The Cañada
College Art Department is proud to present an exhibition of paintings by the
Bay Area artist Rachelle Agundes. The exhibition runs from March 16 - April 16
in the Cañada College Art Gallery, Building 9, Room 152. Please note: the gallery will be closed the
week of Spring Break, March 22 - 28.
The show
consists of nine oil paintings completed within the last three years.
These
works explore the process of memory and how it becomes distorted through the
steady passage of time. The paintings depict collaged images from Agundes’s
memory, family history, photographs and dreams, which are filtered through
studio processes. These processes include working from hand-built sculptural
forms, projecting onto these forms, and layering compositions with collaged
spaces. In her practice,
Agundes uses materials to distort images from memory into further realizations
that demand to be questioned and re-examined. History is also questioned, time
is boundless and runs in all directions, and perception is redefined.
Originally from
Red Bluff, California, Agundes now lives in Oakland and teaches Art at U.C.
Davis. She earned a B.F.A. from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, and
continued her studies at Boston University, where she received a Masters of
Fine Arts degree. Before returning to the Bay Area, she was living in New York
City. Rachelle has also exhibited her work in New York, Milan, Boston and
Maine. In 2010 she was the recipient of the ArtSlant Showcase Competition 1st
Place Award for Painting.
The College Gallery
is open Monday - Thursday, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
For more
information contact William Morales, Art Department, moralesw@smccd.edu, 650
306-3343.
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