundary, a marginalization, or a documentation of the world that exists at the outside edge of human perception.

Dates: May 16 - 26, 2005
Reception: Saturday, May 21, 6 - 9 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, May 22, 4 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

The exhibition mirrors Venn's conscious examination of the comings and goings of living and dying. Through a weaving of sculpture, animation, 8 mm film and installation, Venn offers a space of contemplation, points of challenge, intrinsic thresholds into themes of impermanence, emptiness, and freedom.

Venn provides a reflective window into her personal process of serious injury, medicalization and deterioration of her body and psyche and, ultimately, transformative redemption. Her self-aware investigation into what are universal human experiences where consciousness can easily be eclipsed - birth, illness, injury, aging and death - brings us closer to compassionate understanding of who we are and who we can become.

Along with a psycho - spiritual emphasis, the exhibition holds a socio - political one as well. In "Disappeared", an animated installation piece, Venn has erased letter by letter handwritten names of coalition soldiers and Iraqis who have died in the Iraq war. The erased letters which fell to the ground have been collected in "Erasing Self" and humbly displayed in a crumbled paper hung on the wall.

Dates: May 2 - 12, 2005
Reception: Saturday, May 7, 6 - 9 pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, May 11, 7 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

Fueled by a desire to connect notions of nature and its relationship to human consciousness, Morris explores concepts of growth, movement, renewal, and the swelling potential for something new. The title of her final MFA show, Growth Unseen, refers to the particular stage of growth that is just barely visible. Featuring paintings, drawings and installation, this exhibition traces her full inquiry into the in-between places, both found and imagined.

Dates: April 18 - 28, 2005
Reception: Saturday, April 23, 5 - 8 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, April 24, 4:30 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

Arthur Danto's term, Kaliphila, originally from the greek classic, Philokalia, means "love of the beautiful". These new paintings on canvas, done primarily in oil and ranging in size from 36" x 24" to 72" x 84", allude to the mystery of Divine experience and evoke the souls deepest longing. Atmospheric in nature, they embody alchemical gold at the end of a long dark sea journey.

This is the MFA graduate show for Lynlee Lyckberg, also known as Lynlee Ari Lyckberg, who is completing her degree in Arts and Consciousness Studies from John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley. She received both her Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art and a minor in Art History from the former Cal State University Hayward, now known as CSU East Bay. In 2001 she journeyed to China to study Chinese Arts and Healing at the University of Hangzhou, China. Drawing from such diverse sources as Jung and Buddhism, this work reflects an integration of impulses and ideas that manifest as inner transformation and true Kaliphilia.

Dates: April 4 - 14, 2005
Reception: April 9, 5 - 8 pm
Artist Talk: April 10, 3 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

A collaborative exhibition between the NIAD Art Center and the John F. Kennedy University Arts & Consciousness Department. (NIAD also known as the National Institute of Arts and Disabilities.)

Curators: Allisen Asercion, Sue Amar and Tomoko Murakami
Dates: March 21 - 31, 2005
Reception: Saturday, March 26, 5 - 8 pm and Performance: 6 - 7pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

Fariba Bogzaran, Kaleo and Elise Ching, Susanne Cockrell, John Fox, Michael Grady, Lisa Kokin, Debra Koppman, Margaret Lindsey, Fred Martin, Jeremy Morgan, Christine Peirano, Theodore Purves, Judith Selby, Connie Smith - Siegel, Sharon Siskin, Karen Sjoholm, Susan St.Thomas, Mary Wester.

Dates: February 23 - March 16, 2005
Reception: Saturday, March 5, 7 - 9 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm

Body Tales/Third Stone Productions:
Olivia Corson, Lysa Castro, Yayoi Nagano and Pam Sims

Dates: February 12 & March 5, 2005, 8pm

A series of figurative paintings that discuss a contemporary icon.

Dates: February 7 - 17, 2005
Reception: Saturday, February 12, 5 - 8 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm, Artist Talk: Tuesday, February 8, 6:30 pm

Resurrection is a show of sewn and crocheted fabricated soft sculptures, mixed media assemblage and paintings. With this work, Lakin has created a testament to what is most often seen as women's work - washing, drying, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. The exhibition honors the long history of women who had to learn to make something out of nothing.

Dates: January 24 - February 4, 2005
Reception: Saturday, January 29, 5 pm - 8 pm
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 11 am - 6 pm