Spring Semester 2013

Events, Exhibits, & Displays

Inhabitance: Sculptures by Anna-Marie Veloz The library is pleased to present a new exhibit featuring the sculptures by Anna-Marie Veloz, an adjunct art instructor at VVC. The exhibit features a series of recent artwork titled, Inhabitance. The sculptures are inspired by site-specific locations in the high and low desert of Southern California. Anna-Marie traveled over several years throughout the desert and found the ever-present human desire for an American utopia. She was drawn to the places that once held an importance within society but for various reasons now stand only as a memory. Anna-Marie wanted her artwork to celebrate the sites in their present state; she chose to create the sites in minute scale and captured the dilapidated environments by using distressed materials. Anna-Marie’s statement on Inhabitance: The imprint of life found in the temporary and impermanent nature of a structure inspires my work. Buildings constructed from human hands designed for the simple means of inhabitance act as the storytellers from their translucent past. I rely on my imagination as a means to discover the evidence of life and beauty in the unknown. Amongst these often forgotten and disvalued environments are unexpected but beautiful contradictions. They are intimate yet isolated, distant but familiar, simple and complex; however, are woven together to create a beautiful harmony that echoes the dream of utopia. The re-creation of the quiet contradictions from the chaotic environments of an abandoned building, act as a vehicle and invitation to experience and admire the collision of the past and the present. (Note: The exhibit pieces are located in the display cabinets on the library's main floor.)

Printmaking Exhibit The library is pleased to continue an exhibit featuring the printmaking works of Carmen Teal, an adjunct art instructor at VVC. The exhibit illustrates a variety of printmaking techniques including woodcut, lithograph, monotype, aquatint, and Chine-colle. Highlighting the exhibit are works that document Carmen’s visits with the Gaumbiano Indians who reside in the remote foothills of the Colombian Andes in an area known a Guambia. In Carmen’s words, “the images emanate from my pleasant and vivid memories of times shared with the Indians of the Guambia region, from exchanges that took place in their homes and places of business, at a village elementary school, a market place, in a park, a town square, a cemetery, and their agricultural fields.”

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