University of Nevada Las Vegas and Art History Faculty
2020-2021 CSN Fine art & Art History Kinesthesia Virtual Exhibition
The 2020-2021 CSN Art & Fine art History Kinesthesia Virtual Exhibition features piece of work of 26 kinesthesia/artists from its Fine art & Fine art History Program. Works featured in this exhibition highlight the vast range of offerings within the CSN Art & Fine art History Plan including ceramics, digital media, drawing, metal piece of work, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. The 2020-2021 CSN Art & Fine art History Kinesthesia Virtual Exhibition features both full and part-time Fine art & Art History Programme kinesthesia/artists: Suzanne Acosta, Myranda Bair, Chris Bauder, Mark Brandvik, Keith Conley, Nancy Deaner, Daryl DePry, Lolita Develay, Jeff Fulmer, Lindsay Hall, Anne M. Hoff, Benjamin Johnsen, Elizabeth Klimek, Alfonso Lirani, Wayne Littlejohn, Orlando Montenegro-Cruz, Daniel Ogletree, Manfred Peter O'Hare, Mary L. Parker, Eric Pawloski, Sean Russell, Jennifer J. Saracino, Fred Sigman, Robin Stark, Christopher Tsouras, Joanne Vuillemot, and Stanley Michael Webb.
Suzanne Acosta; MFA & BFA University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
"Suzanne Acosta is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Art History Programme at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Drawing I, Drawing II, Pattern Fundamentals I (2D), Painting I, and Painting 2 since 2005. Acosta'southward artwork explores the interaction of the human figure in a contemporary narrative as well every bit portraiture in mixed media. Acosta has been teaching studio arts for 36 years and lives in East Las Vegas with her three grown children. She loves to travel, and her last trip was to Brazil in 2019.
Myranda Bair; MFA, Maryland Plant Higher of Art (MICA); BFA, Academy of Texas at Austin
"Myranda Bair is an Adjunct Faculty Fellow member in the Art & Art History Program at the Higher of Southern Nevada where she has taught Art Appreciation, Drawing I, and Design Fundamentals I (2D) since 2013. Bair'southward artwork focuses on conservation, ecology practices, and scientific illustration. Her creative exercise has contributed public artworks to communities across the country. Bair besides participates in conservation focused art education for National Conservation Areas, the BLM, and other environmental groups."
Chris Bauder; MFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas; BFA, Academy of Nevada Reno
"Chris Bauder is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Art History Programme at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Sculpture I and Design Fundamentals Two (3D) since 2002. Bauder'south artwork addresses ideas of time, preservation, and the fragility of the human body. Ideas stemming from self-discovery and relationships around rituals are major conceptual components working with his perceptions about life expectancies and the ideas of ephemera. Bauder was born in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1978. He received his BFA from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1998. BFA in hand, Bauder returned to Las Vegas concluding his fine arts education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Bauder earned his MFA caste in 2008 with an emphasis in sculpture."
Marking Brandvik; MFA University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; BFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Mark Brandvik is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Fine art History Programme at the Higher of Southern Nevada where he has taught Painting, Sculpture, Drawing I, Drawing 2, Life Drawing, and Design Fundamentals I (2d) since 2013. Speaking of his work, Brandvik says "Time and place are important notions as many elements in my artwork reverberate and capture the elusiveness and temporality of architectural landscapes, postcard romanticism, 45mph drive-bys, and historical dramas. Sublime narrative and emblematic threads link private works that map a journey through secular and sacred spaces as iconic, historic, and popular civilization imagery frame my personal memories inside a collective archeology." Brandvik, born in Las Vegas, was included in 'Tilting the Bowl' Contemporary Nevada: State of the State at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Top 10 At present Los Angeles, New American Paintings No. 60, and was recognized in Las Vegas Weekly equally Best of 2014 for Narrative Sculpture. His work has been featured in exhibitions and public art projects throughout the U.s.a. and abroad and can be institute in private, public, and corporate collections."
Keith Conley; MFA University of California, Santa Barbara; BA, San Diego Country University
"Keith Conley is a Professor of Art & Fine art History and Head of Sculpture at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Pattern Fundamentals I (2D), Design Fundamentals Two (3D), Pattern Fundamentals III (Digital), Drawing I, Cartoon II, Sculpture I , Sculpture II, Life Drawing, Digital Imaging I, Digital Imaging Two, Digital Media, and Art Appreciation since 2001. "My artwork," says Conley, "lies somewhere betwixt the pointless and the profound. Lately, digital work has been my focus." Originally from California, Conley has wandered the mountains, beaches and deserts of the west for many years. He is currently in his 22nd year of a cocky-imposed forty-year sentence in the desert."
Nancy Deaner, MFA & BFA Academy of Nevada Las Vegas
"Nancy Deaner is an Adjunct Kinesthesia Fellow member in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Drawing I since 2017. Deaner's artwork investigates the dazzler and lyrical quality of animals using them like a design element within the composition. Deaner is a native Nevadan, born in Reno and raised in Las Vegas. She earned her BFA and MFA degrees from UNLV."
Daryl Depry; MFA & BFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Daryl Depry is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Art History Plan at the Higher of Southern Nevada where he has taught Drawing I, Cartoon 2, Design Fundamentals (2D), and Printmaking since 1999. DePry'southward artwork is derived through the printmaking medium. He is enticed by the procedure and the labor intensity the medium offers. DePry makes prints in cycles with different types of printmaking, ranging from rock lithography, wood cuts, monotypes, intaglio and letterpress. His subject matter floats between figurative and abstract landscapes. DePry enjoys working in layers of color and mark making. His color palette is informed by the spectacle of the Las Vegas strip and its lights and Japanese Ukiyo-east and Mokuhanga prints."
Lolita Develay; MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Lolita Develay is an Offshoot Faculty Member in the Art & Art History Plan at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Cartoon I, Painting I, and Design Fundamentals I (second) since 2015. Develay's artwork is a response to her life environment and reflects its transitions. Her work speaks to her ancestors and to future generations of what, she, living in this moment in time, her lifetime, she is able to experience. Information technology explores social problems that impact her equally an American, recently focusing on self-identity, ideals of beauty, sexuality, concepts of race, and spiritual behavior. Develay is a High Priestess of photorealism. Her oil paintings and watercolors are painted in trompe l'oeil (deceives the eye) with abstruse shapes embedded throughout. Develay is currently painting portraits that deal with the idea of self-gaze, artificial intelligence and moments of cocky-actualization."
Jeff Fulmer; MFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas; BA, Wabash Higher
"Jeff Fulmer is the Fine art Gallery Coordinator and an Adjunct Kinesthesia Member in the Art & Fine art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Drawing I, Drawing II, Painting I, Painting II, Art Appreciation, Sculpture I, Ceramics I, and Portfolio Emphasis since 1998. Fulmer's work makes use of Mojave and Sonora Desert forms as vehicle to investigate texture, pattern, light, repetition, unity and variety. He serves as a Faculty Senator and a member of the Administrative Faculty Assembly Executive Committee at CSN and as the current Vice Chair of the Clark County Board of County Commissioners' Art Commission."
Lindsay Hall; MFA, Indiana Academy-Bloomington; BA, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Lindsay Hall is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Drawing I, Design Fundamentals I (2D) and Design Fundamentals II (3D) since 2019. Hall's artwork revolves around the pleasures and desires associated with the body, sexuality, and food. These ideas are fantasized through the interplay of suggestive forms, materials, colors, and textures, resulting in playfully provocative and humorously awkward pieces and parts. Hall is a multidisciplinary artist and has exhibited her piece of work internationally at venues such as Ventolin Art Space (Australia), the Venice Biennial (Italia), Kent State Academy (Ohio), Indiana University, UNLV, the Target Gallery (Virginia), and the Janet Kurnatowski Gallery (New York), and is featured in publications including Studio Visit, Hiss Mag, Spunk, and Create! Magazine'southward International Women's Result. Lindsay is currently an Offshoot Professor at CSN and NSC, and she is preparing for a residency at the Arrowmont Schoolhouse of Arts and Crafts in the summer of 2021."
Anne M. Hoff; MFA, Academy of Arizona; BFA, Indiana Univeristy; Every bit, Vincennes University
"Anne K. Hoff is a Professor of Printmaking and Drawing in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Cartoon I, Cartoon 2, Design Fundamentals (2nd), Life Drawing I, Life Cartoon 2, Introduction to Printmaking, Screenprinting, New Technology Printmaking, and Portfolio Emphasis since 2000. Hoff's artwork makes utilise of the Nevada landscape as an interpretive tool of expression for personal narrative. She employs big calibration drawings, traditional printmaking and sculptural elements to create environments that work to create an temper of reflection and silence. Hoff's piece of work is in university, museum, and corporate collections across the U.s.a.. She exhibits her piece of work widely in local and international portfolios, invitational, and educational conferences and workshops. Hoff'south stone lithography studio is part of the B.E.Due south.T. Arts 4 U Studio, in Las Vegas, Nevada."
Benjamin Johnsen; MFA, Academy of New Mexico; BFA, Academy of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Benjamin Johnsen is an Offshoot Faculty Member in the Fine art & Art History Program at the Higher of Southern Nevada where he has taught Sculpture I, Pattern Fundamentals I (2D), Design Fundamentals Ii (3D), and Ceramics I since 2017. Johnsen'due south artwork is rooted in the ordinary but strives to find the mundane as something greater. Breathing life into the everyday object with a sense of playfulness, wonder or even unbearable pain. In combining elation and tragedy with humility, Johnsen attempts to draw the intangible nature of being human. Benjamin Johnsen was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Later on receiving his degrees, he took the post of adjunct professor starting in 2013 and received offshoot professor of the yr in 2015 at the University of New Mexico-Valencia. In 2016 he was hired equally a visiting lecturer at the University of New Mexico-Valencia where he also served every bit the Fine Arts surface area coordinator and gallery manager."
Elizabeth Klimek; MFA, University of Tennessee- Knoxville; BFA, West Virginia University
"Elizabeth Klimek is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Art History Programme at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Art Appreciation since 2005. Klimek'due south current work is about her family unit and her mother's battle with Alzheimer'due south disease. Klimek is an artist mainly working in the printmaking medium. Her piece of work has been included in collections such as the Library of Congress in Washington DC, and The Contemporary Art Museum, Hong-ik Academy in Seoul, Korea."
Alfonso Lirani; BFA School of the Fine art Institute of Chicago; MA & MFA Illinois State University
"Alfonso Lirani is an Adjunct Kinesthesia Member in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Drawing I, Pattern Fundamentals I (2D), Color Theory, and Watercolor since 2004. Lirani'southward piece of work reflects his real life experiences and observations of the environment. Before coming to the U.s.a., Lirani was a topographer, cartographer and worked part of his life in the Amazon region. He never stopped painting even when he was on assignment in rural Venezuela. These experiences have all had an influence on Lirani's work and for that reason his work reflects his beloved for the environs and interest in political figures and affairs."
Wayne Littlejohn; MFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas; BFA, Academy of Manitoba
"Wayne Littlejohn is a Professor in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Drawing I, Drawing 2, Color Theory, Design Fundamentals I (second), Design Fundamentals II (3D), Life Cartoon I, Painting I, and Painting II since 2000. Littlejohn'due south intention is to make his work unabashedly bold, singled-out from a distance, but nuanced when up shut. While providing contrast to the surroundings, the sculptural elements must integrate seamlessly with the surroundings. Littlejohn first came to Las Vegas in 1994 to join UNLV'due south graduate art programme. It was only supposed to be a cursory stint, but he has fabricated the urban center his home, expanding his creative footprint through his piece of work and students at UNLV and at present, CSN, where he teaches fine art."
Orlando Montenegro-Cruz; MFA, Univesity of Arizona; BFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Orlando Montenegro-Cruz is an Adjunct Kinesthesia Member in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Drawing I and Drawing II since 2016. Speaking of his piece of work, Montenegro-Cruz says; "The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each co-ordinate to ability or achievement. Information technology'southward chosen The American Dream because you have to be comatose to believe it." Montenegro-Cruz was built-in in Nicaragua during a time of social and political turmoil. When things did not get better, his mother wanted her family to alive a better life in America. In the tardily 80s, Montenegro-Cruz immigrated when he was still a child who had only completed the first year of grade school. Montenegro-Cruz still think how he "pledged allegiance to the flag in a land where there is liberty and justice for all, supposedly, or, if you can afford it"."
Daniel Ogletree; MFA, Academy of Tennessee - Knoxville; BFA, Baylor University
"Daniel Ogletree is an Adjunct Faculty Fellow member in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Drawing I, Drawing II, and Fundamentals of Design I (2nd) since 2017. Ogletree'southward artwork is about bad design in social, political, and economic systems. Ogletree lives with his married woman, Katherine Farley, in Las Vegas, NV. When they are non pedagogy art or making art, they are most likely hiking, camping, backpacking, or climbing."
Manfred Peter O'Hare; MA, University of Duesseldorf; BA, Califronia Country University Long Beach
"Manfred Peter O'Hare is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Fine art Appreciation since 2005. O'Hare's artwork is inspired by abstract expressionism and music. He transforms abstruse ideas into 3 dimensions by fusing musical ideas, color theory, and texture. O'Hare incorporates a wide array of materials such as drinking glass, metal, textile, and plastic elements to achieve a unique sense of harmony and a visual interest that engages the viewer. His fine art is vibrant, full of movement and whimsical, at times, with dynamic lines and colors that fascinate the viewer."
Mary 50. Parker; MFA & BFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Mary L. Parker is an Offshoot Faculty Member in the Fine art & Art History Plan at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Blueprint Fundamentals I (2d), Drawing I, and Drawing Ii since 2009. Parker's artwork deals with memory and subconscious thoughts which are often brought to the surface by triggers in our lives. Often, subtle images are not quite recognizable, much similar a dream where we tin't quite retrieve the bits and pieces. Parker received both her Available and Chief of Fine Arts degrees in drawing and painting from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Besides existence a function-time instructor at CSN, Parker is besides the gallery director for Left of Eye Art Gallery in North Las Vegas."
Eric Pawloski; MFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas; BFA, California Land University Chico
"Eric Pawloski is an Art Preparator and an Offshoot Faculty Member in the Art & Art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Sculpture I and Beginning Sculpture Foundry since 2012. Pawloski's artwork has moved away from nonfunctional traditional display to a functional manufactured product that is equally hard to sell. Working with cast metals for years, recently Pawloski has been exploring production in ceramic skid. Pawloski has also returned to fabrication and traditional building techniques."
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Sean Russell; MFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas; BFA, University of Wisconsin-Stout
"Sean Russell is a Professor in the Art & Fine art History Program and Banana Section Chair of Fine Arts at the Higher of Southern Nevada where he has taught Fundamentals of Design I (2nd), Fine art Appreciation, Introduction to Contemporary Fine art, and Portfolio Emphasis since 2008. Russell'southward current trunk of piece of work involves digital and full spectrum photographs of native flora, processed on painted and manipulated surfaces using experimental photo transfer techniques. His piece of work has been in numerous local and national exhibitions and he has created multiple public artworks around the Las Vegas valley."
Jennifer J. Saracino; MFA, Washington State University; BFA, Academy of Art University; AA, Palomar College
"Jennifer J. Saracino is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Fine art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Fine art Appreciation, Fundamentals of Design I (2D), and Drawing I since 2019. Saracino'due south artwork focuses on the abstract. It explores the use of design and media to challenge how one perceives their surroundings. Her work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions across North America and has been featured in several periodicals. Saracino'south procedure of transferring her photography to aluminum plates adds a special depth and nuance to the original limerick, one that tin can only truly be appreciated in person."
Fred Sigman; MA, University of New Mexico; BA, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Fred Sigman is an Adjunct Faculty Member in the Art & Fine art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Drawing I, Photography, Fine art Appreciation, Survey of Asian Art, Art of Africa, Oceania, Na
Robin Stark; MFA, Pennsylvania Country Academy; BA, University of California Davis "Robin Stark is a Professor of Art & Fine art History and Head of Ceramics at the College of Southern Nevada where she has taught Design Fundam Christopher Tsouras; MA & MFA, Academy of Wisconsin Madison; BFA, University of Nevada Las Vegas "Christopher Tsouras is a Professor of Art & Art History at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Drawing I, Cartoon II, Color Theory, Photography, Introduction to Digital Photography, Art Appreciation, Ceramics I, and Ceramics II since 1998. Tsouras believes art making is a deep-seated inextricable human being compulsion. He considers art an exceedingly circuitous and sophisticated language, a tangible engagement of mind and materials, and a transcendent ways of advice. Tsouras strives to create a indicate from which the viewer can relate to his artwork as the result of their unique individual associations and personal metaphors. He was built-in in Northern Arizona in 1962 and soon maintains a studio and resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a professional creative person, Tsouras's artwork has been exhibited widely throughout the United states of america and in Europe. Tsouras's artwork has received numerous awards and honors."< Joanne Vuillemot; MFA & BFA, University of Arizona "Joanne Vuillemot is a Professor Emerita of Art & Art History at the Higher of Southern Nevada where she has taught Drawing I, Drawing Ii, Fundamentals of Design, Jewelry I, Jewelry Ii, and Sculpture since 1976. Vuillemot'southward artwork reflects nature and the tradition of using precious metals for wearable art, despite a asking for justification for its use by her graduate counselor, Michael Croft. The question today is; "What methods, including who is being exploited, are used in mining gilded or silver?"." Stanley Michael Webb; MFA, Queens College CUNY; BFA, University of Michigan "Stanley Michael Webb is an Adjunct Kinesthesia Fellow member in the Art & Fine art History Program at the College of Southern Nevada where he has taught Design Fundamentals I (2D), Drawing I, and Sculpture since 2019. Webb'south artworks are stories playing out right before our optics. He communicates viscerally with movement both figurative and non-figurative. Webb is from has lived primarily on the East Coast. His work reflects these experiences. Webb has worked in all mediums just at present focuses primarily on sculpture." 
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