Kwan Fong Gallery of Art & Culture

Fun and informative for those over 50!

If haven't checked out the CLUfest website yet it's a real treat!

Hi everyone! Members of the CLU Multimedia Capstone class will be talking about CLUFest:The California Experience tonight at 7:00pm. If you're interested in he...aring about our creative process and how we created this online student work exhibition, please join Alejandro, Katie, and I tonight! We will have a Q&A session as well. Link: https://clu.zoom.us/j/97181737067 Prize to win: Wacom drawing tablet Looking forward to seeing you all!

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Happy Saturday!

The William Rolland and Kwan Fong Art Galleries are closed until further notice.

Image credit: David Labkovski, Strashun Library to the Synagogue. 1964. Oil on canvas, 31.75 x 38.625 inches, framed. Courtesy of the Barishman.

Photograph by Carlton Wilkinson.

Michael Zakian was widely recognized as a pillar in our art community, but in an understated role, he was also an incredible mentor. He was willing to take a chance and work earnestly with budding minds, and his guidance lives on and is felt in our exhibitions. You are deeply missed.

Salomón Huerta exhibit has come down, but here is a walkthrough in case you missed it!

Interview with Danielle Eubank, including a new sketch!

Critic Shana Nys Dambrot's take on Danielle Eubank in Fine Art Connoisseur "Fine Art Today"

Lovely interview by KCLU's Lance Orozco with Danielle Eubank, have a listen!

Danielle Eubank, Arctic X, Oil on linen, 42 x 60 inches, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.

Sculpture Image: The illustrated Man, 36 inches tall, by Christopher Slatoff Painting image:Timeless Vista,12x 16", by Michael Obermeyer

En Garment Girl, aprendemos sobre los efectos dañinos de la moda rápida. Ya sea el trabajo incansable de las mujeres en los países en desarrollo que cosen las prendas de vestir, los químicos que se utilizan para teñir el tejido o el agua utilizada para cultivar el algodón (713 galones por camiseta, o aproximadamente la cantidad de agua que una persona bebe en dos años y medio, según HuffPost). ¡Reduzca la huella de su ropa extendiendo la vida útil de su ropa desechada y adqui...riendo nuevas prendas geniales, de forma gratuita! Garment Girl se extiende ligeramente para albergar un intercambio de ropa en todo el condado. En este intercambio de ropa, traiga su ropa ligeramente usada y busque artículos de ropa que le gustarían de nuestra selección. Puedes traer mucha o poca (o ninguna) ropa como quieras traer y puedes tomar tantas piezas que tú quieras. Por favor solo traiga ropa que aún tenga vida en ella. La ropa sobrante permanecerá en la galería hasta el 5 de marzo, fecha en que se donará. Este evento es gratis y abierto al público. Hay estacionamiento gratuito disponible en frente de la galería o en el estacionamiento en la esquina suroeste de Olsen Road y Mt. Clef Blvd. Las categorías de ropa incluyen aquellas para mujeres, hombres y niños. El intercambio Garment Girl promueve la narrativa de "Remake", una colaboración que Vanderpool organizó con el artista y diseñador de moda basado en Hà Ni, Phm Hng. Los artistas organizaron una "fábrica" en la galería imitando una fábrica de chales vietnamita que a menudo se encuentran en casas residenciales. Invitaron a los trabajadores de la industria de prendas de vestir y prendas de Hà Ni a colaborar con ellos para crear ropa nueva a partir de prendas recicladas. El intercambio en CLU involucra la idea de reciclar ropa a través del comercio en nuestra comunidad. Como Phm Hng comparte en el video de Garment Worker que se exhibe en la exposición, debemos pensar en los esfuerzos de los trabajadores que diseñaron y fabricaron la ropa que usamos, así como el mayor impacto social y ambiental de la cadena de suministro global y nuestra responsabilidad como consumidores

The Guardian mentioned our exhibit of this great project, which opens May 24

See images from Garment Girl's last iteration in Hanoi, Vietnam

Garment Girl by Jennifer Vanderpool

Brad Monsma & Amiko Matsuo

In case you missed it, check out the article on Daggi Wallace's exhibit in Beyond the Acorn, pp 22-25!

Nsenga Knight, Other Stars Don’t Behave So, ink and wax drawing, 20 x 30 inches, 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

Don't forget, this Sunday Aug. 5 at 2 pm come to the gallery for the closing reception of Daggi Wallace's "Resilient Women"

Image: Daggi Wallace, Allowing, pastel on paper, 24 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

Time Traveler is a site-specific installation by artist Rotem Reshef of interwoven scrolls that highlight humanity’s interaction with, and interpretation of, the four seasons. Human lives are inextricably connected to the seasons, in ritual, culture, and tradition. We often use seasonal transitions to mark and understand the passage of time, whether on an agricultural or religious calendar. Reshef offers a varied perspective on this conception of time with a reminder of its cyclical nature as opposed to a linear narrative. In Time Traveler, enormous scrolls are imprinted with features of each season (leaves for fall, ribbons for spring, raffia, straw-like, for summer and some bubble wrap and cellophane for winter). This large-scale installation is best experienced in person. Curated by Sagi Refael.

Last chance to see Convergencia/Convergence, on view until Thursday, February 1st.

Closing reception for "Art in a Time of Reformation" exhibit on the Protestant Reformation, including a Cranach portrait of Katharina von Bora

Don't forget to stop in and see Vulnerability InVisibility before it closes Nov. 9

Image credit: Mary Fashbaugh, archival pigment print, glass domes, 40 x 27 inches, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.

Check out the upcoming tour schedule for faculty member Michael Pearce's exhibition "The Secret Paintings" as it travels across the U.S.