Art Gallery
MEDIaTATIONS: NANCY BUCHANAN & COLLEAGUES
Nancy Buchanan played a significant role in the development of Los Angeles video art in its early days. Continuing her legacy, she currently teaches video art in the film department of Walt Disney’s California Institute of the Arts located in Valencia, CA. A wide variety of video installations by Nancy and twelve of her MFA graduate students will be featured in the Biola University Art Gallery from October 27 through November 24. This is Biola’s first exclusively video exhibition, which the art department is very pleased to host.
Nancy Buchanan has been working in video since the early 1970s, a halcyon period marked by the development of video as a medium informed by performance and formalist computer animation; and by social documentarians and studio-bound artists who were looking for life outside the commodity gallery. Her particular strength has been the consistent exploration of the spaces between political essay, poetry, and performance thereby calling attention to the easily ignored, marginalized and all encompassing ethical issues—the lapses between recognition and action, complacency and terror—made manifest (or more often ignored) by mainstream media.
—Erika Suderburg
Show Schedule
Tuesday, October 27 through Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, October 27, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist Lecture:
Tuesday, November 3
7:00 pm - Mayers Auditorium
Gallery Hours
Mon - Fri: 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday: 1 pm - 5 pm
Closed Sunday
Call for special appointments when closed
For more information regarding the University Art Gallery Schedule of events and lecture locations, please contact the Biola University Department of Art (Telephone: (562) 903-4807).
Distance: A Photographic Installation by Jerry Burchfield
Jerry Burchfield was an artist, curator, author and educator from Southern California. From 1973 to 1987, Jerry Burchfield was the co-owner of BC Space Gallery in Laguna Beach. Since 1987, he had been a Professor of Photography and Photography Gallery Director at Cypress College, Cypress, California and recently co-founded the Laguna Wilderness Press. Burchfield’s work has received numerous awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Primal Images: 100 Lumen Prints of Amazonia Flora, a book on Burchfield’s work in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil, was released in the fall of 2004. The Edge of Air: The Final Days of MCAS El Toro, featuring work by The Legacy Project, was released in June 2005. In 2006, Burchfield and his Legacy Project colleagues made a former airplane hangar at MCAS El Toro into the world’s largest pinhole camera and used it to produce the world’s largest photograph. Burchfield’s final book was Understory: Lumen Prints of Florida Flora, published in 2009 in conjunction with an exhibition at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Distance addresses the teetering relationship between humanity and nature, focusing on art that celebrates natural beauty while attempting to increase awareness of civilization’s impact on the environment. Using cameraless photographic methodologies that go back to the origins of photography, Burchfield has documented flora and fauna in Southern California, Florida, Hawaii and the Amazon rain forest.
Show Schedule
Tuesday, September 22 through Thursday, October 15, 2009
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, September 22, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist Lecture:
Jerry Burchfield: A Tribute to His Life and Art
Tuesday, Evening
September 29, 7:00 pm
Mayers Auditorium
Gallery Hours
Mon - Fri: 9 AM - 9 PM
Saturday: 1 PM - 5 PM
Sunday: Closed
For more information regarding the University Art Gallery Schedule of events and lecture locations, please contact the Biola University Department of Art (Telephone: (562) 903-4807).
About the Biola Art Gallery
The Biola University Art Gallery is one of the art department’s foremost teaching venues. Over a four-year period the gallery hosts a variety of diverse shows exhibiting a wide range of styles and media. It features local, regional and nationally known artists. The art gallery includes exhibitions by students, alumni and art faculty. Special exhibits and interdisciplinary events throughout the year attract a wide range of academic disciplines creating a place for conversation and dialogue.
During their capstone senior year, B.F.A. art majors prepare intensely for their thesis exhibit which is held in the university art gallery during the spring semester.
This year the University Art Gallery is hosting five exhibitions (three in the fall semester and two in the spring semester) highlighting the work of over 100 Biola art alumni.