Student Galleries | Fall 2025

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Marilyn and Cline Duff Gallery

Cropped view of a neck and chin with impasto.
ALEXIS NICOLE HISGEN (Graphic & Interactive Design, BFA)
In the Making

Public Reception  | October 29 from 4:00–6:00 pm
 Exhibition on view October 28- November 1


Being a creator, I’ve turned to art to make sense of myself and my relationship with others. My paintings range from surrealist paintings, to portraits, and still lifes. Art became a way for me to document what was happening around me, the ups and downs, the ugly and beautiful. Art and creation are intrinsic to our humanity and how we interpret and learn about the world. I am originally from the Coachella Valley but currently reside in Orange County. California has influenced me both in both positive and negative ways. I love how California offers the opportunity to explore oneself, but there are always expectations of perfection, especially in OC and LA. Our current world is shaped by media, and it can be very difficult growing up as a young woman surrounded by these pressures and expectations. Especially in a day where plastic surgery and body modification is the norm in the common media. I personally fell victim to growing up with the female idea of perfectionism but also grew to find who I am without those ideals. especially in a day of plastic surgeries and filers. My art explores the growth of my being and mindset around the idea.

LEO FREEDMAN FOUNDATION STUDIO AND MFA ART Gallery

Abstract forms and textures on a hung arrtwork.
MIA ZHALEH AGHILI (Teaching, BA)
Scars and Endurance

Public Reception  | October 29 from 4:00–6:00 pm
 Exhibition on view October 28- November 1


Scars and Endurance serves as a visual meditation on loss, memory, and regeneration, anchored in the experience of the 2025 Eaton Fire, which destroyed my family home. This traumatic rupture marked a pivotal shift in artistic practice from documentation to transformation. Through painting and sculpture, the work explores the coexistence of destruction and beauty, and how nature persists even as personal landmarks vanish.

The work pairs realism with surrealism, memory with materiality. It intentionally blurs the boundary between what was and what remains. These paintings do not aim to recreate devastation, but rather evoke the suspended state between grief and healing. This middle space, the "after" that is not yet recovery of the fires, has become the subject.

STAN MARK RYAN '75 Gallery

Red skulled figure with a sunburst around the neck.

DALLAS JOSHUA BAGSHAW (Drawing & Painting, BFA)
FOLKTALE

Public Reception  | October 29 from 4:00–6:00 pm
 Exhibition on view October 28- November 1


Through my art, I am trying to reveal and qualify the weight and sadness that comes with the struggle to find a true sense of self. Wrapped in the motif of medieval knighthood, court jesters, and hounds, my work ranges from self-resignation to intense interpersonal conflict. Self-doubt, struggle, and the quest to find one's purpose are all points of the human condition, which I believe are universal experiences.  Exploring multiple artistic mediums, I am challenged to use both traditional and unconventional means to explore my own identity whilst also retaining an aspect of the mysticism of traditional storytelling.

 

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)
    Homeward Bound
  • PAULA ELISA SONTAY VICENTE (Drawing and Painting, BFA)
    Kul Chuee', Me acuerdo, I remember

 

UPCOMING STUDENT EXHIBITIONS | Group 5

Public Reception, December 10, 4:00-6:00 PM

Exhibition on view December 9-13

  • ENRIQUE DEL RIVERO FERRER (Illustration, BFA)
    ARCO: the Race for First Contact
  • BRANDON DAVID GREMCHUCK (Photography & Creative Media, BFA)
    Gremmy’s Funeral Creative
  • CATHERINE MICHELLE MONTOYA (Teaching, BA)
    Sin Vergüenza 

UPCOMING STUDENT EXHIBITIONS

GROUP 2

Public Reception | October 15 from 4:00–6:00 pm
 Exhibitions on view October 14-18

  • JONATHAN BUSTOS
    (Drawing and Painting, BFA)
    "The Shape of Color"
  • GRACE LOUISA GIOIELLO
    (Creative Photography and Experimental Media, BFA) 
    "Before I Wake"
  • OWEN JAMES WILKINS (Sculpture, BFA)
    "Constructed Patterns"

UPCOMING STUDENT EXHIBITIONS

GROUP 3

Public Reception | October 29 from 4:00–6:00 pm
 Exhibitions on view October 28–November 1

  • MIA ZHALEH AGHILI (Teaching, BA)
    "Scars and Endurance"
  • DALLAS JOSHUA BAGSHAW
    (Drawing and Painting, BFA)
    "FOLKTALE"
  • ALEXIS NICHOLE HISGEN
    (Graphic and Interactive Design, BFA)
    "In the Making"

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"
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