What a more fitting environment to hold a lecture, event, presentation or gathering than in an art gallery? The College’s Greenleaf Gallery, located in Mendenhall, offers the Whittier College community a space to enjoy the artwork from local and visiting artists throughout the year. The upcoming exhibits and events at the gallery include:
I die because exhibit: October 12 – November 25 Performance: Wednesday, October 14 from 6 - 8 p.m. Artist talk and reception: Wednesday, October 14 from 8 - 9 p.m.
Thinh Nguyen's practice explores malleable notions of identity with a few converging issues from the personal, social, cultural, and historical while engaging the public in the process. He explores formal and conceptual processes in different media as a strategy to continue further critical and aesthetic transgression.
Nguyen grew up in a rural village of central Vietnam that had neither electricity nor running water. He had no art supplies, so he would pick up sticks and tree branches to draw on the ground and he was discouraged from following his passion for art. Fortunately, at the age of 11, Nguyen immigrated with his family to California, which gave him an open environment to pursue an education in fine art.
He received a BFA from California State University, Fullerton and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. He is currently lived and works as an artist in Los Angeles.
Lecture: Tuesday, November 17 at 7 p.m. Garrett House
Aram Moshayedi, curator of the UCLA Hammer Museum, is very well known for curating, organizing, and overseeing every aspect of exhibition productions.
He also organized exhibitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection focused on the work of Pentti Monkkonen, Hirsch Perlman, and Fischli/Weiss, as well as Hammer Projects: Mario Garcia Torres.
Moshayedi is currently co-curating the next "Made in L.A." exhibition to be hosted at the Hammer in 2016. His forthcoming Hammer Projects in 2015 include new works by Maria Hassabi, Avery Singer, and Simon Denny, and he is currently organizing a three-day exhibition focused on the creative work of artist bands, sound artists, and music collectives.
Moshayedi’s writings on art have been published in numerous exhibition catalogs and such publications as Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, and Bidoun, for which he is also a contributing editor.
Exhibit Opening: Sunday, December 6, from 2 - 5 p.m. Artist talk and reception: Tuesday, December 8 at 7 p.m.
Jane O'Neill’s installations, sculptures, collages and prints have appeared in exhibitions at commercial galleries, non-profit spaces and academic institutions in Brooklyn, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. Her work has received mention in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and on WNYC.org.
She has taught at the School of Visual Arts and was the assistant chairperson of the digital arts programs at Pratt Institute. Since relocating to Los Angeles, she has participated in group exhibitions, curated a 25-artist site-specific exhibition and taught at Whittier College.
O’Neill holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a MFA degree in painting from Yale University.
Past exhibits at the Greenleaf Gallery since 2008 include work from Whittier College students as well as artists such as Diana Behl, Troy Richards and Ashley John Pigford, Ihrie Means, Associate Professor Jenny Herrick, among many more.
