Art Openings tonight!

Join me in celebrating the work of artists Michelle Parada, Delanie Eng, and Trevor Lunde in their Senior Thesis Exhibitions on view in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery all next week.

The opening reception is happening TODAY Monday, March 26th, 2018, from 6 to 8pm.

Exhibitions run Monday through Thursday. Gallery is open 9am to 9pm.

See you there!

Tonight was so much fun! Thank you everyone who came out to the opening, it meant a lot to me :) Sacramentality will be up till Thursday! #sacramentality #art #sculpture #seniorthesisexhibition #biolaarts

Reconnected with some art alum at the #radicalwomen show @hammer_museum last night! #art #artpractice #artopening #biolaarts #pstlala (at Hammer Museum)

Home Sweet Home. 4D Art Installation in an Elevator. #biola #biolaart (at Biola University)

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Subconscious is still on display all week at the Earl and Virginia Green Gallery at Biola University! I have 3 pieces there. Check it out before it's gone! #biolaarts

Putting finishing touches on paintings for the show. #aquilinastudio #biolaarts

Final Fall 2017 Senior Thesis Exhibitions open this Monday

Join me in celebrating the work of artists Jedidiah Angkasa and Sean Leone with their Senior Thesis Exhibitions on view in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery all next week.

The opening reception is happening this coming Monday, December 11th, from 6 to 9pm.

Exhibitions run Monday through Thursday. Gallery is open 9am to 9pm.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions start next week!

Join me in celebrating the work of artist Chad Swanson

for his Senior Thesis Exhibitions on view in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery next week.

The opening reception is happening this coming Monday, December 4th, from 6 to 8pm.

Exhibitions run Monday through Thursday. Gallery is open 9am to 9pm.

Being There: Landscape Memory and Monument opens Tuesday September 5th

I want to insure you are all aware of the upcoming opening reception for the first exhibition of the Fall 2017 gallery season at the Earl and Virginia Green Gallery on the Biola Campus.

This exhibition includes work by the following artists: 

Jonathan Anderson, Stephen Berens, Gregory Michael Hernandez, Claudia Morales McCain, Michelle Westmark Wingard, Amber Jean Young, j.frede

This exhibition explores our shifting, fragmented, and mediated relationship to landscape. 

The show is on view until September 22nd and the opening reception is Tuesday, September 5th from 6:30 to 8:30pm.

Hope to see you there!

Images from top:

showcard image for Being There curated by Jeff Rau

Also FYI: If you are in the Los Angeles area this weekend, I have work up in a group show called Trapper Keeper curated by Class Projects LA that closes on September 2nd. Check it out if you are in the neighborhood. Details here and here is a link to a review of the show. This is the showcard branding for that show which also includes artwork by artists Annelie McKenzie, Dakota Noot, and Don Porcella.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions This Week

Join me in celebrating the work of artists Destiny Gough, Catherine Li and Tom Li for their Senior Thesis Exhibitions on view in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery this week.

The opening reception is happening tonight, Monday April 24th from 6 to 9pm.

Lost in Translation / Destiny Gough

Subconscious Storage / Cat Li

Absent_Minded / Tom Li

Exhibitions run Monday through Thursday. Gallery hours open 9am to 9pm.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions This Week

Join me in celebrating the work of artists Blake Vallotton and Adam Nienow for their Senior Thesis Exhibitions on view in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery this week.

The opening reception is happening tonight, Monday March 27th from 6 to 9pm.

Pretty Pleas / Blake Vallotton

Intersection / Adam Nienow

Exhibitions run Monday through Thursday. Gallery hours open 9am to 9pm.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions This Week

Join me in celebrating the work of artists Alex Sarina and Elaina Swanson for their Senior Thesis Exhibitions on view in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery this week. 

The opening reception is coming up on Monday March 20th from 6 to 9pm.

You Oceans Both / Alexandra Sarina

Goodness Gracious: Roseate Revelations / Elaina Swanson

Exhibitions run Monday through Thursday. Gallery hours open 9am to 9pm.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions This Week

Join me in celebrating the work of artists Soren Iverson and Brianna LaFrance for their Senior Thesis Exhibitions on view in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery this week.

The opening reception is happening tonight, Monday April 3rd from 6 to 9pm.

Quality Content / Soren Iverson

a fellow feeling / Brianna LaFrance

Exhibitions run Monday through Thursday. Gallery hours open 9am to 9pm.

Evening with Artists, Thursday April 6th

I’m excited to have our Senior Seminar class attend this panel discussion organized by the Center for Career Development on campus coming up next week. (We will plan to attend this event until 9pm and then meet back in Rood 51 for the remaining class time.)

The panelists are each Art department alumni from Biola, here to share their post BFA experiences in the arts.  

These speakers include:

Paul Loya 

Paul owns a gallery exhibiting emerging and established contemporary artists in Los Angeles. Paul Loya Gallery sets a blank canvas for each of the exhibiting artists to create his or her own creative environment that best compliments their work. Giving the viewer a complete experience of the artist’s vision. We want to provide a space to embrace a community for artist, collectors, friends and supporters to have events and gatherings both casual and formal.

Dawn Nicole Hamby

Dawn is an interdisciplinary artist who enjoys working in a wide range of media. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, and California Teaching Credential from Biola University and has been teaching high school students since 2006. She loves helping students to discover their God-given creativity and to better understand their relationship with God as creations of the Master Artist. In addition to serving as the Visual & Media Arts Department Chair & Arts Academy Director at Orange Lutheran High School, she teaches at Concordia University Irvine and continues to exhibit her artwork locally.

Alyssa Cordova 

Alyssa is an artist and curator with a particular emphasis on contemporary art through support of emerging artists, arts education, and interdisciplinary collaborations. She received her B.F.A. in sculpture from Biola University and later attended California State University Fullerton, where she received her M.F.A. in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies and was selected as the 2010 CSUF Graduate Fellow in Exhibition Design. From 2005-2011, she worked at Grand Central Art Center, a unique artist colony and gallery in Santa Ana as the Education, Curatorial and Public Relations Coordinator. While there, she had the opportunity to be involved with many community programs and organized and curated dozens of exhibitions. In 2009, she formed a curating collective with five other curators called Sixpack Projects, whose mission is to support emerging artists in Southern California and beyond. Sixpack Projects has installed and curated exhibitions at museums, galleries and unconventional public sites such as vacant retail spaces. Currently, Alyssa is Assistant Curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, where she has worked on numerous large scale exhibitions and curated several permanent collection exhibitions such as Selections: Robert Rauschenberg (2015) We Were Here: Absence of the Figure (2016) and recently Forms of Identity: Women Artists in the 90s. She is currently helping organize the upcoming OCMA 2017 Cal-Pacific Triennial. with the Senior Curator and is a contributing writer to Artillery Magazine. 

John Choura 

John is a Designer living in Long Beach, CA. Currently Product Design Lead at Payoff, Inc. by day, and Adjunct Professor at Biola by night. With a client list that includes large national companies like Vizio, Amazing Grass, and Blossom, to small businesses like Arcade Coffee Roasters, and Grand Food & Beverage; John's roles have been cross-disciplinary. Including art direction, product design, packaging design, brand/identity design, editorial illustration, and web and app design and development. Today, John is interested in using design and technology to shake-up the function of the financial world for people who are non-financial types.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Elaina Swanson and Jon Anderson and is held in Andrew’s Banquet Room.

ALSO: There is a Career Expo for Social Impact happening this Wednesday on campus. Though not directly related to the arts, many of you may have interest in this event as well. Check out this link for more information.

Images from top:

An Evening with Artists infographic

panelists pictured from top, left to right: Paul Loya, Dawn Nicole Hamby, Alyssa Cordova, John Choura

Prep for @kathervin’s upcoming installation. Thanks @tinalinville for showing me how to do plaster molds in school! #biolaarts #creativechurchartsconference #saddlebackvisualarts #ceramics #sculpture (at Saddleback Visual Arts)