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Marilyn Hoeck Neal received a BFA from Cal State Los Angeles, and has done graduate work at UCLA and USC. She also studied at Atelier of London, Vladimar Tretchikoff School of Painting in South Africa, and La Escuela de Artes Plasticas of Mexico City. She continues to study with well-known American artists.
Joanne Cullen and Lois Haytin are sisters who grew up in St. Paul, MN, and found their individual ways to make art, which will be displayed on the gallery wall in July.
Artist’s statement: "These paintings speak to me of the wholeness of life. They serve as a visual expression of the cycles and changes that are part of life. Starting with the circle form, aware of the role of mandalas as a meditative assist, I worked with the circle-within-a-square format drawing on two sacred symbols as the beginning, then worked with color and shape within this selfimposed limit. I have long been interested in exploring the meanings of life beyond words.
Every December, the art wall features works by our own UUCCSM artists. Past years’ exhibits have included paintings, collages, photography, and ceramic wall art. Many pieces will be offered for sale.
Lynn Mikami is an associate member of the National Watercolor Society whose work is frequently shown in the Los Angeles area and at the Annual Manzanar Exhibit.
Gilbert Johnquest has a bachelor of fine arts in sculpture from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He taught studio practices at Cleveland State University. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1979, he has exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the L.A. area.
Artist’s Statement: "Salvaging mystery: exploration of nature's relation to our evolutionary process, spirit and magic in art and our relations, influenced by everything—and then some."
A reception for the artist will be held on September 10 at 3 p.m. in Forbes Hall.
Artist's Statement:
"Basically, I am a Photoshop junkie. I shoot anything interesting that catches my eye. It might be a beautiful flower, rusting sign, or bold new bit of graffiti. Recently it was a captivating Chinese figure- drawing model.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT: In "The Undressed Art/Why We Draw," Peter Steinhart says: "Drawing the figure is a kind of exploration, a search for our own nature, our origins, our souls...we draw the figure because it offers us the possibility of seeing deeper into one another’s nature, into ourselves, into human nature in general."
Artist’s statement: "In 1982, at the age of 63, I took my first art class, a course in Beginning Printmaking, at Santa Monica College. In 1984 I was introduced to the collograph, a form of printmaking that uses a collage of textured materials to create an image. I thououghly enjoyed the process of creating the collograph which involved finding the materials to achieve the desired patterns in the print. The making of the collograph became a discovery proces, an adventure for me.
Ann Marie, who as a child survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, studied art at Cal State in both Sacramento and Long Beach. She taught art for many years at Santa Monica High School, while pursuing her own work. She has exhibited widely and can be found in both corporate and private collections.
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