2004
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Education Room
Glass Showcase
December 4 – January 16, 2005
Featuring: Karen Kennedy, Mindy Cherri, Lucy Chamberlain, Leslie Davis, Jennifer Epling, Melissa Grossman Manny Kranowski, Laura Haight, Mike Trafoya, Sarah Grear, Vanessa Sanchez, Rose Goehner, Jean Hacker, Russ Huff, Charlie Keeling, Julie Lewis, Patty Lindsey, Adam Mostow, Dawn Mossbarger, Meghan Myhra, Kaori Murata, Christina Morgan, Chetna Mehta, Lana Merhaut, Robin Provart-Kelly, Ryan Ross, Scott Schroeder, Fran Stephens Sheila Siegel Aimee Sones, Etsuko Taylor, Linda Shull, Hiromi Takizawa, Greg Vriethoff, Sillice Glass, Scott Stodder, Dell Hanson, Jason Chakravarty,and Elio Quarisa.
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Main Gallery
Joe Diebes
vessels
November 6 – January 16, 2005
In Joe Diebes’ latest music driven installation work the audience is invited to wander through a labyrinthine arrangement of video projections that document the everyday behavior of the urban human specimen. At rest: people with blank stares standing on street corners, people smoking cigarettes outside of office buildings, people deep in their own thoughts as they are carted along by city buses. In motion: people navigate the flows and vectors of crowds and street traffic. These figures become vessels through which the music flows. The ever-changing score acts as a constantly shifting filter for the images: sometimes providing hypnotic rhythms that pulse through the entire crowd, sometimes suggesting a subtle violence that exists in this dense multiplication of isolated individuals. The composite result is a richly layered kaleidoscope of images and sound that heightens the viewer/listener’s awareness of the forces at work in contemporary urban life.
Joe Diebes creates works that converge around the categories of contemporary music, sound installation and visual art. From 1996-2003 he was an artist member as well as the musical force behind the hybrid arts collective GAle GAtes et al. described by The New York Times as ‘an adventurous troupe with one foot in the world of postmodern art and the other in downtown performance.’ His recent installations, demonstrating a unique perspective on the possibilities of sound and image, have been widely commissioned and exhibited in galleries and museums across the country. He also remains active as a composer of operas, in which he is pursuing a hybrid between installation and performance. Graduating from Yale in ’95, Joe studied composition formally with Jonathan Berger and Michael Tenzer, while pursuing a degree in Literature and Philosophy. He has also studied at Juilliard with Stanley Wolfe and privately with pioneer sound artist/composer La Monte Young. He is currently represented by Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery in New York City.
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Project Room Gallery
James Hill
In The Time of Louie Louie (The Lost Stills) and Hangin’ In Like Gunga Din
November 6 – January 16, 2005
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Education Room
Ceramics Showcase
October 16 – November 28, 2004
Including: Scott Stodder, Stephanie Rose, Michael Penilla, Greg Morrissey, Carlota Haider, Collette Siegman, Tadao Kamiya, Stella Vognar. E.G. Hopkins, Desiree Engel, Marta Crane, Susan Elizalde-Holler, Brian Jones, Marsha Judd, Charles Mallari, Erin Dolbey, Brian Sherman, Rose Misanchuk, Shari Mildon, Dawn Mosbarger, Al Vasquez, Richard Barrier, Connie Major, Laura Sherman, Jean Hacker, Nancy Harlan, Tim Keenan, Chris Carter, Scott Jennings, Randy Au, Laura Haight, Kathy Waggoner, Grace Chang, Melanie Donegan.
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Main Gallery
Major Art/Minor Artists 2004
October 2 – October 24, 2004
An exhibition by students from Fremont, Heninger, Jefferson, & Muir Fundamental Elementary Schools who participated in Santa Ana Unified School District’s 2003-2004 SPECIAL STUDIO art program.
SPECIAL STUDIO PROGRAM
SPECIAL STUDIO serves students selected for potential artistic achievement from regular, gifted and talented, and special education programs.
SPECIAL STUDIO provides a select group of elementary students with an intensive studio art program designed to enhance and improve their overall educational experience. These students are identified for their potential for artistic achievement from the total school population, including students in special education, gifted and talented, and regular programs.
SPECIAL STUDIO reaches all elementary schools in Santa Ana on a rotating basis. This year’s student artists (grades 4 & 5) are from Fremont, Heninger, Jefferson, and Muir Fundamental Elementary Schools.
The students work weekly (20 one and one-half hour lessons) with artists Cheryl Michelon and Helen Seigel at their school site. Students become familiar with art materials and techniques. They learn to appreciate art as a language through which they can communicate their own ideas and unique perceptions of the world.
One hundred students are participants in the 03/04 program. On exhibit will be approximately four hundred works of art in various media including: drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, and mixed media.
The artwork ranges from representational to abstract and reflects the exposure of the students to many types of art and creative stimuli.
The SPECIAL STUDIO program demonstrates what children can achieve when exposed to in-depth art instruction, where they are encouraged to seek diverse solutions to artistic problems.
SPECIAL STUDIO is one element of a strong visual arts program provided for elementary students by the Santa Ana Unified School District.
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Project Room Gallery
Ron Reihel
California: Twilight
October 2 – October 24, 2004
The work of Ron Reihel is driven by chemical and geometrical pairings. His first exhibit featured at the Grand Central Art Center’s Project Room creates an experience of irresistible visual pleasure. His artwork speaks of the inner landscapes that exist as phenomena. Through the collaboration of layers of light and the absence of light, the viewer’s perception is at odds with what is expected. Reihel’s resin sculptural works emanate an inner glow and dimension through the use of phosphorescent pigment and other encapsulated elements.
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Education Room
States of Being
Featuring: Dick Collins, Diane Fraser, Scott Laumann and Gabriel Mejia
September 4 – October 10, 2004
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Education Room
Non-Objective
July 17 – August 29, 2004
Featuring: Marilyn Ellis, Mark Leysen, Carl Provder
Featuring Jewelry Artist: Louise Pass
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Main Gallery
100 Artists See Satan
July 3 – September 19, 2004
Mark Twain once said, “All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.”
While 100 Artists See Satan may not exactly present Satan’s side of things, it does present a wide, albeit inconclusive, range of perspectives; it is intended to be a series of snapshots and ruminations, and it is an essentially visual exercise-there are no artist biographies or artist statements in the catalogue, just images by 100 artists. (Actually 115 artists’ works are included in the catalogue and probably a few more in the exhibition; we attribute this to satanic math and with having an abundance of incredible work that we wanted to include in the exhibition). Some of the artists are famous and some unknown; their approaches to Satan range from humor and absurdity to deadpan seriousness, from blatantly political to esoterically philosophical, from text to symbolic images, from art historical references to pop-culture icons, from overt graphic images to subtle, sometimes poetic gestures, from abstraction to explicit depictions of individuals or imagery, from the found object to the meticulously rendered painting, from drawing to photography to video to music.
Mike McGee, curator
Participating Artists:
Kim Abeles, Rev.Ethan Acres, Lita Albuquerque, Peter Alexander, John Alexander, Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, Bale Creek Allen, Kevin Ancell, Franco Angeloni, Van Arno, Gary Baseman, Sandow Birk, Cliff Benjamin, Chaz Bojorquez, Jonothan Borofsky, David Bunn, Chris Burden, Bill Burns, Kalynn Campbell, Scott Marvel Cassidy, Amy Caterina-Barrett, Colin Chillag, Dan Clowes, Joe Coleman, Coop, Rosemary Covey, Sarah Cromarty, Russel Crotty, R. Crumb, Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Mitchel DeJarnett, Tony DeLap, Jason Dugan, Extremo, Enzia Farrell, Llyn Foulkes, John Frame, Paul Frank, Steve Galloway, Bia Gayotto, John Geary, Gregg Gibbs, Jeff Gillette, Mat Gleason, Stuart Gow, Alex Grey, Scott Grieger, Rick Griffin, Don Ed Hardy, Laurie Hassold, Mark Heresy, George Herms, Anaida Hernandez, F.Scott Hess, James Hill, Jim Jenkins, Seth Kaufman, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Tom Knechtel, Michael Knowlton, Frank Kozik, Charlie Krafft, Diana Kunce, Paul Laffoley, Don Lagerberg, Bad Otis Link, James Lorigan, Janice Lowry, Barry McGee, Liz McGrath, Michael McManus, Michael C. McMillen, Ryan McNamara, Dean McNeil, Mear, Patrick Merrill, Martin Mull, Enjeong Noh, Naida Osline, Manuel Pardo, Raymond Pedttibon, The Pizz, Kenny Price, Roland Reiss, Victoria Reynolds, Boyd Rice, Rachel Rosenthal, Erika Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Mark Ryden, Saber, Mike Salisbury, Kenny Scharf, Ilene Segalove, Shag, Jim Shaw, Dustin Shuler, Brian Smith, Craig Stecyk, Corey Stein, John Swihart, Szukalaski, Haruko Tanaka, Richard Turner, John Valadez, Jeffrey Vallance, Marnie Weber, Mary Hull Webster, William T. Wiley, William Wegman, Robert Williams, Liz Young, Paul Zelevansky, Peter Zokosky
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Education Room
Active Ingredients
Featuring: Roger Weik, Dennis Cubbage, Marta Whistler and Leslie D. Davis
June 5 – July 11, 2004
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Education Room
[Collage 4]
Featuring: Roxene Rockwell, Constance Esposito, Vicki Feldon
April 17 – May 30, 2004
Featuring Jewelry Artist: Linda Shull
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Main Gallery
Thomas Kinkade
Heaven on Earth
April 3 – June 20, 2004
Thomas Kinkade, known as the “Painter of Light,” has become one of the most avidly collected, financially successful and controversial painters in history. His paintings are embraced by thousands of faithful collectors and criticized by others for there idyllic scenes which romanticize and illuminate a fantasy life on earth.
Thomas Kinkade in association with Lightpost Publishing and Media Arts Group, Inc. have published limited editions of his work and created a lifestyle brand of Kinkade collectables and products. The Thomas Kinkade Foundation has been a founding force behind the Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center and various educational charities for children including the Thomas Kinkade Art For Children’s Charities. He’s been the recipient of humanitarian awards and winner of the National Association of Limited Edition Dealers (annually for more than seven years). He is included in the Bradford Hall of Fame for plate artists and the California Tourism Hall of Fame and has been honored as Commander and Chief from the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The GCAC Gallery, which is approximately 1,800 sq. feet; will feature original paintings, reproductions, limited edition plates, and didactic panels. The space will be painted in tasteful two-tone colors like an old-fashioned, elegant museum (akin to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore). The GCAC Gallery will also feature display cases stocked with a range of the artist’s products such as tapestries, night-lights, and other gift items.
In the 800 sq. foot project room, adjacent to the Main Gallery a chapel interior will be constructed. The space will feature examples of Kinkade’s celebrated Christian artwork, including originals, prints, and objects like the ceramic Kinkade Nativity Scene. The chapel will resemble a quaint little country church with a chapel facade, church pews, and stained-glass windows. For the exhibition opening, a distinguished Reverend Ethan Acres is preparing a sermon on Kinkade’s religious work. The curator envisions each themed room as a clear extension of the manifold career of Thomas Kinkade. A lecture series, collector’s round table discussion and other educational presentations will be scheduled throughout the run of the exhibition.
The Main Gallery at Cal State University Fullerton is also participating in this exhibition and a series of recent paintings inspired by Thomas Kinkade’s international travels, limited editions, furnishings and examples of the distinctive Kinkade architecture designs will be shown in blueprints, photos and models.
As part of the exhibition a full-color 168 page catalog has been produced featuring 157 reproduction of artworks, photo documentation of the exhibition and essays written by guest curator Jeffrey Vallance, art writer Ralph Rugoff, art writer Doug Harvey, Thomas Kinkade, CSUF Main Gallery director Mike McGee, Reverend Ethan Acres and CSUF Grand Central Art Center director, Andrea Lee Harris.
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Education Room
A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That
Featuring: Dorothy Magallon, Janice Lowry, Eileen Anderson
March 6 – April 11, 2004
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Project Room Gallery
Seeing Double: Jim Payne’s 3-D Portraits
February 7 – March 21, 2004
Jim Payne, Southern California photographer, began his 3-D portrait project in 1976 when he was living in an apartment complex in Southern Illinois. All units in the complex had the same floorplan, were painted white, and no painting was allowed. The artist noticed how differently people configured their environments, and that their personalities and values were revealed by these differences. The artist began to document his friends and neighbors in the complex with his 3-D photos. Later the artist moved to Chicago and decided to continue the project. His intent for the project is to document his friends, neighbors, and family for a period of 40 years to reveal a reflection of the path of his own life, as well as of his “peer” group, that would include geographic, economical, professional, and lifestyle choices. Now is his 27th year of the project, he has over 200 portraits. A selection of 50 images will be on display in special viewing devices in the Project Room at Grand Central Art Center.
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Main Gallery
Megan and Murray McMillan
27 Acknowledged and Sanctioned People Installation
February 2 – March 21, 2004
www.murraymcmillan.com
Performance installation artists Megan and Murray McMillan will debut their new piece, “27 Acknowledged and Sanctioned People,” at Cal State University Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana.
Highly choreographed and engineered, the performers of “27 Acknowledged and Sanctioned People” performers interact in a constellation of actions that allegorically explore the complexities of familial relationships and the obstacles in our lives that cannot be moved of our own accord.
Six musicians compose 10 arrangements based on 10 chapters of text taken from interviews done of the cast and crew of “27 Acknowledged and Sanctioned People.” A cast of 9 performers interacts with the architecture and one another as the chapters unfold.
Megan, who’s background is in writing and music, and Murray, trained as a sculptor and a performance artist, together design and direct large-scale performance installations that are the recipient of several awards and grants. Their goal is for the work to create a life of its own, balanced between their direction and the unknown, unexpected experiences that the audience, performers and architectural forms create.
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Education Room
Mindscapes
Featuring: Jennifer Celio, Pamela Mower-Conner, Deborah Davidson and Sairi Forsman
January 17 – February 29, 2004
Featuring Jewelry Artist: Michele Caruso
A collection of painting and sculpture that deals with a personal inquiry of person, place, and thing. Issues of memory, dreams and relationships play key roles in personal discovery.
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