INTO THE LIGHT: SDSU Graduate Artists November 20, 2010

Oceanside Museum of Art is proud to present seven emerging artists from the San Diego State University Masters of Fine Art program in the exhibition Into the Light: SDSU Graduate Artists. The work in the exhibition highlights the university’s sculpture, furniture, metals and painting departments. Garage scientist Jim Cavolt will display two new installations in a dark room that evoke a whole body experience. His piece Ellipse encourages the viewer to walk around and through an unlikely configuration of digital images projected on old window panes. In a series of photographs John Adam Manley documents his site specific sculptures that encourage a new perspective on personal surroundings. Alexis Archibald, Kyleen Jeans, and Christiana Updegraff all utilize metal in a unique way creating objects that question functionality. Chelsea Herman’s engulfing large scale painting is a delicate mix of ink, watercolor, crayon, graphite, charcoal and oil paint on paper that exposes subterranean geological features found in our natural environment. The final artist, Rizzhel Mae Javier comes from a more conceptual approach in her photographic juxtapositions that pair familiar movie and television stills together in a playful way that conjures up memories with a social narrative. Into the Light opens on Saturday, November 20 in the Groves Gallery at 2:00 pm with a preview reception and Panel Discussion. Free with admission and free for students, military and OMA members. Light refreshments will be provided.

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