Fall Semester 2013

Faculty Focus: Eleanore Rembaum, printmaking
August 26 – September 7 
 

(closed September 2) 
Artist Reception: Saturday, September 7  4-7pm

CSUN Printmaking Society 
in conjunction with the LA Printmaking Society 
November 16 - 21 

Monotype is a painterly printmaking process where unique impressions are created by inking, painting, 
wiping ink and/or pressing textured inked items on a smooth plate and then transferring the resulting image to paper with an etching press. Artists will create prints 
during a monotype marathon workshop in the CSUN  printmaking studios November 9th and 10th.  Workshop prints will display along side CSUN printmaking student work in this exhibition. 

PAST WEST GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

Spring Semester 2013

Faculty Focus:  Drew Dominick (sculpture)
Feb. 9 – 23

Artist Reception: Feb. 9  4-7 pm

Fall Semester 2012

Liu Bolin: The Sociology of the Invisible Body
August 27 - September 15 
(closed Sept 3)

Reception: Saturday, September 8 / 4-7 pm
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, September 5 / 10 am

Through artworks by internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Liu Bolin, this exhibition explores the interaction of art and society in contemporary China and the complex relationship between individuals and the living environment that they both rely upon and are confined within. The exhibition is curated by Art History Professor Meiqin Wang and organized by her Spring 2012 Exhibition Design course.

Image credit:  Liu Bolin, Hiding in the City No.28, 2006

To learn more, click here.

Also view  http://www.cncworld.tv/news/v_show/27592_Sociology_of_invisible_body.shtml

Burning Wall Street
September 22- October 13

Closing Reception: Saturday, October 13 / 4-7 pm 

The Burning Wall Street installation combines a miniaturized Wall Street replete with matchstick banks and mixed media “occupiers” and the infamous burning bank paintings by artist Alex Schaefer, whose work inspired this project. Organized by Art Education Professor Edie Pistolesi, with 150 students participating in creating this project, Burning Wall Street is dedicated to the “99%.”

Image credit: Alex Shafer, Burning Chase

Burning Wall Street with Alex Schaefer by Eric Minh Swenson  
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq05-mO2lYk&feature=share

Faculty Focus: Joe Bautista, interactive design
February 11- 23, 2012
Artist Reception, Feb. 11 4-7 pm

Fantastic Blackness:
The Art and Politics of the Black Superhero
February 25 - March 10, 2012
Opening Reception, Feb. 25 4-7 pm

Youth Art Month: Preserving the Arts Through
Creativity and Advocacy
March 16 -22, 2012

CSUN Illustration Club
March 23 ­ April 17, 2012

CSUN Art Education:
Resilience and Transformation
April 20 - 26, 2012

CSUN Photo Club
May 4 -10

CSUN Sculpture Club
Apr 27-May 3

Past Main Gallery Exhibitions