Faculty Exhibition
San Diego Mesa College, San Diego
Through September 28th
Article by Cathy Breslaw
The faculty exhibition at San Diego Mesa College has a wide
range of works including ceramics, oil and acrylic painting, installation, collage, mixed media,
video, photography, photomontage, and pastel paintings. Some artists include
self portraits, paintings exploring many ways the human form can be transformed, while others have differing intentions examining identity,
interests in archaeology, statements on the status of college costs,
works that stem from the ordinary and the meaning of the mundane, observation
and wonder over simple things, the communicative power of objects while still
others examine the many ways materials can be utilized. John Chwekun experiments with using white on
white surfaces and creates a tiny scene of a playground with wire and post-it
notes, Georgia K. Laris transforms the
support of paintings out of the ‘rectangle’, using acrylics on papers with
cotton threads, Kraig Cavanaugh calls his works paintings but uses acrylic and
wire to create 3-D sculpture-like forms that hang off the walls, and Nathan
Betschart creates porcelain raku. Wendell
Kling exhibits an interactive ‘camp fire’ installation along with a stop motion
animation. Juan Carlos Toth exhibits a large scale red painting and offers
others to add their own marks to his canvas using colored oil sticks he provides for visitors to use – encouraging
free expression. If students ever
wondered about all the ways art can be made, they won’t after seeing this
exhibition – the possibilities are endlessly expressed with this show that are
worth a visit.
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| Allesandra Moctezuma Crushed Dreams clay, mixed media |
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| Barbara Sexton Common Denominator #2 photomontage |
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| John Chwekun Still Life mixed media |
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| Christopher Ferreria Hawk pigment print |
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| Georgia K. Laris Unspoken acrylics on papers with cotton threads |
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| Cindy Zimmerman Daily Self-Portrait ink on paper |
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