Emerging Artists featured at Gavilan College Gallery

The art works of area high school students are featured from March 12th through April 3rd in the library gallery on the main Gavilan campus. This annual exhibition of youthful enthusiasm as expressed through various art mediums showcases a wide spectrum of creative abilities and interests. Included are excellent works in pencil, acrylic, bas relief, print media, ceramics, photography, and silver jewelry from the Gilroy, San Benito, and Anzar campuses. The students have effectively presented their unique views and perspectives and through their art reveal bits of their interests and inner selves to us.

This exhibition also salutes the work of the high school art teachers, who inspire and perhaps sometimes cajole students into producing high quality and meaningful art. Anzar High's Mike Gunderson's classes offer sensitive and revealing self portraits in pencil and colorful studies in acrylic.

From Gilroy, Mark Carrick's photo shop students create bold, futuristic imagery from teen imaginations. Dan Dweyer's three dimensional classes produce delicate jewelry of shining silver and also poignant calaveras sculptures, and Anne Tobin's and Rhoda Erath's drawing classes display expressive animal and humans whose eyes seem to be windows into their worlds. Photography teacher Bob Morneau's students make pin hole cameras to create wide angle, distorted visions which turn the black and white medium almost to abstractions.

Students of Louise Roy from San Benito High create dramatic human skulls in ceramics, with mixed media additions, as well as bas reliefs featuring the Greek gods. Luisa Toste's classes display their pen and ink drawings, their triptych-like drawings of calavaras in their home environments, and also have created bas reliefs of shimmery foil and black ink in striking patterns. The drawings of John Robrock's students bring their subjects to life with fine details in intense shading and highlights.

There will be a reception to meet the artists on Thursday, March 22nd, from 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.. The public is encouraged to attend and celebrate these accomplished artists and their teachers. The Gavilan College Library is open Mondays through Thursdays, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Fridays, 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Gavilan's main campus is located at 5055 Santa Theresa Boulevard, in Gilroy.