MiraCosta Art Gallery

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  • Repercussions

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    Repercussions

    Invitational Art Exhibit

    FALL 2020

    “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

  • ESCAPE

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    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.

  • 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.