The Louie-Meager Museum of Art presents the video and photographic works of artist Bessma Khalaf, in the exhibition, Confluence, from February 16th through March 13. The gallery is free and open to the public Monday/Wednesdays from 10:30-2pm and Tuesday/Thursday 9-1pm.
Ms. Khalaf will present a lecture on her work at a closing reception in the gallery Thursday, March 12th from 12-1pm.
Bessma Khalaf is an interdisciplinary artist working in Oakland, Californina.
http://bessmakhalaf.com/
Confluence
Video and Photographic Works of Artist Bessma Khalaf - Louie-Meager Art Gallery
- Exhibit runs: February 16 - March 13, 2015
- Lecture on Ms. Khalaf's work: Thursday, March 12, 2015, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Ms. Khalaf will present a lecture on her work in the gallery on Thursday, March 12, 2015 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm.
Bessma Khalaf is an interdisciplinary artist working in Oakland, Californian. Balancing mischievousness and malice, Khalaf’s processes of degradation (burning, eating, smashing, etc.) explore the boundaries of landscape, place, and image. Khalaf proposes that beyond the nihilism of destruction, voids and absences possess generative possibilities, either in nature or in her practice. Figuratively and pictorially, voids carve an ambiguous space in the representation of landscape and the documentation of performance. Entrenched in process, Khalaf mixes mysticism, futility, and endurance when pitting herself against the overwhelming vastness of her surroundings, and the largeness of the romantic landscape. Using both appropriated imagery and in situ events, Khalaf executes performances for the camera such that images and actions break down each other, and occasionally reach a compromise. Khalaf’s images and locations have a strange familiarity, yet anonymity. They’re places that we, as consumers of mass media and living bodies, recognize, yet really don’t know.
Born in Iraq, Bessma Khalaf emigrated to San Diego, California in 1990 just before the first Gulf War. She earned her Bachelor degree from San Diego State University in 2002 and a Masters of Fine Arts in photography from the California College of Art in 2007.
Please contact the Louie Meager Art Gallery for more information.
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InfoStanding On a Beach
Mount Diablo
In The Woods
Planet Earth
Invisible Thief
Abby Normal
Plein Air Drifter
Re-Enchanter
The Long Goodbye
High Noon
Ascension
Divinations
Ectoplasm
(Knock-Out) Projections
Monument
Tree Painting
This Land Is My Land
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About the Louie-Meager Art Gallery
Over 1200 people per month visit the Louie-Meager Art Gallery
exhibits, including guests from the Bay Area community as well as
many groups of elementary, high school and off campus college classes'
tours. The Louie-Meager Gallery offers a diverse museum quality
program with informational wall texts and catalogues provided to
enhance and inform.
The gallery has a 30-year history of presenting professional fine arts, closing each year with a juried Ohlone College student show of recent work. The Gallery Outreach program provides tours for local elementary and high school students, art workshops for the nearby deaf school, seminars for Ohlone College classes, San Jose State University and other colleges upon request.
Continuously running exhibits of works from professional artists are presented throughout the Smith Center season. Drop by the gallery before a show or at intermission. No charge for admission to the gallery.
The gallery is located in the Gary Soren Smith Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, inside the main lobby in Room SC-143, on the Ohlone College Fremont campus. See Fremont Campus Map for more detail about its location.
For information about the Louie-Meager Art Gallery, contact Dina Rubiolo, Gallery Director, at drubiolo@ohlone.edu.
The gallery has a 30-year history of presenting professional fine arts, closing each year with a juried Ohlone College student show of recent work. The Gallery Outreach program provides tours for local elementary and high school students, art workshops for the nearby deaf school, seminars for Ohlone College classes, San Jose State University and other colleges upon request.
Continuously running exhibits of works from professional artists are presented throughout the Smith Center season. Drop by the gallery before a show or at intermission. No charge for admission to the gallery.
The gallery is located in the Gary Soren Smith Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, inside the main lobby in Room SC-143, on the Ohlone College Fremont campus. See Fremont Campus Map for more detail about its location.
For information about the Louie-Meager Art Gallery, contact Dina Rubiolo, Gallery Director, at drubiolo@ohlone.edu.
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