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March through May 2011

Art in The Dock continues this spring with the work of two graduate students from the SDSU School of Art, Design, and Art History, Rizzhel Mae Javier and Chelsea Herman, and BA Harrington, visiting artist in the Furniture/Woodworking program.

 

BA HarringtonBA Harrington
May 6 through May 16
Opening Reception
Friday, May 6, 6-8 PM

BA Harrington trained as a traditional furniture-maker at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. She received her MFA in wood, and a Master’s degree in Art History, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her three-fold practice investigates feminized early American furniture forms, and more specifically, what is implied by their now empty interiors. Harrington resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where she teaches, writes, and builds sculptural work. She is currently the Spring, 2011 Windgate Artist-in-Residence at the School of Art, Design, and Art History at San Diego State University.

 

Chelsea HermanChelsea Herman
April 14 through April 25
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 14, 5-7 PM

“I am interested in the relationship between fleeting, momentary experience and the entirety of what we know as individuals.”

Chelsea Herman is a second-year graduate student at San Diego State University in the Painting and Printmaking Program.  She grew up in Santa Cruz, California where she studied painting at Santa Cruz Studio School.  She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has taken coursework in drawing and painting at Cabrillo College, the University of Minnesota, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Exposed and subterranean geological forms in the natural landscape provide metaphors for the human condition.  Herman’s recent work explores the temporality of what we know through the structure of the book and the multilayered, revision-based process of collage and painting.

 

Rizzhel Mae JavierRizzhel Mae Javier
April 1 through April 7
Opening Reception
Friday, April 1, 5-7 PM

“My work examines perception and the way in which people understand their emotions and behaviors.”

Rizzhel is a native San Diego artist, student and educator. She received her B.A. in Studio Arts from Humboldt State University in 2007 and is currently working on her M.F.A. at San Diego State University.  Her interests lie in the technical, historical, and contemporary uses of the photographic medium while integrating three-dimensional forms.  Rizzhel has taught courses at SDSU and currently teaches photography in the Art Department at Point Loma Nazarene University.

 

PAST

September through November 2010

 

Join us this fall as we launch an exciting series of exhibitions at the SDSU Downtown Gallery. Art in The Dock features the work of three graduate students from the SDSU School of Art, Design, and Art History. With an emphasis on sculptural installation, each artist will transform the Downtown Gallery’s loading dock into a space of exploration and experimentation. Artists invited to participate in this inaugural exhibition series are Jim Cavolt, Andrew Hunter, and Adam Manley.

Come see the artists working in The Dock prior to the opening of the exhibitions. The public is invited to ask questions and observe the artists as they are involved in the creative process.

 

Jim CavoltJim Cavolt
November 19 through 29
Opening Reception
Friday, November 19, 5-7 PM
View installation in progress
November 14 and 15, 11-5 PM

“Sight is such an important aspect with art, but I want a more whole body experience. I want the viewer to feel what is happening around them when experiencing my pieces.”

Jim Cavolt was born in 1959 in Upland, California.  He received his B.A. in 1989 from San Diego State University and is currently working on his M.F.A. in Sculpture.  From 1991 to the present, he has worked as an equipment technician in the School of Art, Design and Art History at SDSU.  He also serves as the Gallery Coordinator of the Flor y Canto and Everett Gee Jackson student galleries at SDSU.  Cavolt has been awarded several scholarships and awards while pursuing his M.F.A.  He has exhibited work in the Oceanside Museum of Art as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.  He has also collaborated with fellow artist Neil Kendricks making a short film that has been accepted to numerous film festivals across the country, including the Latino Film Festival in San Diego, California and the Athens International Film Festival in Athens, Ohio.  An interest in sensory perception informs the artist’s sculptural installations, which often are characterized by the controlled use of light.  Cavolt currently resides in Carlsbad, California.

 

Adam Manley Adam Manley
September 23 through October 4
Opening Reception
Thursday, September 23, 5-7 PM
View installation in progress
September 19 and 20, 11-5 PM

“My artistic interests lie in familiar, recognizable form references and the way in which those forms are linked to our sense and perception of place.”

Adam Manley is a third-year graduate student at San Diego State University in the Furniture and Woodworking Program, beginning work on his Master’s thesis.  His background is in furniture design and construction, as well as non-functional art and object making.  Manley was born in 1983 and moved to San Diego from Upstate New York, where in 2008 he received his B.A. from the State University of New York at New Paltz.  He has since begun to realize sculptural and large-scale works built primarily, but not exclusively, of wood.  The landscapes and environments of his upbringing in the Adirondack Park of New York State have had a strong influence on the artist’s work, which combines a distortion of scale with unexpected objects to create a sense of tension between the work and the viewer.  Since 2004, Manley’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions, and he has received several scholarships and awards.  He currently teaches in the Furniture Design and Woodworking department at San Diego State University.

Andrew HunterAndrew Hunter
October 21 through November 1
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 21, 5-7 PM
View installation in progress
October 17 and 18, 11-5 PM

“As one who must dabble, there is a constant struggle for me between the excitement of learning how something works and the bitterness of seeing through its mystery; viewing the extraordinary as a predictable event.”

Andrew Hunter was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1978.  He received a B.S. and B.F.A. from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and is an M.F.A. candidate in Sculpture at San Diego State University. Hunter’s work, which combines the elegance of form with an appreciation of scientific processes, has been included in several solo and group exhibitions, including the Indiana State Museum, the Chelsea River Gallery in Michigan, and Agitprop Gallery in San Diego.  In 2006, he completed a public commission for the Indianapolis Arts Council.  Hunter has held faculty positions at the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology and the Indianapolis Art Center, where he taught courses in three-dimensional animation and design, as well as bronze, aluminum, and iron casting.  Currently, Hunter works for San Diego State University as a Graduate Teaching Associate in the School of Art, Design, and Art History.