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Fall 2025
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Marilyn and Cline Duff Gallery
CATHERINE MICHELLE MONTOYA (Teaching, BA)
Sin Fergüenza
Public Reception | December 10, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates | December 9 – 13
My work centers feminist themes, body autonomy, and identity, using sculptural and mixed-media art to challenge societal norms around vulva shame, menstruation stigma, and gendered expectations. Drawing on my experience as a bisexual Latina with PCOS and shaped by my upbringing between Koreatown, Los Angeles to the desert town of Palmdale, I create bold, experimental pieces from accessible, eco-friendly materials like pool noodles, recycled cardboard, and papier-mâché. My recent work includes La Mama Ostra, a yonic sculpture reclaiming the vulva as a site of pleasure, agency, and power, directly confronting unrealistic beauty standards and porn-influenced representations. Through depictions of unidealized vulvas and female body hair, I invite viewers to embrace diversity and reject shame. As a future middle school art educator, I aim to make art accessible and build community through honesty and representation, offering those with vulvas a space to see themselves honored, celebrated, and unapologetic.
LEO FREEDMAN FOUNDATION STUDIO AND MFA ART Gallery
BRANDON DAVID GREMCHUCK (Creative Photography & Experimental Media, BFA)
Gremmy’s Funeral
Public Reception | December 10, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates | December 9 – 13
Thank you for arriving at Gremmy’s funeral. Feel free to mourn and mingle as you please.
Funerals are events meant to celebrate life but are also a chance for self-reflection. During the COVID lockdowns, I became intrigued by the concept of clowning. Its themes relating to isolation, romanticism, queerness, and antiauthoritarianism influenced how I move through the world. As the country opened back up, this persona continued to evolve with me each year. With inspirations stemming from Pierrot, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Caravaggio, I hope this installation’s visceral pieces inspire a lasting memory. After all, a funeral is always a party.
STAN MARK RYAN '75 Gallery
ENRIQUE DEL RIVERO FERRER (Illustration, BFA)
ARCO: The Race for First Contact
Public Reception | November 12 from 4:00–6:00 pm
Exhibition on view November 12–18
My work explores the tension between outward comfort and internal distress. Rooted in my lived experience with chronic illness and mental health challenges, I use domestic imagery to examine the quiet labor of appearing “fine.” I aim to build compressed, cozy spaces, warm lighting, soft textures, and decorative needlepoint that invite viewers in, only to reveal discomfort, repetition, and unease upon closer inspection.
Through oil paintings, ink illustrations, textiles, and linocut prints I create environments that feel familiar but fractured. I’m interested in the home as both sanctuary and site of entrapment. The body as a house, and the house as a body. My work asks: What does it mean to be a “homebody” when your home (and your body) won’t let you leave?
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
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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"
