Visual Artists Get Professional Showing

Artwork by seven Cal State Fullerton master of fine arts students is currently on display at the Lowe Gallery in Santa Monica through Aug. 23. Part of the gallery’s first annual Los Angeles (MFA) Invitational, the juried exhibition “honors Southern California’s next generation of visual artists.” The works of 25 graduate students from CSUF, UCLA, USC, CalArts, UCI, Otis College of Art and Design, Claremont Graduate University, Cal State Northridge and Cal State L.A. were selected. The CSUF students are: Jason Chakravarty (mixed media) of Tempe, Ariz.; Sherman Oaks residents Lauren Gabriele (video) and Gretchen Potts (mixed media); Monica Landeros (sculpture) of Montclair; Upland resident Dana Lovell (paintings); Richard Mansfield (mixed media) of Montrose; and Lawndale resident Diana Postik. The Lowe Gallery is located at 2034 Broadway, Santa Monica.