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| Pizzeria in the Garden |
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OS30 Final Projects and papers will be up on the website Gallery soon! To view OS23-OS29 Final Projects - just click the "MENU" button at the top right of the Gallery screen to select the Oxbow semester you want to view.
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| Holly's installation |
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| Rings & Bracelet |
Eric Swangstu gathers paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, animation, jewelry and photography from some of his moto-enthusiast artist friends from L.A., Oakland, Kansas City and Seattle. As an avid rider, Swangstu celebrates the moto-lifestyle by playing with the stigma often attached with the sport of motorcycling.
Izzy Pezzulo an OS28 alum and senior at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL has won the YoungArts 2014 US Presidential Scholar in the Arts Award and a Pathfinder Award Arts Scholarship.
YoungArts congratulates the 50th class of US Presidential Scholars. The 20 Scholars in the Arts, all 2014 YoungArts Winners, were nominated to The White House Commission on Presidential Scholars by YoungArts, and selected based on academic, civic and artistic achievement. The award, presented on behalf of the President of the United States, is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon an artistically talented graduating high school senior. These talented young artists will showcase their work at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and at The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. on Monday, June 23, 2014.Read the full announcement and event details.
Pezzulo spent much of her Dreyfoos career studying at other schools through various programs such as the Oxbow School in Napa, CA and Cow House Studio in Ireland. - Jason Schultz, The Palm Beach Post - read full article.
The exhibition Managing Object Expectations opened April 14 at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and is curated by Sabrina Blaichman. The group exhibition includes artists Nairy Baghramian, Zilla Leutenegger, Seth Price, Michael St. John, Chris Thorson, and Rosemarie Trocker. The show runs through May 25. "Managing Object Expectations proposes an intersection of artistic craft and the influence of everyday objects. The artists represented have chosen to create everyday objects rather than nominate them from non-artistic fields of production. By employing strategies of re-contextualization or unexpected uses of form and material, the works open spaces for new thought processes and realities."
The exhibition As Night Strolled Over to See What's Up opens May 6 at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and is curated by Oxbow's own OS13 Nora Rodriguez. The opening reception is May 9 and the show runs through May 28. "As Night features the work of five artists - Glen Baldridge, Robin Cameron, Michael Drueger, Phyllis Ma and Chris Thorson - who engage with the print's potential for infinite reproduction. Exisiting as singular objects or limited editions, these works invoke the technology and texture of commercial printing."
04/23/14
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| Falling, 2014, Watercolor on Rag Paper |
Darren Waterston's exhibition Cadence is at the Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, WA and runs through May 17th. He painted this body of work during his residency this year at MASS MoCA. The title of this exhibition refers to the sequence of chords comprising a musical phrase.
"Since I have been so deeply immersed in all things Whistler of late, I wanted to explore futher the parallels found in both painterly and symphonic compositions."
Darren was Oxbow's Visiting Artist in Residence for OS21. darrenwaterston.com.
Napa County Recycling and Waste Services recognizes Oxbow for our outstanding recycling and compost efforts in the community. To win the 2013 city award, nominees were surveyed to learn how much non-recyclable trash was in their recycling bins as well as the reverse. On April 8, 2014, Oxbow received the California State Legislature Certificate of Recognition, the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition and the State of California Senate Certificate of Recognition. California Congressman Mike Thompson, State Senators Noreen Evans and Lois Wok and State Assembly Member Mariko Yamada made the presentations to Tracy Bates, our Head Chef and the person responsible for coordinating our campus recycling program. This is the third time Oxbow has received this award, the first in 2011 and second in 2012.
This award was made possible through the efforts of ALL Oxbow - faculty, staff and students. The award included a cash prize.
Thanks and congratulations!
03/26/14
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| Filthy Lucre, detail |
Darren Waterston OS21 resident visiting artist and trustee. Waterston's exhibit Uncertain Beauty at Mass MoCA opened March 8, 2014 and can be viewed through January 2015. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the installation Filthy Lucre, a contemporary re-imagining of James McNeill Whistler's decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). The installation is accompanied by two galleries featuring a selection of works on wood panel and canvas. Like Filthy Lucre, they express both the grotesque and the beautiful, hinting at utopian fantasies and Arcadian dreams, as well as apocalyptic nightmares.
Filthy Lucre will travel to the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, opening in January 2015 and remaining on view through May 2016. For more on Waterston's work go to darrenwaterston.com.
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| Arrastre 6, direct print to silver Dibond |
Ana Teresa Fernandez OS29 resident visiting artist. Fernandez is having her first solo exhibition Foreign Bodies at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco, CA from April 3 - May 31, 2014. The opening reception is April 3 from 6-8pm and is holding an Artist's Discussion on April 5 from 2-2:30pm. The exhibition of new work explores how women navigate the geographic, social, can physiological boundaries between the US and Mexico. Documenting her performances and installations using photography and the painted image, her work reveals how women's bodies become surfaces imprinted with political and social upheavals. For more of Fernandez's work go to anateresafernandez.com.
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| The Ape, acrylic and collage on cut paper |
Reed Anderson OS30 resident visiting artist. Anderson's solo exhibition The Way You Look Is the Way I Feel at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York is March 21-April 27, 2014. This is his fourth show at Pierogi and will feature the synthesis of two series; his exuberant cut paintings on paper, as he refers to them, and his on-going "Papa Object" project. Anderson describes his process as additive and self-generating. He prefers to allow the evidence of the making of the works - both the hand and the process - to remain. Throughout the making of these works they are in constant flux, a dance between cutting, painting, and collaging. For more on Anderson's work go to www.reedanderson.info.
Artistically, I learned a lot of new techniques and mediums while here. I had access to much more than before and I made the most of it. I tried everything I could and always talked to my teachers and peers about new ways I could make art. Every so often, I completely stepped out of my comfort zone. Experimenting with technique and testing my artistic boundaries has helped me realize how many paths I have to choose from in the art world and that makes me excited for the future.
— Macy Manning, Fall 2023
At Oxbow, the eye and the hand are inseparable from the mind and because their peers are also artists, students adopt fresh attitudes toward their work.
— Charles Altieri, Rachel Anderson Stageberg Chair, Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley
In the year leading up to Oxbow, I became obsessed with the program, I was entranced with reading testimonials and researching interdisciplinary learning styles. When I arrived at Oxbow I was never disappointed, despite my endless expectations. I will forever cherish the time I spent at Oxbow and the connections I made there. Through Oxbow I was able to hone into the ideas I was thinking about, to refine my artistic process and to see the world in a new light every day of my life. I'm not going to say that without Oxbow I wouldn't be the person I am today, but I will say that without Oxbow it would have taken me at least four years to become who I am after one Oxbow semester.
— Phoebe Dubisch, Fall 2018
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