Holly's installation

Rings & Bracelet

Eric Swangstu gathers paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, animation, jewelry and photography from some of his moto-enthusiast artist friends from L.A., Oakland, Kansas City and Seattle. As an avid rider, Swangstu celebrates the moto-lifestyle by playing with the stigma often attached with the sport of motorcycling.

Falling, 2014, Watercolor on Rag Paper

Darren Waterston's exhibition Cadence is at the Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle, WA and runs through May 17th. He painted this body of work during his residency this year at MASS MoCA. The title of this exhibition refers to the sequence of chords comprising a musical phrase.

"Since I have been so deeply immersed in all things Whistler of late, I wanted to explore futher the parallels found in both painterly and symphonic compositions."

Darren was Oxbow's Visiting Artist in Residence for OS21. darrenwaterston.com.

Napa County Recycling and Waste Services recognizes Oxbow for our outstanding recycling and compost efforts in the community. To win the 2013 city award, nominees were surveyed to learn how much non-recyclable trash was in their recycling bins as well as the reverse. On April 8, 2014, Oxbow received the California State Legislature Certificate of Recognition, the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition and the State of California Senate Certificate of Recognition. California Congressman Mike Thompson, State Senators Noreen Evans and Lois Wok and State Assembly Member Mariko Yamada made the presentations to Tracy Bates, our Head Chef and the person responsible for coordinating our campus recycling program. This is the third time Oxbow has received this award, the first in 2011 and second in 2012.

This award was made possible through the efforts of ALL Oxbow - faculty, staff and students. The award included a cash prize.

Thanks and congratulations!

Filthy Lucre, detail

Darren Waterston OS21 resident visiting artist and trustee. Waterston's exhibit Uncertain Beauty at Mass MoCA opened March 8, 2014 and can be viewed through January 2015. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the installation Filthy Lucre, a contemporary re-imagining of James McNeill Whistler's decorative masterpiece Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876-77). The installation is accompanied by two galleries featuring a selection of works on wood panel and canvas. Like Filthy Lucre, they express both the grotesque and the beautiful, hinting at utopian fantasies and Arcadian dreams, as well as apocalyptic nightmares.

Filthy Lucre will travel to the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, opening in January 2015 and remaining on view through May 2016. For more on Waterston's work go to darrenwaterston.com.

Arrastre 6, direct print to silver Dibond

Ana Teresa Fernandez OS29 resident visiting artist. Fernandez is having her first solo exhibition Foreign Bodies at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco, CA from April 3 - May 31, 2014. The opening reception is April 3 from 6-8pm and is holding an Artist's Discussion on April 5 from 2-2:30pm. The exhibition of new work explores how women navigate the geographic, social, can physiological boundaries between the US and Mexico. Documenting her performances and installations using photography and the painted image, her work reveals how women's bodies become surfaces imprinted with political and social upheavals. For more of Fernandez's work go to anateresafernandez.com.

The Ape, acrylic and collage on cut paper

Reed Anderson OS30 resident visiting artist. Anderson's solo exhibition The Way You Look Is the Way I Feel at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn, New York is March 21-April 27, 2014. This is his fourth show at Pierogi and will feature the synthesis of two series; his exuberant cut paintings on paper, as he refers to them, and his on-going "Papa Object" project. Anderson describes his process as additive and self-generating. He prefers to allow the evidence of the making of the works - both the hand and the process - to remain. Throughout the making of these works they are in constant flux, a dance between cutting, painting, and collaging. For more on Anderson's work go to www.reedanderson.info.

Rachel Schiller the former Oxbow history teacher and her husband Seth welcomed their daughter Sophie into the world!

Megan

As an alumna of OS15, I'm happy to be back on the river! I obtained a BFA from CalArts where I focused on painting, printmaking, sound, text, and public arts programs. My work with CalArts' Community Arts Partnership and co-founding, site-coordinating, and teaching with Nomad Lab was life changing and further convinced me of the power of arts education. Returning to Oxbow seemed like a perfect way of synthesizing these experiences and giving back to a community that shaped me so much as a teenager. Over the past month alone, rotating through the studios and observing the academic classes has been such an informative experience and I'm grateful for this huge opportunity to work with all of Oxbow's phenomenal teachers and students.

Napa County Recycling and Waste Services recognizes Oxbow for our outstanding recycling and compost efforts in the community. To win a city award, nominees were surveyed to learn how much non-recyclable trash was in their recycling bins as well as the reverse. On May 4, 2011, Oxbow received the California State Legislature Certificate of Recognition and the Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition. California Congressman Mike Thompson, State Senator Noreen Evans and State Assembly Member Michael Allen made the presentations to Tracy Bates, our Head Chef and the person responsible for coordinating our campus recycling program.

This award was made possible through the efforts of ALL Oxbow - faculty, staff and students. The award included a cash prize that was used to add a new air curtain from our Dining Hall to the dining deck.

Thanks and congratulations!

Nina Katchadourian

OS16 Oxbow Visiting Artist
Nina Katchadourian has a photo in the November issue of Blindspot.


Here is a photo from her airplane travel series. For the past couple of years, Nina has been making images while she is flying to different destinations on airplanes. She limits herself to using her iPhone camera and whatever is at hand; she loves waiting until everyone is asleep and using the bathroom as a photo booth.