New Spring 2022 Shows by Otis College Faculty
Maura Bendett, Transport (Paper, acrylic, wire, plastic, gold leaf on plexiglass and wood frame, 72 by 48 by 4 inches)
Maura Bendett, Foundation
Foundation faculty member Maura Bendett will be featured in the solo exhibition, Transport, at the Rory Devine Fine Art (rdfa) gallery. There will be an opening night reception on Saturday, April 23 from 6:00–8:00 p.m. Transport will be on display from April 23 through May 21 in the Main Gallery, along with John Souza’s solo-exhibit, Your God Isn’t God. For more information, please visit www.rorydevinefineart.com/maura-bendett.
Meg Cranston, Palette Painting No. 2, 2022 (Oil on canvas, 60 by 45 by 2 inches)
Meg Cranston, Fine Arts
Fine Arts Chair Meg Cranston has an exhibition of new paintings on view at Meliksetian | Briggs gallery. Size, Shape, Distraction is the fourth solo show of Cranston's work in the gallery and continues her ongoing interest in themes of personal identity, the subjective, and their relationship to the broader culture by way of color theory, design, shared cultural references, and formal experimentation. Cranston’s paintings are characterized by their playfulness and wit, an entrance into her explorations of the nature of image making and the role the artist plays in our society. Size, Shape, Distraction is on view through June 4, 2022 at Meliksetian | Briggs, 313 N. Fairfax Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90036.
Jacci Den Hartog, Fluvial, studio shot, 2022 (Aluminum, aqua resin, acrylic media, 26 by 26 by 27 inches)
Jacci Den Hartog, Fine Arts
Los Angeles-based artist and Fine Arts instructor Jacci Den Hartog has a solo exhibition with STARS gallery. For more than three decades Den Hartog has been working as an artist and educator in Los Angeles, exhibiting at some of the city’s legendary galleries such as Rosamund Felson and Christopher Grimes. Gilded Space is a presentation of new works by the artist with nine sculptures and seven works on paper. Considering sculpture as a primarily phenomenological medium, she focuses on her works’ ability to change the feeling of a space, to extend or augment it, to disorient one’s body in response. Reconciling with the masculine history of minimalism and thinking of sculpture as site rather than object, Den Hartog draws from the natural world, the urban landscape, and the meeting of the two. Gilded Space is on view through May 21, 2022 at SPACE gallery, 3116 N El Centro Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028. For more information, please visit www.jaccidenhartog.com/.
Migrant Madonna at SoLA Gallery in Los Angeles
Michele Jaquis, Interdisciplinary Studies
Michele Jaquis, Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, has work included in an upcoming group exhibition at SoLA Contemporary from April 21–May 14, 2022. SoLA Contemporary is pleased to present Migrant Madonna, a mixed-media group show curated by the mother-daughter collective MamaDotta. The exhibition brings together two collectives and eight artists who engage and transform the Madonna to reflect contemporary economic and social issues, commemorate and celebrate their family culture and history, and amplify the voices and experiences of migrant women today. In California, approximately 50% of the child population has at least one immigrant parent. The migrant experience and the narratives of diasporic people shape the culture of our state and our city. Migrant Madonna activates SoLA’s mission by making visible the lives of migrant people, issuing a call for empathy, humanity, and action. There will be an opening Reception on Saturday, April 23 from 3:00–7:00 p.m. SoLA Contemporary is at 3718 West Slauson Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90043.