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ALUMNAE ALUMNUS ALUMNI ALUMNA The Otis Times, the new alumni blog, launched in October as a forum and format for alumni to share news and opportunities, post images and video, and connect with fellow alumni. Please continue to use the Otis Alumni Facebook page to keep in touch with us. Go to otis.edu/alumni for links to both The Otis Times and Facebook. Let us hear from you at alumniupdate@otis.edu Edith Beaucage (’10 MFA Fine Arts) in her studio

Annetta Kapon

Joseph Sola

Andy Manoushagian ’09 MFA Public

’85 Fine Arts

’99 MFA Fine Arts

Practice, Paige Tighe ’10 MFA Public

“The Measure of Value”

“I found some Bic pens by the

Practice and Hataya Tubtim ’10 MFA

Las Cienegas Projects, L.A.

railroad tracks”...

Public Practice as Pedestal & the All

The Happy Lion, Chinatown, L.A.

Girl Band

Lawrence Gipe

“A Little Louder: Performance in

’86 MFA Fine Arts

Juan Capistran

Conversation”

Tucson Museum of Art

’99 Fine Arts

Kristi Engle Gallery, Highland Park

Hespe Gallery, San Francisco

2010 California Biennial Orange County Museum of Art

’89 Fine Arts

Lee Clark

“First Month Free”

“The Word of God: Sandow Birk’s

’01 Fine Arts

Extra Space Storage, L.A.

American Qur’an”

Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura Jonathan Stofenmacher

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Karen Nakashima

’10 Fine Arts

David Gallup

’02 MFA Fine Arts

“Walks Through Walls”

’90 Fine Arts

James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica

Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica

“Channel Islands” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art,

Tofer Chin

Pepperdine University, Malibu

’02 Fine Arts

Edith Beaucage

“Courtesy Valley Phone”

’10 MFA Fine Arts

Reserve L.A.

“hurluburlu”

James Thegerstrom

CB1 Gallery, L.A.

’91 Fine Arts

(‘96, Fine Arts) Untitled, 2010 acrylic, acrylic ink and embossed drawing on duralene

SOLOISTS John M. White ’69 MFA Fine Arts “Lifelines: A Retrospective Exhibition of Performance, Installation, Sculpture, Painting and Drawing” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena Harrison Storms ’72 MFA Fine Arts “John’s Canyon” Thomas Paul Fine Art, LA

Judithe Hernandez

Myrna Katz

’74 MFA Fine Arts

’80 MFA Fine Arts, ’78 Fine Arts

“La Vida Sobre Papel/Life on Paper”

“Alchemy”

National Museum of Mexican Art,

Ann 330 Gallery, L.A.

Chicago Mineko Grimmer Kerry James Marshall

’81 MFA Fine Arts, ’79 Fine Arts

’78 Fine Arts

“Dialogue”

Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia

Koplin del Rio, Culver City

Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle

“Gongs.Wires.Bamboo.” Main Gallery, Irving Arts Center, TX

Bruce Yonemoto ’79 MFA Fine Arts

Mark Dean Veca

Alexander Gray Associates, N.Y.

’85 Fine Arts

Matthew Warren ’09 MFA Fine Arts and Sergio Bromberg ’10 MFA Fine Arts

Sandow Birk

Sandeep Mukherjee

Deborah Sabet (’05 Fashion Design) “Glee” star Darren Criss wore Sabet’s label District Homme to the 2011 Grammy Awards

Kirk Von Heifner (’06 Fashion Design) Design Director, Fall 2011 collection for eco-conscious brand Vicarious by Nature

“Bound”

Mary Younakof

Gallery 825, L.A.

’06 MFA Fine Arts “The Chromatic Convergence Project”

Camille Rose Garcia

Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood

’92 Fine Arts “Snow White and the Black Lagoon”

Kuger Peterson

Michael Kohn Gallery, L.A.

’06 Fine Arts “DON’T BE EVIL”

Dana Montlack

Urban:Sanctuary, L.A.

’94 Fine Arts Joseph Bellows Gallery, Art San Diego

Alexander Kroll ’08 MFA Fine Arts

Trine Wejp-Olsen

“Unfoldings”

’94 Fine Arts

CB1 Gallery, L.A.

“Volcanic Puffs and Other Tales” George Billis Gallery, L.A.

“When the Shit Hits the Fan” Suzanne Caporael ’79 MFA Fine Arts “The Memory Store”

Western Project, Culver City Scott Derman (‘05, Toy Design) Porkchop Spaceship from “Toy Story 3”


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ALUMNI CONNECT LA Aaron Kupferman

Ruben Ochoa

’05 Digital Media

’97 Fine Arts

Compositing Lead, Sony Pictures

One of 21 shortlisted artists for the Future

Imageworks team for “Alice in

Generation Art Prize (Victor Pinchuk

Wonderland,” winner of Academy Award

Foundation)

Ashkahn Shaparnia

’00 MFA Fine Arts, ’93 Fine Arts

’06 Fine Arts

Completed documentary, “Red Hope?

Designed skate shoes as a guest artist for

The Blacklisting of Hope Foye: Her Story,

Circa Skateboards

Her Songs”

Chin Ko

Ben Go

’06 Digital Media

’00 Digital Media

Visual Development Artist, Dreamworks’

Director, Brand New School “Honda

“Megamind”

CVR-V” ad featured in Regional Super Bowl Spot

SF

’10 Digital Media

Kenneth Cowan

3D stereoscopic compositor, “Chronicles

’06 MFA Fine Arts and

of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader”

Whitney Stolich

IN PRINT

Seleted for “Jeunes Talents” Project, France

Alonzo Davis

Jules Rochielle

’73 MFA Fine Arts, ’71 Fine Arts

’09 MFA Public Practice

The Bamboo Muse, Blurb

LACE Residency, “Portable City Projects”

Terrance Zdunich

Hazel Mandujano

’98 Communication Arts

’10 MFA Graphic Design, ’03 Fine Arts

5th issue of The Molting, “Mother’s Day”

and Sergio Bromberg ’10 MFA Fine Arts Residents at Sandberg Institute,

MFA) and based on her book. Work by Tami Demaree (’03 MFA), Rashell George (’05), Fay Ray (’02), and Liz Young (’84) was featured. Marco Rios (’97) is Gallery Curator, and the book was designed by Hazel Mandujano (’10 MFA, ’03). New York At Haunch of Venison, alumni and members of Otis’ Patrons Circle heard from architect Steven Learner (’86), who designed the gallery. San Francisco Masami Teraoka (’68) spoke to alumni at the Catharine Clark Gallery’s exhibition of his work.

COOL DESIGNERS

Blaine Fontana

Eduardo Lucero

Amalgamate, Zero+Publishing, Inc.

’89 Fashion Design Fall/Winter 2010 Collection at BOXeight’s “Fashion: Refocus” for L.A. Fashion Week Derek Thompson

Amsterdam

’02 Communication Arts Andrew Clinico ’10 Fine Arts Aaron Philip Clark

Member of Incan Abraham band,

’08 MFA Creative Writing

described on NPR as “Deftly infusing

The Science of Paul: A Novel of Crime,

generations of rock music into a graceful

New Pulp Press

and subtly innovative product”

’94 Communication Arts Pixar story artist lectured and led workshops on creature design and storytelling at Otis

IN THE NEWS

IN MEMORIAM

Eloy Torrez

Paul Soldner

’77 MFA Fine Arts

’56 MFA Ceramics

Documentary “Eloy: Take Two” follows

Ceramics pioneer passed away in his

the L.A.-based artist in his journey to cre-

home in Claremont, CA in January. Paul

featured in Fashion Week N.Y.

ate art and music

was Otis’ first ceramics student and stud-

Zoe Hong

Kim Gordon

Consuelo Asper Valdes ’01 Fashion Design “Coco Lancellotti” Spring 2011 line

’02 Fashion Design Collection featured in “Project San Francisco” runway show Hillary Coe ’04 Digital Media Art Director, ad campaign for “Call Of Duty: Black Ops”

ied with Peter Voulkos. ’77 Fine Arts

Karly Kojimoto

Solo show, “The Noise Paintings” at John

’09 Digital Media

McWhinnie Gallery, N.Y.; designed three

Passed away in Hawaii, June

limited edition pieces for Italian luxury

Beginning in October 2011, Pacific

an artist and still work in clay. It was that

Standard Time: Art in LA 1945-1980,

vision that made the difference. If you

a Getty initiative, will explore and

think about innovation, it’s always about

celebrate the legacy of contemporary art

that—it’s about a contextual shift. It’s not

in Southern California. For far too long

in the old linear progression.” The gravitational pull of Voulkos’

and art movements—some of which have

energy was powerful. Billy Al Bengston

spread far beyond its geographic borders

(’57) remembers the moment he and

—have been under-recognized and under-

fellow Otis student Ken Price (’57)

documented.

witnessed a demonstration Voulkos

Critic Arthur Danto has defined

gave when he first arrived in L.A.

the “art world” as composed of artists

Bengston found his own medium as one

performance)

and “certain curators, dealers, critics,

of the leading lights of the Finish Fetish

Left: Feminist Art Workers (Cheri Gaulke), Heaven or

collectors.” Here in Southern California,

movement in the 1960s, which used new

Hell?, 1979 (photo from performance)

we would add a handful of colleges and

materials such as paints designed for the

Images © Feminist Art Workers (Nancy Angelo, Candace

universities that have contributed to

automotive and aerospace industries.

Collection of Woman’s Building Image Archive at Otis

’04 MFA Fine Arts

by John Souza and Annie Buckley (’03

when he met Voulkos, who arranged a

Angelica Furiosa), Nothing to Say?, 1977, (photo from

Compton, Cheri Gaulke, Vanalyne Green, Laurel Klick),

Brian Cuartero

the exhibition Psychic Outlaws, curated

scholarship. “The main thing for me was

minimally equipped. He returned to Otis

the achievements of this region’s artists

Above: Feminist Art Workers (Nancy Angelo as Sister

At the Luckman Gallery, alumni viewed

By Scarlet Cheng

and decorative, and the classroom was

“Voulkos’ vision was that you could be

Christopher Rowland

Los Angeles

At the time ceramics was craft-oriented

to get off the craft track,” Mason says.

for Outstanding Visual Effects

NY

Otis in the Art Scene of Southern California

the essential strength and vitality of our

Another landmark for the school

cultural universe—with Otis College of Art

was when Ralph Bacerra took over the

and Design key among them.

ceramics department in 1983, with an

Since 1918 Otis has served as an

aesthetic as precise and deliberately

incubator for innovation. In the post-

exquisite as Voulkos’ was rough-hewn

war era, pivotal was the arrival of Paul

and spontaneously expressive. Bacerra

Voulkos in 1954 to set up the ceramic arts

covered smooth surfaces with eye-

department at the Los Angeles County

popping geometric forms created through

Art Institute (later Otis). His work with

multiple layers of over-glazing. He

ceramics had quickly moved into

drew freely on both Asian and Western

the sculptural. Assembling, tearing and

motifs. He, too, touched the lives of

gouging pieces of clay, he created an

many students, including Paul Soldner

On October 1, Otis’ Ben Maltz Gallery will open the exhibition Doin’ it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, a project directed by Meg Linton, Director of Galleries and Exhibitions, and Sue Maberry, Director of Library and Information Technology. The Woman’s Building (WB) was a public center of women’s culture founded by artist Judy Chicago, art historian Arlene Raven, and designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville in 1973. Others who were part of this pioneering institution are Leslie Labowitz-Starus (’72) and Chair of Graduate Public Practice Suzanne Lacy. Doin’ it in Public contextualizes and pays tribute to the groundbreaking work of feminist artists and art cooperatives at the WB from 1973-1991. The WB was an epicenter of explosive art making and political activism that reverberated across the nation and continues to effect the art world today. The exhibition is part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, an unprecedented collaboration that brings together more than 60 Southern California cultural institutions for six months to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. Pacific Standard Time is an initiative of the Getty. The presenting sponsor is Bank of America. Additional support for Doin’ It in Public has been provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, The Henry Luce Foundation, Supporters of the Woman’s Building and the Barbara Lee Family Foundation.

aesthetic that paralleled the Abstract

(’56), who went on to make ceramics or

Expressionist movement in painting

teach or both. Although they made very

on the East Coast. The work was

different art, Voulkos and Bacerra shared

revolutionary, especially because clay

the ethos of hard work, combined with a

was generally considered more craft

fearlessness in using any and all material

than art in those days.

that served their expression.

Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980

Hammer Museum, UCLA

Doin’ it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building

American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona Paul Soldner (’56), Billy Al Bengston (’56), John Mason (’56), Ken Price (’57)

label Sportmax, and performed at the

John Hebard

As plans for the fall Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.

Hollywood Bowl with Sonic Youth

’71 Fine Arts

1945-1980 exhibitions unfold, Otis has learned about

Passed away in August, 2010

many institutions that will feature alumni. Keep your

johnhebard.com

eyes open for alumni and faculty work in many other

Carlos Almarez (’74), John Mason (’57), Ken Price (’57), Billy Al Bengston (’56), Norman Zammitt (’61)

museum and gallery shows!

Getty Research Inst.

Getty Museum

John Baldessari (’58)

www.pacificstandardtime.org

Through his own work and its

exposure in art galleries, Voulkos

Lynn Zelevansky, former LACMA

challenged this concept and

curator, wrote “But even under the

revolutionized the practice of ceramics.

best of circumstances, museums only

He also deeply influenced a generation

provide part of the support needed for

of students, among them John Mason

contemporary art. In the absence of a

(’57) and Ken Price (’57), two of the most

diverse critical press and a strong art

respected ceramic artists today. While

market, since the 1920s the [art] schools

their work is very different from Voulkos,’

have been the glue that has held the Los

they internalized the lesson that an

Angeles art world together.”

artist can harness any materials to his or her expression.

Yes, the glue, and the spawning ground and laboratory for new ideas and

Mason had been interested in

ways of working, as well as the incubator

ceramics the first time he attended

of the young talent that will lead us

Otis, travelling from Nevada in 1949.

through this new century.

Alonzo Davis (’73)

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Robert Irwin (’50)

John Altoon (’49)

Leslie Labowitz-Starus (’72), John White (’69 MFA)

Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach

Scripps College Williamson Gallery, Pomona

LACMA

Carlos Almarez (’74), Gil de Montes (’74)

John Mason (’56), Ken Price (’57)

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

UCLA Fowler Museum

LACE

Patssi Valdez (’85)

Laguna Art Museum Robert Irwin (’50), John Mason (’56)

Museum of Contemporary Art Bas Jan Ader (’65), Billy Al Bengston (’56)

John Altoon (’49), Ken Price (’57)

Patssi Valdez (’85), Carlos Almarez (’74)

Pomona Museum of Art

Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey

Robert Irwin ’50), Bas Jan Ader (’65)

Tyrus Wong (’32), George Chann (’42)


Wendy Given ’02 MFA Fine Arts “Wake, 2010” C print


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