2016 All Media Student Exhibit @ MPC Art Gallery

May 3 – 27, 2016
MPC Art Gallery
980 Fremont St., Monterey, CA
NEW HOURS: Mon—Thur, 11:00—4:00
RECEPTION: Thursday, MAY 5, 12:30—2:00 pm
Artists’ Talk: 1:00 pm

With great enthusiasm we present the work of our art students. These sixty-two artists are enrolled in classes offered by the Creative Arts Division here at MPC. While some of them come to MPC with art skills and established lives as artists, plenty of them are just beginning their explorations in art. The artists whose work graces these walls range in age from 18 to over 70.

One glance at this exhibit tells us about the wide diversity and multiple talents of our very hardworking art students. What they have produced, individually and collectively, is impressive. Passion, exploration, focus, experimentation, discipline, deep thinking, organization, and practice—all this, and more, is required of an artist. Deep commitment to creativity is evident in this room on a grand scale.

Artists also need support, opportunity, and community. The dedicated and fine teachers in our art department help to provide that. Their tireless generosity of time and guidance makes it possible for student artists to thrive at MPC. The magic we witness in this gallery exhibition would not be possible without them.

Let Them Eat Pi

Happy National Pi Day! Celebrate with your favorite slice and, if you’re geeky enough, maybe do a little geometry!

Strings Attached @ MPC Art Gallery

Strings Attached

Marianne Lettieri

February 1 – March 3, 2016

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 11, 12:30 – 2:00pm

NEW GALLERY HOURS:

Monday – Thursday, 11:00 – 4:00pm
or by appointment

 

May the 4th be With You

Richard Murai and Mary Robinson @ MPC Art Gallery

UNQUIET REVERENCE

Richard Murai and Mary Robinson

Photography and Printmaking

Exhibit Dates: March 17 – April 24, 2015
Location: MPC Art Gallery, 980 Fremont St., Monterey
Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 11:00 – 4:00
(or by appointment; call (831) 646-3060)

Reception: Thursday, March 26, 12:30 – 2:00 pm (Artists’ Talk 1:00 pm)
Photography lecture by Murai: Wednesday, March 25, 6:00 – 8:00 pm in Art Dept. Rm GA101
Printmaking lecture Robinson: Friday, March 27, 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Art Dept. Rm AS101

Photographer, Richard Murai shares his dynamic photographs of life in Bhutan. Varied in style and mood, these sepia-toned images of daily life and cultural traditions, including portraits and cityscapes, are powerfully poetic.

In his own words: “Ongoing global unrest has caused extreme uncertainty, economic hardship, and a difficult emotional time for all. We continue to confront a perplexing, irrational, and extremely precarious world situation. Reluctance to accept diverse cultural, political and religious influences both here and abroad adds to the apprehension, cynicism and confusion. Becoming sensitive to unfamiliar cultures can quell much of this anxiety and may encourage tolerance and compassion. The act of picture making adds immeasurably to my understanding of the world. And the final photographs, although worlds apart, provide a reaffirmation of the oneness of the human spirit”.

Mixed Media Printmaker Mary Robinson, an art professor from South Carolina, gives us her elegant and complex prints, all in tones of black, white and grey. Her patterns and textures weave intricate passageways for our eyes to follow. Bold as well as subtle, her mark making is calligraphic and engaging.

She tells us, “I am deeply inspired by natural forms, especially tree roots, tangled vines and human arteries. I observe complex patterns of flowing, twisting fibers, and nature’s mode of creating variety within repetition. I use similar forms in my mixed media drawings and prints to express the mix of awe, reverence and anxiety I feel living on Earth in the Twenty-First Century”.

Image: Pilgrims and Prayer Flag, Chamtsa Chroten, Bhutan 2009

To Boldly Go

Perhaps most known for his iconic role as Star Trek’s green-blooded, pointy-eared Vulcan, Mr. Spock, Leonard Nimoy was so much more to the creative world — actor, director, poet, photographer, musician and, of course, legend. With his passing at age 83 the inhabitants of planet Earth, Trekkie and otherwise, no doubt lose one of their brightest burning stars. And if you’ll forgive one last heart-felt reference from a deeply saddened Trekkie, he indeed lived long and prospered, for which his fans could not have wished anything greater.

Your influence shall be ever felt and your presence ever missed, Mr. Nimoy.

For a wonderful tribute and an overview of Mr. Nimoy’s contributions to this world, please head over to The NY Times.

Susana Arias @ MPC Art Gallery

SAILMAKER

Susana Arias

large-scale ceramic sculpture

EXHIBIT DATES: February 3 – March 6, 2015
LOCATION: MPC Art Gallery, 980 Fremont St., Monterey
HOURS: Tue – Fri, 11:00 – 4:00
(or by appointment; call 646-3060)

RECEPTION: Thursday, February 12, 12:30 – 2:00 PM
GALLERY TALK: 1:00 PM
SLIDE LECTURE: 2:00 PM

DISCOVER THE SPECTACULAR CLAY CREATIONS OF ARTIST SUSANA ARIAS, native of Panama and long time resident of Santa Cruz. Recently chosen as Santa Cruz Artist of the Year, Arias has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. She has many collectors and is the recipient of multiple awards. She has accomplished several community public art projects. Through her teaching she has inspired and supported younger artists with her tireless enthusiasm for art.

Always experimenting within the ceramic medium, she continues to reach beyond the ordinary to make work that is not only finely sculpted, but also deeply meaningful. Join us to admire her large-scale sculptures, rich in textures and subtle color. Visitors will discover their own ideas amongst her grand and elegant explorations of earth, wood, water and fire.

Image: Adrift #7 by Susana Arias

Submit Your Artwork

Have your artwork featured on the MPC website!

• Image size should be 1600 x 393px @ 72dpi
• Should be in JPEG file format
• Can be artwork or photography (Note that photos with people in them will require signed model release forms before they can be used.)
• Cannot contain copyrighted images/materials
• Cannot contain inappropriate, suggestive, or graphic images/materials (If you have to ask it’s probably not ok.)
• Can be for general use across the site or can have a specific purpose, such as:
  • Announcements
    Announcement for Graduation
    Apply for Financial Aid
    Transfer Day
    Register now!
  • Departments
    History Department (or other academic departments)
    Counseling Department
    Student Services
    Library
  • Initiatives
    Join the Booster Club
    Follow us on Facebook
    Career Technical Education
    Donate to MPC
  • Everything else
    These are just a few suggestions but feel free to be creative.

Artwork for consideration should be submitted by DEC 12, 2014.

To Submit Your Artwork

You can bring your files to the Graphic Arts Lab in GA 102, drop files into the ‘Banner Art’ folder in the Network Storage Tank or email them to mpccreativearts@gmail.com

Go Vote

It’s your country. It’s your life. Be heard. Vote!

Image: GoVOTE by Jason Wong

The Art of Andrew Au @ MPC Art Gallery

LIFE INDUSTRIES

sculpture and digital art

SEPTEMBER 2 – SEPTEMBER 26

TU- FRI, 11:00 – 4:00

PLEASE JOIN US FOR A LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF ANDREW AU, a Cincinnati-based art professor who will share with us his imaginative sculptures, digital paintings, and screen prints. Using polymer clay, steel, and paint, he creates precisely crafted sculptures that appear to be hybrid machines/animals, fascinating in their futuristic detail. Accompanying these are striking digital paintings, created first on the computer then painted over in fine detail. In this body of work, he tells us, he is

“exploring the idea of products that are living things, manufactured and marketed, the necessary construction being merely code that explains a sequence of events to make the organism viable. I have created fictitious “life products” which are labeled according to their product name/number and the periodic elements on which they are based. I rely on the artistic conventions of the 50s and 60s advertisements, a period of utopian hope in the abilities of new technological advancements.”