2019 Faculty Triennial
October 21 – November 27, 2019
Jessica Rath / Robert Hoehn:
A Better Nectar
January 28 - March 28, 2019
Pável Acevedo:
Inland Empire
October 8 – November 29, 2018
Chicanx/Latinx:
Serigraph Prints from
Self Help Graphics & Art
October 8 – November 29, 2018
Pearl C. Hsiung:
Two Faces, One Die
August 13 – September 27, 2018
22nd Annual
Student Art Exhibition
April 17 - March 24, 2018
Larry Hurst:
Paintings & Collages
February 10 - March 29, 2018
Budding Artists
Selections from the
Center for Early Childhood Education
Exhibition & Silent Auction Fundraiser
January 16 - January 31, 2018
Light Fields:
Sheldon Figoten
October 28 - December 7, 2017
Arden Surdam, Stephanie Deumer:
Real Shadows for Mere Bodies
September 5 - October 12, 2017
21st Annual SAC
COC Student Exhibition
April 18 - May 25, 2017
Lisa Adams:
Sight Specific
February 11 - March 23, 2017
Budding Artists 2017
Selections from the
Center for Early Childhood Education
Exhibition & Silent Auction Fundraiser
January 10 - 26th, 2017
John Eden:
Roundels
October 25 - December 8, 2016
Ed Flynn:
Avenues & Turnabouts
August 30 - October 6, 2016
20th Annual SAC
COC Student Exhibition
April 26 - May 24, 2016
Art-WORK:
Selections from the
Visual Arts Faculty
February 16 - March 24, 2016
Budding Artists:
Selections from the
Center for Early Childhood Education
Exhibition & Silent Auction Fundraiser
January 11 - January 28, 2016
Plein Air:
California Landscape Painting
September 1 - October 22, 2015
19th Annual SAC
COC Student Exhibition
May 12 - June 10, 2015
Bernardo Feldman:
In Red and Black
April 14 - April 30, 2015
Michael Davis:
The Day The Earth Stood Still
February 17 - March 18, 2015
Joe Forkan:
The Lebowski Cycle
October 28 - December 10, 2014
May Sun:
In The Studio and Out In Public
September2- October 2, 2014
18th Annual SAC
COC Student Exhibition
May 15 - June 12, 2014
Francine Matarazzo:
Garden of the Poet;
Iran and Beyond
March 29 - May 1, 2014
Sam Erenberg: AWA
February 11 - March 13, 2014
Budding Artists:
Selections from the
Center for Early Childhood Education
Exhibition & Silent Auction Fundraiser
November 23 - January 9, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Release No. COC-01.18.19-A Better Nectar
Contact: Eric Harnish
(661) 362-3429
COC Art Gallery Welcomes New Multisensory Exhibit
The College of the Canyons Art Gallery is pleased to present an exciting new exhibition,
“A Better Nectar” by Jessica Rath with Robert Hoehn. This multisensory installation
is based on the artists’ extensive research into co-evolutionary communication between
flowering plants and their pollinators. The exhibition opens on Monday, Jan. 28 and
is on display until Thursday, Mar. 28, 2019. A Better Nectar will be viewable in the
Art Gallery and the first floor of Canyons Hall on the Valencia Campus.
Join the artists for a lecture and discussion on Monday, Feb. 11, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in
Mentry Hall, Room 305. A free public reception and celebration for the artists will
follow in the Art Gallery from 3:30-5:30 p.m.
In “A Better Nectar,” visitors encounter human-scaled sculptures that evoke a bee’s
sensory journey from nest to nectar, with audio and visual elements that interpret
the bee’s experience. Rath, in collaboration with composer and sound designer Robert
Hoehn, creates an immersive and interactive experience using sculpture, light, and
sound to explore how bees learn and remember multisensory floral symbols to find better
nectar.
“Jessica Rath’s beautiful and compelling meditation on bees brings together contemporary
art, science, and our environment so poetically – and I think – profoundly. She explores
big ideas by way of these small insects! I can’t wait for everybody to see it,” said
Pamela Lewis, Director, Art Gallery.
“Resonant Nest,” the exhibition’s centerpiece, is a human-scaled bumblebee nest that
emanates human voice interpretations of bee communication. A six-part score, composed
by Hoehn, shifts in response to sensory inputs embedded in the sculpture that record
changes in time, local weather conditions, and the proximity of viewers to the work.
Also on display are Rath’s watercolor studies of flowers and “Bee Purple,” an immersive
light work that emulates how bees experience the color wavelengths that attract them
to floral patterns and nectar. “Bee Purple” was created in collaboration with multimedia
programmer Elise Co.
“A Better Nectar” continues in Canyons Hall with a photo essay documenting Rath’s
research at Leonard Bee Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno. Also on view is “Staminal
Evolution,” a seven-foot tall, sonic sculpture inspired by flowering plants that require
“buzz pollination,” a process in which bees vibrate a certain frequency to open the
flower and thus release its pollen.
The College of the Canyons Art Gallery is located in Mentry Hall on the Valencia campus.
It is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Those unable to visit the gallery
during normal hours are welcome to contact the gallery to schedule a viewing appointment.
All gallery exhibitions and related events are free and open to the public.
Carolyn Castaño: Delineando un Paisaje Femenino
(Outlining a Female Landscape)
Main Gallery, Mentry 108
August 19 – October 10, 2019
Artist Talk: September 10, 2:30 PM - a reception for the artist will follow.
Carolyn Castaño is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work in painting, drawing, video,
and mixed-media installations has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Delineando un Paisaje Femenino (Outlining a Female Landscape) brings together selections
from her most recent bodies of work and considers themes and images originating in
Latin and Central America, with a particular emphasis on how gender and ecological
concerns play out in regional conflicts, narco-trafficking, and post-colonial struggle.
Mixing vibrant and lush materiality with riveting content, her work considers how
the Latin American body and the Latin American landscape remain inextricably linked,
even as their surrounding media and political contexts are increasingly virtualized,
digitized and globalized.
