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SBCC faculty’s artwork displayed in ‘Biennial’ exhibit in Atkinson Gallery

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Who: – What: These are some of the artwork that some of the faculty members are exhibiting at the gallery. When: The show ends 09/28. Where: The Art Faculty Biennal on West Campus. Why: It’s a tradition that is held every other year, and members in the faculty are welcome to exhibit their work in the gallery.

City College students can now get a chance to see their art teachers’ work in the Faculty Art Biennial at the Atkinson Gallery.

“The faculty art show has been very well received,” said Atkinson Gallery director Sarah Cunningham. “I have an equal wonder for all of the artworks and overall it has a very high caliber. It builds the respect for our teachers.”

The show displays work from 14 faculty members and with a range of different media.

The Art Faculty Biennial also works as an introduction of two new full-time faculty members Brian Scott Campbell and Christopher Ulivo. Both are having solo exhibitions in the gallery later on this fall and next spring semester, respectively.

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“This art show is a representation of what everyone is working on when they don’t work here,” Ulivo said.

Ulivo, who just moved to Santa Barbara from New York City, said the environment here is very different.

“In one of my paintings I was trying to imagine how the west coast would be like,” he said. “I had a very goofy idea of how I thought it was.”

For this art show, Ulivo has made two egg temperas, a form of painting that was very popular in Europe during the Middle Ages.

“They are both narrative and have stories in them,” Ulivo said. “It’s a mix up of imaginary scenarios and some real people from historical cultures that had a way of bending gender roles.”

Ulivo said students might find him to be a little different or difficult in the classroom and now they are able to go and check him out.

“They can go to the art show and see if I’m worth listening to and that’s kind of funny,” he said.

Campbells contributions to the art show are two small scale drawings. The drawings are titled “Big White Cloud(s)” and “Apple Of My Eye.” Both are very graphic and abstracted with flowing shapes and landscape references.

”I have never shown my work in California before,” Campbell said. ”It’s very exciting. I love SBCC and I think the faculty art show is a great tradition.”

Campbell said that he hopes the art show will encourage students to be a part of the Santa Barbara art community. It’s also a chance to see the principles that are being taught in class.

The Atkinson Gallery was relocated to west campus room 301 while the Humanities Building is under renovation. The temporary space does not bother Cunningham; she finds it exciting to join the department during its transition.

“I don’t see this as a limitation, I see this as an opportunity,” Cunningham said. “I’m thinking about this space and how we could use it to do suitable exhibitions.”

The faculty art exhibit will be featured until Sept. 28, when the Gallery will begin its transition to the next exhibit, “Small Images.”

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