By snoadmin
This week the student art galleries feature a collection of student work from the fundamental art classes offered at Cal State Long Beach. The type of art varies from two-dimensional collages, color theory, three-dimensional compositions, graphic design and computer art. The exhibits feature more than 100 student pieces.
The Merlino gallery hosts Art 149: Foundation Computer Art. According to Jon Measures, instructor of Foundation Computer arts, students in this class were introduced to Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver.
Books, created by students, hang from the ceiling in this exhibit. Some are handmade and some manufactured, but all are original and made with In Design.
The gallery has a section of surrealist paintings, where students place subjects in rare locations and make them fit as if they had been there all along. In a section of the Merlino gallery, the instructor took perspective drawings from a drawing class and assigned her computer art students to make a computer generated replica of the drawing. The students were asked to follow the work of two Los Angeles-based artists, Simmons and Burke.
The Dutzi gallery displays student work from Art 130: Foundation Two-Dimensional. The instructors of all classes provided an assignment sheet that described exactly what the students were trying to display. The artists experiment with color, textures, positive and negative shapes, and line structure. The images on display use different subjects, such as people and animals, that show a difference in techniques and color composition.
The Werby Gallery displays a series of posters recreated by students in their full-color saturation.
Most of the two-dimensional compositions are located in the Gatov Gallery, where students focus on stepping outside of rules, directions and technique given by the instructors and actually think out-of-the-box. The gallery features dozens of pieces with subjects like including nude portraits, sneakers, kitchen utensils and dead rabbits. The artists convey a lot of intensity and emotion in their drawings and paintings with the detail and techniques they use.
The weekly student art galleries run Monday through Thursday from noon to 5 p.m., and Sundays from 5 – 7 p.m.
