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Patricia Cué
Ineediwant Color
Courtesy of Patricia Cué, San Diego.
David Fobes
Courtesy of David Fobes, San Diego.
Shawn Goodell
Untitled drawing
Cut paper, charcoal, pastel
2010
Courtesy of Shawn Goodell, San Diego.
Kathryn Harris
The Essence of Things
Courtesy of Kathryn Harris, San Diego.
David Hewitt
Seeking Its Own Level
Courtesy of David Hewitt, San Diego.
Robert Mansfield
Milwaukee Public Sculpture
Courtesy of Robert Mansfield, San Diego.
Scott Wyss
500 Million
Courtesy of Scott Wyss, San Diego.
The San Diego State University Art Council cordially invites you to attend the preview opening for Transposition on Thursday, January 17, 2011 from 5pm-7pm at the SDSU Downtown Gallery.
Patricia Cué received her BFA from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and completed her graduate studies at the Basel School of Design in Switzerland in 1992. As a design professional, Patricia has worked mostly on publication design projects for clients in the U.S. and Mexico, such as the Getty Conservation Institute, Ohio University, Museo Dolores Olmedo, the Mexican Stock Exchange, and Arquine International Architecture Magazine. Before coming to SDSU in the fall of 2008, Cué was assistant professor at Ohio University, where she also directed the “Mexico Art and Design” study abroad program. In her research, Patricia explores cultural sustainability and ethics in the practice of graphic design. She has developed cultural identity projects for Mexican indigenous populations through the government of Puebla and Mexico City. She is currently working on a book documentation of vernacular wall painting for music in Mexico. Her research has been published in the AIGA Voice Journal for Graphic Design, AIGA XCD, Fahrenheit Contemporary Art, and in “Drawing in the Design Process” by Peter Olpe. She has received design awards from the Quorum / Mexican Design Council, CSCA, and UCDA. As the mother of a six-year-old daughter, Patricia is interested in issues concerning contemporary motherhood and culture, using alternative book formats as her medium.
David Fobes is an identical twin, musician, educator and artist living and working in San Diego California. Born in 1953, in Detroit Michigan, he grew up in Southern California and came to San Diego in 1974 to study environmental design and architecture at San Diego State University with the visionary architect Eugene Ray.
In the 1980’s he was one of many artists living and working downtown in cheap warehouse spaces that would make a loose knit community of talented and creative people. He also played rock and roll saxophone, with local music heroes, Mojo Nixon, Joey Harris, Mitchell Cornish and other independent musicians.
After more than ten years out of school, David went back to earn his MFA with an emphasis in Studio Furniture at San Diego State University, studying with internationally recognized artist Wendy Maruyama.
Since 1994, David has been a foundations art lecturer at SDSU and has been making and exhibiting a variety of work that includes furniture, architectural interior design, two-dimensional design works and sculpture. His work will be featured in a one-man exhibition this May 2011 at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in La Jolla, CA.
Kathryn Harris holds an MFA in Jewelry/Metals from San Diego State University and a Bachelor of General Studies, with an emphasis in Art History, from The University of Michigan. She also holds an MBA in Marketing from New York University. She has been involved in the fiber field for over 30 years and began as an educator in 1985, previously working at The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. In addition, she worked at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Her sculptural fiber work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. It has been documented in publications such as The Art of Beadwork by Valerie Hector and Textile Techniques in Metal by Arline Fisch.
Scott Wyss graduated from the Philadelphia College of Arts and Crafts (University of the Arts). His extensive typographic and graphic design background on the East Coast with a strong Yale and Basel influence has given him skills to analyze essential messages quickly. Studying color, patterns, gestalt principles and typography, formed his beginning foundations for a very different perspective in graphic design problem solving. His interests in printmaking, serigraphs, fine arts and crafts gives him additional tools for surface and material experimentation to accomplish these tasks in areas of two and three dimensional design.