Art at Los Medanos College

The Graphic Design Class created posters for 2011 Bike to Work Day. So, ride your bike, OK?

The Los Medanos College Art Gallery is hosting the Los Medanos College Fifth Invitational High School Student Art Exhibit from March 17 – April 14, 2011. The show is a juried art exhibition is open to all East Contra Costa high school students. It's a grand show this year, so don't miss it! Congratulations to our winners Wiomy Sternbergh , Best Painting, Deer Valley High School Sydnie Sherman , Best Mixed Media, Freedom High School Amanda Wallach , Best Ceramics, Deer Valley High School Michelle Baker , Best Drawing, Freedom High School Christian Villa , Best Photography, Pittsburg High School John Paul Salve , Jurors Award, Freedom High School Calire Joseph , Jurors Award, Freedom High School Gabe Tulchinsky , Jurors Award, Freedom High School

Our galley shows always wow me, but this one just knocks me out. It's right up my alley and the work is all first rate. It's just plain fun to visit. The show only runs from February 3 to March 3, 2011, so don't blink. Artist Hugh D'Andrade (above) actually painted a gallery wall for one piece. I'm already sad in advance knowing that it will be removed when the show ends. I'm plotting on ways to preserve it, but I don't think it's possible. Lisa Congdon , Mati Rose McDonough , and Jason Munn complete the show with installations, illustrations and graphics. Check these links to their work, some of which is on exhibit at LMC. You really want to see this show. The gallery is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from 12:30-2:30 PM and 5:30-7:30 PM. David Tallitsch, Art Gallery Director, talks with students about the show.

We don't just tell our students to go see art, we do it ourselves. Despite huge backups on the Bay Bridge, Ken Alexander, Lucy Snow and Curtis Corlew managed to drag their significant others and a colleague from Marin to the deYoung Museum to see the Post Impressionist show. It was a beautiful day in the city, which explains the lack of parking and the 37,000 people attending the exhibit with us. Even though there was no air to breath, and we spent a lot of time looking at the backs of people, the show itself was simply amazing. If you can get there at all, do it.

I was a might depressed that out of the large group that promised to come on our field trip to San Francisco's Museum of Modern Art only two actually showed up. But maybe quality is better than quantity. We looked at the Henri Cartier-Bresson retrospective as well as "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870." Both were filled with interesting work. We even had time to go through the Anniversary Show. Extra credit for attendees, shame and frowns for the ones who bailed on us.

It's a short slide show. Click it to see art! We have drawing classes, and they are way cool. One is Rebecca Talley's 2-D Design class (Art-10). These are a few recent projects her students created. They come in knowing a little, and in a few weeks are making stuff like this.

Paintings by Nick Borges and Cara Tomlinson are on display in the Los Medanos Art Gallery from October 7 to November 4, 2010. They're all not pictures of things, but rather paintings that are art. Does that sound frightening? You should come check them out, because even if you won't admit it, you know you are tired of paintings of, as my students call it, "scenery."