Boundaries Are For Pushing

A Virtual Visit to a Gallery of Amazing CSUN Artworks

If you missed the 2010 Thesis Exhibition featuring the works of 15 Cal State Northridge Master of Art and Master of Fine Art degree students, here is your chance to take a tour in our virtual gallery. Encouraged to push their boundaries beyond single disciplines, the artists created works that reflect influences from the environment, architecture, music, politics and more.

The 2010 spring semester exhibition was the CSUN Art Department’s first group thesis exhibition in the university’s Main Gallery, a departure from previous single artist exhibits. The innovation allowed the public to appreciate what associate art professor and graduate coordinator Patsy Cox calls “the breadth and strength” of the work being produced in the CSUN art program.

Sara Alavikia, M.F.A., Painting

(Paradise, 2009, mixed media on Mylar, 25 x 45 inches)

I use collage techniques to dissect my complex experiences as an immigrant.

Lee Choo, M.F.A., Photography

(Anonymous #1, 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 feet, laser print; Anonymous #3, 4 1/2 x 3 feet, laser print; Jose V, 6½ x 3 feet, laser print)

My work interprets the world as I see it; not just a world of places or events, but one filled with people.

Libby Gerber, M.F.A., Public Art/Sculpture

(Erode, 2009, clay, dirt, garden hose, concrete, found objects, water, 80 x 22 x 48 inches; The Futility of Growing One’s Own Vegetables, 2009, dirt and summer vegetable plants, various sizes)

Throughout history, towers have symbolized a future full of success, grandeur, and possibility.

Katrina McElroy, M.F.A., Painting

(Aftermath, 2009, 64 modified video stills adhered to wall, 28¼ x 28¼ inches)

In my multi-media work, I explore grief, not as an isolated emotion, but in its connections to seemingly opposite emotions.

Nurit Avesar, M.A., Painting

(Red Shells, oil and block prints on canvas, 32 x 50 inches)

My current body of works explores personal and reflective narratives that psychologically investigate notions of past, present and future.

Kristy Carr, M.A., Ceramics

(Nature Head Series, 2009, porcelain, ¾ x 1 x 1 inches, each head)

Nature is an important element in my life. I am fascinated by the variety of natural forms…

Mylan Chacon, M.A., Sculpture

(Cyclic, 2009, steel and wood, 8 x 3½ x 4½ feet)

Technology in the past century has provided a comfortable life and has also allowed us to peer into the fabric of our very existence…

Michelle Kim, M.A., Ceramics

(Laughable, 2008, stoneware, 2½ x 2½ x 2½ inches)

My body of work gravitates toward the study on human relationships that develops identity.

Susan Kurland, M.A., Ceramics

(Mom & I, mixed media, 38 1/8 x 15½ x 18)

The inspiration for my work comes from the needlework that women have done over the centuries…

Leslie Ann Lloyd, M.A., Painting

(Angelic Children, mixed media on BFK, 15 x 20 inches)

…I take one source image and from it make many different images.

Fabia Panjarian, M.A., Painting/Drawing

(Enduring Debris, detail, watercolor and graphite on paper, 22½ x 30 inches; Home Address: Al Howayek bldg., apt. 20, Mar Maroun St., Beirut, detail, watercolor, graphite, inkless intagilo on paper, 22 1/2 x 30 inches)

…I explore attributes rooted in my war torn history.

Megan Rothman, M.A., Illustration

(1847, 2010, oil on board, 29 x 19 inches)

My illustrations create a world where dualities are the narrative emphasis, a tableau of childlike imagery both of innocence and corruption set in an adult context.

Kris Schomaker, M.A., Painting

(Gracie and Kris together at last from “The Gracie Kendal Project-A Conversation with my Avatar,” 2010, still photo from Secondlife.com)

The Gracie Kendal Project is a close-up daily view of a personal, social and psychological co-existence with my virtual persona.

Eric Schott, M.A., Painting

(Metropolitan Modules, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches)

…My inquiry is concerned with the formal elements of metropolitan topography and locality, involving events of circumstantial personal experience.

Robert Sherwin, M.A., Drawing

(Auguste Rodin, 2010, linoleum print, 8 x 8 inches; John Muir, 2010, linoleum print, 8 x 8 inches; Jules Verne, 2009, linoleum print, 8 x 8 inches)

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