Experience Teaches: Santa Clara University Art Faculty Exhibition

October 5 - December 8, 2007

This exhibition celebrates the artistic achievements of faculty in Santa Clara University’s Art and Art History Department. This inclusive exhibition will feature the work of both tenured and tenure-track faculty in addition to long-term lecturers in the studio area. Artists in the exhibition will include Katherine Aoki, Renee Billingslea, Kelly Detweiler, Susan Felter, Don Fritz, Sam Hernandez, Pancho Jimenez, Marco Marquez, David Pace, Trung Pham, S.J., R. Reynolds, and Gerald Sullivan, S.J. Featuring work in a wide variety of media—including painting, photography, mixed-media photography, digital photography, ceramic and mixed media sculpture, and printmaking—the exhibition will showcase the aesthetic vitality of SCU’s dynamic Art Department.

As a companion exhibition, the de Saisset Museum will feature a permanent collection exhibition curated by Art History faculty. This exhibition will showcase the strengths of the de Saisset Museum’s permanent collection through the eyes of SCU’s Art History teaching scholars.



R. Reynolds, University Exit, 2007, oil on canvas, 24 x 48 in., courtesy of the artist



Renee Billingslea, Taylor Jo at Six, Ashland, OR, 2006, gelatin silver print, 15 x 15 in., courtesy of the artist.



Don Fritz, Ring of Fire, 1999, mixed media on panel, 60 x 40 in., courtesy of the artist.



Kelly Detweiler, Faculty Meeting, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in., courtesy of the artist.



David Pace, Along the Road to Guantanamo, Cuba, 2006, gelatin silver print, 8.75 x 13 in., courtesy of the artist.



Marco Marquez in collaboration with Judith Shatin and Kathy Aoki, Penelope’s Song (still frame), 2007, 3D and video animation, courtesy of the artist.



Katherine Aoki, Battle of Kawaii, 2005–07, mixed media on wood installation, 18 x 20 ft., courtesy of the artist.