Student Galleries | Spring 2025

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LEO FREEDMAN FOUNDATION STUDIO AND MFA ART Gallery

Painting of an Etch-a-Sketch toy

Open Notes
Jacqueline Vanessa Lemus, BFA Drawing & Painting Spring ‘25

Exhibition on View: Tuesday, March 11–Saturday, March 15
Reception: Wednesday, March 12, 4 PM–6 PM


ARTIST'S STATEMENT

As a child, the last pages of my school notebooks were an outlet for my inner thoughts. While sermons filled the air, I scribbled words and drawings, trying to block the voices that spoke of sin and hell. Today, those scribbles are no longer confined to hidden notebooks but are transformed into paintings that share my story. My art is my diary, and each piece is a deep excavation of memory and trauma. These thoughts surface in Spanish, my first language, and in English, reflecting a life lived between cultures, haunted by echoes from both. Like I did when I was a child, I write my thoughts on paper, arrange objects such as magnets or dry-erase boards, and paint them from life. By depicting them as life-sized, I aim to preserve a raw and organic representation that feels immediate and intimate, creating the effect of“looking at the actual thing.

Marilyn and Cline Duff Gallery


Boy sitting in a red chair.

Bouquet
 Group Show

Exhibition on View: Tuesday, March 11–Saturday, March 15
Reception: Wednesday, March 12, 4 PM–6 PM


ARTISTS' STATEMENT

Bouquet reflects the charm and chemistry of separate flowers coexisting within a confined space, presenting themselves uniquely in bloom while simultaneously catalyzing each other’s individual appeal in unity. Likewise, Bouquet is a collaboration between Cliff Cheon, Micah Coble, Diana Escamilla, Roger Garcia, Grace Mallawong, Casey Savadkohi, and Diana Vallin as a presentation of seven distinct identities in juxtaposition with each other. As a collective, each member explores how identity is created and why; each work is an expression of the construction of self and the processes and experiences informing those constructions. Through these processes, the seven individuals have bloomed and come to acknowledge and embrace an interworking amongst nature, nurture, and the choices that guide their sense of who they are.

Artists: Casey Savadkohi, BA Art Studio Spring ‘25; Roger Garcia Art Education, Single Subject Credential Spring '25; Diana Vallin, Art Education, Single subject credential; Cliff Cheon, General Studio Art BA Spring '25, Diana Escamilla, General Studio Art BA Spring '25, Grace Mallawong, Art, Teaching BA Spring '25, Micah Coble, Art, Teaching BA Spring '25 

 

STAN MARK RYAN '75 Gallery

Fantasy character wearing a lobster suit.

Myth and Magic Unbound
 Dana Yun, BFA Game Art, Animation, and Immersive Media Spring ‘25

Exhibition on View: Tuesday, March 11–Saturday, March 15
Reception: Wednesday, March 12, 4 PM–6 PM

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Myths, fairytales, and fantasies are popular themes of storytelling across the globe–growing up listening to different Chinese mythological tales and surrounded by friends engrossed in Western fictions of wizardry and the supernatural, I am drawn to these narratives portrayed in modern media. In a specific approach, focusing on well-known fantastical characters and creatures fromboth Eastern and Western cultures, my exhibition addresses this phenomenon and utilizes 2D and 3D applications to explore the blend of traditional imaginative storytelling with modern fantasy. The end results are fusions of my own artistic interpretations and of the entertainment media.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Marilyn and Cline Duff Gallery

Urban Erosion
 Julio Cesar Hernandez
BFA Ceramics and Glass, Spring‘25

Exhibition on View:
Tuesday, March 25–Saturday, March 29
Reception: Wednesday, March 26, 4 PM-6 PM

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

LEO FREEDMAN FOUNDATION STUDIO
AND MFA ART Gallery

Crumbs from the Heart
 Shannon Huang
BFA Illustration and Glass, Spring‘25

Exhibition on View:
Tuesday, March 25–Saturday, March 29
Reception: Wednesday, March 26, 4 PM-6 PM

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

STAN MARK RYAN '75 Gallery

A Season of Light and Dark
 Theresa Louise Perry
BFA Drawing and Painting, Spring ‘25

Exhibition on View:
Tuesday, March 25–Saturday, March 29
Reception: Wednesday, March 26, 4 PM-6 PM

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