MiraCosta Art Gallery

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  • inPRINT

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    ARTISTS

    Frol Boundin, Jennifer Chen, Chris Lahti, Kimiko Miyoshi, Casey Rubenfeld, Tava Tedesco

    JAN 28 – MAR 6, 2026

    Gallery closed on Feb 16

    RECEPTION: Wednesday, Feb 4 | 11am – 1pm

    ARTIST TALK: Wednesday, Feb 4 | 11:30am

    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.

  • The Reveal

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    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.

  • Women Work

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    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

    ARTISTS: Allison Beaudry, Eshrat Erfanian, Anna O’cain, Griselda Rosas, Faith Wilding


  • Surface Tension

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    Surface Tension

    Wayne Hulgin & Nikko Mueller

    Feb 4 – Feb 28, 2020

    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


  • Remanence

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    Remanence

    Juan Cabrera & Melissa walter

    Oct 22 – dec 5, 2025

    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.

  • MAT

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    MAT

    Media Arts & Technology Exhibit

    Fall 2021

    MiraCosta Community College is proud to present the Media Arts and Technologies art show.
    A group exhibition featuring the practices of MAT faculty from MiraCosta Community College.

    ARTISTS: Karl Cleveland, Min Choi, Leigh Cotnoir, Theresa Jackson, Melvin Terry

    Karl Cleveland – Generative Painting 1
    Karl Cleveland – Generative Painting 2
    Karl Cleveland – Generative Painting 3
    Karl Cleveland – Generative Painting 4

  • Behind The Scenes

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    Behind The Scenes

    Invitational Multimedia Art Show

    Spring 2021

    MiraCosta Community College presents Behind the Scenes. An invitational multimedia art show featuring the art practices of permanent staff from MiraCosta College Art Department.

    ARTISTS: Elizabeth Bautista, Allison Beaudry, Michael Rybicki, Dara Vasko

  • Interpretations

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    Interpretations

    Student Exhibit

    Spring 2021

    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 2020 & Spring 2021.

    drawing i

    drawing ii

    oil painting

    life drawing i

    life drawing ii

    life drawing iii

  • Printed Matters

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    Printed Matters

    Frol Boundin and Karsten Creightney

    Spring 2021

    Printed Matters highlights works of art from Karsten Creightney and Frol Boundin.
    Karsten Creightney extracts imagery of urban and natural environments. These fragments become a convergence of plants and flowers in which they are collaged, printed, and painted creating graphic tableaus. 

    Frol Boundin layers found imagery sourced from historic and current human technologies. Combining traditional printmaking and industrial fabrication he collages postindustrial landscapes. Layers of shapes and colors are assorted and printed unified on the surface.

  • WE, The Women’s Caucus

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    WE

    The Women’s Caucus Exhibit

    Spring 2021

    WE, the Women’s Caucus exhibition stands to celebrate the Society for Photographic Education’s Women’s Caucus members and our diversity through the lens. The photographic works are responsive pieces that illuminate, question, and challenge societal notions through our individual expression, discussing the relationship of power and gender, and the societal intersections.

    Initiated in 2020 with a nod to the historical year for gender equality, WE, the Women’s Caucus exhibition is the result of a juried international call-to-artists (Women, Trans, and GNC People) investigating and considering the intersection of cultural, social, political, economic, spiritual, sexual, non/gender-based, and environmental forces. The historical legacy of women, the triumphs and struggles for gender equality, inclusion, and diversity have been amplified in recent years. Add the pandemic and racial injustice from this last year, and the collaboration of women, trans, NGC people for WE, the Women’s Caucus couldn’t have come to light at a more powerful time. 

    Originally slated as a part of the FotoFocus 2020 Biennial Light&, the exhibition moved to the 400 West Rich gallery location where it lived in-person from November 2020 until Feb 2021. Despite the pandemic cancelling many exhibitions, 400 West Rich’s expansive, massive space, offered the opportunity for a safe, socially distanced gallery exhibition experience for art fanatics. 

    WE are honored that the intimately powerful works of the Society for Photographic Education’s Women’s Caucus members involved with WE, the Women’s Caucus exhibition will be on display during Women’s History month at MiraCosta College Art Department’s Kruglak Gallery. 
    Funding for WE, the Women’s Caucus exhibition was made possible by SPE Women’s Caucus member Jordanne Renner and the grants received from FotoFocus Biennial Light& and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.


    If you are a business or organization with Women, Trans, and/or GNC People as your leadership, or you are lifting up these communities WE would like to hear from you– send an email to: WEtheWomensCaucusExhibition@gmail.com

    JURORS: Christy Coleman-Schoedinger, Elizabeth Flinsch, Rebecca Ibel, Lorie Novak

    ARTISTS: Laurie Blakeslee, RemiJin Camping, Sydney Ellison, Lynn Estomin, Morgan Ford Willingham, Anna Gerentes, Jordanna Kalman, Becca Moskowitz, Cher Musico, Jessie Parks, Carol Record, Jordan Renner