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Cross Currents: Ji sun Park and Anthony Ragucci

The Antelope Valley College Art Gallery is proud to present Ji sun Park and Anthony Ragucci in a joint exhibition exploring their common touchstone of place, South Korea.  Originating from and now living on opposite sides of the globe, these two artists sensitively negotiate closeness and distance to understand how place operates as a conceptual medium.  The title CROSS CURRENTS refers not only to the artists’ biographical geographies, but also to the transmissions and interchanges that occur between two such different yet connected bodies of work, together formulating an amorphous and evolving picture of place.
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Dwellings: An Exhibition of the Los Angeles Experimental Artists Group-II

The AVC Art Gallery is proud to host the Los Angeles Experimental Artists Group-II in a group exhibition of new work.  The LAEA Group-II fosters mutual creativity, with members continually learning new methods and teaching these techniques and approaches to each other. This year the artists are uniting around the theme of DWELLINGS, incorporating many different media and techniques. Dwellings evokes conceptions of abodes, buildings, and homes, but, as the German philosopher Martin Heidegger explained, this theme also includes nature (the seasons, the cycles of life, the growth of living things, etc). 
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VISIONETICS: The Mystique of 35 mm Film. New works by Lee Bergthold

The Antelope Valley College Art Gallery is proud to present AVC photography Professor Lee Bergthold’s most recent body of works in Visionetics: The Mystique of 35 mm Film.  Bergthold offers a mysterious and mythical photographic view in his use of a manual 35 mm camera and film.  Using a manual Nikon camera, he takes various scenes of his students during classroom photo demonstrations and then re-exposes the negatives with distant locations using the same camera and rolls of film.
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COLLECTIVE RESIDENTS: New Encaustic Works by Erin Anfinson and Sarah Rowland

The Antelope Valley College Art Gallery is proud to present two new bodies of encaustic works by Erin Anfinson and Sarah Rowland in Collective Residents.  Employing non-traditional approaches to this wax-based media, the encaustics create a vivid, tactile dialog about interior space, accumulation, and the residue of historical events in one’s life.
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DECONSTRUCTION | RECONSTRUCTION: Ashley Hagen

The Antelope Valley College Art Gallery is excited to open its 2012-2013 season with Deconstruction | Reconstruction, a solo exhibition by Ashley Hagen.  Her featured work, Sinister within the Sweet, outfits a tower of stacked pallets with meticulously crafted miniature interiors. Despite the tower's unstable appearance, Sinister within the Sweet prompts close investigation and initiates a quiet, nostalgic experience. 
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In Search of Clarity: Three Perspectives on Iran

The Antelope Valley College Art Gallery is proud to present the work of Arezoo Bharthania, Farnaz Sabet, and Shilla Shakoori in the group exhibition In Search of Clarity: Three Perspectives on Iran.  Working in installation, mixed media, and ceramics, these three Iranian-American artists explore complicated relationships with their home culture.  Confronting charged political topics, the artists sensitively navigate those fissures between cultural identity and state.  While Iran the country becomes a shifting concept that is both personal and impermeable, intimate and alien, an enduring, solid voice emerges through these works as the Iranian people.  Together, Bharthania, Sabet, and Shakoori probe the meaning and location of cultural identity under political upheaval.
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Wally Gilbert: Patterns and Recognition

Mr. Gilbert's explorations in photography and, more recently, in digital drawing, are often conducted in series, each tackling a specific formal challenge.  In addition to exemplifying his delight in color and form, Mr. Gilbert describes his work as a "search for depth beyond the picture plane and for mystery."  Throughout his formal investigations persists the idea of the fragment, which is detached, repeated, and restructured into rhythms and patterns. 
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A Trip in Paris

"A Trip in Paris" is a collaborative stop-motion animation that was conceived, drawn, and created  by Antelope Valley College students with Sarah Klein, curator and animator of the festival Stop & Go Rides Again.  The piece was created during an animation workshop lead by Sarah Klein and hosted by the AVC Art Gallery on November 18, 2011. 
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