Art exhibits on display for October 27–December 10, 2015
The Mystic, the Psychic and the Liar
TMCC Main Art Gallery
Paintings by Lorin Humphreys. The Mystic, the Psychic and the Liar is a collection of work that exemplifies the myth of the rural America and the nostalgia of anything “Western”. Lorin current lives in Phoenix Arizona. He grew up in rural Utah. His work has been in many solo and group exhibitions, throughout Idaho, Utah and Nevada. Lorin work communicates back to the viewer through space, skin, and flesh to a private place of immersion, where he hopes the penetrating latent potential of paint can change matter and thought, through form. His desire is to influence the fluid spaces in which we live, through sensual exposure, perceived from and projected to the human body. He states, “Painting can become a carrier of something transcendent beyond mimicry, something that asks us to know beyond the cognitive level of seeing.”
Dreams and Stitches
Red Mountain Gallery
Paintings and drawings by Rachael Holton. Dreams and Stitches is an extension of some of her earliest drawings and paintings that have been interwoven with recent compositions. The notion is to take some of her old drawings out of cobwebs and stitch them together with new concepts and material. The work reflects much of her time off as an artist, 15 years to be exact, and the return to her artistry. Rachael Holton has worked as a Gallery Director for several high-end galleries in both the Bay Area and Maui for over 15 years. She holds a BA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon and a MA in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University. Holton was the lead Curator of the Exhibition “Generations” – A Tribute to Mothers and Daughters Around the World,” through the International Museum of Women and UCSF Center of Excellence.
Songs in Black and White
Red Mountain Student Gallery
Cut paper drawings by Angela Chan, a TMCC student working on her Associate of Arts Fine Arts Degree. Music has always been a part of Angela’s life. The songs she listens to have sparked her imagination for new narratives and scenarios from what the songs are indicating, reflecting emotions of love. She states, “For me the idea of love is a very unstable emotion, appearing both beautiful and ugly. Usually love circulates within the form of two people falling in love. Here, I want to capture the different types of love existing besides the romantic norm.”
Portafolio
Atrium Gallery
Photographs by Jorge Victor Gavilondo. Portafolio examines culture and space in Havana, Cuba. Jorge lives in Havana, Cuba and has balanced his career as an artist and scientist for the last 30 years. Jorge has photographed natural and urban landscapes, out-of-studio portraiture, ballet and dance, architecture and events. Cuba and specifically Havana has been a favorite subject matter for him and his Cuba portfolios are now in two-dozen private collections in Cuba, USA, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Portugal, UK and Germany. He is a member of the Cuban Photographic Library and the Cuban Association of Social Communicators. He is also a permanent collaborator of the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops School.
Milked: Examining the push and pull: the sacrifice and dedication between domesticity and creativity.
Erik Lauritzen Gallery
Curated by TMCC Gallery Practice students Aimee Kelly and Tracey Oliver. In this exhibition artists, both student and professional are asked to look deep inside and express the ongoing struggle of how we deal with the sacrifices we must make to our domestic selves in order to encourage our creative nature. As female artists our genetic coding, our very nature, to nurture and care for others, and the time it takes to do so is in direct conflict with the ever-present internal push to create art. What sacrifices have you made, what changes have you experienced? The art created for this show should reflect the challenges contemporary women face in their lives in relation to their persona as artists.