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Gallery Hours during the Academic year- Tuesday through Friday 11:00am-4:00pm and Saturday Noon-4:00pm (Closed between exhibitions and during the summer and winter holiday breaks. Closed during Thanksgiving week and the Last week of March 2008 for Spring Break. When in doubt re gallery hours call - a recorded message is available). Gallery information (909) 869-4302. Mailing and shipping address W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, 3801 West Temple Ave., Pomona, CA 91768.
Directions to Campus The Kellogg Gallery is on the west end of the Student Union Building directly east of the library on the map on this page. Visitor's Parking Information or (909) 869-3061 or 3062. Library construction may effect access to the gallery from Lot D from January 2006 thru 2008, please consult gallery or parking office for up-to-date information on parking during this interval. Campus map with zooming feature - the Kellogg Gallery is 35A on this map. Please note that the university parking fee is enfored 24/7, however there is no admission fee to the gallery.
Current and upcoming 2007-2008 Exhibitions - entry to the gallery is free and open to the public however please note there is a parking fee imposed 24/7.
East In Eden Open November 15 through December 15, 2007 - Please note that the campus and thus the gallery is closed during Thanksgiving break.
Deena Capparelli, Claude Willey, Rolo Castillo, Steve Comba, John Cullen, Jim & Liz Fuller, Rebecca Hamm, Tom Herberg, Joyce Hesselgrave, Gary Geraths, Kim Kaufman, Gary Keith, Paul Knoll, Gilbert Lujan, Annie Marquis, Jane Marquis, Penny McElroy, Fr. Bill Moore, Eileen Senner, Karen Sullivan, Keith Crockett, Juan Thorp, Jeanne Steffan, Tom Skelly, Chris Toovey, Dan Van Clapp, Ahlene Welsh, Michael Woodcock, and Marco Zamora.
The exhibition and its art are intended to initiate a dialog between artists and the community. The 'East in Eden" exhibition will examine and interpret the Pomona Valley through the eyes of its contemporary artists. The thematic focus is "place": thus the dialog begins with the identification and examination of "place," from the San Bernardino Mountains to urban settings. "Place" is both natural and cultural, and works will juxtapose critical commentary on social issues of positions and status as well as raise environmental and ecological questions stemming from urban/suburban sprawl. The dialog will embrace the Valley's farm and ranching history as well as its past and present politics -- including race, immigration, and migrant workers. The exhibition and catalog ultimately will form a composite portrait, a collage, and mosaic of Pomona. The "place" to be revealed is both geographical and human. Widespread local distribution of the printed and electronic catalogs will extend this dialogue among the community, local artists and the university. The exhibition catalog is in part funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
2008 Please note new Spring date for the annual Ink & Clay exhibition (now the second exhibition of the New Year)
QUINTESSENTIAL CLAY: Made in California January 8 thru February 16 2008
Patsy Cox, Rick Maldanado, Porntip Sangvanich, Biliana Popova, and Fred Yokel.
These five amazing artists, who have chosen clay as their media, have completely different styles and techniques. Hand built, coiled, sculpted, extruded, thrown, cast and altered. Their innovative approaches are invigorating and sometimes without parallel in other creative cultural activities. All have crossed paths in their endeavor to achieve excellence in their crafts. They have admired one another's work for many years. Some have met in group shows, some have met in seminars. They have crossed paths in the ceramic community. Finally their busy schedules have allowed them to come together to exhibit their works at California State Polytechnic University Pomona,W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery . With much excitement, they can share with you what they see and admire in each other's work.
These five artists draw from their heritage to formulate an embodiment of Southern California clay. The mixture of their backgrounds, against the landscape of what is one of the most culturally diverse locations in the country, proves to offer a grouping of creative work as a microcosm for the larger picture of assimilated place, structure and culture. Without thematic or stylistic constraints, Quintessential Clay's essential feature is to offer a diversity of approaches by those who work with material in it's purest form.
Patsy Cox, Thailand, her work focuses on focuses on taking ceramic form into sculptural realms through form, concept and installation while keep-ing a foundation in the " clay tradition." her work is informed by science, culture and urban sprawl.
Ricky Maldonado, Hispanic, French, Apache Indian and Yaqui Indian, his work has been described as eye candy that takes the viewer around the globe, unintentionally, to places in which his work is clearly inspired from such countries as: Africa, Mexico, New Zealand, the Pueblo, he leaves it to the viewer to decide. His pieces are coil built, sometimes adding a cast piece to one of his totems, burnished, slip decorated and then he applies thousands of glaze dots that are applied one at a time.
Biliana Popova , Bulgarian, her body of work consists of two major types, Figurative and Objects of function. The figurative focuses on the female figure in today's society. It addresses gender roles, the fragility of inner space, and the impact of domestic violence. In her objects of function she is trying to convey to the viewer a visual essence of our lives and surroundings, though contrasting black and white lines, and vivid colors.
Porntip Sangvanich, Thailand and China, her work is: precise and angular. She uses the unusual technique of fabricating very precise and intricately built pieces and then glazing them together. Her pieces are also known for the vivid colors that she has fabricated.
Fred Yokel, German and Swiss, his work concentrates on loosely human-based sculptures that expresses emotions or whimsical stories through their stance and mass, rather than have their detailed facial expressions or life-like anatomy, they are far from anatomically correct humanoids, and he likes it that way.
Ink & Clay 34 March 25 May 3 2008 Entry Form click here
An annual competition, established in 1971, of prints and drawings; ceramic ware and clay sculpture sponsored by the W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. The primary underwriting is through the generosity of Col. Jim Jones. Ink and Clay is an exhibition open to all of the Western States including AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, ND, SD, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, TX, UT, WA,WY. A virtual catalog will be published and mounted on the gallery's website (example Ink & Clay 33) . Other catalogs available below.
2008 Jurors: Darrel Couturier and Mark Steven Greenfield
Darrel Couturier has been the owner and director of Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles, California since 1986. As a professional, Darrel has exhibited the full range of artistic practices in his gallery. As a collector he has applied a particularly sharp eye to ceramic art. The following are a few of the exhibitions he has curated since 1988 that feature ceramic artists: Fulper Art Pottery (major survey); Brian Ransom - Sounding Clay; Gertrud & Otto NATZLER: A 50 Year Survey; Beatrice Wood at 100: drawings and ceramics; Paloma Torres y Marco Vargas - Mexican Ceramic Masters; Jorge Marín - Ceramic Portraits;
When asked by what criteria will he make his choices Darrel responded, "I am particularly interested in seeing novel approaches to the use of clay- innovations in form and content. True, when throwing on a wheel one will have a round form, however, each successful artist seems able to leave his/her own "fingerprint" distinguishing it from that of others.
Also of interest are works that break with traditional boundaries of clay transforming the medium from the expected to fooling the eye into being something it isn't. The work of George Ohr (the late 19th century "Mad Potter of Biloxi") comes to mind. He threw pots literally within millimeters of being able to stand up on their own and tortured his forms before bestowing them with remarkably inventive glazes producing works of great humor and unique visual interest.
Finally, I am equally interested in the finished surface of ceramic works. The glazes, if there are any, are of equal importance to the form and, in most cases, either make or break the piece. It's a marriage that ceramists often misunderstand- this final process of "getting dressed and ready to go out."
Mark Steven Greenfield is currently the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery - the city's official art gallery. Mark is a curator, an educator, a master draughtsman, and a printmaker. The following is Marks response when asked what his philosophy as a juror would be, "In my decisions with regard to selecting participants for the upcoming Ink and Clay exhibition, I will be drawing form my years of experience in curating over ninety exhibitions for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, seven years of selecting members for the Los Angeles Art Association and my participation on various art selection panels in the Southern California area. As a contemporary printmaker myself, I feel I am sensitive to both traditional and unconventional approaches to the genre and fully understand the complexities and limitations of all processes. While execution is important, it is sometimes out weighed by content. In my approach as a juror for this exhibition, this will be foremost in my considerations."
Annual student shows: May 17- June 8, 2007
2d/3d campus wide competition
Senior matriculation exhibition
Past 2007 exhibitions
Big Fish eat Little Fish (Faculty exhibition) Sept 17 Oct 20
Charles Fredrick, Crystal Lee, Ray Kampf, Joseph Hannibal, David Hylton, Milka Broukhim, Babette Mayor, Sarah Meyer, Desmond McVay, Geoffrey Chu, Karen Sullivan, Robin McCauley, Joyce Hesselgrave, Barbara Thomason, Ann Phong, Yvonne Xu, Deane Swick, Maggie Yu, Shari Wasson, Geoff Chu, Robin McCauley
The Kellogg Art Gallery will feature new works by 21 of Cal Poly's respected faculty. The work will include the traditional to the experimental, from the formal language of the abstract to the more volatile political narratives. Faculty from Cal Poly's rapidly expanding Graphic Design department will present the newest ideas from the world of design.
Stop the Violence October 29, 30, 31 2007
Workshops, exhibit, readings, etc. will run all day the 30th and the 31st
This is a collaborative effort between Stop the Violence offices on campus, the Woman's Center and a number of off campus organizations under the umbrella of Windows Between Worlds and of course the Kellogg Art Gallery
www.awbw.org Visual Voices Against Violence
We invite you to view our Web Accessible Catalogs from Past Exhibitions listed below.
The
W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery presents exhibitions
in the visual arts of significance to three specific communities:
the Cal Poly Pomona University campus community; the local communities
surrounding Pomona, and the greater Los Angeles area art communities.
The purpose of our program is to bring to the campus and to the
community carefully developed art exhibits that instruct, inspire
and challenge the viewer.
Most of the gallery's exhibitions focus on the evolving issues
of contemporary art as practiced in Southern California. Special
exhibitions bring attention to important national artists and
issues of art historical/critical interest spanning ideological
and cultural boundaries. Like any good gallery the W. Keith and
Janet Kellogg Art gallery has presented work that has challenged
the notion of what is art as well as presenting objects of stunning
visual beauty.
Art is a site for dialogue. We extend an open invitation to the
public and the campus community to the opening receptions.* Our
opening receptions are fun, with food, beverages and often entertainment.
They are a chance to meet and talk with artists, to share ideas
perhaps to argue, to be profoundly moved by an art object or to
experience the pleasure of its beauty.
The gallery is not just for students attending classes here but
for the entire community. Exhibitions have included artwork that
touches the lives of people today as well as themes of historical
or ethnographic interest. It is the goal of the gallery to continue
to bring high caliber art that is beautiful and challenging and
that speaks to the many cultural interests of both the university
and the greater community surrounding the campus. Located in front
of the Associated Student Union, across from the library, the
gallery is physically located at a nexus point of university life.
The gallery showcases the work of our most talented students in
exhibitions every May and June.
The Kellogg Gallery is made up of three separate interior galleries
connected by a spacious central corridor. The two front spaces
with their high ceilings are 1000 sq. ft. each. The back gallery
is 2000 sq. ft. with an open grid ceiling.
For
more exhibition information please call the gallery at (909) 869-4302.
For other questions or comments please email Gallery Director
Patrick Merrill at pemerrill@csupomona.edu
Mailing
& shipping address: W.
Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
3801 West Temple Ave.
Pomona,
CA 91768
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documentation courtesy of Rhead Lown Photography
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Email: pemerrill@csupomona.edu
Last Update 11-13-2007
Website
Coordinator Debra R. Winters, M.A., M.L.I.S. Visual Resources
Specialist and
Lecturer in Art History, California State University Fullerton
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