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Main Gallery

                   

Our Place
CSUF GCAC Graduate Residents
December 1 – January 6, 2008

Graduate resident artists in the exhibition included:
Savio Alphonso
Scott Angus
David Brokaw
Preston Daniels
Joanna Grasso
Eric Jones
Lilia Lamas
David Michael Lee
Diana Markessinis
Shana Salaff
Neil Sharum
Eric Stoner
Patrick Strand
Hiromi Takizawa

Performance by
Matthew Miller

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Project Room Gallery

                                  

The Santiago Bird Project

November 3 – December 16, 2007

Book Release December 1st, 2007

This exhibition features 40 artists and their artistic illustrations of more than 40 species of native Southern California bird species. Accompanying this exhibition is a publication/bird guide In Above and Around Park Santiago.

The Project:
This book will consist of thirty or forty different birds, interpreted by 30 or 40 different artists. Each artist, in their own medium will showcase the bird of their choice. The finished image will be laid out in a bird watching catalogue with the information necessary for identification of the species. Although there are more than forty birds to be found in Park Santiago, only 40 artist will be participating so that leaves out many of the more common species.

Statement from curator David Michael Lee
The idea came to me while living in Park Santiago, my wife Julie and I had just moved home from South America. It just may be the way things work but we moved into the most perfect neighborhood, into the perfect house, at the end of a street, onto the edge of a park filled with birds. It felt like we were all alone, it was just so quiet. Looking back I think that it was the quietness that started to really bring out my appreciation for the birds. Several years ago, before this experience, I was interested in birds. When I think about it maybe it was not birds at all, it was flight.

Humanity has always coexisted with the birds and perhaps that is why they often fade into the background and often go unnoticed. I watch them fly, swoop, dive and dodge. I get so excited when I see the motion of flight or hear a unique bird call. This exhibition does more than simply catalogue bird species; it demonstrates other artists’ interpretations of how they see flight. We (Santa Ana) have an amazing park and I don’t want people to overlook the sights and sounds which surround them. Just take a walk, listen, keep those eyes open and enjoy.

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Education Room

                           

Ceramic and Glass Extravaganza

November 3 – January 6, 2008

Ceramic and Glass Extravaganza showcases local artists working in ceramic and glass. This show offers a selection of one of a kind sculptures and artisan crafted functional works by the best ceramic and glass artists working in Southern California.

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday-Thursday, Sunday 11-4pm
Friday-Saturday 11-9pm
Closed Sunday

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Education Room

                           

MIX N’ MASH
The Art of Rick Frausto and Jeff Gillette
October 6 – October 28, 2007

Jeff Gillette’s large acrylic paintings combine iconic cartoon figures in a mesmerizing yet intentionally nauseating and gratuitous style. Much of his work confronts the subconscious influence of pop culture on the American psyche while addressing social issues.

“As kids, [cartoon characters] infiltrate our brains, whether we want it or not,” Gillette said. “I like to pick on things that are most beloved, which are our cartoon characters and our religions.”- from SqueezeOC interview

The Assemblage sculptures by Long Beach social and environmental artist Rick Frausto featured in this exhibition are created from common found objects such as old wire, torn plastic, broken toy parts and more discarded as waste then rescued and transformed into whimsical and fantastic characters.

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Main Gallery

                   

The Original Art of Basil Wolverton
from the Collection of Glenn Bray
September 1 – November 11, 2007

Opening Reception: September 1, 7-10 p.m.

Original drawings, cartoons, magazine illustrations and more by Basil Wolverton will be featured in the GCAC Main Gallery. A 272-page hardcover book titled The Original Art of Basil Wolverton published by Grand Central Press and Last Gasp Publishing and designed by Brigitte Macdonald, will be released at the opening.

Basil Wolverton, a unique cartoonist in the decades from the 1940s to the 1960s, was best known for his depiction of human and otherworldly creatures rendered with smoothly sculpted features, spaghetti-like hair, and extremely detailed crosshatching. Born in Oregon in 1909, Wolverton pitched his first comic strip to a syndicate at the age of 16, but it wasn’t until 13 years later that he would sell his first comic features to the new medium of comic books. “Disk-Eyes the Detective” and “Spacehawks” were published in 1938 in Circus Comics. In 1940, “Spacehawk” (a different and improved feature) made its debut in Target Comics. The series ran for 30 episodes (262 pages), until 1942. “Powerhouse Pepper,” Wolverton’s most successful humor comic book feature was published in Timely, Marvel and Humorama comics from 1942 through 1952.Wolverton penned many other features, producing a total of some 1,300 comic book pages. In 1946 he earned first prize for his rendition of Lower Slobbovia’s ulgliest woman, Lena the Hyena. The contest, part of Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner” newspaper strip, was judged by no less than Boris Karloff, Frank Sinatra, and Salvador Dali. It won Wolverton fame and notoriety, and moved his career into the mainstream spotlight for a few years, with features and caricatures appearing in Life and Pageant magazines. At the peak of his style, in the early 1950s, he produced what many regard as his best work, 17 episodes of comic book horror and science fiction. During the ’50s, his work was prominently featured several times in the early MAD magazine, as well as Life and Pageant. In his later years Wolverton produced a story of the Old Testament, which included more than 500 illustrations, and created a series of apocalyptic illustrations based on the New Testament’s “Book of Revelation.” During this time he continued to create outrageous cartoons for clients as diverse as Plop, Playboy and the Topps Company. Wolverton died in 1978.

Special thanks to Glenn Bray and Lena Zwalve, Colin Turner, Doug Harvey, Monte Wolverton, Brigitte Macdonald, ProPhoto Connection and all the people who help make this exhibition and book possible.

See more about this show on “All Kinds of Stuff” Blog

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Project Room Gallery

                                  

Mark Mothersbaugh
Beautiful Mutants
September 1 – October 21, 2007

Also shown at the CSUF Main Gallery

CSUF GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER
125 N. Broadway Santa Ana, CA 92701

This exhibition features more than 400 photographic works by the artist in the Project Room Gallery. A 288-page hardcover book Beautiful Mutants published by Grand Central Press and designed by Ryan DiDonato will be released at the opening.

Nike SB, The City of Glendora California, Mutato Muzika and CSU Fullerton and the Grand Central Art Center came together to make this exhibition and book possible.

Mark Mothersbaugh was born in 1950 in Akron, Ohio. In 1957 he received his first pair of spectacles and simultaneously became interested in art. In 1968 he enrolled at Kent State University fine arts department. In 1970 Mothersbaugh protests the war in Viet Nam and meets Jerry Casale at Kent State and co-conceptualizes the art band DEVO. Mothersbaugh has his first solo gallery show in 1975. From 1976 to present, Bob, Jim and Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob and Jerry Casale release award winning short film “In the Beginning was the End – the Truth About De-evolution” and European chart topping singles. During this time period, Mothersbaugh created along with Jerry Casale and Bob Mothersbaugh all of Devo’s film, graphics, music and stage shows. DEVO continues to record and perform. From 1984 to present, Mothersbaugh has been composing music for film, TV, radio, video games and the web. Since 1987 Mothersbaugh has shown in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions.

The photo-image manipulation of The Beautiful Mutants were intended to be a form of palindromic poetry, where a story is created by a half-truth folded and placed next to itself, thereby creating a self-referencing, yet completed visual poem.
– Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh’s art leads the viewer to see the hidden mutant in us all. The artist renders a “study of humans via symmetry using photos, both recent and vintage” in which each photograph is, like the “self” in Jungian analysis, transformed to “emerge from its chrysalis as something with expected and uninvestigated properties. It no longer represented anything immediately known… Rather, it now appeared in a double guise, as both known and unknown.”

Viewers resonate with these images at the interstice between individual subconscious and collective unconscious. Mothersbaugh is, indeed, a master of this interstice, offering the potential “miraculous” experience that art can provide. As Gombrich describes it, “the true miracle of the language of art is not that it enables the artist to create the illusion of reality. It is that under the hands of a great master, the image becomes translucent. In teaching us to see the visible world afresh, he gives us the illusion of looking into the invisible realms of the mind-if only we know…how to use our eyes.”

– from the essay The Cryptomnesia of Mark Mothersbaugh: Beautiful Mutants in Einfall and Shado by Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte

Project Room exhibition
and the release of the publication Mark Mothersbaugh Beautiful Mutants.
This 288- page hardcover book
will be available at the opening and during the exhibition.
Book signing from 7-8 p.m. on September 1st.

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Education Room

                           

Mark Leysen Recent Paintings and Karen Thayer Geomorphics
September 1 – September 30, 2007

Artwork by
Mark Leysen
Titled Moving Through, 2007
Oil on canvas

Leysen’s paintings are abstract fields of color that evoke the landscape. Thayer presents her geomorphic wheel- thrown sculpture that combine landscape and topographical survey ideas, inspired by flight over the Northwest landscape.

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Project Room Gallery

                                  

Bruce Linn
New Work
August 4 – August 26, 2007

www.brucelinn.org

Painting Installation

The paintings in this series reflect a darker view of humanity that Bruce Linn says he encountered in some of the art and other cultural expressions of central Europe during an artist’s residency in Prague at the start of the current Iraq war. According to Linn, the absurdist aesthetic he discovered in Czech capital, inspired him to more freely blur the line between satiric and poetic artistic objectives.

Linn was influenced by the works of 19th-century Symbolist artists, like Odilon Redon and Arnold Bocklin, and the satiric works of James Ensor and the Czech Illustrators Zdenek Mezl and Pavel Brazda.

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Education Room

                           

Local Motion
August 4 – August 12, 2007

Artists Featured: Savio Alphonso, Scott Angus, Amy Caterina, Jason Chakravarty, Amanda Chakravarty, Mindy Cherri, Leonard Correa, Bree Cubbage, Gina Davidson,Tracy Duran, Susan Elizalde-Holler, Kebe Fox, Carol Williams Gelker, Jeff Gillette, Joanna Grasso, The Harveys, Andrea Harris-McGee, Alexander Harris, Laurie Hassold, Elizabeth Holster, Kate Jackson, Eric Jones, Ron Kenedi, David LaCroix, David Michael Lee, James Lorigan, Marty Lorigan, Janice Lowry, Diana Markessinis, Venice McCurdy, Jenny Mikhalik, Chris Miller, Matthew Miller, Christina Moch, Greg Morrissey, Erin Nomura, Bob Pece, Daniel Porras, Matthew Price, Jason Ramos, Suzette Rosenthal, Neil Sharum, Kirsten Schafer, Patrick Strand, Eric Stoner, Frank Swan, Hiromi Takizawa, Rebecca Trawick, Roger Weik, Alyssa Wiens, and more.

Local Motion is a group exhibition and collaboration supporting local artists connected and involved with the Santa Ana’s Artist Village and Grand Central Art Center.

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Main Gallery

                   

Alex Gross
Retrospective
July 7 – August 19, 2007

www.alexgross.com
Painting since 1990 professionally. Alex graduated form Art Center, Pasadena, CA. His new book published by Chronicle books will be available at the exhibition.

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Education Room

                           

Burn
Group graffiti show
July 7 – July 31, 2007

A group exhibition and collaboration of 30 top graffiti and fine artists. Each work is presented on sculpted vacuumed formed train cars. Curated by the Molten Brothers, Ken Richardson and Mike Goodwin, this exhibition redefines graffiti style and pays homage to the origins of street art.

Artists featured: House One, File Two, Mac, Glen Allen, Ekose, Lalo Cota, Ken Richardson, Kepto, Print, Mr. Such Styles, Dave Quan, Joreal, Idea, Grism, Serk, KA, Wes Cleveland, Ester Sanchez, Ste Two, Taks, King 157, Jero, and more.

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Main Gallery

                   

Emerging Artist Collective
GCAC Outreach Students Exhibition
June 2 – June 24, 2007

20 Santa Ana high school artists who have participated in the GCAC after school arts will present their works which include, painting, photography, video, illustration and graphic design.

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Project Room Gallery

                                  

Jeffrey Vallance Installation
Relics and Reliquaries
June 2 – July 22, 2007

Grand Central Art Center presents an installation constructed in the form of a treasure chamber featuring reliquaries from the life of sardonic artist Jeffrey Vallance

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Education Room

                           

Francisco Tellez-Giron (Paintings) | Grace Songolo (Ceramic Sculpture)
June 2 – July 1, 2007

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Main Gallery

                   

Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic
The Art of Myron Conan Dyal
April 7 – May 20, 2007

www.myrondyal.com

As a journey into the heart and mind of a modern mystic, this exhibition features more than sixty drawings, watercolors, paintings and mixed-media sculpture by contemporary California artist Myron Conan Dyal. A 92-page publication produced by Grand Central Press is available for purchase at the exhibition.

The Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center presents the first solo exhibition by self-taught Southern California-based artist Myron Conan Dyal. Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic features 18 paintings, 12 drawings and 20 sculptures from Dyal’s vast oeuvre spanning nearly three decades. His imagery is overwhelmingly dark and haunting and obviously created with obsession and compulsion: he uses papier-mache to create his sculpture, in large part, because its immediacy accommodates his urgency to see his objects in three-dimensional form. His usually figurative or organic forms are derived from visions he experienced during epileptic seizures and self-induced trances he encountered on his spiritual journey to come to grips with his lifelong struggle with the epilepsy and its stigma. A classically trained musician and telecommunications executive, Dyal kept his prolific production of art secret for many years–only showing it to family and a few close friends until recently.

In conjunction with the exhibition the CSUF Grand Central Art Center will host a gala event for the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angeles. The evening event, which will mark the foundations 50th anniversary, will take place at the art center Saturday, May 12. The event’s honorary patron, world-renowned pianist, Dr. Janet Colburn, winner of numerous awards including the Van Cliburn Piano Award and a Presser Foundation Grant, will perform a recital at the event.

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Project Room Gallery

                                  

Handmade Puppet Dreams

April 7 – May 20, 2007

Artists featured: Genevieve Anderson, Paul Andrejco, Kate Artibee, Marsian DeLellis, Laura Heit, Lyon Hill, Steve Johnson, Tim Lagasse, Eli Presser, Matty Sidle, Hoku Uchiyama, Xander Marrow and Mat Brinkman, Sean Meredith and Paul Zaloom, Mike Mitchell and Dan Brown, Thomas Sontag and Alex Moulton, Seamus Walsh and Mark Cabellero, Damien Eckhardt-Jacobi and Vincent Bova, Janie Geiser, Tony Giordano, Jason Murphy and Scott Shoemaker.

Handmade Puppet Dreams, the creative artists network presented by Heather Henson, daughter of legendary puppeteer Jim Henson is a catalog comprised of more than twenty artists and filmmakers dedicated to conveying contemporary artistic concerns through the art of puppetry. This legendary exhibition features a selection of short films by independent artists exploring their handmade craft through the medium of film, as well as a display of the sculptural puppets.

Handmade Puppet Dreams, the creative artists network presented by Heather Henson, daughter of legendary puppeteer Jim Henson is a catalog comprised of more than twenty artists and filmmakers dedicated to conveying contemporary artistic concerns.

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Education Room

                           

Drawn to Gravity
Zachary Kleyn, Jennifer Celio and Naoe Suzuki
April 7 – May 20, 2007

The exhibition Drawn to Gravity points to a curiosity of ideas and experimentation, triggered by the direct process of drawing. Urban environments inspire Jennifer Celio’s meticulously rendered graphite drawings on panel. Celio illustrates not only the passing of time but also a process of change. Zachary Kleyn’s new drawings and sculptures question specific ways in which we navigate through life. The drawings, transparent and opaque, geometric and organic, do not follow normal rules of nature but instead act as metaphors to link disparate images and ideas. Kleyn will also exhibit a selection of new sculptures tangibly depicting seemingly impossible circumstances. The inspiration for the intricate and multi-layered drawings of Naoe Suzuki comes from medical dictionaries, journals, textbooks and catalogs. In her current work, Suzuki references art history, religious iconography, fashion and plant forms. These diverse and vague influences are pushed together to form quirky, yet delicate and poetic compositions.

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Education Room

                           

Cinemo Morpholo
R. T. Pece
March 3 – March 27, 2007

Bob/R.T. Pece is an enigma to the Santa Ana arts community. He emerged from UCI ranks in the mid 70’s as one of a small, yet illustrious group of Orange County artists to set up shop in the downtown Santa Ana Artists Village. Pece has gone on to be a leading figure in the arts underground scene of Orange County both as a curator and artist.

R.T. Pece’s works in antonymic contrasts. His paintings are a construct of crisp line, bright color, and technical clarity appearing as whimsical pop iconography while remaining mysteriously vague and complex in their visual associations. His ambiguous characters come to life in quirky, hand drawn animation and stock footage films to create a documentary of a fictitious scheming artist that is perpetually foiled by reality.

This exhibition is the much anticipated first solo show of R.T. Pece at the Grand Central Art Center and will feature a selection of new works both in painting and film.

Currently, Pece is co-founder of Rat Powered Films, Programmer/Juror of the Arizona State University Film and Video festival and organizer of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum’s Popcorn; Short Film and Video festival.

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Main Gallery

                   

Safety Gear for Small Animals
Bill Burns
February 3 – March 9, 2007

Over the past ten years, Burns has created a fascinating world of finely manufactured model safety and rescue gear for animals, along with drawings, illustrations, and instruction manuals for rescuing, relocating, and rehabilitating animals–all produced by his “company”, Safety Gear for Small Animals (SGSA). CSUF Grand Central Art Center and CSUF Main Art Gallery share this exhibition as the only U.S. venues to feature this exceptional collection of works.

Using the conventions of both traditional museum display and print-media marketing, Burns humorously combines his tiny rescue and safety items for animals with helpful information that guides viewers through the exhibition. Beneath the appeal of the miniscule safety vests, work gloves, bullet-proof vests, U.V. goggles and respirators developed for our furry friends, lies a frightening warning about our stewardship of the environment. Publications by SGSA include titles like How to Help Animals Escape from Natural History and How to Help Animals Escape from Degraded Habitats. The exhibition is geared towards viewers of all ages, with special displays and tours for children.

Bill Burns was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Victoria in 1980. He then studied at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, England, for a Masters of Fine Arts, graduating in 1987. Burns is the recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

This exhibition was co-produced by the Kamloops Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery at the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.

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Project Room Gallery

                                  

Pictures of the Gone World

February 3 – March 18, 2007

www.thetreasuresoflonggonejohn.com

A rare opportunity to be surrounded by a special selection of works from the collection of the incredibly pretentious and extremely undeserving Long Gone John before he finally gets the hell outta dodge to take up residence in the specific northwest and begins to upset the environment and countless thousands of unsuspecting citizens . . .

Featured artists: Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Todd Schorr, Camille Rose Garcia, Lori Earley, Sas Christian, Clayton Brothers, Donald Roller Wilson, Yoshitoma Nara, Wayne White, Brian Clarke, David Bowers, Kukula, Donovan Crosby, Marion Peck, Elizabeth McGrath, Margaret Keane and the proverbial many, many more.

The Treasures of Long Gone John a film by Gregg Gibbs Special Film Screenings Saturday, February 3rd @ 6:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Free to the public – Seating is limited