Glance "Alumni Notes"
The following alumni notes have been excerpted from the fall 2008 Glance, CCA's full-color magazine, designed by Sputnik, the college's undergraduate design studio. The semiannual publication provides—among other things—the latest college almuni news: achievements, books published, awards received, and more!
1951
Robert S. Neuman
Solo shows: Selected Works 1954–2007, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, Sept.–Oct. 2007; Lame Deer Paintings, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, July–Aug. 2006; Fifty Years, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, Jan.–Mar. 2006.
1952
Joe Cleary
Presentation: on the making of his statue Mother River (2001) for the New Orleans Port Commission Building, Orinda Historical Society, California, Dec. 2007 (the statue survived Hurricane Katrina).
1954
Robert Bechtle
Solo shows: Robert Bechtle: Plein Air 1986–1999, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, Jan.–Mar. 2007; Robert Bechtle, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, Dec. 2006–Jan. 2007. Group shows: The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London, Oct.–Dec. 2007; Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007; CCA Centennial Show Honoring Alumni, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, July 2007; A Strong Vision: Three Decades of Exhibitions, Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California, Mar.–Apr. 2007.
1963
Judith Linhares
Group show: Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
1965
Dennis Oppenheim
Solo show: New Projects, Galería Joan Guaita, Palma, Spain, 2007. Commission: Light Chamber, Denver Justice Center, 2007 (in progress through 2009).
Harold Schlotzhauer
Solo show: Objects in Motion, Saint Xavier University Gallery, Chicago, Sept. 2007.
1967
Michael W. Barnard
Screening: 90404 Changing, Oakland International Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, Oct. 2007.
1969
M. Louise Stanley
Solo show: Mythic Proportions, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, Aug.–Oct. 2007. Group show: Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
1974
Jane Lackey
Group shows: The Inland See: Contemporary Art Around Lake Michigan, Richmond Center for the Arts, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Sept. 2007; Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970–2007, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 2007; Medicine Now, Wellcome Collection, London, June 2007; . . . One More Thing Added to the World: The Borges Effect in Contemporary Artists' Books, Humanities Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Apr.–June 2007; Alumni at the Centennial, CCA Oliver Art Center, Oakland, Jan.–Feb. 2007. Publication: "Taking Things Apart" in Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook 1970–2007, Cranbrook Art Museum, 2007.
1975
Eva Bovenzi
Group show: Strange Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, Sept. 2007.
1976
Mark Bowles
Solo show: New Work, Pamela Skinner / Gwenna Howard Contemporary Art, Sacramento, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Joan Perlman
Group show: Strange Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, Sept. 2007.
1978
Ira Sapir
Work featured: "The Art of Change: Sculptor Ira Sapir's Life Has Been a Study in Reinventing Himself," Chicago Tribune, Nov. 2007.
1980
Lisa Evens
Solo show: Navigating Intuitively: Drawing, Paintings, and Collages, Belmont Arts Council Gallery, California, Nov. 2007.
1984
Gale Antokal
Solo show: The Messengers, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Carol Lefkowitz
Group show: Abstract Paintings, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, Oct.–Nov. 2007.
1987
Tracy Krumm
Solo show: Tracy Krumm, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, Sept.–Nov. 2007.
Ann Weber
Solo show: Strange Fruit, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
1988
Lampo Leong
Solo show: Forces: Paintings and Calligraphy, Institute of East Asian Studies Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Sept.–Dec. 2007 (with a lecture and workshop, Nov. 2007). Award: Faculty Award, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2007.
Patricia Olynyk
New position: director of the Graduate School of Art and the Florence and Frank Bush Professor in Art, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, 2007.
1989
Elin Christopherson
Group show: Looking Glass: Seeing Through the Medium, Arts Benicia Gallery, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
Michele Muennig
Group show: Painted Dreams, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California, Oct.–Nov. 2007.
1990
Lauren Ari
Group show: The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco, Oct. 2007–Jan. 2008. Commission: drawings for the general plan document for the city of Richmond, California, 2007.
Gail Dawson
Group show: Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Hedi-K. Ernst Schmid
Solo show: Welten-Leben, Galerie Aquatinta, Lenzburg, Switzerland, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
Jean Miller
New position: president of the National Council of Art Administrators, 2008.
Lexa Walsh
Solo show: Seductive Objects: Small Sculpture, Alta Galleria, Berkeley, Apr.–June 2007. Group shows: Wish You Were Here, City|Space, San Francisco, summer 2007; Swee(t)art, Red Ink Studios, San Francisco, Mar. 2007; Distinctions in Drawing, 1078 Gallery, Chico, California, 2007; Take a Picture with a Foreigner, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, 2006; Boundless Ripples and Harmonies, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan, 2006; Translocation-Recombination-Connection, Pier 2, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2006; Women in Taipei, Taipei Cultural Center, Taiwan, 2006; The Immortalization Project, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, 2006, and Taipei, Taiwan, 2005. Performance: Toychestra, Bay Area Now 4 / Under the Radar 1, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Oct. 2005. Award: Meet the Composer Award, 2007. Residencies: Kio-A-Thau Sugar Refinery Residency, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2006; Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan, 2005.
Wing Wu
Solo show: Faster Than Thought (reviewed in Gallery Going: Visual Arts, Sept. 2007), LEE Ka-sing gallery, Toronto, Aug.–Sept. 2007.
1991
Lisa Kokin
Group show: Women's Work, Donna Seager Gallery, San Rafael, California, Sept. 2007.
1992
China Blue
Solo show: Negative Ellipse, Galerie Barnoud, Dijon, France, Sept.–Nov. 2007. Group show: Host, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Susan Goldsmith
Solo show: Recent Paintings, Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, California, Oct.–Dec. 2007.
Jane Grimm
Group show: Synergistic Cavalcades, Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art, New York, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
1993
Jo Ann Biagini
Solo show: New Work, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, Sept. 2007.
Lee Mingwei
Solo show: Duologue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Oct.–Dec. 2007.
Judson King Smith
Solo show: Artifacts of Entropy: Reliquary of the Obsolete, Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
1994
Tara Tucker
Work featured: New American Paintings 73 (Pacific Coast edition), 2007. Currently teaching at Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland.
1995
Alice Park-Spurr
Solo shows: Quartet, Arts Underground Gallery and Zola's Café, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, Sept.–Oct. 2007; Raven Tales, Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Canada, Nov.–Dec. 2006. Work featured: cover of Art Adventures on Yukon Time, Tourism Yukon, 2006.
1996
Morgan Barnard
Screening: 90404 Changing, Oakland International Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, Oct. 2007.
Anthony Pearson
Solo show: Anthony Pearson, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, Dec. 2007–Feb. 2008. Group show: Seriality, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
Laurie Reid
Group show: Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907–2007, International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Colin Stinson
Solo show: The Six Drunken Masters, Lulubell Gallery, Tucson, Oct.–Nov. 2007. Group show: Exhibit A, Vortex Gallery, Sanford Meisner Theater, New York, Oct. 2007. Participated in Comic-Con International, San Diego, July 2007.
1997
Andrew Phares
Group show: A Matter of Taste: The Art of Kitsch, Dorothy Herger Gallery, Solano Community College, Fairfield, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
1998
Wendy Bell
Curated: Young Berlin Artists—Intimacy and Alienation, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador, Oct. 2007–Jan. 2008.
Sergio De La Torre
Screening: MAQUILOPOLIS: City of Factories, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Sept. 2007.
Christopher Russell
Group show: Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oct. 2007–Mar. 2008.
1999
Samara Halperin
Award: San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie award for film, 2007.
Amanda Hughen
Solo shows: Firmament, Galerie Immanence, Paris, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Transtructural, Johansson Projects, Oakland, Sept. 2007. Group shows: Convergence, Oakland International Airport, Oct.–Dec. 2007; Art on Market Street Project, San Francisco Arts Commission, Mar.–July 2007.
2000
Banker White
Screening: I Am Your Appetite, Norcal Waste Systems Presents Music and Videos from the Dump, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, Nov. 2007. Group show and performance: Big Drums, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, Sept. 2007.
2001
Libby Black
Solo show: The Past Is Never Where You Think You Left It, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Lily Cox-Richard
Solo show: At Stake and Rider, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Prajakti Jayavant
Group show: Non-Declarative Art, Drawing Center, New York, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Don Porcella
Solo show: Strip Mall, Werkstätte Gallery, New York, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008. Group shows: Gallery Collection 2004–2007, Yukiko Kawase, Paris, Dec. 2007–Jan. 2008; Year_07 Art Projects, County Hall, London, Oct. 2007; Bonac Tonic Art Collective, Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, Oct. 2007; All Systems Go, Oglesby Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Sept.–Oct. 2007; Picture Ping Pong, Quality Pictures, Portland, Oregon, Feb.–Mar. 2007.
2002
Elizabeth Block
Award: 2006–7 Doris Roberts / William Goyens fiction fellowship for her book A Gesture Through Time.
William Feuerman
Work featured: MEGAchurch, a proposed design for a 200,000-square-foot worship space in New York, in Architype Review notable projects: religious institutions issue (2007).
2003
David Caler (with Bae)
Work featured: Victoriana Trophy Vase and Victoriana Globe Vase on the cover of i magazine, Dec. 2007.
Adele Crawford
Solo show: Other People's Memories—Found Photos: A Dialogue with the Anonymous, Mendocino College Art Gallery, Ukiah, California, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Francis McIlveen
Group shows: Almost 3-D, ASUC Art Studio, University of California, Berkeley, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Nancy Boy, City College of San Francisco Gallery, Oct. 2007; Art Work, Eddie Rhodes Gallery, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California, Sept.–Oct. 2007. Lectures: "New Frontiers in Contemporary Ceramics," Treadwell Ceramic Arts Center, CCA, Oakland, Oct. 2007; Richmond Art Center, California, Sept. 2007.
2004
Tiffany Dow
Solo show: New York Preview: The Drawings of Tiffany Dow, Art D'Cor, Danville, California, Nov. 2007.
David Fought
Solo show: 3 (5)wires and 5 (3)sides, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, Sept. 2007.
Edith Garcia
Group shows: C Change: Craft in Our Future, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, Nov. 2007–Jan. 2008; CM: Public Art at Canary Wharf, London, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Year_07 Art Projects, County Hall, London, Oct. 2007.
Alnea Miskiv
Launched: Farahbella Co. Ltd., an independent design brand, based in Osaka, Japan, 2006. The company is currently working on its third collection.
2005
Carl Auge
Group shows: War and Peace: Internal/External Conflict/Resolution, Artisans Art Gallery, San Rafael, California, Oct.–Nov. 2007; Sacred Spaces, ReGeneration, Oakland, Sept.–Nov. 2007.
I-Han Chen
Awards: one of two judges' choice awards and a third-place student award at the AIGA Cause/Affect Design Competition for her film Do You Have 5 Min?, Dec. 2007.
Jake Longstreth
Lecture: Sonoma State University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Nov. 2007.
2006
Val Britton
Group show: There's No Place Like Here, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
David Maisel
Group shows: To Fly: Contemporary Aerial Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Sept.–Oct. 2007; NY C Photo, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, Sept. 2007; Strange Weather, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, Sept. 2007; Dark Matters: Artists See the Impossible, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, July–Nov. 2007; Green Horizons, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, June–Dec. 2007.
Jamie Vasta
Solo show: Mustn't, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, Nov.–Dec. 2007.
2007
Amanda Curreri
Solo show: Make New Friends, Ping Pong Gallery, San Francisco, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Melanie Lacy Kusters
Solo show: Migration, Serra House, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Oct.–Dec. 2007.
Amy Sarabi
Award: Duperre Award, Arts of Fashion Foundation International Annual Symposium, Nov. 2007.
Christine Wong Yap
Group show: FRED 2007: An Art Invasion Across Cumbria, Cumbria, England, Sept.–Oct. 2007.
Artist and CCA alum David Ireland at the Wattis opening of Amateurs
(photo by Peg Skorpinski)
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