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BFA Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Young Joon Kwak

Young Joon Kwak (b. 1984 in Queens, NY) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist who primarily uses sculpture, performance, video, and community-based collaborations to reimagine bodies and the power structures that govern our everyday lives as mutable and permeable sites of agency. In their sculptures and performances, Kwak takes a fluid and hybrid approach to rethinking the form, functionality, and materiality of objects as a means of resisting the harmful ways in which marginalized bodies have been historically objectified.

Annual Exhibition Fine Arts

Please join us to see the 2021 Senior Exhibitions, share the premier of the Fine Arts class of 2021 website  fineassfineart.com and 2021 exhibition catalog, see our billboards in Los Angeles and join in our student awards!

Zoom link to attend: https://otis.zoom.us/my/megcranston

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  • O-Launch Weekend
    O-Launch Weekend Celebrates the Next Generation of Artists and Designers
    March 22
  • Alison Saar
    Otis College Alum Alison Saar Selected to Create a Sculpture for Paris Olympics
    March 20
  • Otis Staff talking
    A Week of Creativity and Community at Otis College
    March 15

Joan Takayama-Ogawa Slideshow

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  • O-Launch Weekend
    O-Launch Weekend Celebrates the Next Generation of Artists and Designers
    March 22
  • Alison Saar
    Otis College Alum Alison Saar Selected to Create a Sculpture for Paris Olympics
    March 20
  • Otis Staff talking
    A Week of Creativity and Community at Otis College
    March 15

Creative Action Lecture: Elana Mann

Please join Creative Action Integrated Learning faculty Adam Berg in welcoming artist Elana Mann as guest lecturer to his course, Social and Environmental Practices.

In this lecture, Elana Mann will be discussing her work with sound, sculpture, and community engagement. Mann will present two recent exhibitions, Year of Wonders (2020-21) and Instruments of Accountability (2018), as well as satellite events, activism, and performances.

Headlines

  • O-Launch Weekend
    O-Launch Weekend Celebrates the Next Generation of Artists and Designers
    March 22
  • Alison Saar
    Otis College Alum Alison Saar Selected to Create a Sculpture for Paris Olympics
    March 20
  • Otis Staff talking
    A Week of Creativity and Community at Otis College
    March 15

Kelly Wall Fine Arts

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  • O-Launch Weekend
    O-Launch Weekend Celebrates the Next Generation of Artists and Designers
    March 22
  • Alison Saar
    Otis College Alum Alison Saar Selected to Create a Sculpture for Paris Olympics
    March 20
  • Otis Staff talking
    A Week of Creativity and Community at Otis College
    March 15

Artforum Critic's Pick: Kenzi Shiokava

Most of Kenzi Shiokava’s sculptures consist of organic matter, like bark and dragon-tree fronds, combined with found materials, such as chicken wire or brooms. In Untitled (Urban Totem Series), 2000, an upright railroad tie narrows into two sharp prongs at the top. Of a similar shape, Untitled (Urban Totem Series), 2005, was carved from a discarded telephone pole. Each sculpture resembles a statuesque humanoid form.

New York Times Style Magazine: In the Studio with Eduardo Sarabia

Many artists claim that their work is multidisciplinary. But Eduardo Sarabia’s (BFA Fine Arts '99) varied practice includes painting, sculpture, mezcal making and even treasure hunting. “There’s a lot of fantasy and imagination involved in my work,” he says, seated in his studio on the first floor of a 1950s industrial building in the Zapopan district of Guadalajara, Mexico. He shows me the handcrafted, blue-and-white Talavera-style ceramic tiles he’s produced for an upcoming solo exhibition in Antwerp, Belgium.

Blouin Artinfo: Alison Saar’s ‘Topsy Turvy’ at L.A. Louver, Los Angeles

L.A. Louver is hosting Alison Saar’s "Topsy Turvy” at its Los Angeles venue.

An exhibition of new works by the Los Angeles-based artist takes inspiration from the character of Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic Civil War-era novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Saar re-contextualizes the sprightly uncouth slave girl as a symbol of defiance, through paintings on dyed vintage linens and sculptures carved from wood.

V Magazine: The New Vision, Kelly Akashi

With genre-bending bodies of work that span a range of mediums and materials, these are the names to know in today’s evolving scene. First up is sculptor Kelly Akashi (BFA Fine Arts '06). 

Artillery: Ruben Ochoa's SAMPLED y SURVEYED

Ruben Ochoa’s (BFA Fine Arts '97)  “SAMPLED y SURVEYED” illustrates the artist’s penchant for transforming basic construction materials into structural installations charged with meaning.