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.

Frazier's Implied Water, 2013

Daniele Frazier was interviewed by Don Undeen of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The article is titled "Creative Technologist Interview: Daniel Frazier's Implied Water."

"I like the idea that objects in the Met's collection can be used as inspiration and raw material for new works. For that reason, when I recognized a model of a Met object 3D Notion, a recent exhibition of 3D-printed works at the Bruce High Quality Foundation University, I was immediately intrigued. The artist, Daniele Frazier, had incorporated a 3-D model of Jean Antoine Houdon's Bather (from a fountain group), a sculpture in the Met's collection." - Don Undeen, Senior Manager of the Media Lab, Digital Media at the Met

Read the full interview published January 8, 2014.

Nora Rodriguez Oxbow's former Math teacher and OS13 alum is curating "The Tools" exhibition at Root Division in San Francisco.

Jeana Poindexter Oxbow's former Teaching Assistant has a piece in the show!

"The Tools is a look through the wrong end of the telescope, examining art as apparatus and instrument."

Opening reception: January 11, 2014, 7 - 10pm
Exhibition dates: January 8 - 21, 2014
Location: 3175 17th Street (at South Van Ness), San Francisco, CA 94110

Savernack Street Gallery

Jo Babcock Oxbow's OS8 Visiting Artist Lecturer has an exhibit at the Savernack Street Gallery, 2411-24th Street in San Francisco from December 13, 2013-January 8, 2014. The exhibit is titled "Jo Babcock: The Dark Room" and can be viewed at the gallery "24/7" through a peephole in a door. Parking is located at 24th Street & Vermont.

"My work merges aspects of photography, sculpture, and conceptual art. I am best know for my VWVan Camera and book, The Invented Camera." — JO BABCOCK

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.

At the end of their third full week at Oxbow OS29 students ventured off campus to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on a beautiful morning.

In the afternoon they visited the de Young Museum to view the exhibition Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years.

After an eventful day of art and architecture, they were treated to a campfire, s'mores, and a well-earned sugar-high.