This exhibition is a combined show between Art 271 Museum Studies and Art 295 Visual Art/Professional Practice students.
ART 271 – This exhibition is the capstone project for MiraCosta’s Museum and Gallery Exhibition course. Museum Studies students will develop, research, curate, publicize, and install this exhibition. Works on display may be a selection of pieces from MiraCosta College collections or reflect a call for art from area artists.
ART 295 – This exhibition is the capstone project of the Visual Art/Professional Practice (Art 295) course, featuring a stunning collection of original works by art majors who honed their skills in studio courses offered by the Art Department. Students collaboratively oversee all aspects of the exhibition, from exhibition, curation & design, installation, and publicity; demonstrating their engagement with the gallery systems process and their readiness for professional creative endeavors.
Alysa Guise, “The Big Cat”, 18”x24”, pastel on paper, 2025
ANNUAL MIRACOSTA STUDENT EXHIBIT
MAR 24 – APR 17, 2026
RECEPTION: Thursday, March 26 | 11:30 – 2:30pm
AWARDS CEREMONY: Thursday, March 26 | Noon
This exhibition showcases the creative work of MiraCosta College art students. It features pieces from a wide range of studio courses – drawing, painting, design, printmaking, ceramics, woodworking, photography, sculpture, digital media, and new genera. The show highlights the breadth of artistic exploration and skill fostered in the college’s art programs. Together, these works celebrate the diversity of expression and the shared commitment to creative growth within MiraCosta’s vibrant arts community.
This exhibition informs the public about the nature of contemporary printmaking as used by these local artists in their individual practices; from traditional approaches using multiplicity found in techniques of intaglio, woodblock, silk screen, and lithography, to ideas of seriality incorporating methods of installation, collage, video montage, and bookmaking.
Featured artists include established educators, independent practitioners, and early-career artists who are affiliated with our California Community College and University educational systems. This exhibit brings together nationally established figures who use both traditional and contemporary methods with current innovators who are exploring the potentiality of the medium as a vehicle for conversations on contemporary cultural issues.
These artists, in a variety of ways promote the universal accessibility of print medium and are involved in education, publication, technical innovation, and community outreach in our Southern California communities.
“Glimpses of Life”, an invitational video art exhibition showcasing five different artists.
Allison Beaudry’s “Ektagraphic Narratives” explores the complexity of intergenerational family trauma.
Filmmaker Tom Hansell and photographer Joshua White’s collaborative animated film “Does Water Die?” looks at our relationship with the water cycle.
Sam Wohl’s social surrealist film “Manos” highlights working-class women in Uruguay and Argentina.
“My Father’s Clay” by Charles Snowden addresses performative masculinity and the artist’s relationship to a lineage of military men.
ARTISTS: Allison Beaudry, Charles Snowden, Tom Hansell & Joshua White, Sam Wohl
ALLISON BEAUDRY
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Ektagraphic Narratives examines intergenerational trauma and the familial roots of gun violence. This video presents all of my family member’s stories as holding equal value.
The tensions and contradictions remain, providing outsiders with an unvarnished assessment of the ambiguities inherent within families and the social and political insight that this view provides. The result is not a neat conclusion. The pain remains. Through vulnerability, I hope to make the trauma my family has experienced relatable and universal to others. My goal within this work is to process my family’s past to help create a future that I am content living in.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: My work is focused on perceptions and expectations of the body, womanhood, family, and memories. I unearth objects and photographs passed down in my family and collect strange and often obsolete objects from dumpsters and thrift stores to physically interact with and utilize within the studio. By utilizing found objects and altering their form, function, and outward perception, I examine clashing social ideological issues. The sources of my imagery have roots in 1950s nostalgia and bridge the gap between what are often seen as the “good ol’ days” and the present. I work closely with the objects and interact with them as props within performance/video and sculpture to uncover an object’s history and how it has affected my life and the life of those around me.
CHARLES SNOWDEN
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Looking at my relationship to a lineage of military men, I address the maintenance of militarized behavior using fantasies and mythos surrounding the service. Clays analogous relationship with the body gives form to complex and alienating factors concerning performative masculinity. The resulting object indexes the physical and psychological demands on the body in a way that cannot be fully legible. This visual inquiry seeks to encourage intimate and vulnerable experiences that break away from stereotyped visions of masculinity.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Born in Vista, California, Charles Snowden currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He earned a BA in Studio Art with a Minor in Art History at Humboldt State University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Fine Art at UCLA.
TOM HANSELL & JOSUA WHITE
This animated video is a collaboration between filmmaker Tom Hansell and photographer Joshua White. First, photographic paper is drenched in water from the New River near the artists’ homes in Ashe County, North Carolina. Next, organic and manmade materials gathered from the river are placed on the photographic paper and exposed in direct sunlight, all within sight of the river. Finally, these images are digitally animated and natural sounds from the river are added to complete the film, which looks at our relationship with the water cycle.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Tom Hansell is a filmmaker, author and artist who creates work that explores relationships between energy, community, and nature. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art and has been included in the Southern Circuit tour of independent filmmakers. Hansell began his career at the Appalshop media arts center in Kentucky and currently teaches at Appalachian State University.
Joshua White uses photography and mixed media to investigate memory, mortality, and ecology and to understand how he fits into the world. His images have been shown nationally and internationally, and his work has been featured by National Geographic, Fraction Magazine, Wired, Don’t Take Pictures, Gizmodo, and many others. He received his MFA in Photography from Arizona State University and is an AssociateProfessor and the Photography Area Coordinator in Studio Art at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC.
SAM WOHL
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Manos is a social surrealist film about working class women in Uruguay and Argentina. In a dream-like language, woven by hands, ants, and liquidity, and “time-zones of labor” of fisherwomen, manicurists, protestors, glove inspectors, clinicians, and mothers, rises a chorus of care, resistance, trauma, and collective action.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Aesthetics of North American sci-fi films of the late 20th century have been imprinted into my subconscious. Elements of this genre include expressive props, hyperbolic characters, magic powers, and exaggerated dialogue. In the mainstream, these elements are organized into narratives that reproduce the world view of the dominant culture.
My work in theatre and documentary re-configures these elements and outputs alternative temporal forms that offer space for my subconscious and the geo-political to interlace. This interlacing has provoked an excavation of the slippage between the aesthetics that attract me—of sci-fi genre—and the concepts that fascinate me–time, labor, and autonomous zones of horizontal mutual aide.
“Repercussions” is an invitational art exhibit that includes works of art from six artists. “Repercussions” will showcase a breadth of multimedia work representing unique perspectives. Accompanying their art is a statement from each artist about how the COVID-19 virus impacted their life as an artist. At this moment, we are in a state of ongoing recovery; the novel coronavirus has caused much uncertainty. An invited artist who survived COVID-19 currently is sustaining bi-coastal teaching and art practice during a continued recovery. Others have returned to the new normal trying to juggle the maintenance of life, family, and work during a time when losses and questions abound.
ARTISTS: Naomi J. Falk, Patrick ‘Pato’ Herbert, Erika Osborne, Valya Simpson, Tracy Stuckey, Christopher Ven
“Victoria” Alla Bartoshchuck, oil on acm panel 24″ x 32″
“Crossings” Diane K. Adams, mixed media on 300 lb. arches cold press
“Black Hole/White Hole, The Kirk/Myers Paradox” Joshua Eggleton, charcoal, 24″ x 72″
“Atlantis” Frol Boundin, mixed media monotype
“One Thing Is Not Unlike The Other” Xuchi Naungayan Eggleton, plaster, wire, glitter, fiber, feathers, rope, yarn, etc.
“Yuma Fauxasis 2” Ray Ewing, archival inkjet print
“The Brown, Skinned (Rejoice, for when You inflict pain, pleasure is the prize) (Study No. 4)” Christopher Ferreria, giclée print
Brian Goeltzenleuchter
“Fire Quilt” Grace Gray Adams, fabric, paint, gold leaf, and mixed media, 38″ x 72″
“Berlin (Engelbecken)” Lauren Greenwald, archival inkjet print, 16″ x 24″
“Untitled (from VVVVVVVVVVVVV)” CJ Heyliger, carbon pigment print, 40″ x 50.25″
“Maui Banyan Tree” Kristina Nugent, watercolor in sketchbook, 6″ x 19″
“Happenstance, Leslie Nemour, oil on panel, 24″ x 48”
“Tissue Box” Jackie Lo, acrylic on canvas
“Untitled (Still-Life)” Iana Quesnell, graphite on paper 18″ x 24″
“Division 3″ Dean Ramos, burnt wood, 26″ x 30″ x 22”
“TARP Reform: Pinnacle ” David White, vinyl banner with printed photograph, 9′ x 16′
“drift” Michael Whiting, automotive paint on 1987 BMW 325i hood, 50″ x 55″
ESCAPE
Art Faculty Exhibition
AUG – SEP 2020
Presenting the MiraCosta College’s art faculty show featuring the work of artists and artist collaborators.
ARTISTS: Diane Adams, Grace Gray Adams, Alla Bartoshchuck, Frol Boundin, Joshua Eggleton, Xuchi Naungayan Eggleton, Ray Ewing, Christopher Ferreria, Lauren Greenwald, Brain Goeltzenleuchter, Yoshi Hayashi, Christopher Heyliger, Jackie Lo, Leslie Nemour, Kristina Nugent, Iana Quesnell, Dean Ramos, David White, and Michael Whiting.
“Scrappytree” Scott Groters, Scrap wood cutting & airbrush
“Becoming one with oneself” Karinne Burgess, Linocut print
“Basked in Light” Nescen Angelique C. Bernardo, Watercolor
“Notan:Goldfish Pond” Fiona He, Black paper cut on white paper
“Melancholy Moths” Illa Johnson, Watercolor
“ARCHER” Vicky Lana, Acrylic & chalk pastel
“Lignin” Benjamin Poarch, 8 x 10″ Silver Gelatin
“The Nude Woman with a Parasol” Heather Newman, Oil, acrylic on canvas
“Patent Leather” Sarah Novak, Charcoal on paper
“Ugandan children understanding economics.” Emily Stewart, Photography
“Apparition” Tyler White, Film photography
“Tandara Damura” Maggie Skidmore, Ceramic
The Reveal
Student Art Exhibition
MAY 2020
The MiraCosta College Art Department is proud to present the annual student art exhibit. An all media show features MiraCosta College student work created during the academic year Fall 2019 & Spring 2020.
Video still of “No Place to Run to” by Eshrat Erfanian
Griselda Rosas “Untitled”
Griselda Rosas “Untitled”
Faith Wilding “Embryoworld”
Faith Wilding “Biodresses”
Faith Wilding “Biodresses”
Video still of “I Sing the Body Electric” by Allison Beaudry
Allison Beaudry
Anna O’cain “From the Stripe”
Anna O’cain “From the Stripe”
Women Work
Wayne Hulgin & Nikko Mueller
MAR 10 – APR 9, 2020
This current exhibition features five women artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds.
Through diverse mediums, ranging from sculpture, video, and two-dimensional work, these artists provide a nuanced view into how women’s voices and their aesthetic expression have evolved over the last 60 years.
“…this exhibition makes a powerful visual argument about our collective struggles: we cannot achieve liberation, feminist or otherwise, without considering deeply, a heterogeneity of experience. We cannot have true liberatory action without considering racial equity, environmental preservation, the dismantling of violence of nation and borders,without considering class and gender struggle, and without looking toward how we might decolonize…”
–Women Work: What Does Feminism Mean to You?, Annica Cox
Wayne Hulgin’s mixed media work—whether it’s wood, paper, canvas, layers of paint, or lines of graphite—is involved with the visual aspects of what you are really looking at and how it’s put together, how it works with the wall, and how it works with the light. He is not limited by the need to include symbolism, communicate a narrative or promote a political agenda, which he feels might prevent him from experimenting and going forward. In Hulgin’s words, “What you see is what you get—nothing more, nothing less. My work is not about anything other than what’s right before your eyes.”
Nikko Mueller’s recent work developed from a standing exploration of disruption, destabilization, and transformation. He is interested in examining and manipulating the various components of a painting: image, surface, and support. Beginning with a basic vocabulary of elemental shapes and color relationships, Mueller folds the canvas and re-stretches it, editing the information, distorting the arrangement, and often letting the margin infiltrate the image space. The forms in his paintings are eclipsed, compromised, and then reconstituted, as he attempts to reconcile or “fix” the painting. In the end, these paintings exist in the space left between ideal and acciden
Gallery closed Nov 10, Veterans Day and Nov 27 – 28, Thanksgiving
JOIN US THIS SATURDAY, NOV 22 – Melissa Walter will be at the MiraCosta Gallery from 12-2pm. Melissa Walter will be taking questions and sharing her insights into her creative process and inspiration for this exhibition. The MiraCosta Gallery will be open from 10-2pm.
RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCT 30 | 11am – 1pm
ARTIST TALK: THURSDAY, OCT 30 at 11:30am
SECOND RECEPTION: SATURDAY, NOV 15 | 5-7pm
The interplay of memory versus reality in relation to the psychological and physical human experience is centered in this abstract exhibit of works by San Diego artists Juan Cabrera and Melissa Walter.
Informed by her background in astrophysics, Melissa Walter’s mixed-media practice is deeply rooted in observation, research, and the translation of scientific concepts into abstract, minimalist works that investigate humanity’s place within the cosmos. Her process relies on conceptually informed mediums and techniques ranging from repetitive action and fine detail, to digital renderings and sculptural abstractions.
This focus on process is reflected in the work of Juan Cabrera, whose process involves manipulating found photographic source material to create works on paper depicting architectural dream spaces. Through his practice in watercolor and woodblock printmaking, he investigates emotional attachment to architectural interior space, layering disparate textures and images to reveal hidden tensions.
Together, the work of these artists explores the nuances of memory as subjective experience, interrogating the possibility of objectivity and the limits of representation.
