Art Gallery
Maybe you know this feeling,
a solo exhibition by Alyson Provax
7 x 7in., Letterpress on Hahnemühle Copperplate, 2023
Norco College Art Gallery is pleased to present:
Exhibition Title: Maybe you know this feeling, a solo exhibition by Alyson Provax
Exhibition Dates: November 4, 2024 - December 6, 2024
Opening Reception and Art Talks: Thursday, November 14, 12:30pm - 2pm
Norco College Art Gallery
2001 Third St., ST-111, Norco, CA 92860
About the exhibition:
Alyson Provax is a text based artist. Her primary medium is letterpress, and she often uses repetition as a drawing tool rather than to make multiple originals. This calls into question the didactic certainty of text and can cause the viewer to notice the experience of reading. She is interested in the ways that we communicate things we are a bit uncertain of and how we tie our understanding of ourselves to language.
Alyson Provax has shown her work nationally at Upfor Gallery in Portland, Oregon, at A.I.R. Gallery and The Untitled Space in New York, San Francisco Center for the Book, and internationally at the Blueproject Foundation in Barcelona. She has an interest in alternative projects and has produced letterpress billboard works shown in Seattle for Vignettes and Gramma’s A LONE, for something nameless in Portland, and for Montalvo Arts Center’s lone some. Alyson’s work has been published in the Buckman Journal, Berm, Poetry Northwest, and The Racket. Her first book was published by Volumes Volumes in 2019, and in 2023 her second book was published by National Monument Press. Her work can be found in the collection of SFMOMA Library and Harvard University Library.
To view more of Alyson Provax's work, please visit her website www.alysonprovax.com.
Please join us in celebrating the work of our Norco College Art Gallery and this gorgeous exhibition! All are welcome. As always, the Norco College Art Gallery is free and open to the public.
Riverside Community College District is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation to all District programs and activities. Accommodations for persons with disabilities may be requested by contacting the program/event organizer, Michelle Ramin at Send Email by November 1. Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.
Norco College Art Gallery Fall open hours are:
Monday: 10am-2pm
Tuesday: 10am-4pm
Wednesday: 10am-2pm
Thursday: 10am-4pm
Friday: 10am-3pm
(Closed weekends and holidays)
For further info, please visit the Norco College Art Gallery website at https://www.norcocollege.edu/art/index.html and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/norcocollegegallery/
Our Mission
The Norco College Art Gallery is dedicated to presenting innovative exhibitions and programs that reflect the scope and diversity of Art both contemporary and historical. A vital component of the academic and cultural life of the Riverside Community College District, the Norco Gallery aspires to engage broad and diverse audiences, create a sense of community, and provide a place for contemplation, stimulation, and discussion of Art and the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals, cultures, and communities. ~ March 2012
Exhibition History
Norco College Art Faculty Biennial 2024 Exhibition
Norco College Art Gallery is pleased to present:
Exhibition Dates: September 16, 2024 - October 16, 2024
Opening Reception and Art Talks: Thursday, September 26, 12:30pm - 2pm
Norco College Art Gallery
2001 Third St., ST-111, Norco, CA 92860
About the exhibition:
work by:
Quinton Bemiller
Diana Campuzano
Timothy Haerens
Lauren Lavitt
Trang T. Lê
Megan Lindeman
Michelle Ramin
Please join us in celebrating the work of our Norco College Art Gallery and this gorgeous exhibition! All are welcome. As always, the Norco College Art Gallery is free and open to the public.
Riverside Community College District is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation to all District programs and activities. Accommodations for persons with disabilities may be requested by contacting the program/event organizer, Michelle Ramin at Send Email by September 10. Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.
Norco College Art Gallery Fall open hours are TBD - please check back for updates. For further info, please visit the Norco College Art Gallery website at https://www.norcocollege.edu/art/index.html and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/norcocollegegallery/
Voyagers - Art Student Invitational 2024
Norco College Art Gallery is pleased to present:
Exhibition Dates: May 15, 2024 - June 3, 2024
Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony in the NC Art Gallery: May 23, 12:30pm - 2pm
Norco College Art Gallery
2001 Third St., ST-111, Norco, CA 92860
About the exhibition:
Each year, our Norco College Art Faculty have the distinct pleasure (and challenge!) of choosing the best-of-the-best student works to include in our annual Art Student Invitational Exhibition. From Beginning Drawing to 3D Design to Painting, “Voyagers” is a group show featuring outstanding work created by our incredibly talented Norco College art students in the past year. This small sampling represents some of the most ambitious, creative, thoughtful, and beautiful artworks made this year - pieces of art that took the plunge, that voyaged beyond in terms of concept and craftspersonship to create exceptional works of art.
We - the Norco College Art Faculty - are all so proud of our amazing Voyagers!
Please join us in celebrating our incredible Norco College art students and this gorgeous exhibition! All are welcome. As always, the Norco College Art Gallery is free and open to the public.
Riverside Community College District is committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation to all District programs and activities. Accommodations for persons with disabilities may be requested by contacting the program/event organizer, Michelle Ramin at Send Email by May 10. Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.
The Norco College Art Gallery is closed for summer. Please check back in Fall 2024
for updated Art Gallery hours and programming or follow us on Instagram for more up-to-date
information.
Our Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/norcocollegegallery/
Our Spaces, Spring 2024
March 20, 2024 - May 2, 2024
Image: Cynthia Luján, Star (detail), 60x92 in., acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 2024
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About the Artist
Cynthia Luján is a muralist, photographer, and teaching artist from Norwalk, CA, and is the Project
Director of public art at Arts Council for Long Beach. Upon graduating with a BFA
in Fine Arts & minor in Russian Language in 2015, Cynthia has developed strong community
connections with groups in Santa Ana, Long Beach, and Norwalk, CA.
Cynthia Luján's artwork centers around mobility justice and fosters dialogue and deepen
belonging within communities to create inclusive, safe, and more accessible public
spaces. On view are recent works on paper for Our Spaces, celebrations of active transportation
centering the joy that empowers folks to travel through their neighborhoods in varying
mobilities across Southern CA.
To view more of Cynthia Luján’s work, please visit her website www.cynthialujan.com/.
Grieving in Color, Winter 2023
December 11, 2023 - March 4, 2024
(The Art Gallery was closed during the winter break, Dec. 16 - Feb. 11)
Image: Cristina Victor, High Tide (Detail), mixed media on paper, brazed stilt, 2023
About the Artist
Cristina Victor is a Cuban-American artist whose making always stems from the hyphen. Her interdisciplinary
practice materializes storytelling, meditations on the failure and power of language,
auto-ethnography, and critiques the framing of identity by mass media outlets. Using
textiles, sculpture, installation, and public engagement she is committed to creating
and facilitating generative exchanges about the complexities of our collective and
individual human experience. Vexillology, analogue graphic design and archiving act
as foundational threads in her translations. Her concern for access balances her formal
object making and public engagement projects.
Victor received her AA from the New World School of the Arts, her BA from Sarah Lawrence
College, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently based
in Charleston, South Carolina and is a Professor at the College of Charleston.
To view more of Cristina Victor’s work, please visit her website www.cristinavictor.com.
Modern Times, Crooked Songs, Fall 2023
September 11, 2023 - November 6, 2023
About the Artist
Jaik Faulk is an artist and curator from Lafayette, Louisiana, and is the Visual Arts Director
at Acadiana Center for the Arts. In 2014, Faulk returned to Lafayette after 15 years
on the West Coast, where he played an active role in artist communities in Portland,
OR and San Francisco, CA. Jaik received his MFA in 2013 from the San Francisco Art
Institute and his BA from Portland State University in 2005. He has most recently
guest curated the exhibition Cosmik Folk / Cosmic Land at Staple Goods in New Orleans,
Lousiana. Faulk is represented by NATIONALE in Portland, OR.
Jaik Faulk’s most recent paintings for Modern Times, Crooked Songs use negative space
and musical timing to rethink early modernist approaches.
To view more of Jaik Faulk’s work, please visit his website www.jaikfaulk.com.
Voyagers
Student Invitational Exhibition XII, Spring 2023
May 15, 2023 - June 2, 2023
About the exhibition
Norco College Art Gallery is pleased to present Voyagers : The Norco College Art Student Invitational XII.
The exhibition is on view Monday, May 15 thru Friday, June 2.
This is our Art Student Invitational Exhibition, where the Norco College Art Faculty
have invited student artists to participate in the show. The exhibition is fabulous
- we are so proud of what our Norco Art students have accomplished this year!
We will be hosting an opening reception & awards ceremony on Thursday, May 25 from
12:30-2pm. A Presidential Purchase Award chosen by our own Norco College President
Dr. Monica Green will be presented to one lucky student and their work, with the chosen
piece to become part of the NC permanent art collection. Various other awards will
also be presented.
Voyagers
Student Invitational Exhibition XII
May 15 - June 2, 2023
Opening Reception & Art Talk: May 25, 12:30pm-2pm
Norco College Art Gallery
2001 Third St., ST-111, Norco, CA 92860
Opening Reception is free and open to the public. Food and drink provided!
Please join us in the gallery space to celebrate this gorgeous exhibition! All are
welcome!
The Shimmer, The Shatter, The Flicker, The Ghost, a solo exhibition by Anna Fidler
March 15, 2023 - May 5, 2023
Image: Anna Fidler, Time Keeper, 66x55”, gouache on handmade grid paper, 2022
About the Artist
Anna Fidler (b. 1973, Traverse City, Michigan) lives in Corvallis, Oregon where she teaches studio art at Oregon State University. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Western Michigan University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Portland State University.
Fidler has had solo exhibitions at The Boise Art Museum, APEX at The Portland Art Museum, Johansson Projects in Oakland, Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Oregon, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon, and has been widely exhibited at such venues as The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art, The University of Southern California, The Tacoma Art Museum and The Sun Valley Museum of Art. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, The Washington Post, The Oregonian and The San Francisco Chronicle.
Grants and awards include an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, a Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant, and residencies at The Iris Project, Yucca Valley Material Lab and The Sun Valley Museum of Art.
Her work is held in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, The Boise Art Museum, Portland Portable Works Collection and Seattle Portable Works Collection. Fidler is represented by Johansson Projects in Oakland.
To view more of Anna Fidler’s work, please visit her website www.annafidler.com.
Shapeshifter, a solo exhibition by Emily Endo, Fall 2022
November 15, 2022 - December 14, 2022
Image: Emily Endo, Slime green grotto, cast class and water, 15 x 15 x 8 in., 2022
About the exhibition
Norco College Art Gallery is pleased to present "Shapeshifter", a solo show by Emily Endo, on view from Tuesday, November 15 thru Wednesday, December 14, 2022.
Please join us Tuesday, November 15 from 4 pm to 6 pm for an opening reception and artist talk. All are welcome!
Exhibition Dates: November 15 - December 14, 2022
Opening Reception: November 15, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Artist Talks: November 15, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: The Art Gallery (ST-111), Norco College
Chroma _ Vision: Student Invitational XI, Spring 2022
April 27, 2022 - May 27, 2022
Image: Kaila Egans, Front of the
Morning View, 2022, oil on canvas, 24" x 18"
About the exhibition
Norco College Art Gallery is pleased to present Chroma _ Vision : Student Invitational XI, on view Wednesday April 27, 2022 thru Friday May 27, 2022.
Chroma _ Vision presents the work of Norco College art students. The exhibitions includes over fifty works of painting, drawing, digital art, and sculpture. These artworks are made by students currently enrolled in Associate Faculty Member Trang Le’s painting and color theory courses, Associate Professor Megan Lindeman‘s drawing and design courses, Associate Faculty Member Aaron Johnson’s digital art course, Associate Faculty Member Lauren Lavitt’s digital photography course, and Associate Faculty Member Diana Campuzano’s sculpture and three-dimension design courses.
Please join us Wednesday, April 27 from 2pm-4pm for an opening reception and a celebration of our students’ work.
What: Chroma _ Vision : Student Invitational XI Opening Reception
When: Wednesday, April 27 from 2pm-4pm
Where: NC Art Gallery, ST 111
Mindscape: Paintings by Hung Viet Nguyen
February 28, 2022 - April 1, 2022
Image: Hung Viet Nguyen, Mindscape # 47, 2013, oil on panel, 24" x 30"
About the Artist
Hung Viet Nguyen was born in Vietnam in 1957 and studied biology at the Science University
in Saigon. After relocating to the U.S. in 1982, Nguyen found work as an illustrator,
graphic artist and designer. He developed his artistic skills carefully studying a
variety of traditional Eastern and Western forms and techniques. Portions of Nguyen’s
work highlight the influence of traditional forms such as woodblock prints, oriental
scroll paintings.
The twenty-one oil paintings in this exhibition depict landscapes and embodied memories
of place. Nguyen’s complex use of oil paint reveals a mastery of texture and a keen
observation of the colorful natural world. Upon close inspection the viewer can observe
playful and surprising configurations that unveil the whimsical mind of the artist
and depict the wonderous cycles of life.
Please join us on Thursday, March 10 from 4pm-6pm for a discussion with the artist
and an exhibition reception.
What: Artist Talk and Reception
When: Thursday, March 10 from 4pm-6pm
Where: NC Art Gallery, ST 111
Image: Hung Viet Nguyen, Sacred Landscape IV, 2019, oil on panel, 72” x 48”
Due to COVID-19 all visitors must be cleared by Cleared4.
Visitor/vendor - please use this link to get your Cleared4 pass.
Below is a sample of some more of the artwork by the artist Hung Viet Nguyen:
Hung Viet Nguyen, Mindscape # 47, 2013 oil on panel, 24” x 30” |
 Hung Viet Nguyen, Sacred Landscape II # 20, 2016, oil on panel, 30” x 24” |
 Hung Viet Nguyen, Mindscape # 30, 2013, oil on panel, 24” x 30” |
 Hung Viet Nguyen, Screamscape # 1, 2019, oil on panel, 12” x 12” |
Student Invitational X, Fall 2021
Image: Christopher Bainum, Computer Art, Student Invitational X, 2021, Instructor: Barbara May
Although we cannot yet enjoy in-person exhibitions in the Norco College Art Gallery, we want to share examples of art created by Norco College Art Students this academic year.
This is the 10 year we have presented a Student Exhibition. I hope you will enjoy the student work selected by our Art Faculty (it may take a minute to open).
Norco College Alumni Art Exhibition, Fall 2021
Norco College Alumni Art Exhibition; Artist Talk #2
Norco College Art Gallery is pleased to present the first Alumni Art Exhibition. The exhibition features the work of nine artists working in various artistic fields including: painting, photography, sculpture, installation art, and music. Together the work in this exhibition acknowledges a collective resistance of the mundane and oppressive. A united move toward the celebration of self expression and the beautification of our multi-sensory world is seen within the 43 artworks.
Alumni artists sharing their work are: Kennady Bob, Christopher Barron, Heidi Fernandez Saaverdra, Dennis Gierman, Jonathan Godinez, Megan Grenfell, Jeanne Holbrook, Kylee Love and Cindy Ruiz.
Norco College Faculty Exhibition Catalog 2021, Spring 2021
Studio Art & Art History Faculty Discussion
Norco College Art Gallery is pleased to present this digital catalog, featuring the
work of the Norco College Studio Art and Art History faculty. In normal times, this
project would have been a Faculty Exhibition in the Art Gallery, to be experienced
in-person. In this time of pandemic, however, virtual options for art exhibitions
have become a common approach for many galleries and museums. Rather than creating
a virtual reality of a mock gallery space, we have chosen to create a lasting document
which will archive the images and words of our faculty.
Norco College Art Gallery Artists Conversation Series, Fall 2020
Glynnis Reed Conversation
Trang T Le Conversation
Bradford J Salamon Conversation
Cathy Allen Conversation
Sergio Teran Conversation
Student Invitational IX, Spring 2020
Norco College is extremely proud to present the Norco College Student Art Invitational IX--an online portfolio of selected student art created this academic year. Norco College art students embody the creativity, diversity and depth of human experience that is so important to our society, now more than ever. On behalf of the student artists and our art faculty, I invite you to enjoy their visual expressions.
Jane Chafin & Stevie Love: New Paintings, Spring 2020
Jane Chafin & Stevie Love Conversation
Norco College Art Gallery Exhibit Archives
- "Temporality: Douglas C. Bloom, Phillip Griswold and Louisa Miller", Fall 2019
- "Playing with Fiber: Madeline Arnault", Fall 2019
- "Student Invitational VIII", Spring 2019
- "States of Being: Chuck Feesago, Cole M. James, Thinh Nguyen", Spring 2019
- "Frederika B. Roeder, Patricia Liverman, Brenda Welsh & Jim Zver", Fall 2018
- "Embodiment: Leslie Brown, Gina Lawson Egan, Javier Harriman, Jennifer King, Jian Liang, and Daniel Sweetman", Fall 2018
- "7 Annual Students of Art & Design", Spring 2018
- "Faculty Exhibition: Jacqueline Bell Johnson, Quinton Bemiller, Diana Campuzano, Kristin Frost, Chet Glaze, Claudette Goux, Megan Lindeman, Barbara May, Karin Skiba, and Jessica Wimbley", Spring 2018
- "Honoring Expression: Work by United States Artist-Veterans: Francisco Alvarado, Michael Aschenbrenner, Chet Glaze, Timothy Haerens, Myron Kaufman, Patrick Merrill, John Morgan and Ehren Tool", Fall 2017
- "Michael Lewis Miller: 1989 to Present: A Survey", Fall 2017
- "6 Annual Students of Art & Design", Spring 2017
- "Views of California: Carol G. A. Farrar & Marciano Martinez", Spring 2017
- "Kristin Frost, Michelle Carla Handel & Megan Lindeman", Fall 2016
- "Stanton Hunter & Michael O'Malley: Intimate Corners, Interrupted Surfaces", Fall 2016
- "5 Annual Students of Art & Design", Spring 2016
- "In Living Wood: Figurative Sculpture of Contemporary Highland Guatemal/Ana Montenegro: Paintings", Spring 2016
- "Karin Skiba-Russo: 40-Year Art Adventure", Fall 2015
- "Art Empire: Work by Inland Empire Art Professors from Local Four-Year Colleges and Universities", Fall 2015
- "4 Annual Students of Art & Design", Spring 2015
- "Fabricated Realities: Christina Pierson, Macha Suzuki, Rochelle Botello and Noah Thomas", Spring 2015
- "Spoken Word and Poetry, Expression and the Figure: Myron Kaufman & Jacqueline Tchakalian", Fall 2014
- "Captured Image: Vintage to Contemporary Photography: Drew Reese, Hilary Sloane, Catherine Segura, Jeff Nelson, Laura Parker, Barbara May and Sergio Gutierrez", Fall 2014
- "3rd Annual Students of Art & Design", Spring 2014
- "ANEKANTAVADA: Diverse Perspectives in Art: Abel Alejandre, Francisco Alvarado, Roya Falahi, Ann Phong, Sandra Rowe, and Jessica Wimbley", Spring 2014
- "A Visible Mark: Contemporary Drawing: Quinton Bemiller, Jennifer Celio, Jessica Curtaz, Gary Geraths, Pierre Picot, Gigi Spratley, Jamie Sweetman and Megann Zwierlein", Fall 2013
- "Material Transformation: Artists and Artisans: Sam Maloof, Lorelei Greene, Judi Randolph, Larry White, Nobu Mishigawara, Shane Keena, John Garrett, Leisa Rich, Carolyn Prince Bartchelor and John Leighton", Fall 2013
- "2 Annual Students of Art & Design", Spring 2013
- "Women in Art and Animation: Kathy Baur, Ashley J. Long, Sheila M. Sofian, Kaya Dzankich, Larissa Marantz, Toni Vian, Aglaia Mortcheva, Audri Phillips, Alina Chau, and Poli Marichal", Spring 2013
- “Creación Artística: Contemporary Latino Artists: Cosme Cordova, Jesus Cruz, Jr., Maxx Gramajo, Irvin Guzman, Jacalyn Garcia Lopez, Oscar Magallanes, Carlos Puma, David C. Rosales, and Maggie Tello Case", Fall 2012
- "Beginnings: Norco, the Norconian Resort and its Hollywood Celebrity Guests, and the Navy Hospital: Sponsored by the Lake Norconian Club Foundation", Fall 2012
- "1 Annual Students of Art & Design", Spring 2012
Gallery Director
Michelle Ramin, M.F.A.
Art Gallery Director
Assistant Professor of Art
Hailing from the mountains of North Central Pennsylvania, Michelle Ramin received her BA from Penn State University and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Ramin has exhibited nationally, including at Southern Exposure in San Francisco, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery in NYC, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans, The Pennsylvania College of Technology, and Russo Lee Gallery in Portland, OR. Ramin’s work has been featured in such publications as New American Paintings, SF Weekly, Beautiful Decay, and Art Ltd. Magazine, to name a few. Ramin was also awarded the prestigious San Francisco Bay Guardian 2014 Goldie Award for Excellence in Visual Art and most recently a fully funded solo exhibition as part of the Stumptown Artist Fellowship Program. Michelle's work is also included in the Jimenez-Colon permanent collection in Puerto Rico. Michelle lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, and is Assistant Professor of Art and the Director & Curator of Norco College Art Gallery at Norco College.
Contact
Questions regarding the gallery or exhibition?
Please get in touch with the Norco College Art Gallery Director:
Michelle Ramin
Send Email
(951) 738-7698
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