FROM THE ARCHIVES: 2020 REVIEW
A review of art gallery exhibitions from 2020. This is a series of selected artworks from Spring 2020 The Garden, Annual Black Box Exhibition, Annual Rising Juried Exhibition, Fall Faculty Exhibition, Alumni Exhibition, and the Fall 2020 Graduating Senior Series.
Although the University Art Gallery and the student galleries remain temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are taking measures to continue to virtually highlight artworks that were on view in our gallery prior to our closure and our virtual exhibitions from this past year. We want to continue to expose our current shows with artwork highlights, virtual experiences, and videos to honor these wonderful artists that have contributed their work to these shows.
Virtual exhibition experiences are forthcoming, and video tours will be available in the future on our YouTube channel.
On behalf of the University Art Gallery, we hope you enjoy this review.
Spring 2020
The Garden Exhibition
The Garden was the last opening reception and physically open show in the University Art Gallery before the CSU campuses closed state-wide due to Covid-19.
This exhibition featured senior student, and student assistant curator Simone Robinson’s solo exhibition “Pollination.” Simone is an exceptional traditional art graduate at CSUEB who is currently studying abroad.
Visit the virtual tour here
2020 Black Box Exhibition
Annual multimedia showcase award and scholarship winners
Natalie Barajas
Multimedia scholarship winner for her 2020 video “Abono Para Las Plantas”
Ben Hawklyn
Multimedia award winner for his 2020 side scroller video game “Tomb Un-raider”
Tinh Nguyen
Multimedia award winner for his 2020 anti-depressant app “Light Up”
Brittany Maldonado
Multimedia award winner for her 2020 GIF “Untitled”
2020 Annual Rising Juried Exhibition
Art Award and Scholarship Winners of 2020
Winner of the 2020 Friends of the Arts Scholarship - Josefina Vega "Hands", Brown Paper Bag, Sewing Thread and Ink, 2020
Winner of the 2020 John Toki Ceramics Award - Ma Rovi Taway, “Umihip sa loob ng Bulkang Taal(Translation: Swirl inside the Taal Volcano)”, Ceramic, 2019
Winner of the 2020 Hayward Arts Council Award, 2-D Artwork - Wenhao Cheng, “Shelter in Place”, Graphic Poster Design, 2020
Winner of the 2020 Hayward Arts Council Award, 3-D artwork - Yasser Binibisher, "Khayl", Wax and Clay, 2020
Winner of the 2020 John Toki Ceramics Award - Leslie Lopez, "Untitled", Ceramic, 2020,
Winner of the 2020 San Leandro Arts Association Scholarship - Sarena Criger, "Starless Thundercloud Cathedral”, Sculpture, Repurposed Wooden Stool, 2019
Winner of the 2020 Howard A. Slatoff Award, 3-D artwork - Nasario Gutierrez, "Monica", Foam & Acrylic Sculpture, 2019
Winner of the 2020 San Leandro Arts Association Scholarship, 2-D artwork - Lauren Zimmerman, “COVID-19 Empathy Meter”, Pedagogical Empathy Survey - Art History Class Survey, 2020
2020 Annual Fall
Faculty Exhibition
This is a selection of artworks from the 2020 Fall Faculty Exhibition
The works in this exhibition all in one way or another address the pandemic that is shaping and reshaping all aspects of our lives - our habits, our circumstances, our bodies, our networks. And yet, we persist through this difficult year, finding comfort in those close to us, drawing upon our own inner strengths, and reaching out to connect virtually. Through the artworks in this exhibition we see how art is a tool for coping with difficulty and change, whether it demands that we look more closely at our reality or provides us an opportunity to temporarily escape from it.
Jennifer Brazelton's "We Are All In This Together", Porcelain, foam, nails, glue, metal, 2019
Michael Hall's "Coming of Age", Watercolor on paper stretched over panel, 2020
Grace Munakat's "Sitka Colonnade", Acrylic and wax pastels on panel, 2020
Trinie Dalton's "Destroy Bad Thoughts Not Yourself", Risograph printed, 4 colors, perfect bound, 166 pages, 2019
Dickson Schneider's "Covid Abstraction 5", Oil on Canvas, 2020
John Poole's "Confessional #3", Bronze and Wood, 2020
2020 Annual Alumni Exhibition
The 2020 Alumni Exhibition focused on ‘remembrances’. Many have lost so much in 2020 that it is crucial to share and express our losses, reflections, or memories through art.
Selected artworks embraced the idea of memorials, vigils, alters, Dia de Los Muertos, memory and other sites, objects or concepts that deal with a reflection on the passing of time, life, and death.
Liliana Herrera(BFA Studio Art, '18) - "Mucho, Mucho Series", Acrylic on Canvas, 2019
Gabriel Sucre(BFA Photography, '20) -"Return to the Past", Photograph, 2020
Elizabeth Zunino(BFA Traditional Arts, '10) - "Nest", Ink on Paper, 2020
Nick Szabo(BFA Fine Arts, '20) - "Morning Ritual", Marker and Charcoal on Paper, 2020
Casey Gielen(BFA Photography, '16) - "Visitor", Photograph, 2020
Ayesa Love(BFA Studio Art/Illustration, '20), "Elements Honoring the Sacred Womb", Digital Illustration, 2020
2020 SENIOR EXIBITION SHOWCASE
Click to visit Rita de Cassia Ferreira's exhibition
Click to visit Michael Picazo's exhibition
Click to visit Sarena Criger's exhibition
Click to visit Jennifer Davila Uribe's exhibition
Click to visit Joaquin Ceniceros' exhibition
Gretel Calderon, "Feminism Vulva"(Click to visit exhibition)