2008 Woodie Awards
New Work in COM Faculty Show 2001
Leslie Chappelle
Issue date: 9/13/01 Section: A&E
Scenes from the Flood, three huge panels of new work by art instructor Chester Arnold are on view in the 2001 Art Faculty Show at the COM Art Gallery, Kentfield campus. Arnold’s application of black acrylic paint on heavy white paper has created powerful scenes of devastation from natural forces.
The exhibit opened Aug. 20 and continues through Sept. 27. Nineteen art instructors are exhibiting 32 works. Viewing is available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Of particular interest is an amazing video by Ted Greer, in which images from the Internet – cartoon characters, jazz musicians, religious icons, demons, saints and the paintings of masters – are morphed with photos of college instructors, students, strangers and a variety of dogs, cats and one horse. Does a Dog Have a Buddha Soul? is the title. Greer’s imagery, fluid in transition, promotes ever changing impressions of humor, beauty, horror, shock, acceptance, sensuality, religious joy and the grotesque. This art is from a high realm.
Greer composed his second presentation, Maya, by printing hundreds of facial images from the Internet, clipping them individually and grouping them in the round.
Jack Scott’s Study for a Black Drawing, four squares of solid black charcoal impressions on unprimed canvas, measuring from large to wee, provokes startle and admiration from viewers. Your Landscape, My Body/My Body, Your Landscape, watercolor and collage on canvas, is the monumental work of Tron Bykle. This abstract work covers one entire wall of the gallery, leaving only space for a small second work, #1 Daylies.
Bill Abright entered two ceramic sculptures, Gardner and Specimen II, both post fired
constructed ceramic, soda fired, large outstanding works.
Mike Chaille has newly designed jewelry in the exhibit. Polly Steinmetz has three works in mixed media, The Web, The Secrets and Antagonism. Al Widenhofer offered
two computer-generated paintings, Grace Note and Nice Try. Betty Wilson has three acrylic paintings on canvas, Crossing, Once Again and Once More.
The exhibit opened Aug. 20 and continues through Sept. 27. Nineteen art instructors are exhibiting 32 works. Viewing is available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Of particular interest is an amazing video by Ted Greer, in which images from the Internet – cartoon characters, jazz musicians, religious icons, demons, saints and the paintings of masters – are morphed with photos of college instructors, students, strangers and a variety of dogs, cats and one horse. Does a Dog Have a Buddha Soul? is the title. Greer’s imagery, fluid in transition, promotes ever changing impressions of humor, beauty, horror, shock, acceptance, sensuality, religious joy and the grotesque. This art is from a high realm.
Greer composed his second presentation, Maya, by printing hundreds of facial images from the Internet, clipping them individually and grouping them in the round.
Jack Scott’s Study for a Black Drawing, four squares of solid black charcoal impressions on unprimed canvas, measuring from large to wee, provokes startle and admiration from viewers. Your Landscape, My Body/My Body, Your Landscape, watercolor and collage on canvas, is the monumental work of Tron Bykle. This abstract work covers one entire wall of the gallery, leaving only space for a small second work, #1 Daylies.
Bill Abright entered two ceramic sculptures, Gardner and Specimen II, both post fired
constructed ceramic, soda fired, large outstanding works.
Mike Chaille has newly designed jewelry in the exhibit. Polly Steinmetz has three works in mixed media, The Web, The Secrets and Antagonism. Al Widenhofer offered
two computer-generated paintings, Grace Note and Nice Try. Betty Wilson has three acrylic paintings on canvas, Crossing, Once Again and Once More.