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Graduate Art

Alumni Stories

Matt Sheridan

Alexis Marguerite

Spring: Then and Now

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Notable Graduate Art Alumni

Fred Fehlau

Artist
fredfehlau.com

Diana Thater

Artist
thaterstudio.com

Pae White

Mixed-Media Artist
1301pe.com

Lynn Aldrich

Sculptor
lynnaldrich.com

Sharon Lockhart

Fine Artist, Filmmaker
lockhartstudio.com

Lita Albuquerque

Installation Artist, Environmental Artist, Painter, Sculptor
litaalbuquerque.com

Sterling Ruby

Artist
sterlingrubystudio.com

T. Kelly Mason

Sculptor, Sound Artist and Image-Maker
tkellymason.com

Michael Rey

Artist, Object-Maker
michaelrey.com

Emilie Halpern

Conceptual Artist
emiliehalpern.com

Frances Stark

Artist
francesstark.com

Steven Roden

Sound and Visual Artist
inbetweennoise.com

Graduate Art Alumni Gallery

Sharon Lockhart

Delbar Shahbaz

Karthik Pandian
Born+in+San+Francisco+in+1962%2C+artist+Diana+Thater+has+created+pioneering+film%2C+video%2C+and+installation-based+works+since+the+early+1990s.+Thater+lives+and+works+in+Los+Angeles.+Her+work+has+recently+been+the+subject+of+solo+exhibitions+at+prominent+institutions+including+the+Aspen+Art+Museum%2C+Colorado+%282015%29%3B+San+Jose+Museum+of+Art%2C+California+%282015%29%3B+Institute++of+Modern+Art%2C+Brisbane+%282011%29%3B+Santa+Monica+Museum+of+Art%2C+California+%282010%29%3B+Kunsthaus+Graz%2C+Austria+%282009%29%3B+and+the+Natural+History+Museum%2C+London+%282009%29.+Thater%E2%80%99s+work+is+held+in+such+public+collections+as+the+Solomon+R.+Guggenheim+Museum%2C+New+York%3B+Tate%2C+London%3B+the+Whitney+Museum+of+American+Art%2C+New+York%3B+and+the+Museum+of+Contemporary+Art%2C+Los+Angeles.+Thater%E2%80%99s+mid-career+survey+%22The+Sympathetic+Imagination%22+%282015%29+was+organized+by+the+Los+Angeles+County+Museum+of+Art+and+travelled+to+the+Museum+of+Contemporary+Art+Chicago+%282016%29.

Diana Thater

A+Graduate+Art+faculty+member+since+2008%2C+artist+Tom+Allen+is+best+known+for+his+intricate+and+richly+chromatic+paintings+that+draw+from+19th-century+Romanticism+as+much+as+they+do+from+contemporary+experience.+Allen+received+his+BFA+from+the+University+of+Southern+California+in+1998+and+his+MFA+from+ArtCenter+in+2001.+He+has+been+featured+in+solo+and+group+exhibitions+internationally+%28Berlin%2C+Cologne%2C+Stockholm%2C+New+York%2C+Los+Angeles%29+and+his+paintings+are+held+in+private+collections%2C+as+well+as+in+the+permanent+collections+of+the+Museum+of+Contemporary+Art%2C+Los+Angeles+and+the+Sweeney+Gallery%2C+University+of+California%2C+Riverside.+In+2012%2C+he+organized+%E2%80%9COccult+Aesthesis%2C%E2%80%9D+a+panel+discussion+at+ArtCenter+exploring+the+intersection+of+contemporary+art+and+esotericism.+In+2016+he+was+interviewed+on+Yale+University+Radio%2C+and+also+in+the+bilingual+French+journal+%22Octopusnotes.%22+He+is+the+art+director+for+%22CLAVIS%E2%80%93Journal+of+Occult+Arts%2C+Letters+and+Experience.%22

Tom Allen
Stan+Kaplan+is+an+alumnus+of+ArtCenter%E2%80%99s+Graduate+Art+program.+His+work+explores+the+conflict+between+painting%E2%80%99s+history+and+the+culture+of+the+contemporary+moment+through+a+targeted+use+of+genre+and+an+interrogation+of+the+issues+surrounding+visual+pleasure+in+art.+Born+in+Chicago%2C+Kaplan+moved+to+New+York+and+studied+early+modern+English+drama+and+literature+and+Western+philosophy+and+critical+theory+at+the+New+School+for+Social+Research+and+Art+history+at+NYU.+At+the+same+time%2C+he+also+worked+closely+with+American+painter+Philip+Pearlstein.+After+relocating+to+Los+Angeles%2C+Kaplan+entered+ArtCenter%E2%80%99s+MFA+program+where+he+worked+with+Mike+Kelley+among+others.+Kaplan+teaches+writing+and+studio+art+in+the+art+departments+at+Otis+College+of+Art+and+Design+and+California+State+University%2C+Los+Angeles.+Also+a+musician%2C+he+has+recorded+and+performed+projects+with+other+visual+artists+whose+work+involves+musical+forms+and+expressions.

Stan Kaplan
An+artist+and+educator+based+in+Los+Angeles%2C+Raymie+Iadevaia+received+a+BFA+in+Painting%2FDrawing+from+the+California+College+of+Arts+and+Crafts+in+San+Francisco+in+2007+and+an+MFA+from+ArtCenter+in+2013.+Iadevaia%E2%80%99s+practice+is+founded+on+an+enmeshed+interplay+between+painterly+and+sculptural+strategies.+His+interests+lie+in+the+nuanced+uses+of+color+as+integral+to+the+development+of+a+visual+field+focused+on+a+dynamic+relay+between+sensations+of+frenetic+movement+within+the+body+and+the+tactile%2C+spatial+nature+of+perception.+Researching+historical+foundations+of+colors+and+their+theoretical+implications%2C+Iadevaia+explores+how+color+repels%2C+congeals%2C+veils%2C+transmits%2C+transmutes+and+conjures+meaning+across+cultural+and+aesthetic+contexts.+Iadevaia%E2%80%99s+work+has+been+exhibited+in+Los+Angeles%2C+New+York%2C+Switzerland%2C+Germany+and+Japan.+Iadevaia+teaches+in+the+School+of+Visual+and+Performing+Arts+at+Chaffey+College+and+online+courses+at+Rocky+Mountain+College+of+Art+%2B+Design.

Raymie Iadevaia
Since+earning+his+MFA+in+2008%2C+Los+Angeles-based+video+artist+and+painter+Matt+Sheridan+has+exhibited+across+five+continents+and+received+numerous+awards%2C+grants+and+fellowships.+His+abstract+%E2%80%9Cpainting-in-motion%E2%80%9D+video+installations+address+contemporary+power+relations+between+handmade+physical+reality+and+the+click-and-drag+mentality+by+exploring+implications+of+movement+between+forms+in+spaces.+Working+in+a+mode+of+constructivist+expressionism%2C+his+output+visualizes+states+of+mind%2C+deriving+meaning+from+actions+through+architecture%2C+across+canvas+and+into+sculptures+and+monitor+works.+Sheridan+has+taught+at+the+School+of+Visual+Arts%2C+Pratt+Institute+and+at+New+York+University+in+both+New+York+and+Singapore.+Matt+Sheridan%E2%80%99s+pieces+are+in+private+collections+in+New+York%2C+Miami%2C+Los+Angeles+and+Brisbane%2C+Australia.

Matt Sheridan
Artist+Jill+Spector%E2%80%99s+work+suggests+mimicry+and+roles+to+be+played%2C+placing+the+viewer+into+relationships+between+bodies+and+objects.+Spector%E2%80%99s+sculptures+and+collages+were+part+of+%E2%80%9CMade+in+L.A.+2012%E2%80%9D+at+the+Hammer+Museum.+Her+work+has+been+included+in+the+exhibitions+%E2%80%9CBiomorphic+Forms+In+Sculpture%E2%80%9D+at+the+Kunsthaus+Graz+in+Austria+and+%E2%80%9CDrawling%2C+Stretching+and+Fainting+in+Coils%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D+at+the+Pinakothek+der+Moderne+and+Nationaltheater+in+Munich%2C+Germany.+Spector%E2%80%99s+photography+has+been+featured+in+publications%2C+including+%E2%80%9CValeria+Napoleone%E2%80%99s+Catalog+of+Exquisite+Recipes.%E2%80%9D+Following+these+projects%2C+Spector+created+%E2%80%9CThe+Editor%E2%80%99s+President%3A+Models+and+Mock-Ups+for+Elaine+May%2C%E2%80%9D+%E2%80%9CNora+Kaye%2C%E2%80%9D+%E2%80%9Cand+Eileen+Gray%2C%E2%80%9D+an+installation+at+JOAN+in+Los+Angeles.+In+2013%2C+Spector+became+an+Orange+County+Contemporary+Collectors+Fellowship+Artist.+

Jill Spector
Dawson+Weber+received+his+Bachelor+of+Music+from+the+University+of+Illinois+and+his+MFA+from+the+Graduate+Art+program+at+ArtCenter.+His+work+draws+on+models+found+in+conceptual+art%2C+gestural+abstraction+and+graphic+design+to+explore+relationships+between+image+and+text+and+how+color+generates+meaning.+In+2007%2C+Dawson+created+%E2%80%9CWell%21+I%27ve+often+seen+a+cat+without+a+grin%2C+but+a+grin+without+a+cat%21+It%27s+the+most+curious+thing+I+ever+saw%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D+for+the+group+exhibition+%E2%80%9C%E2%80%A6drawling%2C+stretching%2C+and+fainting+in+coils%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D+at+the+Bavarian+Opera+House+and+Pinakothek+der+Moderne+in+Munich%2C+Germany.+Since+2006%2C+Dawson+has+contributed+regularly+to+%E2%80%9CRadio+Dani%C3%A8le%2C%E2%80%9D+a+free-form+radio-based+project+organized+by+Christopher+Williams+and+John+Kelsey%3B+his+participation+included+a+live+on-air+performance+on+WFMU+during+%E2%80%9CPERFORMA+07%E2%80%9D+in+New+York.+Most+recently%2C+Dawson+launched+%E2%80%9CPostcard+from+Algiers%2C%E2%80%9D+a+mail-based+project+consisting+of+artist-created+postcards+depicting+places+throughout+Africa.

Dawson Weber
Los+Angeles-based+Gabrielle+Jennings+is+a+multimedia+artist+and+faculty+member+in+the+Graduate+Art+program+at+ArtCenter.+Jennings+recently+edited+%22Abstract+Video%3A+The+Moving+Image+in+Contemporary+Art%22+%28University+of+California+Press%29+a+collection+of+essays+on+abstraction+in+the+moving+image+arts.+Jennings%27+work+mines+memory+and+melancholy+and+includes+video%2C+drawing+and+painting.+She+has+been+artist+in+residence+at+Kunstlerhaus+Bethanien+%28Berlin%29+and+200+Gertrude+Street+Artist+Spaces+%28Melbourne%29+and+honored+with+support+from+the+Art+Matters+Fellowship%2C+Philip+Morris+Kunstforderung+and+the+Samsung+Faculty+Enrichment+Grant.+Harold+Fricke%2C+Jeremy+Gilbert-Rolfe%2C+Cay+Sophie+Rabinowitz%2C+and+Jan+Tumlir%2C+among+others%2C+have+written+about+her+work.+Jennings+received+a+BFA+from+the+University+of+California%2C+San+Diego%2C+where+she+studied+with+Eleanor+Antin+and+Allan+Kaprow%3B+and+an+MFA+from+ArtCenter%2C+where+she+studied+with+Jeremy+Gilbert-Rolfe%2C+Patti+Podesta%2C+Mike+Kelley%2C+Stephen+Prina%2C+Lita+Albuquerque+and+Sabina+Ott.

Gabrielle Jennings

Christopher Romano

Cima Rahmankah

George Porcari

James Griffith