Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Opening reception for Art Student Exhibition - 2011

Please join the Art Department for an Opening reception for the 2011 Art Student Exhibition on April 7, 5:30 – 7:00 pm, Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery

The Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery is located just inside the Grace VanDyke Bird Library on the main campus.

For more information, contact department chair David Koeth at: dkoeth@bakersfieldcollege.edu

Monday, March 21, 2011

Students taking a mid-term quiz in Introduction to Digital Arts.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Reminders for students who have artwork in the student exhibit

Accepted artwork delivered to gallery:
Thursday, March 24  between 9:30 and noon or 2 pm and 4 pm, or by arrangement with professor.

Reception:
April 7, 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Exhibit run:
April 7 – May 4, 2011

Spring break closure:
The gallery will be closed for Spring Break April 18- 22.

Art work pick up:
Thursday May 5, 2011; 1:00 - 4:00 pm or by arrangement with professor.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

The juror for the 2011 student exhibition

Mr. Kötting kneeling in front of the Madonna di Loreto by Caravaggio. 



The juror for the 2011 Bakersfield College Art Student Exhibition is Joey Kötting. Mr. Kötting earned an MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a BFA from Brighton Polytechnic, East Sussex, England. He also studied at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois and St. Martin's School of Art in London, England.

His most recent solo exhibition (in 2010) was titled: Reflexive, and it took place at the Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, New York.

He is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Penny McCall Foundation Curatorial Grant, and the Yaddo Residency.

His work is in the collections of: 
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France.
Eastman House Collection of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York
Agnes Gund, New York, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Penny McCall Foundation, New York, New York 

He is currently employed at California State University, Bakersfield as a Full-time Lecturer (Etching, Screen-printing, Photography, Painting, Gallery Practicum) and Director/Curator of the CSUB Todd Madigan Gallery.