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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