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Marilyn and Cline Duff Gallery
PAUL GARCIA (Creative Photography and Experimental Media
, BFA
)
the cost of peace
Public Reception | March 4, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates | March 3–7
The cost of peace is a torso mounted wearable art sculpture composed of 1,342 pill bottles, worn from the chest up, placed strategically over the body’s most vital organs that keep it alive through the use of substances that help it cope, endure, and experience instances of stability in another wise chaotic world. Individually, these containers symbolize the 1,342 new psychoactive substances in existence today in 151 different countries around the world. Instead of being disposed of, they cling to the body, an extension of the skin that burdens it with further oppression and fragility.
This piece is inspired by my personal experience related to addiction and my observation of the effect it has on my family. I have lost my father to addiction, and my mother has survived strokes because of it. The human body can become accustomed to something that will ultimately destroy it.
The cost of peace is an examination of the costs of achieving tranquility and how stability always leaves its traces behind
Insta: @chanclas.jpg
LEO FREEDMAN FOUNDATION STUDIO AND MFA ART Gallery
DÉJÀ VU (Glass, BFA)
Good Morning, Good Knight
Public Reception | March 4, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates | March 3–7
Deja Vu is a glassblower and glass sculptor based in Orange County, California. Vu’s work aims to explore the active strife towards self-acceptance, while highlighting the inner beauty of the self through subversion of appearances and expectations. She carries her own philosophy: “You are a tapestry woven of all those who have loved you and all those you love.” This reflects the inherent nature of glass working, where collaboration is a necessity, acting as the driving force fueling her love for the medium.
Her work aims to incorporate UV-sensitive materials, accentuating the forms of her pieces, and reinforcing the concept: beauty is rooted within and exists deeper than what lies on the surface. She embraces the wild nature and fragility of glass, imploring for connection with the work beyond observation alone, resculpting the idea of the self
and identity.
Insta: @dei.3a
STAN MARK RYAN '75 Gallery
LESLIE PEDROZA (Teaching, BA)
Y me vale
Public Reception | March 4, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates | March 3–7
Y me vale. Healing and reclaiming the discarded parts of myself, my childhood and my Mexican heritage, that were ignored or made small. Feelings and memories scream through broken construction materials, refusing to be cleaned up or made quiet. The rawness of these emotions live within the cracks of the drywall to the sharpness of the chicken wire. Bold, aggressive graffiti marks cut across the surface, demanding attention like a child passionately scribbling on a wall without permission. The marks are messy, loud, and unapologetic. Simplified, childlike shapes capturing fading memories. They are not asking to be understood. Unafraid y me vale. I no longer soften myself for others. The inner child who holds these sentiments is no longer hidden away or silenced, but lifted up for herself alone.
Insta: @streetbearer
UPCOMING STUDENT EXHIBITIONS
GROUP 4
Public Reception | November 12, 4:00–6:00 PM
Exhibitions on view November 12-15, 18
- JONATHAN MONROY
(Creative Photography and Experimental Media, BFA)
"What is it doing there?" - ALYSSA MARIE RIVERA
(Drawing and Painting, BFA)
"The Violence of Giving" - PAULA ELISA SONTAY VICENTE
(Drawing and Painting, BFA)
"Kul Chuee', Me acuerdo, I remember"
