New art exhibits at CSULB have themes of global warming, endangered species, and the impact of industrialization will be on display until Dec. 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum features four exhibits made up of artwork from multiple LA based artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An exhibit named \u201cSolastalgia\u201d consists of multiple artworks from 15 artists alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s basically about the grief that people go through of the environment sometimes, you know, being changed. And so the artists are giving their expression of that, how it\u2019s affected them in different ways,\u201d museum docent Kathleen Navarro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Media used in the pieces include watercolors, acrylic paint, wood, plant-based and recycled materials, pigment print and even wildfire debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some pieces like \u201cYou hear what those f—— said?\u201d by Saif Azzuz had materials from an obscure valley in Yosemite National Park. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSome of the things, I don\u2019t even know what they are, which is really exciting to me to enter a show and not know what some of the materials are. It\u2019s making me think I need to do a little bit of research so that I understand, like \u2018old growth from Hetch Hetchy\u2019. I don\u2019t know what that means,\u201d said Fafnir Adamites, CSULB Assistant Professor in the Fiber Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSolastalgia\u201d also includes specimens of endangered bird, mammal, and plant species, which are on loan from CSULB Biological Collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alongside \u201cSolastalgia\u201d was \u201cFrom Eco-Grief to Eco-Action: Rewild with Native Plants\u201d, an interactive educational display featuring photographs of native plants, which was created by the student organization RE:Wild. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur goal is to eliminate pesticides on campus and just plant more native plants,\u201d RE:Wild member and contributor to the project Marlene Rosales said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSpecies in Danger\u201d by Jennifer Celio attracted many visitors and featured 13 graphite portraits of creatures in the endangered species lists that are native to Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese are the first 13 that I\u2019ve done of the 54, and I\u2019ll just keep going until I finish them all. And then I want to move on to all of California, which will be about 145 creatures that are endangered, and just keep going,\u201d Celio said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Celio explained that her work reflected ecological negatives that come from humans, such as plastics, disposable materials, urbanization, factory farming and environmental racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m hoping that with these pieces, they\u2019re approachable enough. It makes a topic that can be either clinical or can be really hard to take in because it feels so overwhelming,\u201d Celio added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEmergence of the Kelp Deer\u201d by Christine Nguyen was presented in a solo space in the Mini Gallery, and is now a part of the museum\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe main theme would be the grief of the change in the environment, but [also] space to talk about possible solutions,\u201d said Navarro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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