Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future

Exhibit of Works of Multicultural Artists Opens Jan. 30

January 12, 2010

Cal State Fullerton's Main Art Gallery introduces a new exhibit opening Jan. 30 with a 5-8 p.m. reception.

The free, public exhibit, “Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future,” features artwork by 10 multicultural artists living and working in the United States who are searching for new ways to define identity. Through painting, sculpture, video and mixed media, these artists attempt to answer the question, “What are you?”

The artists are:

• Nzuji De Magalhaes, who combines African and American art forms to depict issues of stereotype, myth, ethnicity and politics.

• Kip Fulbeck, artist, photographer, filmmaker and slam poet, whose works have been exhibited in more than 20 countries, as well as featured on CNN, MTV and PBS.

• Nathan Gibbs, whose internationally recognized mixed media and Web productions explore race and culture issues in the U.S.

• Loren Holland, whose symbolically rich oil paintings of Latino and African-American women challenge perceptions of class, race and minority groups.

• Bryce Hudson, who creates wall sculptures using bold color and shape to represent domination, conflict, separation and harmony among races and cultures.

• Chicana artist Delilah Montoya, who articulates the experience of minority woman in her photographs and prints.

• Toni Scott, who draws upon her African, Native American and European heritage and world travels to produce sculpture, paintings and mixed media installations that represent the beauty and dignity of African American people.

Also featured are:

• charcoal portraits from “The Loving Series” by artist, curator and scholar Laura Kina. Her work explores the results of the 1967 Supreme Court case that overturned the nation’s last anti-miscegenation law.

• Artist team Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry’s large-scale public projects, performance/sculptures, paintings, photography, video and self-portraiture, explore issues of race and social justice.

The exhibit, curated by Jillian Nakornthap and Lynn Stromick, continues through March 5. The Main Art Gallery is open noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon to 2 p.m. Saturdays. It will be closed Monday, Feb. 15.

Scheduled for release in late spring, the Main Art Gallery will publish an illustrated exhibition catalog that includes scholarly essays by Laura Kina and Nicole Woods Beckton.

For more information, go to http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/events or call Marilyn Moore at 657-278-7750.

Other current exhibits:
'Hidden Wounds, Paper Bullets' at Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana
‘What’s Hidden in the Library?’ about the university archives