Beginnings: Artwork by San José State University Alumni
July 26 – November 10, 2024
The Hammer2 Gallery features a continuously rotating display featuring the work of San José State University alumni. This inaugural exhibition brings together the work of five alumni artists: Dottie Lo Bue, Imara Osorno, Robynn Smith, Jackelin Solorio, and Lani Viet. Working in a variety of media, including watercolor, oil paint and mixed media, and diverse subject matter, including personal identities, cultural symbols, family history and abstract form, these artists explore what it means to begin.
Opening Soon – “Perspectives”.
Save the Date: Opening Reception Friday, December 6, 2024, 5pm to 9pm
Free RSVP necessary to attend the reception. Link coming soon.
About the Artists:
Jackelin Solorio is a bay area latinx artist, her artwork is interdisciplinary. Jackelin creates sculptures and at times she incorporates performance arts to her work bringing inanimate objects to life. Solorio’s artworks are conceptually driven, her inspirations come from her feelings while attempting to communicate her experiences. Solorio’s art is personal tackling feminist views, she doesn’t claim to represent all women as all women are unique. It is her desire to create a sense of sisterhood and community.
Robynn Smith is an internationally exhibiting painter/printmaker and Professor Emeritus at Monterey Peninsula College. She is the founder of Print Day in May®, an annual international celebration of printmaking involving participants from all 50 US states and over 70 countries world wide, www.printdayinmay.com. Robynn grew up in New York and has lived her adult life in Santa Cruz, California. She was educated at Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and San Jose State University (MFA).
Lani Viet is an artist born and raised in the Bay Area. She graduated with a BFA from San Jose State University in the Pictorial Program with a focus in painting and watercolor. Her watercolor work, “Waves in Flight, Towards Spring”, has earned her the 2022 Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society Award. In her current series, Waves in Flight, she paints birds that are in the shape of waves, that fly towards a better tomorrow. She seeks to develop a visual language that can inspire a positive change in people’s lives.
Jason Adkins was raised in the small California logging town of Hayfork where he received a most valuable education playing on the banks of wild rivers and in endless mountain woods. He left Hayfork in 1992 to study at Walla Walla University where he had his first real introduction to art through a study-abroad program that took him to Spain for a year. Upon returning he completed a BA in Spanish from Walla Walla University and then continued to get a BFA in paint from California State University, Chico and an MFA in Pictorial arts from San Jose State University.
Dottie Lo Bue‘s current work is an invitation into the symbolic house— a fumbling examination of the house and its boundaries as metaphysical space, as worlds compressed, dismantled, and put back again.