By snoadmin
Through vibrant colors, flashing television screens and more, Cal State Long Beach students exhibit an array of deep emotions in this week’s art galleries.
Displayed in the Gatov Gallery are multiple paintings and drawings, entitled “Rhapsody,” mounted on the wall by artist Yu Hsiu Chen. Seven of the smaller paintings are collaged with angular strips of construction paper that contrast the artwork or are painted over to blend in.
Much larger paintings are displayed on wooden frames with a theme depicting an energetic display of nature.
Chen explained on a sign at the gallery’s entrance, “The theme is to capture beauty through imagery-realistic creation along with the corresponding feelings that painter receives.”
When looking at them up-close, the brightly colored canvases are heartwarming yet busy. Each one displays a thick coat of painting that literally stands out of the canvases. The paint blends and swirls to create a piece of an image that comes together once the viewer has taken a few steps back.
Contrast to the warm colors of nature, five small Toshiba television sets stand on pedestals and display eerie imagery that makes the viewers feel stuck in a moment of negative tension. Artist Nicole Sloan’s exhibit, entitled “Mother/Monster,” in the Merlino Gallery, attempts to convey an uneasy feeling to the viewer.
A description by Sloan describes the exhibit to as an exploration of, “reconstruction of memory using appropriated media specific to my youth in contrast with footage of my mother and I.”
The reasoning behind the exhibit is powerful alone, but as it coincides with flickering clips of syndicated television shows or flashing words like “Don’t touch me,” it conveys more emotion. Stress and intensity are personified as fragments of past breaking news and extreme situations in television shows are combined with the overlying sounds of emergency signals.
Unique on its own is the “Thin Skin” exhibition by artist Tina Linville in the Dutzi Gallery. Accumulated by a variety of media, the artwork are fused and wrapped in stockings. From afar, the pieces just appear to be large masses but up-close they are familiar objects from shoes and alphabet-shaped magnets to an ironing board.
The Werby Gallery contains a memorial exhibition dedicated to Lisa Nguyen, an alumna who died last month. The gallery is a large collection of art dedicated to the memory of Nguyen in a display of digital, ink, watercolor and mixed media artwork.
The weekly student art galleries run Monday through Thursday from noon to 5 p.m. between the FA2 and FA3 buildings.
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