Three times the charm, three times the art

With assembled ladders standing tall, scattered tools littering the ground and letters being stamped on the walls, the University Art Museum is a work in progress as staff scatter to prepare for the Spring 2016 exhibition to come.

The exhibitions will feature a mixture of art installments from paintings to photographs to sculptures. Ranging artistic styles aim to satisfy any art lover’s visual taste buds. All students and the community are welcome to give their eyes a treat commencing Jan. 30.

The University Art Museum will feature three new installments by local artists for their Spring exhibition, presenting “Dreams of Another Time” by artist duo Rebecca Campbell and Samantha Fields, “Prints in Process” by Wayne Thiebaud and “Frenemies: Art Versus Commodity,” a collaboration of several artists. 

The UAM’s Public Relations and Marketing Coordinator, Shefali Mistry, says that an interest in connecting to the student body inspired these exhibitions.

“We like to connect to curriculum across campus; in the past we’ve connected to biology, German studies, film, history, English and just things you wouldn’t think of,” Mistry said. “There will be a curatorial vision for the exhibition and from there we create educational programming that makes sense for the campus.”

The “Art Versus Commodity” exhibition is a graduate student-run installation from start to finish; all in efforts to collaborate with CSULB’s Museum and Curatorial Studies program.

The “Dreams of Another Time” exhibition incited a call-and-response collaboration of graduate students at CSU Northridge, Fullerton and Long Beach. 

An opening reception will be held on Jan. 30, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the UAM galleries and front plaza. Admission is free for students, as well as the community, and free parking passes will be provided between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. outside of parking structure 1. — on 29/1/2016 at 11:17 a.m., the following article text was changed:

“Frenemies: Art Versus Commodity,” was listed previously as an artist collaboration. It is not an artist collaboration, it is the name of an exhibit.

Mistry was previously cited as saying connecting to the student body inspired a single exhibit. She was actually inspired by all of the exhibits.

Dreams of Another Time is not a “byproduct” of a faculty collaboration, the exhibition inspired the call-and-response collaboration with graduate students