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FACULTY INSTRUCTORS FRAMED IN SHOW AT UCSD’S GROVE GALLERY

FRAMED, an exhibition of new works in varying media by members of the faculty at the Crafts Center at the University of California, San Diego, is on view through Oct. 27 in UCSD’s Grove Gallery. A reception for the artists will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 4. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

Faculty members exhibiting works are Janis Saunders, Patricia McGillis, Lucy Wang, Toru Nakatani, Chet Wooding, Dan McMullin, Pangea, Cara Moczygemba, Jay Whaley, Patricia G. Yockey, Buzz Blodgett, DeeDee Coppedge, Heather Pieters, Jean Ellen Wilder, and Paul Linsley.

The mediums represented include ceramics, neon, glassblowing, jewelry, drawing, weaving, painting, and photography.

FRAMED is the exhibition title because Grove Gallery director Ron Carlson gave each artist/instructor a frame and stipulated that they relate their work, whatever medium it might be, to that format. “They had to stay inside the sides of the frame,” Carlson says, “but there were no restrictions for towards or away from the viewer.”

For that reason, there are such pieces as McMullin’s Half Pot?, a pot, cut in half and framed, its sides protruding from the plane surface of the frame, but not from its sides, and Yockey’s It’s not all that it’s cracked up to be, where a piece of raku is suspended in a frame.

A timely piece, carrying a message, is Whaley’s Black Tower, done primarily in metal.

“The design of Black Tower occurred during the aftermath of the Trade Center disaster, and I could not get images of those towers and victims out of my head,” Whaley says. “While constructing the piece, I struggled to keep its fragile shape upright and its 32 elements constantly moving – and I finally succeeded. We’re all struggling to stay up-right and moving, aren’t we?”

FRAMED will be on view in UCSD’s Grove Gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 27. Grove Gallery is located in the UCSD Crafts Center Complex on the Revelle College campus off Eucalyptus Grove Lane. Gallery directions and parking information are available at the Gilman Drive information center at the entrance to the campus. For exhibit information call (858) 534-2021.